Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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