History Main / FakeOutFadeOut

* Music/BillyOcean's "I Can Help"

* "Free To Be...You And Me" by The New Seekers, from the album of the same name, has a fade-out near the end of the song, and then the music picks up again for the next half minute before it fades out again.

** "Optimistic" from ''Music/KidA'' goes into what seems like the last chord, then there's a brief coda where they play a subdued, jazzy variation on the chorus section, which [[FadingIntoTheNextSong segues into "In Limbo".

* Buckner & Garcia's "Do The Donkey Kong" from their ''Music/PacManFever'' album where it fades out before jumping right back into the chorus.

* Music/{{Madness}}'s 'Disappear' closes with a ''string'' of successive fade-outs before finally ending for real.

* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'', [[spoiler:the reveal of The Company Man Aveline was after was her own step-mother and the ending of the game seems to be of Aveline agreeing to join the Templars with her step-mother, but the credits was cut short with a Citizen E where when killed reveals that there's actually more to the ending that Abstergo left out.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'', [[spoiler:the reveal of The Company Man Aveline was after was her own step-mother and the ending of the game seems to be of Aveline agreeing to join the Templars with her step-mother, but the credits cut short with a sequence with a Citizen E where when killed reveals that there's actually more to the ending that Abstergo left out.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'', [[spoiler:the reveal of The Company Man Aveline was after was her own step-mother and right at the end seems to be of Aveline agreeing to join the Templars with her step-mother, but the credits cut short with a sequence with a Citizen E where when killed reveals that there's actually more to the ending that Abstergo left out.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'', [[spoiler:the reveal of The Company Man Aveline was after was her own step-mother and right at the end seems to be of Aveline agreeing to join the Templars with her step-mother, but the credits cut short with a sequence with a Citizen E where when killed reveals that there's actually more to the ending.]]

* In "VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation", [[spoiler:the reveal of The Company Man Aveline was after was her own step-mother and right at the end seems to be of Aveline agreeing to join the Templars with her step-mother, but the credits cut short with a sequence with a Citizen E where when killed reveals that there's actually more to the ending.]]

* A ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' operetta shows Mighty Mouse in flight to rescue Pearl Pureheart who is in a dire strait. The picture starts to iris out as the narrator tells us to see what happens next week when suddenly he yells "STOP!" and the iris out starts.

* The original recording of Music/TheBeachBoys' "Help Me, Ronda" (from ''Music/TheBeachBoysToday'' album) features this, although the actual hit version recorded months later does not. The 2012 remix of the ''Today!'' version removed of the fade-outs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'' seems to [[spoiler: end in tragedy, while everyone starts singing a depressing song of giving up.]] We even get a "The End" title card, [[spoiler: so all is lost--''but'' Lucy still manages to find a way to inspire everyone,]] and the movie continues from there. Some theaters aided in this fake out by turning on the lights while it happens, usually the signal that the movie is over. When it's revealed to be a fake-out, though, the lights go back down as the movie continues to play.

* ''WesternAnimation/Underfist'': Roughly five minutes into the special, Irwin gives up on his Halloween night and heads home. Cue the camera zooming out past Endsville and the Earth, while a song about giving up plays and fake credits roll. The credits are then interrupted by Mindy asking Irwin for help, [[RewindGag at which point the scene rewinds back to Irwin]].

* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' does this 90 minutes in, seemingly ending in tragedy and playing credits... [[spoiler: but these credits turn out to be those of a movie that one of the alternate Evelyns was in, and is watching the premiere of in a theater.]]

See also KaizoTrap and FissionMailed, the gameplay equivalents.

* ''Manga/BocchiTheRock'' seemingly ends on the first episode with Hitori bombing her first band rehearsal, causing her to faint from anxiety and never pick up guitar again. The credits roll... until Nijika reminds her they still have a show to perform.

* Occurs at the end of Cam Steady's "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Villain Rap Cypher]]". After all the villains have had their verses, the video reaches the end card. But then, the end card starts glitching, which is followed by Fanfic/SonicExe popping in [[UnexpectedCharacter unannounced]] to start up one last verse before the real ending.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'' was [[EndingFatigue quite guilty of this]].
** Probably the best known example of this comes right after the Ring is destroyed. Sam and Frodo are stranded on an erupting Mount Doom, the screen fades out... [[spoiler: and then it fades back in to show the Eagles coming to pick them right off the cliff-face.]]
* ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'' starts to fade to credits as Marty finishes his screen play and happy music plays, only for the film to continue in a matter of seconds with Zachariah reminding Marty that he forgot his message to Maggie in the credits and he was going to kill him.
* The scene in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' when the car is plummeting from the air and stops abruptly because it ran out of gas. After the screen fades out, Kate protests "That's not how it works!" The scene cuts back in and [[GravityIsAHarshMistress the car hits the ground]]. Then it fades out again.

* ''Film/SinCity'' does a fake-out fade out before a HeroicSecondWind, to mirror a similar fake-out in the original graphic novel.
* ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': The movie ends with Bond and Madeleine walking away from the chaos. . .no, there's still one last scene of Bond visiting Q to retrieve his car, and ''then'' he and Madeleine depart.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'', Burger Beard reads a story about the Krusty Krab to the seagulls after obtaining the RealityWritingBook. Fake credits start rolling after he concludes the story with a premature DownerEnding, until a seagull interrupts and complains that it can't end like that.

* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' does this 90 minutes in, seemingly ending in tragedy and playing credits... [[spoiler: but these credits turn out to be those of a movie that one of the alternate Evelyns was in, and is watching the premiere of in a theater.]]
* ''Film/{{Vice|2018}}'' also has a fakeout ending involving UsefulNotes/DickCheney not putting his political career instead of his family, but then the movie resumes and he does exactly that.

* Series/CornerGas has an episode where at five minutes in a simple solution is put forward, "Why don't you carry a wallet like everyone else?" It cuts to Hank holding a wallet and saying "You're right this solves all my problems." The image freezes and the closing theme is cued up signaling the end of the episode. The show cuts back to the previous scene and Hank waves off the idea saying "I'm not really a wallet guy." The actual conclusion to this subplot is exactly the same, Hank is holding a wallet, says "You're right this solves all my problems.", the image freezes and the closing theme is played.

* The ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' episode, "Michael Ellis", ends with Creator/EricIdle trying to decide what ending to use for the show. When offered a typical slow fade, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iDiMXTx5wUthe screen slowly fades to black as Eric mulls it over, saying "Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno."]] -- and springs back.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. At the end of "Faith, Hope and Trick" Buffy decides to get on with her life, placing the ring Angel gave her [[GraveMarkingScene at the spot where she was forced to kill him]] and saying goodbye to her TheLostLenore. FadeToBlack. Suddenly the ring is lit up, and a BackFromTheDead Angel falls through a blinding white hole in the blackness.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' "Kill the Boy" has Tyrion falling overboard and dragged underwater by a Stone Man, fading to black as he loses consciousness, which mirrors a chapter cliffhanger ending from the book. Then it cuts back in to show he was rescued by Jorah; the actual ending of the episode is Jorah inspecting a wound and learning he's infected with greyscale.

* Music/{{James}}' "Vervaceous".
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine's Dog Days Are Over fakes you out about a minute before it's ending.
* Music/TheCorrs' cover of "Old Town".

* The song "Static" from ''Music/{{Mutations}}'' by Music/{{Beck|Musician}}.
* Music/BrooksAndDunn's song "Indian Summer" provides a jarring example. It's a slow, wistful song about a schoolgirl who was impressed by a football player's skillful performance at a hometown game, and ended up sleeping with him, only to have her life ruined when he bragged about it to his friends afterwards. This is, of course, fatal to one's reputation in a small town, and she ended up having to drop out and move across the country to start over. At the end, the singer regretfully admits that he was the JerkJock and now, looking back on it, he wonders if things might have been different had he acted differently. Fade out... a perfect place to end. And then it jumps back in with a strong guitar slide and one last exultant rehash of the chorus, about how cool the whole experience was.
* The ''[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Taranchula]]'' song "Moving Very Slowly", from ''Music/StrongBadSingsAndOtherTypeHits''.
* Music/BradPaisley's "Me Neither": A guy at a bar keeps trying to pick up this girl, and she keeps turning him down, so he [[OpinionFlipflop pretends that he didn't really want to either and he was just testing her]]. In the end, he's finally ready to give up.
-->"Do you think it's time for me to end this song?"\\
* dead stop* \\
* a couple moments of silence* \\
"Me neither!"\\
* big long instrumental to finish up*
* Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge loves this, as well as "false endings" in general.
** "God Is in the Radio" fades out to a nearly inaudible volume after two choruses and a bridge, but fades back in for the big ending.
** "Someone's in the Wolf" does basically the same thing, to a lesser extent.
* Music/TheStoneRoses song "I Am The Resurrection" comes to an end and then keeps going. That's probably more StopAndGo, but it still counts.
* "Are Everything" by Music/{{Buzzcocks}} starts to fade out and then abruptly leaps up in volume and fades out from there instead.
* Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'s cover of [[Music/JimiHendrix "Purple Haze"]] on the ''Join The Dots'' boxset begins to fade out, then quickly back in, then out again.
* DJ Jimi's "Where They At". The beat comes to a halt, there's a second of silence and then... "Sliiide and do the Pussy Pop!"

