Tropescilloscope: Did Not Get the Girl

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

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