Tropescilloscope: No Ending

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

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