Tropescilloscope: Did Not Get the Girl

The Protagonist doesn't get together with their Love Interest. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes No OSHA Compliance Shirtless Scene Coming-of-Age Story Auto Erotica In Medias Res Once More, with Clarity! Last-Name Basis Be Careful What You Wish For Rule of Funny British Films Camera Abuse Artistic License – Military Unusually Uninteresting Sight Take That! Riddle for the Ages Bittersweet Ending Composite Character Jitter Cam Romantic Comedy Retirony Big Applesauce Reality Ensues The Musical Arranged Marriage Logo Joke Maybe Ever After The Big Guy Dutch Angle Time Skip Film Noir Index Pretty Little Headshots Alliterative Name Asshole Victim Only in It for the Money My God, What Have I Done? Scare Chord Good Is Not Nice Cool Car Big Bad Duumvirate Establishing Character Moment The Sociopath Mad Scientist Expy Obstructive Bureaucrat Anti-Villain The Voiceless Together in Death Unusual Euphemism Undying Loyalty He Who Fights Monsters Meaningful Name The Faceless Jerk with a Heart of Gold What Happened to the Mouse? I Need a Freaking Drink Freeze-Frame Bonus The Stoic Off with His Head! A Father to His Men Fanservice Extra Black and Gray Morality Heel–Face Turn Adaptation Distillation Artistic License – Gun Safety Attempted Rape Bury Your Gays Precision F-Strike Beard of Evil Whole Plot Reference Fake Shemp Pre-Mortem One-Liner Credits Gag Plot Hole Punny Name Up to Eleven Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Rule of Symbolism Death Glare Pay Evil unto Evil Animal Title Index Eldritch Abomination Slap-Slap-Kiss Captain Obvious Ax-Crazy The Dreaded Really Gets Around Heel Realization Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Getting Crap Past the Radar Adaptation Expansion Double-Meaning Title Amoral Attorney Mr. Fanservice Stealth Hi/Bye Accidental Murder Curb-Stomp Battle Does Not Like Shoes Knight Templar Mood Whiplash Soundtrack Dissonance No Ending Bad Boss The Place Dark Is Not Evil She Cleans Up Nicely All There in the Manual Brainless Beauty Stalker with a Crush Protagonist Title Stylistic Suck NO INDOOR VOICE There Is No Kill Like Overkill Parental Abandonment The Ace Unwitting Instigator of Doom Combat Pragmatist Funny Background Event Catch-Phrase Genre Throwback MacGuffin Fish out of Water Dissonant Serenity Blackmail Papa Wolf '80s Hair Chekhov's Skill Small Name, Big Ego It's Personal The Ghost Adapted Out Index of Film Westerns Not Even Bothering with the Accent Central Theme Sole Survivor Mighty Whitey Posthumous Character Black Comedy Rape Badass Boast Determinator Mercy Kill Neck Lift Imagine Spot Deconstruction Sci-Fi Horror A God Am I Pimped-Out Dress Apocalypse How Dramatic Gun Cock Wounded Gazelle Gambit Retcon Car Fu Suddenly SHOUTING! Villain Ball Cool Guns Straight Gay For Want of a Nail Artistic License – Geography Suspiciously Similar Substitute Brother–Sister Incest Playing Gertrude Half the Man He Used to Be Bavarian Fire Drill Taking You with Me Damsel in Distress Villainous Breakdown Distracted by the Sexy Ambiguous Disorder Adaptational Villainy Gory Discretion Shot Department of Redundancy Department Smoking Is Cool Punch-Clock Villain Real Life Writes the Plot Cloudcuckoolander Horror Films Berserk Button Badass in a Nice Suit Evil Brit Grey and Gray Morality Karma Houdini One-Word Title 20 Minutes into the Future Hell Is That Noise Bring My Brown Pants Framing Device From Nobody to Nightmare Male Frontal Nudity Love at First Sight Left the Background Music On Light Is Not Good Sir Swears-a-Lot Well-Intentioned Extremist Kick the Dog Fantastic Racism Annoying Younger Sibling Sealed Evil in a Can Dressing as the Enemy Kill It with Fire "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Fainting Famous Last Words Almost Kiss Refuge in Audacity Jerkass Has a Point Peek-a-Boo Corpse Made of Iron Works Set in World War II Black Best Friend Scary Black Man Shown Their Work Meet Cute Creative Closing Credits Suspiciously Specific Denial Aside Glance Humans Are Bastards Gorn Dark Reprise Woman in White Call-Forward Tagline Not So Different Show Within a Show Lighter and Softer Taking the Bullet Never My Fault Stock Footage The Smurfette Principle Super Strength Eiffel Tower Effect Catapult Nightmare Back from the Dead Mythology Gag Amusing Injuries Developing Doomed Characters Lock and Load Montage Outrun the Fireball Early Installment Weirdness Ship Tease Cat Scare Green-Eyed Monster I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Adults Are Useless Missing Mom Put on a Bus Faking the Dead "Shaggy Dog" Story Children