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