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** People getting ready to retire. Do I just enjoy life (whatever that means) or do I get another job? Do I take up some kind of hobby so I don't get bored? What about my family and their lively-hoods?

* A lesser version of this might be had when you just finished a particularly lengthy video game, doubly so when it's an immersive RPG. Some people would rather not go into [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] because the game will end after you finish it. Fortunately, most people have life outside video games.

 

 

* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' 2 starts by showing that the heroes haven't actually done very much since the last game ended.

* In the ''[[Warcraft]]'' series, Maiev Shadowsong, a night elf warden personally responsible for the imprisonment of [[Villain Protagonist|Illidan Stormrage]], devotes her entire life to chasing him when he escapes prison. Eventually she ends up killing him, only to realise her life has no meaning anymore.

* Shaundi asks this after the main story ending of [[Saints Row|Saint's Row 2]]. {{spoiler|The answer, of course, is "whatever [[Cluster F-Bomb|the fuck]] we want".}}

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' [[Fanon]] embraces this trope for [[Continuation|continuations]], usually featuring [[Anti-Hero|Squall]] trying to come to terms with life after the war and a job that, now [[Big Bad|Ultimecia]] is no more, [[Deconstruction|is mostly paperwork.]]

* Lance Boyle brings this up in the intro to ''[[Megarace]] 2'': "[The winner] is crowned King Megaracer 2, he experiences a sense of achievement, and returns in regal triumph to reality, where he will probably never readapt."

* One of the earliest versions of this in videogames is ''[[Ultima IV]]'', and it's ''entirely based around it.'' Basically, in the past three games, ''all'' of the big evils have been destroyed (there are still dungeons full of monsters to fight, but nothing controlling them or threatening the world). So what do you do? Go on a quest to become the most shining example of pure good in the world as an example to everyone else!

** Said example then immediately departs the world, [[Ultima V|giving rise to a new great evil that kidnaps the king and corrupts the Avatar's philosophy, turning moral fortitude into utter totalitarianism]]. So, back to form. Of course, the kidnapping was partly a result of this trope, too (albeit offscreen) as Lord British decided that, having nothing better to do, he needed to wander down into the underworld and see what was up with that freaky place, only to have his party eaten alive by [[Demonic Spiders]]. This is why kings have champions in the first place.