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* ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', issues 45-50. 9/10's of the cast die, including several main characters and a newborn baby. The few that survive are scattered by the Governor's attack, and forced out of the relative safety of the prison they had been using as a home.
* Ever since [[Frank Miller]] graced the pages of ''[[Daredevil]]'' with his presence, this trope has become a defining element of the series and made [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]] a recurring theme.
* The concluding issue of the ''War in the Sun'' [[Story Arc]] in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', the gravity of which was ominously foreshadowed in an early conversation with the Duke:
{{quote| '''Duke:''' Ya know ya got a... hard time aheada ya, don't ya?<br />
'''Jesse:''' I know somethin's comin'. I got a feelin' like... I dunno. Like nothin's ever going to be the same again. How bad you figure it'll get?<br />
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* The first time [[Alan Moore]] became famous in the US, it was for a one-issue one of these in a comic that was all but canceled; word of mouth alone made it one of the most famous single issues that year. By the time of the Anatomy Lesson, [[Swamp Thing (Comic Book)|Swamp Thing]] had spent nearly ten years trying to reverse the accident that transformed him so he could be plain ol' Alec Holland again. He never will be Alec Holland. He isn't Alec Holland. [[Tomato in The Mirror|He never was Alec Holland.]]
** His [[Youngblood Judgment Day]] was this for [[Youngblood]] - Knightstrike is acussed of killing Riptide, team is disbanded and {{spoiler|entire Universe turns out to be plunged into [[Darker and Edgier]] setting by magic book}}. Same with his [[Supreme]] - the very first issue is this for the previous series, revealing that Supreme is only one of many versions of Superman-esque character and now reality rewrites itself, giving him new life and new memories.
* For the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Book)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic series, the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|appropriately titled]] "Endgame" storyline was a four-part string of wham episodes. Starting in issue 47, during another routine Robotropolis invasion, Sally took a near-fatal fall from a high ledge, which was done by a Sonic look-a-like. [[It Got Worse|Things got very bad really fast]] for the real Sonic when he returned to Knothole. Sally was presumed dead from the fall, Sonic was arrested for treason, murder, and was transported to the Alcatraz-like Devil's Gulag. [[Berserk Button|Sonic was not happy with any of this]]. Meanwhile, Robotnik plotted to take over Knothole (which he finally discovered) and use his Ultimate Annihilator device over the place (which would [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|phase the village out of existence instead of merely destroying it]]). Needless to say, the stakes were raised to a level unparalleled to [[Adaptation Displacement|even the SatAM cartoon]]. In the end, Sonic managed to stop Robotnik's plan [[Bittersweet Ending|with mixed results]]. While Robotnik was killed by his own doomsday device, it also permanently jumped Knothole [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|three hours ahead in time from the rest of Mobius]], and Sonic almost died himself, trying to save everyone. But at least for consolation, Sally didn't die. She was stuck in a coma, and in a nice homage to Sleeping Beauty, Sonic kissed Sally to wake her up. Robotnik's demise certainly changed things, but whether it was for the better...[[Broken Base|let's not even discuss it]].
** For those who stuck with the comic after "EndGame", current head writer Ian Flynn likes to do these. At first, it was for "cleaning house" (Killing Tommy Turtle, fusing all the Chaos Emeralds in the universe into a set of seven, etc.) then, came the Destruction of Knothole arc, arguably one of the defining arcs of his run. Robotnik gets dead serious for possibly the first time since the EndGame, sics a FLEET of floating fortresses on the Kingdom of Knothole, destroying it effortlessly, confronts Sonic one on one (again, for the first time since EndGame), and OWNS him. Brutally. For better or worse, THIS is the arc to base your opinion of Ian Flynn around.
** And Flynn's had a few other wham episodes since then. The "Enerjak Reborn" arc had [[Mad Scientist|Doctor]] [[Complete Monster|Finitevus]] [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwash]] Knuckles into becoming the new [[Physical God|Enerjak]], which leads to the destruction of the [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Dingo Regime]], the death of Knuckles' father Locke, and the remnants of the Dark Legion joining with Eggman. And then a little while after that, we get issue 200 - Sonic defeats Eggman so epically, the doctor has a huge [[Villainous Breakdown]], which allows his position as [[Big Bad]] to be usurped by the Iron Dominion, who spend the next dozen or so issues [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomping]] the heroes all over the place.
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