Tropescilloscope: Did Not Get the Girl

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

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Defrosting Ice Queen The Dog Bites Back An Arm and a Leg Unspoken Plan Guarantee Line-of-Sight Name Imagine Spot Our Vampires Are Different The Cavalry Red Right Hand Rule of Three The Starscream Credits Gag Call-Forward Eiffel Tower Effect Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience True Companions Leaning on the Fourth Wall BFG Badass Boast I'm a Humanitarian Chekhov's Skill Evil Sounds Deep Retcon Chewing the Scenery Hypocritical Humor Canadian Movies Historical Villain Upgrade Double-Meaning Title Tap on the Head Arc Words The Cameo Re-Cut Awesome, but Impractical Once More, with Clarity! You Killed My Father Bury Your Gays Exactly What It Says on the Tin My God, What Have I Done? Asshole Victim Cool Car Early Installment Weirdness Villain Opening Scene Deadpan Snarker How We Got Here Easily Forgiven Woman in White Mind Screw Names to Run Away from Really Fast You Have Failed Me Smoking Is Cool Friend to All Children The Ace Your Cheating Heart MacGuffin Four-Temperament Ensemble Non-Indicative Name Spared by the Adaptation Plucky Comic Relief Get Out! Fan Disservice Wretched Hive Sanity Slippage Cool Old Lady Foregone Conclusion Rule of Funny Drives Like Crazy Superhero Extremely Short Timespan O.O.C. Is Serious Business Evil Brit La Résistance Foil Broken Pedestal Rule of Symbolism Expository Hairstyle Change Romantic Comedy Undying Loyalty Never Found the Body Whole Plot Reference Dying Moment of Awesome Straight Gay Race Against the Clock Shell-Shocked Veteran Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mugging the Monster Suddenly SHOUTING! Darker and Edgier Nice Hat Car Fu Shown Their Work Romantic False Lead Manly Tears Hidden Depths Naïve Newcomer Card-Carrying Villain Bond One-Liner Japanese Films Kill It with Fire Green-Eyed Monster Advertised Extra Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Crazy-Prepared Call-Back "Well Done, Son!" Guy Only Sane Man Ms. Fanservice Fantastic Racism Australian Movies Fake Shemp World of Ham Man on Fire I Did What I Had to Do Pimped-Out Dress Contrived Coincidence Curb-Stomp Battle Fiery Redhead The Alcoholic Handicapped Badass Costume Porn Pretty Little Headshots Shower Scene Evil-Detecting Dog Fainting Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Offscreen Teleportation Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Death Seeker timeperiod Bar Brawl Author Avatar She's Got Legs Malevolent Masked Men The Lancer Diabolus ex Machina Amusing Injuries Thriller Bi the Way Bond Villain Stupidity The Reveal Honor Before Reason Left the Background Music On Race Lift Determinator Put on a Bus As the Good Book Says... 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Epilogue Peek-a-Boo Corpse '80s Hair Does Not Like Shoes Not What It Looks Like folderlabel Gainax Ending Insult Backfire Gender Flip Interrupted Suicide Real Life Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dual Wielding Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Catapult Nightmare And I Must Scream Male Frontal Nudity The '60s Sir Swears-a-Lot Combat Pragmatist This Is Gonna Suck Disproportionate Retribution Maybe Ever After Token Minority Historical-Domain Character Creator Cameo Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Pragmatic Adaptation Documentary Anti-Hero Attempted Rape Bad Boss Implacable Man Blood from the Mouth Would Hit a Girl Action Girl Those Wacky Nazis Dressing as the Enemy As You Know Vampire Fiction Cain and Abel Even Evil Has Standards Earn Your Happy Ending The Oner Continuity Nod You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Film Series Super Strength Daddy's Girl Big Bad Action Survivor Trailers Always Spoil Mexican Standoff Outrun the Fireball Male Gaze Adaptational Heroism Improvised Weapon Central Theme Alpha Bitch Running Gag Ax-Crazy Action Prologue Bavarian Fire Drill Ascended Extra I Need a Freaking Drink Deliberate Values Dissonance Gilligan Cut My Greatest Failure And the Adventure Continues One-Man Army Not Quite Dead Gory Discretion Shot Mythology Gag Only a Flesh Wound Neck Lift After the End Creepy Child Stuff Blowing Up No Celebrities Were Harmed Moment Killer Narrator Fat Bastard Dropped a Bridge on Him Mad Scientist Ambiguous Ending Foreshadowing Deliberately Monochrome Adaptation Expansion Evil vs. Evil Self-Deprecation Broken Bird Corpsing Show Within a Show The Mafia The Chessmaster What the Hell, Hero? 