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* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', the Brotherhood of Evil recruits nearly every villain that ever appeared in the series despite the fact that some (like the Puppet King, Kardiak, and Malchior) were incapacitated the last time seen.

* Creator/BrianBendis' storied ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' / ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' run (which began in ''[[Comicbook/AvengersDisassembled Disassembled]]'') ended in this manner to a degree. ComicBook/TheVision and [[ComicBook/AntMan Ant-Man]] were returned to life, ComicBook/ScarletWitch was [[AuthorsSavingThrow alleviated of her crimes]] via DemonicPossession, Clint Barton ditched the Ronin costume and returned to the ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} identity, ComicBook/TheWasp's death [[HesJustHiding was revealed to have been a fake-out]], ComicBook/TheSentry was killed off, and ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]] and [[ComicBook/{{Alias}} Jessica Jones]] all resigned from the Avengers. The only real lasting impact seems to be the continued use of Avengers Tower, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/SpiderMan remaining with the team.

* ''{{ComicBook/Sabretooth}}''. During 2014's ''{{ComicBook/Axis}}'', he was [[HeelFaceBrainwashing inverted]] due to a spell gone wrong by Scarlet Witch & becomes a good guy. He tries to find his own Wolverine, by following Logan's example. He tries to [[TheAtoner atone]] for his past, but he's [[ReformedButRejected not trusted by anyone]]. He eventually had a [[ShipTease budding]] [[BelligerentSexualTension romance]] with [[Characters/GenerationX Monet St. Croix]] in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2015''. He was [[TheChampion very]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl protective]] of her, to the point he let her feed on him after she's cursed by Emplate & becomes a vampire. The run is cancelled due to ''ComicBook/ResurrXion'', and Creed was shown to have run away with Monet in the last chapter. His inversion showed signs of slipping, but he tried to fight it -using his desire to help Monet as motivation. He knows he's not the man his inverted self is, but doesn't wanna be a monster again. He vows to be something other than the lie or the truth. Since 2017, he's has been starring in Pak's Weapon X vol 3. He's no longer wearing his X-Men costume, he's back to hating Wolverine, and just wants to kill people again. AXIS nor his inversion have come up, and his entire relationship with Monet has been [[NoRomanticResolution dropped with no closure]].

[[Music/{{Eminem}} ...to reality]], [[Film/EightMile oh, there goes gravity, oh, there go-]] ''(DopeSlap)'' [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Sorry...]]

** Of course, the most common example of a Snap Back on [=MST3K=] was Frank getting killed by Dr. Forrester. In every case, he was back in the next episode, looking none the worse for wear. When Frank left the show, Dr. F sang a touching song called "Who Will I Kill?", and in an episode of ''Cinematic Titanic'', Frank {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by saying blithely, "In my experience, you can die and then come right back in the next episode."

* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' show up again in later episodes with not a single concern for what happened last time.
** One episode ended with Nazis riding dinosaurs taking over the world. It's never mentioned again.
** Ling-Ling once shows up to contest how irrational their constant snapping back is... minutes after he died and was eaten by his castmates.
** Captain Hero decapitates himself with a sword because coming back is so easy. He then encourages kids at home to try it.

* What about ''every single'' ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character? They're always blowing each other up and it never lasts more than one ''scene.'' Occasionally you will see Sylvester or Wile E. Coyote covered in bandages/walking with crutches at the end, but at the start of the next episode everything is back to normal.

* At the end of some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' they sometimes get killed or in one particular episode they end up having to be sewn together to keep each other alive, and by the next episode everything is back to normal.

* ''Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower'' is mostly a series of one-shots with very weak continuity. Since Bob is both powerful and amoral, it could be no other way. But one of the books includes a UN Field Guide to Bob and his various weapons and devices, which {{lampshade|Hanging}}s the lack of continuity and {{justifie|dTrope}}s it as the diligent efforts of the government. (Never let Bob near the button that blows up the Earth, since we barely managed to put it back together and ressurrect everybody last time.)

* In ''Webcomic/TheMotleyTwo'', one of these happened some time in the past, due to unknown temporal chicanery. {{Subverted|Trope}} In the effects do not go unnoticed by the general populace.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' this is usually what happens with Robotnik or his dumb-bots, however when his base is destroyed in "Robo-Ninjas", one of the last episodes, for the rest of the series it STAYS GONE, {{avert|edTrope}}ing this.

** Happens to the Team Rocket trio arguably in every episode that ends with them blasting off again, but three notable instances early on in the series stand out: 1) ''Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon'' in which they are last shown sealed inside a cave with the aforementioned Pokémon, who were previously implied to be aggressive predators. 2) ''Abra and the Psychic Showdown'', in which Jessie and James are left paralyzed for the entirety of the episode after an encounter with Sabrina's doll, and 3) ''Viva Las Lapras'', in which Team Rocket is arrested at the end, in one of the few times in the entire series (the previous time it happened had a scene where they dug out of prison). Cassidy and Butch have gone to jail several times, but it's usually stated that Giovanni springs for their release, something he's unlikely to do for Jessie and James.

* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': usually operate on StatusQuoIsGod, with things mostly back to normal at the end of a arc when the problem is solved, but a few episodes end in a unresolved situation, with the resolution happening offscreen before the next one. For exemple, the body swap arc end up with most of the main cast turned into giant living poop ([[ItMakesSenseInContext literally]]), and a few episodes conclude with one or several characters in [[AmusingInjuries the hospital]], only for said character to be fine by the next episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Several characters have been blown up, [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]], launched into orbit, trapped in [[TrappedInAnotherWorld different dimensions]] or [[TrappedInThePast time periods]], [[SuicideAsComedy committed suicide]], etc.,but everyone is perfectly fine by the next episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has a number of episodes that end like this, including (but not limited to): Mandy accidentally wishing everyone on Earth was gone except for herself; Grim, Mandy, Billy, and Irwin regressing back into babies and disappearing; Endsville getting turned into a giant cheese pizza; all inhabitants on Earth (including Mandy) having Billy's genes and traits (big nose, egg-shaped head, dumb); Mandy's smile causing the universe to fall apart and transporting Grim, Billy, and herself to Townsvile as the Powerpuff Girls; Nergal forcing everybody in Endsvile to be his friends by way of mind control ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou as well as the viewer in breaking the fourth wall]]); and Grim, Billy, and Mandy fused together as some [[Manga/{{Akira}} Tetsuo-like]] creature due to the Apple of Discord. No matter what though, by the next episode, everything's back to normal.

* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'' it ends with [[spoiler: Captain Quark shrinking down to action figure size, and just left like that]] yet in the next game, ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction Tools of Destruction]]'' he is back to normal. Likely justified that Size Matters is an alternate continuity spin-off and isn't actually canon with the main series.

** At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short "The Helpinki Formula", ''everyone in the world is transformed into a yodeling Swedish giant'' and Pinky and the Brain shrug their shoulders and just accept it.

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* In ''Webcomic/TheMotleyTwo'', one of these happened some time in the past, due to unknown temporal chicanery. {{Subverted|Trope}} In the effects do not go unnoticed by the general populace.
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'':
** In "Makin' Babies", the main cast are turned into babies by a miscast magic spell. The episode ends with them still stuck as babies. They're adults again in the next episode, with no explanation or even acknowledgement that the baby incident happened. The series creator lampshades this with his description of the episode: "I had a canon once. It was awful."
** Subverted elsewhere. In "Out With The Old Characters", Apple Bloom burns down the schoolhouse, which reappears in later episodes. The explanation comes in the next season's episode "Granny Smith Is Mean": The schoolhouse burns down ''again'', then reappears in the very next scene. Sweetie Belle comments, "Aw, they're getting really fast at rebuilding the school."
* In ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' the characters die in every episode and yet they are alive and well in the next episode. For about 30 seconds, but still...
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[[Music/{{Eminem}} ...to reality,]] [[Film/EightMile oh, there goes gravity, oh, there go-]] ''(DopeSlap)'' [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Sorry...]]

** In "Cryonic Woman", Fry loses his job at Planet Express. At the end he asks Farnsworth if he'll rehire him, but [[TrapDoor gets rejected]]. By the start of the next episode, he's back to being a delivery boy.

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* While mostly averted in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven's TV is destroyed multiple times throughout the show only to return the next episode in perfect condition with absolutely no explanation.

* In ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' series, there's the matter of Dreyfus. In ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', he [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons crosses the line between everyday villainy and cartoonish supervillainy,]] and the film ends with him being disintegrated from existence. In the [[Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther very next film]], he's in the same situation as he was before (being released from an insane asylum) with nary an explanation.

** For example, the episode "The Principal and the Pauper." Also in "Homer Loves Flanders" wherein Lisa comments on the effect, playing with the FourthWall. And there's that ep with Bart and Lisa in 3rd grade where Skinner says: "What this episode has taught us is that there's nothing better than [[StatusQuoIsGod the status quo]]," and promptly puts them back in their respective grades.

** One episode, wherein Homer gets in trouble with a Las Vegas pit boss after losing Bart and held hostage, and Marge ends up in prison for selling expired prescription drugs in a yard sale. This leaves Lisa to fend for herself and Maggie, something she apparently always thought would eventually happen. The episode ends with her saying that she'll look for work in the morning.... by the following episode, everything has been resolved/never happened in the first place.

* * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' frequently uses this trope. There have only been three permanent changes to the show's canon: Hayley's marriage to Jeff, the [[KilledOffForReal death]] of Miriam Bullock, and Terry being PutOnABus.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Ricky Spanish" ends with Roger, under his most evil persona yet, getting Steve thrown in jail. Steve gets out, but he's now a [[TheStoic stoic]], muscular criminal who swears revenge on Ricky Spanish. By the next episode, Steve is back to being a scrawny nerd.

* In a chapter of ''Manga/FrankenFran'', [[FairCop Officer]] [[ChewToy Kuhou]] is surgically transformed into a CuteMonsterGirl. A few chapters later, she is seen as a human again, with no explanation about how she was turned back. The Officer Kuhou in that and later stories may be a clone; she states herself that she doesn't know if she is the original in chapter 21 page 13.