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** The extra chapter steers this into a HappyEnding, through BigDamnReunion.
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* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.
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* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''.''Literature/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.
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** One airing of the anime's dub in New Zealand actually ended the ''current airing run'' with that episode, meaning there was no answer as to what killed Krillin or why!
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** Since a lot of people in Japan were familiar with the eponymous tale and how it ended, fans of the show sent tearful mails to the staff days before the final episode aired, pleading not to have Nello and Patrasche die at the end. The staff went ahead anyway, devastating everyone who watched it. Yes, even those who wrote the letters.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the conclusion of the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai arc. After Goku loses to Tenshinhan in the finals but befriends him all the same, Krillin is killed off-panel when he goes to fetch Goku's Four-Star Ball and Nyoi-bo. Made worse in the anime where it happens as they have a victory dinner, but Goku [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness doesn't feel like eating at all]] until he gets a horrible feeling and sprints back to the tournament grounds.
** One airing of the anime's dub in New Zealand actually ended the ''current airing run'' with that episode, meaning there was no answer as to what killed Krillin or why!
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* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that Mahoro would die. It's the whole premise. The ending is still ridiculously dark. [[GainaxEnding And confusing.]]
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In the [[GainaxEnding very last minute]] of the series, Stocking turns out to be evil, slices Panty into 666 pieces, and walks into the sunset with the revived BigBad. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but it just comes so out of nowhere that the audience is left shocked and confused.
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* The 1975 anime adaptation of ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', true to the original material, has the main character and his dog freeze to death in the last episode. The series is quite positive and upbeat (and looks like ''Heidi'') otherwise, so to many children, this came as quite a shock.
** Since a lot of people in Japan were familiar with the eponymous tale and how it ended, fans of the show sent tearful mails to the staff days before the final episode aired, pleading not to have Nello and Patrasche die at the end. The staff went ahead anyway, devastating everyone who watched it. Yes, even those who wrote the letters.
* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* Despite being a comedy, ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' infamously ended with a pretty devastating one. Kiyoshi spends the entire series trying to get with Chiyo, the kind-hearted younger sister of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil President, and risks getting beaten or expelled at every turn for her. The final arc of the manga revolves around his LoveConfession to her, but Hana tries to [[RelationshipSabotage sabotage it in order to keep Kiyoshi for herself]]. She ends up succeeding at the last second after revealing that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kiyoshi was still wearing her panties]], and as a result Chiyo is shown to end up [[BreakTheCutie becoming a bitter man-hater like her sister]] and it's heavily implied that boys at the school will continue to suffer with her as President.
* ''Hoshino, Close Your Eyes'' is a niche series with an infamous ending that many believe was the author lashing out at the publisher out of spite after being denied an anime adaptation. The main character Kobayakawa is a socially awkward loner who gradually learns to come out of his shell and make friends. In the end, he suddenly becomes HisOwnWorstEnemy and rejects his crush after her LoveConfession on the grounds that he doesn't feel that he's good enough for her. His friends [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encourage him to stop being an idiot]] but he reinforces his decision by cutting contact with everyone. In the end, after he's burned bridges with all the friends he made over the past year they all go on to lead happy, successful lives [[ShaggyDogStory while he goes back to being the asocial]] LoserProtagonist he was at the start.
* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* The 1975 anime adaptation of ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', true to the original material, has the main character and his dog freeze to death in the last episode. The series is quite positive and upbeat (and looks like ''Heidi'') otherwise, so to many children, this came as quite a shock.
** Since a lot of people in Japan were familiar with the eponymous tale and how it ended, fans of the show sent tearful mails to the staff days before the final episode aired, pleading not to have Nello and Patrasche die at the end. The staff went ahead anyway, devastating everyone who watched it. Yes, even those who wrote the letters.
* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* Despite being a comedy, ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' infamously ended with a pretty devastating one. Kiyoshi spends the entire series trying to get with Chiyo, the kind-hearted younger sister of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil President, and risks getting beaten or expelled at every turn for her. The final arc of the manga revolves around his LoveConfession to her, but Hana tries to [[RelationshipSabotage sabotage it in order to keep Kiyoshi for herself]]. She ends up succeeding at the last second after revealing that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kiyoshi was still wearing her panties]], and as a result Chiyo is shown to end up [[BreakTheCutie becoming a bitter man-hater like her sister]] and it's heavily implied that boys at the school will continue to suffer with her as President.
