Tropescilloscope: No Ending

Ending without resolution. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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