Bittersweet Ending/Fan Works


 * In With Strings Attached, after successfully restoring the Vasyn to Ketafa, the four are informed that they can't take their magic home with them. Whereas John and Paul are pleased because they were fretting about returning to Earth as Blessed with Suck, Ringo is devastated, because he was profoundly transformed by his magic and had all kinds of plans for using it. He ends up clinging to the hope that the four will be given a chance to use it again in the future, making this a rare book where the characters actually ask for a sequel.
 * At the end of Bittersweet, just when you think Pinkie's alive again, she's only there to tell everyone to move on. In other words, Pinkie Pie got Killed Off for Real.
 * The Katawa Shoujo fanfic Reconciliation. Hisao dies of a heart attack, devastating both his wife Lilly and Hanako, and preventing Hanako from apologizing to him. However, Hanako and Lilly renew their friendship, and Hanako later gets into a relationship with her publicist Sho.
 * In I Am What I Am, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic by M. McGregor, the immediate threat is defeated, the Scoobies have all survived and are greatly empowered against future enemies, and . However, the defeated threat was explicitly identified as only the first attempt the Powers That Be will make to try to put the timeline back to the way they like it, and the next one is likely to be far more dangerous and difficult.  And Ethan the Chaos Mage is still out and about, and there's no guarantee that he will remain on their side.