* ''Hoshino, Close Your Eyes'' is a niche series with an infamous ending that many believe was the author lashing out at the publisher out of spite after being denied an anime adaptation. The main character Kobayakawa is a socially awkward loner who gradually learns to come out of his shell and make friends. In the end, he suddenly becomes HisOwnWorstEnemy and rejects his crush after her LoveConfession on the grounds that he doesn't feel that he's good enough for her. His friends [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encourage him to stop being an idiot]] but he reinforces his decision by cutting contact with everyone. In the end, after he's burned bridges with all the friends he made over the past year they all go on to lead happy, successful lives [[ShaggyDogStory while he goes back to being the asocial]] LoserProtagonist he was at the start.
* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In The end of the [[GainaxEnding ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' prequel film ''Legend of Kenshiro'' is so pointlessly sadistic it could have been written by Thouzer himself. Ken has recovered his spirit, embraced his destiny as the messiah, and saved the city... then Siska turns out to have a ''third'' detonator and blows it up anyway, leaving Kenshiro screaming despondently among the ruins and corpses of his friends. The only thing that saves this movie from being a ''complete'' downer is the fact that after the credits roll comes a montage of the very last minute]] first episode of the series, Stocking turns out to be evil, slices Panty into 666 pieces, where Kenshiro meets Bat and walks into Lin and battles Zeed, setting off on his path to become the sunset with the revived BigBad. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but it just comes so out Savior of nowhere that the audience is left shocked and confused.
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* The 1975 anime adaptation of ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', trueCentury's End, set to the original material, has the main character and his dog freeze to death in the last episode. The series is quite positive and upbeat (and looks like ''Heidi'') otherwise, so to many children, this came as quite a shock.
** Since a lotvery awesome "Road of people in Japan were familiar with the eponymous tale and how it ended, fans of the show sent tearful mails to the staff days before the final episode aired, pleading not to have Nello and Patrasche die at the end. The staff went ahead anyway, devastating everyone who watched it. Yes, even those who wrote the letters.
* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* Despite being a comedy, ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' infamously ended with a pretty devastating one. Kiyoshi spends the entire series trying to get with Chiyo, the kind-hearted younger sister of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil President, and risks getting beaten or expelled at every turn for her. The final arc of the manga revolves around his LoveConfession to her, but Hana tries to [[RelationshipSabotage sabotage it in order to keep Kiyoshi for herself]]. She ends up succeeding at the last second after revealing that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kiyoshi was still wearing her panties]], and as a result Chiyo is shown to end up [[BreakTheCutie becoming a bitter man-hater like her sister]] and it's heavily implied that boys at the school will continue to suffer with her as President.
* ''Hoshino, Close Your Eyes'' is a niche series with an infamous ending that many believe was the author lashing out at the publisher out of spite after being denied an anime adaptation. The main character Kobayakawa is a socially awkward loner who gradually learns to come out of his shell and make friends. In the end, he suddenly becomes HisOwnWorstEnemy and rejects his crush after her LoveConfession on the grounds that he doesn't feel that he's good enough for her. His friends [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encourage him to stop being an idiot]] but he reinforces his decision by cutting contact with everyone. In the end, after he's burned bridges with all the friends he made over the past year they all go on to lead happy, successful lives [[ShaggyDogStory while he goes back to being the asocial]] LoserProtagonist he was at the start.
* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.Lords".
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* The 1975 anime adaptation of ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', true
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* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* Despite being a comedy, ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' infamously ended with a pretty devastating one. Kiyoshi spends the entire series trying to get with Chiyo, the kind-hearted younger sister of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil President, and risks getting beaten or expelled at every turn for her. The final arc of the manga revolves around his LoveConfession to her, but Hana tries to [[RelationshipSabotage sabotage it in order to keep Kiyoshi for herself]]. She ends up succeeding at the last second after revealing that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kiyoshi was still wearing her panties]], and as a result Chiyo is shown to end up [[BreakTheCutie becoming a bitter man-hater like her sister]] and it's heavily implied that boys at the school will continue to suffer with her as President.
* ''Hoshino, Close Your Eyes'' is a niche series with an infamous ending that many believe was the author lashing out at the publisher out of spite after being denied an anime adaptation. The main character Kobayakawa is a socially awkward loner who gradually learns to come out of his shell and make friends. In the end, he suddenly becomes HisOwnWorstEnemy and rejects his crush after her LoveConfession on the grounds that he doesn't feel that he's good enough for her. His friends [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encourage him to stop being an idiot]] but he reinforces his decision by cutting contact with everyone. In the end, after he's burned bridges with all the friends he made over the past year they all go on to lead happy, successful lives [[ShaggyDogStory while he goes back to being the asocial]] LoserProtagonist he was at the start.
* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.
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* The end of the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' prequel film ''Legend of Kenshiro'' is so pointlessly sadistic it could have been written by Thouzer himself. Ken has recovered his spirit, embraced his destiny as the messiah, and saved the city… then Siska turns out to have a ''third'' detonator and blows it up anyway, leaving Kenshiro screaming despondently among the ruins and corpses of his friends. The only thing that saves this movie from being a ''complete'' downer is the fact that after the credits roll comes a montage of the very first episode of the series, where Kenshiro meets Bat and Lin and battles Zeed, setting off on his path to become the Savior of Century's End, set to the very awesome "Road of Lords".
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route from the game all the way up to the more-or-less happy ending Elen and Reiji got, ending on the same image of Elen standing in the middle of the flower field, smiling...then an Inferno sniper shoots Reiji dead and Elen kills herself out of grief. Which is NOT something that happened in the game.
* The 1981 anime ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Kyōfu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein]]'' features a particularly off-the-wall instance of this trope. In this version of the story, Frankenstein's Monster befriends a little girl, whose father and the other villagers try to kill him. Frankie fights them off, but the little girl gets hurt in the crossfire, so he realizes that as long as he's around she'll be in danger. Saying his final goodbyes, Frankie throws himself off a cliff. The girl's father, seeing this, has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself,]] and the movie ends with the little girl now a friendless orphan.
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route from the game all the way up to the more-or-less happy ending Elen and Reiji got, ending on the same image of Elen standing in the middle of the flower field, smiling...then an Inferno sniper shoots Reiji dead and Elen kills herself out of grief. Which is NOT something that happened in the game.
* The 1981 anime ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Kyōfu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein]]'' features a particularly off-the-wall instance of this trope. In this version of the story, Frankenstein's Monster befriends a little girl, whose father and the other villagers try to kill him. Frankie fights them off, but the little girl gets hurt in the crossfire, so he realizes that as long as he's around she'll be in danger. Saying his final goodbyes, Frankie throws himself off a cliff. The girl's father, seeing this, has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself,]] and the movie ends with the little girl now a friendless orphan.
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* The end of the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' prequel film ''Legend of Kenshiro'' is so pointlessly sadistic it could have been written by Thouzer himself. Ken has recovered his spirit, embraced his destiny as the messiah, and saved the city… then Siska turns out to have a ''third'' detonator and blows it up anyway, leaving Kenshiro screaming despondently among the ruins and corpses of his friends. The only thing that saves this movie from being a ''complete'' downer is the fact that after the credits roll comes a montage of the very first Happens in-universe in episode 8 of the series, season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where Kenshiro meets Bat her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Lin and battles Zeed, setting off on his path to become the Savior of Century's End, set to the very awesome "Road of Lords".
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route fromYozora nonchalantly mentions that the game all the way up to the more-or-less happy ending Elen and Reiji got, ending on the same image of Elen standing in the middle of the flower field, smiling...then an Inferno sniper shoots Reiji dead and Elen kills herself would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of grief. Which is NOT something nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that happened in her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the game.
* The 1981 anime ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Kyōfu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein]]'' featuresshark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly off-the-wall instance of notorious in online forums for this trope. In this version of the story, Frankenstein's Monster befriends a little girl, whose father and the other villagers try ending if you failed to kill him. Frankie fights them off, but the little girl gets hurt trigger a certain flag earlier in the crossfire, so he realizes that as long as he's around she'll be game. Everyone in danger. Saying his final goodbyes, Frankie throws himself off a cliff. The girl's father, seeing this, has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself,]] and the movie ends with clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the little girl now a friendless orphan.disc in half.
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route from
* The 1981 anime ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Kyōfu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein]]'' features
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* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the conclusion of the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai arc. After Goku loses to Tenshinhan in the finals but befriends him all the same, Krillin is killed off-panel when he goes to fetch Goku's Four-Star Ball and Nyoi-bo. Made worse in the anime where it happens as they have a victory dinner, but Goku [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness doesn't feel like eating at all]] until he gets a horrible feeling and sprints back to the tournament grounds.
