Tropescilloscope: Off-into-the-Distance Ending

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