And The Adventure Continues / Western Animation

• Adventure Time:
  • At the end of the pilot, after saving Princess Bubblegum, Pen and Jake spot ninjas stealing an old man's diamonds and chase after them.
  • The Grand Finale "Come Along With Me" ends on this note: Once everything’s said and done, Finn, Jake, and all the other surviving characters move on with their lives and are implied to go on many more adventures. And the Distant Finale shows that adventuring duos just like Finn and Jake will continue to rise and save the world. “The fun will never end, it's Adventure Time”. Specifically, it's done with the new characters Beth and Shermy, with the former being a descendant of Jake.
  • The Adventure Time: Distant Lands ministries episode "Together Again" further expands on the Grand Finale of the main show by showing the souls of Finn and Jake reuniting and defeating the Lich for the final time in the afterlife before they reincarnate together for new adventures in another life.
• The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police ended with the duo defeating their Rogues Gallery, with Sam wondering worriedly now that they've dispatched their long-time nemeses, what are they going to do now. Max assures him not to worry, because there will always be a need for them and looks expectantly at the phone. Then waits some more nervously. Then he yells at the phone to ring, which it does, and Sam and Max are happy to know that their adventures continue. Then they fight each other to pick up the phone.
• The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin ends with Teddy, Grubby and Gimmick leaving Rillonia for the Land of Ying to seek out the remaining Illiops but Quellor vows to capture them and retrieve the crystals to throw Grundo into eternal darkness.
• The last episode of The Adventures of Tintin (1991) consisted of an adaptation of Tintin in America, the oldest comic not entirely dismissed by its author. This episode ends with Tintin receiving a phone call presumably informing him of a disaster he must investigate, then rushing out the door as the theme song plays.
• Amphibia final episode "The Hardest Thing" ends with Sprig and Ivy heading off to explore a newly discovered continent while Anne, Sasha and Marcy finally reunite back on Earth.
• Every episode of Animal Mechanicals ends with the Mechanicals facing a new task (varying from having some fun with whatever item they fixed to a whole new mission altogether).
• The Awesomes ends with the team about to fight off an Alien Invasion.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold:
  • "Time Out For Justice!" ends with one of the twelve pieces of Equinox's mind destroyed. The other eleven are out there somewhere in time and space.
  • The series finale "Mitefall!" ends with the various characters attending a wrap party, with Batman assuring the audience that his fight for justice will continue.
• Ben 10:
  • The final episode of the original series, while non-canon to the sequels, ends with Ben's Secret Identity revealed to the world, Gwen transferring to his school, and Dr. Animo making a charge at them before class can begin. The narrator assures the viewer that unlike what Ben thought, going back to school was just a new beginning for him.
  • Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix: The real series finale in canonical order, it ends with the Tennysons going off to fight zombies at a mall.
• "Our quest begins." — tells us Toa Mata Nui at the end of BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn. A quest that involves traveling through a dangerous maze, dealing with ancient elemental warriors and finding an energy source for re-powering a dead Humongous Mecha and duking it out with another planet-sized robot that cast Mata Nui's people into slavery. A sequel was planned, but LEGO pulled the plug on Bionicle before the script could have been finalized.
• Bojack Horseman: The final episode plays with this, given how open ended it is for Bojack. He notes that he's vulnerable to falling to old habits again no matter how many times he gets sober. In essence, it finishes by alluding to the fact that Bojack will get into further shit later in his life, but for now the series has ended and the audience can fill in the blanks. This also ties into one of the show's themes of how life doesn't really have convenient, satisfying endings.
• Bravest Warriors ends with Chris and his father answering a distress call at the same time.
• Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!: The TV show ends with Bucky and his crew freeing his home planet from the toads' control but the war has yet to be won.
• Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys ends with Lord Nebula defeated and Mandrax (actually the future self of Captain Simian) saying that the fate of the universe once again lies in the hands of Captain Simian. However, Rhesus-2 has decided to take over the universe himself, the Space Monkeys still haven't found their way back to Earth, and Captain Simian and Shao Lin still haven't admitted their feelings for each other.
