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{{quote|''[[Waxing Lyrical|Well, this is the end, beautiful friends.]] After more than 11 years, this is Toonami's final broadcast. It's been a lot of fun, and we'd like to thank each and every one of you who made this journey with us. Toonami wouldn't have been anything without you. Hopefully we've left you with some good memories. So, until we meet again, [[The Outsiders|stay gold]]. [[Cowboy Bebop|Bang]].''
|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}gCAX4cgszCU The closing bumper] [[Tear Jerker|of]] [[Toonami]]'''}}
When a show (usually of the [[Failure Is the Only Option]] or [[Stern Chase]] variety) comes to an end with sufficient lead time, the production team may decide to go out with a bang by ending the endless chase, destroying the undestroyable foe, or in some other way definitively and permanently changing the core axioms on which the show depends. It usually resolves all the conflicts that have driven the series over its entire run, and offers some kind of resolution to the dramatic tension that they have powered.
This is the '''Grand Finale''' — a way of very clearly saying to the audience "Okay, the show is really over. There's no more. Go watch something else." (That this [[Uncanceled|doesn't always get through to viewers]] can be a problem in and of itself...)
In contrast to American television series, anime series tend to be single, continuous season-long stories that build, like an episodic novel, to a climax in the final episode. In these cases, a Grand Finale is the only fair (and the usual) way to end the show. Of course, since most anime is based on manga, occasionally the anime [[Overtook the Manga|gets ahead]] of the manga (or gets canceled before the manga ends) and the anime writers have to [[Gecko Ending|make up their own ending]], which is usually not as good as the eventual ending of the manga. Alternatively, a la ''[[Bastard!!]]!'', ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'', and ''[[Ichigo 100%]]'', the writers can just leave it hanging.
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Expect to see [[Contractual Immortality]] and [[Joker Immunity]] thrown out the window.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The first ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' anime had a bittersweet and satisfying conclusion in its final episode: {{spoiler|Ed, knowing that it takes a life to bring back a life due to Equivalent Exchange, sacrifices himself to bring Al back - he ends up on the other side of The Gate without the arm and leg he had regained because of Al's sacrifice, and Al is found alive and human again, but at the age he was when he and Ed tried to bring their mother back, and with no memory of the adventures he and Ed underwent.}} The movie came along and followed up on that ([[Fanon Discontinuity|some fans would much rather ignore it, though]]): {{spoiler|after a madman on the other side of The Gate breaks through to Amestris, Ed follows and is reunited with Al, and the two save Amestris; Ed eventually returns to the other side of The Gate to seal it, but Al follows him while Mustang seals The Gate from Amestris' side, ensuring that the Elrics remained reunited.}} The creator of the original manga claimed that she started on the ending and worked backwards to the beginning during the planning process, we can expect a fitting conclusion to the manga version shortly.
** The manga (and ''Brotherhood'') had its Grand Finale, as well. {{spoiler|Ed finally defeats Father, even after he harvests the souls of all Amestris to bring himself to an obscenely high level of power, but it takes Al sacrificing himself to bring Ed's arm back to do it; in the end, Ed finally figures out what he can give up to bring back Al - his ability to use alchemy. The brothers are finally reunited, and after two years, they separate again to go and repay everyone who helped them during their travels.}} Also, at the end of the final episode of ''Brotherhood'', {{spoiler|Ed and Winry are shown holding up two babies, implying that the children are theirs.}}
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== Comic Books ==
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* 1986's ''Superman: [[Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?]]'', by [[Alan Moore]] and Curt Swan, closes the book on the [[Silver Age]] [[Superman]], paving the way for the ''[[The Man of Steel|Man of Steel]]'' [[Continuity Reboot|reboot]] by John Byrne.
* ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]'' provides a definitive end to [[Batman]]'s career, and ends his conflict with [[The Joker]] on the side....until ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]'' came out. After that, ''Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader'' (a direct reference to the above) became more fitting an end.
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* ''The Return Of The King'' is the Grand Finale of the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]''
* ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' can be seen either as the end of the "[[Dollars Trilogy]]" from [[Sergio Leone]], or simply as a completely independent movie.