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Catch-Phrase The Bully Expy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits It Can Think Break the Haughty Off-into-the-Distance Ending "Awesome McCool" Name Sports Stories Meaningful Name All Girls Want Bad Boys Adapted Out Big Damn Heroes Police are Useless Deus ex Machina Love at First Sight Red Herring Children Are Innocent Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Obfuscating Stupidity Genre Shift Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Knife Nut Horror Comedy The Vamp Driven to Suicide Mama Bear The Power of Love For the Evulz Overprotective Dad Damsel in Distress Twist Ending Translation Convention Adaptational Badass Blatant Lies Stepford Smiler Very Loosely Based on a True Story "Shaggy Dog" Story Blackmail Downer Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit Death of a Child Accidental Murder Big Fancy House Gone Horribly Right Disney Death The Stoic Tagline Not Even Bothering with the Accent Drill Sergeant Nasty Stalker with a Crush Antagonist Title Camp Gay Off with His Head! Spell My Name with an "S" Early-Bird Cameo Bittersweet Ending No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Famous Last Words A Minor Kidroduction Affably Evil Age Lift Russian Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Military and Warfare Films Retirony Neck Snap Captain Ersatz The Big Guy Crucified Hero Shot Villain Song I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bloody Hilarious Big Brother Instinct Stealth Pun Arch-Enemy Last-Name Basis Novelization Took a Level in Badass N-Word Privileges Adult Fear Up to Eleven Slasher Movie Ungrateful Bastard The Casanova Immune to Bullets The '90s Femme Fatale Pragmatic Villainy Adorkable Curse Cut Short Ambiguously Gay Protagonist Title Animal Title Index Greater-Scope Villain Double Entendre Disappeared Dad Big-Bad Ensemble Public Domain Feature Films The Atoner Artistic License – Military Horror Films Lock and Load Montage Totally Radical Index of Film Westerns Eyepatch of Power Really Gets Around Didn't Think This Through Due to the Dead Ghost Fiction Ominous Latin Chanting Yandere Zombie Stories Half the Man He Used to Be Cassandra Truth Villainous Breakdown Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Fanservice Heroic BSoD Pretty in Mink Title Drop Country Matters Unusual Euphemism Face Death with Dignity War Is Hell Hell Is That Noise Animated Credits Opening Scenery Porn Artistic License – Gun Safety No-Sell Agony of the Feet Bound and Gagged No OSHA Compliance Black and Gray Morality Drowning My Sorrows Bloodless Carnage Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Sacrificial Lion "The Reason You Suck" Speech Empathic Environment Rule of Cool Made of Explodium Shout-Out Punch-Clock Villain Victoria's Secret Compartment Flipping the Bird Annoying Younger Sibling Psycho for Hire Action Genre The Alleged Car Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bait-and-Switch Stylistic Suck Bottomless Magazines Idiot Ball Babies Ever After Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Depraved Bisexual Love Triangle Instant Death Bullet Berserk Button Corrupt Corporate Executive Brick Joke Unresolved Sexual Tension Kick the Dog Faux Affably Evil Dark and Troubled Past Demonic Possession Bolivian Army Ending Improbable Weapon User Sequel Hook Guile Hero Evil Plan Ripped from the Headlines Beware the Nice Ones Overly Long Gag The Dreaded Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Spanner in the Works Body Horror Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bowdlerise Domestic Abuse Mood Whiplash Karmic Death Department of Redundancy Department Crazy Jealous Guy Based on a True Story The Un-Reveal Every Car Is a Pinto Calling the Old Man Out Not So Above It All Auto Erotica In Medias Res Reality Has No Subtitles Villain Protagonist The Faceless Daylight Horror Wicked Cultured Black Best Friend For Want of a Nail Dies Wide Open Evil Counterpart Bunny-Ears Lawyer Cool Old Guy Abusive Parents The Ghost The Smurfette Principle Manipulative Bastard No-Holds-Barred Beatdown No Ending Historical In-Joke Older Than They Look Be Careful What You Wish For Cat Fight Light Is Not Good Developing Doomed Characters Hooker with a Heart of Gold All Men Are Perverts Crapsack World The Ditz The '50s Adaptation Dye-Job Rewatch Bonus All There in the Manual He Who Fights Monsters Punny Name Abhorrent Admirer Not Using the "Z" Word Back from the