History Main / TheFellowshipHasEnded

* ''VideoGame/MonacoWhatsYoursIsMine'' contains an evil example, with the characters ([[spoiler: deciding they don't want to split the take from all their larceny, resulting in a [=PvP=] only throw down in a what was originally a co-op game.]])

* ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}} ~After Story~'': Tomoya, Youhei, Kotomi, Ryou and Kyou graduate, and Nagisa is unable to revive the drama club [[spoiler:when she repeats her senior year ''again'' due to her illness. Youhei, Kotomi and the Fujibayashi sisters do later visit Tomoya and a pregnant Nagisa, but that's the last we see of them, except for Kyou, until the finale. In the RecapEpisode, Tomoya mentions that everyone reunited for New Year's as well.]]

* In episode 18 of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry: Gou'', there are inklings of this: in 1984, Mion (and likely Shion as an extension) have graduated and are attending high school thus leading to Keiichi taking on the leader role. And, Rika herself expresses a desire to attend St. Lucia Academy which means leaving Hinamizawa. With all of her friends seemingly parting ways, this could be the building blocks towards Satoko becoming the second looper.

%%* ''Literature/{{Slayers}} Try'': In the end, Lina and Goury are the only ones who actually stay together.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/XStatix''; in the second-to-last issue, the team finally reassembles Doop and its members decide to go their separate ways. However, Guy convinces them to come together for one last job. [[spoiler:The job goes south very quickly, resulting in the entire team dying]].

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' are supposed to have disbanded after the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', only for a [[ComicBook/NewAvengers new group]] (admittedly with a few returning members) to take up the name a couple months later.
* ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' ends with all of the Sinister Six except Overdrive and Beetle going their separate ways, as there's nothing holding them together anymore and most of the group hate each other now.
* Despite the absence of any internal conflicts, the ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'' break up in their last issue.
* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': After the conclusion of the "Hell on Earth War", the X-Factor Investigations team is split up for good with them all going their separate ways.

* In ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'', the original six dragon riders already had a more distant relationship than in canon, given Snotlout's frustration with following Hiccup's orders, but they permanently 'break up' after the trip to Norway to meet with Magnus, with the twins remaining in Norway after [[AltarDiplomacy Ruffnut marries Magnus]] while Snotlout relocates to the Roman Empire to find a new place for himself, leaving just Hiccup, Astrid, and Fishlegs in Berk.

* ''Fanfic/DevilTrigger'': By the start of the story, New Wave has been disbanded. Among the many contributions behind the dissolution of the independent cape group, and arguably the major factors, were Flashbang's death in 2001, Manpower being crippled in that same fight, and Fleur's death in 2007. The only active capes left from the remains of New Wave are Sarah and Crystal Pelham, with Crystal's brother Eric having joined the Wards.

* Enforced by Roland Bozz at the end of ''Film/{{Tigerland}}'' when he's about to leave his friend Jim Paxton behind at the end, taking his spot in Vietnam. Paxton offers to write to Bozz, but Bozz turns him down and wishes him a final farewell instead.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'': [[spoiler:After the Guardians defeat the High Evolutionary, most of the founding members of team decide to go their separate ways, except Rocket and Groot, who stay to be apart of the ''new'' Guardians of the Galaxy, with Rocket leading them.]]

* The TropeNamer, of course, is ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. While physically separated for much of the actual story, the Fellowship breaks apart after the Ring is destroyed and the members go about the rest of their lives. Aragorn rules Gondor as King Elessar with Arwen as his wife, Faramir and Éowyn get hitched in Rohan and go rule their own principality, Legolas and Gimli founded enclaves of the people in Aglarond and Ithilien, the four Hobbits return to and take back the Shire from Saruman and Grí­ma Wormtongue, and then Frodo and Bilbo leave with Gandalf and the Elves for the Undying Lands. Years, later Sam departs the Shire after his wife's death and follows Frodo over the Sea. Merry and Pippin travel to Gondor and spend their last few years there reunited with their old friends. And once Aragorn himself passes on, Legolas and Gimli depart Middle-Earth for good bringing the Fellowship to its final end.
* In the first arc of the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series, all four clans come together as one to drive off [=BloodClan=]. Once the battle was over, all four of them pretty much split up and went back to their own territories.
* After the whole Queen-and-Buckingham incident in ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' is resolved, the eponymous heroes and D'Artagnan each go their own way (but come back together in the sequels).

