Tropescilloscope: No Ending

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

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