Tropescilloscope: Gainax Ending

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

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Is Serious Business The Sociopath Big Brother Instinct Authority Equals Asskicking Bi the Way The Stoner Disproportionate Retribution Fat Bastard It Can Think Sinister Minister Humiliation Conga Chekhov's Skill The End... Or Is It? Cool Car Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bowdlerise Punny Name Bland-Name Product Black Comedy Rape Shown Their Work Yandere Your Head A-Splode Works Set in World War II And the Adventure Continues Badass Boast Left the Background Music On Action Genre Does Not Like Shoes Parental Neglect One-Word Title Fanservice Madness Mantra Running Gag Neck Lift The Brute Not Even Bothering with the Accent Hong Kong Films Nice Guy Same Language Dub Enemy Mine As Himself An Aesop Freeze-Frame Bonus Easily Forgiven Dies Wide Open "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Vitriolic Best Buds No Antagonist Science Fiction Films Rich Bitch Conspicuous CG Drowning My Sorrows Freudian Excuse Film Noir Say My Name Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Hooker with a Heart of Gold "Shaggy Dog" Story Shipper on Deck Self-Deprecation Insane Troll Logic Major Injury Underreaction Serious Business Captain Ersatz From Bad to Worse Pay Evil unto Evil Not What It Looks Like Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Grey and Gray Morality Crucified Hero Shot Dropped a Bridge on Him Suspiciously Specific Denial Rule of Three Romantic False Lead Psychological Thriller Stock Footage Black Best Friend Jitter Cam Sealed Evil in a Can Sole Survivor I Did What I Had to Do The Chick Demonic Possession Auto Erotica The Remake Intrepid Reporter Mama Bear The Big Guy Manipulative Bastard Guile Hero Casting Gag Action Girl Implacable Man Fatal Family Photo Double Entendre Redemption Equals Death Babies Ever After My Beloved Smother Mystery and Detective Films Non-Indicative Name Manchild Dark Action Girl Chekhov's Gun '80s Hair The Mole The Quiet One Amusing Injuries Rated M for Manly Driven to Suicide Daddy's Girl In the Back folderlabel Male Gaze Bound and Gagged Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Historical-Domain Character How We Got Here Title Drop Famous Last Words Re-Cut Tap on the Head Mythology Gag Death by Sex Villainous Breakdown Earn Your Happy Ending Combat Pragmatist Decoy Protagonist Took a Level in Jerkass Gainax Ending Nothing Is Scarier World of Ham Destination Defenestration Deal with the Devil Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Eagleland Award-Bait Song Curb-Stomp Battle Brother–Sister Incest Get Out! Offscreen Teleportation Fake Shemp Hidden Depths Ship Tease Mundane Made Awesome Fourth Date Marriage Evil Brit Video Credits Evil Laugh Monumental Damage Punch-Clock Villain Aluminum Christmas Trees And I Must Scream Playing Gertrude Half the Man He Used to Be Show Within a Show Soft Glass Malevolent Masked Men Shell-Shocked Veteran Red Eyes, Take Warning Not So Stoic Alpha Bitch Epic Movie The Faceless The Great Depression Pre-Mortem One-Liner Product Placement Mr. Exposition Jerk with a Heart of Gold Skewed Priorities Not Quite Dead Daylight Horror Action Prologue Storming the Castle Moment Killer Maybe Ever After Darker and Edgier British Films The Alleged Car Meaningful Background Event Refuge in Audacity Death of a Child Darkest Hour Bloody Hilarious Heroes Want Redheads Rewatch Bonus Plucky Comic Relief Naked People Are Funny Manic Pixie Dream Girl I Have Your Wife Alliterative Name Training Montage Outrun the Fireball I Want My Beloved to Be Happy N-Word Privileges Never My Fault The '90s Biopic Fun with Acronyms Coming-of-Age Story Deliberate Values Dissonance Rape as Drama The '70s Pretty in Mink Wrong Genre Savvy "Awesome McCool" Name Batman Gambit Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Heterosexual Life-Partners The Musical Sadistic Choice Bond One-Liner Disguised in Drag Eiffel Tower Effect Your Cheating Heart Disappeared Dad Toplessness from the Back The Bully Off with His Head! Take That! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Smart Guy Slap-Slap-Kiss Green-Eyed Monster Rule of Symbolism Black Comedy Book-Ends Getting Crap Past the Radar Logo Joke Married to the Job Face Death with Dignity True Companions Death Glare Kick the Son of a Bitch Spanner in the Works Celebrity Paradox Affectionate Parody All Girls Want Bad Boys 20 Minutes into the Future NO INDOOR VOICE Film Series Horror Comedy The Cameo Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Large Ham You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Revenge Big Fancy House There Is No Kill Like Overkill Obviously Evil Even Evil Has Loved Ones Translation Convention Bait-and-Switch Bolivian Army Ending Canon Foreigner Groin Attack Distracted by the Sexy Blackmail Arranged Marriage Well-Intentioned Extremist Reckless Gun Usage Meaningful Echo Informed Ability Mood Whiplash The Atoner Parental Abandonment Kick the Dog Damsel in Distress Evil Plan Camp Gay Downer Ending Sequel Escalation Roaring Rampage of Revenge Heel–Face Turn Missing Mom Protagonist Title Framing Device Flipping the Bird Anyone Can Die Military and Warfare Films Light Is Not Good Homage Closed Circle The Power of Love Ungrateful Bastard Black and Gray Morality Line-of-Sight Name Developing Doomed Characters Camera