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* ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean: The Second Story/Second Evolution.]]'' The planet of Expel is saved, the Sorcery Globe is dealt with, and most of the heroes can go back home. But at what cost? {{spoiler|Remember Narl/Nall, Mirage, Marianna, Noel and Chisato (if you didn't recruit them), the psynards, the buzzing Fun City, the wondrous technology, and all the random townspeople you ran into during the second half of the game? [[Tear Jerker|They're gone forever]], and nobody other than the heroes realises that they ever existed.}}

* The ending of ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'' definitely counts. {{spoiler|The murderer behind Greenvale's killings, as well as the manipulator behind all the other red seed murders are discovered and defeated and Zach is freed from the Red Room, but Emily and Thomas are both dead.}}

* These are pretty much the standard for the {{Thief}} franchise. In the first game, Garrett loses his eye, but ends up saving the world from {{spoiler|[[God of Evil|The Trickster]]}}. Nevertheless, his accomplishment goes completely unnoticed and uncared for by pretty much everyone. In the sequel, ''Thief 2: The Metal Age'', Garrett saves The City again and possibly the world from {{spoiler|[[Religion of Evil|Karras and the Mechanists]]}}. Not only does the achievement go unnoticed by The City, he loses {{spoiler|the Pagan wood nymph, [[Nature Spirit|Viktoria]]}}, his one true romantic interest, in the process. [[It Got Worse|The kicker?]] He didn't realize how deeply he cared about her until it was too late, and is informed that her loss was [[Kick Them While They Are Down|supposed to happen]].

* These are pretty much the standard for the [[Thief]] franchise. In the first game, Garrett loses his eye, but ends up saving the world from {{spoiler|[[God of Evil|The Trickster]]}}. Nevertheless, his accomplishment goes completely unnoticed and uncared for by pretty much everyone. In the sequel, ''Thief 2: The Metal Age'', Garrett saves The City again and possibly the world from {{spoiler|[[Religion of Evil|Karras and the Mechanists]]}}. Not only does the achievement go unnoticed by The City, he loses {{spoiler|the Pagan wood nymph, [[Nature Spirit|Viktoria]]}}, his one true romantic interest, in the process. [[It Got Worse|The kicker?]] He didn't realize how deeply he cared about her until it was too late, and is informed that her loss was [[Kick Them While They Are Down|supposed to happen]].

* The recent ''[[Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 9]]''. {{spoiler|Raiden succeeded in fulfilling his future self's warning to prevent Armageddon, but in process, the majority of the Forces of Good ended up killed, leaving only him, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade as the remnants of the Forces of Good (and occasionally Scorpion, depending where his moods swing). On the other hand, the Forces of Evil only lost pretty much Shao Kahn... and then [[Sequel Hook|there's still Quan Chi planning to initiate the return of Shinnok per]] [[Mortal Kombat 4 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 4]]...}}

** {{spoiler|Even worse, Liu Kang, long considered [[The Hero]] of MK, dies firmly believing Raiden, his formerly beloved mentor, betrayed him and all of Earth Realm.}}