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* ''[[The Invisibles]]'' is a magic spell in the form of a work of fiction. Everything in the first two volumes of the Invisibles is a lie. There's no massive Manichean struggle of good vs. evil. The outer church is simply an outside intelligence trying to prepare humanity for something mind blowing by essentially inoculating humanity against the horror of the end of the world (which is actually human instrumentality). Think of getting a booster shot. It's not going to kill you, but it's going to prepare your immune system for something worse in the future.
** Or, to quote Grant Morrison: "In Katmandu, much to my shock and surprise, I experienced [...] a full-on, Tibetan, Sci-Fi Vision of All SpaceTimeMind As A Single Complexifying Iteration Which Is The Larval Form Of A 5th Dimensional Adult Entity".
* Speaking of [[Grant Morrison]], the ending of ''[[The Filth]]'' made no sense ''at all''. [[That Other Wiki]]
* The ending to ''[[Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader]].'' Granted, the series was intended to close the character of [[Batman]] with a metaphysical look at the character, but the ending grabs metaphysics and goes straight into the surreal, passing by Elseworlds, multiple universes, and the Golden, Silver, and Dark Ages of comics along the way.
** The general point of it was that there is no such thing as a definitive Batman story, and that the happy ending to Batman's story is that he gets to be Batman. Because who doesn't want to be Batman.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' is one of the earliest examples. A synopsis exists at
* ''[[Kamen Rider|Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' managed to pull off an [[Everybody Lives]] ending without ruining its [[There Can Be Only One]] premise, ''and'' while justifying the alternative continuities of the movie ("Episode Final") and the TV special ("13 Riders"). It's just damn confusing the first time you watch it, mainly because it's something of a [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]].
* ''[[Twin Peaks]]''. Unlike most David Lynch examples, this one was actually unintentional; and was [[Executive Meddling|forced on him by the studio execs]]. [[Word of God]] was that the "who killed Laura Palmer" storyline was intended to last the entire run of the show; with no resolution. The studio decided they didn't like that, and demanded an ending; leaving them with no clear storyline for the second season, and necessitated a lot of improvising. The resulting mishmash led to low ratings, and the studio cancelling the show before Lynch and Frost could wrap up the second season storyline.
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