Are Innocent Domestic Abuse Offscreen Moment of Awesome Eagleland In Name Only Dark and Troubled Past Vampire Fiction Dumb Blonde Abusive Parents Not Using the "Z" Word Artistic License – Physics As Himself Dual Wielding Sports Stories You Killed My Father No Celebrities Were Harmed Fatal Flaw Disney Villain Death Bloody Hilarious Exactly What It Says on the Tin Obviously Evil Easily Forgiven It's All About Me Our Vampires Are Different Extremely Short Timespan My Greatest Failure Epic Movie Mystery and Detective Films Not What It Looks Like Belligerent Sexual Tension Love Triangle "Awesome McCool" Name Large Ham Soft Glass Stealth Pun Historical Villain Upgrade Police Brutality Big Bad Historical-Domain Character Fan Disservice Bland-Name Product Morality Pet Toplessness from the Back Psycho for Hire The Chick Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Race Lift Demonic Possession Contrived Coincidence Film Noir Naked People Are Funny Face Death with Dignity Friend to All Children The Atoner Tempting Fate Didn't Think This Through Sanity Slippage Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bound and Gagged Military and Warfare Films Darker and Edgier Manic Pixie Dream Girl Face–Heel Turn Moment Killer Would Hit a Girl Anachronic Order Running Gag Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Have a Gay Old Time Hooker with a Heart of Gold Take a Third Option Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Even Evil Has Loved Ones Chekhov's Gun Let's Get Dangerous! War Is Hell Failed a Spot Check Meaningful Background Event Adaptation Name Change Translation Convention Crazy-Prepared Woman Scorned Epic Fail As the Good Book Says... Calling the Old Man Out Becoming the Mask Worthy Opponent Advertised Extra Setting Update The Un-Reveal Vacation Films The Brute Five-Man Band Italian Films Cool Old Guy Cluster F-Bomb Immune to Bullets Adaptational Attractiveness Bottomless Magazines Flashback Improbable Aiming Skills Hate Sink Dirty Old Man Motor Mouth Self-Deprecation Reality Has No Subtitles Disappeared Dad Took a Level in Jerkass Beauty Is Never Tarnished Karmic Death Token Minority Nothing Is Scarier She's Got Legs Adult Fear Antagonist Title Daylight Horror Kubrick Stare Film Series Psychological Thriller Spared by the Adaptation Eyepatch of Power Bilingual Bonus Accidental Misnaming A.I. Is a Crapshoot Beta Couple Anti-Hero Romantic False Lead Downer Ending Big Brother Instinct Revenge Wicked Cultured Gone Horribly Right Even Evil Has Standards Flipping the Bird Spanner in the Works Awesome, but Impractical Bloodless Carnage Curse Cut Short The Starscream Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fantasy Films Line-of-Sight Name You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Cowboy Cop More Dakka Creator Cameo Important Haircut Only Sane Man Artistic License – Biology Based on a True Story Video Credits Heroes Want Redheads All for Nothing Never Found the Body Product Placement Empathic Environment Historical Hero Upgrade Closed Circle Sequel Escalation Interrupted Suicide As Long as It Sounds Foreign After the End Redemption Equals Death Hero Antagonist For the Evulz An Aesop Knife Nut Redshirt Army Slasher Smile Author Avatar Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Drugs Are Bad Canon Foreigner Recycled IN SPACE! Superhero Disguised in Drag Lampshade Hanging Insult Backfire Deliberate Values Dissonance The Casanova Foil Vitriolic Best Buds Adaptation Dye-Job Shoot the Shaggy Dog Cold-Blooded Torture Casting Gag Blood from the Mouth Blatant Lies Scenery Gorn Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Obfuscating Stupidity Wham Line Dwindling Party Dramedy Broken Pedestal Bi the Way Laser-Guided Karma Darkest Hour Celebrity Paradox Wham Shot Better to Die than Be Killed Public Domain Feature Films As You Know Dirty Cop Homage Funny Foreigner Chewing the Scenery Hong Kong Films Crapsack World Not So Stoic Killed Mid-Sentence Dropped a Bridge on Him Beware the Nice Ones Wrong Genre Savvy Reckless Gun Usage Evil-Detecting Dog The '50s The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Artistic License – History Fire-Forged Friends Off-into-the-Distance Ending Rich Bitch Too Dumb to Live Happily Married Call-Back Cassandra Truth Facial Horror Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Animated Credits Opening Enemy Mine Corrupt Corporate Executive Rasputinian Death Decoy Protagonist Skewed Priorities Action Genre Camp Gay Australian Movies The Great Depression Greater-Scope Villain It Can Think O.O.C. Is Serious Business Cain and Abel Red Right Hand