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All the main characters died, thousands of Japanese died, some 33 thousand other universes and Earths were destroyed, and the game goes on with a new set of victims players as if nothing has happened One example of the backlash was the anime's director. The Gecko Ending went on to brighten things slightly: While most of the above still happens, one of the main characters survives and the last pilot breaks the game and makes sure it cannot be repeated elsewhere. Some fans think this change was a welcome improvement over the manga, while others disagree. The concept gets discussed in the manga, when Kirie wonders why people would consider a movie in which many people die but the main characters get what they want as having a happy ending.

The series ends with an uplifting ending showing all the surviving characters smiling, despite the bittersweet nature of the preceding events and Lelouch's death, which is enough to make certain fans consider the whole thing a tragedy. The ending also leaves open what will happen to the world during the subsequent reconstruction phase. It is possible for viewers to speculate about how all the resulting death and destruction would have affected the social and economic structures of Japan, which may paint a rather pessimistic picture of this fictional world's future when all is said and done.

The main culprit of this seems to be Okouchi and Taniguchi letting some of the staff throw out suggestions which caused a few of the visuals to be a little too happy, with one specific scene being borderline Tastes Like Diabetes the wedding photo while the narration points out how there is still a lot of rebuilding to be done which we never actually see. Another aspect that is open to debate is how Lelouch first had to reach the Despair Event Horizon following the Black Knights' mutiny and Nunnally's supposed demise.

For Want of a Nail , Lelouch may well have gone with a less destructive and suicidal method. In addition, a few of the Britannian survivors had committed murderous acts in the series while the two specific people responsible for aforementioned hasty betrayal also got a Happy Ending though it's implied they might be making it up to Nunnally for it. Lelouch himself admittedly saw beyond such concerns and recognized that everyone had to move toward the future together regardless of the past, but some viewers found the methods and results at least partially self-contradicting.

The Final Killing Game, which pitted all the leaders of the Future Foundation against one-another, wasn't actually caused by the remnants of despair, but by one of their own trying to weed out the despair he believed was hiding among their group and to convince Ryota Mitarai to use his brainwashing video to spread hope to this Crapsack World by force. Second, we learn that Class 77 was brainwashed into becoming the Remnants of Despair against their will.

When they're all restored to live by Hajime, they arrive in time to stop Ryota and choose to take the blame for the killing game, then go to spend the rest of their lives in exile on Jabberwock island. Makoto and his friends survive, the Tragedy ends, and Hope's Peak is rebuilt with Makoto as headmaster. So a bunch of kids who were brainwashed into becoming murderous terrorists will now forever spend their lives as pariahs so the truth of the Future Foundation's corrupt leader will remain concealed, while the survivors of Class 78 rebuild the school that caused this entire situation for some reason.

Oh, and all the other branch heads die save for Munakata. He'd found out that his girlfriend had been a despair for years and will never know how or why, his best friend who was secretly in love with him sacrificed his own life to end the game even after Munakata tried to kill him, and everything he thought he was fighting for was pointless. What happens to him? But hey, at least Makoto and Kyoko are finally together. DNA2 has Mori's elaborate plan of using DNA Manipulation and Time Travel to create his personal, mind controlled and telekinetically strong army to declare war on the entire world thwarted.

But this comes at the cost of Junta overcoming the Mega Playboy DNA within him, meaning the playboy never awakened, so his descendants that had the playboy's DNA all cease to exist. Which also included the son Junta and Karin were going to have. And ultimately, Karin shoots Junta with a DMC one final time to fully remove the playboy DNA aspects, and the memories of her and the entire adventure, from him and returns to the future. There is the one bright hopespot that Junta and Ami will get together. Death Note appears to end with the villain and his fanboy successor dying and the world returning to normal.

Until that final scene revealing that a happy-go-lucky shinigami was the sponsor for the fake Kira three years later, he liked the experiment, and he has an arsenal of death notes just waiting for new owners. How did he get them? He bought them from the king, who has no problem with selling each death note for 7 apples, and has not made any laws against this tourist trend. Which now means that Ryuk and hundreds of shinigami will be sponsoring hundreds of nonviolent sniping killers, each with their own ideals and agendas, all of whom will inevitably duel and war with each other unless something goes horribly wrong.

This is considered a fitting end to this dark series. But what many overlook is that the ending says every human on earth gained their own partner Digimon, which leads to all kinds of disturbing implications. Just imagine how much damage a Digimon could do in the hands of a criminal or a dictator. One filler episode of Dragon Ball Z involves Gohan befriending a group of orphans and defending them from the police before they are eventually overwhelmed with the orphan leader deciding to take Gohan along and leave the others behind.

We are supposed to see it as a somewhat happy ending as the orphans will now get proper clothing and shelter with the leader believing that they could provide more for them than he could while he himself decides to start a new life in a city. The problem is, the orphans may get proper food and shelter but there is no telling what terrible things the adults could do. For example, they could force them into child labor, bring them to other where they will inevitably looked down by other children or probably adopted by other adults where there is no guarantee whether they will be treated well or not particularly given that they don't seem to have any issue with their old life.

