Foregone Conclusion / Web Original

• In general, the various The Abridged Series of anime out there on the Internet (Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, etc.) can be this as they're all based on popular pre-existing works and while some Filler may be cut out and new jokes added, it's still the same plot as the original and all the major events of the original series have to occur.
• Achievement Hunter: An odd one example that happens in Episode 68 of VS.. In it, it has Ryan beat Michael, and would face Gavin next episode. However, next episode was Ryan vs. Ray, skipping Ryan vs. Gavin. So, the next episode had to show how this came to be.
• The Crawlspace: Due to the narrative being framed as the narrator telling the reader a true story that occurred last summer, we know that narrator at least got away from the apartment relatively unscathed. What we don't know is exactly what happened at the apartment the narrator wants to warn us about, nor what happened to the narrator's roommates.
• Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited: The Calamity mini-series is about how the Divine Conflict of the Calamity came about, resulting in the fall of all the flying cities of Exandria, the destruction of the continent of Domunas, and the deaths of most of Exandria's population. The city of Avalir and everyone inside it is doomed from the start, and the series is more about exploring how things happened, rather than any real attempts to prevent it from happening.
• Dark Simpsons:
  • In "Homer Gets into a Street Fight", Homer gives Marge a Last Request that she blows up the hospital if Homer dies in the operation. Sure enough, he dies in the operation, and the video skips over the funeral scene to show the hospital being blown up.
  • The thumbnail of "Homer Lives Out the American Dream" shows that Mr. Burns will die in this video. He does gets killed by Homer by throwing him out of an building at the end of the video.
• DEATH BATTLE!: Some battles has the loser suffer this trope.
  • The host displayed the rematch of Son Goku and Superman as this. No matter how much powers Goku obtains, he can never transcend infinity that is Superman's powers.
  • Batman in his third fight with Black Panther required him have something to bypass his Vibranium suit, which he simply didn't have surprisingly. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before Black Panther wore him down for the kill.
  • Thanos has to rely on his gauntlet to even match Darkseid in power and abilities. Considering that not only can Darkseid only truly be killed if his true form is attacked and that said true would obliterate the multiverse if it ever left the fourth world universe, he is well aware that the gauntlet is useless outside of its universe and is able to shift the fight to whatever universe he wants. Thanos simply has no win condition to secure his victory over Darkseid.
  • In his second battle, Mega Man Classic was fighting other Mega Men, including the very model designed to surpass him in every way. He definitely was not winning the battle royale. It's a small wonder he placed fourth.
  • While Lobo might have been able to deduce his opponent, Ghost Rider, was weak to holy weapon, he did not carry any in his standard arsenal, meaning in order to find said weakness, he needed to be able to escape Ghost Rider first, which would be impossible as the Hell Cycle outraced Mjolnir at 100 billion times faster than light, leagues faster than the Space Hog outracing the pull of a black hole.
  • Iron Fist was fighting Po, who could move between both the living world and the afterlife at will with his own powers, meaning it was impossible for Danny Rand to put the panda down.
  • From the moment Korra VS Storm was announced, it became evident to everyone that Korra was destined to lose, given her complete disadvantage in every aspect compared to Storm. The Avatar was outmatched in every way, except for a few elements where Storm easily surpassed her. Sure enough, Korra did meet her demise in the battle.
  • Considering how badly outmatched he was against Omni-Man and how everyone was expecting him to die, Omni-Man VS Homelander could only go one way in the form of Homelander's death.
  • In Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers, Michael had absolutely no way to bypass or overtax Jason's healing factor. Coupled with the former's superior resilience, it was only a matter of time before Jason landed the fatal blow.
  • Special mention has to go to the Death Battle between SpongeBob SquarePants and Superfriends Aquaman, as the hosts don't even try to hide the fact that Aquaman was never going to stand even a remote chance at winning the fight given how horrendously he was outclassed by his absorbent, yellow and porous foe, which even other battles in the series that were one-sided like Korra vs. Storm and Omni-Man vs. Homelander where the loser at least had a few advantages (In Korra vs. Storm's case, a few elements Storm could not manipulate, like fire and earth, and in Omni-Man vs Homelander's case, Homelander could attack his equilibrium with his supersonic scream and a slightly more varied set of abilities), as minute as they may be, did try to at least be somewhat suspenseful. SpongeBob was just WAY too fast, strong and tough, even going as far as to dethrone MegaMan.EXE for title of having the fastest calculable speed feat on the show. Wiz and Boomstick even lampshade this trope with their variations on their usual pre-fight lines:
    Wiz: We've run the data through all possibility. One. One possibility.
    Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR AQUAMAN'S FUNERAL!
• The Kindness of Devils: A good chunk of the shorter stories outside of the main chronological ones take place several years in the past. Since Hardestadt Delac is alive and well during Girls on Film, which takes place in the present, it's clear that Delac will survive whatever perilous situation he finds himself in. Whether or not his allies and/or loved ones survive varies.
• Legatum: The series takes place over different time periods, so some stories nonchalantly reveal what happens at the end of other stories.
