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The last scene of the movie is coming to a close. For some reason, something in the scene - perhaps a flying machine, an object, or even a character - decides to start flying, and comes straight at the camera. Just as it's about to "impact", the scene cuts to black and we go to the credits.

The flying person/object doesn't need to be actually flying, but more often than not, it is.

Most common in special-effects laden movies. After the rise of CGI, this became much more popular, but earlier movies display it as well.

Contrast [[Riding Into the Sunset]] where it ends with something moving away from the camera.

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== Film ==
* The first ''[[Back to The Future]]'' ends with the DeLorean flying up in the air, turning around, then warping through time just as it hits the camera.
** The third movie [[Call Back|ends the same way]], except with the train in the place of the DeLorean.
* ''[[Casper (film)|Casper]]'' ends with Casper flying up to the camera, winking, spelling out "The End", then the friendly ghost apparently trying to devour the audience.
* ''[[Serenity]]'' has a chunk of the titular ship flying at the camera.
** And with this, it manages both [[Riding Into the Sunset]] and [[Fly At The Camera]] at the same time.
*** And [[Book Ends]] nicely with the first time we see the ship in the movie...a piece of the ship breaks off, and Mal says, "What was that?"
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy]]'' ends with The Heart of Gold flying at the camera and engaging the Infinite Improbability Drive. The visual effects used for the drive mean the very last thing we see is [[Douglas Adams]]' head.
* ''[[Batman Forever]]'' and ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' both end with Batman and co. running past a light to the camera in homage to the beginning of the 1960's series
* ''[[Batman Begins]]'' ends with Batman swinging off a rooftop and into the camera.
* The end of ''[[The Matrix]]''. Slightly averted as he flies ''by'' the camera before it goes black, thus [[Incredibly Lame Pun|slightly averting]] its path.
* The feather in ''[[Forrest Gump]]''
* To many fans' horror, ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' ends with a ''freeze frame'' of Harry flying at the camera, so his giant face is smushed across the screen.
* ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' inverts this with the camera flying at [[Bruce Campbell]] at the end.
* The ending of ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'' (happens right after the [[Book Ends]]), with an Atlantean flying machine obscuring the camera.
* The end of ''[[Night at the Museum]] Battle of the Smithsonian'' ends with an old fashioned biplane flying at the camera.
* ''[[Open Season]]'' ends with a rabbit thrown at the camera.
* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' ends with [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Slimer]] flying at the camera.
* One of the endings of ''[[Paranormal Activity]]'' is  {{spoiler|demon-possessed Katie}} attacking the camera.
* Danny Zuko's car at the end of ''[[Grease]]''
* In [[The Stinger]] of the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', {{spoiler|Jack the Undead Monkey charges at the camera.}}
* ''[[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]]'' throws his weapon into the camera at the end off the movie.
* ''[[Cars]]'' ends with a [[Stealth Pun|VW Beetle]] flying into the camera just right after we see the minivan couple [[Brick Joke|still lost in the desert they were in.]]
* The original ending to ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' featured Audrey II bursting through the screen to devour the audience.
* The first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' ends with Spidey swinging at the camera.
** At the end of the first ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]'' movie, Johnny does this after recreating the team's [[Chest Insignia]] in the sky.  {{spoiler|Subverted in that the movie actually ends after a minute or so, following a sequence where [[Doctor Doom]]'s return is foreshadowed through an [[Nothing Is Scarier|incredibly eerie]] [[Sequel Hook]].}}
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' inverts, by finishing with the camera "flying" at Mr. Incredible's [[Chest Insignia]].

== Live Action TV ==
* The last episode of ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'' ends with Geraldine ''flying into the air and towards the camera''. Yeah.
* The ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Warrior" ends with Chloe firing an arrow at the camera.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' concluded at least two episodes this way:
** In one, Janeway and Seven end up playing a game on the holodeck that involves knocking a floating disk around using hand phasers. Eventually, one shot finds the camera.
** After Chakotay frees ''Voyager'' from "chaotic space" with some help from the local aliens, he ends up taking some time out for boxing on the holodeck. Boothby coaches him to make an adjustment to KO his opponent; then we get the second-person point of view as Chakotay punches said opponent in the face.

== Video Games ==
* The ending sequences to many 2D ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games feature Sonic (or Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Cream) jumping towards the player and posing while suspended in air. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a75gm_ovvsY Sonic the Hedgehog 2's ending] is the most notable in which both Tails's plane and (Super)Sonic fly away from the player only to come back head first.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwDPMUj1MGQ&NR=1 This remake of said ending] does it right.
* ''No Mercy'' in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''.
* Some of the ''[[Gradius]]'' games end like this.
** One of the ''[[Parodius]]'' games combines that with [[Camera Abuse]].
* ''[[Lego Harry Potter]]'' recreates the final scene from the third movie, but takes it further and ends with Harry in orbit.
* ''[[Super Metroid]]'' has Samus's gunship flies into the camera right before closing with a "See you next mission."
* ''[[Spyro the Dragon|The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon]]'' ends with Spyro and Cynder happily flying around in Avalar, then swoop in towards the camera.

== Western Animation ==
* The last episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' ends with Batman running into the screen.
* The 2009 DC Universe animated ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' feature has Wonder Woman charging into the camera as she is ready to take on the Cheetah.
* ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'' ends with Batman swinging towards the screen and then a little bit to the up and left (so technically its last shot is of Batman's armpit.)
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bye Bye, Nerdie" ends with Francine (a girl bully in which Lisa befriends in the episode who for some reason attacks only nerds and no one else because she is attracted to their sweat glands, and later on Lisa uses her for her science project because of this) charging at the camera after beating up several scientists at a science fair.
{{quote|'''Francine''': I hate you!
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