Tropescilloscope: Off-into-the-Distance Ending

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