Tropescilloscope: No Ending

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

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