History DownerEnding / WebOriginal

** Subverted in ''A New Planet & Antimatter!''. [[{{Nerd}} Eugene]] accidentally breaks a jar of antimatter, which kills Matt, sending him to heaven. St. Peter implies that Matt will shortly go to Hell, because he was never nice to Hugo and was always telling his audience to keep it sexual. But then, Matt tells St. Peter that he was just about to get 1500 subscribers, so St. Peter lets him return to Earth.

* ''Machinima/GamingAllStars'': In ''The Ultimate Crossover'', [[spoiler: after witnessing the remainder of the heroes getting dispatched by [[VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale Polygon Man]] and [[VideoGame/StarFox Andross]], [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Master and Crazy Hand]] create a devastatingly powerful bomb to destroy [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the moon]], intending on stopping Andross in order to alleviate the Earth of the apocalypse he caused.]] While the people of Earth are indeed relieved of their troubles, [[spoiler: the explosion ends up killing [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]], and [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Crash]] as well, prompting the people to mourn them and all of the heroes who entered the moon alongside them to combat the ultimate evil]].

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: Recovery One'' ends with South shooting Washington in the back and leaving him for dead, letting the Meta steal his equipment in exchange for letting her go with Delta for the time being.

* Elrich from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' is destroyed by its stars, which are then captured and contained by the SCP Foundation at an unknown point in the future. A Hand, An Eye, A Tooth ends with protagonist being killed by her husband for her disfigurement.

** "I Attemped a [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokemon Platinum]] [[SelfImposedChallenge Nuzlocke]]": In-universe, Jaiden realizes she's in an alternate timeline created after Giratina split her in two in the Distortion World; in her original timeline, she wiped out against the Elite Four before she even made it to Cynthia, [[{{Permadeath}} with her entire team getting killed]][[note]]In reality, Jaiden gave up after she lost half her team in the first two fights against Aaron and Bertha, since her remaining three Pokémon, which were weak against fire-types, now had a hopeless disadvantage against Flint. But she and her chat agreed that since it was a birthday stream, she should try again. Though she still felt guilty about "cheating" [[RealitySubtext and worked in the alternate timeline subplot]][[/note]]. In this new timeline, Jaiden wins and becomes the new Champion, but loses half her team to [[ThatOneBoss/{{Pokemon}} Cynthia's Garchomp]] in the process. And with the knowledge of both timelines and another version of her losing so horribly, [[PyrrhicVictory Jaiden is so overwhelmed with guilt that she finds the victory hollow and doesn't believe she deserves it]].

* In ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', Dr. Horrible manages to defeat Captain Hammer and gain entrance into the Evil League of Evil. But in the process, Penny, the girl of his dreams (and the only [[FriendToAllLivingThings truly good character]] in the series) is accidentally killed and all but forgotten by everyone except him. It leaves him [[PyrrhicVillainy emotionally destroyed]] and completely unable to enjoy his victory (or, indeed, feel anything at all).

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# ''Series/StElsewhere'' Kills [[VanityPlate a Kitten]]

* All three seasons of the Letsplay/LifeSMP provides this trope. It is a ForegoneConclusion that everyone dies at the end of each series, however the context around it differs between seasons
** Grian's perspective really hammers in the ending of Third Life: After an entire series of him and Scar wanting to make it big together, their friendship collapses and the two fight to the death. Grian wins, but his victory is hollow--everyone else is dead, and his only true friend for the entire series is gone at his hands. Grian ends the series by taking his own life: he didn't die with riches, friends, and power--he died sad, poor, and alone, in the ruins of his and Scar's magnum opus.
** In Last Life there are no more Green Lives remaining after Martin becomes a red life, meaning the Reds on the server have to duke it out between themselves. Scott, Cleo, Pearl and Ren form an alliance to go after Grian and Joel, and while they lose Cleo during the fight, in the end Grian and Joel go down as well. Scott, Pearl and Ren decide that they don't want to betray one another, and each of the four remaining Reds picks a cardinal direction (Pearl picks north, Scott picks east, Martyn picks south and Ren picks west), they split off, count down, and each of them charges into the center of the map where they proceed to slaughter each other until only one remains. The winner of Last Life, Scott, only gets a brief moment to say goodbye to his axolotl Binkie before he too drops dead.
** At the end of Double Life, the Red Lives hunt down the remaining Yellow Lives and two of the five remaining soulbound pairs at the time end up dying as a result of their own or their partners' stupidity (in oddly ironic/symbolic ways to boot). After Pearl kills the remaining two enemy soulbound pairs, she meets up with Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her dogs, …before Scott blows himself up, instantly killing them both due their {{synchronization}}.