And even if none of that happened, they must still live with the fact that their leader, the one who would protect them from the adults has essentially abandoned them to their fate and this sting of betrayal will no doubt effect their mindset some even more than others. The ending of Future Trunks arc is supposed to be seen as a bittersweet happy ending with them successfully defeating Merged Zamasu with Whis helping both Future Trunks and Future Mai have a bright future ahead of them by creating a Close-Enough Timeline just for them.

However, it still doesn't change the fact that everyone they knew and loved from their original timeline got erased from existence and Trunks wasn't able to protect them in the end because right after Future Trunks destroyed Zamasu's physical body, he became a bodiless Eldritch Abomination that wipes out all the remaining survivors left on earth and is in the process of spreading across the universe and timelines, forcing them to summon Zeno just to stop him but at the cost of the entire timeline.

In other words, Zamasu had won and the heroes completely failed their goal of stopping him , even to the point of a Downer Ending for some fans. What mitigates this is that Whis does warn an AU version of himself about Zamasu, and thus there's now a new future for Trunks in which Zamasu doesn't get far. The anime of Elfen Lied ends rather positively, because it adds a new ending before the manga crosses the Despair Event Horizon.

Subsequently, the manga's ending is iffy - the Diclonii will be completely eliminated within a generation. Their powers are too dangerous to allow them to continue to exist, but they're not all bad people, and their extermination is at best a necessary evil. Eureka Seven AO tries to play its ending off as a happy one, but just a little bit of thinking reveals that its anything but.

The now written-out-of-history Scub Corals were Evil All Along , rendering the whole point of the first series meaningless. To top it off, his messing with space-time may well have written him out of the memories of everyone he knew or cared about. Yet the ending wants us to believe he's perfectly fine with all this. Amarao tries to warn Naota but Naota ultimately chooses Haruko, who then predictably abandons him. Naota's subsequent reaction to Ninamori ordering the carbonated drink shows that he hasn't changed or matured as a character; the emphasis on Haruko's guitar in his room reinforces this fact.

This trope is the main reason why the concluding movie to Fullmetal Alchemist was so controversial. The bad guys are dead and the Elric brothers are finally reunited and their bodies restored This seems to be an attempt at bittersweet that went too far into the "bitter" ballpark for much of the fanbase's liking.

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Genma Wars ends on a supposedly uplifting note as Earth is freed from demons who have enslaved mankind for ages and civilization is stated to eventually rebuild itself. With that said, the leads attempt to travel back in time to prevent the demons from taking over Earth in the distant past, only to utterly fail in their mission. To make matters worse, they return to their own timeline where nothing really changed despite their efforts, most named characters including their loved ones have died over the course of the series and stayed dead.

Also the Big Bad responsible for influencing all events in the series isn't really destroyed by the heroes with his survival being ambiguous at really best. The only reason his victory isn't absolute is because the twins refuse to turn against each other and become his puppets.

And after being chased literally all around the world by a group of deranged cultists and seeing her father and love interest get murdered, the human girl Remina, her hobo friend, and a kind family of survivors get lucky enough to reach a fallout shelter and survive on a chunk of Earth that flies out of Remina's mouth with said shelter inside. The problem is they only have about a year's worth of supplies. And they're left drifting in space with humanity, Earth, and most of the solar system gone. Assuming Remina eats the sun like it did in other systems, then they'll be adrift in interstellar space, with no hope of rescue or chance of even landing on another planet.

Not like they could survive anyway. Many people were dissatisfied with the ending of the Hot Gimmick manga. While it was obvious that Hatsumi was going to end up with Ryoki, some readers held on to the hope that there would at least be enough Character Development to give Hatsumi a backbone or make Ryoki less of a Jerkass , but the general consensus is that there was little if any sign of any of that ever coming to pass. The ending to Jewelpet Sunshine has the human Love Interest permanently turn into a Jewelpet so he can be with the Jewelpet protagonist forever.

Meanwhile, the plot neglects to address the feelings of his parents and sister on such a decision, not to mention he disappears for 5 years without telling anyone so he can turn into a Jewelpet. The anime of Kare Kano. Hinting that the official couple will break up sooner or later, and that it's OK, is a "happy ending" for Hideki Anno.

Thankfully averted in the manga. In-universe example in Kill Me Baby: Yasuna has a dream where Sonya is the eponymous protagonist of Killtaro, who is out to slay an oni. Upon reaching the island of her destination, she takes a peach from a tree, and is called out by the villagers, who then chant "Ogre!

Koi Zora ends with Hiro succumbing to his cancer and dies, causing Mika to suffer and once again try to kill herself. She's stopped by her friends who show her Hiro's diary notes, which gives Mika the courage to live on and she learns that she is pregnant with Hiro's child. But the questionable happiness comes from the fact that Mika is not properly established as having a stable homelife, job and her emotional instability, which has caused her to attempt suicide twice over the course of the seris, is also a big issue.

