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* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', the climax is reached in ''The Kindly Ones'' where characters from all other points in the time line come together in one ''hell'' of a story, propelling a long and complex string of events which eventually leads to {{spoiler|Dream's death and resurrection inside Daniel.}} The lengthy aftermath is depicted in ''The Wake,'' where it's demonstrated that the previous events had such gravity that they affected everyone in existence. Including [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|you.]]

* ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''. Grand Finale to the [[Silver Age]] (though it was actually released at the end of the [[Bronze Age]])? Check. Grand Finale to the DC Multiverse? Check. Grand Finale for [[The Flash|Barry Allen]], [[Supergirl]], Earth-2 [[Superman]], and just about everyone else in the DC Universe? Check. Became the comic event by which all previous and succeeding comic events would be judged? Double Check. Became <s>one of</s> the only company-wide comic event to permanently rip the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] a new one, and do it so as to be universally praised? Gigantic freakin' Check.

 

== Film ==

* ''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.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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"}}.

* The Diffys finally fix their time machine and apparently return home in the grand finale of ''[[Phil of the Future]]''.

* 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.

 

== Radio ==

 

 

== Video Games ==

* Despite a long-shot [[Sequel Hook]] in the bonus ending, ''[[Halo 3]]'' neatly <s>finishes the fight</s> wraps up the plot of the entire game series. {{spoiler|Or, as claimed by ex-employees of Bungie who joined Infinity Ward, Master Chief is the Troubleshooter from Marathon with the AI being the corrupted version of Cortana (Durandal in Marathon)}}

* Much of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, to one degree or another. Notable because many of these games' endings retain their grandeur even after advancing technology would seem to make their endings less impressive. [[Final Fantasy VI]] 's half-hour-long sprite animation ending can still [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|enrapture]] and [[Tear Jerker|move]] the player just as much as the fantastic full CG finales of games that came [[Final Fantasy X|four]] to [[Final Fantasy XIII|seven]] titles after it.

* The final of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' is a two-parter about Omi freezing himself using the Orb of Tornami and waking up in far future to discover that while he was gone [[Harmless Villain|Jack Spicer]] has [[Bad Future|conquered the world]] and [[Future Badass|defeated not only the other Xiaolin monks in the process, but also recurring villains Wuya, Chase Young, and Hannibal Roy Bean as well]]. After Omi frees his comrades he tries to acquire the Sands Of Time - Wu allowing to travel back in time- which he does, but at the cost of his friends' lives. He then goes back in time to realize his original goal - [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|preventing Chase Young from ever turning to]] [[The Dark Side]]. However, by doing that [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|he creates another timeline]], in which Chase is good...but Master Monk Guan has took his place at Heylin and become even worse than original Chase ever was, which resulted in bad guys taking over the world, death of Master Fung and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Jack being turned into a good person]]. Omi, figuring out his counterpart from this reality would be doing the same thing he tried to do leads the Monks to the place he originaly has frozen himself...which now is in the middle of enemy base. Heroes got themselves captured and Chase [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself to evil]] to get them free. This results in a big final battle and Omi creating a time paradox that resets everything to the original status quo...only with everyone remembering what happened. Raymundo, because of proving himself to be a competent leader in both alternate timelines gets promoted to team leader. And the episode ends with ''[[Villain Team-Up|every single villain the monks have ever faced joining forces to attack the temple]]'' for some reason and our heroes getting ready to beat them all up. Whew.

* The finale of ''[[DuckTales]]'' has Scrooge McDuck getting possession of the Golden Goose...a magical artifact that can turn anything it touches to gold. The problem is, it eventually, it becomes sentient, and starts acting on its own, going after anything and anyone, turning them to gold. Then, things get even worse, when the goose starts The Golden Death... a massive, spreading wave that will [[It Got Worse|eventually turn the entire planet to gold, and everyone on it]]. Scrooge has to return the goose to the temple it was stolen from, before he looses everything he holds dear due to his greed. Thankfully, he manages to make it at the very last second, and save the planet.

* ''[[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]]''.