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Ununnilium: I didn't get the sense that the TNG example did it deliberately to make a point, so I moved it over to Left Hanging.
I remember seeing a movie on TCM that ended with a fight between two men who looked exactly alike. Were they played by Alec Guinness? Too late at night to look it up, but maybe later. —Document N
Adam850: I transfered examples of Cut Short to that page.
Lord Seth: Deleted:
- The last in-continuity episode of Scrubs ends with Elliot sitting down to a table with JD, Turk, and Carla. Turk and Carla blatantly make themselves scarce, and the last shot is of JD and Elliot talking about nothing in particular.
Smapti: Cut...
- Actually the "attention all planets of the solar federation" is repeated three times for a total of 21 words, and the "we have assumed control" part is also repeated three times for a total of 12 words. 21+12 = 2112.
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and moved it here (after editing, unfortunately). The justification nullifies the example; there is a diference between No Ending and Mind Screw. Or No Ending and Wall Banger.
- Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex featured an A Day In The Lime Light episode where Pazu fights an ex-lover who has adopted a body identical to his. They draw knives and fight, until one flees around a corner. When Batou arrives on the scene moments later, one of them has been killed, but it is impossible to tell which.
- Actually if you pay close attention to the wounds you can tell it was the original that died. However it is implied the imposter is such a close copy of the original that it makes no difference to the rest of the cast, or plot. Mind Screw anyone?
- I think the description of American Psycho and its plots as being meaningless misses the point of the film. It isn't a hallucination, a dream or anything like that - Bale's character's lawyer says he didn't receive a message because he is unwilling to report Bale's character to the police. The implication is that men of their social standing are above the law, even after the large trail of murders left behind.
- The cliffhanger ending of "Haunted" in Teen Titans is an example. The writers - as they have confirmed in interviews - didn't place a high priority on explaining things.
- The whole series goes out on a similar note, with Beast Boy rushing towards a fight with a monster that, considering its makeup, he really probably wasn't going to be a lot of help against. If one took a particularly cynical note, it was quite possible all of the Titans died offscreen. (Of course, considering that the comic version of the show, Titans Go!, is still ongoing, and they had a movie in the same continuity (Titans In Tokyo) set after the last episode, that's not what happened, but still.)
Okay, everything is fine up until "Fight with a monster" then it just deviates into rambling which later proves pointless as the paragraph goes on to contradict the argument the Titans died by saying they didn't. Is this really nessecary? Its more of speculation then an actual explanation of why the cliffhanger ending counts as part of this trope.
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to change it a bit. If someone can give me a reason to keep it they're free to undo it.
Andy LA: Not anything to contribute with describing the trope, but the idea reminds me of the title of a Strokes song called "The End Has No End". Shouldn't this be the name of the trope?
Not like I'm trying to change anything. If you wanna keep it as-is, it's fine. I'm just suggesting.
Dausuul: Removed the "Croatoan" episode of Supernatural, which is not a No Ending but a setup for events much later in the series. (This is strongly implied by the final scene of the episode.)
