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{{quote|''"There are no [[Happily Ever After|Happy Endings]] because nothing ever ends."''|'''Schmendrick the Magician''', ''The Last Unicorn''.}}
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Watchmen]]'' arguably ends this way: although [[The Reveal]] (actually a series of revelations) resolved a whole lot of plot points, Dr. Manhattan, who's in a position to know this kind of thing, claims that nothing ever ''really'' ends. The [[Denouement]] apparently bears out his claim: the world is now just barely politically stabilized under a fragile peace accord that may or may not last, the costumed vigilantes Dan Dreiberg and Laurie Juspeczyk are still at large and plying their trade under new identities for how much longer no one can be sure, and a certain journal that a very minor character may or may not be about to discover may or may not ultimately blow the lid off the huge secret these costumed vigilantes are keeping from the rest of the world. It's deliberately left up to the reader to speculate what's going to happen next.
* [[Sandman| Death of the Endless]] knows her job will not be done until she is the last being still alive in the universe. But what will she do then? She has an answer, one that's somewhat cryptic: "I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave."
== Film ==
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== Literature ==
* ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'': Hoorah, we've defeated the Martian invasion! That's the last we'll see of them! Well, until they invent disinfectant, anyway.
** Actually, the final chapter of the book claims that a second invasion would fail even if they did develop a vaccine, seeing as they lost the element of surprise, and their canister-like spacecrafts could be demolished by the military long before they could emerge. The last chapter also suggests they abandoned Earth and were attempting to colonize Venus.
== Tabletop Games ==
* One of the biggest examples of [[The Starscream]] in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' cosmology is Mephistopheles, ruler of the Eighth Layer of Hell. While all the Archdevils plot to usurp Asmodeus and assume his throne, Mephistopheles is the most blatant case, having told his intentions to Asmodeus' face. What would happen if he ever succeeded? Given how power-hungry he is, Mephistopheles' own minions have said (behind his back) that it would take him less than an hour to start wondering why he also didn't rule Mount Celestia.
== Video Games ==
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