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** The story is a video game with multiple "endings", and ''none'' of them resolve anything, simply gives you a GameOver screen.
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** The story is a video game with multiple "endings", and ''none'' of them resolve anything, anything. It simply gives you a GameOver screen.
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** The ending is abrupt and [[GainaxEnding extremely confusing]] but if you're able to follow all the weird symbolism, it does resolve at least a few things.
** In a video game, only the GoldenEnding actually resolves things, while the rest are varying levels of unsatisfying.
** In a video game, only the GoldenEnding actually resolves things, while the rest are varying levels of unsatisfying.
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** ''Bob's Journey'' was supposed to have sequels, but it ended up as a StillbornFranchise.
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** YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle
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** YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle
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** The story is a video game with multiple "endings", and ''none'' of them resolve anything.
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** The story is a video game with multiple "endings", and ''none'' of them resolve anything.anything, simply gives you a GameOver screen.
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** The story is told through Alice's then-current diary, the rest is found in her subsequent diaries.
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** The story is told through Alice's then-current diary, the rest is found in her subsequent diaries. ([[ApocalypticLog assuming there]] [[ThatWasTheLastEntry are any]])
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** There is an ending, but it is anticlimatic and [[VoodooShark raises more questions than it solves]].
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** [[ToBeContinuedRightNow The credits start to roll, before Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" The film then continues as normal.]]
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** Emperor Evulz has a [[MagicFromTechnology story-ending machine]], and deliberately ends the story so Bob can't save Alice.
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* '''Invoked''': Not applicable. (This trope is beyond the control of the characters.)
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* '''Invoked''': Not applicable. (This trope is beyond Emperor Evulz has a [[MagicFromTechnology story-ending machine]], and deliberately ends the control of the characters.)story so Bob can't save Alice.
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* '''Defied''': Not applicable. (This trope is beyond the control of the characters.)
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* '''Defied''': Not applicable. (This trope is beyond the control of the characters.)[[ToBeContinuedRightNow The credits start to roll, before Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" The film then continues as normal.]]
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** The broadcaster's bankruptcy has stopped the show dead in its tracks.[[note]] hope they can find a different broadcaster willing to fund the remainder of the show.[[/note]]
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** The story ends years later, with Bob and Alice together, but [[NoodleIncident no explanation as to how they
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** The story ends years later, with Bob and Alice together, but [[NoodleIncident no explanation as to how they reunited.]]
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reunited.]]]]
** The story ends immediately after Bob and Alice reunite.
reunited.
** The story ends immediately after Bob and Alice reunite.
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** The story is told through the Alice's then-current diary, the rest is found in her subsequent diaries.
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** The story is told through the Alice's then-current diary, the rest is found in her subsequent diaries.
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** The story is told through the Alice's then-current diary, the rest is found in her subsequent diaries.
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* '''Subverted''': It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending.
** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending.
** ..But Bob still never finds Alice.
** ..But Bob still never finds Alice.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
** ...then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending.
** ..** ...But Bob still never finds Alice.
** ...then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending.
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** Bob himself was somehow cause of the story ending abruptly.
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** Bob himself was somehow the cause of the story ending abruptly.
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* '''Played for Laughs''': The story cuts off when Bob is in ''mid-sentence''.
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* '''Played for Laughs''': The story cuts off when Bob is in ''mid-sentence''.''[[InterruptedByTheEnd mid-sentence]]''.
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** AuthorExistenceFailure kicked in, but the publisher [[MoneyDearBoy publishes]] [[DeadArtistsAreBetter what's been written]] anyway.
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** AuthorExistenceFailure DiedDuringProduction kicked in, but the publisher [[MoneyDearBoy publishes]] [[DeadArtistsAreBetter what's been written]] anyway.
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** The story is a video game with multiple "endings", and ''none'' of them resolve anything.
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** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending... then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending. Or does it? [[ToBeContinuedRightNow Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" and the film continues as normal.]] But Bob still doesn't find Alice, and the credits roll... [[RunningGag "Will you please stop trying to end the film?! For ]]''[[PrecisionFStrike fucks ]]''[[RunningGag sake, ]][[BreakingTheFourthWall not only do I, but the audience also wants to know where Alice is!"]] Then the credits glitch out and the BigBad appears, indulging in an EvilLaugh as he glitches the film out. [[OverlyLongGag That is, until the credits become sentient and fight back. The credits eventually defeat the]] BigBad [[OverlyLongGag , and start to roll... ]][[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WILL. YOU. STOP?!"]] [[MindScrew and then Bob has to literally fight the ending.]]