* The end of ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' is interesting, as the fellowship ends well before the climax. The main goal of the series is to reclaim the [[CosmicKeystone Orb of Aldur]] and return it; this done, the fellowship's purpose has ended, but the purpose of the Orb itself remains to be fulfilled: Garion has to take two of his companions to go meet and kill the BigBad. Some of the original team get back together for the ''Malloreon'', and break up again at the end of that series; however, because most of the party members are people of some political power, they have good reason to keep in contact and there's every indication that they still visit one another from time to time.
* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' provide a particular bittersweet example in the last book, considering that [[spoiler: what's left of the team in question]] is only ''sixteen years old'' when they all end up drifting apart. K.A. Applegate [[WordOfGod stated]] she deliberately used this trope for two reasons. The first was to show that [[TruthInTelevision war can bring people together,]] then make them split afterward. The other was that to subvert the usual happy ending teenage heroes get where they suffer no consequences from their actions.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDiperOverlode'': Near the end of the book, Löded Diper breaks up and Bill gets a job with another band (although he comes back after they fire him) while Mackie and Drew accept that they are never going to be rock stars and enroll in college and go to work at the deli, respectively. Downplayed in the sense that Rodrick and Bill are revealed to have reformed the band on the final page.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': While they never really drift apart (being married or in-laws by the book's end), the main trio's days of fighting evil as a group don't last very long after the seventh book: only Hermione finishes her seventh year and ends up working in the Ministry of Magic while Harry and Ron hunt down Death Eaters, and while Ron initially joins up with Harry as an Auror, he eventually works with his brother in their joke shop.

* ''Literature/DragonlanceTheNewAdventures'': The Dragon Quartet ends with the party splitting, though at first they only split into two groups: Nearra, Jirah, and Davyn have adventures together in the Trinistyr Trilogy, while Elidor, Catriona, and Sindri have their own in the Elidor Trilogy. After those, the groups further fracture, with Nearra and Jirah, Sindri, and Catriona having their own trilogies.

* This happened in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'' after the FinalBattle, with the dissolving of Dino Attack Team. Most noticeable in Greybeard's goodbyes to Sam Race and Frozeen, and the goodbyes between Zachary, Minerva, Holly, and Zelda.