It makes one wonder whether she would be able to take care of the child, especially on her own. Many fans see the final Episode of Kuma Miko as this trope. Machi a 14 year old miko from a small village who dreams of moving to the big city but is ignorant of modern technology and has social anxiety problems is forced into doing a performance in front of a large crowd in a city. She successfully does the performance by going to her Happy Place and seeing the audience as the forest but once she completes her performance, she hallucinates that the cheering crowd is throwing rocks at her and has a breakdown.

She continues to falsely believe that the crowd attacked her and becomes terrified of the city. Then Machi, broken and dead-eyed gives up her dreams and declares she will never go to the city again. Natsu and Yoshio, instead of correcting her delusions and getting her psychological help just decide to happily celebrate her decision. Natsu tells Machi that she never has to think about anything ever again and the series ends with Machi seemingly mentally regressing to the personality of a 5 year old, becoming more ignorant about the outside world than ever before and becoming more dependent on Natsu then ever before.

And the show treats this as a happy ending as happy music plays in the background and everyone being happy. Though the action and overall plot all concluded neatly, the Love Triangle that composed the greater part of the series was left unresolved to avoid upsetting the fans of either girl, which just upset both Shipping factions. Some though preferred it this way. Nevertheless, the debates wage on. Returns with the movies with the ending being a Tear Jerker. It leaves off with Alto apparently dead and Sheryl in a coma right after Alto confessed to Sheryl.

The fandom's going theory was that this was how they ended up, and that Sheryl's earrings, which being made of fold quartz ignore the normal laws of time and space, kept their hearts together, for at the end one was worn by Sheryl and one was worn by Alto, making it a very Bittersweet Ending a la Together in Death. An interview with Shoji Kawamori later had him wondering how anyone got this idea and Jossed it by declaring that Alto survived and Sheryl woke up.

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Delta Squadron has liberated the Brisingr cluster and Hayate and Freyja get their happy ending, but the Windemereans make it clear the war is not over and the death toll numbers in the millions. Also, poor Mirage got her Love Confession rejected Though Heinz is willing to establish peace talks, at the same time, he wants the UN Government to pay for their sins, which might not go very well, as his kingdom will suffer a lot of backlash from the intergalactic community for their actions.

Likewise, Heinz is slowly dying after his singing affected his health, and his brother, who is the strongest pilot in the air force, hass already died, which not only leaves the Aerial Knights in a vulnerable position, but also leaves no successors to take leadership of Windermere once Heinz kicks the bucket.

The narrative paints this as an ultimate happy ending, but in reality, almost every important character dies, sympathetic characters don't get what they want, and a few villains are saved because Kio Asuno would care less about his teammates and would focus more on reforming the enemies. Naruto Sakura Haruno's ending sees her married to her longtime crush Sasuke Uchiha and having a daughter, Sarada.

Even after turning Face again and marrying her, he abandoned her while she was pregnant with a rather flimsy justification and never bothers to see Sarada until she's an adolescent girl. Many fans felt this plot point came uncomfortably close to an endorsement of Domestic Abuse , especially after a Word of God statement said that if Sakura had gotten over her crush on Sasuke, she would be the one at fault. Many fans were also unsatisfied with the fates of the villains. Of the Big Bad Ensemble members, only Danzo , Kaguya and Zetsu receive severe punishments; the rest are either forgiven in death Nagato , Obito , Madara , get a slap on the wrist Orochimaru , the aforementioned Sasuke , or just plain aren't punished at all Kabuto.

The End of Evangelion is definitely meant to be horrifying, but has a spark of optimism at the very end. It sees every human put through a death of the ego and their bodies dissolved, but Shinji gives them the chance to live again if they have the will on a world wrecked by at least two disasters on a planetary scale. Ultimately, Shinji learns to accept himself and search for happiness, yet understanding that suffering is unavoidable in life; while some find this reassurance of hope even in the face of the apocalypse uplifting, others inevitably find it difficult to accept.

Likewise, he and his red-head Love Interest spent the whole series being unable to realize each other's blatantly obvious feelings, and the final scene hints that Shinji and Asuka at last have made a connection and may start to open up to each other. Now and Then, Here and There.

Even setting aside the whole Good Girls Avoid Abortion thing, the script seems to entirely forget that Sara's parents are now never going to see her again and she's very likely going to be killed by the Earth's still supernova-ing sun. Shu's optimism seems just a little misplaced. When she tries to abort her child, it is portrayed as her letting despair over her horrible situation keeping her from seeing anyway out of it.

By embracing the child and her situation, she is displaying strength in overcoming adversity. In fact this is at the core of the series. In order for any great good to occur it requires an even greater sacrifice. Well, I still believe that I was right! Something so totally awesome that would make up for all the bad stuff. Sure it can get pretty tough in the meantime. On the one hand, Madoka was able to stop magical girls from becoming witches. On the other hand, her solution is basically to make them disappear from the world forever. And she gets erased from exsistence to boot.

