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** {{spoiler|Worse, we, the readers, will never learn exactly what the heck "getting it right" will mean, because Stephen King wrote himself into a corner after creating such a divine mystery as to whatever is at the top of the Dark Tower. IF you ever want to see what's up there, forget it.}}

* [[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.

* ''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 ==

** This was almost unheard of for a show in the 1960s, and it only came about because David Janssen wanted to quit.

* 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]].