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** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending... then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending. Or does it? [[ToBeContinuedRightNow Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" and the film continues as normal.]] But Bob still doesn't find Alice, and the credits roll... [[RunningGag "Will you please stop trying to end the film?! For ]]''[[PrecisionFStrike fucks ]]''[[RunningGag sake, ]][[BreakingTheFourthWall not only do I, but the audience also wants to know where Alice is!"]] Then the credits glitch out and the BigBad appears, indulging in an EvilLaugh as he glitches the film out. [[OverlyLongGag That is, until the credits become sentient and fight back. The credits eventually defeat the]] BigBad [[OverlyLongGag BigBad[[OverlyLongGag , and start to roll... ]][[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WILL. YOU. STOP?!"]] [[MindScrew and then Bob has to literally fight the ending.]]
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** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending... then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending. Or does it? [[ToBeContinuedRightNow Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" and the film continues as normal.]] But Bob still doesn't find Alice, and the credits roll... [[RunningGag "Will you please stop trying to end the film?! For ]]''[[PrecisionFStrike fucks ]]''[[RunningGag sake, ]][[BreakingTheFourthWall not only do I, but the audience also wants to know where Alice is!"]] Then the credits glitch out and the BigBad appears, indulging in an EvilLaugh as he glitches the film out. [[OverlyLongGag That is, until the credits become sentient and fight back. The credits eventually defeat the BigBad, and start to roll... ]][[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WILL. YOU. STOP?!"]] [[MindScrew and then Bob has to literally fight the ending.]]
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** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending... then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending. Or does it? [[ToBeContinuedRightNow Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" and the film continues as normal.]] But Bob still doesn't find Alice, and the credits roll... [[RunningGag "Will you please stop trying to end the film?! For ]]''[[PrecisionFStrike fucks ]]''[[RunningGag sake, ]][[BreakingTheFourthWall not only do I, but the audience also wants to know where Alice is!"]] Then the credits glitch out and the BigBad appears, indulging in an EvilLaugh as he glitches the film out. [[OverlyLongGag That is, until the credits become sentient and fight back. The credits eventually defeat the BigBad, the]] BigBad [[OverlyLongGag , and start to roll... ]][[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WILL. YOU. STOP?!"]] [[MindScrew and then Bob has to literally fight the ending.]]
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** The story somehow ends ''before'' the start.
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** [[MindScrew The story somehow ends ''before'' ends]] ''[[MindScrew before]]'' [[MindScrew the start.]]
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** The credits start to roll, before Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" The film then continues as normal.
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** [[ToBeContinuedRightNow The credits start to roll, before Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" The film then continues as normal.]]
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* '''Zig Zagged''': The plot has neither a beginning nor an ending.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Zagged''':
** The plot has neither a beginning nor an ending.
** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending... then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending. Or does it? [[ToBeContinuedRightNow Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" and the film continues as normal.]] But Bob still doesn't find Alice, and the credits roll... [[RunningGag "Will you please stop trying to end the film?! For ]]''[[PrecisionFStrike fucks ]]''[[RunningGag sake, ]][[BreakingTheFourthWall not only do I, but the audience also wants to know where Alice is!"]] Then the credits glitch out and the BigBad appears, indulging in an EvilLaugh as he glitches the film out. [[OverlyLongGag That is, until the credits become sentient and fight back. The credits eventually defeat the BigBad, and start to roll... ]][[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WILL. YOU. STOP?!"]] [[MindScrew and then Bob has to literally fight the ending.]]
** The plot has neither a beginning nor an ending.
** It's continued in the sequel, which ''does'' have a satisfying ending... then the ''next'' sequel also lacks an ending. Or does it? [[ToBeContinuedRightNow Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" and the film continues as normal.]] But Bob still doesn't find Alice, and the credits roll... [[RunningGag "Will you please stop trying to end the film?! For ]]''[[PrecisionFStrike fucks ]]''[[RunningGag sake, ]][[BreakingTheFourthWall not only do I, but the audience also wants to know where Alice is!"]] Then the credits glitch out and the BigBad appears, indulging in an EvilLaugh as he glitches the film out. [[OverlyLongGag That is, until the credits become sentient and fight back. The credits eventually defeat the BigBad, and start to roll... ]][[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WILL. YOU. STOP?!"]] [[MindScrew and then Bob has to literally fight the ending.]]
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** The credits start to roll, before Bob protests "I'm not done yet!" The film then continues as normal.
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** ..But Bob still never finds Alice.
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** [[CutShort The writer forgets about]] ''Bob's Quest''.
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** [[CutShort The writer forgets about]] ''Bob's Quest''.Journey''.