The ending is still hopeful and opitimistic, but it implies that the remaining magical girls won't last long in the new world, and Homura will only be reunited with Madoka in the afterlife. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion invokes this as a Deconstruction of Fix Fics for the above. Homura finally saves Madoka, gets Kyubey long overdue karma , brings Sayaka's Back from the Dead , and gets Mami a new friend in Nagisa, and everyone's reunited with their family and friends.

And when they aren't getting Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul , everyone objects to the circumstances and establish they will fight it once their memories return. This "Happy Ending" is implied to be unsustainable and no-one's truly happy, the one who sought this least of all. The world is saved, but almost nobody knows that since they thought the final battle was all a show or weren't aware of it. The villain received no punishment whatsoever and in the end got what she wanted. Oh, and there's still a crazy murderer on the loose in the real world.

Romeo X Juliet ends with most of the cast living happily ever after What's worse, the show makes it very clear that none of this was Juliet's choice, but that every single woman born to the Capulet line had been sacrificed to this very same tree, meaning that she could have never reclaimed her throne something the series had been building up to since the beginning or ruled Neo Verona even if she wanted to. Done deliberately with Saikano , which sees the main character and his girlfriend as the last living beings from Earth, drifting through space, said girlfriend now completely inhuman with no hope of ever turning back.

This is played as being as happy as they can wish for given the situation. The author's notes at the end of the manga even admit that all hope is gone, "but there are memories, and maybe a future". Space Runaway Ideon has this with Be Invoked. Yep, the universe is destroyed, but the spirits of the dead are preparing to celebrate its rebirth again as the Messiah takes the souls to a new planet.

It took Super Robot Wars to create a proper Downer Ending as Keisar Ephes corrupts the Messiah, allowing him to take control of the universe properly this time around. However, it ended up as a massive Broken Aesop and caused a gigantic Broken Base , as Tsukasa's "loved him before he knew me" revelation was retconned in very late in the story with no hint that it ever existed beforehand, and Aya's own Framing Device of her story being about a peasant girl vs a princess for the love of the prince was seen by many as an obvious foreshadowing of her inevitable triumph for Junpei's affections.

Instead of being an example of an underdog winning through compatible personalities and friendship as a base for romance, the ending simply reaffirmed the real-life Crapsack World -view of "pretty, popular girls win over girl-next-doors". Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Yes, the universe was saved and the Anti-Spiral didn't kill off humanity, but many of the crew dies including Kittan, right after he confesses his love for Yoko , Nia dies just after her and Simon's wedding and Simon himself becomes a hobo of sorts, which comes off as a rather insulting fate for someone who saved the entire human race from extinction.

And the Spiral Nemesis, the thing the Anti-Spiral were trying to stop from happening is still a potential risk that has a very real chance of transpiring and destroying everything. For such an idealistic series, the ending can be especially jarring. However, the fact that time flows differently in other worlds means that if it takes him a year to return to Clow Country, Sakura could already be dead when he returns. Furthermore, the villain who cursed Syaoran, Fei Wang Reed, was revealed to an artificial being before his death.

Despite dying, it has been stated that artificial beings can be reconstructed so it is possible that he will be back. An in-universe example with Yakitate!! Japan during the Yakitate 25 arc, where Azuma starts declaring every victory for Pantasia a happy ending, apparently ignoring the fact that their opponents who most of the time aren't particularly bad people have been transformed by Pantasia's bread with no sign of changing back any time soon, or the two occasions where the match ended with Ken becoming a Yakuza leader against his will or Kuroyanagi suffering from serious internal bleeding.

Kawachi is usually quick to point this out. In Guardian Fairy Michel , the Black Hammers lost all the fairies they captured and the Tree of Life is saved but Michel dies in order to rejuvenate the tree, and Kim leaves the island. It's played as more happy than bitter, as Michel will be reborn later, Biam is with the fairies again, Kim reflects on her experience fondly and feels that Michel will remember her when he does return Happens very often with Jack Chick tracts. There are too many examples to list specific ones, but they tend to fall into a few distinct categories.

The main character converts to Christianity, dies an untimely and usually also cruel or painful death and goes to heaven. For example, in "The Little Princess," while Heidi gets herself and her family saved before dying, one has to wonder what it's like for her parents and brother to lose her. The main characters, following the death of someone close to them, convert to Christianity. The unsaved loved ones are promptly forgotten about, and the saved people will never see them again.

This is especially jarring in "Happy Halloween," in which the boy killed in the traffic accident is forgotten about. The main characters convert to Christianity after suffering terrible traumas with no indication of any long-term problems, and with those responsible being Easily Forgiven or becoming outright Karma Houdinis. For example, in "Lisa", the girl may have gotten saved and may no longer be suffering abuse, but she also has herpes now and no shortage of trauma associated with this.

Truly despicable people do terrible things all their lives, convert after one minute of Easy Evangelism , and go to Heaven, facing no consequences for their actions ever , while people who did nothing wrong except not instantly choose to devote their lives to God, needing more than simply having John 3: In Chick's theology which is not shared by the vast majority of Christians, to say the least , this is because all humans are equally evil , and therefore all repentances are equally good.

