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17* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' loved this one. About 1 in 5 episodes ended with the Rangers' "victory" being merely getting away with their shirts and souls intact. "Psychocrypt" and "Galaxy Stranger" are arguably close to a DownerEnding.
18* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': Duke Igthorn is overthrown, his ogres have been scattered and he's lost his gummiberry juice factory and Castle Drekmore and the Glen Gummis move in with their fellows in Ursalia but Igthorn is still out there, Gummi Glen is destroyed, the Great Gummis had to turn back and the Gummi Bears are still living in hiding.
19* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': In the episode "Battle of the Bands," Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen fail to win first place at the talent show, but they got their friendship back.
20* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
21** [[WhamEpisode "Betty"]] ends this way; Simon is still in [[AndIMustScream the same situation, but Betty is confirmed to be alive, and she's in Ooo trying to find a cure for him.]]
22** In the final episode, Gumbald and GOLB are defeated but Betty sacrifices herself to stop GOLB, meaning that while Simon is finally back to normal, his fiancée is permanently fused with a gigantic evil space baby. Fern also dies after his HeelFaceTurn and Finn and Jake's home is destroyed. However, the epilogue montage shows that life will go on for everyone.
23* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
24** "The Puppy": The turtle rampage was stopped for now, but the Wattersons are basically stuck with it until it dies of old age. Or so they thought, since the turtle escapes with its babies in "The Nest".
25** "The Recipe": Ant-One and the army of Anton clones have been defeated and Gumball and Dawrin are now aware that playing God is wrong... but Anton didn't make it. Ant-Two (unintentionally) took his place.
26** "The Heist": Darwin successfully delivers the bag of money back to the bank, saving Richard from being imprisoned, however the police immediately suspect the bag to be a bomb and quickly blows it up. The Wattersons look at with disappointment the flaming money falling down after the explosion.
27* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' has "[[WhamEpisode Homecoming]]". The Huntsclan utterly destroyed? The weapon they were planning to use to kill all magical creatures also destroyed? Check. DidNotGetTheGirl and an [[SubvertedTrope attempted]] HeroicSacrifice? Check.
28* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' ends with the multiverse saved, most of the bad guys reformed, all the good guys alive, and [[FinalBoss The Core]] destroyed. Anne, Sasha, and Marcy are finally able to return home, changed for the better because of their experience. But going home uses up the last of the Calamity Gems' powers, meaning the girls will never be able to return to Amphibia. Anne will ''never'' see the Plantars again, nor will Sasha ever see Grime again. After a ten-year timeskip, Amphibia has rebuilt itself, Olivia and Yunan are together, Toadie becomes mayor, and Sprig is still dating Ivy. Meanwhile, on Earth, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy drifted apart over the years, but remained friends and reuinite on Anne's birthday. Sasha's a therapist, Marcy is a successful artist, and Anne's a herpetologist. Oh, and thanks to meeting an entity that is basically God, Anne knows she'll live to the ripe old age of ninety-one. The series ends on Anne reflecting on what she's lost, but also on how she cherishes what's come back to her, and it's clear she and Sprig will never forget one another.
29* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': At the end of season 2, Bold returns home for the sake of his mate and unborn cubs. Because he was way too weak to make the long journey back home, he has to pay for it with his life. A couple of seconds before he dies, he hears from his father that he is proud of him, so he can die in peace.
30* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} (1993)'': Nearly every Buttons and Mindy short ends with Buttons being chewed out by Mindy's parents for breaking a house rule as a result of protecting Mindy from ([[BadlyBatteredBabysitter and taking beatings from]]) dangers she is otherwise oblivious to. However, Mindy will give Buttons a hug and assure him that she loves him afterwards.
31* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' has one, with Frylock and Master Shake being KilledOffForReal. The last few minutes then show that after the deaths of his teammates, Meatwad got his act together, got married, landed a good job and a nice home, and eventually started a family. The series ends with Meatwad taking his family to visit the house he used to live in with the other Aqua Teens, and then they all drive off to eat dinner together. [[SeriesFauxnale Good thing is, as revealed mere days later, this was not the actual finale of the series.]]
32* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} [[WesternAnimation/ArcherDreamland Dreamland]]'' has one, befitting its DarkerAndEdgier status. Archer finally learns the truth regarding Woodhouse's murder. Dutch receives his due karma, and Archer is no longer working for Mother at the moment. Unfortunately, Lana is dead and Poovey's Chinese sister-wives left. However, Archer is trying to move on with his life, and the Chinese sister-wives are trying to make it on their own. In real world terms, Archer also hasn't woken up, but he isn't dead.
33* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
34** "Sick as a Dog" ends with Pal mostly recovered, but not completely.
35** "Paradise Lost" ends with Kate realising she won't always be able to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to animals]], but that Pal will still be her friend.
36** "So Long, Spanky" -- Spanky the budgie is dead, but D.W. is happy with [[ALizardNamedLiz Toadie]], her pet toad.
37* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
38** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderJet Jet]]": The village is saved from the destruction, and Sokka begins to learn respect as the leader. Katara, however, is still heartbroken that Jet has used her and Aang to nearly destroy a village.
39** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBlueSpirit The Blue Spirit]]": Aang is rescued from Zhao, and both Katara and Sokka get better, but Aang’s attempt to connect with Zuko fails.
40--->'''Sokka:''' Aang, how was your trip? Did you make any new friends?
41--->'''Aang:''' No, I don’t think I did.
42** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheNorthernAirTemple The Northern Air Temple]]": The heroes manage to drive the Fire Nation troops away from the Northern Air Temple and its refugee inhabitants, but the Fire Nation obtains the wreckage of the heroes' war balloon, which in time will allow them to develop powerful flying war machines of their own.
43--->'''Qin:''' This defeat is the gateway to many victories.
44** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSiegeOfTheNorthPart2 The Siege of the North, Part 2]]": The Fire Nation’s attack on the Northern Water Tribe is repelled, but at the cost of Yue’s life. Meanwhile, Iroh and Zuko are unaware that they have been branded traitors by their nation, and Ozai dispatches his daughter, who far more dangerous and competent than Zuko and Zhao, to capture them.
45** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderReturnToOmashu Return to Omashu]]": King Bumi remains in captivity ([[ItMakesSenseInContext by his choice]]), meaning Aang has to search for a different earthbending master to teach him, while Omashu remains under the Fire Nation's rule. However, King Bumi's subjects escape their captive city, and Aang gives Tom-Tom back to his family safe and sound.
46** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZukoAlone Zuko Alone]]" ends on a more Bitter than Sweet side, verging on a DownerEnding. While Zuko successfully defends the village from the corrupt soldiers, he is shunned off by the townspeople after exposing himself as the Fire Nation crown prince.
47** ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheChase The Chase]]": The Gaang finally fends off Azula and gets to rest while Zuko and Iroh reunite. However, Azula escapes and injures Iroh badly.
48** ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBitterWork Bitter Work]]": On the Sweet side, Aang successfully unlocks the earthbending. On the Bitter side, Zuko [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint looks for lightning to redirect]], but it won’t strike him, leaving him angrier and more lost than before.
49** ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheDesert The Desert]]": On the Sweet side, Zuko and Iroh safely escape their pursuers and head for Ba Sing Se, where they will be safe. On the Bitter side, while the Gaang may have found someone who can help them escape the desert, the emotional damage has already been done, and they still haven’t found Appa yet.
50** ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai Lake Laogai]]": The Gaang and Appa are finally reunited, and Zuko abandons his Blue Spirit persona for good. Unfortunately, Jet is killed.
51** ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePuppetmaster The Puppetmaster]]": Hama is finally defeated, ending terrorism of the nearby village… at cost Katara being forced to bloodbend to stop her, meaning [[TheBadGuyWins Hama is successful in passing down her knowledge]].
52** ''The Day of Black Sun" [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheDayOfBlackSunPart1 two]]-[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheDayOfBlackSunPart2 parter]]: [[AllForNothing The invasion is thwarted]], forcing the children to flee while adults prepare to surrender. However, Zuko performs his long-awaited HeelFaceTurn, outright telling Ozai that the Avatar is still alive and he’s going to teach Aang firebending. The episode’s final shot is that of Zuko following the escapees.
53* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Unsurprisingly this FilmNoir influenced show set in a grim, crime ridden urban sprawl isn't short on these.
54** In [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison"]] the plot to [[KissOfDeath assassinate]] district attorney Harvey Dent is foiled by Batman and he receives the antidote just in time, however the perpetrator one [[BitchInSheepsClothing Pamela Isley]] a.k.a. [[TheVamp Poison Ivy]] isn't put off from this setback, remaining firmly set on her delusional [[GaiasVengeance eco-terrorist agenda]], swearing vengeance from her prison cell.
55* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' had episodes often end like this as time went on, but the first BittersweetEnding in the series definitely had impact on the show; the two-part first season finale, "The Rubberface of Comedy" and "The Clayface of Tragedy". ComicBook/TheJoker begins a crime spree with his Joker Putty, capable of turning anything into a putty-like material. When the police try to stop him, Joker kidnaps Ethan Bennett, Bruce Wayne's oldest childhood friend and an officer constantly harrased by Chief Rojas for thinking The Batman is good for Gotham City. At the end of the first part, Joker ends up [[MindRape mind raping]] Ethan and accidentally turns him into Clayface by exposure to gas based on Joker Putty. During the second part, Ethan attempts to exact revenge on Chief Rojas for his torment. Batman manages to save Chief Rojas, but is defeated by Clayface. Yin saves Batman, but Ethan escapes and is nowhere to be found, and since he can now shape-shift...Bruce feels he may never see his friend again. Of course, [[StatusQuoIsGod later he does]] in the second season...[[SubvertedTrope only for Joker to convince Ethan to not reform and instead embrace being a supervillain]]. At least in that episode, Batman caught Clayface this time.
56* "Mitefall!", the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. ComicBook/AmbushBug rescues the show from Bat-Mite's meddling and Batman saves the day, [[EndOfSeriesAwareness but it's too late to save the show from cancellation]]. With their new-found MediumAwareness, almost every character to ever appear in the show - heroes and villains, dead and alive - put aside their differences and have one last party in a Batcave which is revealed to be nothing more than a set and is being dismantled around them. [[TearJerker Batman promises the audience that, until they meet again, wherever evil lurks, he'll be there to defend the innocent and the final shot of the series is a group shot of all the heroes - and, by extension, their entire world - fading to black.]]
57* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': "Frogs of War" ends with the [[AliensAreBastards Inkurseans]] defeated, or rather [[TheEmperor Milleus]] defeated, with [[DaddysLittleVillain Attea]] revealing she orchestrated his downfall, and has maneuvered the protagonists into a corner where their defenses are down. The Inkurseans, despite being scattered are firmly entrenched in Earth's sector, and will continue their oppression. Attea promises to remove the forces and pay for all damages, provided they let her go, meaning she'll be in charge of the empire (the last time she attained power, she tried to blow up Earth for fun; this time she's got the entire legion directly at her beck and call). Despite Ben's protests, Max concedes her point and lets her go (the alternative being prolonged Occupation and a possible power struggle). The ending with the DatingCatwoman and TakeThatKiss can push this into EsotericHappyEnding as the narrative leans to make it more positive.
