Tropescilloscope: Off-into-the-Distance Ending

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