* ''[[Harry Potter
* ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers Dark of the Moon]]''
== Literature ==
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** Prior to the publication of the last book, there was much speculation as to how Rowling, on a purely practical level, would choose to end something so popular and profitable (although the ending had been planned from the humble beginnings over ten years before). Many said that, whatever she'd been planning before the title character would have to die, for example, so that the author wouldn't be hounded for the rest of her life (or that she'd better ''not'' kill him off, so that she wouldn't be hounded for the rest of her life). Another "story-ending" possibility raised by some was for him to lose his [[Magic]]. She seemed to solve the issue by implying that Harry had lived a quiet, peaceful life for at least 19 years following the defeat of Voldemort.
* [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''Flinx Transcendent'' is the grand finale of thirty five years worth of novels set in the [[Humanx Commonwealth]] universe. Sure enough, each and every dangling plot element is resolved, one by one, like a checklist.
* The Grand Finale of [[Stephen King]]'s magnum opus ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series is infamous for ending with
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* [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] tried to give [[Sherlock Holmes]] a Grand Finale three times without success. The first time, Holmes dies. The second time (after Holmes turns out to be [[Not Quite Dead]]), Holmes achieves what he considers to be the pinnacle of his career when he stops a [[Worldwar]] from happening (decades before World War I), in a story that was first mentioned as a [[Noodle Incident]] eleven years prior. The last was set years after Holmes' retirement during [[World War I]], where Holmes and Watson pull a Xanatos Gambit that gave the Germans so much false information that effectively turned them into sitting ducks against the British forces; the story also gave Holmes an age for the first time in the series. But the combo of Public Demand and [[Executive Meddling]] made him continue each time. But when the real last story came, Conan Doyle said, "screw it" and completely averts this by giving us a standard-issue mystery as the last Sherlock Holmes story.
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* ''The Last Hope'' serves as the grand finale of ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', wrapping up all the plot hooks and giving all the characters one last time in the glory.
== Live-Action TV ==
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** This was almost unheard of for a show in the 1960s, and it only came about because David Janssen wanted to quit.
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* While ''[[Doctor Who]]'' hasn't ended, the end of the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors' tenures got a big finish, ending with their [[The Nth Doctor|regeneration]] and (apart from Troughton) the reveal of the next Doctor.
** ''The End of Time'' was a send-off for both the Tenth Doctor and showrunner [[Russell T. Davies]].
* As usual, ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'''s "Chosen" had to top everyone else, with a triple play — closing the Hellmouth, defeating the First Evil and its army, ''and'' permanently changing the magical rules that define who becomes a Slayer and how. And completely destroying the entire city of Sunnydale, leaving only an enormous crater. Sadly, it still wasn't as powerful as the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] which closed Season 5.
* On the other hand, the final episode of ''[[Angel]]'' was Grand, but not Final, ending just as our heroes launched into a [[Bolivian Army Ending|doomed charge]] against a demonic army. The message here was not "It's over, go home", but a final statement that the battle would ''never'' end.
* The ending of ''[[Blake's 7
* ''[[Northern Exposure]]'': "The Quest"...if one is willing to apply some [[Canon Discontinuity]] to the episodes after Dr. Fleischman's departure.
* However, the ultimate Grand Finale, in terms of sheer viewership and dramatic power, had to be the final movie-length episode of ''[[
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' had a Grand Finale both for when it was canceled on Comedy Central (necessitating a [[Post Script Season]] when it returned), and later, when it was canceled on the Sci-Fi Channel.
* All of the three 24th-Century ''[[Star Trek]]'' series each had one, in ascending levels of awesome.
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* ''[[WCW]] Monday Nitro'''s final episode was the "Night of Champions", which would see all the belts defended for the final time in WCW, as well as have the wrestlers talking about what WCW meant to them and where they would go from here. The final match of the night was [[Ric Flair]] vs. [[
* Many seasons of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' end on a grand finale, usually following an episode that had very little relevance to the overall arc, leading to a somewhat hilarious incongruity of, say, ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' where a battle against the random [[Monster of the Week]] was immediately followed by what many fans consider to be the definitive ''Power Rangers'' finale, wrapping up no less than six seasons of stories, wiping out every major villain the series had ever had by that point, and showcasing the heroic sacrifice of Zordon to make all of the above happen.
