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May overlap with [[Lonely At the Top]]. Not to be confused with the [[What Now? Ending]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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** The manga averts the trope. In the [[Distant Finale]], it's revealed that after several years of maintaining their relationship long-distance, Syaoran completes the paperwork to move to Japan on a permanent basis, making it more of a [[Happily Ever After|happily ever after ending.]]
* Another [[CLAMP]] example, ''[[Chobits (Manga)|Chobits]]'' ended with {{spoiler|all of the servitor robots, or "persocoms" developing sentience.}} How humanity responds to this isn't dealt with. This didn't happen in the manga though.
* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''. The end of the series simply dropped multiple plot threads all over the genre board, from sci-fi to political to romantic, and ended with the main couple suddenly coming to terms with their undying love for each other in the last ten minutes. Ruri even [[Lampshade Hanging|lists the abandoned threads]] and then assure the viewer, "but we're not going to deal with them right now." The hanging ends, unfortunately, were ideal material for the [[Darker and Edgier]] [[The Movie|Movie]], which it abandoned for [[
** A video game, ''Blank of Three Years'' for the [[Sega Saturn]] and other material explained what happened in the years since, but naturally [[No Export for You|none of it ever left Japan]].
* ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma ½]]'' ended with Ranma and Akane running to school together. It is implied that Ranma and Akane will eventually get together. How they're supposed to do that, though, is something [[Rumiko Takahashi]] wasn't interested in showing (probably because, when asked, she [[Word of God|explicitly stated]] that Ranma and Akane were the [[Official Couple|only true couple]] in the series...)
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* In Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, it's strongly hinted that Klonoa has divine blood and that his forced wanderings are serving some greater purpose. The game ends just as he's being drawn out of Lunatea. Namco never released another Klonoa game.
* ''[[Ultima IV]]'' is ''entirely made'' of this trope. See, in all previous Ultima games, you defeated supreme evil...and now there are no more bad guys to fight aside from random monsters in dungeons. What's your goal? To become a Messiah!
* ''[[Batman: Arkham City (Video Game)|Batman Arkham City]]'' ends on this note. Batman simply leaves the city {{spoiler|1=carrying [[The Joker]]'s poisoned corpse out with him}}, leaving a crowd of prisoners, citizens, and GCPD members alike to wonder exactly what happened in the city during the past twelve hours.
== Western Animation ==
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