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