Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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