A Bolivian Army Ending occurs when the main characters face seemingly insurmountable odds which, for once, they fail to surmount, although their ultimate doom is sometimes left to the audience's imagination. The trope is named for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which ends with the two heroes surrounded by seemingly the entire Bolivian army (more likely just a company of riflemen) after escaping from the States. They could surrender, but instead they choose to go out in a blaze of glory. The film ends just as they do so, and we never see them die. (Interestingly, the original version of the film showed their death, but test audiences preferred a more ambiguous ending.) There is some historical evidence that the real Butch Cassidy may have survived the event, but none for the Sundance K