The ultimate fate of Earth. God will triumph over the Devil, but not before ages of suffering for the people of Earth followed by the majority of humankind being sent to Hell. Act of God has the story attempting to tell us that a new generation of heroes is about, the problems with this are that there were likely millions of innocents killed due to people losing their powers, few superheroes getting over their problems, and Kyle Rayner, ultimately, ends up killed due to psychotic obsession.

This isn't getting into the fact that many tech-based supervillains keep their powers and abilities, and one new, superpowered being doesn't make the world better. As tough as the tech-based heroes are, they simply do not and indeed cannot compare to the combined force of Superman , Green Lantern , Wonder Woman , the Flash and the Martian Manhunter.

Most fans see the Official Couple being forced apart and the villain getting what he wants.

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Many fans also have a problem that the solution to the arc was the HERO making a deal with the devil without ever being held accountable, thus making deals with the devil without consequences a valid mean to happy endings. Asterix has some in the Uderzo era. Asterix and Son ends with Brutus getting punished, the Gaulish village he destroyed getting rebuilt, Caesar hosting a banquet for the Gauls and he and Cleopatra reunited with their adorable baby son, Caesarion.

The narration notes that Caesarion will become the last pharaoh. Those who know anything about classics most of the readership Caesarion certainly would have had a happier and longer life if he'd continued with Asterix and Obelix as his guardians, terrible parents as they are. Asterix and the Secret Weapon ends with both the village's men and women compromising in a way that could be read as a call for a focus on understanding and collaboration to solve social injustice, or just being outrageously sexist, depending on interpretation.

Either way, it's very difficult to side with the story after it specifies that women are allowed at the final feast as they do not attend feasts usually , but they remain absent from all feasts afterwards. The ending of Night of the Living Deadpool is a likely intentional example. Every character in the story dies except Deadpool, and humanity is likely wiped out, but Deadpool gets a happy ending through a bizarre twist ending.

Deadpool takes a massive dose of the regeneration serum that caused the zombie outbreak and is eaten by the zombies, causing his consciousness to evolve into a sapient zombie virus that spreads to all of the zombies and brings them all under his control as a massive Deadpool hive mind. Deadpool's last words in the comic are "Omnipotence won't be all that bad. Marvel story, and features Carol walking off to live Happily Ever After It didn't take, and the next time Carol is seen she lets the rest of the team have it for letting her leave with that creep.

There's a reason both professionals and fans often consider this issue the single worst done-in-one story ever published by Marvel. A Fairy tests the politeness of two sisters. She rewards the polite youngest sister with having either a jewel, a diamond or a pretty flower fall from her mouth whenever she spoke and curses the rude eldest sister with having either a Toad or a snake fall from her mouth whenever she spoke. The mother then drives both out of the house. The good sister meets and marries a prince while the bad sister is rejected by everyone and starves in the woods.

One may argue that maybe the eldest sister may not deserve such horrible fate or point out that the mother gets away with the mistreatment of both her daughters. Not that clear with the youngest sister - some will say that the only reason the prince loves her is the gems, but the story only says that the prince fell in love with her after she told him her story, so optimists can believe that he loves her for herself, and merely views the gems as a way to avoid Parental Marriage Veto.

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The problems with constant gemstone production , however, are indisputable. A number of later versions have a further chapter in which both the mother and the older sister return for revenge with a Bride and Switch scheme that the new king discovers and then foils by sentencing them to death, taking care of the questions of justice for them. Of course, this still leaves the question of what they're going to do about all the inflation from the gemstones: She might have to learn how to use her words sparingly or even go mute just to maintain her sanity.

This is common in the darker side of fanfiction Especially in fetish fics. For those who don't want to read that, here's the cliff notes version: Guy picks up a plushie that is alive. Turns out the plushie is a Yandere. It asks him nicely if he wants to turn into a plushie too. He refuses; it violently and painfully kills him and then rebirths him as a plushie. Now they'll be together forever - and it's treated as a good thing. The Rose Potter series is an interesting example. Because the author slavishly copies as much of the Harry Potter canon as he can, each story ends on a happy note if and when the canon books do.

Because the author tries to make things Darker and Edgier however, it just opens up a whole mess of Fridge Logic , plot holes, and generally makes the Ministry's arguments that Rose is psychotic look rational. One fine example would be Rose discovering the "Golden Patronus", which essentially lets her destroy the hundreds of Dementors in the third story. This is treated as a beautiful thing, with the "released souls" thanking her as they return to their bodies. Thing is, Dementors were used to carry out the wizarding equivalent of the death sentence, which means that Rose also released the souls of a number of dangerous criminals.

