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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The Chick Blackmail Deadpan Snarker Self-Deprecation Boom, Headshot! 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Chekhov's Skill Dirty Old Man Combat Pragmatist Music Stories From Bad to Worse Your Cheating Heart Alpha Bitch Insistent Terminology Brother–Sister Incest Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Vacation Films Broken Bird Developing Doomed Characters Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Catapult Nightmare Dying Moment of Awesome Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Gainax Ending Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Refuge in Audacity Stuff Blowing Up Riddle for the Ages Children Are Innocent Big Bad Duumvirate The Cavalry Berserk Button Danny Peary Cult Movies List Unspoken Plan Guarantee Red Eyes, Take Warning Does This Remind You of Anything? Fainting Death of a Child Interrupted Suicide O.O.C. Is Serious Business Ghost Fiction Married to the Job Aside Glance Captain Ersatz Dramatic Gun Cock Diabolus ex Machina Author Appeal Not So Stoic Heel Realization Asshole Victim Ambiguously Gay Femme Fatale Grey and Gray Morality Demonic Possession Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Groin Attack French Films Dies Wide Open Defiant to the End Villain Protagonist Agony of the Feet Animal Title Index Curse Cut Short Punch-Clock Villain Killed Mid-Sentence Immune to Bullets Evil Laugh More Dakka Heroic BSoD Hair-Trigger Temper It's Personal Eiffel Tower Effect Ax-Crazy Totally Radical Bowdlerise Amoral Attorney Outrun the Fireball Toplessness from the Back Conspicuous CG In Name Only Pay Evil unto Evil Henpecked Husband Composite Character Cool Shades Say My Name Camera Abuse Christmas Movies Index Dual Wielding Dark Reprise B-Movie Flipping the Bird Humans Are Bastards Bavarian Fire Drill Break the Haughty Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Car Fu Leave the Camera Running Broken Pedestal Re-Cut Market-Based Title Death Glare Hong Kong Films Drugs Are Bad Rule of Cool Ms. Fanservice She Cleans Up Nicely Shut Up, Hannibal! 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