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* The season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' ends one of the biggest ongoing StoryArc in the show: Vlad's quest to obtain Danny as his protege and son. It ends with him throwing off a HUGE VillainousBreakdown and the next season has the two in completely different circles.

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* ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'' has so far ended two series with multiple episode dramatic stories. The first ended with the 12 episode epic "lonelygirl15 Season Finale", the second with the four-part story "Bloodlines".
* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' ends all of its seasons on a pretty grand note, resolving its major plotlines while adding a cliffhanger for the next season to resolve.
** Season 1: O'Malley (Omega) takes over Caboose and causes him to act strangely, while Donut kills Tex.
** Season 2: O'Malley takes over Lopez's body, shoots Tucker, and runs away. Upon learning that both teams have the same Command officer, the Reds and Blues team up to stop O'Malley, only to be sent to completely different locations. In case that's not enough, Donut and Tex are stuck together, and Tex wants revenge for what happened in the Season 1 finale.
** Season 3: While O'Malley and Lopez's army is defeated, the Reds accidentally stumble back into Blood Gulch, and the Great Destroyer is about to kill Church.
** Season 4: Tucker gives birth to an alien, Sarge calls for a calvary ship that crushes Donut, and O'Malley leaves Doc for an unknown host.
** Season 5: This episode chronicles the big final battle between the Reds, Blues, and O'Malley. It ends with [[spoiler: Tex, Junior, Andy, and O'Malley all having been blown up]].
** Season 6: [[spoiler: In their fight against the Meta, Church uses an EMP that wipes out all of the AIs, including himself. The finale ends with the Reds plotting against the Blues again, Caboose trying to bring Church back, and Wash and the Meta's fates unknown. Oh, and it turns out that the Director's name is Leonard Church.]]
** Season 7: [[spoiler: Wash has teamed up with the Meta, making a full-on FaceHeelTurn from the last time we've seen him. He shoots Lopez and Donut, and takes Simmons hostage.]]
** Season 8: [[spoiler: The Meta is finally defeated, and Wash becomes a good guy again. However, Church locks himself in the Epsilon unit so he could save Tex, waiting in his Blood Gulch memories until she appears.]]
** Season 9: [[spoiler: Church is rescued from the Epsilon unit against his will, leaving Tex there in the process. He learns that Agent Carolina is responsible for his rescue and needs his help to take down the Director.]]
** Season 10: [[spoiler: Carolina and Epsilon confront the Director, but ultimately decide not to kill him, especially when we learn that Carolina is his daughter. Once they leave, the Director deletes all of the Freelancer files and commits suicide. Meanwhile, the Reds and Blues move back to Blood Gulch, while Carolina and Epsilon leave to get some more Freelancer equipment.]]
** Season 11: Tucker, Simmons, Grif, and Caboose join the New Republic Army to save their friends from Locus, while [[spoiler: Carolina]] makes her first appearance.
** Season 12: [[spoiler: The Federal Army and New Republic hold a truce, as Epsilon deduces that Charon Industries, which has been a big enemy of Project Freelancer for many years, is behind Felix and Locus's attempted genocide on the people of Chorus. Meanwhile, it's revealed that the Chairman of Charon has old freelancer tech, including FILSS and the Meta's old suit.]]
** Season 13: The Reds and Blues save the people of Chorus, but are trapped on the Charon's spaceship. The episode ends with [[spoiler: Church sacrificing himself to power the Meta's old suit to help the Reds and Blues fight their way out]].
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Season 1: Blake learns that Roman is working with the White Fang to steal dust, and tries to stop his operation. Cinder finally reappears with Mercury and Emerald.
** Season 2: Beacon Academy unites to stop the Grimm invasion that Roman caused, culminating in Roman being arrested. We also learn that [[spoiler: Adam]] is working with Cinder too.
** Season 3: [[spoiler: Pyrrha and Ozpin die while fighting Cinder, Ruby activates her Silver Eyes for the first time, Team RWBY splits up, and we learn that the narrator of the first three seasons has been the BigBad, Salem, all along.]]