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** ''Bob's Journey'' begins on the final chapter, with Bob and Alice together and goes through the chapters in reverse order, with the final one shown being the prologue...but the prologue provides no information as to Emperor Evulz's origin or what motivated him to kidnap Alice.
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** The story ends years later, with Bob and Alice together, but no explanation as to how they reunited.
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** The story ends years later, with Bob and Alice together, but [[NoodleIncident no explanation as to how they reunited.]]
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** The plot is abruptly resolved.
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** The plot is [[DeusExMachina abruptly resolved.resolved]].
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* '''Played for Drama''': Bob dies on the way to Emperor Evulz's castle, and Alice's fate is never mentioned.
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* '''Played for Drama''': Bob [[ShootTheShaggyDog dies on the way to Emperor Evulz's castle, castle]], and Alice's fate is never mentioned.
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* '''Inverted''': The story has no ''beginning''. [[note]](i.e., it starts with Bob in the middle of his quest.)[[/note]]
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** The story has no''beginning''. [[note]](i.''beginning'', i.e., it starts with Bob in the middle of his quest.)[[/note]]quest.
** The plot is abruptly resolved.
** The story has no
** The plot is abruptly resolved.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???The plot has neither a beginning nor an ending.
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'''Basic Trope''': A story which lacks an ending.
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'''Basic Trope''': A story which lacks an ending.ends abruptly, without resolving the plot.
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** The story ends ''before'' the start.
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** The story somehow ends ''before'' the start.
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** The story ends with Bob defeating [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]], but before we find his fate with Alice.
** AWinnerIsYou for video games.
** "The end...for now."
** AWinnerIsYou for video games.
** "The end...for now."
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** The story ends with Bob defeating [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]], but before we find his fate with Alice.
** AWinnerIsYou for video games.
** "The end...for now."[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse it is never shown what became of Alice]].
** AWinnerIsYou for video games.
** "The end...for now."
** Bob eventually gives up on his quest and [[HomeSweetHome goes home]], having apparently forgotten about both [[TheBadGuyWins Emperor Evulz]] and [[ForgottenFallenFriend Alice]].
** A series has many sequels, which all vary between having proper endings and lacking them.
** AWinnerIsYou for video games.
** "The end...for now."
** A series has many sequels, which all vary between having proper endings and lacking them.
** AWinnerIsYou for video games.
** "The end...for now."
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** The author wants the viewers to imagine their own desired ending.
** AuthorExistenceFailure kicked in, but the publisher [[MoneyDearBoy publishes]] [[DeadArtistsAreBetter what's been written]] anyway.
** The story dragged on for long enough to where the writer decided to just stop it at that moment.
** The writer decided it was better to set a abrupt ending there than at a later, less opportune moment.
** The author wants the viewers to imagine their own desired ending.
** AuthorExistenceFailure kicked in, but the publisher [[MoneyDearBoy publishes]] [[DeadArtistsAreBetter what's been written]] anyway.
** The story dragged on for long enough to where the writer decided to just stop it at that moment.
** The writer decided it was better to set a abrupt ending there than at a later, less opportune moment.
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* '''Parodied''': The story cuts off during Bob ''talking''.
* '''Zig Zagged''': A series has many sequels, which all vary between having proper endings and lacking them.
* '''Averted''': ''Bob's Quest'' story actually ends properly.
* '''Enforced''': CutShort
* '''Lampshaded''': "If you start a story, you have to ''finish it''."
* '''Invoked''': Emperor Evulz deliberately ends the story so Bob can't save Alice.
* '''Exploited''': Emperor knows the story is going to end anticlimactically, so he holds Alice captive until the end.
* '''Defied''': When Bob gets to the castle: "TheEnd... But not right now."
* '''Discussed''': "Well, so much for figuring out what happened to Alice."
* '''Conversed''': "[[SarcasmMode What a wonderful way to end this story!]]"
* '''Implied''': Even after all loose ends are tied, the story ends with a narration along the lines of "But is it over? No, nothing is ever over. Such is the true nature of life itself."
* '''Zig Zagged''': A series has many sequels, which all vary between having proper endings and lacking them.
* '''Averted''': ''Bob's Quest'' story actually ends properly.
* '''Enforced''': CutShort
* '''Lampshaded''': "If you start a story, you have to ''finish it''."
* '''Invoked''': Emperor Evulz deliberately ends the story so Bob can't save Alice.
* '''Exploited''': Emperor knows the story is going to end anticlimactically, so he holds Alice captive until the end.
* '''Defied''': When Bob gets to the castle: "TheEnd... But not right now."
* '''Discussed''': "Well, so much for figuring out what happened to Alice."
