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{{quote|''"There are no [[Happily Ever After|Happy Endings]] because nothing ever ends."''|'''Schmendrick the Magician''', ''The Last Unicorn''.}}

May overlap with [[Lonely at the Top]]. Not to be confused with the [["What Now?" Ending]].

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* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', Sakura and Syaoran are left with a rather large obstacle in their relationship. Syaoran is from a magical family from Hong Kong, and Sakura lives in Japan and quite [[I Just Want to Be Normal|content with her idea of a normal life, magical pets notwithstanding.]] [[CLAMP]] isn't the slightest bit interested in explaining how they manage this.

** The manga averts the trope. In the [[Distant Finale]], it's revealed that after several years of maintaining their relationship long-distance, Syaoran completes the paperwork to move to Japan on a permanent basis, making it more of a [[Happily Ever After|happily ever after ending.]]

* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067418/ Melody (1971)]'' ends with Daniel Latimer and Melody Perkins escaping from the adults' raid on their wedding and cranking themselves down the railroad track on a trolley. However, this "man" and his "wife" are only ten years old! No government is going to recognize their marriage legally. They barely even know anything about kissing, let alone sex. So what kind of honeymoon are they going to have? [[Figure It Out Yourself|Good question.]]

* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' finale played this one perfectly straight. In the last scene, Xander lays it all out for Buffy: {{spoiler|the Hellmouth is closed forever and Buffy isn't special any more, doesn't have any destiny}}... so now what? The last shot of the series is Buffy starting to grin as she realizes that for maybe the first time since she picked up a stake, the answer to that is totally up to her.

** And of course, the question was answered in the Season Eight comics.