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20* ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'': Siphon dies and no-one gets their powers back. However, a flash-forward shows that the heroes and villains do eventually move on and find closure.
21* ''ComicBook/AmeliaRules'': ''Superheroes''. Trishia lives, but Amelia doesn't find out until years later- and she never sees Trish again
22* ''ComicBook/TheBadBadPlace'': Ned is able to trick Malise into allowing Jenny and Jon to escape from the [[EldritchLocation Castavette Estate]], fulfilling the terms of his vow. As a result, the house vanishes from reality and is bound never to harm anyone else, allowing Jenny, Jon and one of the children from the house to stride off into the sunset. Unfortunately, Ned did this at the cost of now being trapped in the Estate forever along with Serena, Malise has essentially gone unpunished for her crimes, and the people [[LotusEaterMachine ensnared by the house]] [[AndIMustScream will remain there for all eternity]].
23* ''ComicBook/BeKindMyNeighbor'': Mr. Neighbor and Wegg are reunited after Wegg comes back to life, as Mr. Neighbor kept his heart for safekeeping. Wegg's head is also back to normal, no longer being a rotting egg. But they both have to leave Baths, leaving all of their friends to think they've died, and it's unclear whether or not Mr. Neighbor will have to continue killing in order to keep his body, even with Lady Trudy seemingly gone for good.
24* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'': The Anti-God returns to Spiral City, so to stop him the heroes decide to seal themselves back in the farm and wipe their memories so they can never break out. It works, but they are a lot happier now that their issues are removed.
25* ''ComicBook/BlackHole'': Keith & Eliza leave Seattle to their own HappyEnding, while Rob ends up murdered in the forest, leaving Chris alone and unsure about her future.
26* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Wismerhill manages to save many of the world's races from the impending destruction of Earth, but some of them choose to FaceDeathWithDignity instead.
27* ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'':
28** ''Somewhere Within The Shadows'': Blacksad's former flame is obviously still dead, but he was able to bring vigilante justice to the man who murdered her, even if he and Smirnov had to go behind the law to do it, which neither of them are proud of.
29** ''Arctic Nation'': Blacksad is able to rescue Kylie and cripple the eponymous white-furred supremacist organization, but Kylie's mother was killed, leaving her an orphan, and Jezebel, the sole survivor of the complicated revenge plot that involved Kylie's kidnapping to begin with, [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty is left broken]] and the Line is still a DyingTown.
30** ''Red Soul'': Blacksad is able to prevent his friend, Otto, from being murdered and stops the hydrogen bomb blueprints from being leaked to the Soviet Union, but in the process was forced to abandon a potential LoveInterest and discovers Otto is actually a former Nazi, who is left a shell of his former self from the experience (although he returns to Germany to try and repent for his sins). The would-be assassin also killed an innocent lookalike and [[KarmaHoudini escapes justice]].
31** ''A Silent Hell'': Blacksad isn't able to prevent Sebastian's murder, but Faust's crimes become known to others, he's going to die broken and alone regardless, Blacksad is at least able to prevent one of the musicians from being killed, and it's assured that Sebastian's widow and child will be financially stable.
32** ''Amarillo'': Chad decides to stop running away from his crimes and face justice, preventing Blacksad from being arrested for the murder he committed, but [[NiceGuy Neal]] ended up accidentally dying, and it's ambiguous whether or not Chad's story ends up published. Blacksad also ends up totalling two cars he borrowed with no way to repay the owners.
33** ''They All Fall Down'': Solomon gets away with his crimes and successfully completes his bridge, becoming more popular than ever in the process. However, it's revealed that Rachel Zucco, masquerading as the chief engineer's assistant, sabotaged the bridge during construction to ensure that it wouldn't be sturdy enough to withstand strong winds; as a result, it is completely destroyed during a rainstorm at the end of the book, ensuring that Solomon's reputation would be ruined and that he would go down in history as a man best remembered for the catastrophic failure of his most ambitious project. Also, Alma and Blacksad are shown to reconcile and run off in the rain to happily speak about what is strongly implied to be Blacksad's daughter that Alma conceived during Red Soul, which means they could be a family, but it's left ambiguous whether or not Blacksad and Alma get back together along with whether or not the former leaves with her for Europe especially with Smirnov's Fox lieutenant most likely still gunning for him to frame him over Shelby's murder of Dill's caretaker.