** One airing of the anime's dub in New Zealand actually ended the ''current airing run'' with that episode, meaning there was no answer as to what killed Krillin or why!
** One airing of the anime's dub in New Zealand actually ended the ''current airing run'' with that episode, meaning there was no answer as to what killed Krillin or why!
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* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Hoshino, Close Your Eyes'' is a niche series with an infamous ending that many believe was the conclusion of author lashing out at the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai arc. After Goku loses to Tenshinhan in the finals but befriends him all the same, Krillin is killed off-panel when he goes to fetch Goku's Four-Star Ball and Nyoi-bo. Made worse in the publisher out of spite after being denied an anime where it happens as they have adaptation. The main character Kobayakawa is a victory dinner, but Goku [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness socially awkward loner who gradually learns to come out of his shell and make friends. In the end, he suddenly becomes HisOwnWorstEnemy and rejects his crush after her LoveConfession on the grounds that he doesn't feel like eating at all]] until that he's good enough for her. His friends [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encourage him to stop being an idiot]] but he gets a horrible feeling and sprints reinforces his decision by cutting contact with everyone. In the end, after he's burned bridges with all the friends he made over the past year they all go on to lead happy, successful lives [[ShaggyDogStory while he goes back to being the tournament grounds.
** One airing ofasocial]] LoserProtagonist he was at the anime's dub in New Zealand actually ended the ''current airing run'' with that episode, meaning there was no answer as to what killed Krillin or why!start.
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* The 1981 anime ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Kyōfu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein]]'' features a particularly off-the-wall instance of this trope. In this version of the story, Frankenstein's Monster befriends a little girl, whose father and the other villagers try to kill him. Frankie fights them off, but the little girl gets hurt in the crossfire, so he realizes that as long as he's around she'll be in danger. Saying his final goodbyes, Frankie throws himself off a cliff. The girl's father, seeing this, has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself,]] and the movie ends with the little girl now a friendless orphan.
* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that Mahoro would die. It's the whole premise. The ending is still ridiculously dark. [[GainaxEnding And confusing.]]
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi.'' 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.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In the [[GainaxEnding very last minute]] of the series, Stocking turns out to be evil, slices Panty into 666 pieces, and walks into the sunset with the revived BigBad. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but it just comes so out of nowhere that the audience is left shocked and confused.
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route from the game all the way up to the more-or-less happy ending Elen and Reiji got, ending on the same image of Elen standing in the middle of the flower field, smiling...then an Inferno sniper shoots Reiji dead and Elen kills herself out of grief. Which is NOT something that happened in the game.
* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that Mahoro would die. It's the whole premise. The ending is still ridiculously dark. [[GainaxEnding And confusing.]]
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi.'' 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.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In the [[GainaxEnding very last minute]] of the series, Stocking turns out to be evil, slices Panty into 666 pieces, and walks into the sunset with the revived BigBad. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but it just comes so out of nowhere that the audience is left shocked and confused.
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route from the game all the way up to the more-or-less happy ending Elen and Reiji got, ending on the same image of Elen standing in the middle of the flower field, smiling...then an Inferno sniper shoots Reiji dead and Elen kills herself out of grief. Which is NOT something that happened in the game.
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* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', not when viewed as a stand-alone work, but as an end to the TV series as a whole, is this after some heavy-handed CerebusSyndrome that had been dissipated by a [[GainaxEnding strange]] yet [[EsotericHappyEnding undeniably optimistic]] [[GrandFinale ending]] returns with a bitter twist in this film adaptation — resurrected by the [[FanMyopia alienation and dissatisfaction of the bulk of the series' original fan-base]].
* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' parodies this, like everything else, in one late-run episode, which is very dark and humorless compared to the other episodes and ends with Excel being shot and left to die. It's actually around episode 23 of 25. The ''actual'' final episode (#26) was unaired due to [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing the line]] ''way'' too many times.
* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that Mahoro would die. It's the whole premise. The ending is still ridiculously dark. [[GainaxEnding And confusing.]]
* ''Manga/FairyTail''. The S-class/Tenrou Island arc ends with most of the main characters being blasted by Acnologia and presumably dead. As future seasons show, they thankfully weren’t, but it is still one of the darkest moments in the story.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In the [[GainaxEnding very last minute]] of the series, Stocking turns out to be evil, slices Panty into 666 pieces, and walks into the sunset with the revived BigBad. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but it just comes so out of nowhere that the audience is left shocked and confused.
