Esoteric Happy Ending: Difference between revisions

* [[Vamp You]], the vampire porn site, has quite a few of those. Generally, it ends in the humans getting turned into vampires. Who are evil.

* Played with in ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'', which shows the caption "HAPPY END!" over an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]].

* A lot of [[Transformation Comic|Transformation Comics]], such as these featured on [http://www.transfur.com/ Transfur], have a questionably happy ending where the protagonist relishes their new status; depending on what you think about being turned into a [[Furry Fandom|bizarre beast-man]] or some other alien being for the rest of your life, this might be jarring... especially if the ending is so hastily and artificially written that it comes off as if the recipient of the transformation has simultaneously been brainwashed into a mindless [[Stepford Smiler]]. [http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/17905 Example.]

** Though the ending of ''that'' is ''clearly'' supposed to be the brainwashed version, with comedic-horror elements that [[Nightmare Fuel|some people got that bit of a chill down their spine from though it's supposed to be funny]], there are actually several stories where being turned into [[Petting Zoo People]] comes with a [[Lotus Eater Machine]] effect. Highly common are [[Transformation Sequence|Transformation Sequences]] where the person is panicking and screaming at the beginning, but each stage of the human-to-nonhuman conversation also shows the character in a different stage of a "WTF is happening to me?!"-to-"Being a [[Catgirl]] rocks!" conversion. (Yes, even - or especially - if you [[Gender Bender|started out male]].) Is it that you forever lose your mind along with your form, or the fact that you don't ''really'' know you won't like being a winged centaur until you try it? ...yes, it's definitely ''one'' of those, isn't it?

*** It's a [[Shout-Out]] to [[The Three Stooges]], for what that's worth.

* Lampshaded on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', at the end of the episode "Rosebud."

'''Marge:''' It's an ending. That's enough. }}

** "Love is a Many Strangled Thing". We are genuinely expected to consider it a good thing that Homer and Bart destroyed an innocent man's life.