Is the infamous "Toppat Civil Warfare" ending from The Henry Stickmin Collection considered no ending?
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Left Hanging, Cut Short, No Ending
, started by Vidor on Jan 9th 2012 at 6:56:08 PM
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by Escher on Oct 3rd 2012 at 5:08:01 PM
Needs to be split with or become a YMMV thing. Many of these examples are not objective.
People are now seemingly anything with "doesn't have an explanation", even works that are cosmic horror stories or rely on Nothing is Scarier - in other words, works where "explaining things" would completely ruin the credibility.
It doesn't help that the IM Db community has a large number of people who insist any movie must jump through the same million or so hoops and every other movie.
Am I the only one who completely loathes tgis trope?
Seriously, "No Ending" can rot in hell.
I don't think Mass Effect 3 should be listed there. A "bad" ending is still an ending. "No Ending" only applies if the game jumps right to the message from Bioware after the final playable segment.
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Well, there were (before the Extended Cut) a lot of threads left hanging. But i guess youre right, since the resolution to the main arc is there, while suckish.
"Of Mice and Men" doesn't end? (HE FUCKING KILLS LENNIE!) What more final ending could you possibly want?
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I wonder if a lot of these cases need a mention in the example that, sure, the quote is appropriate and perfectly describes the trope, but a joke, or out of context, or written by an idiot.
It would help to have a quote from an identifiable source. Also I don't think the quote really describes the trope that well, since the trope is about leaving key issues unresolved for effect and the quote can as easily describe any story that chooses its time-frame naturally (as opposed to forcing a grand finale).
People appear to be using this trope for any ending they find somewhat abrupt. It's rather distressing since one would think that the No Ending trope would mean media being orphaned, just stopping.
I changed the definition of the trope somewhat in order to reflect how it's actually being used. The intro described a trope that applies only to individual episodes of a series. However, many of the examples below (including the quote at the top of the page) were not this, but overall works like films and books that were ended abruptly. Additionally, there did not seem to be a defined trope for works that were ended abruptly due to a deliberate decision by the writer/creator. I am now going to tweak the definition of Cut Short to match.
A general question about what someone said about Inception.
"An astute critic will also notice Dom's children are credited separately for their appearance as his projections and their older selves when we finally see their faces."
Why is this notable? They are differently-aged characters portrayed by different actors, so as many films have done, they get distinct cast credits. Is there something I'm missing?
Chevalier Malfait: Removed from Literature:
- The Old Testament books of First Chronicles, Second Chronicles, and Ezra were originally written as one single, continuous, really long book. When later editors decided to divide the narrative into 3 separate books, they chose the dividing point between the end of 2 Chron and the beginning of Ezra in mid-sentence.
Reason: First and Second Chronicles were indeed originally one book. However, they are recognized in the scholarly literature as being somewhat later than Ezra, the latter of which, by the way, was in some Hebrew Bibles considered one book with Nehemiah. Thus, it's the end of 2 Chron that quotes (partially, as noted) from the beginning of Ezra.
Hey guys. I just wanna know what purpose this trope can serve, since Tropes Are Tools, after all.
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