** Season 4: Team RNJR defeat the Nuckelavee and take a plane to Haven, with Yang and Weiss heading to Mistral as well. However, we learn that [[spoiler: Professor Lionheart]] of Haven is allied with Cinder. We also see a teaser of next season with Oscar meeting Qrow for the first time.
** Season 5: The White Fang is defeating and Haven is saved, but Adam runs away. Yang confronts Raven for the Relic, and Team RWBY finally reunites.
** Season 6: Team RWBY finally makes it to Atlas, only to realize just how heavy security has gotten. Meanwhile, Ruby finally learns to control her Silver Eyes, and Cinder and [[spoiler: Neo]] hijack an airship to Atlas. Oh, and we finally see a glimpse of [[spoiler: Summer Rose]].
** Season 7: [[spoiler: Neo steals the Relic from JNR, Penny takes the Winter Maiden's powers before Cinder can, Qrow and Robyn are arrested, Watts is alive, Ironwood crosses the MoralEventHorizon and shoots Oscar off of Atlas, Ozpin reawakens, and Salem arrives with her army.]]
** Season 8: [[spoiler: Team RWBY, Jaune and Neo fall into a void between worlds and end up in an unknown location, Elm sacrifices himself to save Qrow, Robyn, and the other Ace OP's, Penny sacrifices herself to hand the Winter Maiden power to Winter, Cinder betrays Neo and gives Salem the two Relics herself, and Atlas crashes into Mantle resulting in Ironwood and Watts most likely dying.]]
* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' ends all of his seasons with an ambitious Christmas episode, with the biggest being Season 2's "It's Awesome, Baby", a big alternate universe episode with musical numbers, a giant mecha battle, and tons of special effects.
* ''WebVideo/PokemonTalk'' ends all of its seasons with some sort of big event:
** Season 1: Squirtle and Bulbasaur unite all of their past guests to get the rights to Pokemon Talk back from Sir Pikachu. [[spoiler: They do this by using a Thunder Stone to evolve Sir Pikachu to a Raichu, which Squirtle happened to get from Mew. However, this results in Squirtle and Bulbasaur getting the rights themselves rather than the producers, meaning that they're now in charge of the show's direction.]]
** Season 2: A Q&A session is interrupted when [[spoiler: Raichu]] returns for revenge, culminating in a Mega Pokemon battle between Squirtle and the Kalos Starters and [[spoiler: Raichu]].
** Season 3: The special guest for this episode is none other than Arceus, and [[spoiler: Mew]] appears for the first time since the Season 1 finale.
** Season 4: [[spoiler: The final battle between Squirtle and Raichu, with Bulbasaur finally learning how to mega evolve. Raichu admits defeat, making it clear that he'll stop trying to get revenge.]]
** Season 5: For the 50th episode, Hoopa appears and teleports Squirtle and Bulbasaur around to meet some of their previous guests. However, during this tour, they end up angering [[spoiler: Mewtwo]], who now wants to kill them.
* ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'' tends to end its seasons by setting up the next one:
** Season 1: Sonic is turned into an eggplant, while Tails is stuck in a coma. The fact that such an episodic series ended its season with a cliffhanger was a twist in and of itself.
** Season 2: Sonic kills Mario and becomes the new mob boss.
** Season 3: As the main cast splits apart, Sonic and Tails fight over who should be the mob boss. [[spoiler: Tails blows up the money and the business forcing Sonic to get back to work]].
** Season 4: The movie is revealed to be [[spoiler: a scam so that Sonic can blow up the theater with Tails in it. The theater blows up with the entire cast in it, and Sonic and Tails getting blasted off to space.]]
** Season 5: Fox gets his ship back as Sonic and the group crash-lands back on Earth, destroying Sonic's home in the process.
** Season 6: In an attempt to save the universe, Sonic resets everything, turning everyone into pixels.
* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'':
** Season 1: MD-5 almost gets away with their plan only to [[spoiler: get cornered by Lucks, who shoots Masa's arm off, destroys Theo's cartridge, and forces Tari to join [=TASCorp=] for everyone’s safety. However, Sofia leaves a backup of her data for Belle, and it’s implied Lucks is keeping Lucinia alive through cryostatis.]]
