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