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