Tropescilloscope: No Ending

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

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