** Season 2: Tari and Theo defeat Evelyn escape the corrupted ''Ultra Jump Mania'' cartridge as MD-5 reveals Lucks' crimes to the public, while Tari learns that she is [[spoiler: an AI merged with a fragment of Lucinia’s mind.]] However, [[spoiler: an alive Sheridan hacks into Masa's arm to make him kill Lucks, framing him for murder, and promises Tari's abilities to none other than Evelyn. Even more, MD-5 go on the run while Belle stays behind with Masa, only to run right into Marco, whose intentions for them are left up in the air.]]
* ''WebVideo/VGMyths'': Three of them as of this writing:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqOlLpePY8c "VG Myths Season 1 Ranked By Difficulty"]]
** Season 2's is the hardest challenge and the only one of the three not named as such: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ylEp-uu3EU "Can You Beat Pokemon Without Getting Hit?"]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39qWbKA13U "VG Myths Season 3 Finale: Ranking Seasons 1-3"]]
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* The season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' ends one of the biggest ongoing StoryArc in the show: Vlad's quest to obtain Danny as his protege and son. It ends with him throwing off a HUGE VillainousBreakdown and the next season has the two in completely different circles.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated:''
** "Megatron Rising" - after eleven episodes as a scheming head, Megatron regains his body and makes his move for the Allspark, [[spoiler: eventually forcing Optimus to shatter it, scattering fragments of it everywhere.]]
** "A Bridge Too Close" - Megatron's space bridge plot comes to a head, and two big reveals set up since the first season are made: [[spoiler: that beat-up repair ship is really ''Omega Supreme'', and Sari is part-robot.]]
** "Endgame" - the GrandFinale.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' ended every season with an epic two (or in one case, three) parter:
** Season One: "Apprentice" I and II - [[spoiler: Slade blackmails Robin into being his apprentice by threatening to kill the other Titans. They eventually break Robin free and [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] Slade's ass.]]
** Season Two: "Aftershock" I and II - [[spoiler: Terra fully becomes Slade's [[TheDragon Dragon]], and they take over the city by nearly killing the Titans. Terra pulls a HeelFaceTurn and performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop Slade.]]
** Season Three: "Titans East" I and II - [[spoiler: Cyborg starts his own team, which Brother Blood then brainwashes. Cyborg defeats Brother Blood and goes back to the main Titans.]]
** Season Four: "The End" I, II, and III - [[spoiler: Raven becomes the portal for her father Trigon to enter the world and destroy it. The Titans are forced to [[EnemyMine ally with Slade]] to stop him.]]
** Season Five: "Calling All Titans"/"Titans Together" (with one more episode, "Things Change", as a sort of [[DenouementEpisode epilogue]]) - [[spoiler: The Brotherhood of Evil gathers every villain from throughout the series (except the other {{Big Bad}}s) and use them to capture most of the Titans and other young heroes from around the world. Beast Boy leads the remaining heroes in a rescue attempt that leads to an epic FinalBattle.]]
* Episode 26 of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' is the season finale and it ends in a cliffhanger. The gang has been fragmented by the revelation that Fred's dad, the Mayor of Crystal Cove was the Big Bad all along and isn't his ''real'' dad, so he's broken the gang up to find who he really is. Meanwhile, his engagement to Daphne is now in indefinite abeyance, Shaggy is being sent to military school, Scooby is being sent to a farm, Daphne is taken home to wallow in misery and Velma is taken home to stew about not coming clean to her friends about who Angel Dynamite really is.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The first season finale, "The Best Night Ever", features the main characters attending the Grand Galloping Gala, which has been built up in several previous episodes as the biggest social event in Equestria, only to be disappointed in various ways.
** The second season finale, "A Canterlot Wedding", [[SerialEscalation blows the first season finale out of the water]] in terms of excitement. It's a two-parter that revolves around central character Twilight Sparkle's brother getting married to royalty, and features [[spoiler: an evil shape-shifting EmotionEater impersonating the bride and hypnotizing the groom, a ''huge'' fight between the Mane Six and an army of mooks, and a climax that involves a force-field bolstered by ThePowerOfLove.]]
** The third season finale, "Magical Mystery Cure", is a MusicalEpisode revolving around Twilight accidentally switching the cutie marks and destinies of her friends, ruining their lives. This gets resolved by the end of the second act, but sets up a stunning third act, wherein [[spoiler: Twilight fulfills her own destiny by becoming an alicorn, and is then crowned as Equestria's newest princess.]]
