Tropescilloscope: Did Not Get the Girl

The Protagonist doesn't get together with their Love Interest. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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