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{{quote|Or have you? No... this isn't quite the end. You see an intense blue-white light at the end of what seems a tunnel, and drift toward it until you realise that you are staring, dazed, into the light of the slide projector, and have not moved at all.}}
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s ===
* ''[[Forum Warz]]'' Episode 2 ends with your character's (apparent?) death, then goes on to state that your character has been deleted, your account has been deleted, and that your IP address has been blocked so you can't make a new one. In fact, every IP address has been blocked so nobody else can play again, and the game servers are being physically destroyed.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' pulls one like these at Icecrown Citadel. In your fight with {{spoiler|Arthas, the Lich King}}, your whole raid will {{spoiler|be killed, once Arthas reaches 10% health}}. However, this is supposed to happen, and in a [[Deus Ex Machina]] moment, {{spoiler|Tirion Fordring shatters Frostmourne with Ashbringer, releasing the spirit of Terenas Menethil II, who will resurrect the players, who then just have to beat on Arthas until he falls over}}. The fight is basically won once this happens, as long as the players don't {{spoiler|set their spirits free}}
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* A ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' adventure, ''Vecna Lives!'', has the PCs run through a dungeon playing high-level pregenerated heroes... who are promptly slaughtered by the godlike villain, whereupon the players' own low-level characters pick up the adventure.
** Likewise, in the adventure ''Death Triumphant'', the conclusion of the ''Grim Harvest'' trilogy, the party of heroes manage to infiltrate Azalin's castle with the intention of stopping him from using the energy of thousands of souls harvested throughout the trilogy to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|unseal the can he was stuck in]]. As it turns out, they don't quite make it in time. The flavor text is meant to suggest that [[Total Party Kill|everybody's dead]]. However, it turns out that the unleashed energy has turned the party, along with everybody else in a twenty-mile radius, into various forms of the undead. Which ''does'' technically make them dead, mind you, but...
* The ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' adventure "A More Perfect Union" uses this to great effect. The players are given generic police officer characters and told to investigate reports of shouting coming from a house in the suburbs {{spoiler|this is actually because the residents have been infected with a sort of mind-control virus and have slowly assimilated everyone inside into a hive mind. Next on their list? The police that come to investigate. Once the players have lost all of the police to [[The Virus]], play picks up again with their own characters.}}
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In an episode of ''[[Daria]]'', Daria and Quinn are driving out to the middle of nowhere to bail Jane and her brother's band out of jail. At one point they pick up a cute drifter who flirts with Quinn before they drop him back off. A little while later, Daria panics when she realizes he stole their bail money. Cue the "We'll be right back" scene...which suddenly cuts back to the show as Quinn explains what ''really'' happened: ''she'' spent the money to buy him things.
* In the two-part Season 2 finale of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship
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