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* ''Druuna: Carnivora'' concludes with the entire crew of the spaceship having been killed and replaced by clones, minus the Doctor. He saves the ship by piloting it into a mirror dimension where time runs backwards, which somehow resets everything to several months before all the bad things started happening. As a consequence he is [[RippleEffectProofMemory the only person with any recollection of what happened]], though it's implied that Druuna might have too.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' television movie "Wishology" was to have everyone know of Timmy's fairies. He was also to get together with his crush Trixie. However, when the network decided to order another season, it was [[StatusQuoIsGod re-written to show that everyone's memories will be erased]].
** [[FridgeLogic Which makes one wonder]] how/why Trixie's memory was erased, when it's been stated ''several'' times in ''every'' season that fairy magic can't interfere with true love...
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Unless...]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' series finale "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E26Meanwhile Meanwhile]]" ends with a literal one. [[spoiler:Because the time-rewinding button is destroyed, [[TimeStandsStill time is frozen]] for everyone- except for Fry and Leela. The two get married and spend decades exploring the frozen world, growing old together. Eventually, Professor Farnsworth repairs the device, but modifies it so that it would rewind time back to before it was invented, erasing everyone's memories of events after that. Fry and Leela are okay with giving up their perfect life together and starting all over again...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' ended with one in the form of a CosmicRetcon in order to end the show on an EarnYourHappyEnding note, since everyone except for the gang [[KillEmAll died]] and/or were [[MoralEventHorizon past the point of redemption]]. Mystery Incorporated, [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Nova]], and Creator/HarlanEllison are the only ones that [[RippleEffectProofMemory remember the events of the original timeline]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' ended with one in the form of a CosmicRetcon in order to end the show on an EarnYourHappyEnding note, since everyone except for the gang [[KillEmAll died]] and/or were [[MoralEventHorizon past the point of redemption]]. [[RippleEffectProofMemory Mystery Incorporated are the only ones that remember the events of the original timeline]].

* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean]]'' has an interesting spin on this. Enrico Pucci is able to use his stand, MADE IN HEAVEN, to speed up to flow of time until the end of the universe, forming a new one with numerous alterations to its history. These differences end up forming the core of the next two parts, ''Steel Ball Run'' and ''[=JoJolion=]''.

* ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' end with the universe imploding and being reborn.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap''.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland TheMovie''.
** Also, in any episode in which it looks like they might actually manage to get off the island, something will go drastically wrong in the last two minutes. It's usually caused by Gilligan, which gives us [[JustEatGilligan another trope]].

* The Pain Invasion arc of ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' ends with Pain using one last jutsu to revive all the people he killed in the invasion, while there is still time for him to do so.

* ''Manga/CheekyAngel''.

* ''Anime/ThoseWhoHuntElves''

** In "She's The Mayor," Candace finally busts her brothers and just as Linda begins scolding them, Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Fast Forward-inator backfires and resets to the beginning of the day.

** In the movie ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', everyone's memories get erased at the end.

* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean]]''has an interesting spin on this. Enrico Pucci is able to use his stand, MADE IN HEAVEN, to speed up to flow of time until the end of the universe, forming a new one with numerous alterations to its history. These differences end up forming the core of the next two parts, ''Steel Ball Run'' and ''[=JoJolion=]''.

** SonicCD uses this as well if you fail to collect the Time Stones or destroy the robot generators.

* Toward the end of ''MaiHime'', Miyu breaks the pillars, enabling the Himes' most important people, who died as a result of their defeats, to come back to life, resulting in all the Himes destroying the Hime Star. Inexplicably, this also results in Alyssa coming back to life and Nao's [[EyeScream eye being healed]].

* ''GilligansIsland TheMovie''.

* ''Manga/MiraiNikki'' had one of these that [[spoiler: managed to take a series notable for rending your soul in half constantly and give it a happy ending.]] It was perfect.

* ''MightyMax'' ended with this, as Max and [[BigBad Skullmaster]] wrestle for control of [[MacGuffin The Cap]] at Stonehenge. The last scene repeats the first scene of the series until Max realizes his friends are alive, and they all remember what happened during the previous runthrough.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' series finale "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E26Meanwhile Meanwhile]]" ends with a literal one. [[spoiler:Because the time-rewinding button is destroyed, [[TimeStandsStill time is frozen]] for everyone except Fry and Leela. The two get married and spend decades exploring the frozen world, growing old together. Eventually, Professor Farnsworth repairs the device, but modifies it so that it would rewind time back to before it was invented, erasing everyone's memories of events after that. Fry and Leela are okay with giving up their perfect life together and starting over again.]]

* Richard Donner's version of ''SupermanII'' ends with Superman undoing the entire movie by spinning the world back (as he did in the theatrical release of the first Superman), to keep Lois from knowing his identity. This is ''after'' the villains have been defeated.

* The series of ''JoshKirbyTimeWarrior'' ends with Josh saving the Nullifier, and (somehow) saving the 25th Century. The series ends up with him being returned (somehow) to the morning before his departure, where he manages to avert a tense situation by calling on Azabeth's [[IdenticalGrandson identical ancestor]] Elizabeth.

* The final season of ''Roseanne'' had the Conner family winning the lottery, visiting exotic locales, Roseanne and Dan breaking up and reconciling, and Darlene giving birth. Then in the final episode, Roseanne revealed those events were [[AllJustADream all just imagined by her in her writings]]: They never won the lottery, Dan was DeadAllAlong, and she had switched out her daughters' spouses (Becky married David, not Mark; Darlene, vice versa).
* TheBigBangTheory episode "The Apology Insufficiency" has this. Sheldon has seriously offended and caused real damage to Howard, and makes a significant sacrifice to him in order to make amends. In the last few minutes of the show, Sheldon takes his sacrifice back, yet Howard has no angry or offended reaction and has forgotten all about everything by the next episode.

* At the end of ''ShadowHearts : Covenant'', every member of the party is sent to some place in space/time where they can be truly happy. The good ending for the main character takes him back to the introductory scene of the previous game, where he will presumably avoid the bad end of that game this time.

* ''QuantumLeap''.

* Happens often in ''PhineasAndFerb'':

** In the movie ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2NDDimension'', everyone's memories get erased at the end.

->'''Lisa:''' Don't worry, Bart. It seems like every week something odd happens to the Simpsons. My advice is to ride it out, make the occasional smart-alec quip, and by next week StatusQuoIsGod we'll be back to where we started from, ready for another wacky adventure.

->'''Lisa:''' Don't worry, Bart. [[WeirdnessMagnet It seems like every week something odd happens]] to the Simpsons. My advice is to ride it out, make the occasional smart-alec quip, and by next week [[StatusQuoIsGod we'll be back to where we started from]], ready for another wacky adventure.
->'''Bart:''' [[CatchPhrase Ay, caramba!]]