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== Film ==
* ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'': Tony heads to the big city to dance on Broadway! He gets the girl! Well... the girl who wasn't treated like dirt, raped, and then forgotten about, that is. And let's just forget Tony's friend Bobby C, who falls off the Verrazanno-Narrows Bridge during an act of depressed recklessness.
* The most recent{{when}} movie version of ''[[Les Misérables]]'' ended the story before Jean Valjean dies, making it a happy ending as long as you're Jean Valjean, Marius, or Cosette and not any of the rest of the revolutionaries, who all died on the barricades.
* ''[[The Ring]]'': Rachel and Aiden make a copy of the cursed videotape, thus passing on the evil. Someone else will certainly watch the video and die, but it's OK because the main characters are safe! Then again, it's a ''horror'' movie. The only way to survive is to doom other people, and the only way to get out of the movie alive is to harden yourself to that. (Note that in the original, the person being set up to die is ''the lead's father''.)
* The end of ''[[Birth of a Nation]]'', with the main characters happily married and the Klan firmly in control of the South, is kind of like that. Or maybe that's just [[Values Dissonance]].
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* ''[[2012]]'' takes this to a truly ruthless degree. The main characters and several thousand others survive - the entire rest of the world (except, it's revealed, Africa) drowned.
* The nuns in ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. The Nazis are certain to figure out that it was the nuns who sabotaged their car and enabled the Von Trapp family to escape. Things might get pretty unpleasant for Uncle Max, too.
== Literature ==
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