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