  • The Road to Hell... takes place twenty years before the events in The Green Wanderer. This automatically means, based on some of the characters' dialogue in The Green Wanderer, that King Chorn Torgash will eventually die, and the orcs will succeed in their rebellion and restore Kosslivo to a more inhabitable community.
  • Scrambled Egg involves an Egg MacGuffin containing a creature that may or may not cause The End of the World as We Know It. Chronologically, this is the first story in the series, so the apocalypse will obviously be averted by the end.
• The Noedolekcin Archives: The lore states that Kirk's reign of terror ended in 2008, ten years after he first appeared in 1998, confirming his murder spree had been stopped. How he ends up being defeated is unknown at this time, however.
• Party Crashers: In Mario Party, Brent winning most of the minigames tends to be a very expected outcome, to the point where the others willingly throw in the towel on certain minigames (mainly ones that require Button Mashing) because they know that Brent will win. Brent getting all of the Bonus Stars is also such as a guarantee that the others have to actively strategize around it, even going as far as to call them "Brent Stars".
• Red vs. Blue: Half of seasons 9 and 10 is composed of a prequel showing Project Freelancer in its heyday. By the time of the present, it's on its last legs, so the audience knows this won't end well. Most of the Freelancers are Doomed by Canon. Naive Agent Washington will have a mental breakdown and resolve to destroy Project Freelancer. Agent Maine will be driven insane and become the Meta, turning into the main antagonist of the Recollection trilogy. The story does throw some curveballs by showing that some history events didn't happen as assumed; for example, the C.T. who appears in season 7 is not the real C.T., who dies in the flashbacks, and Carolina manages to survive her apparent death and appears later in the present, and once by not revealing exactly what role a character played in previous canon until the very end ( The Mysterious Blue Guy/Agent Florida, who we learn in the last episode is also Captain Butch Flowers and died prior to Season 1).
• RWBY: It's played up as suspenseful, and doesn't officially occur until halfway through the first season, but it was pretty obvious who's going to end up on team RWBY, given that teams are made of 4 people and 4 characters had their own trailers (and these 4 characters have names starting with R, W, B and Y).
• The Salvation War: Satan himself orders the Grand Duke Abigor to lead an army of approximately four hundred thousand demons to Earth, to subjugate humanity. Unfortunately for them it's 21st-century Earth (the point of divergence being January 2008). Human technology has already made short work of several Kaiju-like demons, and Abigor's army is made up of demons only slightly bigger than humans, fighting with feudal technology and tactics. So forget the plan, Abigor's army itself does not survive the first battle with humans, and an overarching theme of the story is just how doomed the demons were the moment they entered Earth.
• It should be exceedingly obvious at this point that [everyone that has anything to do with the Slender Man is going to die horribly. Averted, surprisingly, by Marble Hornets - Tim lives. So does Jessica. Jay and Alex and everyone else, however...
  • This also applies to Slender and its sequel. Every Slender game, really.
• Steam Train: Played for Laughs in the 8th episode of the play-through of VVVVVV, when at around the 8 minute mark they get to a single obstacle, flying up a chute lined with spikes, and Ross proudly declares he'll do it on his first try. Barry adds a text warning at that part that says "The rest of this episode is nothing but this. You have been warned" letting you know that, for the next 25 straight minutes, it's nothing but Ross and Arin trying in vain to pass this one single obstacle.
• SuperMarioLogan: Every episode of Doofy the Dragon ends with the titular character killing himself, typically by gunshot, but other ways have happened. In the episode, Bowser Junior's Broccoli Problem!, Junior notes that Joseph and Cody can't leave until they see how Doofy ends today. Joseph notes that he just always kills himself so there's no secret. The group are then bothered by a crocodile who is forced to explain the differences between a crocodile and an alligator after the three think he's an alligator. When they return to the television, Doofy is over and Junior notes he doesn't know how it ended. Joseph yells at him that "he just dies!".
• Survival of the Fittest: When a character gets rolled and isn't saved by any of the other handlers within the time limit, you can be sure that their death is only just around the corner. The same fate falls upon inactive characters who don't get adopted.
• What If the Star Wars Prequels Were Good?: Discussed at length in this Belated Media series. In the three-part series, Michael argues that this trope was a major reason why the Star Wars prequel trilogy wasn't quite as strong as it could have been, as it lost a lot of its dramatic tension because most of the audience already knew how it would end; they knew that Anakin would become Darth Vader, that the Republic would become a despotic Empire, that the Jedi would fall, and that most of the major characters who weren't in the Original Trilogy would probably be dead by the end of Episode III. To remedy that, Michael's version ends before many of those major events happen (preferring to simply leave them implied in the Time Skip between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope) and it actually leaves Padme alive. By the time his version of Episode III ends, Palpatine is still just the corrupt Chancellor of the Republic, Anakin is just a murderous Dark Jedi, and the Jedi are heavily diminished but still very much alive.
• World War II: As a Documentary series about one of the most well known historical events, almost anyone watching can be expected to know how the war is going to turn out. This doesn't stop the audience from jokingly commenting about possible Axis victories, continuing a Running Gag from The Great War where commenters jokingly speculated on a victory for the Central Powers.

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