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'''Etta:''' Yes.<br />
'''Arak:''' What shall we do?<br />
'''Etta:''' Dunno.|''[[
Some kids [[I Just Want to Be Normal|just want to be normal]]. Others [[Jumped At the Call]] to get into the action right away. They've had wacky hijinks, great adventure and dramatic changes to their lives, but now it's over. The [[Big Bad]] has been defeated. The universe is saved. The balance has been preserved. The need for a hero has seemingly gone away. The hero can go back to his ordinary, safe life again... [[Victory Is Boring|which will promptly bore him out of his skull]].
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** It's later revealed, in ''[[Angel]]'' crossover episodes and the canonical Season Eight comic that they've gone out looking for new Slayers and created a multinational demon-killing organization. That'll do nicely.
** There's a very minor one in the [[Musical Episode]] "Once More With Feeling", which ends with a song with these lyrics: "The battle's done / And we kind of won / So we sound our victory cheer / Where do we go from here?"
* The new series of ''[[
** It was especially tragic with Rose (and later Donna) because it was so sudden and unexpected. You're expecting to go off to the next adventure, when bam, {{spoiler|the dimensional gate closes, separating you forever, or fatal [[My Skull Runneth Over]] can only be prevented by mindwipe}}. Sarah Jane had a fairly similar situation. However, Martha made the choice to return to her old life, and was shown to not have regretted it.
*** Well, sort of. Before she met the Doctor, she was a medical student, and after she leaves him she joins UNIT and becomes an alien-fighting [[Badass]]. Though she does find time to qualify as a doctor. It's implied that even though she chose to leave, she couldn't just pick up where she'd left off, particularly after her year-long [[Walk the Earth]] nightmare situation.
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* Many of the comic sketches in [[Spike Milligan]]'s ''Q'' series end without a [[Punch Line]] (he never was one for narrative convention). Instead the cast just stop what they're doing and shuffle offstage sideways, chanting "What are we going to do now? What are we going to do now?"
* ''[[Sliders]]'' season 3 finale. Rembrandt and Wade have presumably slid back to original Earth. Maggie and Quinn attempt to follow them and wind up in a futuristic world. Maggie: "So how do we get home?" Quinn: "I don't know." Scene. Apparently, they thought that if they ended on a cliffhanger they couldn't get cancelled. Wrong.
** [[
== Newspaper Comics ==
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