34* ''ComicBook/{{Blankets}}'': Craig and Raina break up because she wants to focus on her schooling as her parents get a divorce, and Craig suffers a CrisisOfFaith on studying the Bible. On the other hand, Craig decides to go to art school, move to Portland and pursue his dreams while taking day jobs on the side.
35* ''ComicBook/{{Bloodquest}}'': In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' comic, the quest to recover the Literature/BloodAngels' relic sword is successful and the heroes managed to stop a Black Crusade from rampaging across the galaxy, but all members of the group are dead save for a single survivor, and the leader who sacrificed himself to end the crusade was previously possessed by a Daemon. Even the SoleSurvivor's escape is uncertain since he is last seen drifting in space waiting to be picked up by a Imperial vessel.
36* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': The ending is quite bittersweet. The Lord of Locusts is destroyed, Kingdok and Briar are killed, Thorn becomes queen, the Valley is at peace, and Fone Bone makes peace with [[ThoseTwoGuys the two Stupid Rat Creatures]]. But Lucius is dead, Fone Bone and Thorn will probably never see each other again, and the Bone cousins have to leave the valley forever. The last scene has the Bone cousins and [[TeamPet Bartelby]] heading out into the desert together, planning to return to Boneville...
37* ''ComicBook/BoxersAndSaints'': In the shared finale for both stories, Little Bao is NotQuiteDead, as he manages to crawl out of the corpse pile and escapes another death by chanting half-remembered scripture that Vibiana gave to him. However, his entire group was wiped out, except for him and his remaining brother, and their rebellion was crushed.
38* ''COmicBook/TheBoys'': Hughie stops Billy from killing everyone with Compound V in their system, the Seven are no more, Vought's been dealt a mortal blow and Hughie and Starlight are free to be together. But the rest of the Boys and their allies were killed by Billy, Billy tricks Hughie into killing him so he won't have to face any consequences and supers are still around.
39* ''ComicBook/BratPack'': In the original ending, the sidekicks die again, and it seems like Black October will get away with it again until True-Man finally returns and kills them all, Dr. Blasphemous seems to get away but with an actual hero having finally returned his life won’t be very easy going forward. The revised ending is a lot sweeter, the sidekicks survive the attempt on their lives with the help of Cody’s healing factor, and though it’s unlikely they’ll be able to go back to their old selves, they have at least have a chance at recovering their lives, especially with their abusers finally permanently gone.
40* ''ComicBook/{{Circles}}'': At the end of the comic, Paulie sadly dies from leukemia and Douglas finds it hard to cope. Until he realizes that he still has family who loves him and takes care of him. Paulie did what he could to keep the family together and on good terms so that they are never alone after his passing.
41* ''ComicBook/{{Crimson}}'': Lisseth is destroyed and her apocalyptic plan is averted. However, untold innocents have perished around the world after the dragon attack and the heroes' victory came at cost of Zophie and George's lives (both of whom ascend to Heaven upon their deaths). Alex still remained a vampire, but he embarks on a quest to find the HolyGrail and cure his condition. He is forced to abandon his loved ones, with Scarlet joining a convent and his father becoming Senator following Van Fleet's death, but its implied he will succeed in his quest and returns to them eventually.
