History Main / WrapItUp

* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' skipped arcs about the Element Lords and Bota Magna in 2010 in order to get right to the final battle with [[BigBad Makuta]], and instead of producing the planned sequels for the movie ''The Legend Reborn'', LEGO had Creator/MichaelDorn record a web-exclusive audio retelling of the events in character. Although fans had Web serials, Website/BZPower, and [[http://www.biosector01.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page the wiki]] to expand on some of the left-out storylines, these were eventually left hanging as well.

* ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' suffered from poor toyline sales, possibly due to an outsized PeripheryDemographic. Network execs called a halt to the production of the show, forcing it to conclude at 35 episodes.

* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' was initially written with more episodes in mind, until it got cut in half due to low toy sales. This lead to a series finale that, in the words of the creators? Had to cram THREE SEASONS worth of material into 45 minutes making it feel very disjointed. We would later get a proper finale in the movie.

* The creator of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' was told the show wouldn't be renewed again early into the production of the third season, on top of the season order being shortened from 40 episodes to 20 (10 half-hours). Since the production team had only just finished outlining episodes at that point, he was able to easily convince the executives to let them scrap that work in favor of restructuring the entire season into a more serialized format that would conclude its various [[StoryArc story arcs]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' was canceled after the fifth season in 2013, due to Lucasfilm being brought by Disney, leaving the sixth season as nothing more than a pile of scripts. In 2018, it was given it a 12-episode mini-season to wrap up the last arcs and write the GrandFinale they never got to.

* ''VideoGame/AngryBirdsStarWars'': ''Star Wars II''’s final levels are all an extremely abridged version of the remaining portion of ''Attack of the Clones'' and ''Revenge of the Sith'' rather than longer versions of each story (by comparison, much of ''The Phantom Menace'' is covered). One gets the feeling that Rovio was running out of time to use the license and thus had to finish the game somehow.

Alternatively, TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised, and hanging questions from the TV series will be wrapped up in a theatrical release, {{OVA}}, comic book or other medium while sometimes still leaving room open for further flicks. These are, of course, pretty rare. See also FullyAbsorbedFinale, for when a multi-work franchise devotes an episode or short arc of a continuing work to wrapping up a cancelled one.

But there's an uneasy middle-ground that every network fears: one where there are enough fans and supportive critics to make them look bad for cancelling the show, but not enough to make a new series profitable. In this instance, the safest thing to do is to commission a TV movie or miniseries to Wrap It Up, answering all the hanging questions and providing the fans with enough resolution that they won't send tins of baby food to the network or spam message boards with claims that the executives are idiots.

* ''Series/AlienNation'' received five TV Movies to tie up loose ends with after FOX canceled the show.

* The staff behind ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' thought they'd be getting a full order for a seventh season, only to learn after they'd completed writing the sixth season ("Xerox of a Xerox" being intended as a season finale) that they wouldn't be renewed. Netflix gave them an additional four episodes to wrap up any loose ends, resulting in the season's two-part structure.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' third season functions as this, as instead of the full 20 half-hour episode order that the creator expected, she was alerted during the production of the second season that the executives could only be convinced to make a truncated order of 3 44-minute episodes instead.