* '''Conversed''': "[[SarcasmMode What a wonderful way to end this story!]]"
* '''Implied''': Even after all loose ends are tied, the story ends with a narration along the lines of "But is it over? No, nothing is ever over. Such is the true nature of life itself."
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* '''Parodied''': The '''Parodied''':
** Bob questions if he'll ever find Alice. Not even he gets an answer.
** Bob himself was somehow cause of the storycuts off during ending abruptly.
** Emperor Evulz has a [[MagicFromTechnology story-ending machine]], and deliberately ends the story so Bob''talking''.
can't save Alice.
* '''Zig Zagged''':A series has many sequels, which all vary between having proper endings and lacking them.
???
* '''Averted''': The story has a traditional ending, which may be [[HappyEnding good]], [[DownerEnding bad]], or [[BittersweetEnding somewhere in the middle]].
* '''Enforced''':
** AuthorExistenceFailure kicked in, but the publisher [[MoneyDearBoy publishes]] [[DeadArtistsAreBetter what's been written]] anyway.
** [[CutShort The writer forgets about]] ''Bob'sQuest'' story actually ends properly.
Quest''.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "If you start a story, you have'''Lampshaded''':
** "Well, so much for figuring out what happened to''finish it''.Alice. And now I'm not even sure I'll ever make it back home."
** "TheEnd. Or rather, the stopping point."
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control of the characters.)
* '''Exploited''': The Emperor [[GenreSavvy knows the story is going to endanticlimactically, anticlimactically]], so he holds Alice captive until the end.
* '''Defied''':When Bob gets to Not applicable. (This trope is beyond the castle: control of the characters.)
* '''Discussed''':
** "TheEnd... But not right now."
* '''Discussed''': "Well, so much for figuring out what happened ** "If you start a story, you have to Alice.''finish it''."
* '''Conversed''': "[[SarcasmMode What a wonderful way to end thisstory!]]"
story!]]" "Well, at least this way, I can write a {{fanfic}} that ends [[AuthorAppeal the way I want]] without contradicting {{canon}}."
* '''Implied''': Even after all loose ends are tied, the story ends with a narration along the lines of "But is it over? No, nothing is ever over. [[TruthInTelevision Such is the true nature of life itself."]]"
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''':
** The writer is a TrollingCreator.
** The story was supposed to end on a vague note, or a no-ending actually works better in the setting than tying up loose ends.
** The story dragged on for long enough to where the writer decided to just stop it at that moment.
** The writer decided it was better to set a abrupt ending there than at a later, less opportune moment.
** The writer wants people to imagine their own desired endings.
** Bob questions if he'll ever find Alice. Not even he gets an answer.
** Bob himself was somehow cause of the story
** Emperor Evulz has a [[MagicFromTechnology story-ending machine]], and deliberately ends the story so Bob
* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': The story has a traditional ending, which may be [[HappyEnding good]], [[DownerEnding bad]], or [[BittersweetEnding somewhere in the middle]].
* '''Enforced''':
** AuthorExistenceFailure kicked in, but the publisher [[MoneyDearBoy publishes]] [[DeadArtistsAreBetter what's been written]] anyway.
** [[CutShort The writer forgets about]] ''Bob's
*
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** "Well, so much for figuring out what happened to
** "TheEnd. Or rather, the stopping point."
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* '''Exploited''': The Emperor [[GenreSavvy knows the story is going to end
* '''Defied''':
* '''Discussed''':
** "TheEnd... But not right now."
* '''Conversed''': "[[SarcasmMode What a wonderful way to end this
* '''Implied''': Even after all loose ends are tied, the story ends with a narration along the lines of "But is it over? No, nothing is ever over. [[TruthInTelevision Such is the true nature of life itself.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''':
** The writer is a TrollingCreator.
** The story was supposed to end on a vague note, or a no-ending actually works better in the setting than tying up loose ends.
** The story dragged on for long enough to where the writer decided to just stop it at that moment.
** The writer decided it was better to set a abrupt ending there than at a later, less opportune moment.
** The writer wants people to imagine their own desired endings.
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* '''Played for Drama''': Bob questions if he'll ever find Alice. Not even he gets an answer.
* '''IntendedAudienceReaction''': The story was supposed to end on a vague note, or a no-ending actually works better in the setting than tying up loose ends.
* '''Played for Drama''': Bob questions if he'll ever find Alice. Not even he gets an answer.
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* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob himself was somehow cause of the The story ending abruptly.
cuts off when Bob is in ''mid-sentence''.
* '''Played for Drama''': Bobquestions if he'll ever find Alice. Not even he gets an answer.
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