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9	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Gtw0iYQkE Bagger 288]] just wants to find a place where he will be accepted. Unfortunately, Bagger 288 is a ''ridiculously'' massive mining machine appropriated dubbed by [[MemeticMutation the internet]] as "[[HumongousMecha Giant-Assed Saw Thing]]" that gets chased out of wherever he goes by either the military or protesters. When aliens show up though, he sprouts jet engines and takes the invader down with a HeroicSacrifice, leaving him damaged to the brink of death and, when he sees all the people cheering for him, ''[[BittersweetEnding happy]]''.
10	** [[spoiler:The secret ending has the people [[DueToTheDead turning the area around him into a monument]], to never forget him and what he'd done for them.]]
11	* ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'': [[spoiler: despite all the suffering they have had to go through, each of our "broken" heroes is healed in the end, the men by the power of [[AllLovingHero Shandala]]'s love, Shandala by the power of theirs, and the world is saved.]]
12	* ''WebVideo/CounterMonkey'': "The Last Ride of [[QuirkyBard Tandem the Spoony.]]" After making it through a horrendously difficult campaign against all odds, Tandem and the only other survivor find themselves with a ship that can cross dimensions, so they first go home to resurrect their friends, and then everyone was last seen sailing away to whatever adventures await them next.
13	* ''WebAnimation/DragonShortZ'': after spending the entirety of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' as the ButtMonkey of the Z Warriors, died once, lost his girlfriend to the ''guy that killed him'', and found himself increasingly irrelevant as a mere human CantCatchUp to the power of the Saiyans, Yamcha finally gets [[ThrowTheDogABone thrown a bone]] as, while he ''is'' fired from the baseball team he's on (for being ''too'' good), he's also given a 20 billion zeni payout and can still take sponsorship deals, which he uses to invest in the biggest drink company in the world and a successful restaurant franchise, making him one of the richest men in the world.
14	* WebVideo/MattMcMuscles: ''Wha Happun?'' covers disastrous [[TroubledProduction productions]]/releases of video games and some movies and these almost always end with a DownerEnding regarding a hated release, layoffs, studio closures, etc. However, there are the occasional exceptions where these stories end on a positive note. In particular, ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'', ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', and ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', in spite of the insanely long and difficult journeys it took to get to release and the [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail complete lack of faith from everyone]], all ended up becoming seen as landmark games that either had a massive impact on their entire genre (with at least one creating a whole new [[SoulsLikeRPG subgenre]]), or saved their franchises from potentially fading into irrelevancy in the mainstream consciousness, or both.
15	* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionR'' (Prime ending)
16	* When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic fell into pretty epic depression in his "Commercials Special", he got to win by doing SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and be happy for the first time in a long while.
17	** As that didn't take, leaving him to have a DespairEventHorizon over how horrible life has been, WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee lets him be a hero and [[spoiler: [[DiedHappilyEverAfter Die Happily Ever After]], having made a HeroicSacrifice to become the universe]].
18	* Summed up spectacularly with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's review of Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina\|1994}}'', where the despairing heroine is surprised to find her prince Cornelius alive and well -- "Things are impossible! Things are... oh! Hi dead boyfriend! Thanks for coming along and proving my pessimism wrong and not making me work for that happy ending!"
19	* ''WebAnimation/RobosanAndWanchan'': After being eaten by a giant [[{{Cumulonemesis}} living cloud]], being thrown into water by a giant, multi-eyes RockMonster, and following a path that leads him back to his ship, Robo-San [=FINALLY=] locates [[RobotDog Wan-chan]].
20	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': By the end of Volume 5, after the four heroines have [[BreakTheCutie undergone a lot of personal trauma]] and been through a number of arduous battles [[spoiler:and a major close call with Weiss, they have saved Haven Academy and recovered the Relic, representing their first victory against Salem's forces. Oh, and best of all, they're finally reunited.]]
21	* ''Literature/SailorNothing'' is a huge {{Deconstruction}} of the MagicalGirl genre that has the main character being [[BreakTheCutie repeatedly broken]], her friends not faring much better, and the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism generally getting cranked up all the way to the Cynicism side, [[spoiler: yet it manages to end on a happy note, with the complete defeat of [[TheHeartless the Yamiko]] and every character on the good guy's side surviving and [[IJustWantToBeNormal earning the normal lives they very much deserve]]]].
