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{{trope}}
When a show ends without a [[Grand Finale]]
Conceptually, this is the [[Opposite Tropes|Opposite Trope]] of a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]. The [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] is effectively the ''first'' episode of a show on a different show; the '''Fully
If the ended show was launched with a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] on one show, the Fully-Absorbed Finale will usually be an episode of the same show (assuming, of course, that the parent show is still in production).
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Alternatively, things might get wrapped up in [[The Movie]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[X 1999]]'' shows what happened to Subaru and Seishiro after the events of ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]''.
* Hiroya Oku created two mangas, both called ''[[Hen]]'' ("strange"). The original one ran from 1988 to 1992, and the second one ran from 1992 to 1997. The books had completely different casts, and the second book was much more popular than the first one. The last three volumes of the second book are widely despised because they brought back the cast of the first book, and more than half of the stories revolved around characters that many readers didn't know or care about.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Comic Book example: When the series ''[[Aztek|Aztek: The Ultimate Man]]'' started publishing, co-writer [[Grant Morrison]] was also writing the series [[Justice League of America]] and had Aztek join the team. When his solo series was cancelled, Morrison wrapped up his storyline in the pages of JLA.
** Averted with [[Geoff Johns]] transferring Star-Spangled kid from the canceled ''Stars and STRIPE'' to the successful ''[[Justice Society of America]]'' title. Far from being a finale, SSK went on to become a major character in JSA and eventually took on the name Stargirl.
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** Given Rick and Mar-Vell's part in the original defeat of Thanos and the HUGE production made of ''[[Put on a Bus|The Death Of Captain Marvel]]'', the irony or blatant gotcha applied by having Rick's alternate be Thanatos—{{spoiler|a death god whose name was referenced in naming Thanos on the first place}}—is downright epic.
* The ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' comic by [[Transformers Timelines|Fun Publications]] concludes the plot of ''Transformers Universe''.
* A storyline in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' ended on a cliffhanger with Kid Eternity being kidnapped by the Calculator. This was resolved sometime later in an issue of ''[[Batgirl]]'', where the title character discovered that Eternity had been beaten to death by Calculator.
* The original ''Omega: The Unknown'' series ended on a cliffhanger with the fates of most of the cast left unrevealed. The storyline was concluded in ''The Defenders''.
* The current 'Mighty Crusaders' mini-series serves this for the DCU versions of the Red Circle heroes.
* This also happened with the Adam Warlock series from the 1970s—after Marvel cancelled it in the middle of an epic story arc involving {{spoiler|Warlock killing himself so that he would not become the Magus, his future/past evil self}}, Jim Starlin finished up in whatever books he could get his hands on, including a few issues of Strange Tales, the Marvel Team-Up Annual, Marvel Two-in-One Annual, and the Avengers Annual.
* [[Dwayne McDuffie|Dwayne McDuffie's]] final comic book, ''[[Milestone Comics|Milestone Forever]]'', tied up most of the hanging plot threads from ''[[Static (comics)|Static]]'', ''[[Hardware (
* The 90's revival of ''Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt'' was cancelled after only 12 issues, leaving some hanging plot threads. This lead to Thunderbolt's final battle with his nemesis Andreas being depicted in an issue ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League Quarterly]]''.
* The Michael Lane ''[[Azrael]]'' series was cancelled before the story could be resolved. Writer David Hine was allowed to finish out Azrael's story via a [[Bat Family Crossover]] that ran through ''[[Batman]]'', ''Red Robin'' and ''[[Gotham City Sirens]]''.
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* ''[[Silver Surfer]]'' Volume 1 #18 (1970) ends with an angered Surfer swearing revenge on mankind. Future guest appearances and his later comics wouldn't touch upon the change of attitude. In 1999, a follow up occurs in #4-6 of ''Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man''.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Millennium" serves as a finale to ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''. To the credit of those who put together the DVD release of ''Millennium'', that episode was included on the DVDs of the last season.▼
▲== Live Action Television ==
**
▲* ''[[The X-Files]]'' "Millennium" serves as a finale to ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''. To the credit of those who put together the DVD release of ''Millennium'', that episode was included on the DVDs of the last season.
▲* ''[[The X-Files]]'' "Jump the Shark", a finale for ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]'', which had been a [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[The X-Files]]''. (Although the title characters from ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]'' appeared in other episodes of ''[[The X-Files]]'' after cancellation of ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]'' and before "Jump the Shark," only "Jump the Shark" tied up storylines from the canceled series.) This episode does appear on the DVDs for the one and only (waah!) season of ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]''.
* Not quite a Fully Absorbed Finale, but when ABC pulled ''[[Taxi]]'' off the air, Dick Ebersol gave the entire cast a send-off and curtain call on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "School Reunion" picked up on the partnership between Sarah Jane and K-9 first introduced in the failed [[Pilot]] ''[[K-9
* Played with in ''[[30 Rock]]'', when Kenneth and Trey reassemble some of the cast of [[Night Court]] and attempt to film a proper finale for the show. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' has one that's Meta. ''[[Seinfeld]]'' had a rather odd ending, but one Larry insists is fine. In order to win back his wife, however, Larry kicks off a season-long plot to do a [[Reunion Show|Reunion Special]] to act as a proper finale. The whole cast from ''
* ''[[Lopez Tonight]]'' [[Playing with a Trope|played with this]], presenting a "proper" finale for ''[[The George Lopez Show]]''. It involved George
* ''[[The Parkers]]'' considered making one to resolve ''[[Moesha]]'' finding a pregnancy test in her home and her brother getting kidnapped, but let's just say the Parkers had their own problems.