* The Music/BloodhoundGang's cover of "Kids in America" (off of their first album) fades almost completely to silence, only to come back in for 8 or so seconds and then fade out for real.
* "White Punks on Dope" by The Tubes.
* Creator/TerryJones's Creator/MontyPython song "I'm So Worried" from ''AudioPlay/MontyPythonsContractualObligationAlbum'' does this twice.
* Music/MichaelJackson notoriously abused this trope on ''Music/{{Invincible}}'', which, combined with the EpicRocking nature of most of the album's tracks, left listeners feeling somewhat worn out near the end of each song.
* Music/GreenDay's music video for "21 Guns" does this.
* Music/DreamTheater has "Misunderstood", which fades out...and then fades back in.
** More recently, they also have "At Wit's End", which fades out, but it fades back into the instruments playing in what sounds like an echo chamber, rather than capping off the song.
* Ditto "We Know Who Our Enemies Are" by mewithoutYou.
* "I Never" by Music/RiloKiley seems to end at an appropriate spot...but then just dives right back in.
* The Music/FlamingLips' "Scratching The Door" turns this into an OverlyLongGag, fading out then fading back in about 4 times over the course of it's final two minutes, before finally settling on sort of a LastNoteNightmare instead (Mark Coyne shrieking "LET ME IN!")
** "Chrome Plated Suicide" is a more conventional example, fading out once and abruptly fading back in at the end of the song.
* "Thank You" by Music/LedZeppelin.
* "Do You Love Me" by The Contours fades way down at about the point where it sounds like it ''should'' be fading out, but then suddenly crashes back to full volume and goes on for a little more. The trick was reused in the soundalike sequel "Shake Sherrie".
** The version on ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' plays with this by ''adding a second one'', followed by an abrupt end as Babs (who was plucking her eyelashes) yells, "Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!!"
* Music/GunsNRoses is known for this at times; "November Rain" has a fake-out ending at about six minutes, and "Street of Dreams" has one with about a minute to go into the song.
* Lisa Ono's version of Saliane had this at the near-end. The song ends abruptly (not fading, though) and then continued again.
* Freaky Chakra's "Blacklight Fantasy", the final track on the titular album.
* "Heart" by the Music/PetShopBoys, to represent one's heart skipping a beat.
** The single version of "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" also has one, in homage to the Beatles examples above.
* The original single mix of Music/ElvisPresley's "Suspicious Minds" (some album versions don't have it, though).
* "Listen to the Band" by Music/TheMonkees has what sounds like a cold ending, leaving just a soaring steel guitar line that fades out, but then an organ fades in and starts playing a bridge, leading up to a reprise of the chorus.
* Music/WalkTheMoon's song "Work this Body" has a rather abrupt one.
* Music/JoshGroban's You Raise Me Up does this.
* On BT's ''Ima'' album, at the end of "Blue Skies (The Delphinium Days Mix)", the song starts to mix into "Embracing The Future", but fades out, then the "Sasha's Voyage of ''Ima'' " megamix starts with that same song. On ''ESCM'', the closing track "Content" has a fake-out ending at around its halfway mark.

* "My Stupid Mouth" by John Mayer has the lyrics go: "I'm never speaking up again...starting now." <fade out> "One more thing!" Quite apt.
* The full version of SigSig by Kors K.
** Keeping on the Bemani note, the full version of Kachoufuusetsu.
* Matti Laamanen - Flakes (Ferry Corsten Remix). In the middle of the song, to boot.
* Croove's ''OUTLAW'' from the DJMAX series has a complete stop in the middle that will ALWAYS throw off those new to the song, unless they're familiar with general rhythm game song lengths or have already heard and memorized the song's patterns.
* Music/LacunaCoil's "Our Truth" does this at the end. The song fades out over a repeating riff, only to fade back in and immediately end.
* Music/TheClash's song "Safe European Home" does this, it fades out until you can only hear the drums, then rushes back in to end very abruptly.
* "Vertigo" by Music/MonsterMagnet, the final track of ''Dopes to Infinity''. Think the record's over? Wait two more minutes.
* The original recording of Music/TheBeachBoys' "Help Me, Ronda" (from ''Music/TheBeachBoysToday'' album) features this, although the actual hit version recorded months later does not. The 2012 remix of the ''Today!'' version removed of the fade-outs.
** "Heroes and Villains" had ''so many'' false endings that one radio DJ at the time nicknamed it "the disc-jockeys' nightmare".
* Music/{{Cream}} have an arguable example from the live version of "Spoonful". The song kind of dies out at the end, short pause. Then out of the blue, Jack Bruce wails one last, extended "EVERYBOOODY'S CRYIN' ABOOOOOOOUT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT" and the band launches into the patented chaotic ending.
* Music/TheSmiths' "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" fades out, then back in before carrying on for another minute and fading out again. Inverted, however, with "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" where the song fades out rapidly and then fades slowly back in at the ''start'' of the song.
* "Smooth" by Music/TheKentuckyHeadhunters does this. It starts to fade out during a solo but then fades back in.
* Music/NickelCreek's "Can't Complain" appears to be fading out with the same peaceful string dirge it faded in with, until Chris Thile startles the listener with a sudden, raspy shout of "NO, SHE CAN'T COMPLAIN!"
* Music/{{U2}} did this on their very first album ''Boy'', fading out near the end of "The Electric Co.", only for it to fade back in and then run seamlessly into the final track, "Shadows and Tall Trees".
* Music/{{Can}}'s "Bel Air" fades out, fades back in and continues for two more minutes before finally fading for good.
* Music/{{Supertramp}}’s “Lover Boy” fades out before coming in, at [[ScareChord full volume]], with one final verse.
* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s "I Might Be Wrong" from ''Music/{{Amnesiac}}'' fades out near the end before returning with a subdued instrumental section.
* "She Said" by Barclay James Harvest.
* "Sandblasted Skin" by Music/{{Pantera}} fades out completely at 3:25, playing nothing for a minute and a half before starting again with the same riff it ended on.
* "Animal" by Music/DefLeppard. Nice power-chord-laden chorus and then a sudden stop, right where you think it should end. There's a pause just ''barely'' long enough for the reverb to dissipate, and then...FULL-FLEDGED CHORUS REPRISE. Joe Elliot, the lead singer, chuckles slightly at the end, possibly [[LampshadedTrope lampshading]] this.
* "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry seems to end when the car noises come...and then the song starts up again, repeating the first three verses.
** "Baby Jump" does almost exactly the same thing, with the song winding down, with the singer shouting "ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT-UH!" ...and then they all take it from the top and sing the first two verses and chorus again.
* Music/TheBangles' "Waiting for You" fades out, fades in for a 30 second instrumental, then fades out again.
* Music/LadyGaga's "Speechless".
** Her song "Again Again" inverts this; it ends extremely abruptly, leaving you asking, "That's it?"
* Music/MyChemicalRomance's "Kids From Yesterday" fades out completely, and then two secs later, it comes again with a similar, if not exactly, sound like on the beginning.
* Music/AliceInChains' "Rain When I Die."

