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