History EarnYourHappyEnding / WesternAnimation

** "Margaritaville": Kyle earns everyone their happy ending. However, BarackObama was praised for it instead, much to Kyle's dismay.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH EVERY!]] [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail SINGLE!]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime ONE]] of Creator/DonBluth's films!

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH EVERY!]] [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail SINGLE!]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime ONE]] of Creator/Don Bluth's films!

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH EVERY!]] [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail SINGLE!]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime ONE]] of Creator/Don Bluth's films (yes, even the [[WesternAnimation/Thumbelina not]] - [[WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark so]] - [[WesternAnimation/Anastasia good]] ones).
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* [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH EVERY!]] [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail SINGLE!]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime ONE]] of Creator/Don Bluth's films (yes, even the [[WesternAnimation/Thumbelina not]]-[[WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPart so]]-[[WesternAnimation/Anastasia good]] ones).

** "Crystal Empire" takes this even further. [[note]][[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121120173918/mlp/images/9/99/Sombra's_Victory_S3E02.png One scene in particular]] makes it look like Sombra was victorious, but it turned out [[AllJustADream it was just an illusion created by the nightmare door.]] Eventually Twilight realizes that stopping Sombra required accepting help from others to an extent that might deprive her of the credit for saving the kingdom and might mean she fails her "test." In the end, [[SecretTestOfCharacter it also turned out that accepting this was part of the test.]][[/note]]

** "Crystal Empire" takes this even further. [[note]][[http://tinyurl.com/cgs23km One scene in particular]] makes it look like Sombra was victorious, but it turned out [[AllJustADream it was just an illusion created by the nightmare door.]] Eventually Twilight realizes that stopping Sombra required accepting help from others to an extent that might deprive her of the credit for saving the kingdom and might mean she fails her "test." In the end, [[SecretTestOfCharacter it also turned out that accepting this was part of the test.]][[/note]]

** "Twilight's Kingdom" takes it UpToEleven.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': [[EarthIsABattlefield Century-long war?]] Check. Implacable foe, impossible odds? Check. Last, best hope for [[strike: peace]] victory is ''[[ImprobableAge twelve]]''? Check. [[HeroicSacrifice Multiple]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath heroes]] [[DoomedHometown dead]] already? Check. Countdown to utter, utter defeat? ..oh, guess. Sounds like the sort of situation very few people walk away from alive, right? [[spoiler: Wrong. At the end of the Finale, ''all'' of the [[EverybodyLives good guys alive at the start of the finale are still here]], there are [[OfficialCouple three romantic pairs among them]], the war ended [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil without either side getting reduced to paste]], Zuko gets to be king, and [[RetiredBadass Iroh]] [[IJustWantToBeNormal gets his tea shop back]]. [[spoiler: Aang is able to make it all happen WITHOUT sacrificing his personal or ethical values.]] Which doesn't come easy either; his friends, his allies ''and'' [[spoiler:his prior incarnations - even the previous airbender incarnation that he expected to agree with him -]] were against him in that matter. Awesome, indeed.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' never fits this more than with its five-part "Super Ducktales" episode. Fenton Crackshell gets recruited as Scrooge's new accountant after the Beagle Boys pull a dirty trick that forces him to move his Money Bin, and Fenton welcomes the chance to prove himself as someone. Unfortunately, being something of a CloudCuckooLander, the poor guy keeps screwing up worse by the minute. Things seemingly get better when he gets a hold of the Gizmoduck suit and gets to turn his fortunes around as a celebrated hero, but then he gets taken over and gets turned into an unwilling criminal that becomes public enemy number one that steals Scrooge's fortune in events that leave ultimately him penniless, homeless, ''and'' in prison. Even after Gizmoduck is freed from control and breaks Scrooge out, some [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Space Robots From Nowhere]] steal the Money Bin. The two then head into space to finally recover it and Fenton manages to defeat the robots' leader ''without'' the use of the Gizmoduck suit, and by the time they return to Earth the Money Bin's not only placed back in its original location but Scrooge, having discovered the Fenton's SecretIdentity, gratefully rehires him under both guises. And then to top it all off, all this new confidence leads Fenton to finally ask his long-time crush out.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', each episode ends with the titular characters (Especially Cat) in an embarrassing and humiliating defeat with irony, but the Grand Finale concluded the series with a satisfying ending.

* After '''over ten years''' of various defeats, setbacks and humiliations, ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' ends with the eponymous characters being actually liked and respected by the neighborhood kids who previously detested them.

* WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy (Eddy in particular) are constantly humiliated from their attempts to earn respect from their peers. They finally get their wish in the Big Picture Show.

* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'''s ending for PJ, who was [[UndyingLoyalty a very loyal friend]] who selflessly went out of his way to help people out of their predicaments and helped with plans he had [[OnlySaneMan good reasons]] to be [[TheDragAlong dead-set against]] for no compensation many, ''many'' times. [[BeingGoodSucks He had also]] been completely [[ExtremeDoormat used]], [[NoRespectGuy disrespected]], and [[AbusiveParents poorly treated by his father]] since the beginning, as well as often suffering in other ways. In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', he was the only protagonist ''not'' to get a happy ending. In ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'', first he achieves his long-time goal of leaving home. Then he meets a girl who is not only exactly his type in a CallBack way (a poet), but likes him back, and chooses him ''over Bobby'', asking him out so that he doesn't have to ask her out. Not only does he get the LoveInterest, but he reveals HiddenDepths, which ''finally'' gets him some amount of respect, ''and'' goes through CharacterDevelopment, which has the notable effects of boosting his confidence and giving him a more positive attitude--and when they combine, we get "New PJ." [[spoiler: ''After'' all this, [[JerkJock Bradley]] puts him into a perilous situation, but he survives, and by the very end, he couldn't be happier.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', each episode ends with the titular characters (Especially Cat) in an embarrassing and humiliating defeat with irony, but the Grand Finale concluded with a satisfying ending (Few episodes took place afterwards though).