* Music/FooFighters, "Next Year".
** "Rope" does it twice, one at 2:45, and the other at 4:00.
** "Come Back" is arguably the most notable instance in the Foo Fighters catalog. A seeming fade out that doesn't quite fade completely, followed by a long instrumental which THEN fades out... and kicks right back up.
** "In Your Honor" and "White Limo" each return with [[CarefulWithThatAxe a bloodcurling scream]].

* Buckner & Garcia's "Do The Donkey Kong" from their ''Music/PacManFever'' album where it fades out before jumping right back into the chorus.
* Music/{{MGMT}}'s "Kids" from ''Music/OracularSpectacular'' fades out almost completely before a sudden reprise of the chorus. Amusing when it fakes out people dancing in clubs.
* Music/BlindGuardian pulls one of these on "The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight."

* Music/ArcticMonkeys' "Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But..."
* Les Baxter's hit '50s instrumental "The Poor People of Paris" has one of these.
* Music/{{Alabama}}:
** "She and I" -- the album version has one during the extended coda, then returning to full volume and then finally fading out for good. The single mix omits this (as well as heavily edits the coda).
** "Jukebox in My Mind" comes to its natural conclusion...then a second later, we hear the sound of a coin inserted in a jukebox, then a needle on an LP, and then the song starts up again.
* Music/DragonForce ends many of their songs in this fashion- just when you think they're going to ring out on a big, final chord, oh no! Here comes another thirty seconds of sweep arpeggios, scales and kick rolls!
** Former lead singer ZP Theart used to do this live, holding the last note of "Heroes of Our Time" for absurd lengths of time.
* Most of Music/DeepPurple's songs have more or less a full repeat, not counting the coda but often including the intro.
* Brazilian band Skank had one in their SignatureSong, "É Uma Partida de Futebol". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVoTWgSaQk The music video]] tries disguising it as the supposed fade out (at about 4:04) occurs while an announcer is talking.
* The Music/ModestMouse song "Ocean Breathes Salty" stops for a second after a climactic noise at 2:40, and then restarts to finish about a minute later.
* Italian band I Nomadi (literally "The Nomads") did this with their song, ''"Là dove stanno gli dei"'' (literally, again, "There, where the gods are"): at a certain point (around the 4:00 mark) the music stops abruptly... only to start again with a quick fade-in. Not As Annoying As It Sounds.
* Music/{{Pavement}}'s "Elevate Me Later" goes into what sounds like a BigRockEnding, then jumps right back into the main riff again for another 30 seconds. "Trigger Cut / Wounded At :17" and "Shady Lane / J Vs. S" might count, although the titles suggest the instrumentals that FadeIn after their endings are separate interludes that just aren't on their own tracks. In fact "Wounded at :17" originally was the main riff of a full song called "Nothing Ever Happens".
* Music/{{Ramones}}' "53rd & 3rd" from ''Music/{{Ramones|Album}}'' does this, though without a literal fade-out.
* Music/{{Soundgarden}}'s "Somewhere", with a slow, non-complete fade-out, followed by a slow fade-in, still with the same BigRockEnding until the proper ending moments later.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHIyqgAteI "Rock is Sponge"]] by Joujouka, famously featured in the fourth stage of ''VideoGame/{{Rez}}'', does this during the mid-track breakbeat. The version heard in-game omits this section.
* Spacecorn's version of "Popcorn" combines this with LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand.
* The original extended mix of Binary Finary's "1998" does this at the point where the radio edit ends.
* "Pasadena" by The New Temperance Seven seems to end after a long instrumental break, then comes in again with a slightly shorter instrumental break, stops again and finally ends with a short riff.

* "Summergirl" by The Mayfield Four stops quite abruptly, then just as you're about to turn off the stereo it comes back in again, and after a brief instrumental interlude treats you to a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome from singer Myles Kennedy (later of Music/AlterBridge): a soaring wail so high and held so long (F#5 and 22 seconds, to be precise) it sounds positively superhuman.

