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''Drinking fresh mango juice''
''Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes''
''Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun''
|''[[Red Dwarf]]''{{'}}s [[Ending Theme]] }}
The final shot of a story is a character relaxing on a sun lounger with a fruity [[Umbrella Drink]], looking [[Happy Ending|pleased with himself]] on a sun lounger. Most likely wearing a colourful [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist|Hawaiian shirt]] amid a sea of [[Hula and Luaus]]. Neither of which is to say this is [[Hollywood Geography|actually supposed to be Hawaii]] (which would be a ''really stupid'' place for an American to [[Run for the Border|flee to...]]) - it's more likely to be somewhere in the [[Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon|Caribbean]] or South America.
As far as music goes, either [[Standard Snippet|"Aloha Oe"]] or something generically calypso will be playing in the background.
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This can serve as a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] for a [[Karma Houdini]] villain, in which case a triumphant [[Evil Laugh]] is rather likely. It's also commonly [[Invoked Trope]], or [[Discussed Trope]] by characters who never ultimately manage to fulfil it (having obviously never heard of [[Retirony]], [[One Last Job]] or the [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]).
This is the natural result of a successful [[Run for the Border]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In one ''[[Spider-Man]]'' story, Mysterio's ultimate goal when he takes over the Maggia is to grab as much money as he can, and "buy an island in the tropics where I can sit under palm trees and drink things out of coconuts".
** In another, the epilogue is [[Epilogue Letter|in the form of a letter]] sent by [[Dating Catwoman|Black Cat]] from the safety of such a refuge.
* The [[Batman]] storyline ''Heart of Hush'' ends on this note. Catwoman is relaxing at a resort {{spoiler|while recovering from getting her heart ripped out}}, recording a message for Hush explaining how she got her revenge.
== Fan Works ==
* In an explicit echo and inversion of the final scene of ''[[End of Evangelion]]'', ''[[Neon Exodus Evangelion]]''{{'}}s final installment, ''Apotheosis Now'', ends with DJ and Asuka in ''chaises longues'' on a tropical beach, [[Umbrella Drink]]s in hand, as Asuka assures DJ that she feels ''great''.
== Film ==
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* The protagonists of ''[[Trading Places]]'' have one of these.
* ''[[Johnny English]]'' has a scene like this, with a twist: earlier in the film, the title character bungles up preventing a robbery, and invents a highly improbable "villain" to cover up his ineptness. The "villain" is shown to be a real person at the end in this scene, but that's pure coincidence - English was purposely trying to make up a person who didn't exist (perhaps to prove how good he was by fighting with him when no one else would be able to find him).
* ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' ends with Hannibal Lecter phoning Clarice from Bimini, where {{spoiler|he's having an old friend for dinner.}}
* [[The Producers]] plan on doing this in Rio de Janeiro once their scheme comes to fruition, but it doesn't work out as planned.
{{quote|''You'll find your happiness in Rio''
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''The Latin breezes always blow there''
''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|And so, we hear, do the girls!]]'' }}
* The two final conspirators in ''[[Wild Things]]'' are on a boat, and are assumed to be off to some sort of island paradise with their ill-gotten money.
* The ending of ''[[Bullseye!]]'' (1990) with Michael Caine talking with someone on the phone, telling her that she can't have her money back; she has already spent it.
* Also the ending of ''Buddy Buddy'' (1981). In that one it is stated earlier that hitman Trabucco has already picked a tropical island to retire to that he intends to buy if he finishes his last job.
* ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'' has this—only interrupted by the American agents trying to recruit Wallace.
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* ''[[Burn Notice: the Fall of Sam Axe]]'' ends like this for Sam in [[Its Always Sunny in Miami|sunny Miami]] (with an ice-cold beer in hand, no less), putting him in position to be Mike's go-to guy in [[Burn Notice|the series]].
* ''Dark Passage'' ends with Bogart and Bacall reuniting in Peru.
* Amusingly subverted with Alec Guinness' character in ''The Lavender Hill Mob''.
== Literature ==
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* Played with in [[Matthew Reilly]]'s ''Ice Station''. The fate of a minor character from the backstory is revealed when the epilogue zips to a South American beach, where {{spoiler|a scavenger finds debris in the ocean from the character's crashed plane}}.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Hillary Briss in ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]''
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', Harry Maybourne spends some time like this after being convicted of treason, though he eventually ends up opting for an off-planet exile instead.
* In the ''[[Sherlock]]'' episode "The Great Game", one of the crimes that Moriarty arranges and [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|subsequently has Sherlock expose]] is a character's plan to do this.
== Music ==
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** Jimmy Buffett in general likes to present himself as such - the fact that he's extremely wealthy means it is some degree of [[Truth in Television]] for him.
* Subverted in the Zac Brown Band song "Toes", where everything is great for the tourist... until he runs out of money.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The "Quest for Fruit" adventure in ''[[GURPS]] [[Discworld]] Also'' states that, in accordance with the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]], the Hwondaland trading post ''must'' contain at least one white-suited Ankh-Morporkian expat, who can never return for some unspecified reason.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* If you lose the game [[Mario Is Missing|''Mario's Time Machine'']], then [[Big Bad|Bowser]] will do this.
== Web Comics ==
* The cast of ''[[Bob and George]]'' pulled their own variation of a [[Time Travel Escape]] by faking their deaths and retiring to Acapulco. See it [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/070728 here].
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' example: [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/540.html here].
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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