• Carmen Sandiego: The last scene of the Season 4 finale "The Dark Red Caper" (the Grand Finale of the series) jumps ahead two years to show that Zack and Ivy have joined ACME and are working with Chase and Julia to hunt down the remaining V.I.L.E. operatives, with the occasional help of Carmen (or possibly whoever has taken her name).
• Centaurworld final episode "The Last Lullaby" ends with the herd traveling on the houseboat, knowing that whatever awaits them, they will face it together.
• ChalkZone ends with the song "Let's Go Wandering", in which Rudy, Penny and Snap leave in search of new lands within Chalkzone while their friends (and Skrawl) sadly wave goodbye.
• Chowder ends with Chowder taking over the kitchen with Panini, their children and an apprentice of his own.
• Class of the Titans ended like this; they managed to pull Theresa out of her Face–Heel Turn but Cronus is still out there and still has to be stopped.
• Cybersix ends with von Reichter dead and Cybersix implied to have survived but Jose is still around.
• Daria : Is It College Yet? ends with Jane and Daria getting together for a last pizza slice at Lawndale and discuss what college will be like.
• DuckTales (2017) "The Last Adventure!" ends with F.O.W.L. defeated and all of the characters looking forward to whatever adventures they will partake in in the future.
• The Dungeons & Dragons (1983) cartoon would've ended this way if the final episode had aired: the kids would've succeeded in purifying Venger and the Dungeon Master would've given them the choice of returning home or staying and having more adventures.
• Fangbone! ends with the effects of the World Chain making Earth and Skullbania so close to each other that portals to Skullbania now open at random, allowing monsters to slip through at any time and giving Fangbone and Bill continued reason to keep fighting even after Venomous Drool has been defeated.
• Flash Gordon (1996): The final scene shows the heroes still trapped in the alien dimension but confident that their loved ones will mount another rescue attempt in the near future. They then continue with their regular adventures while saying that things are looking interesting.
• Fluppy Dogs ends with the Fluppies reuniting with Jamie and Claire as dozens of other Fluppies come to explore Earth.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ends with Bloo and the friends learning that Mac isn't moving away, meaning he'll still come to Foster's and they'll have more adventures. However, they'll have to do so with Cheese now living in the house.
• The fourth Futurama movie "Into the Wild Green Yonder" ends with the Planet Express crew (plus Scruffy, Kif, and LaBabara) being pursued by Zapp Brannigan. To escape him, they enter a wormhole, knowing that by doing so they'll become intergalactic fugitives and that the wormhole could take them trillion of light-years away, meaning they could never return to their homes. The gang accepts their fate and enters the wormhole...It would have ended on that note too, if it weren't for the revival.
• Generator Rex's finale stinger: After (almost) every EVO in the world has been cured, effectively completing Rex's original job permanently Rex and Six are called in against a giant robotic enemy.
  Rex: There'll always be something, won't there?
• The Ghost and Molly McGee ends with Scratch/Todd leaving Brighton but Molly still knows about ghosts and the afterlife, the position of the Chairman is still vacant, and while it isn't said outright, Geoff is implied to take Scratch's place in the McGee family.
• Gravity Falls final episode "Weirdmageddon Part 3: Take Back the Falls" ends with Dipper and Mabel going back home to their parents with the prospect of returning next summer and Stan and Ford traveling the world as paranormal investigators, leaving Soos to run the Mystery Shack. In addition, while Big Bad Bill Cipher was killed, playing his death screams backwards reveals the message "A-X-O-L-O-T-L! My time has come to burn! I invoke the ancient power that I may return!", implying that he could come back someday.
• Green Eggs and Ham: By way of The End... Or Is It? in the last episode of season one Anywhere. It looks like Sam and Guy are finally ready to put their whole crazy adventure behind them and enjoy some Green Eggs and Ham together... but wait! Sam recognizes the particular eggs he's eating as the kind his estranged mother used to make for him, and the two head off to the farm in East Flubria where they were bought to find answers.