* Textbook example by Electric Six in "Waste of Time and Money", where it fades out at the end...only for another blast of music to come in afterwards, then it ends for real.
* Music/JoeWalsh, "Second Hand Store" from ''But Seriously, Folks''.
* "Anywhere Is" by Music/{{Enya}}.
* The title track to the Music/{{Rush|Band}} album ''Music/ClockworkAngels''.
* "Keep On Dancing" by The Gentrys is an interesting version, as the "false" fade-out in the middle of the song actually ''was'' intended to be the end. The original recording, at 1:30, was deemed too short to be released as a single, so the song was artificially extended by repeating the first half. Thus, the "real" fade out is technically the same as the "fake" one.
* "Counting Backwards" by Throwing Muses gets to what sounds like a final chord about two and a half minutes into the song, and they let said chord ring out just long enough to make you think it's the ending - then a drum fill comes in and the song goes on for another 45 seconds or so. Because said drum fill is nearly identical to the one that started the song, the listener might be confused into thinking they've got the song on repeat.
* Music/ElectricLightOrchestra's "Mr. Blue Sky", from their ''Music/OutOfTheBlue'' album, fades out and stops partway through the song, only to start back up with a guitar-heavy section with a choir, with the song's actual end being a vocoded voice saying "Please turn me over" (referencing the song's status as the last song on that side of the record).
** Before that, was Shangri-La - the final track on A New World Record, a dramatic and heartbreaking reprise of the album, featuring melodies and themes from previous songs blending into one.
** And before 'that' was Boy Blue from Eldorado - where they did it at least twice.
* Music/LivingColour's "Funny Vibe".
* Music/TalkingHeads' "No Compassion" from ''Music/TalkingHeads77''.
* In classical music, [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] does a variant of this - not so much a fade-out as what sounds like a plausible ending cadence, only for the work to keep going. This is particularly egregious in the first movement of the Fifth Symphony. Music/IgorStravinsky does a similar trick in the Sacrificial Dance from ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring''.
** The "Fifth" example is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] in "The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942" by SF writer Kim Stanley Robinson.
** Dudley Moore's "And The Same To You" from ''Theatre/BeyondTheFringe'' does the same thing; it's a Beethoven parody.
* The Art of Noise's "E.F.L." does this twice in its full length version, though on some appearances the second fake ending is treated as the real end.

* Music/{{Psychostick}}'s "#1 Radio $ingle", a DeconstructiveParody of [[StylisticSuck formulaic]] Corporate Rock music, ends with a chorus that is [[SelfDemonstratingSong "so freaking catchy it's stuck in your head for the rest of your life"]]. And then, after a brief silence, "once again repeat[s] the chorus for dramatic effect, to remind you that it will be stuck in your head. For the rest of your life."
* This happens several times throughout Music/TheMarsVolta's "The Bedlam in Goliath" album. Certain songs sound like they've totally used up their energy and gone silent, but no, there's even more more expression and riffing. It's convincing when you can't remember which tracks are 6 minutes and which are 10 minutes.
* Music/{{Nena}} "99 Luftballons".
* Turned into an OverlyLongGag in Status Quid's "Boring Song". Another end, another end...
* Music/BillyOcean's "I Can Help"

* "Anne's Song" by Music/FaithNoMore fades out completely, then fades back in after a few seconds of silence, [[NoEnding just abruptly cutting off]] once it's come back to full volume. To add to the abruptness, the very next song on ''Introduce Yourself'', the title track, has a LyricalColdOpen.
* Music/{{Motorhead}} did this with their song 'Overkill' by playing a BigRockEnding, only for the drums and bass to do the intro again and launch into the main riff. Twice.
* "Witch Hunt" by Music/{{Petra}} fades back in after it's nearly faded out, only to have the audio deliberately start to glitch, bending upward in pitch and then back down before ending on what's basically the digital equivalent of a RecordNeedleScratch.
* Music/{{The 1975}}'s "Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?".
* At what sounds like the end of "Bold As Love" from ''Music/AxisBoldAsLove'' by the Music/JimiHendrix Experience, Hendrix plays the same phrase three times, with the third time slightly longer and more percussive than the other two and flowing into drumming that one would expect to end in a final crash of cymbals. However, the cymbal crash to end the song never comes, and instead the drums rev up again, followed by another minute or so of Hendrix on the guitar.
* When "This is How We Do" rather abruptly ends, Music/KatyPerry complains and says "Bring the beat back!", and the song does exactly that.
* Sophie B. Hawkins' "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" builds to a huge instrumental climax with an IncrediblyLongNote on top courtesy of Sophie, then begins to gradually fade out ... just kidding, there's a whole verse, chorus and coda left.
* Chromeo's "Sexy Socialite".
* "Left and Right in the Dark" by Julian Casablancas fades out properly before slamming the volume right back up for one second, ending the song.
* Music/{{KMFDM}}'s "Bargeld" begins to fade out on the final chorus, but before it fades out completely, the music comes back at full volume for a final guitar solo.
* Music/MatthewSweet's "Divine Intervention" pulls a "Helter Skelter" (fades out, beat, then fades back in).
* Flemish singer Louis Neefs’ “Ik heb zorgen” has a false ending that managed to fool both the audience at the 1967 Series/EurovisionSongContest (who began to applaud prematurely) ''and'' the Austrian commentator!
* "The Cat Crept in" by Music/{{Mud}}. End. [[{{Pun}} And then the cat came back.]]
* "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" by Music/RoxyMusic fades out around four and half minutes into the song, then fades back in for another minute before ending for real. Amusingly, some early pressings of the song had the running time of the song being a minute shorter than it really is because of this.
* "The Sailor" by Bright Moments has an odd variant of this with no dead air, instead after the chorus the song slows and a chord plays which usually signals the end of a song, but while this is playing the vocalist starts singing another verse.
* Also pulling a "Helter Skelter": Music/{{Sebadoh}}'s "Flame."
* "Satisfy My Soul" from Music/BobMarley's ''[[Music/KayaBobMarleyAlbum Kaya]]'' fades out, then a LastNoteNightmare sound comes back in, before it is finally over.
* The third movement of Paul Hindemith's "Symphonia Serena" has a coda which returns to the bracing original tempo to give the contrapuntal theme one last go around, but the strings don't take their mutes off and there isn't much of a crescendo before the volume starts falling off again, with eventually the only instruments still playing even very faintly being the violas and occasionally the piccolo. Suddenly the loud brass fanfare that began the movement returns to end it.

