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[[Fridge Logic]] doesn't just find plot holes; it can make your typical happy ending into a [[Downer Ending]], and render even the most flawless moral victory into [[Black and Gray Morality]]. How? By helping the viewer realize that the "survivors" at the end of the movie don't have a future, even though they can't help but celebrate as the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]] explodes [[Load-Bearing Boss|with its master's demise]]. When authors use large and amazing technologies and world or even galaxy spanning threats, they run the risk of letting the excitement of [[Stuff Blowing Up]] get the better of them and not think through how the survivors will make a living afterward.
Y'see, [[Happily Ever After]] implies there's arable land to farm, electricity and running water, and a semblance of civilization to go back to; as well at least <s>
Even if the movie runs with the above scenarios and makes it about characters from a [[Terminally Dependent Society]] surviving [[After the End]], the author may end up seriously overestimating their and civilizations' chances of survival.
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Finally, keep in mind that this is an ''inferred'' holocaust. If the work explicitly states that there's a horrible aftermath or if it ends on a cliffhanger (for example, depicting an undetected bomb about to explode), then it isn't an example of this trope.
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* Unless it specifically addresses the issue (such as ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'' or ''[[Babe]]''), any talking-animal story that takes place on a farm, and one of the characters is a pig. Why? Because unlike horses, cows, sheep, goats and poultry, you only raise a pig for one thing...
** [[Comically Missing the Point|Truffle hunting?]]
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