** At the end of Double Life, Pearl kills the remaining soulbound pairs and meets up with Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her dogs, …before Scott blows himself up, instantly killing them both due their {{Synchronization}}

* All three seasons of the Letsplay/LifeSMP provides this trope. It is a ForgoneConclusion that everyone dies at the end of each series, however the context around it differs between seasons

** At the end of Double Life, Pearl kills the remaining soulbound pairs and meets up with Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her dogs, …before Scott blows himself up, instantly killing them both due their Synchronization

** At the end of Double Life, Pearl kills the remaining soulbound pairs and meets up with Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her dogs, …before Scott blows himself up, instantly killing them both due their {{synchronization}}

** In Last Life there are no more Green Lives remaining after Martin becomes a red life, meaning the now seven Reds on the server have to duke it out between themselves. Scott, Cleo, Pearl and Ren form an alliance to go after Grian and Joel, and while they lose Cleo during the fight, in the end Grian and Joel go down as well. Scott, Pearl and Ren decide that they don't want to betray one another, and each of the four remaining Reds picks a cardinal direction (Pearl picks north, Scott picks east, Martyn picks south and Ren picks west), they split off, count down, and each of them charges into the center of the map where they proceed to slaughter each other until only one remains. The winner of Last Life, Scott, only gets a brief moment to say goodbye to his axolotl Binkie before he too drops dead.

* All three seasons of the Letsplay/LifeSMP downer endings
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* WebAnimation/{{Youtube Poop}}s tend to take this path at times, usually played for laughed. For instance, WebAnimation/WalrusGuy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8Ph0hnRPY The Only Mama Luigi Poop Anyone Has Ever Made]] and Tropers/MadMan400096's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXUcIipAr6k Toonster Prom Time]].

* There is an entire fandom around this trope called "Bad End Friends", where KidHero characters of various media are portrayed in the worst ending for them, usually leaving them [[FallenHero possessed or insane]]. The core characters are most likely [[DemonicPossession Bill]]![[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Dipper]]/[[FanNickname Bipper]], [[SanitySlippage Beast]]![[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Ice Prince]]![[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn]]. Some other examples include [[EmptyShell White]]![[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven]], [[FromNobodyToNightmare Evil]] [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Morty]], [[EarnYourBadEnding Chara]]![[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Frisk]], [[DespairEventHorizon Button-Eyed]]!WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}, [[TheHeroDies Ghost]]![[WesternAnimation/ParaNorman Norman]] and [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Turbo]]![[WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes K.O.]].

* An unfortunately common occurrence in WebVideo/MattMcMuscles' series ''What Happened?!'', which goes over games and movies that went through DevelopmentHell and more often than not came out poorly. Some episodes have a positive ending but most of them end in studio closures, financial failure, lawsuits, or any other awful repercussions that come from a critical or financial bomb.

* The ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E7Ozzies OZZIE'S]]" ends this way. Blitzo gets back home after being humiliated at Ozzie's and having rejected an offer from Stolas to go inside with him. Loona's out at a party with Tex, Millie and Moxxie are still out on their anniversary date, and Blitzo looks at a PhotoMontage on his phone. The last picture that Blitzo looks at -- implied to be a picture of a younger Blitzo and some of his family members -- makes him curl up in a TroubledFetalPosition, crying BrokenTears into a pillow, all alone. Cue the end credits.

* ''DownerEnding/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers''

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* ''DownerEnding/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers''

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'s'' 8th volume ends on a very bleak note, as the villains gaining both Relics, Penny mercy killed (likely [[KilledOffForReal for real, this time]]) to protect the Maiden power, and both Mantle and Atlas are destroyed. The refugees are dumped on Vacuo's doorstep without warning, and Team RWBY, Jaune, and Neo fall into the abyss below, leaving Salem and Cinder free to continue bringing ruin to Remnant, and it's very unlikely anyone else can stop them. And to put the cherry on top, everything the heroes and Ironwood did was for nothing. The only consolations are that most of the kingdom's inhabitants have been evacuated, with the heroes believing that a kingdom is its people, not its infrastructure, implying a new kingdom can be built at a later date, and the Winter Maiden's power remains with the remaining heroes (with Winter rescues the refugees from the sandstorm and Grimm horde in Vacuo). The last shot of the season is [[WeaponTombstone Ruby's Crescent Rose buried in the sand]].

* Parody artist Jon Cozart, aka WebVideo/{{Paint}}, turns the HappilyEverAfter endings of Creator/{{Disney}} films into downers in his "After Ever After" videos by setting them in our world and letting {{Reality Ensue|s}}.