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== Films ==

* ''[[Gamera]] III: Revenge of Iris'' is titled ''Incomplete Struggle'' and ends with the eponymous [[Bolivian Army Ending|turtle badly wounded in the midst of a burning city with a horde of Gyaos about to descend upon him]].

* Fate of the ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' series as [[Phantasm Oblivion|the fourth film]] ends in a cliffhanger where Mike {{spoiler|seemingly dies}} and Reggie enters Tall Man's world. That was in 1998 and fans are still waiting for a conclusion.

** Assuming that wasn't a later USS ''Bozeman'' as Starfleet tends to keep reusing ship names, assuming they didn't retire the name due to the missing nature of the earlier vessel.

*** Kelsey Grammar reprised his role to provide the single word spoken over the comm by the captain of the ''Bozeman'' in ''First Contact''.

* The 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' has a reputation for not leaving plot threads unresolved, though due to the sheer number of threads ongoing in any episode some tend to be dropped due to lack of time or neglect. Examples include Boxey in Season 1, who was left on the cutting room floor after two episodes, and "Shelly Godfrey", a Number Six hiding within the civilian fleet who is never seen again after her sole appearance. (Notably, Helo's storyline was ''intended'' to be abandoned after the pilot miniseries, but was maintained due to popular demand.) Apparently, Shelly Godfrey will eventually be explained, in "The Plan". However, the Opera House itself (not the visions), the original temple on the Algae Planet, and the exact nature of the Lords of Kobol seem destined to remain in the file marked Left Hanging. Not to mention "God" . . .

*** Many fans thought that Shelly Godfrey was just Head Six who had materialized herself to help Baltar, but The Plan shows that she was a real Six trying to discredit him. Cavil and another, cooler Six intimate that she made it too easy to discover her fake evidence because of Baltar's "dreamy hair".

* ''[[The Sopranos]]'': Hey, what ever did happen to that [[Retired Badass|Russian guy]] in the woods?

* ''[[Deadwood]]'' was canceled after three seasons, and had been intended to run longer. As the series was based on [[Real Life|the real history of Deadwood]] in a macro sense, there was enough material and history left for at least a few more seasons. Due to the abrupt cancellation, several plotlines had to be hastily tied up, to no one's satisfaction.

* ''[[Foyle's War]]'' was canceled and restarted multiple times, with each cancellation resulting in an attempt to tie up the series hastily, and then put everyone together again when the series resumed. Furthermore, the first cancellation resulted in the season then in production to skip several months of time in [[Real Life]] per episode. Prior to that season, each episode had a gap of days or weeks.

* ''[[ALF]]'' ends with the eponymous alien surrounded by government agents facing certain vivisection.

* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series has the Followers of The Apocalypse in the first game and the very similiar tanker vagrants in the second game, both are due to bugs. Although [[Fallout: New Vegas]] does feature the former, so now we know their canon fate.

** The ''Fallout3'' expansion ''Broken Steel'' leaves Colonel Autumn's fate unresolved if you let him walk out of the purifier. Was he killed or captured, or did he leave the Wasteland entirely?

** The plot line is completed as of Dawn of War II: Retribution.

* ''Dreamfall'', sequel to ''[[The Longest Journey]]'', tied up about two of the many different plot threads left hanging over the course of the game. It doesn't even tell you what happened to the main characters. To be fair, though, it is the middle part of a trilogy.