22	* ''WebAnimation/ShareMyStory'': The protagonist moves on from his break up with Clara, blocks her number from his phone, gets a new hobby in stand-up comedy to increase his confidence and even gets a few girls interested in him. It gives him hope that someday, he will find a girlfriend who will not cheat on him.
23	* LetsPlay/SirRonLionheart, in his LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', went out of his way to set ''everything'' right, and we mean ''every'' last sidequest. It was a long haul, but it was worth it to see a dawn of a new day.
24	* Most of the time, a CharacterArc in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' has a BittersweetEnding at best, due to the fact that almost the entire cast will die. However, in version four [[spoiler:STAR comes in to rescue students as long as they're not actively playing the game and come forward for it]]. As a result, this was how a portion of characters' storylines ended.
25	* The two main characters in ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs'' go through a number of tribulations before they get to their happy ending.
26	* In the interactive poem ''VideoGame/TodayIDie'', this is used as a metaphor for overcoming depression. The protagonist must swim with a boulder tied to her waist.
27	* ''WebAnimation/{{TP}}'': The toilet paper roll manages to escape from the DisgustingPublicToilet he's been set up in, losing only a single roll of his paper to Earl in the process. In the outside world, he's found by a girl who throws him in the air, which he greatly enjoys. His paper unravels behind him, which causes him to [[RapidAging age to near-death]] before he dies [[GoOutWithASmile smiling happily]] while looking up at the sun from inside a flowerbed.
28	* Year 3 (episodes 50-70) of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale''. After a year of [[CharacterNarrator Cecil]] growing increasingly more depressed, unhappy, and discontent to the point of nearly leaving town, a misunderstanding that nearly cost him a close friendship, and desperately missing [[LoveInterest Carlos]], everything is resolved in one night. [[spoiler:Carlos returns to stay, Cecil and Dana's friendship is on the mend, Night Vale has a wonderful new opera house, and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Hiram]] is finally jailed for his crimes (except for [[TokenGoodTeammate Violet]].) The only person left unhappy is [[StepfordSmiler Kevin]].]]
29	* Most of Creator/{{Wildbow}}'s ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is very dark, and it's a very rough ride for the characters, especially the protagonist. But in the end, the world is saved [[spoiler: and Taylor survives with a chance to start her life over.]]
30	** ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' by same author is very rough to main characters too, and even darker than Worm, but its ending somehow even better: [[spoiler: Blake turns into a sparrow and spents his time with Green Eyes and Evan; Rose presumably finds sanctuary from Lawyers in the Abyss and starts hurting them through writing and disseminating diabolic texts]].
31	* [[https://i.imgur.com/qQ3j7MB.png This]] recounting of a person playing a DarkerAndEdgier tabletop game, which was set firmly on the [[CrapsackWorld deepest Cynical side]] of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism (to quote the story, "if somebody asked me for help with their sister who was being mugged, [[WoundedGazelleGambit it was a hook to mug me]]") and featured two notable mechanics: corruption points, representing how evil a character had become; and a LimitBreak that could be activated when your character was under extreme emotional stress, allowing the use of some powerful abilities exclusive to that state. The person in question played an AllLovingHero fisherman who continued being kind and friendly even though BeingGoodSucks in this world and everybody including his own party members would take advantage of him at every available opportunity. Eventually they reached the BigBad, who had used an ArtifactOfDoom [[OneWingedAngel to ascend to godhood]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity at the cost of multiplying his corruption points by 100]]; as he had 750 corruption points already, his godly form was described as being [[HorrifyingTheHorror horrifying enough to make an]] EldritchAbomination [[HorrifyingTheHorror scream and run the other way]]. Just when all hope seemed lost, the player was able to revive and heal himself through a few lucky rolls, and then managed to successfully activate his Limit Break for the very first time in the campaign (he had always rolled badly every time he tried to activate it before). He activated one of his Limit Break abilities, which transformed him into a giant {{Sea Serpent\|s}} and gave him a combat multiplier equal to 1.5 times the corruption points of the most corrupted thing on the field. Since the BigBad had so many corruption points, this gave him a damage multiplier of ''112,500'', [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu allowing him to kill the]] Big Bad [[OneHitKill in a single hit]]. Even better, he then grabbed the crystal the Big Bad used to become a god and used it himself. The GM announced that he had become the new Big Bad, but the player disagreed, revealing that his fisherman had '''[[IncorruptiblePurePureness 0 corruption points]]'''. [[LoopholeAbuse Since 0 times anything is still 0]], the fisherman became a GodOfGood, and his influence caused the world to [[AWorldHalfFull slowly but surely become a nicer place]].
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