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* The 1975 anime adaptation of ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', true to the original material, has the main character and his dog freeze to death in the last episode. The series is quite positive and upbeat (and looks like ''Heidi'') otherwise, so to many children, this came as quite a shock.
** Since a lot of people in Japan were familiar with the eponymous tale and how it ended, fans of the show sent tearful mails to the staff days before the final episode aired, pleading not to have Nello and Patrasche die at the end. The staff went ahead anyway, devastating everyone who watched it. Yes, even those who wrote the letters.
* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* Despite being a comedy, ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' infamously ended with a pretty devastating one. Kiyoshi spends the entire series trying to get with Chiyo, the kind-hearted younger sister of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil President, and risks getting beaten or expelled at every turn for her. The final arc of the manga revolves around his LoveConfession to her, but Hana tries to [[RelationshipSabotage sabotage it in order to keep Kiyoshi for herself]]. She ends up succeeding at the last second after revealing that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kiyoshi was still wearing her panties]], and as a result Chiyo is shown to end up [[BreakTheCutie becoming a bitter man-hater like her sister]] and it's heavily implied that boys at the school will continue to suffer with her as President.
* ''Hoshino, Close Your Eyes'' is a niche series with an infamous ending that many believe was the author lashing out at the publisher out of spite after being denied an anime adaptation. The main character Kobayakawa is a socially awkward loner who gradually learns to come out of his shell and make friends. In the end, he suddenly becomes HisOwnWorstEnemy and rejects his crush after her LoveConfession on the grounds that he doesn't feel that he's good enough for her. His friends [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encourage him to stop being an idiot]] but he reinforces his decision by cutting contact with everyone. In the end, after he's burned bridges with all the friends he made over the past year they all go on to lead happy, successful lives [[ShaggyDogStory while he goes back to being the asocial]] LoserProtagonist he was at the start.
* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.
* In ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'', after 25 episodes of happy, lighthearted hijinks, Michel dies at the end to rejuvenate the Tree of Life, Kim leaves the island, and the villains still have their floating castle.
* The end of the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' prequel film ''Legend of Kenshiro'' is so pointlessly sadistic it could have been written by Thouzer himself. Ken has recovered his spirit, embraced his destiny as the messiah, and saved the city… then Siska turns out to have a ''third'' detonator and blows it up anyway, leaving Kenshiro screaming despondently among the ruins and corpses of his friends. The only thing that saves this movie from being a ''complete'' downer is the fact that after the credits roll comes a montage of the very first episode of the series, where Kenshiro meets Bat and Lin and battles Zeed, setting off on his path to become the Savior of Century's End, set to the very awesome "Road of Lords".
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route from the game all the way up to the more-or-less happy ending Elen and Reiji got, ending on the same image of Elen standing in the middle of the flower field, smiling...then an Inferno sniper shoots Reiji dead and Elen kills herself out of grief. Which is NOT something that happened in the game.
* The 1981 anime ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Kyōfu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein]]'' features a particularly off-the-wall instance of this trope. In this version of the story, Frankenstein's Monster befriends a little girl, whose father and the other villagers try to kill him. Frankie fights them off, but the little girl gets hurt in the crossfire, so he realizes that as long as he's around she'll be in danger. Saying his final goodbyes, Frankie throws himself off a cliff. The girl's father, seeing this, has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself,]] and the movie ends with the little girl now a friendless orphan.
* The final episode of the first season of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' ends on a happy-looking ending where everything is back to normal after Rena tries to bomb the school. When Rika gets called into Ooishi's car it's revealed that the GroundhogDayLoop has started again. This is emphasised in the first episode of the second season when a present-day, [[KidHeroAllGrownUp now-adult]] Rena discusses what really happened after she hugged Keiichi on the rooftop. As it turns out she was arrested and sent away. Hinamizawa then suffered an accident, leaving Rena the SoleSurvivor of the village.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the conclusion of the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai arc. After Goku loses to Tenshinhan in the finals but befriends him all the same, Krillin is killed off-panel when he goes to fetch Goku's Four-Star Ball and Nyoi-bo. Made worse in the anime where it happens as they have a victory dinner, but Goku [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness doesn't feel like eating at all]] until he gets a horrible feeling and sprints back to the tournament grounds.
** One airing of the anime's dub in New Zealand actually ended the ''current airing run'' with that episode, meaning there was no answer as to what killed Krillin or why!