* The ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' TV series ends after 3 seasons with the episode "Honey, I Shrink, Therefore I Am". After the shrink ray has been downplayed since season 2, it finally appears for the finale as Amy accidentally gets shrunken again. Meanwhile, Chief McKenna wants to propose to Trudi, but fears that she doesn't love him as much as he does her, and she thinks the same thing. In the end, Amy is brought back to normal size with Wayne's help, The Chief works up to courage to propose to Trudi, Diane announces that {{spoiler|she's pregnant (most likely with Adam from the movie sequels),}} and they all live happily ever after... {{spoiler|and then, they all get shrunken.}}
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'''s "Daybreak". {{spoiler|They rescue Hera, Cavil dies — in the midst of an epic struggle involving almost all the humans, Cylons, and ships we've seen in the series. Kara finally finds a habitable planet, and it turns out to be ''ours''... 150,000 years before our time. Yes, two Earths.}}
** Oh, and the Galactica? {{spoiler|It's superstructure is so heavily damaged from the [[Final Battle]] that another jump would tear the whole ship to shreds. So she's evacuated by everyone except the hybridized Anders who then [[Tear Jerker|pilots the whole fleet into the Sun]] so that the new human civilization can start over from scratch and not make the same mistakes as the previous ones.}}
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' "ends" with "My Finale". Even though it has apparently been renewed, this episode is the finale of the series in its current format as well as the swan song/goodbye to JD as the main character. {{spoiler|The episode features JD's last day at Sacred Heart before leaving for a new job to be closer to his son Sam. He manages to get goodbyes from most of the cast, even getting to part with the Janitor on good terms and getting to hug Dr. Cox. JD is left somewhat disappointed by his ending and imagines a line-up of guest stars from past seasons seeing him off, including dead characters such as Mrs. Wilks and Jill Tracy, but this fantasy ends when JD sees the futility of living in the past, so he instead decides to look forward to his future due to inspiration from a patient about taking control of one's future. The final montage shows JD imagining his future life to Peter Gabriel's "Book of Love". JD and Elliot are shown marrying and having a child, then reuniting with Turk, Carla, Dr. Cox and Jordan for Christmas in a peaceful setting. Sam and Isabella are even shown being engaged in another fastforward. The montage ends with visions of JD and Elliot kissing, and Dr. Cox willingly walking into JD's hug. In his final narration, JD feels that his fantasies should come true, just this once. Cue the ultimate sitcom [[Tear Jerker]]}}
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* The last NBC ''Columbo'' from the 1970s ended on a nice note. Columbo drinks a toast with his last murderer (an Irish gunrunner) and his last words are a quote referring both to the amount of whiskey they'll drink, and the show as a whole — "We'll go this far, and no farther." Little did they know then that ABC would take them farther a decade later.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' {{spoiler|ended on the day of Santos' inauguration, with creator Aaron Sorkin making a cameo in the swearing-in scene. Jed Bartlet left office but not before finally signing Toby's pardon in the last second, and in a [[Tear Jerker]] moment, gave his own little book of the US Constitution to the soon-to-be-in-law-school Charlie ("You're going to need it more than I do"). All the cast (old and new) are on deck, with Josh and Donna moving into their respective office as chief of staff for POTUS and FLOTUS, CJ gave Josh a slip that says "WWLD" ("What would Leo Do?") before leaving the White House and heading to California and Danny. Kate and Will Bailey don't know what to do in the afternoon now that they are not working at the White House anymore. Finally, on Air Force One heading back to New Hampshire, Bartlet opens the gift that Leo's daughter Mallory left him — the framed cocktail napkin on which Leo wrote "Bartlet for America" that started the journey so many years ago}}. Industrial-strength [[Tear Jerker]].
* ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' ended with a bang, '''literally'''. Walnut Grove gets purchased by a [[Jerkass]] developer, but instead of allowing the townspeople to buy the land back from him, he decides to allow everyone to stay... as his employees. In retaliation, {{spoiler|they have a meeting at the church/school and decide that they'd rather blow the town up and leave with nothing rather than allow the developer to have everything they have worked for. So all the men get dynamite and they blow up Walnut Grove}}. [[Jerkass]] returns to the town with the Army in tow and demands that everyone be arrested. The Army refuses to do so, and {{spoiler|the citizens of what used to be Walnut Grove leave singing "Onward Christian Soldiers"}}.
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* Given that David Krumholtz has moved on to other projects, this season's finale of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' was probably the Grand Finale. Charlie and Amita get married before their move to England to teach at the University of Cambridge. Larry seems to have found what he was looking for, and plans to take over for Charlie.
