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** ''[[Film/Godzilla2014 Godzilla]]'': Despite a consistently apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic vibe, this human-focused ''Godzilla'' film begins with a HurtingHero[='s=] personal quest to find out what a government agency is hiding in the ruins of Janjira years after an apparent nuclear disaster turned the city into [[UrbanRuins Japan's Chernobyl]]. The situation gradually escalates as more revelations come to light, leading to a fight to stop {{Kaiju}} called the [=MUTOs=] (just two of which manage to cause mass destruction on a seaboard-wide scale solely by being active) [[spoiler:from becoming ExplosiveBreeders and overwhelming the world with ''thousands'' more of their kind, which leads into [[YouCantThwartStageOne the military's plan for dealing with them going spectacularly pear-shaped]] whilst [[YouCantThwartStageOne the MUTOs reproduce]]]].

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** ''[[Film/Godzilla2014 Godzilla]]'': Despite a consistently apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic vibe, this human-focused ''Godzilla'' film begins with a HurtingHero[='s=] hero's personal quest to find out what a government agency is hiding in the ruins of Janjira years after an apparent nuclear disaster turned the city into [[UrbanRuins Japan's Chernobyl]]. The situation gradually escalates as more revelations come to light, leading to a fight to stop {{Kaiju}} called the [=MUTOs=] (just two of which manage to cause mass destruction on a seaboard-wide scale solely by being active) [[spoiler:from becoming ExplosiveBreeders and overwhelming the world with ''thousands'' more of their kind, which leads into [[YouCantThwartStageOne the military's plan for dealing with them going spectacularly pear-shaped]] whilst [[YouCantThwartStageOne the MUTOs reproduce]]]].

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* Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Initially, the story is about Vivienne Graham and San trying to attain their freedom, adjust to [[TwoBeingsOneBody what they've become]], and work through their personal traumas and obstacles (particularly [[ShellShockedVeteran Vivienne]]'s PTSD). Then [[UndeadAbomination the Many]] [[spoiler:and Keizer Ghidorah]] enter the picture, and the fic's last act is about Viv, San and others trying to stop a living apocalypse from regaining its full strength [[spoiler:and picking up where it left off, with Ghidorah's new plan being to conquer and destroy Earth from the [[HollowEarth inside]]-out via targeting and feeding on the [[PlanetaryCoreManipulation core]]'s Hollow Earth GreenRocks]].
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Luke Skywalker is your average moisture farmer living in the dusty ass-end of nowhere when BAM! This random astromech droid starts playing back a message from a princess in need of saving from the BigBad. Being the impressionable young man he is, Luke embarks on a mission to rescue the DamselInDistress and maybe discover something about himself along the way. Simple, right? Wrong. Before Luke has time to say [[OncePerEpisode 'I've got a bad feeling about this']], he's undertaking a [[LaResistance pivotal role in the war to overthrow]] the [[TheEmpire evil Empire]] and confront his destiny to decide the final battle between Good and Evil.



* ''Film/TronLegacy'' is originally about rescuing the previous film's protagonist from imprisonment in virtual reality, and ends up being about saving the world from an invasion by a fascist AI.
* 2013 comedy ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', the last film of the "Three Flavors Cornetto" trilogy is about a group of old friends who reunite to re-enact a legendary pub crawl from their youth. At some point their pub crawl becomes a battle to save the human race.



