Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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