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== Live Action Television ==
* This sort-of happens in ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. Both Robin Hood and Marian end up ''dead'', but they are given a [[Together in Death]] scene that suggests that they have an eternity in Heaven to share. Everyone else? Shot, stabbed, dead, buried, abandoned, forgotten, or stuck with [[Damsel Scrappy|Ka]][[Fate Worse Than Death|te]].
* Similar to the [[Family Guy]] example below, at the end of the second season premiere of [[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]], Frank very conspicuously says "the important thing is that nobody ''important'' got ''seriously'' hurt'' after the gang got in a car accident. The camera then pans over to an unnamed character who was with the group at the time lying in a full body cast in a hospital bed calling them jerks.
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** Only in the ending where you side with the Templars (you become ruler of Kirkwall). If you side with the mages you end up fleeing your home. [[Book Ends|Again.]]
* Subverted in [[Fallout: New Vegas]]. Depending on whether or not you do the side and the companion quests and depending on who you sided with (or not) the outcome for EVERYONE (except the courier) can be different come endgame.
* The best ending of ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume]]'' has Wylfred finally find peace, his mother regain her sanity, and Tilte learning about Ancel's death and being able to grieve him properly instead of just sensing that something's plain wrong. [[Loads and Loads of Characters|The rest of the cast]], however, don't get featured at all in the ending and most of the characters that don't you meet but don't recruit get rather depressing ends. It doesn't help that the two other endings are [[Downer Ending]]s.
* Somewhat averted in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2''. The Exile's team goes off to found the new Jedi Order, fix the damaged Republic, and shut down the HK-50's while she is condemned to flying off to die at the hands of the True Sith. It's implied in The Old Republic MMO that she did manage to do enough to set back the invasion for almost 300 years, but she still misses out on the oppurtunity to see all of her actions come to fruition or pursue a relationship with Atton or the Disciple.
* Split fifty-fifty for the main characters in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'': Lightning and Snow get Serah back (though [[Final Fantasy XIII-2|the sequel]] takes Lighting away from Serah immediately thereafter), Sazh has his son back, but Hope's mother is dead and Fang and Vanille are turned into crystals for all eternity.
** Also split fifty-fifty for the rest of humanity (or rather, the handful survivors). They lost their homes and are forced to live under the harsh conditions of Gran Pulse and are no longer protected by the fal'Cie. Then again the Fal'cie were the villains are trying to ''kill all of them''. The main characters's final act [[Plan]] was to stop the Fal'cie and, failing at that, to mitigate the damage.
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