Tropescilloscope: Did Not Get the Girl

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

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