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