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series ends with Hal Jordan and Kilowog continuing to protect Sector 2814 and Razer believing that Aya is still out there. As Razer flies out to find her, a Blue Lantern ring drifts into the frame.
• Hilda: The Wood Man's last line in Season 1 was convincing enough for viewers that Hilda's adventures are far from over, especially since Season 2 is around the corner.
  Wood Man: Not likely. Odds are...she'd do it again.
• Infinity Train: In the last episode of season three "The New Apex", Book 3 ends with Grace reorganizing the Apex so that everyone will be able to uncover the reasons why they're here and return home.
• Inhumanoids ends with Earth Corps dump their other jobs to resume protecting the world from the Inhumanoids.
• Justice League:
  • The original League's two-season run ended with the Watchtower destroyed and Hawkgirl resigning, but everyone else ready to pick up the pieces.
    Flash: What's gonna happen to the League now? Do we all just walk away?
    Martian Manhunter: No. We rebuild — starting today.
  • Unlimited ends with the quote above, as the League gets ready to chase down and arrest the Legion of Doom, whom they just gave a five-minute head start because of their help against the forces of Apokolips. As if it isn't clear enough, it is followed by what is essentially an animated superhero curtain call, set to the epic Unlimited's theme.
• King of the Hill ends with Bobby picking up the last steak of the barbecue but Hank assures him he'll be grilling his whole life.
• The Legend of Korra ends with the final threat to world peace that we know of being defeated, creating a new spirit portal in the process, but Korra saying that there are still so many other things out there for her to learn and experience. However, she and Asami decide they both need a break, so they head out through the spirit portal to take a vacation together. The series ends with Asami and Korra beginning a romantic relationship as they enter the spirit world.
• The Lion Guard ends with Kion and friends relinquishing their posts to Vitani and her own Guard, but now they are going to keep defending the Tree of Life with the Night Pride.
• Loonatics Unleashed: After General Deuce is defeated, Zadavia and Optimatus plan to return to their home planet and the Loonatics plan to stay on Blanc, where they can use the wormhole trains to go anywhere in the galaxy. Xadavia then tells them they've graduated from guardians of Acmetropolis to guardians of the galaxy.
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack ends with Flapjack, K'nuckles and Bubbie (who have become live-action characters) leaving Stormalong Harbor in search of more adventures somewhere else.
• Megas XLR ends on this note. Coop manages to take down his evil counterpart and strand him and Evil Kiva in a Sugar Bowl dimension. The Glorft commander, Gorrath, calls for a temporary ceasefire, though he still intends on retrieving Megas. Coop now has a new model of said warbot, and the series ends with him testing out all the new weaponry.
• The Midnight Gospel ends with Clancy boarding a bus that carries him off towards a vast nexus of eldritch pathways, having either escaped into simulated reality full-time or died.
• Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series ends with the Ducks preventing Lord Dragaunus from freeing the rest of his army, at the cost of destroying the machine that would've let them return to Puckworld, and winning the game that lets them move on to the Stanley Cup. However, the Saurians are down, but not out.
• Mighty Max's final scene appears to be a massive Reset Button until Max picks up the Cap and reads the summons Virgil sent him, reminding him not to take so long this time. Max realizes they have another chance, and this time things will be different.
• Zigzagged in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with the last three episodes. The first two end with every major villain defeated but also with Twilight Sparkle ascending to the throne to set the stage for a whole new slew of adventures and stories. The very final episode is a Distant Finale that shows the outcome of these stories, with hints of events like the Young Six and Princess Flurry Heart's adventures, Gallus having joined the Royal Guard, and a number of characters having married and had children, with the actual events that led to these outcomes being left to the viewer's imaginations. The Expanded Universe is set to depict some of these events, however. The final moments of the finale still play this straight though, with Twilight sending her student, Luster Dawn, to Ponyville to learn how to make friends just like how she was, and she and her friends watch Luster head out with her new group of friends with the implications this new group will soon have their own adventures too.
• Mysticons ends with the Spectral Hand destroyed for good, along with the fragment of Necrafa's mask, and the Vexicons (save Eartha, who had a Heel–Face Turn) imprisoned, but the narration makes it clear that the Mysticon's adventures are far from over, especially since Kymraw and Tazma are still out there.
• Nature Cat's "Nature Movie Special Extraordinaire!" ends with the titular character, Daisy, Squeeks, and Hal, after having made new curiosities in nature (as well as vowing to defend and support it everywhere), preparing to go on another adventure in hopes of finding more nature curiosities.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: KO makes peace with his alter ego TKO, and the Grand Finale "Thank You For Watching This Show" displays the adventures he and the other cast members will continue to have even after the show's end.
• The Owl House ends with Luz starting college as peace has been restored to the Boiling Isles for years; with new forms of magic flourishing after the defeat of the emperor.
• Party Wagon: Another map, another treasure hunt, this time out in California. And Three Eyed Jack is still on the loose.
• Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja ends with Randy finally defeating the Sorcerer but the Creep states that his greatest battle is just around the bend.
• Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade ends with T.J. telling the audience that the fifth grade year is going to be their best year yet, right before the movie ends. This was also the "true" ending to the series.
• Robotix ends with the Terrastar destroyed and the humans deciding to stay on Skalorr so they can help the Protectons rebuild. However, Nemesis is still online...
• The last episode of the final Rocky and Bullwinkle story arc ("Moosylvania Saved") ends with the title heroes addressing the viewers after the narrator says to watch for the next adventure:
  Bullwinkle: It may be a little hard to find, but don't give up.
  Rocky: We're not!
• When Scooby-Doo and the gang defeat the Nibiru Entity in the finale of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, it creates an alternate timeline in their town of Crystal Cove in which the Nibiru entity and the teams of past mystery solvers never existed, and everyone in town is happier due to not being influenced by the evil. Even the Big Bad Professor Pericles gets a new lease on life. However, the gang now have normal happy teenage lives and there seem to be no more mysteries to solve. At least until they get a message saying there will always be mysteries that need solving and that they've been accepted to a university on the other side of the country, leading to them going on a road trip. In essence, the series ends where Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! begins.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: after Horde Prime's defeat, Adora wants to bring magic back to the universe and wants her friends to come along with her, and they all naturally agree.
• Sidekick ends with Eric accidentally destroying everyone's diplomas, forcing them to repeat Sidekick Academy all over again.
• Skeleton Warriors ends with Baron Dark defeated but the Steeles now have to clean up the mess left by the war and Dark's army is still out there.
• Sonic Prime: The series ends with Green Hill being restored and the Paradox Prism being kept out of Eggman's hands forever. Just as Sonic was about to chow down with his friends, some new danger emerges, forcing them back into action.
• South Park: In the episode "Make Love Not Warcraft" a griefer keeps killing other players' characters. The boys spend weeks Level Grinding so that they can pose a challenge to him. After they win their long battle, Stan wonders what they will do next. Cartman reminds him they can now play the game.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil ends with Mina's army being depowered but Mina is still out there and says that her ideals will never die. Earth and Mewni end up merged as Star and Marco reunite and it's implied it's going to take a long time for everyone to get used to this.
• Star Wars Rebels: The finale, taking place sometime after the war, has Sabine and Ahsoka off to find Ezra.
• Static Shock ends with all the Bang Babies being cured but Gear promises to find a way to prevent him and Static from being affected so they can keep being heroes.
• Steven Universe: Future ends with Steven leaving Beach City to continue his life while traveling across the country to visit every state before deciding where he wants to settle.
• Storm Hawks ends this way, with the war over, except that the heroes have departed to the Far Side in pursuit of Master Cyclonis. The final scene gives us a glimpse of the Far Side and the Storm Hawks' awe-struck reactions before Aerrow simply grins and says: "This is gonna be fun."
