Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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Only a Flesh Wound He Knows Too Much The Oner Kubrick Stare Adaptation Expansion Brick Joke Amusing Injuries Poor Communication Kills The Stoic Tranquil Fury Green-Eyed Monster Adult Fear Bury Your Gays Big Bad Duumvirate Rape as Drama Whole Plot Reference Defrosting Ice Queen Heel–Face Turn Wham Line Everyone Has Standards Shown Their Work Sports Stories Heroic Sacrifice Call-Back Motor Mouth Chewing the Scenery After the End All There in the Manual Rasputinian Death The Hero Dies Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Parental Incest Daddy's Girl Well-Intentioned Extremist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Chiaroscuro Refuge in Audacity Ms. Fanservice Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Show Within a Show Foregone Conclusion Canon Foreigner Costume Porn Cowboy Cop Dwindling Party The Casanova Too Dumb to Live My God, What Have I Done? 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Epilogue Morality Pet Camp Gay What You Are in the Dark Fat Bastard Meet Cute Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Authority Equals Asskicking Decoy Protagonist Demoted to Extra Killed Mid-Sentence Villain Ball Fiery Redhead Ax-Crazy Dogged Nice Guy Due to the Dead Once More, with Clarity! Fan Disservice Mercy Kill Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Naked People Are Funny Only Known by Their Nickname Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bad "Bad Acting" Big-Bad Ensemble Action Genre The Cameo The Faceless Fate Worse than Death Broken Aesop Creepy Child Catch-Phrase Early-Bird Cameo Mr. Exposition La Résistance Historical In-Joke Bowdlerise Famous Last Words The Ditz Stock Footage Self-Deprecation Bavarian Fire Drill The '60s Red Eyes, Take Warning Hero Antagonist Gorn Does This Remind You of Anything? Central Theme Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Unspoken Plan Guarantee Hair-Trigger Temper Shipper on Deck It's All About Me Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Adaptation Distillation Fainting No OSHA Compliance Ungrateful Bastard What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is a Crapshoot Insistent Terminology Rule of Cool Children Are Innocent Armor-Piercing Question Casting Gag Jerkass Scenery Gorn Dramatic Irony Heterosexual Life-Partners All Just a Dream Taking the Bullet Badass Grandpa Logo Joke Evil-Detecting Dog Sealed Evil in a Can Stylistic Suck Artistic License – Geography Dies Wide Open Darkest Hour Toplessness from the Back Anachronic Order Trailers Always Spoil Cruel and Unusual Death Oh, Crap! Evil vs. Evil Interrupted Suicide Deal with the Devil Red Right Hand The Dreaded Cold-Blooded Torture Index of Film Westerns Male Gaze Eagleland Actually Pretty Funny Better to Die than Be Killed Training Montage Get Out! Homage Composite Character Broken Pedestal Outrun the Fireball Skewed Priorities Department of Redundancy Department Evil Laugh Babies Ever After A God Am I Easily Forgiven Storming the Castle Kill It with Fire Moment Killer Fire-Forged Friends As the Good Book Says... 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