** The fourth season finale, "Twilight's Kingdom", like the season 2 finale is a two-parter. They deal with the escape of [[spoiler: [[ManaDrain Lord Tirek]]]] -- possibly the [[VileVillainSaccharineShow most terrifying villain in the franchise]] -- and the attempts to defeat him. Which involves, among other things, Twilight being granted the power of all the [[spoiler: other]] Princesses and engaging in the single most impressive fight sequence in the show's history, [[spoiler: the [[HomeBase Golden Oaks Library]] being ''[[TrashTheSet completely destroyed]]'', Tirek ultimately only being defeated when the Mane Six unlock the box they got from the Tree of Harmony and gaining [[SuperMode Rainbow Power]], and finally, Twilight gaining ''her own castle'' and being declared the Princess of Friendship]].
** The fifth season finale, "The Cutie Remark", is another two-parter. Starlight Glimmer, the villain of the season's two-part opener, returns and enacts a plot to go back in time and prevent Rainbow Dash from having her first Sonic Rainboom, thus keeping the Mane Six from earning the specific cutie marks that led to them coming together as the heroes we know and love, and Twilight trying to stop her from doing so. After this results in a series of increasingly dark BadFuture {{Alternate Timeline}}s, Twilight ends the conflict by [[spoiler: prompting a HeelRealization and subsequent HeelFaceTurn in Starlight, who undoes the damage to history and restores things to normal.]]
** The sixth season finale, "To Where And Back Again", is yet another two-parter. Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings return and kidnap the Mane Six, the Princesses, and Shining Armor as part of a plan of taking over all of Equestria. To stop them, a group of secondary characters -- Starlight, Trixie, Discord, and Thorax -- team up to infiltrate the Changeling hive and rescue the heroes. It ends with [[spoiler: Thorax becoming the new King of the Changelings, sharing love to bring about a HeelRaceTurn among his kind, [[VillainExitStageLeft forcing Chrysalis to flee, swearing revenge]].]]
** The seventh season finale, "Shadow Play", is once more a two-parter. Twilight and her friends succeed in releasing [[PrecursorHeroes the Pillars of Harmony]] from their [[SealedGoodInACan imprisonment in limbo]], but [[NiceJobBreakingItHero in the process]] also unleash the [[PredecessorVillain Pony of Shadows]]. The Mane Six then have to work with the Pillars to defeat the Pony of Shadows [[spoiler: until Starlight realizes that it's actually the Pillars' friend Stygian, who was [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds consumed by darkness from trying to help his friends]]. Realizing this, they work together to return him to normal.]] Also, the Sirens from the second Equestria Girls movie make an appearance.
** The eighth season finale, "School Raze" is, yet again, a two-parter. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Cozy Glow]], working with the assistance of [[TheBusCameBack Tirek]], sets in motion a plan to imprison the Mane Six and take over the School of Friendship. It is then up to the six main students to work together to stop her.
** The ninth season ends with the series' GrandFinale, starting with another two-parter, "The Ending of the End", wherein the heroes face off in a FinalBattle with the LegionOfDoom composed of all the remaining {{Big Bad}}s. This is followed by the DistantFinale episode, "The Last Problem", which shows what's become of all the main character years into Twilight's reign over Equestria.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has BIG two-parters for the end of each Season, featuring things like [[spoiler: Korra's Bending being taken by Amon, who turned out to be Tarrlok's brother, before getting it restored by Aang; a massive Kaiju-esque battle against Unalaq the Dark Avatar; the near-end of the Avatar cycle at the hands of Zaheer, and most spectacularly the GrandFinale, Day of the Colossus/The Last Stand, in which Team Avatar battles against Kuvira's giant robot in a no-holds-barred showdown that leaves Republic City leveled, Hiroshi sacrifices himself and Mako nearly does the same, Korra creates a new Spirit Portal in the process of saving Kuvira from her own out-of-control weapon, and Korra and Asami get a RelationshipUpgrade.]] Wow.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' Season One ended with a three-part episode in which the Avengers thwart Loki's efforts to conquer the universe-and in the process, discover that [[spoiler:he instigated the breakout of 74 criminals back in episode #6, which motivated the founding Avengers to team up in the first place]]. Season Two (also the last season of the show) officially ended with an episode in which the Avengers team up with 15 other crimefighters to save the Earth from becoming devoured by Galactus.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'':
** Season 1, "Wonderstorm": Ezran, Callum, and Rayla meet the elf illusionist Lujanne. With her advice, they're able to hatch the Dragon Prince's egg by sacrificing Callum's primal stone; the dragon, named Zym, chews off Rayla's magically constricting armband. Meanwhile, Claudia and Soren magically track down the group's location.