• Sumo Mouse ends with Sumo Mouse saving Catropolis from destruction but Nadia still wants to take it over while Claw swears that he'll be back.
• Sym-Bionic Titan ends with Octus repaired and Titan reformed but Modula still needs to be stopped.
• Teen Titans (2003) does this twice in its last two episodes, with very different contexts:
  • The final season arc ends with Dr. Light having the bad luck to be out doing villainy while the entire Titans roster happens to be in town. The episode ends right before one massively unfair beatdown commences.
    Cyborg: Maybe we oughta show him who he's up against!
    Raven: He's totally gonna freak this time.
    Robin: Titans, Go!
  • The last episode itself has the Titans repeatedly clash with some sort of elementally-metamorphic robot, while Beast Boy's distracted by the apparent return of Terra, who insists she's just a regular girl who doesn't know him. Neither of these issues really gets a resolution, as BB decides to leave her be and join his friends in fighting the good fight once again.
    Beast Boy: Beast Boy to Robin. I'm on my way. (runs into the light)
• ThunderCats (1985): In the final scene, the other ThunderCats remind Lion-O that they may have saved the day, but there will always be evil. The best they can do is remain vigilant, stay true to themselves, and continue to spread the Code of Thundera: Justice, Truth, Honor, Loyalty.
• The majority of Transformers series end this way. One major theme in every series is that the battle between Autobots and Decepticons is the Forever War, raging since ancient times (and when you’re from a race of nigh-immortal robots who considers four million years to be young, the standard for ‘ancient times’ is pretty high!) Your usual three-season-long window into this eternal conflict almost never sees its permanent end. A TF series finale might have Megatron’s big final plot defeated but he escapes, or is only imprisoned (which is seldom final for supervillains). If he’s actually destroyed with no hint at survival, enough major ‘Cons to continue in his stead will remain alive and free. Or, the final conflict of the series will be with a Greater-Scope Villain or Outside-Context Problem, leaving the usual villains to pick up where they left off after its defeat. No less than four series have ended with the big victory for the Autobots being the restoration of their home planet Cybertron after ages of war had left it dead or dying — and all four made it clear that some of the baddies are still out there.
  Optimus: You don’t have to fight anymore.
  Cerebros: But what of the Decepticons?
  Optimus: There may always be Decepticons, but I have a different task for you.
• Twelve Forever ends with the trio managing to defeat the Butt Witch, depowering her back to a smaller than normal form which Big Deal takes away. The three make up and celebrate Todd's birthday back in the real world along with Gwen with the implication Reggie will tell her about Endless when she asks about Reggie's arm. All the while Reggie's key glows, causing a flash to appear in the ocean near Endless Island. What it is (a new key, an island, another newcomer, etc) is left up to the imagination.
• Victor and Valentino ends with the defeat of the Big Bad Tez; and while Vic and Val's summer with their grandmother may be over, it's clear there's much more to be discovered across their homeland.
• Wander over Yonder ends with things returning to normal after Lord Dominator's defeat; Wander and Sylvia set off to explore the rejuvenated galaxy while Lord Hater renews his vow to conquer it.
• World of Quest ends with the five swords being lost, forcing Nestor, Quest and the others to find them again.
• Xiaolin Showdown ends with Raimundo being made Xiaolin Leader and every member of the monks Rogues Gallery standing outside the temple, ready for another battle. The monks happily charge forward, and it's almost certain they'll win again.
• Yin Yang Yo! ends with Yin and Yang asking Yo (who's been revealed to be their father) about their mother but are interrupted by the arrival of a new villain, whom they proceed to fight.
• Young Justice also uses this regularly, as no matter the season, there will always be more villains and problems to face in the future.
• The first season of Zak Storm ends with Golden Bones, the second-in-command of the season's Big Bad, being dragged into a portal the characters originally believed would bring them back home by a giant tentacle of a sea monster. Due to this, the characters realize that there is actually an eighth sea they have to brave in order to return home after all.

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