Tropescilloscope: Bittersweet Ending

An ending that's more or less happy, but still has significant sad notes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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