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* Every ending in the ''[[Blacksad]]'' series is bitter sweet. Blacksad finds the missing girl, but {{spoiler|her mother is now dead}}. In another album Blacksad stops nuclear proliferation but {{spoiler|doing so loses him the woman he had come to love}}.
* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'': V and Evie have triumphed against the evil fascistic government. However, V is dead, chaos runs rampant throughout Britain, and it seems like the last bastion of civilization is crumbling.
* ''[[Y:
** Though he does escape in the end, and is implied to be alive. His escape might also qualify as a [[Chekhov's Gun]], as he is seen practicing a straitjacket escape in the first issue
* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
* The "[[Livewires]]" mini series ends with all but two members of the team of [[Ridiculously
* The ending of ''[[Final Crisis]]'' sees Darkseid and Mandrakk defeated, and Superman using the Miracle Machine to restore space/time to its normal state. However despite Nix Uotan's claim that Superman wished for a happy ending with the M.M., that is not the case. Because the Machine could only be used once, the deaths of the Anti-Life enslaved people and both Batman and Martian Manhunter still happen. Not to mention that Superman could have helped out earlier, if only he had returned from the 30th century earlier.
* ''[[Watchmen]]'': Dan and Laurie are happily together and fighting crime and the looming threat of nuclear war has been eliminated, but Ozymandias killed millions of people, Rorschach is dead, and Dr. Manhattan just sort of... left.
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* The end of the DC event "Our Worlds at War" sees the world mourning the apparent deaths of Aquaman, Guy Gardner, Sgt. Rock, Hippolyta, with Superman himself mourning the destruction of his family farm and apparent death of the Kents along with the rest of the state of Kansas.
* ''War of the [[Green Lantern|Green Lanterns]]'': The Green Lantern Corps is saved, the emotion entities are freed from Krona's control, the New Guardians are freed from the Book of the Black, and Sinestro is a Green Lantern again. However, thanks to Hal Jordan's actions, the Guardians of the Universe find him too dangerous and has him dishonorably discharged from the Corps. The story ends with Hal back on Earth in the middle of nowhere, muttering, "This isn't how it's supposed to end."
* The final issue of the 2009-2011 ''[[
* Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Gilbert's book [[
* In ''[[
* All of [[Marvel Universe]] cosmic events ; [[Annihilation]], [[War of Kings]] and [[The Thanos Imperative]], have had such endings, where the victory comes usually at a great cost or leads to a temporary peace with the threat still out there.
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