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'', despite his adopted brother Dio slaughtering his loved ones and effectively ruining his life, the optimistic, compassionate hero, Jonathan Joestar, comes out on top and disintegrates his body with a fire-charged Hamon Overdrive. The artifact used to empower Dio is destroyed, peace returns, and Jonathan marries his childhood friend, Erina. All seems well, until Dio returns as a disembodied head and murders him on his honeymoon in an attempt to replace the body he lost. The viewer is initially comforted somewhat by Erina's escape and Dio's apparent failure and death. However, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders two parts later]], Dio returns with Jonathan's body, indicating that he won after all. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Though not for long thanks to the protagonists of Part 3]].
* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen There were plans]] for ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' to have a sad ending if it had ended early. The final episode would have been a DistantFinale showing Ash as an old man who is no longer a Pokémon Trainer looking back on his childhood and missing the friends he made.
* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi.'' 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.
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{{Sudden Downer Ending}}s in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', not when viewed as a stand-alone work, but as an end to the TV series as a whole, is this after some heavy-handed CerebusSyndrome that had been dissipated by a [[GainaxEnding strange]] yet [[EsotericHappyEnding undeniably optimistic]] [[GrandFinale ending]] returns with a bitter twist in this film adaptation — resurrected by the [[FanMyopia alienation and dissatisfaction of the bulk of the series' original fan-base]].
* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' parodies this, like everything else, in one late-run episode, which is very dark and humorless compared to the other episodes and ends with Excel being shot and left to die. It's actually around episode 23 of 25. The ''actual'' final episode (#26) was unaired due to [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing the line]] ''way'' too many times.
* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that Mahoro would die. It's the whole premise. The ending is still ridiculously dark. [[GainaxEnding And confusing.]]
* ''Manga/FairyTail''. The S-class/Tenrou Island arc ends with most of the main characters being blasted by Acnologia and presumably dead. As future seasons show, they thankfully weren’t, but it is still one of the darkest moments in the story.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In the [[GainaxEnding very last minute]] of the series, Stocking turns out to be evil, slices Panty into 666 pieces, and walks into the sunset with the revived BigBad. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but it just comes so out of nowhere that the audience is left shocked and confused.
* ''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 an EverybodyDiesEnding 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.
* The 1975 anime adaptation of ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', true to the original material, has the main character and his dog freeze to death in the last episode. The series is quite positive and upbeat (and looks like ''Heidi'') otherwise, so to many children, this came as quite a shock.
** Since a lot of people in Japan were familiar with the eponymous tale and how it ended, fans of the show sent tearful mails to the staff days before the final episode aired, pleading not to have Nello and Patrasche die at the end. The staff went ahead anyway, devastating everyone who watched it. Yes, even those who wrote the letters.
* The first half of the first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' had this in episodes 45 and 46. In episode 45, Momo's main mode of transportation -- the Gorumepopo -- loses energy and disappears, Momo loses her pendant and pets on a train, Momo encounters bad guys who want her pets, and when she tries to get her pendant in order to transform to save the man who helped her, her pendant shatters. In the next episode, Momo tries to go to school and can't pay attention, so she goes to the park where she tries to retrieve a baseball and gets run over by a truck. She then dies, but is reincarnated as the real child of her foster parents. The rest of the series is AllJustADream in the mind of the human Momo about a new Minky Momo that came to Earth.
* Despite being a comedy, ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' infamously ended with a pretty devastating one. Kiyoshi spends the entire series trying to get with Chiyo, the kind-hearted younger sister of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil President, and risks getting beaten or expelled at every turn for her. The final arc of the manga revolves around his LoveConfession to her, but Hana tries to [[RelationshipSabotage sabotage it in order to keep Kiyoshi for herself]]. She ends up succeeding at the last second after revealing that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kiyoshi was still wearing her panties]], and as a result Chiyo is shown to end up [[BreakTheCutie becoming a bitter man-hater like her sister]] and it's heavily implied that boys at the school will continue to suffer with her as President.
* ''Hoshino, Close Your Eyes'' is a niche series with an infamous ending that many believe was the author lashing out at the publisher out of spite after being denied an anime adaptation. The main character Kobayakawa is a socially awkward loner who gradually learns to come out of his shell and make friends. In the end, he suddenly becomes HisOwnWorstEnemy and rejects his crush after her LoveConfession on the grounds that he doesn't feel that he's good enough for her. His friends [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encourage him to stop being an idiot]] but he reinforces his decision by cutting contact with everyone. In the end, after he's burned bridges with all the friends he made over the past year they all go on to lead happy, successful lives [[ShaggyDogStory while he goes back to being the asocial]] LoserProtagonist he was at the start.
