Tropescilloscope: Off-into-the-Distance Ending

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