Depraved Bisexual One Steve Limit Overprotective Dad Made of Explodium Storming the Castle Kick the Son of a Bitch Cruel and Unusual Death Fiery Redhead Slasher Movie Tranquil Fury Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bolivian Army Ending Parental Incest Expository Hairstyle Change Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Extreme Doormat The Hero Nice Hat And the Adventure Continues The Oner Neck Snap The Quiet One Monumental Damage Gainax Ending Betty and Veronica Loophole Abuse Ascended Extra The '90s Ominous Latin Chanting Shower Scene Author Appeal Music Stories Intergenerational Friendship Adaptational Badass Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Lancer Evil Is Hammy Police are Useless Truth in Television Meaningful Echo Badass Normal Exact Words Reasonable Authority Figure Dull Surprise Abhorrent Admirer Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! BFG Due to the Dead folderlabel Random Events Plot Deadpan Snarker I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Rousing Speech Manly Tears Informed Ability Rewatch Bonus Manchild Leaning on the Fourth Wall Death Seeker Bad "Bad Acting" What the Hell, Hero? Crucified Hero Shot Conspicuous CG Only One Name I'm a Humanitarian May–December Romance Deliberately Monochrome Eye Scream Book-Ends Bar Brawl Guns Akimbo The Bad Guy Wins Psychopathic Manchild Major Injury Underreaction Not Quite Dead The '60s Evil Laugh Victoria's Secret Compartment Title Drop Spell My Name with an "S" The Stinger "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Dragon Thriller Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Horror Comedy A Minor Kidroduction Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Slashed Throat Christmas Movies Index Defrosting Ice Queen Chase Scene Arch-Enemy Sexy Discretion Shot No-Sell Ass Shove From Bad to Worse The Dog Bites Back Heroic BSoD Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Authority Equals Asskicking Star-Crossed Lovers Continuity Nod Biopic French Films The X of Y Babies Ever After Say My Name Match Cut Our Zombies Are Different Freudian Excuse timeperiod Your Cheating Heart Earn Your Happy Ending Black Dude Dies First Leave the Camera Running Country Matters Big "NO!" Race Against the Clock Fingore Air-Vent Passageway "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pyrrhic Victory Hero of Another Story Dramatic Irony Drill Sergeant Nasty Mooks Martial Arts Movie Foregone Conclusion Vomit Discretion Shot Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Hero Dies All Girls Want Bad Boys La Résistance Fatal Family Photo Brutal Honesty All Men Are Perverts Deus ex Machina Anachronism Stew Japanese Films Gold Digger Drives Like Crazy Red Herring Mexican Standoff Heterosexual Life-Partners Shipper on Deck No Name Given My Beloved Smother Noodle Incident Everyone Has Standards Non-Indicative Name Malevolent Masked Men Grievous Bottley Harm Defiant to the End Batman Gambit Body Horror Evil vs. Evil Unreliable Narrator Parental Neglect Big-Bad Ensemble No Antagonist Ripped from the Headlines Improvised Weapon Honor Before Reason Rape as Drama Death by Irony Fun with Acronyms Villain Protagonist Hope Spot Mind Screw Evil Counterpart Loads and Loads of Characters Gratuitous English Real Life The Vamp Death by Adaptation Bloodier and Gorier German Films Action Prologue One-Man Army Cool Shades Driven to Suicide Politically Incorrect Villain Men Are the Expendable Gender Those Two Guys Jump Scare The Cavalry Break the Cutie Instant Death Bullet Sassy Black Woman Insistent Terminology Ghost Fiction Documentary Villain Opening Scene Nice Guy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adaptational Heroism The Load Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sacrificial Lion Plucky Comic Relief The Mole Gender Flip The Ditz Narrator Evil Plan Alpha Bitch Actually Pretty Funny Affably Evil Villain with Good Publicity Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Silent Movie Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Badass Longcoat N-Word Privileges Fat Bastard Vomit Indiscretion Shot Dogged Nice Guy Intrepid Reporter Destination Defenestration Corpsing Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Improbable Weapon User Genre Savvy Hidden Depths Only a Flesh Wound Death of a Child Implacable Man Death by Sex Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ungrateful Bastard Bunny-Ears Lawyer Never Trust a Trailer Ironic Echo Shout-Out Despair Event Horizon Idiot Ball Broken Bird A Date with Rosie Palms Serial Killer B-Movie Man on Fire Sequel Hook An Axe