** Season 2, "Breathe": Callum's fever dream gives him an epiphany that enables him to tap into the Sky Arcanum. Claudia delves deeper into dark magic in order to heal the paralyzed Soren. Ezran decides to return to Katolis with Corvus and take his duties as king. [[BigBad Viren]] is arrested by the high council, but not before sending shadow assassins after the other human monarchs in a FalseFlagOperation. Callum and Rayla cross into Xadia, but are confronted by the dragon Sol Regem.
** Season 3, "The Final Battle": Viren marches his mystically mutated army on the Storm Spire, leaving the heroes and their allies to HoldTheLine until reinforcements arrive. Viren manages to drain some of Zym's energy via [[SealedEvilInACan Aaravos']] familiar, before Rayla tackles him off the spire; Callum fully taps into his magic to save her, while Viren is left to fall to his [[DisneyVillainDeath death]]. After the battle, the Dragon Queen awakens from her coma and is happy to see humans and elves standing together as friends. Claudia [[BackFromTheDead resurrects Viren]], and reveals that the familiar has entered a giant cocoon.
** Season 4, "Escape From Umber Tor": The heroes fight Viren, Claudia, and Terry over the map leading to Aaravos' prison, before both groups have to flee the enraged Rex Igneous; the villains escape, [[RedemptionRejection Viren being corrupted by taking up his dark magic staff again]], but Rayla manages to get ahold of the coins [[SealedGoodInACan containing her parents' and Ruunan's spirits]]. Meanwhile, Janei fights her brother in a DuelToTheDeath over leadership of the Sunfire Elves.
* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'':
** Season 1, "The French Connection Caper": Mistaking Chase for Carmen's partner, V.I.L.E. kidnap and torture him for information. Carmen manages to rescue him, but in the process accidentally gives the Chief the implication that she was helping V.I.L.E., and is nearly killed by Coach Brunt. [[spoiler: Shadow-san saves her, revealing himself to be GoodAllAlong, and leaves her with a new hard drive containing more data on new V.I.L.E. plots.]]
** Season 2, "The Deep Dive Caper": Carmen goes in search of information about her past, learning from Shadow-san that [[spoiler: her father was a V.I.L.E. leader trying to defect, who was killed by the future Chief of ACME]]; while looking for confirmation of this, she hacks ACME, causing the infuriated Chief to bring Chase back into action to hunt her. Meanwhile, V.I.L.E. [[TrashTheSet destroy their base and relocate]], while promoting [[DoubleAgent Roundabout]] to the [[BigBadDuumvirate Faculty]].
** Season 3, "The Jolly Good Show Caper": Roundabout baits Carmen with the theft of the British crown jewels to lure her into a trap [[spoiler: which Team Carmen [[OutGambitted turns around on him]], leading to his exposure and arrest]]. Chase starts to question his belief in Carmen's criminality, while the Chief decides to bring in Gray for questioning.
** Season 4, "The Dark Red Caper": [[spoiler: Shadow-san and Crackle work with ACME to save the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed Carmen]], who afterwards leads ACME to V.I.L.E.'s headquarters to arrest the faculty. In the [[AndTheAdventureContinues epilogue]], Zack and Ivy have joined ACME in hunting the remaining V.I.L.E. operatives, with Carmen occasionally helping.]]

* The author of ''{{Webcomic/Rain}}'' has described several chapters as "season finales", and they usually live up to the hype:

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ends all of its seasons on a pretty grand note, resolving its major plotlines while adding a cliffhanger for the next season to resolve.