58* ''WesternAnimation/TheBerenstainBears'': "Go to the Movies" -- the Bear family never got to see the movie they wanted to see, but their goal to spend some quality time together was achieved in their failed attempts to go see it, and they bond over watching old tapes from when the cubs were younger.
59* ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' ends on one. Deathstroke has been defeated and he can’t remember who Batman is, Batman, Katana, Man-Bat, Metamorpho, and Oracle join forces to protect Gotham, and Anarky’s plans are ruined and he has to start over from scratch. However, Harvey Dent has become Two-Face and is going to campaign for mayor, and Batman is considered a public menace.
60* The 2006 revival of ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' ends this way. After the three-part episode "Once Upon a Time on Earth" concludes with Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo defeating the Catatonians, Ronaldo Rump, and their old enemy Lawrence Limburger for good, the final episode "Turf Wars" has the trio go back to Mars to end the drought that has been plaguing the planet. Upon returning to Mars, the Biker Mice find Vinnie's old girlfriend Harley, who unfortunately has [[FaceHeelTurn become evil]] because she thought the Biker Mice abandoned her, and in the end, after coming to her senses and deactivating Stoker's invention the regenerator to prevent Olympus Mons from erupting, is supposedly killed. However, Throttle and Modo tell Vinnie it's possible she survived.
61* ''WesternAnimation/BloodOfZeus'': Olympus and the world are saved, with Heron welcomed into Olympus by his half-siblings, but Zeus is dead, Hera has fled to Gods know where, while Seraphim will either suffer for his crimes in Tartaros for all eternity or again be the slave of a god.
62* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'':
63** "Takeaway" -- Most of the food is either gone or wrecked, but the girls are enjoying themselves playing under the tap.
64** "Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound" -- Bingo is still sick, but the video has cheered her up.
65** "Mum School" -- Bluey has failed at "mum school" and lost her balloon, but Chilli assures her that [[MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld all mothers fail mum school sometimes]], and they can try again tomorrow.
66** "Whale Watching" -- Bandit and Chilli are still tired, but they at least get a nap.
67** "Fancy Restaurant" -- Bandit and Chilli are being romantic once again, yet it's because Chilli is comforting Bandit as he throws up because of some "food" [[LethalChef Bingo]] made.
68** "Camping" -- a cut to the future reveals that, despite all odds, Bluey ''does'' see Jean-luc again... but not for years.
69* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' ultimately ends this way. Bojack is sentenced to a year in prison for breaking into his old house and both Diane and Hollyhock break all ties with him. On the bright side, Bojack manages to get sober again, his career appears to be picking up after his release, manages to reconnect with his friends, and while Diane wants to cut all ties with him, they do so in mutual, if somber, terms.
70* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'': "New Partners on the Block" Lucky joins the FBI, finally getting the promotion he's always wanted, but he has to move to Washington D.C. meaning he and Bonkers have to say goodbye.
71* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': The HIV-related episode "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS3E11AFormulaForHate A Formula for Hate]]" has one if you think about it. While Todd was accepted by the townspeople, who learned that HIV-positive people need help and support and are not monsters, and felt guilty about harassing him, Todd still has HIV and will not get the chance to marry his girlfriend and have children, since they will also get HIV, and Todd will eventually gain AIDS and die, and even if he lives to 1995, where the first HAART were used, he'll still have to spend a lot of time and money for his treatment.
72* ''WesternAnimation/CapitolCritters'': "If Lovin' You is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Rat": Violet chooses to stay with her owner, leaving Jammet heartbroken. But at least Max got himself a hamster girlfriend.
73* Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' ends this way: Dracula is dead and his genocidal war is over, but most of Wallachia is in ruins and God knows how many people are dead. [[KarmaHoudini Carmilla also gets away scot-free]] [[MadeASlave and enslaves Hector]] to build an army so she can take advantage of the EvilPowerVacuum created by Dracula's death, and Isaac winds up in a distant desert region where he begins building his own army. Meanwhile, [[BreakingTheFellowship the heroes split up,]] with Trevor and Sypha going off together on more adventures (and it's implied that a romance might be starting to bloom between them) while Alucard stays behind to safeguard the combined knowledge of Dracula's castle and the Belmont Hold. But on top of both of Alucard's parents being dead, he has to live with the fact that he had to kill his own father to save the world. And to hammer in the bitterness of this ending, the very last scene of the season is Alucard breaking down in tears as he finally allows himself to grieve.
74* ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'': In Season 2 "[[Recap/CentralParkS2E06TheShadow The Shadow]]", Birdie found someone who enjoys listening to his music in the form of an old woman in a wheelchair being pushed by a male nurse. Unfortunately, the nurse would later inform Birdie that she'd died from an unspecified terminal illness. Birdie is saddened over her death but continues to play on the next day, catching the attention of a little boy who starts dancing to his music.
75* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In the first season finale, Abe and Joan confess their love the minute they get frozen along with everyone else. But then Scudworth does include the Board of Shadowy Figures who were going to use them as super soldiers.
76* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': The currently final season ends with the characters completely annihilating XANA. However, Aelita's father Franz, in order to allow the team to destroy the BigBad, [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] shielding his daughter. Along with that, William is stuck with no memories of the few months of his time possessed by XANA, but the others have a hard time no longer seeing him as TheDragon. Finally, they decide to erase Sissi's memories after she finally discovers why they were so cruel to her for the last two plus years, request her friendship after the last Return Trip to apologize for said cruelty, and shut down the supercomputer, permanently destroying any iota of hope in saving Aelita's father.
77* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': "Operation: T.R.E.A.T.Y.", the penultimate episode of the series, ends on one with ''heavy'' emphasis on the bitter. The Teens' plan to destroy the Kids Next Door is stopped and Nigel's name is cleared; however, the ChainedHeat situation between him and his former mentor Numbuh 274/Chad deteriorates their already [[WeUsedToBeFriends tenuous]] relationship, and even learning [[FakeDefector the truth]] ultimately changes nothing for either of them as Chad is also revealed to be a BrokenAce, which is why he tried to kill Nigel in their DuelToTheDeath. Furthermore, Nigel is left with more questions than answers, namely what is it he's chosen for that he's purposefully left LockedOutOfTheLoop.
78* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has two. "Public Enemies" ends with Danny Phantom completely [[UntrustingCommunity hated by his hometown]], staged by a vindictive ghost. Danny, however, regales in hope and continues to play hero (and eventually succeeds). "Flirting with Disaster" has [[StarCrossedLovers Danny and Valerie]] dating happily, the latter willing to give up ghost hunting for Danny. Irony because while he saved the world, Danny [Phantom] himself caused Valerie to break up with him to further her career for his safety. Made even worse when Danny was just about to give her a class ring and ask her to be his official girlfriend. ''Ouch.''
79* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' leans toward sweet, since most of our main characters got into colleges they wanted and [[HeterosexualLifePartners Daria and Jane]] are going to move to Boston together, but [[DumbJock Kevin]] is being held back (likely dooming his relationship with [[DumbBlonde Brittany]]), [[TheSlacker Trent]] is sad that Jane is leaving him behind like the rest of their family, Daria and [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]] break up and [[TokenMinorityCouple Mack and Jodie]] are going to schools that are apparently far apart. [[LovableAlphaBitch Quinn]]'s subplot is particularly bittersweet: she makes a friend who [[TheAlcoholic has a drinking problem]], tries to confront her about it and the two have a big fight. The friend apologizes later, but she still does not acknowledge her problem and it's implied that, since they don't work together anymore, the friendship is not likely to last.
80* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'': "Tower of Babel". Dilbert fulfills his lifelong dream of getting his own office but then learns he'll only get to keep it for another few minutes due to the company moving back to its original building. He's understandably sad, but takes those few minutes to live out his other dream; closing the door and dancing around his desk in his boxers.
81* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsTheNineRealms'' ends with the riders and dragons defeating BigBad Jörmungandr and Tom and Jun getting back together. However, Rakke Town is destroyed resulting in Project I.C.A.R.I.S. being terminated and the Dragon Club having to part ways. Further, their dragons decide to part ways with them, too, having come to the conclusion that humans are not ready to live together with dragons again as there will always be evil people trying to misuse them.
82* While always cheery, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has some bittersweet things mixed in.
83** The Shadow War: The Duck-Mcduck family stop Magica Despell after her return. But Lena was forced to seemingly sacrifice herself to protect her best friend. Donald's boat was also destroyed again, but he finally understands how important he and the nephews are to Scrooge, allowing a reconciliation. And in the final shot of the episode, we see that the woman who was the focus of so much of the season, Della Duck, is on the moon and SHE'S ALIVE!
84* ''WesternAnimation/{{Egyxos}}'': Leo awakens Ra, who proceeds to de-power Exaton, removing his threat. Leo then returns home, knowing he wont be able to go back to Egyxos due to the Bracelet of Ra having run out of power.
85* ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'': On the plus side, Kevin has made up with Alice, Rosie has managed to stop his district from being demolished, Mayor Tangenti has been indicted, Lou Gagliardi is dead, Sue has managed to patch things up with Louis and has opened her own parenting class, and Frank finally manages to move on from his past and is actively doing his best to be a better father and husband. On a more bittersweet note, Frank's come to terms with the death of his father and is moving on, though he's still understandably sour about the relationship and Bob Pogo will have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, although he seems to be okay with this. And on the down side, Frank has been demoted to a position that pays half as much as his previous position, Louis and Stan’s relationship goes back to the stage of estrangement, and Ginny has abandoned her two sons with Greg.
86* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
87** "Dream Goat!" ends with Timmy confessing that he freed Chompy, the town agreeing to let Chompy go, and Timmy soothing his guilt over the whole mess, but his parents still ground him for lying.
88** "That Old Black Magic" has Timmy defeating the anti-fairies and saving the Earth. But Adrenaland is still destroyed, forcing him to go to Escalator Land.
89* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Season 3 episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" has an infamously heartbreaking example, described by series creator Creator/SethMacFarlane as one of the few sincere displays of "real human emotion" in the show's early days. Brian bonds with Pearl -- a reclusive singer [[TheHermit who hadn't left her house in thirty years after her career ended in shame]] -- and manages to coax her into finally leaving and embrace life for all it has to offer... [[MoodWhiplash before she's suddenly hit by a truck]]. On her deathbed, she still thanks Brian for helping her feel alive again, and Brian brings a shared VR set [[PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd to simulate what their lives would be like if they had more time]]. What follows is a montage of the two properly falling in love, marrying, raising a family, and growing old together, [[LetThemDieHappy with Brian leaving one last kiss before Pearl finally passes]].
90* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In the SeriesFinale, "[[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS6E10GoodbyeToBloo Goodbye To Bloo]]", Bloo overhears from Mr. Herriman that his owner Mac is moving out of his old apartment, and since Mac made a deal with Madame Foster that Bloo won't get adopted by someone else as long as he visited him every day, Bloo is worried that he will get adopted once Mac moves away. He and his friends set out to make Mac's last day at Foster's the best he ever had. At the end of the episode, Mac reveals to everyone that he has some good news and some bad news; the good news is that he's only moving into his neighbor Louise's apartment since his Mom got a promotion at work and she needs a bigger office space. The bad news is that Louise is moving somewhere that doesn't allow imaginary friends, which means that Cheese, her imaginary friend is going to live at Foster's with the other imaginary friends, much to their horror.
91* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
92** "The Luck of the Fryrish", Fry, while trying to find a seven-leafed clover that gave him extraordinary luck back in the 20th century, comes across a glorified statue of what appears to be his older brother Yancy, with Fry's clover pinned to his coat and Fry's name on his pedestal, which praises him as the first man to reach Mars. Yancy apparently was well-known as a heroic 21st century pioneer and adventurer, but everyone knew him by Fry's name: Phillip J. Fry. However, in Fry's memory, Yancy was extremely [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Fry and his luck in the twentieth century, and was notorious for stealing from him frequently. Fry is devastated, certain that Yancy stole his clover, his name, and his glory; as it had always been Fry's greatest dream to be an astronaut; using Fry's lucky charm to win his success. However, when Fry finds Yancy's grave and plans to rob it to get his clover back, he catches sight of the epitaph: "Phillip Fry, the Original Martian. Named in loving memory of his uncle to carry on his spirit." Fry then realizes that the Original Martian was not Yancy at all, but Yancy's son, Phillip Fry II, whom Yancy named after his missing younger brother, and presented with Fry's clover, declaring "[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold I love you Phillip, and always will]]." to both of them. The episode ends with Fry (who leaves the clover where it is) kneeling tearfully before his nephew's ancient tombstone, while "Don't you Forget About Me" plays in the background. This is even more meaningful when you remember that that Fry's father had told Yancy that all the first-born Frys are named Yancy.
93** There's also "Time Keeps On Slippin'," where Fry tries to figure out what he did to get Leela to marry him during the time skips. The crew deploys an explosive into the chroniton-filled nebula responsible for tweaking time, Fry notices that [[GrandRomanticGesture the stars spell out "I Love You, Leela,"]] something he must have [[CouldntFindAPen written]] during one of the time skips that won Leela over. Unfortunately, the explosion causes the stars to be sucked into a black hole, without Leela ever seeing the message.
94** A similar feeling is invoked in "Jurassic Bark", where Fry attempts to clone his pet dog, who had died 1,000 years previously, so as to 'have his best friend back'. By the end of the episode, however, Fry comes to the revelation that his dog was only a couple of years old, and had he died of old age then he would have been someone else's pet for longer than he was his, and therefore should be allowed to rest in peace. This is bittersweet enough, however as the credits roll we learn that the dog loyally waited for his master to return, never moving from the spot until he died. He WAS Fry's pet and best friend all along, and he decided not to bring him back on a mistaken assumption. In fact this ending was such an immense TearJerker that the show's producers ended up receiving hate mail from viewers who had cried. However, possibly [[AuthorsSavingThrow due to the aforementioned fan backlash]], the ending was later retconned by the movie ''Bender's Big Score'', which, due to time travel, allowed a time-displaced double of Fry to return to the past and pick up his life just how he left it, with Seymour at his side.
95** In "Yo Leela Leela", Leela admits that she was plagiarizing everything about her children's show franchise from the real Rumbledy-Hump. The producer decides to turn the show into a reality show. The Humplings go on to live better lives thanks to modern conveniences, and the orphans Leela tried to make happy with her show are adopted by the producer as his production crew. Leela herself, however, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone finds herself]] as a KarmaHoudini demanding punishment for her actions as the episode closes.
96** In "Game of Tones" a destructive noise is threatening the Earth, and it turns out Fry remembers the sound from the last day he was in the past. Throughout the episode, Fry wants to say goodbye to his mom one last time, but is continuously interrupted before he's allowed to. He doesn't get the chance before they figure out what the noise is, but Nibbler lets Fry enter his mother's dream from a few days after he was frozen. So while Fry does get his opportunity to say goodbye to his mother, in the present he's still gone and she'll never see him again after this.
97** In "Meanwhile" Fry steals a time button from Professor Farnsworth to make the perfect proposal to Leela. Since all of his time traveling made his watch off from the actual time, he found out Leela was coming to the spot he planned, but it was too late, as he had flung himself from the Vampire State Building. After a lot of deaths and rewinds to save him, his friends eventually save him, but he smashes the device, making everything in the universe except for himself and Leela frozen in time, and Farnsworth seemingly dead. The two of them slowly age, exploring the frozen world, until both are elderly. Then, it turns out Farnsworth was alive, but stuck in time, trying to return to the present. He fixes the button, and makes it so it will send them back in time with no memory of their lives together. Fry and Leela agree to this, and the button press sends them back to before Farnsworth invented the button. So while Fry and Leela won't be able to hold onto the time they had together, they'll get to do it all over again.
98* The ''[[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero G.I. Joe]]'' episode "Sink the Montana!". A historic U.S battleship is scheduled to be decommissioned, but its admiral (a long-time friend of General Hawk) is strongly attached to the vessel and joins Cobra to prevent it from being scrapped. The Joes ultimately capture the admiral (who decides to [[GoingDownWithTheShip go down with the ship]] until Hawk punches him out of it) and the ship is sunk by the U.S. Navy. In the final scene, Shipwreck (another Joe who had sympathized with the Admiral) wonders what punishment the Admiral will receives and Hawk responds that he doesn't know what'll happen but that his friend already paid "the ultimate price", as they watch the Montana sink and explode.
99* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldOnTheTown'': Garfield finds his way back to Jon and Odie, but he's been more or less forbidden to ever come near his family due to him causing his family's restaurant to take serious damage in a fight against the Claws to protect Garfield — something Garfield not only instigated against but also [[DirtyCoward didn't participate in the fight for]]. Meaning that he can't see his [[MissingMom long-lost mother]], again. [[HopeSpot Though the ending implied that Garfield's mother is checking up on him to see how he's doing]]. She's also apparently in the audience for Garfield's act on the fence in the intro to ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldGoesHollywood''.
100* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldsBabesAndBullets'': Sam solves the murder and gets a check that will cover the rent for his office, but [[spoiler:Tanya turns him down because she's still grieving her husband. Kitty is also grieving Professor O'Tabby but decides to cuddle with Sam for comfort. He's fine with that]].
101* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldGetsALife'': The special ends with Jon being forced to break up with Mona because she's allergic to cats, but the two agree to stay friends and Garfield is pleased that Jon still sticks by him.
102* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'':
103** In "Reawakening", Coldstone leaves without joining the Manhattan clan but Goliath and the rest of the clan finds their true purpose in protecting the city.
104** This happens in "Vows" ''threefold''.
105*** Goliath manages to stop present Demona's machinations in the past but she reveals that his conversation to past Demona had no effect and Demona would still grow into the KnightTemplar that she is at present time. WordOfGod refers to this as the "divorce" episode as events here convince Goliath that Demona would never change and he gives up trying to appeal to her.
106*** Demona fails to prevent the Wyvern massacre but she gets one over Goliath proving that his actions in the past did nothing to stop her from becoming the monster she is today.
107*** Xanatos successfully fulfills his gambit but fails to [[WellDoneSonGuy win the approval of his father]] which was made clear has been his primary goal the entire time.
108** "The Mirror" ends with both Goliath and Elisa realizing their feelings for each other but Elisa reflects that they are StarCrossedLovers due to the differences of their species.
109*** Meanwhile for Demona, she gains the ability to walk during the day but it is bitter for her because she transformed into a ''human'' whose race that Demona hates with a passion.
110* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcgee'': [[spoiler:Scratch returns to his once-abandoned human body, Todd, and is able to go ahead and live out the life he never could before due to his depression, however by doing so he forgets about Molly and all his friends in the living and ghost world during his time as a Wraith (with only some vague remnants of their time together remaining such as Molly's catchphrase and the term "enhappify") and he ultimately leaves Brighton to explore the world and reunites with Adia. Regardless, Molly and her friends and family remain tighter than ever and set out to live out their own lives, too, while never forgetting about Scratch and see him off before he leaves.]]
111* ''WesternAnimation/{{Granpa}}'': Granpa dies but leaves behind his memories with Emily.
112* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' ends with the titular character's main friends, Fee and Foo, reunited with their parents, but having to move away from Littlebark. Harvey gets pretty saddened about them leaving, but he does know that he was lucky to be their friend. (Plus, they still get in contact with each other through mail letters.[[labelnote:note]]Interestingly, were the show to have gotten another season, [[SweetAndSourGrapes Fee and Foo would have moved back]] because their parents were [[TheDitz too incompetent]] to take care of their children by themselves--a scenario that's easy to imagine happening soon-after anyway.[[/labelnote]])
113-->'''Irving:''' Sometimes people come into your life, and sometimes they have to leave.
114-->'''Harvey:''' It's so sad.
115-->'''Miriam:''' It ''is'' sad. But you're also really lucky you got to be their friend. Nothing's ever going to change that.
116-->'''Irving:''' Yeah, you found each other. When a friend comes into your life, it changes you a little. They challenge you. They make you laugh. They make you stronger. Each person gives you a gift. A special part of them that you keep forever. It's like they're always with you.
117* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'':
118** The "The Beeper Queen" episode ended in this. Helga's mom is no longer paying little attention to her due to her work, making Helga feel better and rekindling their relationship back to its old self. But now Miriam's back to being a depressed alcoholic, who will probably go back to neglecting her anyway.
119** "Pigeon Man" has Arnold taking his sick pigeon Chester to Vincent (the eponymous Pigeon Man), an outcast with a fascination for birds. In return for caring for Chester, Arnold takes Vincent out for some pizza, and while that occurs, Harold, Stinky, and Joey head to Vincent's roof and trash everything, but not without being chased out by the pigeons due to Joey holding a spilled bag of bird seed. When Arnold and Vincent find out that the roof has been vandalized, they are distraught and Vincent decides to literally fly the coop with his pigeons to help other birds in need. Even though Vincent distrusts humans again, he still trusts Arnold and hopes to find another human being like him.
120--->'''Vincent:''' Remember Arnold, always wash your berries before you eat them, and fly toward the sun.
121** "The High Life" ends with Arnold and Gerald shipping their watches back to the company, Wacko, but while Gerald doesn't have to pay for the company's shipment, he has to pay his father for his bills.
122* ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleRacers'': Teku and the Metal Maniacs successfully rescue Markie from the Racing Drones' HQ and are on much better terms with each other than ever before. Vert also ensures Gelorum's defeat by racing through all the realms using his own skills while she used the Accelechargers and she gets sent flying away by an Acceleron when she tries to attack Vert. The drones are also defeated as a whole since the Silencerz steal the Wheel of Power from the drones' HQ and acquire the Accelechargers when Vert ends up in their HQ. On the downside, Gig is forced to sacrifice himself to destroy the Acceledrome to eliminate the drones occupying it to save the humans and Vert, being in the Silencerz' HQ, is separated from his friends who want to go looking for him, but are unlikely to find him any time soon. Kadeem has also been transformed into a drone and he refuses to come back with his former allies and possibly falls to his death.
123* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'':
124** Book 1 ends with Tulip being allowed to go home, while Amelia vows to change her ways and fix the damage she's done. However, Amelia's number is still high enough that she'll probably die before she's allowed to leave the train, and Tulip will probably never see Atticus or One-One again.
125** Book 3 also ends this way. Simon dies having squandered every chance he had to become a better person and Grace will likely never see Hazel again. On top of that, Grace and the surviving Apex members have a long way to go before they're allowed to get off the train and they face an uncertain future once they finally get back home. On the bright side, Grace and the children are now working to figure out how to move forward and help each other get off the train, Grace's number has gone down significantly (from in the millions in the beginning of the season to only a few hundred by the end) and Grace herself now has a denizen partner in an origami bird.
126* ''WesternAnimation/TheIntruderIII'' ends on this note. As it turns out, the base TOM and SARA have been operating out of since [[WesternAnimation/TheIntruderII the last one]] is actually a ship and the {{Sand Worm}}s that were the title characters this time around were really trying to help the two. However, the planet is dying and while the ship is able to leave with the youngest of the sand worms, the rest of the creatures die with the planet.
127* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' finale "The Powers That Be". On one hand, Drago and Shendu are banished to the Netherworld for good. On the other hand, Section 13 was destroyed by the Ice Crew and the talismans are lost forever, as Shendu possessed them while he was defeated.
128* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "Ndovu's Last Journey," the Quest team successfully keep the poachers away in order for Ndovu (the titular elephant) to reach the elephant graveyard... so he can die.
129* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
130** "Paradise Lost" ends this way; Faust is dead, Hades is banished back to Tartarus, and the Amazons are freed from Faust's petrification spell. But by bringing the rest of the League with her to help, Diana allowed men to set foot on Themyscira. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Meaning that she broke the Amazons' most sacred law]] [[YouCantGoHomeAgain and that Hippolyta has no choice but to exile her own daughter]].
131** In "Starcrossed", the final episode of ''Justice League'' (before being rebranded into ''Unlimited''), Earth is saved from destruction... at the cost of their home base, one of their members leaving (breaking up the [[OfficialCouple series' main relationship]]), and an untold amount of the Thanagarians threatening the planet. Sweetened a bit by its continuation, ''Unlimited'', which shows that things can be rebuilt, but even then there's a note of bitterness lingering throughout the series. Thanagar loses its war ''and planet'', Shayera has to spend years slowly earning back the trust of Earth, ''can't'' earn back the trust of Thanagar, and the relationship between Diana and Shayera is one of the most strained in the League. At least Diana starts to warm up, and time travel shows that John does get back with Shayera.
132** Despite the proud tone of ''Justice League'' and ''Unlimited'' as the age of superheroes, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' shows that all good things come to end, with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the Batfamily]] having enough of Bruce's unwillingness to open up that they eventually abandon him and move on with their lives (thanks to a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker traumatic ordeal]]) and Bruce cutting off his ties to the League to return to working alone, as well as the League greatly reducing in numbers in the next thirty years.
133*** And in line with the bleak and bitter(sweet) tone of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' as the distant finale of the DCAU, the (dubiously canon) comic continuation reveals the fate of several other Leaguers and their associates: Superman outlived Lois and his other friends; Wonder Woman spent the last three decades willingly stranded in [[CrapsackWorld the Justice Lords universe]]; Shayera and John married... but Vixen was killed by Shadow Thief right as John was going to propose to her, Hawkman was killed in a futile attempt to bring peace to the Thanagarians and [[ComicBook/AdamStrange Rannians]], and John was revoked of his ring for killing Shadow Thief in vengeance; Flash disappeared into the Speed Force and never came back; Aquaman cut off his ties with the outside world and was forced to disown his own children.
134* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': The Local Heroes have lost their powers and are forbidden from telling the world about their adventure, and Papa G is mortal and confined to a wheelchair. However, he's still alive and the end of the episode has the cast reuniting with their old friends and customers at Mo's Oasis Café.
135* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Dr. Emilia is finally defeated, and a prosperous new era of peace between humans and Mutes has begun. However, Scarlemagne ends up [[HeroicSacrifice dying to save Kipo]], and Lio and Song aren't able to create a cure to restore the Mutes back to the way they were.
136* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
137** Book Two: Vaatu is destroyed (at least until the next Harmonic Convergence), Raava is reborn and re-merged with Korra, and the Water Tribes are at peace again... but Korra has lost her connection to past Avatars, effectively restarting the Avatar Cycle from scratch.
138** The story of Wan, the First Avatar, ends on a bittersweet note. Wan succeeded in bringing lasting peace between humans and spirits, but he could not stop humanity's petty infighting. He dies on a battlefield, an old man knowing he had failed. Raava assures him that she will be with him for all of his reincarnations.
139** Book Three's ending sees Korra emotionally broken and confined to a wheelchair from ambiguous mercury poisoning while the season's main antagonists may have only been the tip of the iceberg, as many other members of the Red Lotus organization are thought to still be at large. However, Jinora is anointed an airbending master in a manner that [[CallBack heartwarmingly recalls]] her [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender grandfather]] and Tenzin pledges that the re-established Air Nation will take on the Avatar's duties while Korra recovers.
140** The series finale, though mostly uplifting, still has some depressing notes. Kuvira was defeated, Varrick and Zhu Li have gotten married, and Korra and Asami have come out of the closet and started a relationship, but Republic City is in ruins, Asami's father [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies just as he manages to make amends with her]], and Bataar Jr. is heartbroken and devastated by Kuvira's betrayal as well as his own crimes.
141* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendsOfTreasureIsland'': Jim and friends have finally found the treasure and can now go home without worry, plus both Pew and Long John Silver are gone for good. However, they lost Captain Smollett at the hands of Pew.
142* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'':
143** "I Want My Dummy" ends with the Princess giving up her dummy of her own accord, but everyone else sad that they made each other give ''their'' hobbies up.
144** At the end of "I Don't Want a Cold", the Princess is happy, yet the adults [[AmbiguousEnding might]] have caught her cold and the picnic is off.
145** "I Want to Go to the Fair" ends with the Princess happy and with two new goldfish as pets, but still injured. In addition, she and the Queen are also tired.
146** In "I Want a Bicycle", the Princess never learns to ride a bicycle, but she can ride on the back of the King's.
147** At the end of "I Want My Plaster", the Princess and General's injuries have healed and the kite is now unstuck, but the Princess's other leg is now injured in the same place, and both pets have their own injuries.
148* ''Literature/TheLittles'': "Ben Dinky" - The Emperor has been defeated, and the Roman Littles are able to go to the surface again, but Dinky has to leave behind Cara, the girl he has fallen in love with.
149* ''ComicBook/{{Lou}}'': Lou finally gets the courage to reveal her feelings to Tristan and makes a pact with her mother in which she will also promise to reveal her feelings to Richard, but neither of them are ultimately capable of that. Richard leaves for a camp without knowing Lou's mother's feelings, while Lou panics at a party she was attending with Tristan. Lou then decides to show her feelings by going to Tristan's apartment with a painting she made for him, but opens the door to find the apartment empty (Tristan had moved to another city, and due to Lou's panic at the party he didn't have the chance to tell her). However, Lou concludes that all of her experiences throughout the year ultimately made her appreciate the fact that other people, such as her mom, Mina and Richard, like her the way she is. The episode ends with an optimistic Lou saying "Well, it's summer, if life is beautiful, let's enjoy it!".
150* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
151** At the end of "No Such Luck", Lincoln's family no longer thinks he's bad luck, in fact they think he's ''good'' luck-- but only when he's wearing a squirrel costume.
152** "The Loudest Yard" ends with Lincoln being angrily chased away by rival athletes, but he doesn't mind, since at least now he's getting some exercise.
153** At the end of "Linc or Swim?", the Louds' pool breaks, forcing them to use the kiddie pool (and to rub salt in the wound, they have to clean it when Lily poops in it) but they're still happy to be together.
154** At the end of "Come Sale Away", the children are punished for selling the living room furniture, but they're still happy and do a victory dance despite none of them actually being victorious.
155** "Ruthless People" ends with Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lana, Lisa, Lily, and Rita enjoying themselves on a cruise, but the others being forced to stay with Aunt Ruth, who they hate visiting.
156** "In Tents Debate" ends with Lincoln's sisters happy at the campground, but it's because he's essentially acting as their servant.
157** At the end of "Left in the Dark", Lincoln misses his favourite TV show, but his sisters cheer him up by playing footage of the adventure they had on the TV.
158** "A Stella Performance": Stella has gotten over her fear of talking in front of crowds, but she also lost the contest she was in (because the judges happened to be lactose intolerant and the entry happened to involve dairy).
159** "Sleuth or Consequences": Lucy was revealed to be the one who clogged the toilet with a ''Princess Pony'' comic, [[TakingTheHeat but Lincoln decided to take the blame]] so she wouldn't be a laughingstock. This results in the sisters ungrounded and free to go, but Lincoln remains grounded and misses the Ace Savvy convention, so Lucy makes Lincoln a makeshift comic in honor of understanding her pain.
160* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'':
161** ''"Suits"'': The farmers have driven back the aliens and killed the big boss bug, but Jack didn't make it and most of their gear is wrecked. And there's still more out there...
162** ''"Good Hunting"'': TheMagicGoesAway, Yan's original body is gone but thanks to Liang she has a new mechanical transforming body and she can exact justice on any British occupiers who bring harm to the Chinese.
163** ''"Shape-shifters"'': Decker avenges Sobieski, but [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty feels nothing afterwards]] and ultimately gives up on humanity entirely after having enough of conflicts. The only silver lining is that he is finally free.
164** ''"Helping Hand"'': Alex survives the story, but it does require her to sacrifice one of her arms.
165** ''"Lucky 13"'': Cutter was commended for her bravery and rewarded with a Black Hawk ship, but the Lucky 13 was destroyed. She did manage to keep a plate that has the ship's full registry number, ensuring that it will live on in some way.
166** ''"The Secret War"'': All but one of the platoon members died in their LastStand against the ghouls, but that same horde is destroyed by a fleet of bombers the following morning. The secret war goes on, and the Motherland will probably prevail.
167* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicTrollsAndTheTrollWarriors'' ends with Celia learning to be happy and Finn safe in the Magic Village, but she must return to the castle before King Nolaf hurts her father.
168* ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'': The series ends on a mostly positive note, but with too much loss to be a proper HappyEnding:
169** The good news: [[spoiler:Teela becomes the Sorceress, and is able to convince Evil-Lyn that while the universe is chaotic, it is also beautiful, causing her to spare the universe and release the power of Grayskull, allowing Teela and He-Man to send the demons back to Subternia while also keeping Orko resurrected. Teela also becomes the first Sorceress who can leave Castle Grayskull, allowing her have a life with the people beyond the castle. Meanwhile, Adam no longer needs to hide his SecretIdentity as He-Man, and it's implied that Adam and Teela are pursuing a romantic relationship. King Randor and Queen Marlena reconcile, and Randor rescinds the exile of Duncan, Cringer, and Orko, while also appointing Andra as the new Man-At-Arms]].
170** The bad news: [[spoiler:Roboto, the Sorceress, Fisto, Clamp Champ, and hundreds of other Eternians were killed by Skeletor in his quest for revenge. Preternia was destroyed by Lyn, meaning the souls of the former heroes of Eternia have been destroyed. While redeemed, Lyn begins WalkingTheEarth. The final scene shows Skeletor being assimilated by Motherboard, who is revealed to be an agent of Hordak.]]
171* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'':
172** "Too Many Marthas" -- the show ends up working, and Jennifer gets back her lost dog, but Martha, even though her throat no longer hurts, is still hoarse.
173** "Monkeyshines Martha" -- Professor Monkey still doesn't have a pet, but he doesn't feel pressured anymore since he's looking forward to going on a tour, and Helen's homework project is done, so she has time to play with Martha and Skits again.
174** "Martha's Adverb Adventure" -- T.D. doesn't have the "adverbaliser" anymore since it's broken, but on the other hand, neither do the villains.
175** "Martha and the Doggie Lover" -- Martha fails at teaching C.D. how to properly play with her, but at least he can play with Skits.
176** "Paws and Effect" -- Martha's cut she got on her paw from a broken bottle isn't healed yet, but the bottles got cleaned up.
177** "Martha Smells" -- The Lorraines got Martha back, but Weaselgraft and Pablum got away.
178** "T.D. and the Lightbulb of Doom" has an InUniverse example -- In T.D.'s movie, Edison is still stuck as a dog, but he succeeds in inventing the lightbulb and defeating the bad guys.
179** "Martha Models" -- Carolina is sulking and yelling at T.D. undeservedly because she never got to be on TV, but Martha and Skits [[AndYourRewardIsEdible win a bunch of dog treats]] and don't have to be on the show they didn't want to be on.
180** "Martha Walks the Dog" -- Bob and his owner have learned to be nice, but Martha notes they'll probably go back to being mean.
181** "Truman and the Deep Blue Sea" -- Truman, despite what he thought, has not gotten over his seasickness. However, he did manage to see the whale he wanted to see.
182* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'': The second season finale, "The Goblin War" has the Goblin Nation and its leader, the Goblin King/Adrian Toomes defeated, but Otto Octavius performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop the Goblin King and dies in Peter's arms. However, his will essentially allows Peter to return to Horizon High and Gwen and Anya rekindle their friendship with Peter.
183* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'':
184** The series usually has ones of these endings where at least one person has died a horrible gruesome death if not an entire town or many many other people like the typical end to one of their concerts. (You'd think that if most of their fans keep dying from episode to episode there'd be no more fans left.) But hey, Dethklok survives unharmed from all adventures if not ahead. The thing is, though, these endings are usually PlayedForLaughs.
185** A straighter example would be the season 2 finale: Dethklok lives, and some even get to be heroes, but Mordhaus is burning to the ground and Ofdensen is in critical condition.
186** Then the episode 'Dethhealth': Pickles isn't dying, but Toki's cat has died, and Nathan's dentist committed suicide right in front of him.
187* ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'': The series ends with the Ducks preventing Lord Dragaunus from freeing the rest of his army, but to do so, they had to destroy the machine that would've let them return to Puckworld.
188* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterAllergy'' episode, "The Devourer" really has this kind of ending. The invasion of Bibbur-Si done by Magnacat is foiled, but Zick has lost his powers, including his ability to see monsters. There's good news in that: Elena can finally see monsters.
189* By the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', none of the Puppington family's problems seem to have been solved (in fact, they were probably made ''worse''). The only thing that keeps this from sliding into DownerEnding territory was the DistantFinale that showed Orel eventually growing up and successfully starting his own loving, functional family.
190* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has a few examples:
191** PlayedForLaughs in "Swarm of the Century". Pinkie Pie is able to lure [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the parasprites]] away from the town, but it's still taken a ''lot'' of damage from Twilight's last botched attempt at stopping the parasprites from eating all the food (which caused the parasprites to instead eat everything except the food)
192** "The Best Night Ever" ends with the Grand Galloping Gala in disarray and several of the main characters' hopes for the night (Rarity meeting her PrinceCharming, Applejack making money for the family farm, Rainbow Dash getting to hang with the Wonderbolts, etc.) dashed, but at least they're able to spend the rest of the evening with Princess Celestia and laugh off their bad night over donuts and cocoa.
193** An even more mild example occurs at the end of "Hurricane Fluttershy". Rainbow Dash has been assigned the duty of transporting the water from Ponyville's reservoir to the Cloudsdale weather factory via a pegasus-powered tornado. She not only wants to succeed in this task, but also beat the current tornado-wind-speed record of such a procedure. When Fluttershy finally overcomes her fear of performing and helps, she and the other pegasi succesfully transport the water, but still fail to beat the record.
194** "Flight to the Finish" ends with the episode implying Scootaloo may never be able to fly, but she gains back her confidence, allowing her she and the rest of the crusaders to win the flag-carrying competition.
195** "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone" ends with the characters being unable to recover the lost golden Griffon artifact that when lost, turned the once-proud Griffon Kingdom into a decrepit, downtrodden ghetto, and when RD and Pinkie leave, the town is still in complete ruin and shambles, but with Gilda the Griffon undergoing a HeelFaceTurn, they're hopeful that Gilda can instead use friendship to help the other Griffons overcome their greed and help rebuild their society.
196** The infamous "The Mean 6" ends with the heroes completely having ''[[UnknownRival no idea]]'' Chrysalis was around and they had [[EvilDoppelganger Evil Doppelgangers]] of themselves, instead believing ''they themselves'' were responsible for [[TookALevelInJerkass acting mean out of nowhere]] [[HorribleCampingTrip and ruined their camping trip.]] However, Twilight resolves the feud and shows that even through a few misunderstandings, their friendship will always prevail, while the Tree of Harmony is making sure those clones never come back again.
197** In the final episodes, the villains are successfully defeated and the DistantFinale shows Equestria has become a {{Utopia}}, but Twilight has to move back to Canterlot and cannot live in Ponyville anymore, and she and her friends only meet once a month now due to their new responsibilities, though their friendship remains. They've all visibly aged while Twilight's become TheAgeless, meaning there's a strong chance she'll outlive them.
198* ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberjacks}}'': "The Trouble with Nothing" ends with Zero and One very tired, but Four's headache gone and the main problem solved. Similarly, at the end of "Stop and Go", the problem is solved, but Three is tired and goes to take a nap.
199* In ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'':
200** Eva and her father Don rekindle their relationship, the galaxy is saved from Canaletto, and all the good guys get to go home, except for Jordan who becomes the Avatar and must stay behind on Oban to take care of the galaxy for the next 10,000 years, all after he confessing that he loves her. Additionally, Eva's motivation for taking part in the first place, finding a way of bringing her mother back from the dead, was a pipe dream all along. However, she does learn to accept the loss by the end of the series.
201** The episode where Eva races Spirit, the creature she holds responsible for her mother's death, also ends on a bitter sweet note when she learns the truth of that day.
202* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': As K.O. admits, he got older before he knew it, and his friends eventually left the Bodega to do other things. Despite this, K.O., Rad, Enid, and Dendy remained friends throughout their adulthood (with the last possibly romantically involved with K.O.), and K.O. ultimately achieved his dream of being a great hero.
203* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
204** The Season 1 finale, "Young Blood, Old Souls", ends with Luz handing over Eda's portal door to Emperor Belos before destroying it, denying her the chance to return to the Human Realm (and as it later turns out, only hindering his plans since he can rebuild it), and both Eda and Lilith losing their ability to use magic due to the former's curse, which the latter decides to share with her so she isn't stuck in her beast form. However, the two sisters have reconciled, and Luz managed to break a piece off of Belos' mask, proving that he isn't as invincible as he seems.
205** In "Eda's Requiem", Raine and Eda put a stop to their plan to take out two of the Coven Heads and themselves when Raine convinces Eda that Luz and King are worth living for in order to protect them; Raine then lets Eda escape at the cost of getting captured themself. A heartbroken Eda, who was hoping to reconcile her relationship with them, then learns that King has changed his name to King Clawthorne, [[HappilyAdopted fully accepting himself as her son]].
206** At the end of "Eclipse Lake", Hunter forces Amity to let him take the Portal Key, but before doing so she breaks it and takes a bit of Titan's blood from it so Luz can still use it to find a way home, which leads to...
207** "Yesterday's Lie": Luz ends up telling her mother Camila the truth after helping her to rescue Vee, a Basilisk who has been impersonating Luz in the Human Realm; Camila makes Luz promise to stay with her when she does find a way to return, which Luz reluctantly agrees to, but at least now her mother knows where she really is.
208** "Hollow Mind" ends with Luz and Hunter being rescued from Belos' mind, but the revelations they learned there have clearly shaken both of them, causing the latter to run off in a panic when he realises [[YouCantGoHomeAgain he can't return to the castle because Belos now wants him dead]].
209** The ending of "Edge of the World" is one that's more bitter than sweet - Luz, King, and Hooty escape the Titan Trappers, but King is upset over the fact that the people he thought were his family actually wanted to kill him, and he also has to deal with the fact that he's most likely the last Titan alive. Meanwhile, the Owl House is about to be attacked by the Emperor's Coven since Belos was waiting for Luz to confirm that [[StableTimeLoop she'd already helped his past self]] before ordering the capture of its residents (although it's later shown that Eda and Lilith escaped).
210** The Season 2 finale, "King's Tide" also has an ending more bitter than sweet. King makes a deal with the Collector and frees him in order to stop Belos' Draining Spell and save everyone, but it involves convincing the Collector to play a game that needs "a whole island" of players, so King is forced to keep his end of the deal and the Boiling Isles are left at the Collector's mercy. Luz is forced to abandon King when he sends her to the Human Realm with her friends and they subsequently end up trapped there, not knowing if Eda or any of their other allies are alright.
211** At the end of "Thanks to Them", Hunter survives his DemonicPossession by Belos, but it comes [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of Flapjack's life]], and a portal is opened to the Demon Realm so the Hexsquad can return there, but Belos regained enough strength to leave first so they have to deal with both him ''and'' the Collector. It's still a more hopeful ending than the previous episode, however, as Luz's friends aren't disappointed in her for inadvertantly helping Belos in the past, and Camila decides to accompany her.