* Franchise/MonsterVerse:
** ''[[Film/Godzilla2014 Godzilla]]'': Despite a consistently apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic vibe, this human-focused ''Godzilla'' film begins with a HurtingHero[='s=] personal quest to find out what a government agency is hiding in the ruins of Janjira years after an apparent nuclear disaster turned the city into [[UrbanRuins Japan's Chernobyl]]. The situation gradually escalates as more revelations come to light, leading to a fight to stop {{Kaiju}} called the [=MUTOs=] (just two of which manage to cause mass destruction on a seaboard-wide scale solely by being active) [[spoiler:from becoming ExplosiveBreeders and overwhelming the world with ''thousands'' more of their kind, which leads into [[YouCantThwartStageOne the military's plan for dealing with them going spectacularly pear-shaped]] whilst [[YouCantThwartStageOne the MUTOs reproduce]]]].
** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': What starts as the standard ''Franchise/KingKong'' plot – "a bunch of explorers on a hostile, uncharted island are fighting for their own lives against the hostile indigenous monsters and trying to get off the island alive" – ends up overlapping with backing Kong up in the hope that he can stop the Skullcrawlers from overrunning and devouring all life on Skull Island and potentially going on to threaten the civilized world; [[spoiler:especially after [[YouCantThwartStageOne Packard's actions wake the "Big" Skullcrawler up]]]].
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Luke Skywalker is your average moisture farmer living in the dusty ass-end of nowhere when BAM! This random astromech droid starts playing back a message from a princess in need of saving from the BigBad. Being the impressionable young man he is, Luke embarks on a mission to rescue the DamselInDistress and maybe discover something about himself along the way. Simple, right? Wrong. Before Luke has time to say [[OncePerEpisode 'I've got a bad feeling about this']], he's undertaking a [[LaResistance pivotal role in the war to overthrow]] the [[TheEmpire evil Empire]] and confront his destiny to decide the final battle between Good and Evil.
* ''Film/TronLegacy'' is originally about rescuing the previous film's protagonist from imprisonment in virtual reality, and ends up being about saving the world from an invasion by a fascist AI.
* 2013 comedy ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', the last film of the "Three Flavors Cornetto" trilogy is about a group of old friends who reunite to re-enact a legendary pub crawl from their youth. At some point their pub crawl becomes a battle to save the human race.



* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The titular character starts out just trying to kill the local vampires, but quickly starts having to thwart the attempts of an old, powerful vampire, the Master, who is trying to get out of the magical cage he is trapped in. By the end of the season, she has to stop the Master from opening the Hellmouth, an act which would lead to a flood of demons entering the world and destroying all human life. The second season escalates the threat from "just" loss of all human life to loss of the very existence of the world.



* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The titular character starts out just trying to kill the local vampires, but quickly starts having to thwart the attempts of an old, powerful vampire, the Master, who is trying to get out of the magical cage he is trapped in. By the end of the season, she has to stop the Master from opening the Hellmouth, an act which would lead to a flood of demons entering the world and destroying all human life. The second season escalates the threat from "just" loss of all human life to loss of the very existence of the world.
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'''As !!As this is an {{Ending Trope|s}} and a PlotTwist trope, expect spoilers.'''PlotTwist, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' starts with a group of friends travelling into an alternate universe formed from the human subconscious to perform HeelFaceBrainwashing on the wicked adults in their lives. As the game progresses, the stakes are raised [[spoiler:as the heroes must save their country from being taken over by a politician weaponizing said alternate universe, before taking on a wicked god hoping to subject humanity to his whims.

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** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' starts with a group of friends travelling into an alternate universe formed from the human subconscious to perform HeelFaceBrainwashing on the wicked adults in their lives. As the game progresses, the stakes are raised [[spoiler:as the heroes must save their country from being taken over by a politician weaponizing said alternate universe, before taking on a wicked god hoping to subject humanity to his whims.whims]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' [[BookEnds ends as it began, with an alien invasion]], this time by Darkseid and his forces. The scale was so massive that both heroes ''and'' villains had to team up to fight them. [[spoiler: And of all people, it's ''Luthor'' who ends up saving the day by using the Anti-Life Equation to send both to the Source Wall, causing Darkseid's forces to retreat]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' [[BookEnds ends as it began, with an alien invasion]], this time by Darkseid and his forces. The scale was so massive that both heroes ''and'' villains had to team up to fight them. [[spoiler: And of all people, it's ''Luthor'' who ends up saving the day by using the Anti-Life Equation to send both of them to the Source Wall, [[DecapitatedArmy causing Darkseid's forces to retreat]].retreat]]]].
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* ''Manga/DungeonMeshi'': While the core goal of Team Touden, to save Falin, hasn't changed from the beginning, what that saving entails changes widely in scope over the course of the series. It starts with the group attempting to rescue her before she gets devoured by a dragon, and ends with [[spoiler:a severely misguided attempt to get everyone in the dungeon and on land to help separate her chimera body from her human parts]], which leads to [[spoiler:stopping an extradimensional demon from turning the world into its eternal food source]].