In addition to the definitely Not Safe for Work The Little Mermaid Fan Fic Ariel's Wedding Night 's dealing with the psychological version of the Mermaid Problem , the text also brings up the interesting point that Ariel's father Triton and her husband Eric are going to have some diplomatic issues concerning the economy of Eric's kingdom: How, then, is Eric going to keep his subjects fed? A later revision of the story resolves Ariel and Eric's romantic difficulties, but it says nothing more about how to resolve their kingdom's economic problems.

One particular Pirates of the Caribbean fanfiction had a Mary Sue protagonist determined to save the seas and bring back freedom to the pirates. She accomplishes this by killing Calypso. Who, in the movie, was one of the few mystical beings remaining in the sea, especially after the Kraken was destroyed by Beckett, and one of the few things left keeping the world from "getting smaller". Everyone treats her as a hero for this. Also, you know, making the world a better place for pirates is making it a worse place for everyone who likes to keep their belongings and not get raped.

The My Little Pony: Things aren't going well for humanity or Earth, so the ponies offer to let some of the humans into Equestria. But then the Fantastic Racism kicks in: This might not be so terrible if it wasn't repeatedly and explicitly stated that someone who's transformed into a pony has their personality fundamentally altered. In other words, faced with a troubled species, the pony solution is, well While it's a Dead Fic and thus never properly ended, the author implies this is meant to be a Just Before the End scenario. Gets worse in the Expanded Universe stories.

All of humanity being forcibly converted into ponies with no resemblance to who they once were, or if they refuse, murdered outright? Authors other than the original love to present this as being the best thing that could possibly happen to the world. There's a reason this setting has a massive Hatedom. Aftermath of the Games was in part a Fix Fic to season 5 finale , giving Starlight Glimmer karma by having Twilight Sparkle adopt the clild Starlight, causing the original to be Ret Gone.

But the finale had show that such alterations to the timeline could have dire consequence. This necessitated its own fix in the sequel Integration ; showing Starlight refusing her canon redemption left no other choice , and that Twilight's all too aware of the implications and is doing what she can to fix them. Happens within the titular game of the Katawa Shoujo fanfic Broken Dolls, where the "best end" still involves the Ill Girl dying. Oma ends a war and establishes a city, but loses her lover in the process, which is why those in the Fire Nation see it as a tragedy. Zuko, in particular, having seen his cousin Lu Ten's girlfriend take his death quite badly, understands how painful it can be to lose a lover.

Certain The Loud House fanfics based on the very unpopular episode "No Such Luck", which culminates in Lincoln's entire family parents included locking him out of the house because they believe him to be bad luck, end with Lincoln calling the police on his family, usually with Lynn Sr. It's painted as a happy ending for Lincoln, but the ramifications of Lynn Sr. Anastasia by Golden Films has one. When Anastasia begins recovering her memories about her family, there is a happy atmosphere and a quick jump to the credits song, which is the same song Anastasia sung in her birthday, and is a happy song.

However, all her family were shot, ergo she will never see them again. Meanwhile, Rasputin has successfully taken over Russia. Animals United is an Anvilicious , if not untrue film about the dangers of pollution and human interference in nature. However, the end involves the cast taking over New York, with one human bystander being outright joyous in declaring "This is how it should be!

In Mulan II , the climax has Mushu ensure that neither Mulan nor the three princesses she was escorting to another kingdom have to submit to an Arranged Marriage to its prince s , and thus they can Marry for Love their respective sweethearts. The problem is that the Arranged Marriages were explicitly explained to be necessary to secure a political alliance between the kingdoms so that they will band together to defend China from the Huns.

As the denouement does not resolve that issue though the audience was probably meant to assumed that Mushu's "Golden Dragon of Unity" act convinced the Qigong Emperor to finalize the alliance anyway off-screen , the most straightforward assumption is that Mulan and her lady friends have selfishly doomed their homeland. Pocahontas ends with a "happy ending" in which the British and Powhatan come to terms with each other. Anyone with the vaguest knowledge of history knows this will last about three seconds before relations go south for about years. Ratatouille ends with Linguini, Remy and Colette opening their own private restaurant with the reformed Anton Ego being their top customer.

However, while the tone is undeniably happy, consider the facts. The whole reason Linguini and Colette have to open a new restaurant is because Gusteau's ancestral restaurant was closed down after its "rat infestation" was exposed, meaning that the legacy of Gusteau is over and the once world famous chef has been reduced to a disgraced joke.

Skinner is still obsessed with capturing Remy for his own use, and there's nothing stopping him from pursuing new schemes however ineffectual they may be. Finally, there's an entire former restaurant staff out there that could, if they wanted to, come forward with believable evidence that Linguini is mentally unwell due to believing in talking, cooking rats, and considering that Linguini's "madness" ruined their careers, they'll likely have a grudge against him and his new restaurant.

At the end of Sausage Party even though the food won their fight against the humans, it was only because they were lucky enough to have bath salts on them to use on the said humans. Once the friends and families of those humans the foods won't have anymore bath salts left to defend themselves with. Even if no one came to the store sooner or later most of the foods would expire. Only a few of the items are nonperishables, which makes the ending more like a Shoot the Shaggy Dog ending.