212* If a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' special or movie doesn't have a DownerEnding, it'll likely have a bittersweet ending:
213** ''WesternAnimation/CharlieBrownsAllStars'': Charlie Brown declines an offer for his team to be sponsored into a real league, the team loses their next game, and everyone gets mad at Charlie Brown to giving up their sponsorship and uniforms, but then Linus angrily tells them it's because the league wouldn't allow girls or dogs on the team, and, out of remorse for their unjustified anger, they make Charlie Brown his own uniform (out of Linus' blanket).
214** ''WesternAnimation/HappyNewYearCharlieBrown'': The kids celebrate the new year and Charlie Brown finishes his book report but with a bad grade (it's worth it), but he falls asleep right before midnight and misses the Little Red-Haired Girl, who showed up after all and dances with Linus instead, but he does get a kiss from Marcie to make up for it.
215** ''WesternAnimation/YoureInLoveCharlieBrown'': Right before the bus leaves, Charlie Brown gets a note from the Little Red-Haired Girl, saying that she likes him. But Charlie Brown now has to wait for the summer to end.
216** ''WesternAnimation/YoureNotElectedCharlieBrown'': Linus wins the election for class president, but finds that the class president has absolutely no say in school bureaucracy, leaving Sally fuming that Linus sold out [[TakeThat like all politicians]].
217** ''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown'': Charlie Brown wins the race, but doens't get the promoted prize, instead getting gift certificates for a free haircut, meaningless to him because his dad is a barber and [[CharlieBrownBaldness doesn't have much hair to cut.]] To make matters worse, the original prize was tickets for the NFL Pro Bowl, but Marcy states they couldn't get them, either because they were too expensive, sold out, or they were turned away at the box office for being unaccompanied minors.
218* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'': Spear is dead, but Mira is home and back with her people, living happily with her and Spear's daughter, as well as Fang and her offspring.
219* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'':
220** At the end of "Ghostworld", Egon has recovered from his cold, his coworkers and Slimer are no longer [[DemonicPossession possessed]], and the ghost who was possessing them has been locked up. On the other hand, the rest of the Ghostbusters, plus [[RidiculouslyAliveUndead Slimer]], have now caught Egon's cold.
221** "A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn" ends with the ManEatingPlant dead, but Janine's apartment a mess, and because of that, she doesn't even thank the Ghostbusters for killing it.
222** Heavily downplayed in "Standing Room Only" -- Peter and Slimer's [[PlotAllergy hay fever]] didn't really go away like they'd thought, and Peter's machine is broken beyond repair... but on the other hand, New York had just been saved from being turned into a desert.
223** "Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin" -- The villain has been locked in the containment unit... but so has Drool, the pet goblin of a woman named Madame [=LaFarge=] who [[DarkIsNotEvil wasn't evil]], and the Ghostbusters don't know how to free him.
224** "The Bird of Kildarby" -- The eponymous bird was able to be trapped, but not the ghosts, yet they promise to behave... except at night, that is.
225** "The Haunting of Heck House" -- The Ghostbusters and Slimer manage to trap all the ghosts in the eponymous HauntedHouse and survive, but they did it five minutes too early so they lose the bet and [[StatusQuoIsGod don't get their million dollars each]].
226** "The Magnificent Five" -- The Ghostbusters save the town by defeating Black Bart the cowboy ghost. However, they don't get paid, leaving Peter sulky.
227* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Pops saves the universe from his EvilTwin, Anti-Pops, but at the cost of his life. The Park Crew are brought back from being erased and finally return home after spending three years in space. Families and loved ones are reunited, but the crew likewise have to inform Mr. Mallerd of Pop's sacrifice when they return. Pops is given a statue in the middle of the park honoring him and the crew soon all go their separate ways to go on to live fulfilling lives; Mordecai pursues his dream of being an artist and finds love while doing it, Rigby and Eileen raise a family together, as do Muscleman and Starla, Fives and Celia have a successful career together as a DJ duo, Benson and Pam get back together, Skips remains in the park to help mentor a whole new park crew. When they reunite 25 years later, Mr. Mallerd is revealed to have passed on as well. Indeed, while the characters lead happy lives, they never forget that it was thanks to Pops that allowed them to have it.
228* In the final segment of the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' ninth season finale, "Hi.", the Nerd does successfully jump a motorcycle over the Grand Canyon to get the show renewed, but he immediately crashes into a taco truck by accident and is killed in a fiery explosion. [[ImmediateSequel Luckily, "Ginger Hill in: Bursting Pipes" is the next episode (as well as the tenth season premiere), and it shows that Robot Chicken and Mad Scientist revived him into a cyborg in the show's new opening sequence. Thus, the Nerd is forced to watch the skits while they high five.]]
229* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rollbots}}'' ends with Vertex and Vett's plan foiled and Vertex killed. However, he manages to take Captain Pounder with him.
230* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':
231** "Chicken Pops" ends with the babies happy that they won't turn into chickens, but [[ChickenpoxEpisode they still have the chickenpox]].
232** "All's Well That Pretends Well" ends with the babies PlayingSick so that they can keep the sick Angelica company, and the adults taping the circus so that they don't miss it, however Angelica still has a cold.
233* ''Several'' episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' end this way, with Jack managing to defeat Aku's forces and save innocents from death or enslavement, but having to forfeit a chance to go home to do so. ({{Downer Ending}}s in the series are quite common too, for that matter. But then, Jack never expected his quest to be easy.)
234** In the GrandFinale, when Ashi is consumed of Aku's influence due to her [[MadeOfEvil being born from his liquefied essence]], Jack helps her break free while at the same time [[NiceJobFixingItVillain keeping Aku's powers. As soon as Jack points this out, she uses his power of time travel to send herself and Jack back to right after Aku originally sent Jack to the future]]. Jack finally destroys Aku in the past and he and Ashi prepare to get married, but [[WidowedAtTheWedding before they can, Ashi is]] {{Ret Gon|e}}ned as a result of Aku no longer being able to bring her into existence. Jack goes into a forest to sulk, where he finds a ladybug that reminds him of the ones he and Ashi found that led to their friendship, and is suddenly cheered up knowing that without Ashi he would've never returned home and saved the universe.
235*** There's also the sad fact that all of Jack's friends and allies from Aku's BadFuture no longer exist (or at least they won't exist as they were). All he has of them is cherished memories.
236* ''WesternAnimation/SavingMe'': The second season finale, "The Vault", ends on a bittersweet note. [[spoiler: Old Bennett Bramble has become disillusioned with his goal of going back in time to give his younger self advice on how to fix their lives because of all the new problems he created because of the changes to the timeline. Old Bennett Bramble's robot buddy EDEE-34 points out that his life band is showing that he is getting better to cheer him up; Old Bennett Bramble remains disillusioned and looks at the sky with his friend EDEE-34. And Young Bennett Bramble, despite being warned to trust his parents about the secret elevator in their room, decides to try to get into the elevator; his parents catch him, and he tells them he has some questions. And considering the fact that Old Bennett Bramble warned that their parents kept that secret for a reason and that, in his timeline, his discovering their secrets caused him to ruin everything by messing with things he shouldn't have, things are about to get worse.]]
237* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' ends with Scooby destroying [[EldritchAbomination the Evil Entity]] and saving Crystal Cove but in the process erasing it from existence, meaning that all of the crimes caused by its influence never happened, everyone's lives are better, and there are no mysteries for the gang to solve anymore. [[AndTheAdventureContinues Then they get the CD...]]
238* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' season 2 finale ends with the BigBad vanished. The Cryptid war he started has also ended and everyone is alive and well. Except Van Rook who performed a HeroicSacrifice for Drew Saturday whom he loved. Zak also loses his Cryptid powers, turning him into a normal boy.
239* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sectaurs}}'': Dargon is able to prevent the LostTechnology of the ancients from falling into the hands of the Evil Sectaurs. However, the Hyve and all valuable technology and history of ancient Symbion is lost in the resulting explosion.
240* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' ends with [[BigBad Horde Prime]] dead, his empire in ruins, a RelationshipUpgrade for a good portion of the cast (including Adora and Catra, who have gone back to being friends after being separated by the war), and Glimmer reuniting with her father. However, trillions of people lost their lives at the hands of the Horde, including the tragic losses of [[HeroicSacrifice Queen Angella]] and ([[TokenEvilTeammate to a lesser extent]]) [[WickedWitch Shadow Weaver]]. Moreso in Angella's case, as she will most likely never get to see her husband again.
241* ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'': In the final episode "Airshow" the Mob is beaten once again but the Silverhawks are disheartened by how easily the Mob was able to get the drop on them. However, Stargazer cheers them up by saying it made for one heck of an airshow.
242* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
243** "Curse of the Flying Hellfish": Grandpa has the paintings he waited fifty years to get taken from him by the US Government and returned to the descendant of the original owner, but he was able to triumph over Burns, and regain Bart's faith and trust.
244** "Mother Simpson": Homer's mother goes underground once again thanks to Mr. Burns, and she and Homer quickly part ways. Mona will always remember her son, Homer learns to let go as he sits on the trunk of his car under the stars at night.
245** "I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can": Lisa loses the spelling bee, but she did it honorably, Homer proved himself willing to [[ItMakesSenseInContext trade the love for the Ribwich for his daughter, and the residents still honored Lisa for making it as far as she did]].
246* ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'': Baron Dark is finally defeated but the Lightstar Crystal is lost, Luminicity is destroyed and Dark's army is still out there. However, Lightstar points out that Dark lost far more than they did and Guardian assures them that their father is proud of them.
247* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmallOne'' ends with the boy selling his beloved donkey, but it's to Joseph, the man who will become the human father of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} the Messiah Himself]], and not the tanner who would have killed him for his skin.
248* A handful of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' end on that note:
249** "Raisins" involves Stan crossing the DespairEventHorizon and joins a group of goths after Wendy breaks up with him. After Butters gives him a pep talk about how his sadness is "beautiful", Stan quits the goth group and gets over Wendy... [[EarnYourHappyEnding until 4 years later when they get back together]] in "The List".
250** "Lice Capades", "Over Logging" (hilariously).
251** The two-parter "You're Getting Old"/"Assburgers" ends with a {{deconstruct|edTrope}}ion of the ResetButton: all of the dramatic changes (Randy and Sharon's divorce, the end of Stan and Kyle's friendship, etc.) suddenly get undone, right ''after'' Stan decides to stop fighting them and see this as an opportunity [[CharacterDevelopment to move on and try new things in life]]. He ends up depressed while everyone else is happy for things to be back to normal.
252** Season 20 ends with Troll Trace being shut down before it could do long term damage, but now there's no evidence of Gerald ever trolling, meaning his relationship with Sheila is secure, it is implied that Kyle and Ike's relationship with him has become strained, and the Member Berries remain at large to manipulate Mr. Garrison.
253** Season 21 ends with Kyle and Ike stopping President Garrison together, and Heidi finally breaking up with Cartman for good after [[HeelRealization realizing]] how much her relationship with him has changed her. However, Garrison escapes captivity with people claiming how things will get worse now that he is become more desperate and leaves the season at a {{Cliffhanger}}.
254** ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCOVIDTheReturnOfCovid Post Covid: The Return of COVID]]'' ends with the BadFuture being changed to one where the four boys are able to repair their friendship, COVID becomes much more manageable, ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' [[TakeThat gets cancelled,]] and almost everyone has their lives change for the better. However, Cartman, who gave up the happy life and loving family that he had in the previous timeline, ends up being a bitter, homeless bum on the street, with [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold nobody knowing what he sacrificed]] or that he genuinely had the potential to better himself.
255* Patrick's story, "JustForFun/TheUglyBarnacle", in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Something Smells" is this to an extent.
256-->"Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end."
257** Also, the episode "Mid-Life Crustacean". Mr Krabs gets grounded by his mother and is still embarrassed over the incident. However, this does make him feel younger which was his entire goal of the episode.
258** In "A Pal For Gary", Gary successfully gets rid of Puffy Fluffy, but is punished by [=SpongeBob=] for sending away his "pal" [[UngratefulBastard instead of being thanked for saving his life]], and is brought with him to the Krusty Krab so he won't be alone.
259* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' prematurely ends with Spider-Man defeating the BigBad and New York is safe. However, said villain apparently died in front of his son's eyes, who again is Spidey's best friend and now hates Spider-Man. Peter's social life also isn't any better, as he breaks up with his girlfriend to get together with his true love, only she is being manipulated to not break up with Peter's best friend. Oh, and the BigBad actually survived and is boarding a plane to a tropical island.
260* In the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Mina and her army are defeated, but it took the destruction of magic meaning the High Magic Commission as well as ''all'' beings that are made of magic are dead. Mina is still out there and might return, and it looks like it's going to take awhile for Earth and Mewni to get used to each other being merged. Since all the portals are closed, that also means Star and Marco can probably never see their friends like Kelly ever again.
261* Some episodes in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' end with this trope.
262** "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back" is a mix between this and DownerEnding. The Republic manages to neutralize the Zillo Beast, saving Coruscant from more destruction. Unfortunately, though, it was the last of its kind.
263** "Altar of Mortis": The balance of the force is broken, and the Daughter of Mortis (the personification of the Light Side) is now dead, with the Dark Side dominating. Fortunately though, the Daughter manages to have her remaining life force transferred into Ahsoka, bringing her back to life after being killed by the Son of Mortis.
264** "Citadel Rescue": The Republic strike team manages to escape from Lola Sayu, along with the hyperspace route coordinates. However, Even Piell died, and although his half of the info was memorized by Ahsoka, Tarkin doesn't want to share his half of the info with the Jedi, claiming he was under orders from Chancellor Palpatine to bring the info directly to him, while Ahsoka, was instructed to only share her half with the Jedi only.
265** "Carnage of Krell": Krell is killed by Dogma for betraying the Republic, and the Republic succeeds in its campaign to retake Umbarra. Rex however, isn't in the mood for celebrating, as he is left wondering what the point of the Clone War is.
266** The fifth season finale, "The Wrong Jedi", is mixed between this and DownerEnding. Ahsoka gets subjected to {{Kangaroo Court}}s. She is eventually proven innocent, but the Jedi High Council has alienated her to the point where she finds herself unable to return to the order. (Of course, her status as Anakin's padawan was DoomedByCanon in the first place.)
267* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' ends on such a note in the final episodes of the series.
268** Kanan is dead, but his HeroicSacrifice destroys the TIE Defender factory, ensuring that the Empire has one less weapon to use against the rebels. However, this means that the Empire can funnel its resources into one project... the Death Star.
269** Ezra rescues Ahsoka from dying by Vader's hand via the World Between Worlds, but the Jedi Temple on Lothal disappears into the Force. Ahsoka convinces him to not use the World Between Worlds to save Kanan and let him go so to not make his sacrifice in vain, and though she cannot join Ezra back to his portal in order to preserve the space-time continuum as well, she promises to find him once she returns to her own time.
270** Ezra rejects the Dark side and Palpatine's offer, thus preventing Palpatine from accessing the World Between Worlds, while also letting go of his parents. Though Ezra performs a HeroicSacrifice to defeat Thrawn, he's still alive somewhere -- [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil and so is Thrawn]]. However, Ezra's sacrifice allows the rebels to liberate Lothal from Imperial control. [[CavalryRefusal Though the Alliance still won't help the Lothal rebels]], Sabine chooses to stay on Lothal to help rebuild and defend it if the Empire launches a counterattack... and fortunately, they don't. Though Gregor is killed during the final battle, [[TheDragon Rukh]] is killed, and [[TheDragon Pryce]] chooses [[FaceDeathWithDignity death]] over [[RedemptionRejection redemption]], the remaining cast continues to fight in the war and survive to live happily ever after, with Hera and Chopper taking care of [[BabiesEverAfter her young son]] [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy that she conceived with Kanan before his death]], Zeb and Kallus finding inner peace as well as becoming [[FireForgedFriends best friends]] and returning to Lira San, and [[AndTheAdventureContinues Sabine leaves with a returned Ahsoka]] [[IWillFindYou to find Ezra and bring him home]].
271** Though the show ends with the end of the Galactic Civil War, the cast will still have to endure the events of the Sequel Trilogy.
272* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
273** In the episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E20Bismuth "Bismuth"]], Steven manages to prevent Bismuth from putting the Breaking Point to use acting on her vigilante ambitions and survives while promising her to finally tell the others what happened to her, but he has to bubble Bismuth to defend himself, and it's clear no one is happy to have to put their friend back in her prison. Bismuth herself is devastated when she realizes she is about to be imprisoned again, but is comforted by the Steven's promise to tell his friends the truth about her.[[note]]Notably, Steven decided to free Bismuth in season five, and Bismuth, upon seeing the corrupted Gems, realized that shattering a Diamond would (and did) make everything even worse, and ultimately makes amends with and rejoins the team.[[/note]]
274** The episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E4LarsHead Lars's Head]]" ends with Steven finally getting back home after being captured by Homeworld. However, he has to leave Lars and the Off Colors behind in enemy territory as Lars can't use the portal in his own hair to get back to Earth and the Off Colors [[IChooseToStay refuse to leave]] [[HeroicSacrifice without him]].
275* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': The GrandFinale "The Future" takes place six months after Steven's meltdown in "I Am My Monster". It shows Steven is well on the road to [[DeconstructedTrope recovery from]] [[KidHero a childhood filled with trauma and danger]], but it also features him bidding a tearful farewell to his friends and family as he leaves Beach City and heads out on a JourneyToFindOneself.
276* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'': Normally, Bowser will [[VillainExitStageLeft escape when his plans fail]], but in the episode "Flatbush Koopa" after Mario destroys the warp pipe leading back to Brooklyn preventing Bowser from going back there, Bowser reminds him that he and his friends are stuck with him. The episode ends with Bowser chasing the heroes while firing his magic wand.
277* ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfArcadia'':
278** ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'': The good news is that Gunmar and his army have been killed after centuries of causing conflict and Morgana has been banished to the Shadow Realm, the supposedly only means of entering and leaving it (the Skathe-Hrün) destroyed. While the existence of trolls has been revealed to the humans of Arcadia, Janeth’s reaction to the good trolls implies that the future regarding this will be bright, or at least not ending in disaster. The bad news is that Jim is now trapped in his troll-form with no hope of turning back, forcing him to abandon his human life - including his mother and his best friend - to go with Merlin and the rest of the trolls to set up a new Trollmarket in New Jersey now that the old Heartstone has been destroyed. He also will have to fight for the rest of his life until he inevitably falls in battle. In addition, Strickler and Nomura now have no hope of regaining their human lives since their familiars are now out of the Darklands, many of said familiars left with no families to return to since many of them have been there for literal centuries. That being said, Claire goes with Jim and the trolls on their journey to New Jersey in addition to [[ReunionVow both telling Toby that they'll see him again]] and AAARRRGGHH!! staying in Arcadia to keep Toby company. The world is safe — for now.
279** ''WesternAnimation/ThreeBelow'': [[BigBad General Morando]] is defeated for good, but Mother and the King and Queen had to perform a HeroicSacrifice for that to happen. Also, while Aja and Krel can now return home, they both go their separate ways, as Aja goes back to Akiridion-5 to become queen while Krel [[IChooseToStay decides to stay with his friends on Earth]].
280* The ending of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' episode "The King"; Donatello meets a comic book artist named Kirby and they enter a strange dimension where all of Kirby's drawings are alive, and Kirby can draw new things into existence with a crystal. When the door between world's begins to collapse, only Don makes it through, along with this note; "Don, life at best is bittersweet. Take care of yourself, Kirby."
281* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' episode "The Gauntlet" ends on a somewhat depressing note. Sure, the Turtles managed to stop the mutagen bomb from detonating and successfully fought off Bradford and Xever... But then [[KnightOfCerebus the Shredder showed up]] and gave them all an [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown absolutely brutal beatdown]], with the Turtles only managing to escape when the Shredder was distracted by the mutating Bradford and Xever. On top of all this, April's father allowed himself to be caught whilst escaping, so that the Turtles could go and stop the bomb.
282** The season 2 finale episode, "The Invasion, Part 2", has the Turtles and their allies barely manage to slow down the Foot Clan and the Kraang's takeover of New York City, at a great cost; Leonardo's been beaten to near-death, Splinter has ([[OnlyMostlyDead seemingly]]) been killed by Shredder, and April's father has been mutated. All that they're able to do is head to April's upstate Summer home, so that they can live to fight another day.
283* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
284** The episode "[[Recap/TeenTitansS4E6Troq Troq]]" ends with Val-Yor and the Titans in bad terms with the former still racist and declaring that Earthlings are just as bad as Tamaraneans. However, the Locrix are destroyed and the Titans learned a lesson that while [[VerySpecialEpisode some people like Val-Yor may never change their views, there will be others like the Titans who don't judge on appearances]].
285** The DenouementEpisode, "[[Recap/TeenTitansS5E13ThingsChange Things Change]]", features Beast Boy meeting a happy, well-adjusted schoolgirl who, though she looks exactly like Terra, claims no knowledge of Beast Boy or Terra's adventures. After Beast Boy repeatedly pleads with the girl to resume Terra's former life, she tells him, "Things change, Beast Boy. The girl you want me to be is just a memory... [[IJustWantToBeNormal I'm not a hero. I'm not out to save the world. I'm just a girl with a geometry test next period and I haven't studied]]." and disappears into a crowd of students, leaving his life forever.
286* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
287** In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E25DownTheMine Down the Mine]]", both Thomas and Gordon are in disgrace for their misbehavior -- the former had ignored the danger sign and fell down a mine and the latter fell into a ditch an episode earlier, and as a result, Thomas is banished back to his old station pilot job, and Gordon is scheduled for goods work and nothing else, but the two engines agree to form an alliance as they set happily home.
288** In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E20PercysPredicament Percy's Predicament]]", Percy is sent miserably to the works after an accident with the trucks, while Thomas returns from the works after crashing the stationmaster's house two episodes earlier, and works happily with Toby and Daisy on his branch line. This may be a subversion since the narrator says "all are great friends", meaning that Percy may have returned from the works, unlike in [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries the novel]] where it states "all ''three'' engines are great friends". The show likely altered this to avert SnubByOmission for poor Percy.
