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Conflict, however, does not always turn out to be a simple zero-sum game where someone has to lose in order for someone else to win. Sometimes, though a hero and villain's goals are seemingly irreconcilable, they can work out a compromise to their mutual benefit. Sometimes, heroes and villains can find a way to bypass each other on the way to achieving their goals. Sometimes rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, and both manage to bring in a good harvest. In short, some stories end in victory for the heroes and villains alike.
 
In many ways, this ending is likely to qualify as one of the happiest versions of the [[Happy Ending]]. Compare [[Sweet and Sour Grapes]], which may contribute to this ending for either or both combatants. It may also be especially common in stories where both sides are [[Only in It For Thethe Money]] and there's more than one way to get paid. This might also be the result of [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]] if it happens because the villain decides to cash in on his legitimate (or not-so-legitimate) talents.
 
Needless to say, this is an [[Ending Tropes]], so expect spoilers.
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== Fairy Tales ==
* In ''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/index.html Bearskin]'', a soldier successfully escapes the [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] he made out of desperation with a tidy profit, and gets a loving wife too. As for the devil, he proudly announces at the end that although he lost the soldier's soul, he gained the souls of his two new sisters-in-law in exchange.
 
 
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== Literature ==
* ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Literaturenovel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'' ended with the Grinch being reintegrated into Whoville to everyone's benefit.
** Both the [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animationanimation)|animated]] and [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Filmfilm)|live action movie]] adaptations of this story heavily implied that his thieving in some ways opened the Whos' eyes to how overly materialistic they'd been about Christmas, such that the [[Heel Face Turn|moral reformation]] was a two-way street.
* In ''[[Treasure Island]]'', the heroes did finally get their treasure. So did the villain Long John Silver, who [[Karma Houdini|escaped justice]] with several hundred pounds of it. In the words of protagonist Jim Hawkins, "I think we were all pleased to be so cheaply quit of him."
** Disney's ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', being a straight [[In Space]] adaption of ''[[Treasure Island]]'', has the same 'everybody goes home happy' ending, including Silver escaping with a bit of treasure and his freedom.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'': ''[[Wakko's Wish (Film)|Wakkos Wish]]'' ends with {{spoiler|everyone getting his and her wish}}.
** {{spoiler|[[Broken Aesop|Except]] [[Butt Monkey|the Mime]], [[Dude, Not Funny|of course.]]}}
 
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