* The late 90s superhero series ''[[Nightman]]'' featured a sort-of epilogue to creator Glen A. Larson's short-lived 1983 series ''[[Manimal]]'' in Episode 206, where Johnny Domino/Night Man allies himself with Prof. Jonathan Chase. In the years since the events of ''Manimal'', Chase married his former partner Brooke, who later died after giving birth to Chase's only daughter.
* In ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'' "Reinforcements From the Future" effectively served as a finale after the finale to [[Power Rangers Time Force]] acting as a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] for the rangers and villains of ''Time Force'' as well as closing the last few loose ends of the plot.
** This could be said about many of the "bring back last season's Rangers" episodes.
* The mystery of the [[Cut Short]] series ''Vanished'' was intended to be solved in the third series of ''[[Bones]]'', but the WGA strike put paid to that plan.
* In the second episode of ''[[Raising Hope
* In the ''[[Childrens
* Ted Buckland from ''[[Scrubs]]'' appeared in the ''[[Cougar Town]]'' episode "Something Good Coming", where he revealed that after the events of the final season of ''Scrubs'', his wife had left him for Dr. Hooch.
* [[Dharma and Greg]] appear on ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' as buyers of the recently-deceased Charlie's house. Evidently, things aren't going very well for them.
* Part 1 of the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' also functioned as a
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* The Japanese video game ''Moonlight Syndrome'', part of the ''Twilight Syndrome'' series, which was written by Suda 51, ends with a cliffhanger. The resolution is found in the first case of the first game series Suda 51 wrote after he formed his own company, ''The Silver Case'', in which {{spoiler|two of the three survivors from ''Moonlight Syndrome'' are unceremoniously shot and killed.}}
* Even though no true ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' sequel has been made since the release of ''Vampire Savior'' in 1997, the original ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' follows up on Morrigan's ending in ''Vampire Savior'', by revealing that she and her "sister" Lilith have merged into one.
** Other games, such as ''[[Cross Edge]]'' and ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', seem to affirm other plot points from ''Vampire Savior''. Two of the more notable ones are Felicia becoming a nun like her foster mother and starting an orphanage (although ''Cross Edge'' notes that she still operates as a singer to help support said orphanage and her ending in ''MvC3'' has singing together with [[X-Men|Dazzler]] in a concert) and Morrigan ''finally'' accepting her responsibilities and becoming the Queen of Makai.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' "Epilogue" functions as a finale for ''[[Batman Beyond]]''.
** It was also essentially the finale for the entire DC animated universe, so the Batman Beyond setting might have doubled as a convenient setting for a [[Distant Finale]].
* Though done as a semi-parody, ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' would seem to offer an answer to what happened to Race from ''[[Jonny Quest]]''... he dies in his over-the-top successor Brock's arms after a rather humiliating sequence of injurious events. Unlike most parodies of this type, the character's name is left intact and he even makes a reference to another name-intact character, Jonny. In the next season, we actually see Jonny, who has become a pill-popping psycho
** Not any more. As of season three, "Jonny Quest" is now "Action Johnny", whose childhood sidekick (and now manager of a IT tech support company) is named Rajni not Hadji. And Doctor Zin is now "Doctor Z". Apparently, with
** Except that Race was shown alive on a ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' episode broadcast not long after the ''Venture Bros.'' episode. It appears that the [[Hanna-Barbera]] characters are the stylistic equivalents of [[Public Domain Character
*** This is because the [[Hanna-Barbera]] studio and properties ended up part of Turner Broadcasting, meaning that there are no legal issues for shows on Adult Swim (part of Cartoon Network, owned by Turner) to use those characters, more or less the entire reason for the existence of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]''. The exception is that some properties are considered important, and while Space Ghost and Birdman can be made to do [[Comedic Sociopathy|terrible, terrible things]], certain others are left unmolested. This lead to a last second plot twist in an episode of Harvey Birdman {{spoiler|involving Fred Flinstone where Fred is shown to be innocent and only thinks that he is a mob boss, while Barney is the real don}} after the powers that be got wind of it.
* Link and Zelda guest-starred in several episodes of ''[[Captain N]]'' after the cancellation of [[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|their own series]]. One of these episodes, "Potion of Power", involved them trying to prevent the resurrection of Ganon.
* A few years after its cancellation, ''[[Evil Con Carne]]'' got a finale on its sister show, ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* [[Hercules (
* ''Challenge of the Gobots'' is getting an indirect version through a crossover with ''Transformers'' in the Fun Publications comics. The story starts up some time after the end of the show. The war between the Guardians and Renegades is still going on and humanity is starting to colonize in space. Suddenly a large instability in the fabric of reality causes the universe to start slowly fading away. The Gobots discover that this is happening because an unexpected splinter ''Transformers'' timeline has been created, offsetting the balance of the multiverse. The story then involves the Gobots traveling to that splinter timeline (the ''Transformers: Classics'' universe)
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