42* ''ComicBook/DannyPhantomAGlitchInTime'': Even though Dark Danny is defeated again, he ultimately gets the last laugh as his actions have forced Danny to perform a CosmicRetcon to undo the damage to the timeline. The result is that Danny's part in the Disasteroid event has been erased, meaning that Danny is no longer a global hero and is once again a HeroWithBadPublicity, his parents and the rest of the world no longer know his SecretIdentity, and while Vlad is no longer mayor of Amity Park, he has successfully created a clone son of Danny (who is actually Dark Danny reincarnated). On the small sweet side of this, [[RippleEffectProofMemory Danny, Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and (most likely) Valerie still have their memories]], Danny and Sam are still a couple, and it's implied that Vlad may genuinely be on the path of atonement.
43* ''ComicBook/DeepGravity'': The planet Poseidon is toxic to humans who stay too long, and personnel are therefore rotated through it rather than permanently stationed there. The freighter ''Vanguard'' is conducting one of these rotations, and when it's destroyed, a few survivors escape down to the planet. Most are newcomers, but one of the survivors is Michelle, who was among the group who had already had their maximum safe exposure and needed to ''leave''. It's left open whether or not Poseidon's slow poisoning will prove fatal before another ship arrives, but it doesn't look good.
44* ''ComicBook/{{DIE}}'': Chuck [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] to [[BackFromTheDead resurrect]] Sol, trapping himself in Die as a [[TheUndead Fallen]] forever. Meanwhile, the others — realizing that [[GeniusLoci Die itself]] [[AboveGoodAndEvil isn't evil, just an amoral crucible for people's desires]] — return to Earth, traumatized by everything and having to adapt to a world that changed while they were gone. That said, they do seem to be better adjusted about certain things than they were when they left, and it turns out that Mistress Woe lied about Matt's father's death just to mess with the party, meaning that Matt is able to reunite with him.
45* ''ComicBook/{{Demo}}'':
46** "NYC". [[spoiler: Mike helps Marie during one of her meltdowns, signifying that the two trust and love each other fully, and the two reach NYC in the end. But the future is still uncertain, and even with her assurances, it's left ambiguous whether Marie will survive in the long term without her medication.]]
47** "Stand Strong". [[spoiler: James finally realises what a toxic crowd his friends are, and after deliberately botching the heist, makes it clear he's done being their tool. However, the ending implies that he's still unsatisfied with the working class lifestyle he'll be living now, and that in forfeiting the heist, he's lost the one chance he had to get something better.]]
48** "What You Wish For". [[spoiler: The protagonist reaffirms that he's now got a good life and is happily married, but he also acknowledges how he'll likely never overcome how he killed much of his neighbourhood in a fit of rage, and he'll have to live with that for the rest of his life.]]
49** "Mixtape". [[spoiler: Jess is still dead, and it's unlikely that Nick will ever find out why she committed suicide. However, Jess encourages him to learn from his mistakes and move on with his life.]]
50** "Midnight to Six [[spoiler: Jace, Jill and Brad go their separate ways, with Jill writing novels, and Brad heading to college, while Jace refuses to grow up and become more than a slacker. However, the story ends with Jace making friends out of his new co-workers, implying that while all three are separated, they'll all be doing what they love most.]]
51* ''ComicBook/{{Ghostopolis}}'': In his gigantic form and with the help of Frank, Garth defeats the giant Vaugner, but at the cost of Frank's own life, making him a ghost. However, now Frank can stick around with his ghost girlfriend, Claire, who takes over the late Bone King's role as the new Lord of the Afterlife. Also, it turns out Garth will be cured of his incurable disease, according to his future son, which means that he will be reunited with his mother back home.
52* ''ComicBook/TheGirlFromTheSea'': Morgan and Keltie have to part ways but they agree to see each other again in seven years.
53* ''ComicBook/AGodSomewhere'': Superhero-turned-megalomaniac Eric Forster has been defeated, but he went on a rampage of death and destruction across the U.S. before he was put down. And the friends he left behind continue to be negatively affected by his actions; Alma, who was raped by Eric, suffers from PTSD and is [[HatesBeingTouched quite averse to being touched by males]]; her husband Hugh remains quadriplegic after his brother's horrific attack on him, and Sam abandons his journalism career.
