Tropescilloscope: No Ending

Ending without resolution. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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