Bittersweet Ending/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' ends in a [[Distant Finale]] where cloning has been perfected and the first twenty or so reliably immune men have recently been released into the 'wild', however Yorick Brown 1.0 himself does not fare quite so well. He finds out that the girlfriend he had rounded the globe tracking down was about to dump him when the fateful telephone call was cut off, eventually she shacks up with his sister. Then the woman that had been slowly falling in love with him, 355, gets shot dead at Alter's command in the hopes of securing an 'honorable' death in combat with the only available male. He begins the [[Distant Finale]] straitjacketed and locked in a hidden room in the French Presidental Palace by his own daughter after an apparent suicide attempt shortly before his eighty-sixth birthday... he claims he thought it would be ironic.

** 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 "[[Livewires]]" mini series ends with all but two members of the team of [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] damaged possibly beyond repair, the least damaged and most recently activated having saved the rest tries to take them to their original base for supplies only to discover the team blew it up before the start of the mini series.

* 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.

* 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."

* Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Gilbert's book [[The Professor's Daughter]]: Ihmotep and Lillian get married and have three children, but Lillian's father is killed and wrapped in bandages, placed as a part of the Museum's Egyptology exhibit.

* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', {{spoiler|Siphon dies and no-one gets their powers back}}. However, a flash-forward shows that the heroes and villains do eventually move on and find closure.