Tropescilloscope: Off-into-the-Distance Ending

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