* Music/MrBungle's "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" ends in combination of electric organ and drums fading in silence. After a couple of seconds, the song [[LastNoteNightmare suddenly jumps back]] with vocalist's series of brisk shouts and finally ends in atonal clusters.
* [[Music/GlennMiller Glenn Miller and his Orchestra's]] "In the Mood" gets quieter and quieter towards the end, then jumps back to full volume for the finale. Recorded 1939, it might be the earliest example in popular music and possibly even predates fadeouts in general; what is believed to be the earliest example of a fadeout in a commercial recording, "Catfish Blues" by Robert Petway, was recorded in 1941.
* The Music/CountBasie arrangement of the standard "April in Paris" uses it twice: after what seems to be the big ending, Basie instructs the band to play the last few bars "one more time". After the "ending" is played again, he asks for it "one more once". [[RuleOfThree The third time]], the song ends for real. Future performances of the song by other artists used that ending as well.
* "Chou Wasabi" by Julien Doré does this close to the end.
* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's rondo finales often have codas that get quieter and quieter as the tempo slackens, only to come back in full ''fortissimo'' vigor in the last few bars. Examples of this include the Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3; the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15; the Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19; the Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60; the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73; and the Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101.
* "Zodiac Shit", "Satelllliiiiiiiteee", and "Mmmhmm" (all on the same album) by Flying Lotus both have natural endings and then outros that follow that sound like different songs entirely. "Mmmhmm" is a unique example since its outro is used to [[FadingIntoTheNextSong transition into]] the next song, "Do the Astral Plane".
* Music/TwentyOnePilots' "Lane Boy" does this by having the song seemingly end only to transition into a 30-second drum solo. Many fans believe that [[EndingFatigue the outro was unnecessary]], and likely confused listeners since the drum solo was not included in the song's music video.

* "Free To Be...You And Me" by The New Seekers, from the album of the same name, has a fade-out near the end of the song, and then the music picks up again for the next half minute before it fades out again.
* "Centerfold" by ''Music/TheJGeilsBand'' appears to end with the group singing the song's main melody, but it then continues for an additional 45 seconds with instruments playing the melody before ending for real with the song being whistled.
* "Murder Mitten" by I See Stars.
* "The Way" by Fastball.

* "Dirty World" by the Traveling Wilburys seems to end when the lyrics stop, then it picks up again for the last minute to close it out with the actual song ending.
* ''J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565''. Apporaching the end of the Toccata section, the music enters a state where it seems that it will end entirely (complete with a long chord). Instead, it starts with the Fugue, and the music continues for at least 6 more minutes.
* Music/{{Caravan}}'s "Jack and Jill" does a repeat and fade, but then launches back into a segment based on a Creator/NoelCoward quote.
* Music/BrettEldredge's "Somethin' I'm Good At". The song seems to end and the instruments cut out... just as Brett says "You thought it was over" and another verse kicks in.
* "Beg" by Music/EvansBlue has a fake fade out near the end. It then picks up again for several seconds, before the song ends for real.
* Music/OfMonstersAndMen has a fairly subdued one in "Love, Love, Love".
* The last verse of "Homeboy" by Music/EricChurch is just acoustic guitar and Church's voice, with even the guitar picking slowing down towards the end, as the narrator pleads with his brother to come home and make peace with their aging parents before they die. He holds the last note for a second or two-- and then the other instruments crash back in for a long, energetic musical conclusion.
* "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals seems to end with a short, string-based reprise of the chorus, until the drum beat kicks in a few seconds later, and the chorus repeats itself one more time before the song fades out.
* "The Air That I Breathe" by Albert Hammond seems to end a few seconds before the rest of the band joins the singer and guitarist.
* "Keep Your Distance" by Music/PattyLoveless comes to a dead stop and then picks up for one more repeat of the chorus.
* Music/{{Yellow Magic Orchestra}}'s cover of "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & The Drells contains a false fadeout. It resumes with the spoken line, "Here we go again".
* "Stars" by Hum seems to end only a few seconds in.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic lampshades this twice in the song "Now You Know". "Double Fake-Out!"
* Music/MichaelBuble's version of "[[Music/DeanMartin Sway]]" stops near where the song originally ended, only to resume with a TruckDriversGearChange.
* "Cold Desert" by Music/KingsOfLeon.

* Art of Trance's "[[https://youtu.be/_nkUfoWq0wg Golden Rain]]" fades down to the sweeping acid synth pad at around 8 minutes, then brings back the "sparkle" synth sequence and chords for two more minutes before ending for real.
* Music/MiSaMo's "Bouquet" appears to end on an orchestral section, only to return with a TruckDriversGearChange.

* ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT TakeOver: Chicago]]'' had as its main event a Tag Team Championship ladder match between #DIY and the Authors of Pain. Despite losing the match, #DIY members Wrestling/TommasoCiampa and Wrestling/JohnnyGargano play to the crowd who give a standing ovation to them. Cue WWE's typical closing copyright notice to end the show ... only then does Ciampa pull a FaceHeelTurn on Gargano by throwing him onto the set and putting him through a table.
** It also happened again at ''NXT [=TakeOver=]: Philadelphia'' when the show's closing copyright notice appears alongside a disappointed Gargano and his wife following his NXT Title match loss ... only for Ciampa to return from injury since Chicago and attack Gargano with a crutch right afterwards.
** ''NXT Deadline'' has Bron Breakker successfully retain the NXT Championship against Apollo Crews. The closing copyright notice appears, only for Grayson Waller, who just won the men's Iron Survivor Challenge, to appear with a stunner.

* "Bon Vivant" from the operetta ''Song of Norway'' has the chorus starting to exit during the fade, only to jump back in.
* "Those Magic Changes" from the 1994 Broadway revival of ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' has a fake ending, followed by what would be considered a "reprise" in the mind of the character singing it.

* In ''VideoGame/RayCrisis'', "Son Dessein" starts to fade out at one point, then [[LastNoteNightmare cuts to the next section]] with a ScareChord, at least on the OST.
* The credits start rolling in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' shortly before the TrueFinalBoss fight.
* During the ending of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', Isaac calmly sits down with a tired look on his face as [[spoiler:the Marker]] is about to explode with him in it. Emotional music starts playing and the credits start to roll as a computerized voice urges all personnel to evacuate. The credits are abruptly interrupted with [[spoiler:a message from Ellie, who calls Isaac a bastard for trying to get himself killed and declares that she's punching a hole through the roof with a gunship in order to save him.]]

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 3'', at the end of the first level, the battle seems to come to an end, the squad is in a house having a break, the screen starts fading out... [[spoiler:just before a tank shell bursts the wall of the house open]].
* In the reveal of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', the trailer blacked out right after VideoGame/{{Wario}}'s [[{{Fartillery}} mishap]]. Several seconds go by... then [[VideoGame/MetalGear the Codec alert]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome popped up]].
** They did something similar for [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU the fourth game]]'s reveal. The clip showed [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing the Villager]] as a newcomer, the title was shown, and a 2014 release date was revealed as the image gradually fades out...then '''"NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING!"''' pops up accompanied by a klaxon, cutting to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], Franchise/DonkeyKong, and Franchise/{{Kirby}} looking up at a [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic short blue robot]] standing on a cliff.

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': [[spoiler:Just after defeating [[BigBad Med]][[DiskOneFinalBoss usa,]] the credits (of the original game) start to roll and Pit and Palutena are having a [[EverybodyLaughsEnding cheerful conversation.]] Out of nowhere a voice tells them to hold on, and [[BreakingTheFourthWall a hand tears through the credits roll,]] revealing the true BigBad of the game, Hades. Really the game is only a little over a third of the way completed at this point, though this fact was hidden rather well.]]
* Happens on occasion in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', where sometimes it looks like the trial won't end in your favor and it cuts to black only for someone to object.
* In the iOS game ''VideoGame/LaytonBrothersMysteryRoom'', sometimes when you think you have solved the case, the suspect may pull this on you.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has an hour long epilogue of cutscenes which seemingly resolves every series plot point, followed by a credits sequence which abruptly ends on [[spoiler:a credit for Big Boss, under a unique voice actor who'd never played him before]]. This cues another 20 minutes of "debriefing" cutscenes. There's even a [[TheStinger stinger]] conversation after the true credits are done.
** The two main games that came after ''4'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', feature entire gameplay chunks after the initial credits. ''Peace Walker'' has you doing side quests and building your own Metal Gear until an unexpected TrueFinalBoss appears and kick-starts the game's true ending (which is also followed by a stinger after the true credits). ''The Phantom Pain'' takes it even further: After the first credits, a trailer plays for ''Chapter 2'', followed by half a dozen new story quests and a mind-bending final mission which itself has a stinger post-credits scene. Even after all that, there's several important cassette tapes to listen to which flesh out certain character motivations during, before and even after the game's events.

* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': [[spoiler:In the original version on the Play Station 2 after defeating Adachi and Ameno-Sagiri, the player is lead to believe that the story is over, but during the final day at Inaba, they can visit Junes and it eventually leads to the reveal of the person at the gas station the protagonist meets when first arriving in Inaba and shakes hands with being Izanami, who was the cause of the whole thing. Because of how it was set up in the original version, many players may end up missing it completely. ''Persona 4 Golden'' would fix this by the inclusion of the new character Marie whom her role is in the added third semester which unlocks after you max out her Social Link, which gives the player the hint that the case may not be completely over.]]
* Happens after rescuing Leon in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4''. The main character chooses to take his place and stay trapped in the Forest of Beginnings forever, credits start rolling...[[spoiler:And then Ventuswill stops the credits with a roar and breaks in to get you back to Selphia.]]
* In the ChristmasEpisode of ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', after the Krampus has been defeated and Santa rescued, the "Case Closed" caption appears and the usual outro music plays -- and then there's a shout for help from offscreen, and there turns out to be one more puzzle to solve.