* The writers of ''[[Lost]]'' knew their finale's end date three years in advance, they certainly made theirs epic. The source of all the show's mysterious happenings was revealed for the first time - and was promptly turned off, risking the island's imminent destruction. And then... was turned back on again. The lead character had a final knife-fight on crumbling cliffs in the rain with the [[Big Bad]] - a villain who'd appeared in every season and in the very first episode and who'd taken the form of another main character, the lead's philosophical rival. Several characters escaped the island once and for all, flying off in a 777 as the runway disintegrated beneath them. The season's flashes were revealed to show the characters in the afterlife, letting the final scene reunite almost every main character after death. And the final shots were an exact reversal of the show's opening shots, with the lead character returning to the show's opening spot, falling there, and closing his eyes as he died.
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** Meanwhile, everyone — including Alex — is {{spoiler|already dead. Alex died in her hospital room in the present day/reality. Shaz was a copper during the 1990s who surprised a carjacker and was stabbed to death with [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Screwdriver]]. Chris followed his superior officer into a shootout in the 1960s and was shot in the line of duty. Ray [[Driven to Suicide|committed suicide]] on Coronation Day as well, after murdering a young kid and his DCI covered it up. Each of them are made to rewatch the circumstances of their deaths by Keats, who, by the way, is [[Satan|the Devil himself]] — or at the very least, a high-ranking minion. Keats tries, and almost succeeds, in tempting the team away from Gene, actually ''breaking the world'' (destroying CID) to peel back the construct and reveal the star-covered sky everyone's been seeing. Alex's loyalty to Gene still holds, and she reforms the office.}}
** The final scene is {{spoiler|1=Gene taking the team to what is revealed to be the Railway Arms pub, where [[Magical Negro|Nelson]], the bartender from ''[[Life On Mars]]'', is waiting as a Saint Peter figure to help them cross over. Ray, Chris, and Shaz reconcile and cross over. Alex and Gene finally kiss, but it's goodbye, and she crosses over, leaving Gene to go back to CID where the newest dead copper [[Book Ends|comes barging in, shouting about his iPhone, and Gene offers him some friendly advice — "a word in your shell-like, pal"]].}}
* ''[[Law &
** Then again, for something that was originally meant to be a [[Season Finale]], the final scene, with all the detectives and D.A.'s gathered in the same spot, enjoying a round of drinks, and having a pleasant time (rather than reflecting on the crime) brings a nice close to the series. Especially since this episode was a rare (for the series) straight, unironic example of [[Everybody Lives]].
* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' wrapped up its 7th and final season with one. Blanche, having set Dorothy up with her uncle Lucas in order to go on a date that night, is gotten back at when the two decide to fake an engagement to freak her out. However, Dorothy and Lucas actually fall in love, and then marry in the final episode. The last moments of the episode are that of Dorothy, giving the girls her last goodbyes, and, after returning twice immediately after walking out the door, finally sets off on her honeymoon. The last three girls simply come together into a hug, sobbing as the credits role.
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* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' ends with [[God]] Himself telling Sam that he has always been the master of his own fate and that, contrary to what he believed, Sam has done a lot of good by helping people throughout history one at a time. The lives he touched, touched others, and those, others. Realizing something of his own value, Sam gives up a chance to go back and saves his friend Al's marriage to Beth (Al's first wife and true love). The ending consists of a few text lines confirming that Al and Beth have their [[Happily Ever After]] {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|and Sam Beckett never returned home.]]}}
* ''[[Smallville]]'' has the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|fittingly titled]] "Finale". Clark finally flies for the first time and finally becomes the [[Superman|hero]] he's destined to be.
* ''[[Newhart]]'': "The Last Newhart," one of the most memorable sitcom finales among fans and critics. A Japanese tycoon purchases the entire (unnamed) Vermont town instead of the Stratford Inn, which series protagonists Dick and Joanna Loudon co-owned. After everyone goes their separate ways, the action picks up five years later, where Dick has progressively gotten more frustrated with his life as he deals with crazier loons than what populated the inn years earlier, and his wife has even gotten nuts; he's also unable to get over a golf course being built ''around'' the inn without his permission. Then, the old
* The original [[Concentration]] ended its 14-year/7 month run on NBC daytime with an apropos puzzle to its fans ("You've Been More Than Kind"). Musicians Milton Kaye and Tony Columbia strike up "Auld Lang Syne" during the closing credits.