to Grind The '80s And I Must Scream Properly Paranoid Costume Porn Scenery Porn Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Get Out! I Did What I Had to Do Dies Wide Open Anyone Can Die Cat Fight Genre Shift Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Bait-and-Switch Fanservice Yandere Offscreen Teleportation Rule of Three Boom, Headshot! Sadistic Choice Bowdlerise Agony of the Feet Oh, Crap! Red Eyes, Take Warning Four-Temperament Ensemble Spiritual Successor Make It Look Like an Accident Frame-Up World of Ham Mundane Made Awesome Butt-Monkey Older Than They Look What You Are in the Dark Humiliation Conga The '70s Kids Are Cruel Manipulative Bastard Poor Communication Kills Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Artistic License – Law Rated M for Manly Sinister Minister Guile Hero The Cameo Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Reveal Aluminum Christmas Trees Bullying a Dragon Anguished Declaration of Love And Starring Jerk Jock The Remake Did Not Get the Girl Diabolus ex Machina Dark Action Girl Broken Aesop Brick Joke Same Language Dub The Stoner Final Girl Paper-Thin Disguise Determinator aka: The Determinator Deal with the Devil The Chessmaster Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Alas, Poor Villain You Have Failed Me I Have Your Wife Blood Knight Not So Above It All Hair-Trigger Temper The Film of the Book Badass Bookworm Reality Is Unrealistic Very Loosely Based on a True Story How We Got Here Parental Substitute Serious Business Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Insane Troll Logic No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Heroic Sacrifice Covers Always Lie Demoted to Extra Pragmatic Villainy Mugging the Monster Captain Ersatz Pretty in Mink Action Girl Here We Go Again! Comically Missing the Point Jerkass Disproportionate Retribution The Mafia Action Survivor Shell-Shocked Veteran Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Trailers Always Spoil Big Fancy House Naïve Newcomer Hollywood Law Shut Up, Hannibal! Chiaroscuro Bald of Evil Evil Is Petty Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil Sounds Deep Badass Grandpa Mama Bear Kill 'em All Took a Level in Badass Smug Snake Blonde, Brunette, Redhead It Will Never Catch On Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Big Damn Heroes Fate Worse than Death You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Needs Wiki Magic Love Eureka Moment Market-Based Title Stuff Blowing Up Hypocrite Villain Song Mistaken for Gay Totally Radical Drowning My Sorrows Your Head A-Splode Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Chekhov's Gunman Faux Affably Evil Bond Villain Stupidity Roaring Rampage of Revenge Hoist by His Own Petard All There in the Script Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Femme Fatale Foreshadowing Training Montage Ambiguously Gay Word of God Fourth Date Marriage Disney Death Retired Badass The Bully Stepford Smiler Groin Attack Black Comedy Novelization Daddy's Girl Madness Mantra Character Development Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pragmatic Adaptation Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Smart Guy Red Oni, Blue Oni Overly Long Gag Historical In-Joke Russian Films The Alleged Car Male Gaze Wretched Hive Ms. Fanservice Science Fiction Films Zombie Stories Tap on the Head Would Hurt a Child Names to Run Away from Really Fast Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mr. Exposition Award-Bait Song Actor Allusion Arc Words An Arm and a Leg Silence Is Golden All Just a Dream Early-Bird Cameo Visual Pun Married to the Job Creepy Child Unresolved Sexual Tension Rule of Cool Only Known by Their Nickname Handicapped Badass Those Wacky Nazis Big Eater Adorkable Card-Carrying Villain Ambiguous Ending Room Full of Crazy Dirty Coward Those Two Bad Guys Dying Moment of Awesome Hollywood Darkness Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Henpecked Husband Leitmotif Canadian Movies Bond One-Liner True Companions Television Movie Index Animal Motifs Gilligan Cut Every Car Is a Pinto Irony Does This Remind You of Anything? Pet the Dog Affectionate Parody Cool Old Lady Bare Your Midriff Double Entendre Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Break the Haughty The End... Or Is It? In the Back Spiteful Spit The Power of Love The Lost Lenore This Is Gonna Suck The Alcoholic Crazy Jealous Guy Twist Ending Armor-Piercing Question Breaking the Fourth Wall Hypocritical Humor Re-Cut He Knows Too Much Age Lift Laughing Mad Red Shirt Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie