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)

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