Tropescilloscope: Maybe Ever After

An ending to a Romance Arc that leaves you with only a hint that the characters may become a romantic couple. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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