Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

Intentionally confusing ending. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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