Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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