289** In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS3E1AScarfForPercy A Scarf for Percy]]", after an accident with the jam and The Fat Controller's trousers, Percy soon cheers up after being cleaned and is informed by Henry that the weather will be warmer the next day.
290** In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS10E8TobysAfternoonOff Toby's Afternoon Off]]", Toby hopes for an afternoon off at Farmer [=McColl's=] Farm after finishing his regular jobs early so he can see the animals who live there, but The Fat Controller gives him three jobs to do. Toby hopes that one of his friends will help him with at least one of his jobs, but Mavis, Thomas, and Salty are all too busy to help him. Toby soon finds out from Cranky that his last job has been delayed until the next morning, so he has time to go to the farm after all, but on the way over, he discovers why his friends were all too busy to help him; Henry had broken down, and they were all helping him. Feeling bad for Henry, Toby decides to take Henry's coaches back to Knapford Station for him. He doesn't get to go to the farm after all, but he does feel good about helping Henry, feeling that helping a friend is much more important than an afternoon off.
291* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'':
292** In "Never Everglades", when Pumbaa realizes that Pumbaa Jr. should be with his own kind, he worries to leave him and his new girlfriend all by themselves. So Timon comes up with an idea of a special place on where they can send the two alligators. After Timon and Pumbaa say goodbye to Pumbaa Jr. and his girl, it is revealed that the "special place" is a chicken barn, since Timon believes that the alligators are "ugly chickens". When Timon and Pumbaa leave, there seems to be a chaos going on inside the barn.
293** In "Serengeti Western", Timon and Pumbaa save the western town from outlaw Mad Dog and his two henchmen. When they defeat Mad Dog, they see that they destroyed the town with the bananas, causing the residents to turn on the duo, making them the new outlaws of the town.
294* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
295** In "Butt Out" (Part of "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E15LifeInThe90s Life in the 90's]]), Babs Bunny wins a gift certificate to Le Trendy Dessertery, and spends it on an ice cream. Every time she tries to eat it, Roderick and Rhubella Rat [[SecondFaceSmoke blow cigarette smoke in her direction]], prompting Babs to make them quit smoking. The short ends with Babs defeating Roderick and Rhubella, making them quit smoking for good, but by the time she finally gets to enjoy her ice cream, it unfortunately melts away.
296** "Falling to Pizzas", Calamity Coyote's segment in the episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E37CareerOpporToonIties Career Oppor-toon-ities]]" has him pursue Little Beeper for some pizza, until the end where the pizzeria offers free pizza. Just when you thought that Calamity would go hungry, [[ThrowTheDogABone he is finally given a slice...]] of hot chili pizza, hot enough for him to be escorted to the hospital by Buster and Babs.
297** "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E50WhoBoppedBugsBunny Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?]]" ends with Buster and Babs rescuing Bugs Bunny and arresting Sappy Stanley, the culprit responsible for stealing Bugs' Shloskar award and framing Daffy Duck for the crime. However, despite Daffy's innocence being proven, he, Plucky, and Hamton, the latter two of whom tried to break him out of jail, are not pardoned of their criminal charges, and are kept in prison, making license plates with Stanley.
298** "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E9TwoToneTown Two-Tone Town]]" ends with obscure Warner Bros. cartoon stars Foxy, Roxy, Goopy Geer, and Big Bee getting lead parts on a new television show, ''ACME Oop!'' when they were previously all down on their luck. Unfortunately, ''ACME Oop!'' ends up replacing ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' in its time slot, cancelling it and leaving Buster and Babs (and presumably every other Tiny Toon except Plucky, who also managed to land a part in ''ACME Oop!'') out of a job. [[ProperlyParanoid This is exactly what Buster was worried would happen to him and Babs at the beginning of the episode]].
299** "Homeward Bound" (part of "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E18ACatsEyeView A Cat's Eye View]]") involves Furrball befriending a rich little girl and her pet kitten. The little girl wants to keep Furrball, but both the kitten's parents and the little girl's parents don't want a filthy cat in their apartment. Tossed into the streets, Furrball sees a homeless boy who's also not welcome in the little girl's apartment. Feeling sorry for him, Furrball befriends the homeless boy and shares his lunch with him.
300* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
301** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'':
302** The series finale "''The Rebirth, Part 3''". Sure, Cybertron and Nebulos are saved, but the Decepticons aren't defeated - Galvatron and Zarak (and most likely their forces[[note]]Though only Cyclonus, Scourge, The Combaticons and the Targetmasters & Headmasters are shown boarding[[/note]]) survive and roam the universe inside Scorponok. It's also implied that Zarak will likely '''betray''' Galvatron. But due to declining interest, this was never expanded upon.
303** The second season episode "The Golden Lagoon" has the Autobots stopping the Decepticons from using the title pool's invunerability on themselves to conqueror the world. However, in the process the woodland paradise surrounding the Lagoon is ravaged. The ending has Autobot nature lover Beachcomber surveying the damage while mournfully declaring "We won."
304** In the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' series finale, the Maximals finally managed to defeat and capture Megatron but at a heavy cost. The first Dinobot sacrificed himself earlier on to prevent Megatron from destroying the proto-humans. Depth Charge killed himself and Rampage in a final attempt to stop Megatron from raising the Nemesis(he didn't succeed, though he did get closure with his long-time nemesis Rampage). Tigatron and Airazor came back as one being, Tigerhawk, only to be gunned down by Megatron aboard the Nemesis in a last-ditch effort to stall Megatron. The Transmetal II Dinobot clone [[RedemptionEqualsDeath turned good but died a mere few seconds later after refusing to save himself from the exploding warship.]] Heroes aside, fans have even mourned the deaths of the Predacons as well, including Rampage, Inferno, and Tarantulas. And there were all the [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse abandoned Stasis Pods]] that [[AllThereInTheManual the comics had to deal with it]]. In the final scene with the Maximals, Optimus Primal even noted that victory had come at a cost, having lost so many comrades and allies.
305** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', "Endgame: Part II". On the sweet side, Megatron, Shockwave, and Lugnut have been defeated and detained, Starscream is dead, 2 of the 3 Constructicons are presumed dead, The Allspark is whole again, Arcee has her memories back, and Omega Supreme is back online. Not to metion it's heavily implied Optimus will become Magnus. BUT on the bitter side Starscream's Clones, Swindle, Lockdown, Blitzwing, Team Charr, and maybe Soundwave are still at large, Blackarachnia and Waspinator are still stuck in what may be the Earth's past, Prowl sacrificed himself to rebuild the Allspark, Ultra Magnus is near death, and Sari's origins are still sketchy at best.
306*** If anything, it is even made more bittersweet, remember that Decepticon from "[=TransWarped=]" called Cyclonus? Entries in the Almanac pretty much make it clear he is from the future, where Megatron at some point becomes Galvatron. All of the battles our heroes had in the show were for nothing, and since it ended we have no way of knowing if everything turns out okay. Even worse when another entry implies Cyclonus is the future version of Starscream's cowardly clone. What kind of future could make THAT guy TakeALevelInBadass? Most likely the universe's version of Unicron, but still.
307*** A deleted scene from the series finale also depicts Slipstream using an Allspark fragment to bring back Starscream for unexplained reasons. Had the scene been left in, and a fourth season greenlit, it could have seen Starscream making matters worse by leading a Decepticon splinter faction and starting a Decepticon Civil War.
308** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': After 3 seasons of hard fighting, the Autobots finally defeat the Decepticons, destroy Megatron once and for all, and restore Cybertron to its former glory. However, this means they (except for [[TheSmartGuy Ratchet]], at least) now have to leave all of their Earth friends behind. (Though as Bumblebee points out, they can still Space Bridge back and forth at will.)
309*** This is taken even further in the official GrandFinale movie ''Predacons Rising''. Unicron is sealed off in the All Spark vessel forever, and [[SixthRanger Knock]] [[HeelFaceTurn Out]] officially defects to the Autobots after they treat him fairly. However, the newly-reformed and resurrected Megatron [[TheAtoner goes into self-imposed exile to atone for his crimes]] (knowing he'd most likely be no longer welcome on Cybertron), and Optimus Prime [[HeroicSacrifice leaves to merge himself with Cybertron's core so that future generations of Cybertronians can come online.]] [[TearJerker And the fandom wept]].
310* ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'': In the final episode, "Fools for Love", it's revealed the whole murderer thing was another April Fools' Day prank and Leonard fails to redeem his winning lottery ticket in time but Callie and Mark are now engaged to be engaged.
311* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': At the end of the eighth and final season, peace has finally been brought to the universe, but Allura is dead and the survivors' days as the Paladins of Voltron are over. However, Allura approached her death with dignity and without fear, and the epilogue shows that the former Paladins and their allies have achieved lasting happiness with the people they love and continue to work to make the universe a better place.
312* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'' features one of these, the finale "Bye Bye Nikki", involving Nikki moving permanently (at least until college, anyway) with her family to Iqaluit, Nunavut (her father got his dream job).
313* ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''. Yes, the Sentinel-ruled no-humans imprisoned-mutants future crisis has been averted; the Phoenix Force has been dissipated; and Genosha now has a new, kinder ruler in the Scarlet Witch. But the final battle cost Emma Frost her life, and Charles Xavier faces a new challenge after awakening from his 20-year coma: the Age of Apocalypse. Sure, this sounds like a great set-up for season 2, but ''[[ScrewedByTheNetwork the series has been cancelled]]'', so yes, it counts an ending.
314* ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'': "What's Up, Stox?" Crocosaurus makes off with the money tree, ruining Tycoon's dream of becoming a zillionaire and leaving the others unable to purchase the costumes they wanted. However, they make do with homemade costumes of their own and welcome Tycoon into their friend group.
315* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' has a Bittersweet Finale "Graduation Day." Professor Xavier was hit by a Psychic wave that weakens him to the point of near death. After Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean were able to convince Magneto to send a message to the Shi'ar Empire, Professor Xavier said his good-byes to his X-Men (Morph included) and to Magneto before he dies. Empress Lilandra made it to resurrect Xavier so that he can be cared for with Shi'ar technology on their planet. The final scene involves Empress Lilandra taking off with Xavier for him to heal while Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Jubilee, Gambit, Rogue, Beast, Morph and Magneto looking onward as the Earth itself face an uncertain future.
316* A few in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
317** The season 1 episode "Failsafe" ends with the team waking up from their comas as a result from the UnwinnableTrainingSimulation and the Justice League being alive but M'Gann is emotionally traumatized and weeping over what she has put the team through by accident and Martian Manhunter reveals to Batman that she has more raw power than himself.
318** The season 2 finale "Endgame" ends with the whole world being saved and everyone safe and happy... except for Kid Flash who sacrificed himself to save everyone else. Artemis fully changes from "Artemis" to her other heroic persona "Tigress", stating that "Artemis was Wally's partner".

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