* "[[Chuck]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Versus the Goodbye]]" wrapped up the final arc of the season with Team Bartowksi embarking on their ([[Running Gag|fourth]]) last mission to stop the latest [[Big Bad]], recover the Intersect and {{spoiler|help Sarah recover her lost memories}}, all while running on the usual [[Rule of Cool]] with a healthy dose of [[Continuity Porn]]. The episode is littered with [[Call Back|call backs]] to the pilot and the return of old characters, locations and [[Running Gag]]s, culimating in Jeffster performing at a concert hall to delay a bomb from killing General Beckman while {{spoiler|newly re-Intersected}} Chuck disarms it with the Irene Demoana virus.
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* How about ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''? Under new management, the crew—except for Ted—is given their marching orders. Their final goodbyes was most memorable.
* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' had a [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] grand finale, featuring major changes in the lives of all the main characters: Mrs. McCluskey {{spoiler|saves Bree by falsely confessing to the murder she is on trial for and later dies of cancer}}. Bree {{spoiler|marries her lawyer, Trip Weston, moves to Kentucky, and becomes a politician}}. Lynette {{spoiler|accepts the CEO position that Katherine offers her in her company, moves to New York with Tom, and later becomes a grandmother of six}}. Gabrielle {{spoiler|starts her own fashion website and TV show, and moves to California with Carlos, where they buy a mansion}}. And Susan {{spoiler|moves away with Julie, MJ, and her new grandchild as the ghosts of Wisteria Lane watch her leave}}. However, {{spoiler|Mary Alice informs us that the women never again get together as a group}}.
== Music ==
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* ''Abbey Road'' was probably intended to be this for [[The Beatles]], being their final recorded album, closing out with a big medley of short songs, including a song titled "The End". However, circumstances led to ''Let It Be'' being the band's final album.
** The song that ends ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,'' "A Day In The Life," concludes with all four of the Beatles striking the piano in a final chord that runs 45 seconds. Music critic Greil Marcus called it "an ending that will never be matched."
== Mythology and Religion ==
* Ragnarok. The world is consumed, everything burns, every living creature dies, game over, insert coin. {{spoiler|Someone does.<ref>(To be precise, Baldur and Hoth are resurrected, Honir and some other minor gods will survive, the gods will sit at golden tables and reminisce, and the world will be repopulated by Lif and Lifthraser.)</ref>}}
* The [[Book of Revelation]] is this for [[The Bible]] and could be for reality as we know it according to SOME Christians. {{spoiler|The book ends with all the evil thrown away to the lake of fire and the good people live with God with the last passage is "The grace of Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen."}}
== Puppet Shows ==
* In a rare move for an 80's kids show, ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'' got a series finale. To be more accurate, it was kinda a three part finale with
== Radio ==
* The last episode (''The Raymond Nostril Story'') of the second-to-last series of ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll
== Video Games ==
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* In a unique example, [[Fallout: New Vegas]] gives a grand finale to it's DLC. Dead Money, Honest Hearts, and Old World Blues hinted that the events were set in motion {{spoiler|due to the actions of the Sixth Courier, Ulysses. And this isn't the first time he is mentioned, in fact, he's been mentioned several times in the vanilla game.}} All of this build up leads to Lonesome Road. Not only do you get to {{spoiler|confront him}}, but the DLC itself also resolves plot holes from the main storyline of the game.
* The Sacrifice DLC for ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' wraps up the story and struggle for survival for the survivors. The group reaches Georgia and plan to use a boat to sail to the Florida Keys for safety away from the zombies, but a drawbridge is in the way and it needs to be raised by activating three generators. Each generator that is turned on attracts a horde and then a Tank. Once the bridge is down, it can be raised high enough to let the boat through. However, the bridge stops halfway and one survivor has to jump off the bridge and restart the stalled generator to get the bridge moving again while they face against a horde plus [[It Got Worse|three Tanks!]] The survivor then winds up sacrificing their life after they fix the generator and get the other survivors to safety.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' ended its original run with a final episode that showed several possible futures for the main characters. This was one of only two Sunday episodes that were canon (the very first Sunday was the other).
