Where Are They Now? Epilogue: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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.

* In the ''[[Ghost Stories]]'' [[Gag Dub]], Satsuki starts to tell [[Refuge in Vulgarity|a somewhat vulgar one]] and is cut off. Stories involved her homeroom teacher getting arrested for feeling up one of her classmates and Hajime losing his voice from getting [[Groin Attack|kicked in the balls]] or something like that.

* The ending to the ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]: Enishi'' anime had a series of animated and still images over the end credits, showing glimpses of the characters several years later. The manga goes into more detail, actually resolving the main romantic plotline, and ending with something of a [[Distant Finale]].

* Part 2 of [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]] ended with one of these for all the [[Anyone Can Die|surviving]] cast. Of course, given it was scarcely 100 chapters into an (as of now) [[Long Runner|over 800 chapter series]]... yeah it wasn't quite done.

* 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.

* ''[[Tangled]]'' combines this trope with [[Lemony Narrator]]:

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Flynn/Eugene''': But I know what the big question is? Did Rapunzel and I ever get married? Well I am happy to say after years and years of asking... I finally said "yes".

* The final episode of ''[[Corner Gas]]'' had brief snippets discussing what the characters were doing a few months down the line, which ended up sounding just like the plot of another episode, reinforcing the message of the ending that things weren't really going to change that much.

* [[Once an Episode]] on ''[[Cold Case]]'' as a [[Contrast Montage]] between what the people involved in the case were like then compared to how they are like in the present, if they're still alive.

* Early series of ''[[The X-Files]]'' would have this narrated at the end of each episode by either Mulder or Scully.

* The ''[[Newhart]]'' finale had one of these, set [[Time Skip|five years after]] a Japanese developer had bought the entire town of Stratford, Vermont and turned it into a golf resort. Of course, they then subverted it by having the show - not just the final episode, but the entire ''series'' - turn out to be [[All Just a Dream]].

 

== Music ==

* So does [[Van Halen]]'s video for "Hot for Teacher"

* And Korn's ''Twisted Transistor''.

* ''[[Vandal Hearts]]'' has one of the characters writing a book about their adventure and what happened to each character.

** Ranging nicely from a stamp collection to being a major political player in rebuilding the land.

* The first ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' game, as well as the racing spin off ''Crash Team Racing'' did these, with humorous intent. Interestingly though, one of the bosses, Ripper Roo, is stated as studying and becoming an academic, and in the next game you find him in a gigantic library, and you disrupt his studies. (Un)fortunately Dr Nitrus Brio didn't stick to his bartending...

* ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' has a variation of this in an e-mail sent to Mario by Goombella.

* ''[[The Nameless Mod]]'', a total conversion mod for ''[[Deus Ex]]'', has one of these for just about every named character, ala Fallout. This is in stark contrast to the original game's [[Trope Workshop:Ambiguous Ending]].

* ''[[2027]]'', a total conversion mod for ''[[Deus Ex]]'', has this at the end of the game as well.

* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' briefly shows the characters in different times as the main three use their time machine. The remakes extend this with anime cutscenes.

** Depending on when in the game you complete it, and which sidequests you've completed will alter the ending. Sometimes in minor ways, other times you'll get a whole new ending.

* ''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]]s. Especially important because {{spoiler|the world was ''destroyed'' in the finale, and the epilogue shows how successful the cast was in rebuilding it}}.

* ''[[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.}}

* The closing credits for ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' shows Mario and Yoshi showing Peach some of the planets they both visited on the way back to the Mushroom Planet, {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Bowser]] being spat out of his black hole and becoming tiny,}} before the heroes (and Lubba) are finally shown back in the Mushroom Kingdom standing in front of the cake mentioned in the prologue. And you can actually ''die'' in the credits!

* Parodied by [[Homestar Runner]] in the 'Montage' email. Among other things, it shows you the fate of the red wagon full of pancakes.

** It also foretold the retirement of The Paper in [[SB Email]] #173.

{{quote|"''Eric married that lifeguard. Brian never came back from [[The Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. And Gorlac [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|enslaved us all]]."'''}}

* Parodied by Collegehumor in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnM8NPeTanM Every Teen Movie Ending]".

{{quote|"''Things went back to normal in Hyrule, apart from Zelda wanting a spotty fur coat. Mario and Luigi ate Spagehetti [sic] and magically flew home. The Traitor got off with a pardon, for now. On returning to their Universe, the Dalmatians went back to normal and forgot about the whole affair. Squadala became President of the United States of America. Cruella didn't take Mario's warning and died of Lung Cancer. Horace and Jasper got jobs as the [[Live Action Adaptation|Live-Action Mario Brothers.]] No one seemed to care about Link's death.''"}}

* Sleuth Noir, the online detective game, has an example of this trope in Heimlich VonVictor's [http://noir.playsleuth.com/case/scripted_mystery.spy?mysteryid=3319512 The Executor's End] At the conclusion of the mystery, we find out in great detail what happened to every member of the ensemble cast of the mystery.