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* The third level of ''EternalDarkness''. Anthony is corrupted by the evil magical scroll intended for Charlemagne, and he [[BodyHorror slowly becomes more and more zombified]] as you progress through the level, desperately trying to find Charlemagne and warn him that conspirators want him dead. At the end of the level, Anthony staggers into a room to find two of the evil monks standing over the king's corpse, slumped in a chair. Really, ''EternalDarkness'' features a few examples of this sort of thing, but Anthony's is probably the best one.
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* The opinion of many a more conservative person of the [[MagicalParticleAccelerator Large Hadron Collider]]'s [[SuperMode mode change]] from firing protons to heavy lead ions [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228 as part of the ALICE Experiment]], as most US news outlets did not report on the event (the planning of which was the catalyst for many a [[TheEndIsNigh Doomsday Theory]] about [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Holes]] and [[TheVirus Strangelets]]) until an entire day later. Of course, for the rest of us geeks, it's an [[Awesome/RealLife Crowning Moment of Awesome for Science]].
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* The opinion of many a more conservative person of the [[MagicalParticleAccelerator Large Hadron Collider]]'s [[SuperMode mode change]] from firing protons to heavy lead ions [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228 as part of the ALICE Experiment]], as most US news outlets did not report on the event (the planning of which was the catalyst for many a [[TheEndIsNigh Doomsday Theory]] about [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Holes]] and [[TheVirus Strangelets]]) until an entire day later. Of course, for the rest of us geeks, it's an a [[Awesome/RealLife Crowning Moment of Awesome for Science]].
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* The opinion of many a more conservative person of the [[MagicalParticleAccelerator Large Hadron Collider]]'s [[SuperMode mode change]] from firing protons to heavy lead ions [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228 as part of the ALICE Experiment]], as most US news outlets did not report on the event (the planning of which was the catalyst for many a [[TheEndIsNigh Doomsday Theory]] about [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Holes]] and [[TheVirus Strangelets]]) until an entire day later. Of course, for the rest of us geeks, it's an [[Awesome/RealLife Crowning Moment of Awesome for Science]].
* The opinion of many a more conservative person of the [[MagicalParticleAccelerator Large Hadron Collider]]'s [[SuperMode mode change]] from firing protons to heavy lead ions [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228 as part of the ALICE Experiment]], as most US news outlets did not report on the event (the planning of which was the catalyst for many a [[TheEndIsNigh Doomsday Theory]] about [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Holes]] and [[TheVirus Strangelets]]) until an entire day later. Of course, for the rest of us geeks, it's an [[Awesome/RealLife Crowning Moment of Awesome for Science]].
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* BobAndGeorge [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040223c Only a few moments too late]]
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* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'' Hisui's Good End, ManipulativeBastard [[spoiler: Kohaku completes her revenge on the Tohno family, ending in the deaths of Makihisa and his son SHIKI.]] However, Makihisa was a JerkAss and SHIKI is the BigBad.
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The Tsukihime example doesn't really fit. At no point does Shiki confront Kohaku about her plan only for her to tell him "You're too late." In fact, Shiki is not too late because thinking of the right thing to say leads to Hisui's Good End.
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* Doesn't this also happen in ''Aladdin'' where Jafar wishes himself the most powerful sorcerer in the world, only for Aladdin to manage to trick him into becoming a genie? And doesn't this happen in ''TheLionKing'' where Scar successfully becomes King? Or in ''TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' where Frollo manages to capture Esmeralda and finds the Court of Miracles? Disney has a trend of using this trope, doesn't it...?
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* Watchmen, as quoted at the top of the trope itself, is the most obvious example of this trope. Could be taken as a fourth kind due to the journal or a fifth kind depending on your outlook (indeed, part of the book's appeal lies in interpreting it), but Ozymandias is undeniably a villain (having wiped out a heavily-populated city based on a crackpot scheme) and wins.
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Entirely spoiler'd examples...aren't. There's a spoiler warning at the top of the page for a reason.
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* In ''ModernWarfare 2'', you hear your commanding officer yell at you over the radio that [[spoiler: General Shepherd has set you up; and should not be trusted. You get the memo shortly '''after''' Shepherd shoots you and your team mate, Ghost, in the chest, and has his goons soak your bodies in kerosene and set you on fire. Thankfully, Soap and Price decide to take him out for good]].
** [[spoiler:But even still, at the end of the game Soap and Price are wanted as traitors with no real way to clear their names, the Americans have repelled the Russian invasion but at the cost of many civilian deaths and the eastern seaboard heavily damaged by an EMP, Makarov escaped, and World War III is just getting underway.]]
** [[spoiler:But even still, at the end of the game Soap and Price are wanted as traitors with no real way to clear their names, the Americans have repelled the Russian invasion but at the cost of many civilian deaths and the eastern seaboard heavily damaged by an EMP, Makarov escaped, and World War III is just getting underway.]]
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* In ''ModernWarfare 2'', you hear your commanding officer yell at you over the radio that [[spoiler: General Shepherd has set you up; and should not be trusted. You get the memo shortly '''after''' Shepherd shoots you and your team mate, Ghost, in the chest, and has his goons soak your bodies in kerosene and set you on fire. Thankfully, Soap and Price decide to take him out for good]].
