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* At the end of ''[[Kate Modern]]: The Last Work'', the main characters celebrate with a party. Except Julia, who winds up pregnant with a trait positive baby that isn't even genetically hers, with her husband apparently dead, her source of money presumably gone as well, and her friends alienated. Poor Julia.
* In the last episode of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', they defeat Omega and Wyoming and tie up all the loose ends of the earlier time loop, but apparently lose Sheila, Tex, Andy, and Junior in the process.
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*** ''Recreation'' ends with {{spoiler|Church}} having been revived in spirit as {{spoiler|Epsilon}}, the return of Tucker, and one of the season's [[Big Bad Ensemble|two big bads]] finally killed, but the Reds and Blues apparently have to fend off a force of aliens. Meanwhile, elsewhere, {{spoiler|Agent Washington}} pulls a [[Face Heel Turn]] and kills two major characters.
*** ''Revelation'' has {{spoiler|Washington}} pull a [[Heel Face Turn]], and the Reds and Blues ''finally'' kill the trilogy's [[Big Bad]], and all go off to continue their Red-Blue battles. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|Epsilon}} is trapped in a powerless memory storage unit, unable to escape, trying to find {{spoiler|Tex}}, though he seems fairly content with his circumstances.
* ''[[DoctorDr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog]]'' ends with Dr. Horrible achieving his greatest ambition - getting accepted into the Evil League of Evil. However, while pulling the heist that put him on the A-list of villains, he indirectly caused the death of the girl of his dreams. The finale song shows the Dr. Horrible, all the good in him seemingly dead, gloating about his victory and warning the world that "now the nightmare's real". However, the last shot is that of Billy (Horrible's human alter ego), [[Tear Jerker|clearly lost and heartbroken]], [[Heroic BSOD|staring blankly at the webcamera]].
* ''[[Half Life Full Life Consequences|Half-Life: Full Life Consequences]]'' ends with the Combines being defeated, but both Gordon and John Freeman dying in the struggle, with the latter [[You Shall Not Pass|holding the Combines back]] [[Taking You Withwith Me|to buy time for the]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|'humens' to escape]]. But now the <s>humans</s> humens are at peace, with Henry Freeman as their president, and at the end of the Djy1991 version, you can see Gordon, John, and several others rising up to heaven.
* [[Nuzlocke Comics]] invariably end like these, seeing as the protagonist would have lost many friends along the way. No matter how happy the author might try to make the the ending be, it will always be permeated by the feeling of loss and lonliness, both by the reader and the characters.
* The ''[[Half Life|Half-Life]]'' fan-film ''Beyond Black Mesa'', ends with the transmission sucessfully going out, but Adrian and the remaining rebels [[Taking You Withwith Me|blowing themselves up]] when they're cornered by the Combine.
* ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' ends with [[That Guy With theThe Glasses (Website)|Team TGWTG]] saving the world, but at the cost of [[Captain Planet|Ma-Ti's]] life. The team reflects on the loss, with [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]] breaking down during his [[Final Fantasy XIII]] review and [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] lying in bed.
* In [[Greek Ninja]], the battle determining the fate of the world was won by mankind, thanks to Sasha, however {{spoiler|Iphigenie was amongst the casualties}}.
* ''[[I Love Bees]]'': The assembled team seem to have saved the world and have been united with their family or otherwise reached a happy end despite their losses. And then the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Covenant]] turn up.
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** While not exactly being the end of the season itself, Kylie of Season 6 suffers one when she is banned by Arbiter and Chief and is stuck living with her father, {{spoiler|who is revealed to be a cruel alcoholic,}} and is without any means of escape.
 
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