*** And then for good in the ''Trespasser'' DLC. No matter which fate for the Inquisition you choose, be it downsizing to a simple peacekeeping force, or disbanding it completely, the final cutscene makes it abundantly clear that their days as a complete team are over. The last scene of the DLC is the group getting together one last time, and then, one by one, going their separate ways (except for the Inquisitor's love interest, who returns to their side after everyone leaves). The ModularEpilogue drives this home, describing the various fates of the party members post-Inquisition, though in most cases, it is made clear that the Inquisitor keeps in touch with at least their LI.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': The epilogue states that nearly all of Vyse's crew members for the duration of the fight against Valua and the destruction of the world leave once the threat's been vanquished. Most Valuans return home to help rebuild the country, others start or continue a family life, the questers on board get back to doing their own thing, and so on.
* A staple in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Old Republic series:
** Of the (surviving) party members from the first ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords KOTOR2]]'' reveals the following: Revan has vanished into the Unknown Regions, T3-M4 stayed with the ship, HK-47 is found in pieces, Canderous fools absolutely no one who played the first game [[spoiler:even though he's under a helmet and has taken the name/title of Mandalore (Kreia even calls him his real name once)]], Carth is an Admiral patrolling the Telos sector if you say Revan was light-sided. Bastila is [[spoiler: hiding with Carth]] if you say Revan was light-side male, [[spoiler:has vanished into the unknown in search of Revan]] if you say Revan was dark-sided (either gender), or conspicuously absent. The fates of Mission, Zaalbar, Jolee, and Juhani are "unknown", [[spoiler:mostly because a Dark-sided Revan would have to kill them]].
** In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', Kreia's final speech to the player character reveals that this will be the case of the Exile's crew. Provided you trained them in the ways of the Force, the Exile's companions instead [[spoiler:become the Jedi Masters who rebuild the Order]].
** ''{{Literature/Revan}}'' elaborates on this. Mission and Zaalbar run an import-export business (knowing Mission, it's probably a cover for smuggling). Canderous went back to his people and became Mandalore the Preserver. Bastila was left knocked up when Revan skipped town, resulting in a dynasty of Jedi Knights that ends up producing [[VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic Satele and Theron Shan]]. Carth steps in to hide Bastila and help raise the kid. Juhani and Jolee went back to the Order (fates still unknown in the ''[=KotOR2=]'' era). The Exile's crew go on to rebuild the Order. Meanwhile, Exile and Revan, T3-M4, and HK-47 try to take on the Emperor ''alone'', ending up respectively dead, worse than dead, vaporized, and reprogrammed, respectively--[[ShootTheShaggyDog and the Sith come in and curb-stomp the Republic anyway]].
** ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'':
*** ''Shadow of Revan'' saw a small-scale EnemyMine between the PlayerCharacter, Sith Lord Lana Beniko, and Republic SIS Agent Theron Shan against the Order of Revan, which grew to bring in Wookiee SpacePirate Jakarro and his droid C2-D4, Mandalorian chieftain Shae Vizsla, and eventually the respective armies of Jedi Grandmaster Satele Shan and Darth Marr. Once the expansion is over, the various parties go their separate ways: the Republic-Empire truce ends,[[note]]Shan and Marr separate amicably, and team up again later against the Sith Emperor[[/note]] Jakarro and C2 go back to [[NotSoSafeHarbor Rishi]], Shae and her clan leave to find new battles to fight, Lana takes a new position as head of Sith Intelligence, and Theron reports back to his superiors.
*** During the TimeSkip in ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'', the PlayerCharacter's crew turn out to have gone their separate ways. Some companions rejoin you during KOTFE's story, while some of the others can be re-recruited via Alliance Alert missions.
* The end of ''VideoGame/VandalHearts'' combines this with a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. After you defeat the BigBad, each character moves on to something new, whether it's more adventuring the land, rebuilding the nation or collecting stamps.
* Happens in most endings of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. Since most of the characters come from different time periods, this is only natural.

* Seems to happen somewhere between ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' and ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant''.

* Most ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' games end with the party members going their own way after finishing the journey, though most of the time they still keep in touch somehow.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' are such examples.
** At the end of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', all of the player characters separate in order to [[spoiler:focus on rebuilding the new world]] in their own way.
** Similarly, midway through ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', the world appears to be saved, so every party member parts ways. [[spoiler:After it becomes apparent that their work was unfinished, your party ends up rejoining.]]
* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'', all the party members go their separate ways in the ending slides, with no mention of what happened to the PlayerCharacter. The closest thing to an aversion is that some party members promise to stay with you into the far future if you romanced them, the implication being that your character is accompanying them on the path they go on in their ending slide. Of these, only Sebille (and the narrator in her scene) explicitly doubles down on it in the PlayableEpilogue.

