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It is a [[Foregone Conclusion]].

A common message given by fiction and folklore. Only the most downer of [[Downer Ending~~|Downer Endings~~]] exclude it, and even then there's usually some way around such a bleak finish, no matter how bad things are. Often combines with [[Rousing Speech]], because often, [[The War Has Just Begun]].

A common message given by fiction and folklore. Only the most downer of [[Downer Ending]]s exclude it, and even then there's usually some way around such a bleak finish, no matter how bad things are. Often combines with [[Rousing Speech]], because often, [[The War Has Just Begun]].

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* {{spoiler|Gilraen}}, the narrator of the story in ''[[Born of Hope]]'', addresses Baby Aragorn as ''Estel'', which means Hope in Sindarin.

** In fact, this trope is just about the entire message of the movie.

* In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', after they have escaped from a hungry shark and massive minefield explosions, Marlin and Dory are exhausted. Marlin is anxious to find his missing son, Nemo, but now he has lost his best clue for finding ~~him -- a~~ scuba mask inscribed with the address of the diver who captured Nemo. Dory helps Marlin find hope. Discouraged, Marlin says, "That was my only chance at finding my son; now it's gone!" But Dory is not so easily deterred. "Hey, Mr. Grumpy Gills," she says. "When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim."

* In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', after they have escaped from a hungry shark and massive minefield explosions, Marlin and Dory are exhausted. Marlin is anxious to find his missing son, Nemo, but now he has lost his best clue for finding him—a scuba mask inscribed with the address of the diver who captured Nemo. Dory helps Marlin find hope. Discouraged, Marlin says, "That was my only chance at finding my son; now it's gone!" But Dory is not so easily deterred. "Hey, Mr. Grumpy Gills," she says. "When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim."

* ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' uses this. The majority of the film features the Autobots getting their asses kicked across the galaxy. At the very end, they unite to make a last ditch effort to destroy Unicron and Light Their [[Darkest Hour]].