Dead Destination Defenestration Dramedy Kick the Son of a Bitch Epic Movie Failed a Spot Check Make It Look Like an Accident Villain with Good Publicity Framing Device Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Nice Guy Have a Gay Old Time Cool Shades Nothing Is Scarier It's All About Me Butt-Monkey Fantasy Films Spiteful Spit No Antagonist Pre-Mortem One-Liner Groin Attack One-Word Title Leitmotif Fatal Flaw Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Noodle Incident Artistic License – Geography She Cleans Up Nicely Our Zombies Are Different Scenery Gorn Random Events Plot What You Are in the Dark Cluster F-Bomb Reality Ensues Oh, Crap! Silent Movie It's Personal Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Deal with the Devil Parental Abandonment Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Star-Crossed Lovers Homage The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Brainless Beauty Toplessness from the Back Recycled IN SPACE! 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The Sociopath Cloudcuckoolander NO INDOOR VOICE Slap-Slap-Kiss Rated M for Manly Hollywood Darkness Worthy Opponent Posthumous Character Scare Chord Rasputinian Death Exact Words Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Intergenerational Friendship Red Eyes, Take Warning Those Two Guys Big Applesauce The Chick Rousing Speech Hair-Trigger Temper Gratuitous English Disguised in Drag Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Camera Abuse Knight Templar And Starring The Load Face–Heel Turn Shirtless Scene Death by Adaptation The End... Or Is It? Pet the Dog Slasher Smile Redshirt Army Take a Third Option Batman Gambit Did Not Get the Girl Facial Horror The X of Y Badass Bookworm Manchild Madness Mantra Reality Is Unrealistic Bloodier and Gorier Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other An Axe to Grind The Musical Sci-Fi Horror Married to the Job Your Head A-Splode Badass Normal Not So Different Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dwindling Party In the Back Almost Kiss Eldritch Abomination Adaptational Attractiveness Monumental Damage Adults Are Useless Freeze-Frame Bonus Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Say My Name Closed Circle Epic Fail Eagleland Morality Pet Manic Pixie Dream Girl Does This Remind You of Anything? Actor Allusion Reckless Gun Usage Stealth Hi/Bye Precision F-Strike The Lost Lenore Hero Antagonist Vacation Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fingore Unreliable Narrator Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fun with Acronyms Book-Ends Accidental Misnaming Mooks Big Bad Duumvirate Chekhov's Gunman Parental Substitute Ambiguous Disorder As Himself What Happened to the Mouse? Badass in a Nice Suit Sinister Minister The Place Leave the Camera Running Captain Obvious Drugs Are Bad Spiritual Successor Hero of Another Story Casting Gag Mr. Fanservice Animal Motifs The Hero Dies Defiant to the End Motor Mouth Death by Irony Faking the Dead Major Injury Underreaction Lampshade Hanging Wrong Genre Savvy Dirty Coward Enemy Mine Only in It for the Money Bald of Evil Deconstruction Beard of Evil Reasonable Authority Figure Kubrick Stare Loads and Loads of Characters The Remake Big Eater Tempting Fate Lighter and Softer Gold Digger Men Are the Expendable Gender Pyrrhic Victory Adaptational Villainy From Nobody to Nightmare Authority Equals Asskicking Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Time Skip Funny Background Event Television Movie Index No Name Given More Dakka Award-Bait Song Extreme Doormat Final Girl Distracted by the Sexy Anguished Declaration of Love My Beloved Smother Throwing Your Sword Always Works Jitter Cam The '80s Dumb Blonde Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Despair Event Horizon Rape as Drama Freudian Excuse Tranquil Fury Betty and Veronica Heroic Sacrifice Hypocrite Decoy Protagonist Mercy Kill Dark Is Not Evil All There in the Script Funny Foreigner Brother–Sister Incest Fanservice Extra Cold-Blooded Torture He Knows Too Much Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Suspiciously Specific Denial Red Shirt Jump Scare Parental Incest The Smart Guy Villain Ball Took a Level in Jerkass Room Full of Crazy Cool Guns Genre Throwback A God Am I Irony Grievous Bottley Harm Anyone Can Die Laser-Guided Karma Establishing Character Moment Take That! B-Movie Serial Killer Heterosexual Life-Partners Hope Spot Never Trust a Trailer French Films Soundtrack Dissonance All for Nothing