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* The anime of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' actually ''inverts'' this trope; in the last few aired episodes [[Cerebus Syndrome|it suddenly gets a real plot going and is much more serious]]. Then in the final (albeit unaired) episode, it becomes even ''more'' weird, as if to make up for the serious finale.

* ''[[Chobits]]'' starts out as a typical [[Magical Girlfriend]]-cum-[[Moe]] show, then, about halfway through, gets... er, [[Contemplate Our Navels|weird]]. And to top it off, after spending half the series contemplating the sentience of persocoms, the single most advanced persocom in existence states that she isn't really sentient, and neither are any of the other Chobits - they're highly advanced, naturally, but when you get down to the nitty-gritty, they're only following their programming. Most of the fans interpreted this turn of events as a gigantic middle finger from [[CLAMP]]. In the anime, they are sentient.

** To elaborate on the anime, two agents (who later turn out to be persocoms) appear out of nowhere, nearing the finale, and said persocoms' origins are never to be explained. Chi finds "the one just for her" (Hideki) and then activates this... program that makes her float to the roof of the building, whilst glowing, and transmitting a signal that makes all the persocoms stop functioning (something that's happened at least twice in the series). The two aforementioned persocoms apprehend her, but not for long as the manager appears out of nowhere and WIPES Chi's OPERATING SYSTEM. Not the data stored on her hard drive, HER ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM. At this point, the fact that she was able to walk back to the manager is a miracle. But, then Chi restores her OS—or rather, the manager erased FREYA'S OS when she was erasing the OS... or something. Then Chi sends a signal that makes every persocom's eyes gain... pupils... or something that's not well explained/explained at all. The plot is resolved by a [[Deus Ex Machina]]...

* ''[[Code Geass]]'' briefly seems to go for one of these in the penultimate arc when it starts to look a lot like an EVA clone. However Lelouch then decides to not play along with it and [[Earn Your Happy Ending|remake the world on his own]], resulting in a truly climactic finale with the [[Melodrama]] rocketing trough the roof.

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''. Of course, compared to the ''[[Mind Screw|rest]]'' of the series...

* ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]''. While GT has many things to scratch your head about, the ending is so sudden and bizarre it's nothing short of a [[Mind Screw]]. What happened to Goku in the last 2 episodes? He's clearly dead from that huge energy ball, then suddenly he's alive again somehow able to talk to everybody on earth, then when he's charging the spirit he cannot be killed by Omega at all, despite direct hits. We're not even sure if he's dead or [[Back from the Dead]] because there's not even a halo to give us any idea (How that is even possible under the circumstances is itself a mystery). Then after the bomb's thrown, he's dead again, apparently brought back to life, then suddenly he just leaves without even saying goodbye. Vegeta knows something's up, then suddenly we see his clothes left on the ground. But in DBZ when [[No Body Left Behind|they die]], they die with their clothes (In fact, that shot is ''out of sequence'' and is shown after the end of the next couple of events). But then he's off to visit Roshi and Piccolo, who both also know something's changed about him, but a mere "Are you...?" [[Shrug of God|is not very helpful]]. When they take their eyes off him for a second, there's suddenly no one there. Then the Dragonballs merge into Goku, then he disappears. Where does he go? What happened to him?

** He doesn't return for 100 years, and if you leave aside what you saw in A Hero's legacy, it's not clear if he's alive or dead. Theories include [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]] or that Goku became Shenron himself. And is he isn't even remotely bothered by the fact that almost everyone he knew is dead.

* The bizarre way they treated Tetsuo's fate in the ending of the ''[[Akira]]'' anime counts, I figure.

** Gainax is even one of the production companies involved in the film.

** They weren't sure if they'd be able to have a third series, but only the epilogue would have changed - Chiaki J. Konaka originally had a different epilogue which went into more detail than the one we got and literally ended with a curtain falling, but was asked by the U.S. network to write a less conclusive ending in case they picked it up for a third season. They didn't.

* ''[[Blame!]]'' has an [[Mind Screw|incredibly confusing ending]] that had many readers scratching their heads, but the truth is that it was a good ending. Killy found (by pure chance, [[Hard Head|and after losing half his head]]) an uncontaminated place in which Cibo's "egg" could "hatch" and give birth to a [[The Messiah|child with Net Terminal Genes]]. So, Mission - [[Sequel Hook|more or less]] - Accomplished.

* After killing the Enderdragon in ''[[Minecraft]]'', you're treated to {{spoiler|a wall of scrolling text depicting a discussion between two [[Sentient Cosmic Force]]s discussing '''[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|you]]''', the player of the game. [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/End_Poem The discussion in question] implies that the entire game was [[All Just a Dream]], life as we know it is merely an even bigger dream, the many mobs we fought in the game were the darkness in our hearts, and humanity's entire existence is a quest to understand itself.}}

* ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]'' is about playing against parodies of characters from Japanese media. {{spoiler|The "good" ending gets real confusing when Yui saves her friend Ran and accidentally activates the nuke underneath the golf course, causing many causalities in the process. The two girls who ride an elevator to the building's rooftop in the credit scene may or may not be Yui and Ran. Did they survive the blast or not?}}

 

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