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)

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