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