Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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