Tropescilloscope: Off-into-the-Distance Ending

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