Tropescilloscope: The End... Or Is It?

An Ending Trope that casts doubt on the heroes' victory (thus creating a Sequel Hook). (read more at tvtropes.org)

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