54* ''ComicBook/TheGoddamned'': "The Virgin Brides", ends with Sharri confesses her love for Jael with her dying breath and Jael managed to end New Eden's machinations with the help of The Kingdom. While her fellow "brides" are too indoctrinated to appreciate it, it's implied that they will eventually realize the heroics of what Jael did. Now an adult, Jael roams the Earth to kill the {{Nephilim}} run amok.
55* ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingdomOfMonsters'': The monsters may have been defeated, but human civilization is in shambles.
56* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The Earth is reduced to a smouldering husk and nearly the entire cast dies, [[TheHeroDies Hellboy included]] (three times, in fact), but the Ogdru Jahad, its Ogdru Hem spawn, Satan, and Rasputin are defeated for good, Hellboy's efforts ensure that some remnants of humanity have survived within the HollowEarth, the biosphere is restored on the surface from his blood, and a race of FrogMen created from Abe's body will inherit the planet.
57* ''ComicBook/IHateFairyland'': Gertude stops Dark Cloudia and saves Fairyland, as well as forces the council to live up to their end of the bargain when they try to renege on their agreement, allowing her to finally go home after so long. However she ultimately has to say goodbye to Larry, the one true friend she had through the quest, and, now living into adulthood, is stuck in a dreary and mundane life as an office drone and practically pining to go back to Fairyland as indicated on searching through the internet for any keys back. Ultimately however, she accepts her choice to come home and goes on with her life.
58* ''ComicBook/IKillGiants'': Barbara comes to terms with her mother's illness and makes amends with her before she passes away, leaving her saddened, yet able to move on.
59* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': The villains are all defeated and Plutonian gains his "redemption", but millions have died, including nearly all of Earth's heroes (the only ones that we know are still alive are Gilgamos, Kaidan, Qubit, and the fully reformed Max Damage), most of society has broken down (the only known civilization still standing in decent condition is Coalville, thanks to Max Damage), every survivor including the remaining heroes have lost someone they cared about deeply, and a warrior alien race pissed off at Earth and liable to invade in the future is one of several threats on the horizon that Earth is vulnerable to, especially with the Plutonian no longer around to protect them.
60* ''ComicBook/{{Kaijumax}}'': The AlienInvasion has been defeated, with peace being brokered between Earth and the invaders. Whoofy has saved Chiba from destruction, a lot of characters who have come BackForTheFinale are seen to be doing okay. Electrogor is still in prison, but he has his son with him, and he knows his daughter is happy, [[AssholeVictim Hellmoth]] won't be bothering anyone anytime soon and Giant Monster Terongo turns out [[BackFromTheDead to not be dead after all]].
61* ''ComicBook/KickAss'': Volume 3 ends with Mindy having killed pretty much all the mob bosses on the East Coast, which allows her police officer stepfather, Marcus, to weed out all corruption in the NYPD. Dave gives up being Kick-Ass for good, moves in with his girlfriend Valerie, and "trades one uniform for another" by becoming a cop. But while Dave never loses his love for comics and superheroes, his father is still dead, and so are several members of Justice Forever, including Insect-Man and Doctor Gravity. Dave also never sees Mindy again, and she apparently begins training another kid to take Dave's place as Kick-Ass.
62* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992'': In the end, Link saves the day, kills Ganon and wins Zelda's heart... but they can never be together because of their respective duties.
63* ''ComicBook/LostGirls'': In the comic by Creator/AlanMoore, the ladies have opened up to each other and come to terms with their pasts. They part ways at the end, with Alice heading to Switzerland to seek out Monsieur Rouget, Wendy returning to her husband with the implication of spicing up their sex life and Dorothy planning to start a family. Alice says goodbye to her precious childhood mirror as a way of letting go of the past. That said, World War I has broken out and the now-abandoned hotel is ransacked by German soldiers, one of whom breaks the mirror. Plus, Wendy's husband will make ships for the war and Rolf will most likely be called up to fight and possibly die. The story ends with a dead soldier in No-Man's-Land.
