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16th May '13 7:46:04 PM 2writeis2life

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* ''FateZero'' ends like this, which shouldn't surprise anyone who is familiar with ''FateStayNight'', given that ''Zero'' is the prequel and [[DoomedByCanon sets up the scenario]] for ''Stay Night'', but the details are [[TearJerker heart wrenching]]. [[spoiler:At the end, Kiritsugu is forced to destroy the Grail which he had banked all his hopes on because it had become corrupted. His wife is dead, he will never see his daughter again, and [[DoomedProtagonist he has only a few years to live]]. Sakura is still with the Matou. Saber still blames herself for the destruction of her kingdom. Worst of all, the villains all survive. The one ray of hope that keeps this from being the worst DownerEnding of all time is that Shirou has taken up Kiritsugu's ideal and will eventually make things better.]]
* ''{{Shiki}}'' ends with about 90% of the cast getting killed off in horrific, pointless ways, and then [[spoiler: the village of Sotoba, which most of the remaining living humans sacrificed their sanity to protect from the vampires, ends up burning to the ground. Oh, and the only vampire who survives is the one who engineered the entire thing.]]

11th May '13 7:51:32 PM Windborne

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18th Mar '13 11:19:14 PM SCDifference

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*** To elaborate: [[spoiler: Remember that time when it seemed that kind, but crippingly insecure protagonist of ours appeared to TakeALevelInBadass and saved his then de-facto girlfriend in an impressive act of willpower and heroism that seemed to involve him shrugging of mayor internal injuries and his skin burning off just to get to her? She is still dead, and he inadvertedly blew up most of the planet.He was set up to do so, by the plotting of ancients conspiracies. All the friends he made over the course of the last two movies either died at his own hands, or hate his guts, including what was once his warm, caring ParentalSubstitute. Horrified with what he's done and struggling to cope with the death of his love interest (not made easier by the presence of her clone), he still manages to find hope when he befriends an enigmatic boy who tells him of a possible ResetButton. Determined to reverse TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt with all his might, even if that means fighting his former friends, he gives his all to reach the [[MacGuffin McGuffins]] needed for that... turns out he was tricked and what he just did was trigger yet another worldwide cataclysm. The afore mentioned new friend sacrifices himself to stop it, but it ''doesn't help'' - it is someone else who ends the apocalyse by yanking him out of his mecha. Not only was all he ever did rendered moot, all his sincere attempts to help end up making everythiong worse. ]]By the end of it, his body's still working, but he's pretty much dead on the inside, near-catatonic with guilt and grief.

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*** To elaborate:[[spoiler: Remember that time when it seemed that kind, but crippingly insecure protagonist of ours appeared to TakeALevelInBadass and saved his then de-facto girlfriend in an impressive act of willpower and heroism that seemed to involve him shrugging off major internal injuries and his skin burning off just to get to her? She is still dead, and he inadvertently blew up most of the planet. He was set up to do so, by the plotting of ancient conspiracies. All the friends he made over the course of the last two movies either died at his own hands, or hate his guts, including what was once his warm, caring ParentalSubstitute. Horrified with what he's done and struggling to cope with the death of his love interest (not made easier by the presence of her clone), he still manages to find hope when he befriends an enigmatic boy who tells him of a possible ResetButton. Determined to reverse TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt with all his might, even if that means fighting his former friends, he gives his all to reach the [[MacGuffin MacGuffins]] needed for that... turns out he was tricked and what he just did was trigger yet another worldwide cataclysm. The aforementioned new friend sacrifices himself to stop it, but it ''doesn't help'' - it is someone else who ends the apocalyse by yanking him out of his mecha. Not only was all he ever did rendered moot, all his sincere attempts to help end up making everything worse.]] By the end of it, his body's still working, but he's pretty much dead on the inside, near-catatonic with guilt and grief.

23rd Jan '13 10:38:31 PM Kid

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21st Jan '13 9:04:32 PM ThePope

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* A villainous example happens in the Fishman Island Arc [[spoiler: Hordy Jones is an extremely racist Fishman who uses energy steroids to gain the power to take over the island and eventually of mankind. He had also murdered the reigning queen of the time and frame it on a human in order to make sure he'd have a loyal following of like-minded thinkers. After going through massive beatings from Luffy, he is defeated and the truth of the steroids is revealed. It turns out they're a special candy of the royal kingdom that accelerates the aging process, to which he and his men had overdosed on; leading them to become extremely elderly men. Even if he did manage todefeat Luffy, which is very slim, seeing how he was effortlessly beaten, he'd be too fragile and weak to achieve his ambitions. Also having admitted to his direct hand in the murder, as well as his abuse of literally every single major life in the kingdom, has made sure he's not going to paroled or jail-breaked from his imprisonment anytime soon]].

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* A villainous example happens in the Fishman Island Arc: [[spoiler:Hody Jones is an extremely racist Fishman who uses energy steroids to gain the power to take over the island and eventually of mankind. He had also murdered the reigning queen of the time and frame it on a human in order to make sure he'd have a loyal following of like-minded thinkers. After going through massive beatings from Luffy, he is defeated and the truth of the steroids is revealed. It turns out they're a special candy of the royal kingdom that accelerates the aging process, to which he and his men had overdosed on; leading them to become extremely elderly men. Even if he did manage todefeat Luffy, which is very slim, seeing how he was effortlessly beaten, he'd be too fragile and weak to achieve his ambitions. Also having admitted to his direct hand in the murder, as well as his abuse of literally every single major life in the kingdom, has made sure he's not going to paroled or jail-breaked from his imprisonment anytime soon]].

14th Jan '13 5:12:43 AM TheOneWhoTropes

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12th Jan '13 9:28:24 AM blackmon

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12th Jan '13 9:20:01 AM blackmon

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10th Jan '13 8:22:35 PM LDragon2