Also, they find out they're in a movie. So they decide to do something about it by inventing a trans-dimensional teleporter to kick the asses of the film writers. They go through the portal, and And then you realize they're still foot-tall convenience items who are now entering a world that isn't comically slanted in their favor. Deleted scenes reveal the last we see of them is their panic over the writers calmly eating their avatars in a diner, oblivious to the screaming deli meats outside the restaurant.

At the end of Snoopy, Come Home , the Peanuts gang is initially overjoyed to see Snoopy returning and sing his praises. Then, Snoopy types letters to Linus demanding the return of his croquet set and chess set and to Schroeder for the return of his record collection. He's your dog, and you're welcome to him! The film portrays this as the ultimate triumph of nature over technology, but one gets the distinct impression that many of New York's eight million residents would likely disagree. Only then you remember that the entire world had just experienced a huge mess of geological disasters- continent-cracking earthquakes, volcanic eruptions including Yellowstone , gargantuan tsunamis that drown most of the world, the entire Earth's crust shifting by 23 degrees, the magnetic fields reversing, etc.

In all likelihood, the majority of the Earth's ecosystems have been destroyed and nearly all species wiped out, either from the disasters themselves or the resulting pollution from natural and man-made sources. The Earth is also due for a volcanic winter of hellish proportions with the ash and sulfur dioxide all the eruptions. To make matters worse, most of the people on the arks are the wealthy elite and are probably not equipped with the skills needed to rebuild all of civilization.

Not to mention the actions by those onboard showcase that most of them are pretty damn arrogant and will likely be squabbling over who gets to be in charge. In The Apple , the music-megacorp BIM pretty much takes over the world, with only a small hippie commune being the last refuge of truth and individuality. Topps comes and raptures all the good guys , but the bad guys and the rest of humanity are just left alone.

So essentially God took away the last chance for the freedom of Earth. The ending of Avatar sees all but a few humans expelled from Pandora. The entire reason they were sent there was to both help expand humanity into space to escape the dying Earth and to get enough Unobtanium to put an end to the ongoing energy crisis. Without either of those, Jake and friends have pretty much guaranteed humanity is doomed to a slow, painful extinction if they don't find another habitable planet.

Which they probably can't without said Unobtanium. But hey, Jake is permanently part of his Avatar now, so it's all good. Was a movie like this ever made during any previous bad economy? The Great Depression equivalent might be the story of a pair of unemployed guys competing against hundreds to go work on Henry Ford's assembly line.

And in no previous America would it be considered a victory if 95 percent of your fellows were still left on the street. Rather, the Great Depression cinema made heroes of gangsters, con men and fast talking individualists, guys who chose survival by not fitting in. Sure, the narrator ends by saying the title line in utter despair, after mercy-killing every other remaining human in the world, but he's so unreliable he hasn't realized that his actions represent the final triumph of the human spirit.

The game makes it into more a Bittersweet Ending , with the humans finally taking down AM and settling into the duty of being a watchdog for the AIs as they await the reawakening of the humans on the moon. By all accounts, Hans Christian Andersen was a very depressed man. Out of all his fairy tales, there are only a few with unambiguously happy endings.

The Little Mermaid not the Disney version. The little mermaid is turned into "daughter of air" with the prospect of eventually entering Heaven, very probably a result of revision by Andersen. Initially this was the selected ending, even put in the working title, but there was a happily reworked version in which the mermaid apparently just dissolved into foam in the end.

Even the happier version has the Fridge Horror of knowing that the dissolving into foam fate is eventually going to befall the Little Mermaid's sisters and family if they don't act as she did. The Little Match Girl. The tone of the ending is very sad for the townspeople who discover her frozen corpse, but happy for the girl as she has ascended into Heaven.

As such, some remakes from our more cynical times either rewrite it to give her a more materialistic Happy Ending somehow or portray it as a truly tear-jerking Downer Ending. Even Death can't stand it. While not nearly as dark as the two above, one has to question just how Happily Ever After the Prince in The Princess and the Pea is actually going to live with his new bride. Someone who complains about a single pea under 40 mattresses has got to be ridiculously high-maintenance.

It's explored in Witches Abroad where Lilith gives what is usually considered to be a happy ending to people whether they want it or not. This includes convincing a wolf it's human so that it nearly starves to death and goes insane, since it can't live as either human or wolf now, so that it would eat a grandmother and dress up like her a la Little Red Riding Hood.

By the time the three witches arrive, all the Big Bad Wolf wants is an ending. What happened to our actual protagonists, we don't get told beyond "It could be worse". Lampshaded by the last two lines "And this too was happiness. A particularly jarring example is The Face Upon The Waters —the main character spends most of the story trying to maintain his cultural identity after the destruction of Earth and the scattering of its people, but ultimately concludes that people should adapt to whatever culture they live amongst The book ends with Blue rejoicing that she's finally found a family of her own.