64* ''ComicBook/MassEffectRedemption'': Liara manages to recover Shepard's body, but her friend Feron is captured by agents of the Shadow Broker. Liara then gives Shepard's body to Cerberus in the hopes that Cerberus can revive Shepard. Liara's not entirely convinced that she did the right thing. Given that this is a prequel to ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC, Liara eventually gets the chance to set things right by rescuing Feron with the help of Shepard, who was indeed revived.
65* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'': The protagonist, Vladek Spiegelman, and his first wife, Anja, survive [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust the Holocaust]] and reunite after [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]]. But Anja will kill herself years later and Vladek will never be able to put the terrible experiences he suffered behind him.
66* ''ComicBook/{{Middlewest}}'': Abel ends up politely disowning his father despite his pleas, but now has a massive new FamilyOfChoice in the form of the carnies and freed slave children, who consider him a hero and a leader, and he parts with his father on good terms, forgiving him despite cutting him out of his life. Dale accepts Abel’s choice with the hope they can eventually rebuild their relationship and he plans to work on healing himself.
67* ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'': Miracleman defeats Kid Miracleman, at the cost of killing Johnny Bates, and turns the world into a utopia along with his team of superbeings. But it's a benevolent dictatorship at best and he's lost his humanity and Liz as well. Miracleman is left wondering if he did the right thing.
68* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'': In issue #3, Rarity is of course upset at high society paying attention to her hippie friends and ignoring her, but she consoles herself at least her new friends are happy and have given her a lifetime supply of their product in gratitude of her help while Twilight points out that her own fashion show was a big success itself with a slew of new commissions for her business.
69* ''ComicBook/PathfinderWorldscape'': Shareen is freed from [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress Camilla]], [[EvilSorcerer Kulan Gath]] is stopped from conquering TheMultiverse and the MacGuffin is safeguarded by [[BigGood Fantomah]], allowing the heroes to return to their respective homeworlds. However, the Council of Jungle Kings chooses to stay in the Worldscape to safeguard the {{MacGuffin}}s and anyone who leaves this realm has their memory from their time trapped there erased, meaning the heroes will forget their friends and their adventures together when coming back to home. In addition, there is nothing stopping the Worldscape from trapping more and more individuals across the planes of existence, nor is it preventing those who escaped once from being imprisoned there once again.
70* ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'': While Marjane can never return to Iran again due to fear of retribution and leaves several loved ones, she finally finds freedom after being sent to France.
71* ''ComicBook/PinocchioVampireSlayer'': Pinocchio defeats Vlad, but he ends up turning into the very tree where he was cut from and has to say goodbye to Carlotta.
72* ''ComicBook/PrideOfBaghdad'': All of the main lion characters are shot and killed by U.S. soldiers, but, at the very least, [[IDieFree they died free,]] and Zill got to see one last sunset.
73* ''ComicBook/TheProfessorsDaughter'': At the end of Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Gilbert's book, Imhotep and Lillian get married and have three children, but Lillian's father is killed and wrapped in bandages, and then placed as a part of the Museum's Egyptology exhibit.
74* ''ComicBook/{{Reborn}}'': The comic by Creator/MarkMillar ends with the heroine Bonnie saving both Earth and the afterlife realm of Adystria from [[EvilOverlord Lord Golgotha]] at the expense of her body dying in the mortal plane leaving her still-surviving family heartbroken. On the flip side, in this fantasy world she rejuvenated from a dying old woman into a youthful beauty and gets crowned queen of the now freed realm for her efforts. On the down side, she is unable to reunite with her beloved husband Harry, whom also died long before Bonnie and ended up in this world, but has married another woman and formed a new family with her. Bonnie ends up [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy leaving him for his own happiness]].
75* ''ComicBook/TheRedTen'': The Alliance is dead, and Crimson returns to his fiancé. However, the Lear Corporation plans to simply roll out a new team of "heroes," but it's implied that Crimson will take the fight to the ones behind the Alliance in the first place.
