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* ''Anime/{{Kite}}'' ends this way. Sawa waits for Oburi to comeback from the store with snacks for her and food for the cats, but he is shot and killed by a girl he pissed off earlier in the film. The door where Sawa is staying opens. She looks towards the door and the film ends without her fate being unknown. This was eventually answered in the follow-up film, ''Anime/KiteLiberator''. Sawa, now older and with dyed hair, is a waitress at a diner and is a single mother. She figures out that the young girl she works with is the assassin vigilante going around killing criminals.

* ''[[Manga/TransformersZone Transformers: Operation Combination]]'' ends with a battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, but ends in the middle with no end resolution.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando 2009'', Spencer falls from an unknown height after headbutting Super Joe's HumongousMecha cockpit, with no confirmation of his death. GRIN [[CreatorKiller went out of business]] following its poor sales, making a sequel (not counting the midquel ''Rearmed 2'') unlikely.

[[caption-width-right:299:'''[[{{Spoiler}} SPOILER ALERT]]:''' [[MemeticBadass He was fine]].]]

* The music video for Music/FallOutBoy's "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)" by Music/FallOutBoy ends with the band being tied up in the back of a van and about to be set on fire.

** In the finale of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', Starscream escapes from the PocketDimension and Wing Saber and several other Autobots rush to battle him, with the outcome undetermined.

'''Galvatron:''' DIE YOU WORTHLESS-! ''fires and lands at least one hit on Starscream''\\

* The [[NoEnding non-ending]] of Creator/DaphneDuMaurier's short story, "The Birds", from which Creator/AlfredHitchcock's [[Film/TheBirds similarly-titled film]] was loosely adapted, can be seen this way. After several days of reports of bird attacks of increasing severity around England, the BBC announces in the evening it is going off the air until morning to conserve resources, but when that morning comes it does not resume broadcasting, suggesting the situation has become dire, and the story ends that night with the protagonist still inside his house.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "[[Recap/AmericanDadS5E5EscapeFromPearlBailey Escape From Pearl Bayley]]," Steve and his friends are trapped in a bus with an angry mob that wants to beat them up. Steve, who had been having problems with his friends thoughout the episode, offers to make up with them. They accept, and they decide to go out in a blaze of glory, jumping out of the bus and trying to take a few of the mob with them. The image freeze-frames when they make the leap, but the trope is ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] because the sound continues and you can clearly hear Steve and his friends getting pounded and bemoaning that [[CurbStompBattle they are NOT taking anybody with them at all]].

* At the end of ''ComicBook/Red2003'', RetiredMonster VillainProtagonist Paul Moses kills the two CIA directors who sent a hit squad after him and leaves the office to find a legion of government hitmen waiting for him. The final panel shows Moses aiming his gun towards them and daring them to do their worst.

** The end of the Whole Cake Island arc ended with the Straw Hats allies, the Sun Pirates and the Germa 66, fighting about some of Big Mom's pirates to give the Straw Hats time to escape Big Mom's territory. After getting confirmation they're out of the area, the groups about to retreat themselves... only for Big Mom to show up and ready to do battle. While we're not shown immediately what happened after that, it's revealed later in the Wano arc that the Sun Pirates did survive Big Mom with Jinbe managing to reunite with the Straw Hats in Wano. And as revealed in the "Germa 66's Ahh... An Emotionless Excursion" Cover Story Germa 66 was not so lucky having to save Niji and Yonji from Big Mom's Crew. They even took Cesar Clown with them who's fate was also unknown

* ''Literature/DyingOfTheLight'', for Dirk at least.

Can be considered a variation of a DownerEnding, although it's ambiguous enough to give the viewer/reader some hope. When the camera cuts to a different scene unrelated to the battle right before the work ends, this overlaps with ChargeIntoCombatCut. Arguably scarier is an OffscreenInertia ending. If history or the work the story is adapted from tell us the heroes met an ugly fate, but the work itself purposefully ends on an earlier high or neutral note but ''not'' the last moment they’re still alive, see HappierEverBefore.

Can be considered a variation of a DownerEnding, although it's ambiguous enough to give the viewer/reader some hope. When the camera cuts to a different scene unrelated to the battle right before the work ends, this overlaps with ChargeIntoCombatCut. Arguably scarier is an OffscreenInertia ending.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
** The level "Of Their Own Accord" in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' ends with the player character, Private James Ramirez, trapped in the wreckage of a crashed Blackhawk (Ramirez's squad was protecting a civilian evacuation, and got hit by a SAM). As Russian troops approach the crashed Blackhawk, Ramirez's M4 runs out of ammo, Corporal Dunn gets shot, and an enemy helicopter hovers over, shining its searchlight straight at the player as the screen fades to white. The next level putting you in the shoes of a soldier half the world away. The level "Second Sun" returns to Ramirez, letting them replay everything mentioned above, but then revealing how the actions of Captain Price in the last level end up saving him and his squad.
** The end of "Down the Rabbit Hole" in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3''. Price, Yuri, and the Russian President get into a helicopter as Team Metal stays behind to hold off the Ultranationalist army. While you could argue Team Metal is enough of a BadassCrew to survive that, the entire mine they're fighting in collapses on them (after the helicopter escapes - and is in fact why it needed to leave), making the chances of their survival slim.
** A similar event in the ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' mission "Eviction". As Reznov is trying to force open a door in a subway, a torrent of water floods the entire tunnel. The game then cuts away to a mission in the American campaign. In the next Russian mission, "Heart of the Reich", the player character is shown to be just fine.

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'':
** The level "Of Their Own Accord" ends with the player character, Private James Ramirez trapped in the wreckage of a crashed Blackhawk (Ramirez's squad was protecting a civilian evacuation, and got hit by a SAM). As Russian troops approach the crashed Blackhawk, Ramirez's M4 runs out of ammo, Corporal Dunn gets shot, and an enemy helicopter hovers over, shining its searchlight straight at the player as the screen fades to white. The next level putting you in the shoes of a soldier half the world away. The level "Second Sun" returns to Ramirez, letting them replay everything mentioned above, but then revealing how the actions of Captain Price in the last level end up saving him and his squad.
** The end of "Down the Rabbit Hole". Price, Yuri, and the Russian President get into a helicopter as Team Metal stays behind to hold off the Ultranationalist army. While you could argue Team Metal is enough of a BadassCrew to survive that, the entire mine they're fighting in collapses on them (after the helicopter escapes- and is in fact why it needed to leave), making the chances of their survival slim.
** A similar event in the ''World At War'' mission "Eviction". As Reznov is trying to force open a door in a subway, a torrent of water floods the entire tunnel. The game then cuts away to a mission in the American campaign. In the next Russian mission, "Heart of the Reich", the player character is shown to be just fine.

* In ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore: Nexus'', the last mission ends with the player in his Armored Core fighting off suicidal machines that are crashing into the planet. Any good pilot probably won't blow up, but the screen fades to black as you're fighting the machines.