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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': Season 2 ends with everyone safe home in their beds, and Hilda has finally patched up her relationship with her mother...only for the last minute of the episode to have Hilda [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a troll]] and teleported far away from Trolberg.

* The quirky and random ''Machinima/MassDefect'' video ends on a [[MoodWhiplash really somber note]] with [[TheHeroDies Shepard being killed]].

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* In the last episode of ''Series/{{Alf}}'' our wise-cracking alien protagonist is captured by the Alien Task Force, presumably never to be seen again by the Tanners. The producers were told they'd get a MadeForTVMovie, ''Film/ProjectALF'', to WrapItUp, but it wasn't until years later that it actually happened, and the tone of it was distinctly darker than the series.[[note]]And to answer that question if the Tanners would see him again, it goes from presumably to definitely, as they were relocated to Iceland by the Federal Witness Protection Program. Even his friends, who were waiting to get him back, end up never coming for him. So technically, the movie combined this trope with DownerBeginning.[[note/]]

* In the last episode of ''Series/{{Alf}}'' our wise-cracking alien protagonist is captured by the Alien Task Force, presumably never to be seen again by the Tanners. The producers were told they'd get a TV Movie to WrapItUp, but it wasn't until years later that it actually happened, and the tone of it was distinctly darker than the series.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'', certain characters get bad endings for little reason. Est, for example, feels guilty over her uselessness forcing her husband Abel to commit a FaceHeelTurn to protect her, and [[StarCrossedLovers leaves him without saying a word]] .

* Music/DepecheMode has "Blasphemous Rumours"/"Somebody". It's about a sixteen-year-old girl who attempts suicide, survives and is so thankful that her faith in God is renewed...but less than two years later, she is involved in a car accident, ends up on life support and dies.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', when you die during "(Don't Fear) the Reaper", one of the endgame missions where you let your allies survive and you don't collaborate with [[MegaCorp Arasaka]], no matter how much friendship have you developed, how much you getting along with others, many of them end up absolutely devastated upon hearing the news about your death, even though you're doing a SuicideMission [[TheLastDance on your own as]] YourDaysAreNumbered.

* ''[[VideoGame/BitTrip BIT.TRIP FATE]]'' is a pretty dark game compared to the other games in the series, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOD7kjSDfw#t=8m47s ending]] takes the cake. Upon defeating the FinalBoss, [=CommanderVideo=] TurnsRed, gets into position...[[SuicideAttack and rams himself into the boss, destroying it and killing himself]]. After the final point tally, [=CommandgirlVideo=] arrives at the site of the final battle, realizes what just happened, and sheds a SingleTear.

* Companions being KilledOffForReal in ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a very rare event. Therefore the deaths of Adric in the 1982 storyline "Earthshock" and [[UpToEleven especially]] Clara Oswald in 2015's "Face the Raven" (a tragedy that still happens, despite the show playing with the TimeyWimeyBall afterwards) have impact on viewers who have avoided spoilers. The endings of the David Tennant episodes "Doomsday" (2006) and "Journey's End" (2008) are likewise extreme downers for an otherwise upbeat series.

* ''Anime/OjomajoDoremi.'' Everyone has to give up their powers, because one of the girls messed up and broke a witch law by casting a spell to make everyone forget learning that they were witches, causing her to go to sleep for an entire century as punishment. The whole giving-up-the-powers thing was the only way the others were finally able to wake her up. But that's just the ''first'' season.

* In the last episode of ''WebAnimation/NekoSugarGirls'', Raku dies of a broken heart after she confesses her love for Hitoshi, only to find out that he has entered a romantic relationship with his kidnapper.

* ''Anime/OjomajoDoremi.'' Everyone has to give up their powers, because one of the girls messed up and broke a witch law by casting a spell to make everyone forget learning that they were witches, causing her to go to sleep for an entire century as punishment. The whole giving-up-the-powers thing was the only way the others were finally able to wake her up.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': The ShowWithinAShow ''Grognar The Barbarian'' ends with Grognar being eaten by a dragon, much to the disappointment of the Turtles. This serves as {{foreshadowing}} for the season finale, when the Tricereton armada arrives. The season ends with Shredder choosing to kill Splinter than to save Earth, and the Earth destroyed by the Triceretons' singularity weapon. The Turtles are miraculously able to fix everything, but it is a serious downer.

