History Main / EndOfAnAge

** [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age Batman's]] story ends with "Only Legends Live Forever", where an older, widowed Bruce Wayne dons the cape and cowl one last time to help the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica stop Bill Jenson, a thief given magic powers. He defeats him, but dies doing so, and the story ends with his funeral. What makes it the end of an age, specifically for this version of Batman, is that unlike most continuities, the LegacyCharacter trope is [[DefiedTrope defied]]; when Dick Grayson decides he'll take over as Batman, Helena Wayne (Bruce's daughter and the Huntress in this continuity) tells him not to, instead suggesting that he continue fighting crime but as his own man, since [[TitleDrop "only legends live forever]] - not the men who make them".

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' is about the end of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} Superman legend and all the myths surrounding him.

** In the late 20th century the {{UsefulNotes/Compact Disc}} (CD) was an on-demand alternative to the radio. The success led to the {{UsefulNotes/DVD}}'s creation. The CD became obsolete with the rise of [[IProduct iPods]] and social media.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' was the final cartoon left airing out of the lot that Tom Ruegger created for Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation during UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation,[[note]]''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'' premiered five days later, but ended almost a year earlier than ''Histeria!'' did[[/note]]ending a partnership that lasted a decade.

** ''Purr-Chance to Dream'' (1967), the final cartoon produced by Creator/ChuckJones and the final ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon to be released during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation.

* In July 2022, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, the man who had dominated professional wrestling in North America since UsefulNotes/TheEighties, resigned as the CEO of Wrestling/{{WWE}}.
** This proved to be only temporary, as Vince was able to muscle his way back in a few months later to facilitate the sale of WWE to UsefulNotes/{{UFC}}'s parent company in April 2023.

* The Disco Demolition Night of 1979 ended {{disco}}'s brief dominance in music that had been popularized with Film/SaturdayNightFever, and the genre was soon CondemnedByHistory.

* "That's What Friends Are For", originally written for the 1982 film ''Film/NightShift'' and performed by Music/RodStewart, provided an example of this when it was {{covered|Up}} in 1985 by Dionne and Friends, a one-off collaboration between Music/DionneWarwick, Music/EltonJohn, Music/GladysKnight, and Music/StevieWonder as a charity single for AIDS research. The Warwick version spent four weeks atop the Hot 100 and was ''Billboard''[='=]s year-end #1 for 1986. Because of Wonder's involvement, it was the last US #1 for any artist who had topped the Hot 100 before the British Invasion (he had taken "Fingertips" to #1 as a 13-year-old in 1963).

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' centers around an energy crisis, with the source of energy being the scaring of children. [[spoiler:Henry J Waternoose initially attributes it to newer generations of scarers not being good enough, he finally accepts to Sullivan that times have changed and that means scaring isn't a good enough resource of energy anymore. This fuels his villainy through kidnapping children to extract screams from them for energy. By the end of the film, scream-based energy is rendered obsolete with the discovery of laughter as a higher-yield source of energy.]]

* The pilot for ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', "Meet the Reaper", was the final production to bear the Creator/HannaBarbera name. By the time the series proper aired, Hanna-Barbera had already folded into Cartoon Network Studios following William Hanna's death.