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* At the end of ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', when it looks like Batman might not [[Save the Villain|save]] [[The Joker]] from his TITAN poisoning {{spoiler|the clown [[Back Stab|backstabs]] him to try and get the cure, causing it to drop and smash on the ground. Joker dies about a minute later.}} Extra irony-points because {{spoiler|Batman really would have saved him.}}
* ''[[Shantae: Risky's Revenge]]'' ends with Risky victorious, having tricked Shantae into destroying Nega-Shantae, an entity that embodied her genie-half, leaving the heroine powerless. However, as the ''next'' game shows, the remains of Shantae's genie half have now brainwashed Risky's crew, causing them to overpower and oust her. And yes, [[Word of God]] claims this was the intended plot all along.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' has three timelines that branch off from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'', depending on how the story ends. The "Hero Defeated" timeline is what occurs should Link fail to defeat Ganondorf in that game, in a sense occuring if [[The Bad Guy Wins]]. However, this timeline cumulates in ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]'', which has one of the best endings in the franchise, with the villain utterly defeated and Zelda and Link together. What's more only Ganon (not Ganondorf) appears in this branch, suggesting his victory cost him his humanity, trapping him in his monstrous, demonic form.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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