* Happens in-universe in episode 8 of season 1's ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. Sena is playing a VisualNovel where her character is having fun with friends at a swimming pool, and Yozora nonchalantly mentions that the game would be godly if a shark suddenly appeared out of nowhere and killed them. Sena berates her for suggesting such an awful thing, but then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that's exactly what happens]]. Sena at first thinks it's a joke and that her main character would easily vanquish it, only for the shark to kill him, and she suffers from a bad ending. Rika mentions that this game was particularly notorious in online forums for this ending if you failed to trigger a certain flag earlier in the game. Everyone in the clubroom, Yozora included, was completely shocked by it, but after she recollects herself, Yozora calls it a godly game, while Sena angrily snaps the disc in half.
* In ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'', after 25 episodes of happy, lighthearted hijinks, Michel dies at the end to rejuvenate the Tree of Life, Kim leaves the island, and the villains still have their floating castle.
* The end of the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' prequel film ''Legend of Kenshiro'' is so pointlessly sadistic it could have been written by Thouzer himself. Ken has recovered his spirit, embraced his destiny as the messiah, and saved the city… then Siska turns out to have a ''third'' detonator and blows it up anyway, leaving Kenshiro screaming despondently among the ruins and corpses of his friends. The only thing that saves this movie from being a ''complete'' downer is the fact that after the credits roll comes a montage of the very first episode of the series, where Kenshiro meets Bat and Lin and battles Zeed, setting off on his path to become the Savior of Century's End, set to the very awesome "Road of Lords".
* The 2009 adaptation of ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' followed the Elen route from the game all the way up to the more-or-less happy ending Elen and Reiji got, ending on the same image of Elen standing in the middle of the flower field, smiling...then an Inferno sniper shoots Reiji dead and Elen kills herself out of grief. Which is NOT something that happened in the game.
* The 1981 anime ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Kyōfu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein]]'' features a particularly off-the-wall instance of this trope. In this version of the story, Frankenstein's Monster befriends a little girl, whose father and the other villagers try to kill him. Frankie fights them off, but the little girl gets hurt in the crossfire, so he realizes that as long as he's around she'll be in danger. Saying his final goodbyes, Frankie throws himself off a cliff. The girl's father, seeing this, has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself,]] and the movie ends with the little girl now a friendless orphan.
* The final episode of the first season of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' ends on a happy-looking ending where everything is back to normal after Rena tries to bomb the school. When Rika gets called into Ooishi's car it's revealed that the GroundhogDayLoop has started again. This is emphasised in the first episode of the second season when a present-day, [[KidHeroAllGrownUp now-adult]] Rena discusses what really happened after she hugged Keiichi on the rooftop. As it turns out she was arrested and sent away. Hinamizawa then suffered an accident, leaving Rena the SoleSurvivor of the village.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the conclusion of the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai arc. After Goku loses to Tenshinhan in the finals but befriends him all the same, Krillin is killed off-panel when he goes to fetch Goku's Four-Star Ball and Nyoi-bo. Made worse in the anime where it happens as they have a victory dinner, but Goku [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness doesn't feel like eating at all]] until he gets a horrible feeling and sprints back to the tournament grounds.
** One airing of the anime's dub in New Zealand actually ended the ''current airing run'' with that episode, meaning there was no answer as to what killed Krillin or why!
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'', despite his adopted brother Dio slaughtering his loved ones and effectively ruining his life, the optimistic, compassionate hero, Jonathan Joestar, comes out on top and disintegrates his body with a fire-charged Hamon Overdrive. The artifact used to empower Dio is destroyed, peace returns, and Jonathan marries his childhood friend, Erina. All seems well, until Dio returns as a disembodied head and murders him on his honeymoon in an attempt to replace the body he lost. The viewer is initially comforted somewhat by Erina's escape and Dio's apparent failure and death. However, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders two parts later]], Dio returns with Jonathan's body, indicating that he won after all. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Though not for long thanks to the protagonists of Part 3]].
* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen There were plans]] for ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' to have a sad ending if it had ended early. The final episode would have been a DistantFinale showing Ash as an old man who is no longer a Pokémon Trainer looking back on his childhood and missing the friends he made.
* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi.'' 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.
