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The characters are about to do something, but are interrupted by the end of the episode, often in the form of a "[[The End]]" card. This isn't a [[Cliff Hanger]] that will be resolved when the characters finish their plans next episode; either the end of the episode actually prevents them from ever getting it done, or they at least [[No Fourth Wall|express dismay that the episode's ending has stopped or delayed them]].

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

 

 

 

== Literature ==

* "Behind the Painted Smile," a 1983 essay by [[Alan Moore]] on the origins of ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' ends:

England Prevails. }}

 

* Used in the Spanish Inquisition episode of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''; when the three cardinals finally reach the courtroom where they are most definitely not expected, the screen goes black before Cardinal Ximenez can finish announcing their presence, prompting him to [[Catchphrase Interruptus|cut himself off]] with "Nobody expects - oh, bugger!"

* Several seasons of ''The Morecambe and Wise Show'' would end with a harmonica player walking onstage after the closing credits had rolled, and being cut off after playing a few notes.

* ''[[The Sopranos]]''.

 

 

== Music ==

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** And the judgment for the 'nids depends on what you consider "appearing in force": Hive Fleet Leviathan arrived around 40,950, true, but Kraken and Behemoth were earlier. The First Tyrannic War started in 40,745 with the destruction of Tyran by Hive Fleet Behemoth, but Tyranid precursor fleets (including the predominantly [[Old Shame|zoat]] Colossus) have been retroactively identified as entering the galaxy centuries, if not millennia earlier. And that ignores the existence of Tyranid remnants and scout forms on worlds never touched by the identified hive fleets (indeed, some theories suggest that Catachan and Fenris harbour Tyranid remnants, and have done for over ten millenia), such as Ymgarl, which for a long time was thought to be the home planet of the genestealers (now known to be a Tyranid scout/shock clade).

 

 

== Video Games ==

'''* Credits roll* ''' }}

 

 

== Web Comics ==

 

 

== Web Original ==

** In a variation, in one episode Ishizu predicts that another guy will be interrupted by the opening credits.

"What the hell are you talking ab-" }}

** Another animation called "Strong Bad is a Bad Guy", which is done on ''Mario Paint'', has Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat talking about tattoos, but they are all interrupted by Homestar Runner, who tells them about ''his'' design for a perfect tattoo. When Strong Mad realizes that Homestar cannot have tattoos because of his lack of arms, he yells out "YOU DON'T HAVE AR-" but the episode ends.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

'''Zoidberg:''' "Awww..." }}

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' used this in the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield," when Professor Frink showed up too late.

** At the end of the fourth-season episode "Homer The Heretic", Homer convinces [[God]] to tell him the meaning of life [[Dream Sequence|as they stroll through Heaven together.]] God gets as far as "The meaning of life is--" before the credits cut Him off.

*** [[Word of God]]: The writers thought that when the episode aired, the end would be immediately followed by a Fox promo (rather than just the credits). The idea was that the viewers would be pissed off by having a revelation from God being cut off by a promo.

** Also done in a [[Zero Punctuation]] of a 50 Cent game. Yahtzee spends the entire review insisting that he isn't racist, going so far as to include subliminal messages about his lack of racistness. He ends the review with an inspiring speech about how we should all put aside our differences and work together to build a better world. "Not that they'd know anything about work, the lazy nig-" * CREDITS*

* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' often ended this way. This was lampshaded in one episode when the show was hijacked by an angry fan, who among his demands wanted "a real ending for once, not one that's just suddenly interrupted by the cre-" *credits roll*

 

The most important thing to remember about this trope is that...

 

 

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[[Category:Ending Tropes]]