Basic Trope: An intentionally weird ending.
- Straight: The movie Bob's Adventure ends with every character in the movie exploding into orange liquid while Bob has a disjointed Dying Dream about the meaning of life.
- Exaggerated: Bob's Adventure ends with a random series of words and images in no particular order.
- Downplayed:
- Justified: It was All Just a Dream.
- Inverted:
- The beginning of the movie is a disjointed series of random imagery and philosophical discussions. The rest of the work is much more coherent.
- The beginning scene presents an Ambiguous Situation with numerous unanswered questions and Mind Screw that the movie never answers, but the plot is pretty understandable for the rest of the run.
- The ending is a Mind Screwdriver.
- Subverted: The movie ends with everyone exploding into orange liquid, only for Bob to reform and go after Mr. Bad who did it For the Evulz.
- Double Subverted: But after Mr. Bad is defeated, Bob has a disjointed Dream Sequence about the meaning of life instead and he turns into a pineapple.
- Parodied:
- The movie ends with everyone exploding into orange liquid, at which point Bob has a disjointed Dying Dream about how humans really shouldn't drink so much orange juice.
- During a Bolivian Army Ending, the scene suddenly cuts to Alice dancing naked on stage for 30 minutes.
- Zig-Zagged: The movie ends with everyone exploding into orange liquid, only for it to turn out it was All Just a Dream. Or Was It a Dream? Then everyone suddenly flies into Mars and has a dance party with the aliens there.
- Averted: The movie ends in a perfectly sensible way that fits the rest of the story's tone.
- Enforced: "No grand finale will live up to fans' expectations and we're out of money. Let's just give them a Mind Screw we can afford and let them figure it out."
- Lampshaded:
- "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"
- "Well... A Mind Screw is better than No Ending."
- Invoked: Bob is dosed with hallucinogens in the hope his acid trip will teach them an important Aesop.
- Exploited: Knowing everyone will explode into orange liquid and he will enter a disjointed Dying Dream like existence where anything can happen, Bob uses it as a means to be reunited with his deceased wife, Alice.
- Defied: Bob wills himself out of the disjointed Dying Dream so he can earn his happy ending instead.
- Discussed: "How did you think this would end? Everyone exploding into orange liquid? maybe a nonsensical dream or two? Sorry, but reality is hardly that dramatic."
- Conversed: "Man, Bob's Adventure had a weird ending, didn't it?"
- Deconstructed:
- Bob has been going insane through the entire story, and suffered a final psychotic break.
- The movie's fans go onto the internet to complain about how confusing and stupid the ending was.
- Reconstructed:
- This final break convinces Bob to return to the mundane real world rather than stay in their psychotic fantasy.
- The fans begin to theorize about the ending, and the movie gets more popular than ever.
- Played for Laughs: The ending emphasizes Surrealist and Breaking the Fourth Wall elements for the sake of Absurdism.
- Played for Drama:
- Bob fears he is going insane.
- The weirdness is due to the world ending.
- An Outside-Context Problem comes out of nowhere right at the end, and destroys all the characters have worked for.
Congratulations! Orange juice to Gainax Ending. *Chicken noises* END THE!
