Tropescilloscope: No Ending

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other Badass Grandpa Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Shoot the Shaggy Dog Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bare Your Midriff The Dreaded Groin Attack Red Eyes, Take Warning Dropped a Bridge on Him Early-Bird Cameo Dirty Cop Big Damn Heroes Lighter and Softer It's All About Me The Brute Riddle for the Ages Documentary The Un-Reveal It's Personal Male Gaze An Arm and a Leg After the End Get Out! BFG The Cameo Be Careful What You Wish For Beauty Is Never Tarnished Hell Is That Noise Vomit Discretion Shot Drill Sergeant Nasty Red Herring A.I. Is a Crapshoot Retirony Fish out of Water Brainless Beauty Gory Discretion Shot Awesome, but Impractical Redshirt Army Dull Surprise Establishing Character Moment World of Ham Accidental Misnaming Black and Gray Morality Evil Plan Every Car Is a Pinto The '90s Off with His Head! 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Overprotective Dad The Load Bond One-Liner Hypocrite Papa Wolf Captain Obvious Same Language Dub Gratuitous English Due to the Dead Maybe Ever After Affectionate Parody Bi the Way Video Credits Half the Man He Used to Be Eldritch Abomination Final Girl Blood from the Mouth Roaring Rampage of Revenge Death Glare Parental Neglect Aluminum Christmas Trees Those Wacky Nazis Real Life Writes the Plot Grievous Bottley Harm Important Haircut Taking the Bullet Only One Name Big Fancy House Worthy Opponent Ax-Crazy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Heel–Face Turn Bottomless Magazines Berserk Button Random Events Plot Accidental Murder Kubrick Stare Fatal Family Photo Those Two Guys Bound and Gagged Recycled IN SPACE! Ms. Fanservice Evil Brit Unspoken Plan Guarantee Take That! Card-Carrying Villain Crucified Hero Shot Overly Long Gag Interrupted Suicide Plot Hole Gold Digger The Lost Lenore Authority Equals Asskicking I Want My Beloved to Be Happy More Dakka I Did What I Had to Do Morality Pet The Alleged Car Credits Gag Disney Villain Death Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas O.O.C. Is Serious Business Obstructive Bureaucrat All Men Are Perverts Hollywood Law There Is No Kill Like Overkill Together in Death Adaptation Dye-Job Beta Couple Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Death by Sex No-Sell Police Brutality Kick the Dog "Where Are They Now?" 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Guy Dirty Old Man This Is Gonna Suck Extreme Doormat Cat Scare Defrosting Ice Queen Adults Are Useless Meaningful Background Event Storming the Castle Demoted to Extra Room Full of Crazy Mistaken for Gay Shirtless Scene Country Matters Handicapped Badass Distracted by the Sexy Curse Cut Short Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? No OSHA Compliance Pragmatic Adaptation Yandere Alpha Bitch Improvised Weapon Bolivian Army Ending Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Actor Allusion I'm a Humanitarian Jerkass She's Got Legs Brick Joke Setting Update Mind Screw Punny Name Dwindling Party Cloudcuckoolander Sequel Hook Take a Third Option Chase Scene Gilligan Cut The Ace Your Cheating Heart Manic Pixie Dream Girl Informed Ability Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Chiaroscuro Australian Movies Creepy Child Dramedy Plucky Comic Relief Good Is Not Nice Cool Old Guy Stuff Blowing Up Kick the Son of a Bitch Deliberate Values Dissonance Time Skip The Ghost Reality Ensues Malevolent Masked Men Never Trust a Trailer Domestic Abuse Adapted Out Genre Shift Slasher Smile Evil Is Petty Spared by the Adaptation Anti-Hero Intergenerational Friendship The Faceless Bowdlerise Not Even Bothering with the Accent Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Left the Background Music On Made of Iron Gender Flip Disproportionate Retribution Not What It Looks Like Auto Erotica A Minor Kidroduction Stealth Pun Canon Foreigner Death by Adaptation Tempting Fate Death Seeker Dual Wielding Black Comedy My Beloved Smother Badass Bookworm Shout-Out Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Disney Death Drives Like Crazy Sinister Minister Running Gag The Vamp Ominous Latin Chanting Television Movie Index He Knows Too Much Freudian Excuse Funny Background Event Last-Name Basis Book-Ends Christmas Movies Index Chekhov's Gunman An Aesop Cool Guns The X of Y Wicked Cultured Parental Abandonment Loads and Loads of Characters Bad Boss The Bad Guy Wins Not So Different Cluster F-Bomb Easily Forgiven Break the Haughty Evil-Detecting Dog Villain Protagonist Male Frontal Nudity Karma Houdini Hero of Another Story Back from the Dead Evil Counterpart Monumental Damage Drowning My Sorrows Scenery Porn Leitmotif Villain Ball Tap on the Head Ambiguous Ending Badass in a Nice Suit Pragmatic Villainy Defiant to the End Refuge in Audacity Danny Peary Cult Movies List Stealth Hi/Bye One Steve Limit Funny Foreigner Bar Brawl Bilingual Bonus Animal Motifs Zombie Stories Badass Longcoat Mad Scientist Suspiciously Similar Substitute Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bloodier and Gorier Adaptational Badass Mexican Standoff Butt-Monkey In the Back What You Are in the Dark Arranged Marriage Romantic Comedy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Belligerent Sexual Tension Would Hit a Girl Humans Are Bastards Alliterative Name Fun with Acronyms The Atoner Chekhov's Gun Mama Bear Rated M for Manly All Just a Dream Once More, with Clarity! Bait-and-Switch Big Applesauce Costume Porn Friend to All Children Call-Back Too Dumb to Live Foil Love at First Sight Dark Action Girl