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