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* ''Manga/DungeonMeshi'': ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': While the core goal of Team Touden, to save Falin, hasn't changed from the beginning, what that saving entails changes widely in scope over the course of the series. It starts with the group attempting to rescue her before she gets devoured by a dragon, and ends with [[spoiler:a severely misguided attempt to get everyone in the dungeon and on land to help separate her chimera body from her human parts]], which leads to [[spoiler:stopping an extradimensional demon from turning the world into its eternal food source]].
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* ''Manga/DungeonMeshi'': While the core goal of Team Touden, to save Falin, hasn't changed from the beginning, what that saving entails changes widely in scope over the course of the series. It starts with the group attempting to rescue her before she gets devoured by a dragon, and ends with [[spoiler:a severely misguided attempt to get everyone in the dungeon and on land to help separate her chimera body from her human parts]], which leads to [[spoiler:stopping an extradimensional demon from turning the world into its eternal food source]].
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* For much of ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', [[SwordAndSorcerer Shanon and Raquel's]] only goal is to protect their adopted sister, Pacifica, from the Church of Mauser. It isn't until they're captured by Princess Senes that they learn the truth about the church, [[ApocalypseMaiden Pacifica]], and [[ChosenOne themselves]], as well as [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what's really at stake.]] Shanon and Raquel then realize that they're protecting far more than their sister.

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* For much of ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'', [[SwordAndSorcerer Shanon and Raquel's]] only goal is to protect their adopted sister, Pacifica, from the Church of Mauser. It isn't until they're captured by Princess Senes that they learn the truth about the church, [[ApocalypseMaiden Pacifica]], and [[ChosenOne themselves]], as well as [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what's really at stake.]] Shanon and Raquel then realize that they're protecting far more than their sister.



* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': John Constantine is hired to investigate a suicide. In the end, he tries to stop a conspiracy to bring the son of the Devil on Earth.

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* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': ''Film/Constantine2005'': John Constantine is hired to investigate a suicide. In the end, he tries to stop a conspiracy to bring the son of the Devil on Earth.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' began with the misadventures of Anne and the Plantars in the titular world as they try to find a way to Earth while searching for Anne's friends. Later on, [[spoiler:King Andrias is revealed to be EvilAllAlong who soughts the calamity box to become a MultiversalConqueror starting with Earth]], which takes heed in the final season's climax.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' began with the misadventures of Anne and the Plantars in the titular world as they try to find a way to Earth while searching for Anne's friends. Later on, [[spoiler:King Andrias is revealed to be EvilAllAlong who soughts sought the calamity box Calamity Box to become a MultiversalConqueror starting with Earth]], which takes heed in the final season's climax.

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* ''Anime/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' begins with Iroha Tamaki traveling to Kamihama City to search for her missing sister. In the final season, [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Alina Gray]]]] reveals her intentions to transform all of humanity into witches by bestowing them magic after she fuses with Embryo Eve to make them share the fate of all Magical Girls.



* Part 6 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' follows this. It starts as a prison drama about an inmate trying to reclaim her father's memories, then becomes a race to prevent a crazy priest from resetting the universe. [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins They fail.]] [[NearVillainVictory ...Somewhat.]] They aren't able to stop him from gaining a power up to do so. But his end goal was to reset the world without a Joestar line to avenge DIO. Despite killing all but one of the main heroes, the one remaining ally manages to off him at the last possible moment. The world is reset again, but the Joestar line survives this time.]]

