Where Are They Now? Epilogue: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

* The last half of episode 11 in ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'' Finale where it shows under the credits and the ending theme where everyone is going. Also, a case of All Love is Requited.

* The last episode of ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'' ran pastel drawings under its closing credits that showed obvious "after the series" ~~images -- Makoto~~ and Ifurita snuggling under a tree, Allielle in a ''[[Joshikousei|seifuku]]'', and so on. They may simply be non-canon art pieces, however.

* The last episode of ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'' ran pastel drawings under its closing credits that showed obvious "after the series" images—Makoto and Ifurita snuggling under a tree, Allielle in a ''[[Joshikousei|seifuku]]'', and so on. They may simply be non-canon art pieces, however.

* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's'' did this in the end, skipping the series forward six years, [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot|leaving only four more before the new season]].

** The following season, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', did the same thing, though it didn't skip forward as far.

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* Similarly, the credits of ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'' show what happened with Tombo's aviator's club, Jiji and Lily, ect.

* In the final episode of ''[[Tenchi Universe]]'', Tenchi recounts what happens to everyone after he defeats Kagato.

* The last episode of ''[[Prétear]]'' goes directly from the final [[True Love's Kiss]] to what appears to be the events occurring about half a year after, showing what the characters' lives are now like (and stuffing half of the sequence with a collection of the show's [[Running Gag~~|Running Gags~~]]).

* The last episode of ''[[Prétear]]'' goes directly from the final [[True Love's Kiss]] to what appears to be the events occurring about half a year after, showing what the characters' lives are now like (and stuffing half of the sequence with a collection of the show's [[Running Gag]]s).

* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has one in the last few minutes of the final episode of the series, showing what Kinkan is like after the story ended. It also shows that Fakir kept his [[The Promise|promise]] to {{spoiler|Ahiru}}.

* ''[[Transformers Victory]]'' ended with Jean narrating what happened to everybody after Deathsaurus was defeated. Among other things, we find out that Star Saber and Victory Leo survived.

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* Following the deciding battle of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'', time skips ahead a few months to show us the main characters back on their feet and getting ready to fight again, while Masamune and Yukimura meet for their all-important final duel, though the outcome is left ambiguous.

** Turns out {{spoiler|Masamune}} kind of won (Yukimura was being distracted), but didn't get round to finishing the job before a ''new'' [[Big Bad]] showed up.

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has an epilogue which starts off with a [[Epilogue Letter|letter]]. A montage of events that occur over approximately three and a half ~~months--particularly~~ Miaka's transition to high ~~school--and~~ then we see Miaka and Yui in high school (complete with montage-filled credits). Keisuke and Tetsuya then set them up with {{spoiler|Tamahome's reincarnation, Taka Sukunami--or not, depending on which version you accept}}, and... [[Cliff Hanger]]!

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has an epilogue which starts off with a [[Epilogue Letter|letter]]. A montage of events that occur over approximately three and a half months—particularly Miaka's transition to high school—and then we see Miaka and Yui in high school (complete with montage-filled credits). Keisuke and Tetsuya then set them up with {{spoiler|Tamahome's reincarnation, Taka Sukunami--or not, depending on which version you accept}}, and... [[Cliff Hanger]]!

** The last few pages of volume 18 (which is the manga form of the second OVA) shows few pictures of the Suzaku Seishi after their rebirth. Nuriko seems to have gotten his wish {{spoiler|of being reborn as a girl so "he" could be there for Hotohori, Mitsukake is studying herbs with Shouka, who is the reborn version of his girlfriend, Tasuki returned back to his bandit life.}} Even the cat Tama started a family! Chichiri is also shown, but {{spoiler|we don't know if he used Mitsukake's holy water to cure his destroyed left eye}}. Miaka and {{spoiler|Tamahome/Taka are happily married with a toddler aged son}}.

* The Ruby/Sapphire arc of ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' ends by showing what the various side characters of the arc are doing after their brush with [[The End of the World as We Know It]]... {{spoiler|before cutting to a scene of Giovanni picking up the remains of the shattered Red and Blue Orb, setting things up for the Fire Red/Leaf Green arc}}.

