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== Tabletop Games ==

* Many ''World Of Darkness'' sourcebooks both [[Old World of Darkness|old]] and [[New World of Darkness|new]] begin and end with information related to a specific event. ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' has a diary in the front from a student, and ends with a letter from the mage who's teaching said student to that mage's ''last'' student, who went bad and was responsible for Awakening the student writing the diary. ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'' has the first and second halves of [[Frankenstein's Monster|Mr Verney]]'s interview with a psychiatrist.

* The ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' intro fiction 'Lack' begins and ends with Sava waking up in a new body and asking what the date is.

== Web Comics ==

* This happened in the first story of ''[[Honeydew Syndrome]]'' (the first five chapters).

* In the second panel of the first strip of ''[[1/0]]'', "Let there be light!" In the second panel of the last strip, "Let there be darkness!"

* [[Walkyverse|David Willis]] loves this trope. Compare the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131124182208/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19970908.html first] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140227035329/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19970909.html second] ''Roomies!'' strips with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120823105436/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19991220.html final] ''Roomies!'' strip, and (to a lesser extent) the first two ''Roomies!'' with [http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20070910.html this] ''Joyce and Walky!'' which debuted two days after the Walkyverse's tenth anniversary.

* Each volume of ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' begins and ends with similar '''NSFW''' scenes. The first volume opens with Gary walking in on [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20080517.html Matt and Dillon] having sex on the couch and ends with Dillon walking in on [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090514.html Matt and Sandra] having sex in about the same position. The second volume opens with Gary having an [[Erotic Dream]] about Zii in which she [[Catapult Nightmare|turns out to be a man]] and ends with Yuki having an [[Erotic Dream]] about a girl who turns out to be a female Gary. The third volume opens with Sandra waking up on DiDi's boobs, and ends with her waking up on Senna's.

* [[8-Bit Theater]] begins with Black Mage and Fighter lost while searching for a [[MacGuffin]] in the beginning. In the epilogue, they're once again lost while searching for another quest, and Fighter suggests they continue looking for the very same [[MacGuffin]].

* ''[[Concerned|Concerned: The Half-life and Death of Gordon Frohman]]'' begins and ends with a snide joke about Valve's constant delays in releasing games.

* Though not in the chronologically-first strips, ''[[Girly]]'' created these with the [[New First Comics]] and the [[Grand Finale]].

* ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' begins with a particularly hard-boiled [[Private Eye Monologue]] delivered by the titular Problem Sleuth. {{spoiler|After Problem Sleuth has performed Sepulchritude and used The Final Flip-Out, he's on the verge of death, where the original monologue's structure is used, except this time, it's talking about how he's in limbo.}}

* The [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20060701 first] ''[[Concession]]'' comic is mirrored by the [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20101224 appropriately-titled] [[Word of God|fifth-to-last]] comic. The [[Alt Text]] confirms that it is indeed the same customer.

* ''[[The Phoenix Requiem]]'' begins with a celebration of "All Souls' Night" (in that setting it has similar importance than our Christmas/New Year's Eve). The comic ends with the same celebration 2 years later. {{spoiler|The first scene begins with Jonas arriving. The last one ends the same way.}}

* ''[[Homestuck]]'' did a variation at the end of its fourth act - the final scene of the end-of-act [[Animation Bump]] is of [[Apocalypse How|a meteor from the Reckoning]] passing through one of Skaia's defensive gates and striking John's house, which is exactly what happened in the conclusion of Act 1 and what kickstarted the adventure to begin with.

** The end-of-Act 5 [[Animation Bump]] did the same thing: {{spoiler|to represent all of the kids' reality being fundamentally reset by [[Reset Button|the Scratch]], when Jade is enlarging the Fourth Wall for her and John to travel through, it displays a rapidly-reversing slideshow of many of the earliest panels of ''Homestuck'', ending with the very first page of [[Good Morning, Crono|John standing in his room]] before cutting to white.}}

** The first pesterlog of Act 5 Act 2 ended with John telling Karkat "See you soon". The last pesterlog starts with Karkat repeating the same line to Jade.

* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'': [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1.html "Hey, there's comics] [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3182.html on the Internet!"] Keep in mind that {{spoiler|2011 David Morgan-Mar's soul was transported back into his 2002 body and Death made him forget everything that happened over IWC!'s run. Also, #3182 is only the [[Grand Finale]] of the main arcs; guest comics and Annotation comics have been posted since.}}

* ''[[Darken]]'' both starts and ends with a character being resurrected to serve a demon lord.