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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.
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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 ==
* ''[[
** 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.
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