* In ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', after defeating King Dedede in Story Mode or Hyness in Guest Star, the credits roll super-fast as if you have beaten the game. Then they rewind before revealing what comes next: the purple Jamba Heart that possessed King Dedede in the former and [[spoiler:the emergence of Morpho Knight in the latter]].
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'' starts to roll fake credits after beating the second phase of the boss fight. All of the names in the fake credits are the names of the game's enemies. After about a screen's worth, K. Rool comes back and you go back to fighting. The real credits end up being much more of a spectacle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Everhood}}'' does something similar after you pick up your arm. It cuts to black, the ''real'' credits start to roll... and then they slow down, the music [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand runs down like a record]], and the screen wipes to the trippy kaleidoscope background you've encountered before, now with the Frog there to teach you how to use the arm and [[WhamLine why you needed it back]].
* ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' has a ''very'' convincing case: [[spoiler:The game "ends" with Red using an unexplainable {{human|ityEnsues}} [[EleventhHourSuperpower transformation]] to defeat Bruno and finally sealing away Lares, fulfilling the goal he and Elh agreed upon at the beginning of the story. After the credits roll, however, the crumbling pieces of Lares reawaken, and a man in silhouette is shown looking over two humanoid figures. The game will then immediately clarify, "this is not the end of the story", and upon the next time you start up your save data, the second half of the game will begin.]]
* ''VideoGame/BattleTraverse'' has a pretty cruel take on this if you complete a 2-loop run of Hard mode or complete Extreme mode. [[spoiler:As the credits start rolling, the pilot of the helicopter escorting your character home warns of an imminent threat from behind. Cue the ''TrueFinalBoss''!]]
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': After beating Ch. 4's boss, a shape shifting ghost who at one point turns into Mario and copies his attacks, you get the [[PlotCoupon Crystal Star]] and the end-of-chapter message plays. The narration describes Mario putting Creepy Steeple behind him and moving on to his next adventure destination... and then returns to scene on top of the Steeple. Turns out, that was the ghost doppelganger Mario that walked out, and the real one has had his name and identity stolen.
* ''VideoGame/PaqueretteDownTheBunburrows'': Entering the return elevator from the Forgotten (5th and last visible [[spoiler:from the start]]) Bunburrow shows the credits despite there clearly being more things to do and the game continues without a fanfare.

* Happens after a BigWhat in the ''WebAnimation/MattNDusty'' episode "Flipper's Revenge".

* ''WebVideo/LinusTechTips'': After Linus drops one of his 60 20TB hard drives in "[[https://youtu.be/Ti8scviDiYc?t=380 Dream has Too Much Money]]", Jake claims he is leaving the video an not going to finish building the storage server, making the end screen show up briefly.

* Used in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes classic ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck''. WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck wants to "get this picture started," only for the camera to IrisOut onto a "The End" card... which Daffy promptly pushes out of the way with a shout of [[BigNo "NO! NO!"]]
** Reused in the namesake Nintendo DS game, with Daffy wanting to "get this game started", and the camera irises out to a Game Over screen. He pushes that out of the way as well.
** WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn does this at least twice (''Crowing Pains'' and ''A Fractured Leghorn''), just to get in [[MotorMouth one last line]] of dialogue.
-->"You gotta keep on your toes. Toes, that is!\\
"One time I darn near starved to death! Wouldn't tell him I was hungry!"
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E7PutYourHeadOnMyShoulder Put Your Head on My Shoulders]]" ends with a heart-shaped IrisOut on Bender claiming that the events on the episode [[IMeantToDoThat were just as he planned]]. Suddenly, Leela calls him out and the scene irises in again. The episode then ends on another heart iris... on Bender's [[ItMakesSenseInContext exploding]] [[BrickJoke butt]].

* The end of the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die" involves an a IrisOut, followed by an Iris In of Eric Cartman [[ThatsAllFolks imitating the classic]] ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' [[ThatsAllFolks farewell dialogue]].
* Used towards the end of the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' episode "A Better Mousetrap", as Sentinel shuts down outside the Maximal ship ''Axalon''. According to Rhinox, Sentinel would only shut down if an intruder had been neutralized, thus making the Maximals fear that Rattrap, who was trying to shut it down, is dead. Thus, as they mourn, starts to IrisOut when Rattrap exits the ''Axalon'', saying [[SarcasmMode "Boo-hoo, boo hoo!"]]
* A ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode used this. A gang of bullies (The Pharaohs) forced Max and P.J. from visiting their favorite hangout ("No geeks on the Pharaohs' turf!"). With the intervention of Max's former babysitter, they turn the tables and win a contest against them claiming the hangout as their own. When the Pharaohs try to return, Max, P.J, and the babysitter tell them [[IronicEcho "No geeks on the Pharaohs' turf!"]] Cue fade out, then fade back in with Max telling them "{{Not}}. Come on in, you guys."

* The song "Static" from ''Music/{{Mutations}}'' by Music/{{Beck}}.