Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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