* Happens at the end of every ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' game, usually shown in the form of a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, but the ones in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' stand out, as every character personally says what they intend to do now before venturing off.
* Destiny's Edge, the FiveManBand of famous heroes from ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' wound up splitting up five years before the start of the game [[spoiler: when Logan ran off on his own to save the queen from the dragon's minions, resulting in Zojja's mentor Snaff and another member being killed.]] Caithe later tries to reunite them in the character's personal story, [[spoiler: but it ends explosively; only Caith and Eir seem to have gotten over the mistakes of the past and Destiny's edge fails to pull together again.]]
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** The EpilogueLetter from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has Krile[[note]]or another party member, if she was [=KOed=] at the end of the last battle[[/note]] describe where everyone went after defeating Exdeath. Bartz and Boko are WalkingTheEarth again, Lenna is reigning on Tycoon's throne, Faris returns to captaining her pirate ship, and Krile herself has also traveled the new world while the throne of Bal is in limbo. Although she's saddened by the break-up of the party, they reunite at the Guardian Tree a year later to affirm that they'll always be there for each other in spite of leading separate lives.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' reveals that the ex-l'Cie from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' ([[spoiler:at least the ones who weren't trapped in crystal stasis and/or at the end of time]]) drifted apart after the Cocoon crisis.
** In the finale of the ''Endwalker'' expansion for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Scions of the Seventh Dawn disband to pursue their own personal dreams and for the Grand Companies of Eorzea to take charge in protecting Hydaelin's safety. Though with the understanding that they may need to reuinite some day.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** The game ends this way with its companion segments during the ending. No matter what the Courier accomplishes together with them or what they do to help with their personal quests, after the War of the Mojave ends they eventually part ways with the Courier. Some can be [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]], others find happiness in their paths, and some like Lilly and Veronica meet heartbreaking fates.
** This also happens at the ending of ''Dead Money'' DLC. The reason the group (The Courier, Dean Domino, Dog/God, and Christine) banded together was pretty flimsy to begin with and they did not trust each other. As soon as the threat of mutual destruction was gone, they went their own way without even exchanging goodbyes. The narration mentions that they wanted to get away before they all turned against each other.
* The epilogue of ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'' shows the main characters doing different things in different parts of the world, each apparently on their own. Except for Kyrie and Morte, who are now a couple looking out over the new water-filled sea.
* For most of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', you are part of a squad of samurai who are exploring a post apocalyptic Tokyo. Though they have their differences, the squad become very close allies over time. However, [[spoiler:after their meetings with the transformed and opposing angels Lilith and Gabriel, the group breaks up over differences of belief. Walter sides with Lilith, Jonathan sides with Gabriel and the other angels, and Isabeau is unsure what to do. While Flynn does briefly work together with Jonathan and Walter for a time after this, that part of the story only serves to widen the divide between the two, and ultimately Flynn has to decide who of his three previous allies to side with. The other two will eventually die.]]
* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'', you become part of the global demon alliance known as Bethel. While its branches get along for the most part, it becomes apparent that this is TeethClenchedTeamwork thanks to God's Condemnation keeping other deities from taking His place as TopGod (something ''many'' of the branch heads want for themselves). [[spoiler:Things come to a head at the pan-demonic summit once it becomes clear that God truly is dead and the Condemnation is no longer in play -- after Abdiel fails to kill the Nahobino, the branches break all their alliances with each other and make plans to take His throne.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky the 3rd'': After defeating the FinalBoss and putting [[spoiler:Rufina's copy]] to rest, the party decides to split. With the events in the real world increasingly pushing everyone to new locations, jobs, and responsibilities, they resolve to have one last, happy farewell in Phantasma, as the nature of its world was more of a temporary reunion than anything. Kevin and Ries have resolved to work together as Gralsritter of the Church, Tita and Agate have a lot of work in Zeiss's Factory, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Mueller and Olivier are needed in Erebonia]], Zin's going back to the Calvard Republic to join with Kilika, Richard has an intelligence-gathering company to manage, Kloe will be busy as Liberl's ambassador and [[spoiler:princess]] with Julia by her side, Josette and her brothers are busy with their new delivery company, Schera and Anelace are still with the Liberl bracer Guild, and Renne's whereabouts in the real world are still unknown as she runs off, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure with Estelle and Joshua determined to find her]]. While some of the party reunite in pairs or trios across the franchise, it would take 8 games until the group as a whole meet up again in one place.
* Agent Brown makes this discovery in ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited III'', when the BigBad flings him thirty years into the future. His first act, once he gets his bearings, is to try to contact HQ to see if they can help, only to hear a voicemail recording telling him that the detective group disbanded three years earlier. There's no indication of why, though, and back in the present they're still a united front.
* This is a staple with many a ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' entry. Whenever the villains are shut down, many of the heroes go on their separate ways, sometimes locking away their stupidly powerful machines with the idea that, nah, they don't need them again.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' ends with Mario and his partners splitting up and moving on with their lives after defeating Grodus and the Shadow Queen. They're not so far apart that they won't [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether immediately rejoin you]] for the postgame, though.

