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* In the adaptation of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' made by Baz Luhrmann in 1996, ''[[Romeo + Juliet]]'', Juliet starts waking up from her coma as Romeo is drinking his poison, and he realizes his mistake right before dropping dead. This raises the drama from the original, where she merely woke up to find his corpse.
* A [[Diabolus Ex Machina|ridiculously tragic]] version: in ''[[The Mist]]'' the main character {{spoiler|mercy-kills his son and all his friends (he had just enough bullets for everyone but himself) moments before the ominous pounding sound drawing ever closer is revealed to be the military coming through killing all the monsters and burning up the mist.}}
* At the beginning of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons: Honor SmongAmong Thieves]]'', Edgin’s plan to break himself and Holgo out of prison is as follows: knowing that Jarathan (an Aarakocra, one of a race of bird people) is on the parole board, and that their parole hearing will occur in a tower at the highest point of Revels End, they plan to bull-rush Jarathan and push all three of them out the tower's window, forcing Jarathan to fly them to the ground, letting them escape. Unfortunately, due to a storm, Jarathan is late to the hearing, and the magistrate insists on holding it without him, so and Edgin complies and tells them his account of [[Justified Criminal| how he became a thief in order to support his daughter after his wife's murder]], eventually set up by his assumed allies and subsequently abandoned as a fall guy. As he finishes, Jarathan finally arrives, the two put their plan into motion, and they succeed - unaware that the magistrate had decided to approve their parole, which results in both of them becoming fugitives for the remainder of the story.
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