1 | ->''"I think I thought I saw you try. But that was just a dream."'' |
2 | -->-- '''{{Music/REM}}''', "[[Music/OutOfTime Losing My Religion]]" |
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5 | So, this is an index of ambiguity-- |
6 | |
7 | Not so fast! We don't have any idea what this could be! But we do know it has nothing to do with Music/TheyMightBeGiants. And that it's not to be confused with the AmbiguityIndex. |
8 | |
9 | It could be: |
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13 | [[index]] |
14 | * AmbiguousCloneEnding: It's left ambiguous whether a person is the real deal or if they've been replaced by a duplicate. |
15 | * AmbiguousCriminalHistory: A character is implied to have committed a serious crime in the past, but it's never given context. |
16 | * AmbiguousEnding: The work ends on an uncertainty. |
17 | * AmbiguousGender: It is difficult to tell what gender a character is. |
18 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Somebody may or may not be trans and not transitioned. |
19 | * AmbiguousInnocence: Somebody could be actively scary or creepy or not. |
20 | * AmbiguousRobots: It is difficult to tell whether something is a robot or not. |
21 | * AmbiguousSituation: Any event where it's unclear what happened. |
22 | * AmbiguousSyntax: The phrasing of a sentence allows for more than one interpretation of what the sentence means. |
23 | * AmbiguousTimePeriod: The work takes place in the past or future, but it's unclear when exactly. |
24 | * AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Somebody has one or both their parents not present, and it's unclear as to why. |
25 | * AmbiguouslyBi: A character is hinted but not outright stated to be bisexual. |
26 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: A character has dark skin, but it's not clear if it's to indicate their ethnicity or if they simply have a tan. |
27 | * AmbiguouslyChristian: A character celebrates Christian holidays and/or makes references to {{God}} and/or Christian afterlives, but they're never confirmed (or denied for that matter) to actually be Christian. |
28 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: A character of unknown moral alignment is subtly implied to possibly be evil. |
29 | * AmbiguouslyGay: A character is hinted but not outright stated to be gay. |
30 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: A character appears to be human but has certain odd characteristics and quirks that hint they might actually be something that isn't human. |
31 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: A character is played by a Jewish actor and/or displays {{stereotype}}s about Judaism but isn't directly stated to be or not be Jewish. |
32 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: It's not clear whether or not certain individuals are related. |
33 | * AmbiguouslySentientObject: An object that shows signs of possibly being sentient, but not enough to prove that they are. |
34 | * AmbiguouslyTrained: A character shows signs of having either been in the military or had a job in law enforcement, but it's never confirmed. |
35 | * TheBigBadShuffle: There are multiple antagonists who could qualify as the BigBad, but it isn't clear which one is the true main antagonist. |
36 | * BolivianArmyCliffhanger: A season finale ends with it being ambiguous who lived and died. |
37 | * BolivianArmyEnding: The story ends with the characters at the mercy of someone about to kill them and no clarification on whether or not the enemy successfully killed them. |
38 | * CartoonCreature: A character is most likely some sort of anthropomorphic animal, but it is unclear what species they are supposed to be. |
39 | * ChurchOfSaintGenericus: A place of worship (church, synagogue, temple, etc) is left ambiguous as to what denomination or religion it is for. |
40 | * {{Cliffhanger}}: Ending an episode/chapter/season/etc with one or more characters in danger (the ambiguity is that it's unknown at the time how/if they'll get out of danger). |
41 | * ComicSutra: A sex act is mentioned, but it is not known how it is performed. |
42 | * CowTools: Tools with unclear purposes. |
43 | * CrapsackOnlyByComparison: A place that seems like a {{Dystopia}} only to one character or group of characters because they're used to better places. |
44 | * CrypticConversation: All or most of what one particular character says is cryptic. |
45 | * CuckooNest: A character is convinced they're in an asylum and the events of the work were just hallucinations, making it (sometimes temporarily, sometimes permanently) ambiguous as to what's real. |
46 | * DiabolusExNihilo: A baddie who appears out of nowhere and it's unknown where they came from or why. |
47 | * DidTheyOrDidntThey: It's left ambiguous whether or not a couple have consummated their relationship. |
48 | * TheEndingChangesEverything: Sub-trope of Ambiguous Ending. At the end, it's unknown which events of the story were real and which were imaginary/faked situations/etc. |
49 | * EnigmaticMinion: An antagonist (''not'' the BigBad) whose actual agenda is left a mystery. |
50 | * EpilepticTrees: Fan theories; the audience making up their own hypotheses as to what really happened in a work. |
51 | * FanDislikedExplanation: A YMMV for when an ambiguity is resolved, but the audience dislikes the resolution. |
52 | * FanonWelding: A work that is considered to be set in the same universe as another work by most fans. |
53 | * FauxAdventureStory: A story promises adventure but doesn't deliver. |
54 | * FightUnscene: Characters fight, but all or most of the fight is left unseen, so it's ambiguous as to exactly ''how'' they fought unless it's revealed through dialogue. |
55 | * FlipFlopOfGod: The work's creator keeps changing their mind in regard to information not revealed in the work itself. |
56 | * GainaxEnding: SubTrope of AmbiguousEnding -- an ending makes ''no sense at all''. |
57 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: A character acts like a love interest, but it's unknown if they're really in love. |
58 | * InexplicablyAwesome: A character who is awesome, bizarre, and never to be explained. |
59 | * LastSecondJokeProblem: A new problem crops up at the end of a story that's just meant to be funny rather than lead to the next act. |
