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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Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Author Appeal Good Is Not Nice Freudian Excuse Eagleland You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Guns Akimbo Auto Erotica A Date with Rosie Palms Domestic Abuse Brother–Sister Incest Getting Crap Past the Radar Mundane Made Awesome Bad Boss Groin Attack Action Survivor Mythology Gag Henpecked Husband Eureka Moment Romantic Comedy Bound and Gagged Hollywood Darkness I'm a Humanitarian Asshole Victim Alliterative Name My Greatest Failure All Girls Want Bad Boys Five-Man Band Shell-Shocked Veteran Sports Stories Big Bad Duumvirate Unusual Euphemism Credits Gag Coming-of-Age Story The Un-Reveal Jump Scare Slap-Slap-Kiss Kill 'em All Adults Are Useless Index of Film Westerns Badass Boast The Stinger Heroic Sacrifice Badass Bookworm Funny Foreigner Love Triangle Abhorrent Admirer Rule of Symbolism Wicked Cultured Skewed Priorities Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Ace Distracted by the Sexy Did Not Get the Girl Roaring Rampage of Revenge Action Genre Not Even Bothering with the Accent Random Events Plot Chekhov's Gunman Moment Killer Arc Words Even Evil Has Standards It Will Never Catch On Take a Third Option Retired Badass Brick Joke Fate Worse than Death Bittersweet Ending Heroes Want Redheads Not Using the "Z" Word Bunny-Ears Lawyer Twist Ending Soundtrack Dissonance Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Setting Update Dumb Blonde Scare Chord After the End Word of God The Hero Dies Homage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Deliberately Monochrome Combat Pragmatist Undying Loyalty Naïve Newcomer Artistic License – Gun Safety No Antagonist Bilingual Bonus Romantic False Lead Mood Whiplash Reasonable Authority Figure A God Am I Action Prologue Our Zombies Are Different The Remake Karmic Death Last-Name Basis Russian Films Big Damn Heroes Butt-Monkey Cruel and Unusual Death Cool Guns Drives Like Crazy Double Entendre Anguished Declaration of Love Evil Laugh He Who Fights Monsters Fiery Redhead Obfuscating Stupidity Hope Spot Cat Fight Cool Old Lady Affectionate Parody Manchild Defiant to the End Dressing as the Enemy The Atoner Due to the Dead Poor Communication Kills Took a Level in Badass Too Dumb to Live Hypocrite Smug Snake Artistic License – Physics Nice Guy Dogged Nice Guy Fanservice Evil Brit Precision F-Strike Black and Gray Morality Real Life Karma Houdini Dwindling Party Spared by the Adaptation Better to Die than Be Killed All There in the Manual The Faceless O.O.C. Is Serious Business Curse Cut Short Break the Haughty The Cavalry The '70s Age Lift Dying Moment of Awesome Actor Allusion German Films Agony of the Feet Camp Gay Corpsing Antagonist Title Ambiguous Disorder Biopic Call-Back All There in the Script Hypocritical Humor Cassandra Truth Vomit Discretion Shot Eiffel Tower Effect Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Double-Meaning Title Badass Grandpa Department of Redundancy Department Affably Evil Make It Look Like an Accident Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Alpha Bitch Dark Is Not Evil The Alcoholic Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Leave the Camera Running Car Fu Military and Warfare Films Match Cut Deal with the Devil Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Stealth Pun Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sadistic Choice Crucified Hero Shot Adaptational Badass Real Life Writes the Plot Ship Tease Heel Realization Love at First Sight Killed Mid-Sentence Pragmatic Adaptation Your Cheating Heart Bottomless Magazines Extremely Short Timespan Dramedy Noodle Incident Bolivian Army Ending Depraved Bisexual Jerk Jock Historical-Domain Character Horror Comedy Interrupted Suicide Artistic License – Biology Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Historical Hero Upgrade Instant Death Bullet Establishing Character Moment Works Set in World War II Mugging the Monster Grey and Gray Morality Nothing Is Scarier Downer Ending Action Girl Male Frontal Nudity Not So Stoic Evil Sounds Deep Self-Deprecation Kids Are Cruel All for Nothing The Vamp Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Foreshadowing Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Attempted Rape Evil vs. Evil The Musical "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue She's Got Legs Evil Is Petty Humiliation Conga Blood from the Mouth Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Reality Ensues Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Suddenly SHOUTING! The '60s Scary Black Man The Oner Kick the Dog Dark Action Girl Dissonant Serenity Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Adaptation Dye-Job Playing Gertrude Monumental Damage What You Are in the Dark Overly Long Gag Obstructive Bureaucrat Fantastic Racism Leitmotif Diabolus ex Machina Adult Fear Red Eyes, Take Warning Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Does Not Like Shoes Hero Antagonist Rule of Three The Quiet One Jitter Cam Drowning My Sorrows Men Are the Expendable Gender Blood Knight Silent Movie Disguised in Drag Death Seeker Shirtless Scene Ambiguously Gay Half the Man He Used to Be Damsel in Distress Crazy Jealous Guy Danny Peary Cult Movies List Overprotective Dad Bullying a Dragon I Need a Freaking Drink Logo Joke Japanese Films Black Dude Dies First Dropped a Bridge on Him Never My Fault Sinister Minister Humans Are Bastards Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Chick Market-Based Title B-Movie Death of a Child Cowboy Cop Daddy's Girl Contrived Coincidence The '80s No OSHA Compliance Book-Ends It's Personal Immune to Bullets An Arm and a Leg Shoot the Shaggy Dog Cloudcuckoolander My Beloved Smother Improbable Weapon User Eldritch Abomination Zombie Stories Big-Bad Ensemble Straight Gay Drill Sergeant Nasty Badass Normal Adaptational Attractiveness Mystery and Detective Films The Smart Guy Fantasy Films Sole Survivor Didn't Think This Through The Load Stealth Hi/Bye Aside Glance The Stoic Take That! Trailers Always Spoil Manipulative Bastard Properly Paranoid Arch-Enemy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Ms. Fanservice Determinator Bar Brawl Oh, Crap! Politically Incorrect Villain Running Gag Evil Plan Hidden Depths Pragmatic Villainy Stalker with a Crush Boom, Headshot! 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Soft Glass Unusually Uninteresting Sight Missing Mom Serial Killer Card-Carrying Villain Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Spanner in the Works Foregone Conclusion A Father to His Men Adaptation Expansion Adaptational Villainy Rousing Speech Developing Doomed Characters Bond One-Liner Badass in a Nice Suit Idiot Ball Non-Indicative Name Plucky Comic Relief The Brute In the Back Hoist by His Own Petard Dirty Coward Pimped-Out Dress Scenery Gorn Artistic License – Military Funny Background Event Anti-Hero Disproportionate Retribution Laughing Mad Darker and Edgier Demoted to Extra Face Death with Dignity Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Kill It with Fire Jerk with a Heart of Gold Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Rasputinian Death Driven to Suicide Covers Always Lie Breaking the Fourth Wall 20 Minutes into the Future It's All About Me Big Bad Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Calling the Old Man Out No Name Given MacGuffin Have a Gay Old Time Rewatch Bonus Hell Is That Noise Meaningful Name Made of Iron Country Matters Informed Ability Historical In-Joke Arranged Marriage Deadpan Snarker Laser-Guided Karma Madness Mantra Imagine Spot Wham Shot