Except the "family" is two people she's met twice and they're not allowed to adopt her so she has to wait three years before she's old enough to leave the school with them only allowed to visit her twice a year. Also three of her best friends have now left, one being drowned, another going back to live with her father and the last being sent to another school and she has been forced to sleep alone in a cramped room, and will likely still have to endure plenty more abuse from the nuns for the next three years. Oh and she never finds out who her real mother is either and the nuns will keep abusing children for many years in Ireland.

The ending of C. Lewis 's final Narnia book, The Last Battle , qualified as this for many young readers. Narnia ends, and everyone except Susan dies. Some minor characters are tormented and destroyed by a horrific many-armed God of Evil , while others who are judged unworthy and vanish forever into Aslan's shadow. But the important people don't care about that because they all go to the "real" Narnia a stand-in for heaven as the Christian subtext becomes text.

It can be uplifting or inspire nightmares, depending on which scenes stick with you. Neil Gaiman brilliantly deconstructed this in his short story The Problem of Susan , in which he shows what happened to Susan after her siblings died in a train crash and she had to identify their corpses.

Esoteric Happy Ending

Roald Dahl 's The Witches. The protagonist learns that he's stuck as a mouse and that mice don't live very long, but he's happy because he'll probably die near the same time as his elderly grandmother and doesn't care about living if he's not with her; they will live out their lives tracking down and destroying other witches together. The two also ponder Bruno's fate. One states that his mouse-hating mother probably drowned him in a bucket, but nobody seems very disturbed by this possibility. While many were appreciative of this happier ending, Roald Dahl was infamously not.

The book ends with Sara being restored to her wealth while Becky becomes her personal attendant. Oh and Miss Minchin gets away with treating them like prisoners. However, if one takes into context the period the story is set in Victorian London then Becky going from little better than a slave to a powerful position in the household with a kind and generous mistress too where she would get a roof over her head and financial security, it's a happy ending for Becky indeed.

And while Miss Minchin doesn't get an over-the-top instant comeuppance save in the film adaptations, which pretty much need one it's worth remembering that not only has she irrevocably lost her chance at a pupil who could've single-handedly ensured her school's success and her own financial comfort for life; once Sara's story becomes common knowledge in her social circle—as it inevitably will—Minchin's reputation will be in tatters and her school likely ruined.

There's also a What Happened to the Mouse? Which is great, because all of the looters and moochers are gone and the good people can rebuild the world, right? Then you remember the millions of innocent children who were left to starve Then again, by the book's morality, this is the looters' and moochers' fault rather than anything to blame on the protagonists Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Shu, Wei and Wu are united into one at last and peace throughout the entire country of China can finally begin. Unfortunately the victors are a splinter group of Wei who usurped the throne, conquered Wu and Shu who at the time were being ruled by Liu Shan a truly incompetent ruler who defiles everything Shu originally stood for and Sun Hao a tyrant almost as bad as Dong Zhuo.

When these two surrendered they were given lucrative positions and the readers were told they lived out their remaining lives in luxury. To be fair though this novel closely follows the real life events in history and not a lot could be changed. And historically, the hard-fought reunification of China ended a decade or two later with a new barbarian invasion. The victors ruled dust and ashes. Back when The Iron Giant was a book instead of a movie, it ended with an encounter with a dragon-like alien that sang in a hypnotic manner. It sang loud enough that the entire world heard it, and everyone in the world spent the rest of their lives alternately taking care of necessities and listening to the song.

It's specified that all war was completely eliminated, and the implication would be that art and culture vanished too. If the wording is to be taken literally, people didn't even converse with each other. Now, does this sound Utopian , or more like a nightmare? The last book gave Jacob, who suffered from unrequited love for Bella and who vehemently hated imprinting, his own happy romantic ending by having him imprint on Bella's newborn daughter Nessie. Oh, don't worry; Nessie grows really fast, so she'll be physically 17 years old in 7 years and ready to start a relationship with her "Uncle Jake" then!

And what of Jake's loss of free will? Who cares as long as he's still forced to be in Bella's life! Also, there's apparently no good way to get rid of the Volturi or vampires like them. Given that the Volturi are growing more and more afraid of human technology, and more and more inclined to lash out at humanity, this is a very bad thing. Das-Sporking's MST, when it gets to the end of Breaking Dawn , points out that their "victory" at the end really isn't one, as while the Volturi are gone for now , they have been given all the information needed to defeat the Cullens should they come around again.

On a more personal note, Nessie is hardly the "perfect ending" for the rest of the Cullens that Meyer claims. Emse and Rose want biological children of their own to care for and raise. Nessie is already nearly at adult-level independence within weeks of birth, and she's Bella's daughter, not theirs. Nessie also can't bring back Alice's human memories, she has almost no relationship with any of the other male Cullens, etc.

Meyer seems to think that Nessie fixes everything just by existing, but realistically she creates many, many more problems than she fixes for them. Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov ends with the protagonist arrested by his nation's totalitarian government, and his young son horrifically killed by a crowd of mental patients—on film! But then Nabokov reaches through the layers of reality and gives his main character the gift of insanity to make him forget all his pain.

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