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