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So, the whole episode's been [[All Just a Dream]]. The [[Big Bad]]'s subjugation of Canada never happened, the [[Will They or Won't They?]] couple [[Ship Tease|didn't really get together]] and, unfortunately, [[The Scrappy]] didn't actually die. So, it's [[Status Quo Is God|all back to the status quo]], right?
But wait... what about that [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] who helped the fight? The [[Girl of the Week]] who fell for the protagonist? That [[Funny Animal|cute ferret-mouse-dog... thing]]? What'll happen to them when the hero wakes up? More importantly, what if they ''realize'' what will happen if he wakes up? This, my friends, is a
Any one of a number of things can now occur: perhaps the characters of the dream conspire to keep the hero asleep forever. Perhaps the hero himself tries to force himself never to wake-up. Or, if the writers don't feel like writing a [[Downer Ending]], there'll be [[Or Was It a Dream?|a hint that it wasn't just a dream after all]]. If the writer wants to go for a less traumatic ending, those involved may realize that the same dream can happen more than once and/or have the same cast of characters, so once the dreamer goes to sleep again tomorrow night they'll all "wake up".
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* The indie game ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'' has this played perfectly straight. The world is split into a world of existence (the New Earth), and nonexistence (the Void). Everything in the Void except inside towns has [[No Ontological Inertia]], and just gets swallowed up after 24 hours. If the "real world" exists and the mirror of the real world doesn't exist, what does that really say about the whole? It "sort of" exists. At the end of the game, it turns out [[The Gods Must Be Lazy|God has been sleeping the whole time]], and when God wakes up, everything but the main character will wink out of existence [[God in Human Form|(don't ask about the main character)]].
* In the Game Gear version of ''[[Ristar]]'', one of the bosses seems to be a dream master. When he is beaten, the background, which was a fairly normal world becomes overrun with lightning and storm clouds, thus hinting at what happens to the world Ristar is in when he beats the boss.
* In ''[[Twisted Metal]] 2'', Roadkill/Marcus Kane's ending is him claiming the entire game is just him having a bad dream and wishes to wake up from it, Calypso responds that "He would be the one to figure it all out", then gladly agrees, but not before telling Marcus to "Feel free to visit any time, for the rest of your friends will be here for quite a while!", soon after, Marcus awakes in a hospital, surrounded by his family, apparently having survived a fifteen car pile-up, with the other contestants being in the other beds by him. However, at the end of it, Calypso's evil laughter is heard. So is it a
* Played with in ''[[Ultima VII]]: Serpent Isle'', there's an entire town that was shoved into the dreamworld after an evil sorcerer's magical experiment went awry.
* In [[Drawn to Life|Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter]], where the whole damn world is revealed to be {{spoiler|The dream of a boy in a coma. When going home from the fair, the car he was in was involved in an accident which killed his parents. And it turns out he has a sister named Heather with a bandage across the left side of her face - the area where Raposa!Heather had the darkness.}} And to top it all off? {{spoiler|The Raposa are based off the toys he and Heather won at the fair - Mari and Jowee.}}
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