* In ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', each episode ends with the the titular characters (Especially Cat) in an embarrassing and humiliating defeat with irony, but the Grand Finale concluded with a satisfying ending (Few episodes took place afterwards though).

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': during the GrandFinale, after [[spoiler: the gang destroys the evil EldritchAbomination, they find that it was [[RetGone ERASED from]] [[DeaderThanDead history entirely]]! This creates a new timeline where pretty much everyone's lives are better: everyone consumed by the entity (or dies in some other manner) is alive and well, Sheriff Stone and Mayor Nettles are married with 4 children (3 boys and 1 girl), Danny Darrow had a better life and is now head of Darrow University, Shaggy is an award-winning chef respected by his parents, Ricky Owens is thin and married to Cassidy, and his company, Creationex, instead of being a polluting nightmare, is an environmentally friendly business, with a sane Pericles as a spokes-parrot, Fred grew up with his birth parents (who help deliver babies and have never touch a trap), Daphne's parents are OK with her and Fred's relationship, and Velma and Hot Dog Water have won many academic awards together. It initially seems subverted for the gang themselves, since without the entity's influence, the mysteries they solved during the series NEVER HAPPENED, and they're mystery solvers in a place without mysteries... until they receive a disc from the new "Mr. E", who also has RippleEffectProofMemory, and after his revelation that timeline switches have happened before, they realize that there's a whole WORLD of mysteries out there, and set out to solve them!]]

* ''OsmosisJones'' has Ozzie spending most of the movie struggling to stop a deadly virus named Thrax from killing Frank, the man in whose body Ozzie lives. It isn't until the very end, when Frank is half-dead, do things turn around.

* ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Ever since Angel's capture by Gantu, fans were not happy about this ending at all and have made fanfics about how Angel came back. Eventually, there was a canon way in the form of the series finale, "Snafu". The plot: Lilo was organizing her experiment log when she and Stitch suddenly remember Angel, who Lilo promised that they will get back, but she doesn't know where Angel is, so Nosey, who has escaped an episode earlier thanks to [[TheKlutz Woops]], tells them the location. While Lilo and Stitch were devising a plan, Lilo discovers an experiment pod labeled "120", which causes Jumba to explain that 120 shouldn't be hydrated, which Pleakley does accidentally. As the title suggests, Experiment 120 ruins anybody's plans, the protagonists', in particular. However, when Stitch and Angel meet again, ThePowerOfLove saves the day, as well as the several experiments Gantu captured over the course of the show's run.

* With so many {{downer ending}}s for the {{DCAU}} Franchise/{{Batman}}, the FullyAbsorbedFinale for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', "Epilogue", was about as happy an ending as Batman can ever expect but boy, did Bruce, Terry, and the audience have to go through a lot to get it. Terry finds out that Bruce is [[ItMakesSenseInContext his biological father]] and is ''pissed'' about it. For most of the episode he's angry and bitter about Bruce, Batman, and fate. But with the help of Amanda Waller (again ItMakesSenseInContext), he realizes that he has control over his own life and that he ''isn't'' Bruce even if he may be his son. So in the end, Terry is determined to live a happy life and be Batman at the same time while Bruce is left with a protégé he trusts to carry on the/his fight after he's gone and a family he's always been looking for.

* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop's'' ending for PJ, who was [[UndyingLoyalty a very loyal friend]] who selflessly went out of his way to help people out of their predicaments and helped with plans he had [[OnlySaneMan good reasons]] to be [[TheDragAlong dead-set against]] for no compensation many, ''many'' times. [[BeingGoodSucks He had also]] been completely [[ExtremeDoormat used]], [[NoRespectGuy disrespected]], and [[AbusiveParents poorly treated by his father]] since the beginning, as well as often suffering in other ways. In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', he was the only protagonist ''not'' to get a happy ending. In ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'', first he achieves his long-time goal of leaving home. Then he meets a girl who is not only exactly his type in a CallBack way (a poet), but likes him back, and chooses him ''over Bobby'', asking him out so that he doesn't have to ask her out. Not only does he get the LoveInterest, but he reveals HiddenDepths, which ''finally'' gets him some amount of respect, ''and'' goes through CharacterDevelopment, which has the notable effects of boosting his confidence and giving him a more positive attitude--and when they combine, we get "New PJ." [[spoiler: ''After'' all this, [[JerkJock Bradley]] puts him into a perilous situation, but he survives, and by the very end, he couldn't be happier.]]
* In ''CatDog'', each episode ends with the the titular characters (Especially Cat) in an embarrassing and humiliating defeat with irony, but the Grand Finale concluded with a satisfying ending (Few episodes took place afterwards though).

* After '''over ten years''' of various defeats, setbacks and humiliations, ''EdEddNEddy'' ends with the eponymous characters being actually liked and respected by the neighborhood kids who previously detested them.

** "Crystal Empire" takes this even further. [[note]] [[http://tinyurl.com/cgs23km One scene in particular]] makes it look like Sombra was victorious, but it turned out [[AllJustADream it was just an illusion created by the nightmare door.]] Eventually Twilight realizes that stopping Sombra required accepting help from others to an extent that might deprive her of the credit for saving the kingdom and might mean she fails her "test." In the end, [[SecretTestOfCharacter it also turned out that accepting this was part of the test.]] [[/note]]