76* ''ComicBook/{{Shortcomings}}'': The comic ends with Miko breaking up with Ben and Alice, his only friend, leaving him to stay in New York. Ben flies back to California alone and with no plans for the future, but has accepted that he needs to work on himself.
77* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': The stories often end with the hero defeating and possibly even killing the BigBad but at the cost of his life... one way or another. Wallace's story ''Hell and Back'' is perhaps the only 100% happy ending in the entire series.
78* ''ComicBook/TheSnowman'': Really, there was no way the boy could have thought the snowman would last forever.
79* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'': The ending is this: Mega Man's able to restore his world to how it was, but Dr. Eggman, refusing to let Sonic win, interrupts his Chaos Control, then attacks it, transforming Mobius to a version never seen before. A few issues later, we learn that it did worse than that: the entire multiverse collapsed upon itself and then rebuilt then, [[EarthShatteringKaboom Mobius shattered.]]
80* ''ComicBook/{{Squad}}'': Arianna is killed so her heart can be eaten to [[DePower depower]] Becca and Marley, but Becca and Marley are happy together and delve further into their relationship.
81* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra'': The epilogue to the original 40 issue run sees all the main protagonists alive, with Aphra having bought the Rebel base on Hoth time to finalize their plans for evacuation, which ensures the survival of her father, Tolvan and Vulaada in the fateful battle in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. This is juxtaposed by Aphra leaving them a farewell message explaining that she knows she's a horrible person and that leaving them all behind to save her own neck was the only way their relationship was ever going to end, escaping into space with nothing but a barely-alive Triple-Zero and Beetee for company.
82* ''ComicBook/StuckRubberBaby'': Sammy is lynched, Toland loses touch with his friends and after that one meeting, never sees his and Ginger's daughter again. But he's at peace with himself and has embraced his homosexuality, living in new York City with a boyfriend, and he does have some fond memories of the past.
83* ''ComicBook/{{Superior}}'': Ormon and Abraxas are defeated and Simon keeps his soul but he's lost his powers for good. However, he's now at peace with himself.
84* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheLastRonin'': Michaelangelo defeats Oroku Hiroto, ending Shredder's bloodline, but dies of his wounds following the battle. While he, his brothers, Master Splinter, and Casey Jones are TogetherInDeath, his will and his teachings live on in Casey and April's daughter, Casey Marie Jones, who will in turn go on to teach a new generation of ninja turtles.
85* ''ComicBook/Tomboy2015'': While Irene and Elena are defeated and their plans thwarted, their conflict with Addison has left mounds of corpses in their wake, including Addison's father and grandfather. Whether Addison herself survives is left unanswered. A few good people like Autry manage to survive, but the reveal that Jessica is the Scarlet Queen and evidence of more and more Afflicted awakening in Rivergrove means a new shadow war between the Branches and the Elder Branch is inevitable.
86* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRegenerationOne'': The present-day aftermath of the final issue is very bittersweet. Rodimus Prime has defeated the dark Matrix creature, ending the threat it posed to the multiverse, but at the cost of forever cutting off his own universe from [[PhysicalGod Primus]]; Optimus Prime has died again, this time for good; thanks to the Matrix creature, Cybertron has been [[ApocalypseHow rendered uninhabitable]]; and most of the Transformer population on Cybertron were turned into [[LivingShadow shadow-leeches]] by the creature, before its defeat allowed what was left of their [[OurSoulsAreDifferent sparks]] to pass]]. But, the DistantFinale reveals that the ForeverWar has come to an end, as Autobots and Decepticons become emissaries of peace; the survivors of Earth and Nebulos succeed in rebuilding their worlds; and eons later, when Rodimus finally passes, his Matrix-spark breathes new life into Cybertron, allowing the long-dormant [[{{Precursors}} Primordials to be reborn as a new race]].
87* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'':
88** The Shadowplay arc was a flashback arc dedicated to bringing Rung out of a coma by trying to get him to remember. It has Optimus (then Orion), Ratchet, Windcharger, Skids and one of the few good Senators all coming together to stop a malicious plot by the senate to kill a bunch of innocents and frame the, then innocent, worker's party. It succeeds, they retrieve the bomb, and save everyone. However they can't find any evidence connecting the senate to the bomb spree, the Senator is [[PunishedForSympathy taken away]], and Optimus befriends Zeta, who would grow up to be another tyrant. The arc concludes with Rung waking up in the present while the senator had the titular Shadowplay performed on him, turning him into the emotionless MadScientist Shockwave, whose schemes [[ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron would come to threaten the whole planet.]]
89** The "Remain in Light" ark. The crew had stopped Tyrest and destroyed his [[DepopulationBomb Killswitch]], saving everyone affected and discovered a cure for Cybercrosis, ''but'' Tyrest and his lackeys escape, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Ambulon]] is dead and First Aid has slipped into a depression because of the trauma of a) watching Ambulon die and b) killing Pharma. But worst of all, they had to use Rodimus' half of the Matrix to destroy the Killswitch, leaving them further away from the Knights than before.
90** Season 2 ends with Megatron cementing his HeelFaceTurn by killing the Decepticon Justice Division, the return of several missing Cybertronians like Terminus and Roller, Overlord and Deathsaurus retreating, and Ratchet and Drift rejoining the crew, but it comes at the cost of Skids and Ravage's lives, and the crew are still stranded from the ''Lost Light'' thanks to Getaway's mutiny.
91** The series (and chronologically the entire IDW universe) ends with the Functionist Council destroyed, their universe's Cybertron filling the old one's place after its destruction by Unicron, and most of the crew surviving the final battle. However, Rung (a.k.a. Primus) sacrifices himself to save the day, but is remembered by nobody. And with the quest over (and despite an attempt to quantumn duplicate themselves into a new universe), the Lost Light is dismantled, Megatron is sentenced to UncertainDoom, and the others live out their lives, with Ratchet dying of "old age" and leaving his husband Drift to mourn him, Whirl spending time in prison, and Rewind developing a neuro-degenerative disease that leaves him trapped in memory stick form. Meanwhile, in another universe, [[AndTheAdventureContinues a duplicate Lost Light and its crew are free to explore the universe forever]].
92* ''ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor'': The ending of the second Arc is actually happier than [[SuddenDownerEnding the first.]] [[BigBad Deathsaurus]] is defeated and driven back, the traitorous Combaticons are locked away and the autobots succeed. However, so many have died at this point including Ricochet, one of the comic relief characters. In the end, Rumbler is killed in the final battle, and Sprocket, the resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, continues to talk to him as if he was alive. TheHero, Dion is shot along with [[TheCaptain Magnum, both are near death, when they go into operation, one dies, and the other emerges as Ultra Magnus.]] The Autobots all agree to leave or go into stasis, taking their war away into the Generation one series.
93* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'': The comic ends with the destruction of the titular villain, Earth saved, and the populations of Earth and Cybertron saved, but Cybertron itself is destroyed and millions are dead, including [[TheHeroDies Optimus]] [[HeroicSacrifice Prime]].
94* ''ComicBook/TransformersLastBotStanding'': The comic ends with the final extinction of the Transformers. However, Rodimus manages to defeat the last Decepticons, including Steeljaw, and he spends some time teaching the people of Fembrance how to use Energon responsibly, starting a golden age. Finally at peace, he then takes the final, stasis-locked Survivors and the remaining Cybertronian tech with him onboard a starship, being content to also go into stasis-lock until he finally dies. By doing this, Rodimus will guarantee that the Transformers' destructive legacy will end. The story ends with Shib looking up at the night sky, with the light from his starship becoming the first star in a long time.
95* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableUnteens'': The Unteens manage to come together and defeat the White Wraith, but as Alexis points out, if the others bring her back to the mortal world, Jack would be a ghost again, whereas in Hell, he and Alexis can touch each other, and thus she and Jack stay, while the others return home. With their last adventure concluded, Jane, Karl, and Carlos prepare to go their separate ways, but Jane and Carlos both agree to get coffee sometime.
