Tropescilloscope: No Ending

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

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Nice Hat Scenery Porn Framing Device Tagline Well-Intentioned Extremist Disappeared Dad The Quiet One Sassy Black Woman Deliberately Monochrome Only in It for the Money Corpsing Narrator Big Applesauce Have a Gay Old Time BFG Mugging the Monster Demonic Possession My God, What Have I Done? Small Name, Big Ego Interrupted Suicide Creator Cameo Vomit Indiscretion Shot Adaptational Heroism Papa Wolf Show Within a Show Actor Allusion Those Two Bad Guys No Antagonist Hollywood Law A.I. Is a Crapshoot She Cleans Up Nicely Superhero Psychopathic Manchild Spell My Name with an "S" May–December Romance Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane For the Evulz Villainous Breakdown Green-Eyed Monster Author Appeal Adult Fear Sir Swears-a-Lot Evil Sounds Deep La Résistance The Dog Bites Back '80s Hair Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! My Greatest Failure It's Personal Big Brother Instinct Contrived Coincidence Chekhov's Gun Market-Based Title Leaning on the Fourth Wall Author Avatar Dramatic Gun Cock Fatal Family Photo Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Kill 'em All Eldritch Abomination Double Entendre Canadian Movies Exact Words Continuity Nod The Alleged Car Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Real Life Writes the Plot Shirtless Scene Your Cheating Heart Chewing the Scenery Abusive Parents Heel–Face Turn Mundane Made Awesome Rule of Funny Romantic Comedy Public Domain Feature Films Villain Song Room Full of Crazy Cluster F-Bomb Heterosexual Life-Partners Obviously Evil Dark Action Girl Roger Ebert: Great Movies List I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Mad Scientist Unusually Uninteresting Sight Gold Digger Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Motor Mouth Totally Radical Stylistic Suck Mighty Whitey Bury Your Gays The Atoner Taking the Bullet Made of Explodium Bloodless Carnage Killed Mid-Sentence An Aesop Rule of Symbolism Accidental Misnaming Black Comedy Rape Evil Counterpart More Dakka Ass Shove Lock and Load Montage Implacable Man Damsel in Distress Badass Bookworm Spared by the Adaptation Bland-Name Product Badass Boast Serial Killer Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bloody Hilarious Corrupt Corporate Executive Department of Redundancy Department Taking You with Me Self-Deprecation Yandere Horror Comedy Made of Iron All for Nothing Parental Incest Blood from the Mouth Madness Mantra Shown Their Work British Films The Reveal Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Super Strength Fourth Date Marriage Real Life In Medias Res Apocalypse How All Just a Dream Darkest Hour Hope Spot Maybe Ever After Jerk Jock The Sociopath Last-Name Basis Developing Doomed Characters Not Even Bothering with the Accent Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Cain and Abel Fanservice All Girls Want Bad Boys Groin Attack The Dragon Insult Backfire Wham Line Those Two Guys Creepy Child Oh, Crap! The Big Guy Death of a Child The End... Or Is It? 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Chiaroscuro Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Cool Old Lady Extremely Short Timespan Breaking the Fourth Wall You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Even Evil Has Standards Men Are the Expendable Gender Rousing Speech No OSHA Compliance Mama Bear Fiery Redhead Early Installment Weirdness Pretty in Mink Action Genre Sanity Slippage Guns Akimbo Children Are Innocent Vampire Fiction Manic Pixie Dream Girl Meaningful Echo Captain Ersatz Ambiguous Ending Our Vampires Are Different Pretty Little Headshots Overprotective Dad Together in Death The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Smoking Is Cool Humiliation Conga Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking B-Movie Never Found the Body Military and Warfare Films Meaningful Name Red Oni, Blue Oni Chase Scene Parental Neglect Eyepatch of Power Five-Man Band Funny Foreigner Antagonist Title Cool Guns Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Jerk with a Heart of Gold Expository Hairstyle Change Aside Glance Good Is Not Nice Conspicuous CG Serious Business Get Out! 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The '50s Mystery and Detective Films Chekhov's Skill Dark and Troubled Past Air-Vent Passageway Action Survivor Lampshade Hanging Amusing Injuries Bittersweet Ending Revenge Badass Grandpa Jump Scare Evil vs. Evil Badass in a Nice Suit Drugs Are Bad Artistic License – Biology Downer Ending Bi the Way Retcon Left the Background Music On Mexican Standoff Took a Level in Badass Historical Villain Upgrade Older Than They Look Dressing as the Enemy All There in the Script 20 Minutes into the Future Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Coming-of-Age Story Let's Get Dangerous! Freeze-Frame Bonus Historical-Domain Character Hoist by His Own Petard Crazy Jealous Guy Animal Motifs Kids Are Cruel Dirty Old Man Love Triangle The Great Depression Dark Is Not Evil Abhorrent Admirer Early-Bird Cameo The Stinger Foregone Conclusion Running Gag Ms. Fanservice Becoming the Mask Naïve Newcomer Soundtrack Dissonance Visual Pun Recycled IN SPACE! 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Is Serious Business As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Smurfette Principle Beard of Evil No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Smart Guy Aluminum Christmas Trees All There in the Manual Reality Is Unrealistic Never My Fault Unreliable Narrator I'm a Humanitarian Police Brutality Too Dumb to Live Death Seeker Posthumous Character The Oner Batman Gambit Put on a Bus A Minor Kidroduction Make It Look Like an Accident Shoot the Shaggy Dog Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Imagine Spot Despair Event Horizon Our Zombies Are Different Auto Erotica The Lancer Adaptational Villainy Translation Convention The '70s An Axe to Grind MacGuffin Offscreen Teleportation One-Man Army Famous Last Words Chekhov's Gunman Stalker with a Crush Darker and Edgier Non-Indicative Name A God Am I My Beloved Smother Malevolent Masked Men Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Improbable Aiming Skills Vomit Discretion Shot Stock Footage Frame-Up Pet the Dog Extreme Doormat Easily Forgiven Didn't Think This Through Peek-a-Boo Corpse Refuge in Audacity Anti-Hero You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Insistent Terminology Hooker with a Heart of Gold Brother–Sister Incest Shell-Shocked Veteran Beauty Is Never Tarnished Cowboy Cop Danny Peary Cult Movies List Disguised in Drag Once More, with Clarity! Badass Normal "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Kick the Dog Closed Circle Here We Go Again! Morality Pet Drowning My Sorrows Unresolved Sexual Tension Epic Fail Genre Savvy Informed Ability No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Eureka Moment Adaptational Attractiveness Video Credits Playing Gertrude Sci-Fi Horror Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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