60 | * LeftHanging: An uncertainty that's a serious part of the plot remains ambiguous. |
61 | * LukeIMightBeYourFather: Because the mother had sex with more than one man at the time of conception, it's unknown who the child's true father is. |
62 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A father is unsure if their child is truly theirs. |
63 | * MasterOfTheMixedMessage: One character is definitely in love with another, but it's unknown how the other person feels about the love interest. |
64 | * MaybeEverAfter: It's left vague whether the romance arc ends with the couple staying together. |
65 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A supposedly supernatural event has reasonable and logical explanations, but it is also hinted that the event may have been genuinely supernatural. |
66 | * MindScrew: Something is so surreal/symbolic that it makes no sense. |
67 | * {{Mockspiracy}}: It's ambiguous as to whether a conspiracy theory is true or not, but it leans heavily towards "not true". |
68 | * MocksteryTale: One or more characters try to solve a mystery but then the mystery turns out to be nonexistent, unimportant, or unsolvable and it turns into a PsychologicalThriller (or a ShaggyDogStory in more comedic media). |
69 | * MultipleChoiceFuture: There are several possible futures and it's unknown which will happen. |
70 | * MultipleChoicePast: A character has multiple contradictory origin stories, the true origin being unclear. |
71 | * MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: A villain sent to kill or kidnap the protagonist who is well-known for killing/kidnapping people professionally, determined, and mysterious in at least one way. |
72 | * MysteriousPast: A character's backstory is extremely vague and seldom mentioned. |
73 | * MysteriousPurple: The color purple used to characterize or code things as mysterious, ambiguous, or enigmatic. |
74 | * NeverFoundTheBody: A person who appeared to die is speculated to still be alive because their corpse was never found. |
75 | * NoEnding: The story ends with the main plot unresolved. |
76 | * NonSpecificallyForeign: A character is established to not be a native inhabitant of the setting, but it isn't explained what their specific nationality is. |
77 | * NoodleImplements: A person plans to achieve a goal with the use of items of unclear function. |
78 | * NoodleIncident: Characters mention an unseen past event without clarifying the full details involving it. |
79 | * NothingIsScarier: A horror element whereby the threat isn't actually seen, and the audience is left horrified imagining what said threat might look like. |
80 | * ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: It's not made clear what a character does for a living. |
81 | * TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: A mysterious group that seem to be working behind the scenes and who comment cryptically on things that happened. |
82 | * OrWasItADream: A character appears to have [[AllJustADream dreamed it all]], but it's then implied that what they allegedly dreamed about had actually happened. |
83 | * OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: A god/demon/angel/etc. whose gender is unknown. |
84 | * OurHeroIsDead: ''Seemingly'' killing the protagonist as a {{Cliffhanger}}. |
85 | * RashomonStyle: A story is narrated differently by different characters and they ''can't all be right'', so it's ambiguous who's right. |
86 | * RiddleForTheAges: Something mysterious happens and it's never explained how. |
87 | * ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: Something is described as three mysteries within one another. |
88 | * SantaAmbiguity: A work leaves it ambiguous whether or not SantaClaus exists in the setting. |
89 | * SchrodingersButterfly: In a story about dreams, it's ambiguous whether some things were real or dreamed up. |
90 | * ShrugOfGod: Either due to indifference or not being sure themselves, the creator of a work chooses not to confirm a detail regarding canon and elects to simply let the fans come to their own conclusions. |
91 | * SilentWhisper: We don't know what one character whispered to the other. |
92 | * TheSpook: An individual whose background and motivations are not known. |
93 | * TheStinger: A scene that plays after the credits. |
94 | * TakeOurWordForIt: The characters spend an awful lot of time talking about how scary, funny, gruesome or whatever something is, but we never actually see it. |
95 | * TakenDuringTheEnding: A character/object is taken away at the end of the story for a purpose, leaving it ambiguous on what's going to happen next. |
96 | * ThatMysteriousThing: A character mentions something while describing it in a way that we don't know exactly what the thing they're talking about is. Even the person describing it may not know. |
97 | * ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: A horror trope where we don't know whether something is real or a hallucination or even if hallucinations are even a possibility. |
98 | * UncertainDoom: A character is last seen in a situation where they may have been killed, but it's not clear whether they survived or not. |
99 | * UnknownRematchConclusion: The conclusion to a final rematch between two characters is never shown. |
100 | * UnreliableNarrator: It's hinted that the narrator may not be telling the complete truth, if they were even honest to begin with. |
101 | * TheUnReveal: We never find out what the big secret is. |
102 | * UnrevealAngle: Using the position of the camera for an Un-Reveal. |
103 | * UnspecifiedApocalypse: The Apocalypse happened, but exactly ''how'' is unexplained. |
104 | * UrbanLegendLoveLife: Whether a character has as many conquests as they claim is unclear. |
105 | * VagueAge: It's not clear how old a character is supposed to be. |
106 | * VagueHitPoints: It's not clear how many hit points a character has. |
107 | * VagueStatValues: It's not clear what the quantity of a stat is, or how much it's changed. |
108 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's ambiguous where the story takes place. |
109 | * WildMassGuessing: The place on this wiki to post fan theories. |
110 | * WorldOfMysteries: A whole setting consisting of vague hints and unsolved mysteries. |
111 | [[/index]] |
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