* Subverted by ''[[8-
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' concluded with a full-scale battle against Bob. Bob and George themselves get some final [[Character Development]] too, culminating with {{spoiler|George finally having the will to use his blaster}}. The Author shows up one last time to wrap up the comic, the final revelation being that {{spoiler|everybody faked their deaths in the Cataclysm thanks to Zero telling Dr. Wily about it, so they all lived [[Happily Ever After]]}}.
* ''[[Girly]]'' ended with a sufficiently grand finale, featuring at least a cameo from pretty much everyone. You'd think Chris was trying to get every single character into the last page of his comic.
* ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' had a truly spectacular epic finale, wrapping up everything, with every villain so far crashing into each other on SEMME's doorstep, including the long-foreshadowed martian invasion.
== Web Original ==
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* [[Walrus Guy]] ended his [[YouTube Poop]] career with "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVCpD-7nI4 One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)]".
** It should be noted that the title is a reference to the notorious movie ending of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
* ''[[Cracked.com|Cracked
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Ben 10]]'' had "Secret of the Omnitrix", a 3-part episode/TV movie that had Ben learning more about the Omnitrix, meeting its creator, ending his feud with his cousin Gwen at last, and defeating Vilgax. The end, right? [[Ben 10: Alien Force|WRONG.]]
** ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'''s ''The Final Battle'' resulted {{spoiler|in the Omnitrix being completely destroyed, Ben getting the Ultimatrix from his [[Evil Twin]], Kevin turning back to normal as a result of the Omnitrix exploding, Ben unlocking upgraded forms of his initial aliens (though it just shows Ultimate Swampfire), Vilgax being defeated one more}}, and it ends with Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Max having a [[Group Hug]]. [[Happily Ever After]], right? [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|Again, WRONG.]]
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* ''[[Dexter's
* Although ''[[Loonatics Unleashed]]'' was [[Cut Short]], it did end with the [[Five-Man Band]] ascending from protectors of [[City of Adventure|Acmetropolis]] to protectors of the universe, and relocated their base to Planet Blanc for convenience.
* In the ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' final episode "Hong Kong Longs", Jake's father finally finds about Jake and Haley being dragons, Jake meets Rose again, Rose remembers Jake and her former life after Jake changed the timeline so she never became a dragon hunter, and together they defeat the Dark Dragon, the most powerful villain of the series. Although there was a plan for a third season, it's a satisfactory conclusion.
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* ''[[Recess]]: Taking the Fifth Grade''. Also a [[Book Ends]] ending.
* [[No Export for You|Outside Japan]], "The Rebirth" was the grand finale for ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''.
* ''[[Batman: The
* ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]'' had a series finale called "Cliphangers" consisting of Timon and Pumbaa trying to catch a bug off a cliff, but then they fall, nearly facing their deaths, while [[Clip Show|clips play of the series' previous episodes]]. {{spoiler|Luckily, Pumbaa pulls out an umbrella and the two land safely.}}
** This troper thinks at one point "Amazon Quiver" may have been intended to be the finale for the show. The reason? The whole episode is about Timon and Pumbaa trying to avoid a panther who wants to eat them and end up getting stuck in a tree they crashed into, and in the end {{spoiler|They wait until 95 years (until 2090) to get out of that tree. At this point, they turn into elders and hallucinate about eating each other, but they don't eat each other. The panther also turned into an elder, too, but although he can only drink prune juice due to the doctor's orders, he can still chase Timon and Pumbaa.}} Due to the fact that this might have been a horrible ending (possibly due to how sorry the viewer might feel for {{spoiler|Timon and Pumbaa because they were stuck in a tree for 95 years}}), Disney may have decided to make this a normal episode. Due to this choice, this troper assumes this whole episode was [[All Just
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' "rock opera" episode ''See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey'' has been widely thought to be the series' grand finale, even though it was a season five episode (and has never been screened in the U.S.--Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang has just finished airing season 5 and 6 shows and passed right over the episode). The last original first-run episode screened was "What's The Big Idea?".
* The final episode of ''[[Danger Mouse]]'', "The Intergalactic 147" ends like a grand finale. The plot had aliens engaged in a space-wide snooker game and to win they had to pocket earth into the black hole Alpha Omega. DM wastes no time in getting the whole world to take a giant leap to the right and tilt Earth long enough for the aliens' cueball to miss. It ends with a wide shot of London having been cleaned off by the aliens (for the cueball to hit), the narrator's tangent fading off, majestic music and a slow fade out.
* The last episode of ''[[Popples]]'' was about them going to the zoo.
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