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== Films -- Animated ==

* The directors and the animators on ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' fought with the Disney Company, and won, to create additional animation and "photo" paintings of what happened to the characters after the events of the film, establishing the new family that they indeed formed after Stitch arrived.

* ''[[WALL-E]]'s'' closing credits begin with this, before {{spoiler|[[Art Shift~~|Art Shifting~~]] to an 8-bit graphical recap of the movie's main plot.}}

* ''[[WALL-E]]'s'' closing credits begin with this, before {{spoiler|[[Art Shift]]ing to an 8-bit graphical recap of the movie's main plot.}}

* The closing credits of ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' show that the fish that were living in the dentist's fish tank are all now living happily in the ocean with Nemo, Marlin, Dory, and their friends.

* In the animated feature of ''[[Watership Down]]'', the narrator relates how Woundwort's body was never found and his memory lived on as a sort of lapine boogeyman.

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* [[Strike]]/[[All I Wanna Do]]/[[The Hairy Bird]] ends with blurbs describing the somewhat ironic fates of the main characters.

* The [[Gulf War]] film ''[[Three Kings]]'' has a brief montage like this, mentioning that one character is now a Hollywood war movie consultant

* The mockumentary ''Drop Dead Gorgeous'' has text blurbs for several main ~~characters-- except~~ for Amber, who also gets a couple quick scenes showing how {{spoiler|she becomes a news anchor, just like her idol, Diane Sawyer}}.

* The mockumentary ''Drop Dead Gorgeous'' has text blurbs for several main characters—except for Amber, who also gets a couple quick scenes showing how {{spoiler|she becomes a news anchor, just like her idol, Diane Sawyer}}.

* ''[[A Mighty Wind]]''.

* Tim Burton's ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]''.

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* ''[[Cinderella Man]]''

* ''[[Escape from Sobibor]]''

* ''[[Stripes]]'' ~~-- another~~ Ivan Reitman film, showing magazine covers illustrating the fates of the characters.

* ''[[Stripes]]''—another Ivan Reitman film, showing magazine covers illustrating the fates of the characters.

* ''[[Notte Prima Degli Esami]]'', an Italian Teen comedy, does this with polaroids of the main characters and their destinies written on the white part.

* At the end of ''[[Apollo 13]]'' Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell has a voice over telling what happened to him and everyone else involved in the mission afterwards.

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== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Afterschool Special|CBS Schoolbreak Special]]'': The epilogue of the episode "15 and Getting Straight," which dramatized two newcomer teen drug addicts ([[Drew Barrymore]] and [[Corey Feldman]]) to a 12 step-type counseling program. A teen named Rick seems to have made tremendous progress and has taken to mentoring the teens as he is at the end of the 28-day inpatient program, but most of the other teens believe they don't belong in the program and don't have a problem. David Birney plays the lead counselor, himself an ex-druggie. The irony follows at the end, where Birney's character tells the group that Rick had overdosed; he had run into some old friends who tried to get him to try a new drug, Rick refused at first but when they followed him home and kept hounding him, Rick took the drug and immediately had a seizure. Then follows the epilogue, zooming in on an empty chair. All of the teens that seemed that they weren't going to make it do ... and Rick (whose post-script is saved for last) is dead.

* ''Superior Court'', a TV courtroom drama from the late 1980s that featured court cases based on actual ones. Each ~~case -- usually~~ one, but sometimes two per ~~show -- was~~ followed with a "where are they now" epilogue, mostly telling what became of the principal characters in each case, but sometimes if a major social issue was addressed, what changed or did not change since the case was heard.

* ''Superior Court'', a TV courtroom drama from the late 1980s that featured court cases based on actual ones. Each case—usually one, but sometimes two per show—was followed with a "where are they now" epilogue, mostly telling what became of the principal characters in each case, but sometimes if a major social issue was addressed, what changed or did not change since the case was heard.

* ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'': The final two-part episode/epilogue, "All Good Things ..."/"...Must Come to an End" is set in 2008, five years into the future. Dawson has become a big-name television producer in Los Angeles (the TV series "The Creek"), Joey has become a successful book editor in New York City, Jack is a teacher at Capeside High and fallen in love with another man, Pacey owns the Ice House, and Jen (a single mother and art gallery) has fallen seriously ill with a congenial heart defect. In the end, Jen dies and everyone gathers (one last time, as it turns out) for her funeral, and two of Jen's deathbed requests are fulfilled: Jack and Doug raise her baby, Amy; and Joey chooses Pacey as her lifetime love.

* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'''s somewhat infamous 'Sam Beckett never returned home' captions at the end of the last episode, added on when the show was canceled.

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** While the obnoxious kids have their futures told, the main characters get spoof endings, with Jeff's being that he "banged Mark's mom. Twice."

* The ''[[Friday Night Lights]]'' [[Series Finale]] ends with a series of scenes that show us what happened to the characters 8 months after the Lions' final State game.

* ''[[Rescue 911]]'' nearly ''always'' did this at the end of a segment. Usually, the show filmed the segment's protagonists walking along a beach or walkway, visiting a fun center or public park, or other somesuch. The show also liked to film the protagonists meeting back up with the dispatchers and/or other personnel that rendered assistance. (Plus, if their segment is posted on [[YouTube]], then sometimes the people ~~involved--or~~ those who know ~~them--will~~ post a comment, saying what they're up to today.)

* ''[[Rescue 911]]'' nearly ''always'' did this at the end of a segment. Usually, the show filmed the segment's protagonists walking along a beach or walkway, visiting a fun center or public park, or other somesuch. The show also liked to film the protagonists meeting back up with the dispatchers and/or other personnel that rendered assistance. (Plus, if their segment is posted on [[YouTube]], then sometimes the people involved—or those who know them—will post a comment, saying what they're up to today.)

* [[Sea Patrol]] ended with a shot of each character with a one line description about their future.

* [[The Red Green Show]] did this on its final episode. While it didn't cover all the cast members, it did highlight most of the major ones and even one or two who hadn't been seen in a while.

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* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' has this: one of the surviving characters ({{spoiler|Krile}} by default) writes to Mid telling him what they and all the other surviving characters are doing since Exdeath was defeated.

* ''Conflict Vietnam'' shows the main characters in a brothel (or something like that) while Cherry,er, Doc gives a voice-over about what happened to everyone. Junior goes home and joins the Black Panthers, only to {{spoiler|get killed in a shootout with the FBI}}. Hoss signs on for a tour of duty in Cambodia. Ragman comes home to a some divorce papers and moves to the Rockies with his dog. Doc starts a family and becomes a doctor, his specialty being gunshot wounds.

* The epilogue of ''[[The Reconstruction]]'' takes place one year after the finale, and shows what all the characters have decided to do with their ~~lives -- in~~ a few cases, it also finishes their [[Character Arc~~|Character Arcs~~]]. Especially important because {{spoiler|the world was ''destroyed'' in the finale, and the epilogue shows how successful the cast was in rebuilding it}}.

* The epilogue of ''[[The Reconstruction]]'' takes place one year after the finale, and shows what all the characters have decided to do with their lives—in a few cases, it also finishes their [[Character Arc]]s. Especially important because {{spoiler|the world was ''destroyed'' in the finale, and the epilogue shows how successful the cast was in rebuilding it}}.

* [[Chronicles of Inotia Children of Carnia]] has one too. {{spoiler|While Lydia [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices]] herself to impede the ressurection of the God of Darkness, she erases the memories of the party, while the epilogue shows how everyone would live if they didn't know each other. It turns out that it's actually a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] because [[Mysterious Waif|Elina]] shows up and restores their memories for their new quest.}}

* ''[[Bastion]]'' has one of these during its ending credits sequence, featuring each of the major characters {{spoiler|pursuing their own futures, which depends on whether or not the Player chooses to revive the world.}}