96* ''ComicBook/{{Unnatural}}'': Maxine, Jones, and his father Napoleon are all dead, and the Albino is destroyed. [[TimeSkip A year later]], the cult has dissolved without its leadership, the Reproduction Program has been abolished, Carol is running for Mayor, and Leslie and Khal are in love and raising Shea together. However, none of it changes the fact that Trish, Derek, and Pif are dead, there's no indication that Trish's parents don't still hate Leslie, and she has to live with the fact that she killed her mother to save the world. There are also still people who frown on InterspeciesRomance and homosexuality, and there probably always will be; such deep-seated prejudices don't just disappear overnight, after all. And on top of all of that, [[TheEndOrIsIt it's heavily implied that the Albino is still around]]. But come what may, Leslie has hope for the future and she won't be facing it alone.
97* ''ComicBook/UntilWeSleep'': The ''Franchise/DragonAge'' tie-in ends with Aurelian Titus defeated and Alistair finally meeting his long-lost father Maric. Unfortunately, Maric is only being kept alive by an ancient magical artifact and Alistair destroys it [[MercyKill in order to release his father]]. Alistair then returns home to rule Ferelden [[TheChainsOfCommanding as an unhappy king]]. Isabela, scarred by her imprisonment at the hands of the qunari, is shown leaving her life as a pirate.
98* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': After all he's endured, all he's lost, and all he's done, Rick Grimes-- the man long considered TheHero of ''The Walking Dead'', [[{{Determinator}} the man who went through seven kinds of hell and]] ''[[{{Determinator}} still]]'' [[{{Determinator}} never gave up]]-- [[TheHeroDies gets shot by Sebastian Milton]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished for convincing his mother, Pamela, to step down as leader of the Commonwealth]], before being left to bleed to death and getting put down by Carl after he reanimates. No HeroicSacrifice. No famous last words. [[DyingAlone Not even any loved ones there to comfort him in his final moments]]. Rick suffers '''THE''' most UndignifiedDeath in the franchise at the hands of a spoiled, entitled brat who didn't want the status quo to change. Thankfully, Sebastian is caught shortly afterward and is going to spend the rest of his life in a prison cell, [[CruelMercy living with the knowledge that everybody now despises him for what he did and will remember him as the man who killed Rick Grimes]]. In the DistantFinale, [[EarnYourHappyEnding Carl and Sophia are married]] and have a daughter named [[DeadGuyJunior Andrea]]. Walkers are still around, but all in all, civilization is on the upswing, recovering and rebuilding thanks in no small part to Rick, who sadly never got to see the fruits of his labors. But his legacy as a HopeBringer lives on and is immortalized with both a statue of him and a children's story, with the last scene of the series being Carl reading it to Andrea.
99* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'': The comic ends in a DistantFinale where cloning has been perfected and the first twenty or so reliably immune men have recently been released into the "wild". however Yorick Brown 1.0 himself does not fare quite so well. He finds out that the girlfriend he had rounded the globe tracking down was about to dump him when the fateful telephone call was cut off; eventually she shacks up with his sister. Then the woman that had been slowly falling in love with him, 355, gets shot dead at Alter's command in the hopes of securing an "honorable" death in combat with the only available male. He begins the DistantFinale straitjacketed and locked in a hidden room in the French Presidental Palace by his own daughter after an apparent suicide attempt shortly before his eighty-sixth birthday... he claims he thought it would be ironic.
100* ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay'': Sentinel's machinations were uncovered and as punishment, he was sent to Supreme’s [[PhantomZone Hell of Mirrors]]. The Book of Hermes meanwhile lands with a homeless girl, who is implied will write much better stories than the ones Sentinel did. Unfortunately, Riptide is still dead, and it's unknown just how many people's lives were ended or ruined by the "adventures" Sentinel wrote. Given the history of Youngblood till that point, it was quite a significant amount.

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