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* Does the protagonist of Elmer Rice's play ''The Adding Machine'' avoid being executed for murdering his boss? No. Does he {{spoiler|have a chance of doing better in his next life}}? No, {{spoiler|each time he is reincarnated, he gets worse}}. Does he at least {{spoiler|get the companion promised to him, a nice-looking woman called Hope}}? No. That's the situation when the final curtain falls.
** A similar fate befalls Mr. Zero in the [[All Musicals Are Adaptations|musical version of the play.]]
* In ''[[Urinetown]],'' Protagonist Bobby Strong inspires the poor to lead a revolution against the evil Caldwell B. Cladwell, who has gotten private toilets outlawed, charges exorbitant fees for the use of his public toilets, and has his corrupt police force take anyone who subverts his goals to the titular Urinetown {{spoiler|(which is in fact simply being thrown from the tallest rooftop in town)}}. In the end, Bobby himself is taken to Urinetown before he can see the revolution through to fruition, and once the poor wins out, and everyone can pee for free, the town's water supply quickly dries up and everyone dies horribly
* The plot of the musical "[[Chess (theatre)|Chess]]" revolves around the romance between the Russian chess champion Anatoly and the American second, Florence. The London and Broadway versions differ in the details, but the ending remains roughly the same in both. Anatoly defects to the United States. In an effort to get him back into the fold, the Russian powers that be offer to release Florence's father, a Hungarian revolutionary who vanished during the 1956 Budapest uprising, if he loses the match and comes back to Russia. In the end Anatoly decides that he cannot hurt Florence by keeping her from her father, so he defects back to Russia. {{spoiler|It doesn't matter anyway, since the man the Russians release is actually a captured American spy, as part of a deal with the CIA. Florence's father is probably dead. Anatoly has given up Florence and the match for nothing much at all.}}
* As well as the example in the Literature section, the song "Turning" in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' is one long [[Lampshade Hanging]] of this trope, although the first line is somewhat stupid when you consider that most of the dead students had participated in the 'successful' July Revolution 2 years before.
{{quote|''They were schoolboys, never held a gun
Fighting for a new world that would rise up like the sun
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Every year, another brat; another mouth to fill
Same old story, what's the use of tears?
[[God Is Dead|What's the use of praying when there's nobody who hears?]]''}}
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