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**[[spoiler:But even still, Still, at the end of the game Soap and Price are wanted as traitors with no real way to clear their names, the Americans have repelled the Russian invasion but at the cost of many civilian deaths and the eastern seaboard heavily damaged by an EMP, Makarov escaped, and World War III is just getting underway.]]
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* In ''Players of {{Gor}}'' (book 20) Cabot learns of a plot by Cos, Tyros, Brundisium and [[SixthColumn certain factions in Ar]] to attack Ar. He gets the evidence, then learns that it's actually happening right now. The evidence is now worthless so he burns it.
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* In ''TheGodfather'' [[Game/TheGodfather game]], you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler: Sonny's death]] and can only avenge him by fighting his killers and finding the man responsible.
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* In ''TheGodfather'' [[Game/TheGodfather game]], ''Game/TheGodfather'' game, you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler: Sonny's death]] and can only avenge him by fighting his killers and finding the man responsible.
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** And earlier on, you also fail to prevent [[spoiler: your girlfriend's death]]. But like the previous example, you also have to find and kill the responsible.
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* ''{{Watchmen}}'' was the former TropeNamer, and gives us one of the most magnificent and memorable examples of this trope, as outlined in the quote above.
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* ''{{Watchmen}}'' was the former TropeNamer, and gives us one of the most magnificent and memorable examples of this trope, as outlined in the quote above.
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The villain is a WellIntentionedExtremist, and his plan really was for the [[AndItWorked greater good]] or at least close enough to be debatable.
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The villain is a WellIntentionedExtremist, and his plan really was for the [[AndItWorked greater good]] or at least close enough to be debatable. \n If instead the hero had won, it would have been a NiceJobBreakingItHero.
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* In ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=] 2'', Ezio arrives at [[spoiler: the Doge's palace too late to stop Carlo Grimaldi poisoning him, and though the Templar is killed, the Doge dies anyway and another Templar, Marco Barbarigo, is installed as the new Doge.]] For now anyway.
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* In the 2009 {{DCU}} one-shot "Faces of Evil: Kobra", the new leader of the Kobra cult is [[DoNotAdjustYourSet broadcasting to the world]] his intentions to transform the organization and kill everyone associated with his predecessor. He does this from within a Checkmate base, where earlier in the issue, Superman had delivered a bunker full of half-reptilian HalfHumanHybrid babies rescued from the predecessor's {{Tykebomb}} program. As the new Kobra prepares to execute the infants, Superman takes off from the JLA satellite, but finds only flaming rubble when he arrives at what used to be the Checkmate base, making it apparent that the broadcast was not live.
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* In the second ''{{Onimusha}}'' game, when [[YagyuJubei Jubei]] finally confronts demonic EvilOverlord [[OdaNobunaga Nobunaga]], Nobunaga immediately tells Jubei that he is too late and that Nobunaga has completed the final step of his plan, animating a giant golden statue. (Considering that you could only learn of this plan through a couple of notes left laying around, players who either didn't find or pay attention to these notes could conceivably have no idea what Nobunaga is talking about). Fortunately Jubei gets an EleventhHourSuperpower from the {{MacGuffin}}s he has been collecting, enabling him to take Nobunaga down in a not terribly difficult boss fight.
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->"Do it?" Dan, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I'm not a Republic serial villain.]] Do you seriously think I'd [[HannibalLecture explain my masterstroke]] if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy I did it thirty-five minutes ago]].
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** Even if the big scary demons have been locked away for good there are still going to be far reaching consequences. The Septim line and the threat of the world's destruction by Oblivion were the bubblegum and string holding the entire Imperium together. With no more central authority deriving from a legitimate emporer expect every ambitious lordling in the farther flung lands to declare his independence.
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* ''FinalFantasyTactics'' - Not only does [[IdiotHero Ramza]] never show up in time to make any difference (except [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out some demons]]), he is played for a XanatosSucker for most of the game. (Okay, so he's eventually VindicatedByHistory, but that's ''centuries'' down the road.)
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* ''FinalFantasyTactics'' - Not only does [[IdiotHero Ramza]] never show up in time to make any difference (except [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out some demons]]), he is played for a XanatosSucker UnwittingPawn for most of the game. (Okay, so he's eventually VindicatedByHistory, but that's ''centuries'' down the road.)
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* ''{{Persona 3}}''. The party is the XanatosSucker that, about halfway in, allows the BigBad to summon the EldritchAbomination, and find out three-thirds down the story that they've been too late to stop it ever since. They nonetheless manage to prevent the Abomination from destroying humanity, [[spoiler:though the main character dies in the process of doing it]].
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* ''{{Persona 3}}''. The party is the XanatosSucker UnwittingPawn that, about halfway in, allows the BigBad to summon the EldritchAbomination, and find out three-thirds down the story that they've been too late to stop it ever since. They nonetheless manage to prevent the Abomination from destroying humanity, [[spoiler:though the main character dies in the process of doing it]].