* The ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' trilogy ends when Tact Mayers and the Moon Angel Wing save the galaxy from the Valfask at the end of ''Eternal Lovers''. In the 4-year interlude before ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'' rolls around, with the discovery of ABSOLUTE and the Chrono Gates leading to other universes, the Angels go their separate ways to pursue different careers: Milfie becomes the Gatekeeper between the EDEN and NEUE universes, Ranpha becomes an ambassador for EDEN in Magiic, Mint succeeds her father as head of the Blancmanche Corporation while also running the NEUE branch personally, Forte and Chitose staying active in the military training their successors in the Rune Angel Wing, and Vanilla becomes a nanomachine researcher in Pico. However, [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether they do come back together]] to assist at crucial moments during the first and the final game of the trilogy.

* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'''s epilogue shows that this has happened to the protagonists- Thief went back to Elfland, Red Mage tried to start up his own group (of people who are the last surviving members of an order[[note]]That is his status as the last Red Mage, not the last Light Warrior[[/note]]), and Fighter and Black Mage are still WalkingTheEarth [[AndTheAdventureContinues looking for work.]]
* The characters of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' were rarely together in one place, but at least kept in contact via chats. After the final battles, the cast all attain different responsibilities and slowly drift apart. Karkat, Dave, and Jade apparently live together, Jane took over Crocker Corporation, Roxy and Calliope rule the Prospitian Kingdom, Dirk and Jake rule the Consort Kingdom, Rose and Kanaya are married with Matriorb duties, Terezi searches the Furthest Ring for those unaccounted for (Aradia, Vriska, Sollux, etc.), and John lives alone in an isolated location (until Caliborn challenges him to a duel, which he answers).

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The final episode ends with Bill Cipher defeated and the universe saved; Dipper and Mabel, who were only visiting for the summer, take the last bus back to California while [[spoiler:Stan and Ford, their differences reconciled, leave town to explore a mystery in the Antarctic Ocean together.]] The rest of the cast continue to live in Gravity Falls, [[spoiler:with Soos taking over the Mystery Shack]], and Mabel and Dipper plan to come back next summer.
* ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'': A consequence of He-Man and Skeletor's final battle was breaking the morale of He-Man's friends, causing them to go their separate ways. However, Teela wants to bring them back together again so that they can save Eternia.
* The DistantFinale of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' reveals what became of the Ghost crew after the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Battle of Endor]]. [[spoiler:Zeb took Kallus with him to Lira San, where the ex-Imperial learned of the Lasat race's survival and was welcomed as one of their own. Rex and Hera continued to serve in the Alliance until after Endor. Hera is revealed to have given birth to [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Kanan's son]], who by then was several years old. Sabine stayed on Lothal, and is seen at the end of the episode leaving with a white-robed Ahsoka Tano to search for Ezra, who had disappeared pulling a HeroicSacrifice in the final battle]].

* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'' begins with this trope.

->''Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea, comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.''
-->-- '''Gandalf the White''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': The conclusion to each main saga plays as this, with Ash and his companions going their separate ways. Though occasionally [[TheBusCameBack a previous companion returns for a few episodes]], and [[TeamDad Brock]] rejoined Ash after leaving three separate times (the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite fourth time]], it stuck).

** ''Phantom Blood'' ended up having this happen tragically as, while Johnathan defeats Dio, parts with Tompetty, Straizo and Speedwagon on friendly terms, and gets married to Erina and planning for a honeymoon cruise, [[spoiler:Dio ends up killing him in a sneak attack; though Johnathan manages to trap him on the ship he took over as well and save Erina and an orphan child from the blast of the boiler.]]