Classic style happy ending.
The popular preference for a story with "a happy ending" is not, or at least was not, a mere sweet-stuff optimism; it is the remains of the old idea of the triumph of the dragon-slayer, the ultimate apotheosis of the man beloved of heaven.
Some stories just end
happily, with the villain defeated (or the basic problem
resolved) and
the heroes triumphant. It remains the most common type of ending, even if it can be
disdained by some.
Far, far too common to provide example.
Specific types of
Happy Ending include:
Contrast
Downer Ending and
Bittersweet Ending.
Has nothing whatsoever to do with
Happy Ending Massage, so
get your mind out of the gutter!
As this is an
Omnipresent Trope,
no examples please.