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* The ending of the first MythArc of ''{{Bionicle}}''. [[BigBad Makuta Teridax]] is revealed to have been playing the heroes as [[XanatosSucker Xanatos Suckers]], taking possession of Mata Nui's body, a HumongousMecha containing the whole Matoran World, during a crucial part of the process of reviving the Great Spirit so that when the Toa Nuva finally awoke Mata Nui, they woke it with his mind. Mata Nui's soul itself is placed inside the Mask of Life and jettisoned out into space.
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* The ending of the first MythArc of ''{{Bionicle}}''. [[BigBad Makuta Teridax]] is revealed to have been playing the heroes as [[XanatosSucker Xanatos Suckers]], [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]], taking possession of Mata Nui's body, a HumongousMecha containing the whole Matoran World, during a crucial part of the process of reviving the Great Spirit so that when the Toa Nuva finally awoke Mata Nui, they woke it with his mind. Mata Nui's soul itself is placed inside the Mask of Life and jettisoned out into space.
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** Link please? A CMOA like that should be here for all the world to see.
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* ''FinalFantasy''. Constantly.
** In ''FinalFantasyIV'', you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler:Anna's death]].
** In ''FinalFantasyV'', you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler:[[ApocalypseHow the end of the universe]] but the universe starts reboots]].
** In ''FinalFantasyVI'', you arrive too late to prevent the poisoning of Doma. And [[spoiler:TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
** In ''FinalFantasyVII'', you arrive too late to give Yuffie the what-for because she's already been kidnapped.
** In ''FinalFantasyTactics'', you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler:St. Ajora's resurrection]].
* Subverted in ''ChronoTrigger'', in that you arrive too late to prevent Marle from being deleted from the timeline, but you are JustInTime to prevent the event that deletes her. [[DoctorWho I hate time travel.]]
** In ''FinalFantasyIV'', you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler:Anna's death]].
** In ''FinalFantasyV'', you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler:[[ApocalypseHow the end of the universe]] but the universe starts reboots]].
** In ''FinalFantasyVI'', you arrive too late to prevent the poisoning of Doma. And [[spoiler:TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
** In ''FinalFantasyVII'', you arrive too late to give Yuffie the what-for because she's already been kidnapped.
** In ''FinalFantasyTactics'', you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler:St. Ajora's resurrection]].
* Subverted in ''ChronoTrigger'', in that you arrive too late to prevent Marle from being deleted from the timeline, but you are JustInTime to prevent the event that deletes her. [[DoctorWho I hate time travel.]]
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** Again in season 8: [[spoiler: Jack and co. arrive at the apartment where Hassan's execution is being broadcast from, only to discover that the broadcast was time-delayed and that the execution already took place.]]
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* In ''TheGodfather'' [[Game/TheGodfather game]], you arrive too late to prevent [[spoiler: Sonny's death]] and can only avenge him by fighting his killers and finding the man responsible.
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* Dio in the first arc of ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure''. Although he seemingly dies along with Jonathan, he comes back for an epic sequel in Part 3, leaving us to imply that he indeed won.
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* ''TanzDerVampire'' lets Professor Abronsius and his assistant Alfred believe they've saved the beautiful Sarah from the clutches of the vampire lord Graf von Krolock, complete with a dramatic getaway from the ball where she was the Graf's main course. All seems well, and Alfred and Sarah embrace, at which point Sarah reveals a shiny new pair of fangs and attacks Alfred, draining him and making him a vampire too. The rest of the vampires then arrive to claim the audience themselves as their new prey...
* ''TanzDerVampire'' lets Professor Abronsius and his assistant Alfred believe they've saved the beautiful Sarah from the clutches of the vampire lord Graf von Krolock, complete with a dramatic getaway from the ball where she was the Graf's main course. All seems well, and Alfred and Sarah embrace, at which point Sarah reveals a shiny new pair of fangs and attacks Alfred, draining him and making him a vampire too. The rest of the vampires then arrive to claim the audience themselves as their new prey...
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* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'' Hisui's Good End, ManipulativeBastard [[spoiler: Kohaku completes her revenge on the Tohno family, ending in the deaths of Makihisa and his son SHIKI.]] However, Makihisa was a JerkAss and SHIKI is the BigBad...SoYeah.
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* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'' Hisui's Good End, ManipulativeBastard [[spoiler: Kohaku completes her revenge on the Tohno family, ending in the deaths of Makihisa and his son SHIKI.]] However, Makihisa was a JerkAss and SHIKI is the BigBad...SoYeah.
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* "Team America: World Police": Seemingly invokes but also parodies this trope: Before the Big Bad sets off his doomsday device, he says "You see? No knight came riding in on a white starrion[sic] to save the day. Your world is now over...[[spoiler: in five minutes.]]"
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* "Team ''[[TeamAmericaWorldPolice Team America: World Police": Police]]'': Seemingly invokes but also parodies this trope: Before the Big Bad sets off his doomsday device, he says "You see? No knight came riding in on a white starrion[sic] to save the day. Your world is now over...[[spoiler: in five minutes.]]"]]"
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The villain is a WellIntentionedExtremist, and his plan really was for the [[AndItWorked greater good good]] or at least close enough to be debatable.