Abuse Anti-Villain Beard of Evil Horror Films Those Wacky Nazis Did Not Get the Girl Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Adaptational Heroism Animated Credits Opening No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Reality Ensues Needs Wiki Magic Love Star-Crossed Lovers Australian Movies More Dakka Boom, Headshot! Sports Stories All Men Are Perverts Ghost Fiction The Bad Guy Wins Curse Cut Short Amoral Attorney Even Evil Has Standards Faking the Dead You Killed My Father Drugs Are Bad Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Unspoken Plan Guarantee Jerkass Has a Point Abhorrent Admirer Super Strength A Father to His Men All Just a Dream Villain Opening Scene Wham Line Mad Scientist Foil Immune to Bullets Cat Scare Not Using the "Z" Word Room Full of Crazy Insistent Terminology Meaningful Name Funny Background Event Crazy Jealous Guy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Adults Are Useless Heroic BSoD Body Horror Visual Pun Honor Before Reason Drill Sergeant Nasty The Casanova Eyepatch of Power Ambiguous Disorder Market-Based Title Blonde, Brunette, Redhead He Knows Too Much Ascended Extra Deconstruction Slashed Throat Genre Throwback Bloodier and Gorier Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Narrator Arch-Enemy La Résistance Adaptation Name Change Smoking Is Cool Unreliable Narrator The Dreaded Rule of Funny Kill 'em All Humans Are Bastards Be Careful What You Wish For Funny Foreigner She Cleans Up Nicely Artistic License – Gun Safety Overprotective Dad Race Lift Our Zombies Are Different It's All About Me For the Evulz Big Bad Duumvirate Brutal Honesty Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shut Up, Hannibal! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Deliberately Monochrome Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Stealth Hi/Bye Pragmatic Adaptation Bond Villain Stupidity Eureka Moment All There in the Script Bunny-Ears Lawyer Artistic License – History Dark and Troubled Past Once More, with Clarity! Eye Scream Back from the Dead Epic Fail Deadpan Snarker Death by Irony Gilligan Cut Index of Film Westerns The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Chekhov's Gunman No Name Given Beta Couple Politically Incorrect Villain Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Crazy-Prepared Psycho for Hire Poor Communication Kills Screw This, I'm Outta Here! One-Man Army Sci-Fi Horror Twist Ending Brick Joke Car Fu The X of Y He Who Fights Monsters Character Development Mr. Fanservice The Lost Lenore Cool Guns It's Personal Television Movie Index Expy Defrosting Ice Queen Disney Death Call-Back Hate Sink Cat Fight A Date with Rosie Palms The Reveal Random Events Plot "Well Done, Son!" Guy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Mighty Whitey Bittersweet Ending Reality Is Unrealistic All for Nothing Stealth Pun Fingore Naïve Newcomer Frame-Up Stylistic Suck Retcon Shout-Out Central Theme Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene A God Am I Made of Iron Stuff Blowing Up From Nobody to Nightmare Sequel Hook Serial Killer Determinator Lighter and Softer Stalker with a Crush What You Are in the Dark After the End Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Drives Like Crazy Department of Redundancy Department Corrupt Corporate Executive Butt-Monkey Romantic Comedy Broken Pedestal Man on Fire Hair-Trigger Temper Intergenerational Friendship Documentary Deus ex Machina Failed a Spot Check Brainless Beauty Animal Title Index My Greatest Failure Genre Shift Every Car Is a Pinto Match Cut Heel Realization Artistic License – Military As You Know Danny Peary Cult Movies List Adapted Out Film Noir Index Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Leitmotif Mugging the Monster Genre Savvy She's Got Legs Zombie Stories Police are Useless Ambiguously Gay The Dragon May–December Romance War Is Hell Together in Death The Load Dogged Nice Guy Only Known by Their Nickname Meet Cute Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Vamp Interrupted Suicide Hero of Another Story Ms. Fanservice Victoria's Secret Compartment Noodle Incident Superhero Dirty Old Man Karmic Death Henpecked Husband Ambiguous Ending Break the Haughty Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Slasher Movie Reasonable Authority Figure Extreme Doormat Posthumous Character Parental Incest Setting Update Gender Flip Thriller Sir Swears-a-Lot All There in the Manual Villain Song Killed Mid-Sentence Early-Bird Cameo A Minor Kidroduction Bottomless Magazines Broken Bird Bavarian Fire Drill Made of Explodium Improbable Weapon User Ominous Latin Chanting Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Starscream Big Eater Adorkable The Hero Dies Adaptational Villainy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Our Vampires Are Different The Dog Bites Back Laughing Mad Loophole Abuse Affably Evil Blood from the Mouth I Need a Freaking Drink The Voiceless Fan Disservice An Arm and a Leg Determinator aka: The Determinator No-Sell Advertised Extra Tagline Villain Ball Dumb Blonde Lock and Load Montage Cruel and Unusual Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Spiteful Spit Hoist by His Own Petard The '50s Bare Your Midriff Not So Above It All Continuity Nod Redshirt Army Scary Black Man Bury Your Gays Make It Look Like an Accident Woman Scorned Dwindling Party Dual Wielding Sassy Black Woman