* ''Film/TheBigDollHouse'': It's a GirlsBehindBars movie in which the women stage a prison break. At the end, two of the women, Bodine and Alcott, go down fighting in a shootout with the guards, but SoleSurvivor Collier makes her escape. She makes it through the ring of guards, runs through the jungle, and finds a road. She puts out her thumb, and a jeep driver stops to pick her up. The driver asks her where she's going and she says "Wherever you're going!". Then we hear the following line of dialogue from the driver, which is the last line in the movie:
-->"I'm glad to hear you say that, Miss Collier, because I'm taking you straight back to prison. We've been looking for you all day."

The 3-way baby of MoodWhiplash, CerebusSyndrome, and DownerEnding. See also DiabolusExMachina, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, TheBadGuyWins, GainaxEnding, CruelTwistEnding, ShootTheShaggyDog, and KillEmAll. Opposite of a SurprisinglyHappyEnding. Can be a result of CreatorBreakdown or used as a means to TorchTheFranchiseAndRun. Can result in an AudienceAlienatingEnding, cries of DarthWiki/RuinedForever and even {{Narm}} if handled poorly. Could have induced [[TooBleakStoppedCaring audience apathy]]...but then, you've probably already finished watching it, haven't you? If it's subverted for comedy, see ShockAndSwitchEnding. Contrast TearDryer.

* ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'': The first 4 out of 5 episodes will make you think that this OVA is just a silly, goofy, mushy comedy with some brutal fights between the main character Aya and her opponents in a tournament. Then the 5th episode comes in. To wit: Aya ends up killing her opponent in a BerserkerRage. Then, she finds out that every one of her friends was a BitchInSheepsClothing who had manipulated her right from the beginning. They mentally broke all the losers of the tournament, making them into "perfect women" to be sold into sexual slavery. Aya's "friends" did this because her parents did the same thing to their parents, and they want to kill her to get back at her mother. Then Aya's mother shows up and kills them off, revealing to her that this is a CycleOfRevenge going back to their grandparents. So KillEmAll ensues, with Aya limping away from the blown-up building. Then her so-called best friend's mother gets a visit from someone that she is very scared to see. There had been very few hints that something like this was going to happen.

* If you complete a KillEmAll run in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', both variants of the GoldenEnding gain a [[TheStinger Stinger]] that transforms them from ordinary happy endings into bad ones. After completing the KillEmAll run, the world was destroyed, and you had to sell your SOUL to the Fallen Child to get it back. The added stinger strongly implies that they intend to use that SOUL to take control of the PlayerCharacter and KillEmAll again without you.

->'''Cartman:''' And they all lived happily ever after...except for Kyle, who died of AIDS two weeks later.

->'''Kyle:''' Goddamn it, Cartman!

* ''Film/VoyageOfTheDamned'' , while a movie about a ship full of Jewish passengers escaping the horrors of Nazi Germany just before WWII, actually ends on an upbeat note as you find out the people onboard were given passage to safe ports across Europe. That is, until a series of titles reveals the fate of individual passengers whom we've come to know over the course of the film. The final one flatly states that about 2/3 of the people onboard the ship still ended up dead in the Holocaust despite getting away from Germany.

* ''VoyageOfTheDamned'' , while a movie about a ship full of Jewish passengers escaping the horrors of Nazi Germany just before WWII, actually ends on an upbeat note as you find out the people onboard were given passage to safe ports across Europe. That is, until a series of titles reveals the fate of individual passengers whom we've come to know over the course of the film. The final one flatly states that about 2/3 of the people onboard the ship still ended up dead in the Holocaust despite getting away from Germany.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', when you die during "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" endgame mission, no matter how much friendship have you developed, how much you getting along with others, many of them end up absolutely devastated upon hearing the news about your death, even though you're doing a SuicideMission [[TheLastDance on your own as]] YourDaysAreNumbered.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', when you die during "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" endgame mission, no matter how much friendship have you developed, how much you getting along with others, many of them end up absolutely devastated upon hearing the news about your death, even though you're doing a suicide run on your own as YourDaysAreNumbered.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', when you die during "{Don't Fear} the Reaper" endgame mission, no matter how much friendship have you developed, how much you getting along with others, many of them are absolutely devastated upon hearing the news about your death, even though you're doing a suicide run on your own as your days are numbered.

* ''Series/Akumaizer3'''s penultimate episode seemed to set the series up for being a happy ending, with the heroes reforming the Akuma Clan and finally defeating the BigBad, at least until the final episode, where the GreaterScopeVillain sends his [[TheBrute strongest warrior]] on a rampage that claims the lives of the Akumaizer 3's demon allies and ends with them killing him but losing their lives in the process.