Tropescilloscope: No Ending

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

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