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* Part 6 ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', the GrandFinale of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' follows the [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure series]] original continuity ends with this. It starts as a prison drama about an inmate Jolyne Cujoh trying to reclaim her father's father, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jotaro Kujo]]'s memories, then becomes a race to prevent a crazy priest Enrico Pucci from resetting enacting the universe. [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins They fail.]] [[NearVillainVictory ...Somewhat.]] They EvilPlan by [[BigBad Dio Brando]] to [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 reset]] the universe InTheirOwnImage. [[spoiler:[[NearVillainVictory Tragically]], the heroes aren't able to stop him Pucci from gaining a power up Made In Heaven to do so. But his end goal was to reset the world without a Joestar line to avenge DIO. Despite him killing all but one of the main heroes, Emporio, the one remaining ally ally, manages to off him kill Pucci at the last possible moment. The world is reset again, but the Joestar line survives this time.leaving Emporio to arrive in a newly restored world as he comes across his friends, [[BittersweetEnding now reborn as different people]].]]



* ''VideoGame/Persona4'' starts off with a group of friends discovering the (supernatural and thus unprovable) MO of a SerialKiller and resolving to catch him. If you manage to unlock the true ending it turns out [[spoiler: to be a conspiracy by an EldritchAbomination (disguised as [[TheDogWasTheMastermind a gas station attendant]]) to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' starts with a group of friends travelling into an alternate universe formed from the human subconscious to perform HeelFaceBrainwashing on the wicked adults in their lives. As the game progresses, the stakes are raised [[spoiler:as the heroes must save their country from being taken over by a politician weaponizing said alternate universe, before taking on a wicked god hoping to subject humanity to his whims. [[SavingChristmas And just in time for Christmas!]]]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' begins with Cecil's demotion for questioning orders and being sent to deliver a package. This spirals out of control until you find yourself going to the Moon, fighting a {{Humongous Mecha}} that is going to annihilate all life on the planet, and then doing battle with the incarnation of all evil.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' starts off with a mysterious girl named Terra working for the empire due to a form of mind control. She has no knowledge of who or what she is. When she gets knocked out in a mission, a treasure hunter named Locke quickly helps protect her. Before long she's helping TheResistance fighting against TheEmpire. The Empire itself poses a threat to the world, but the emperor himself would never go so far as to destroy it, which his seemingly comic-relief jester Kefka goes ahead and does just that. The world now in ruins, the heroes know that they at least have to stop Kefka from destroying all existence since he'd already gone that far.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' starts with a resistance group known as Avalanche fighting against the Shinra MegaCorp just to help improve the lives of the citizens that live in the slums. One thing turns to another and eventually they're fighting a psychotic SuperSoldier who wants to destroy the world.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' starts with a performance troupe putting on a play as a distraction while they kidnap the princess from her domineering mother of a queen. One thing leads to another and soon a weapons merchant is threatening the destruction of not one, but TWO different worlds. [[spoiler:[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere And then the personification of Death shows up to determine whether the universe itself is worthy of existence.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': The game starts as a LighterAndSofter sequel, with Yuna and Rikku as Sphere-Hunters, {{Magical Girl}}-esque {{Transformation Sequence}}s, a GoldfishPoopGang as the primary antagonists and {{Fanservice}} ahoy. Then Vegnagun shows up halfway through Chapter Two and all of this is dropped in favour of [[spoiler:stopping [[BodySurf Shuyin]] before he can activate Vegnagun, resulting in an EarthShatteringKaboom]] - with {{Magical Girl}}-esque {{Transformation Sequence}}s, a GoldfishPoopGang as ''allies'' and {{Fanservice}}.
* ''VideoGame/XenoGears'' starts off with Fei just living his normal life in a quiet village, devoid of conflict. Then TheEmpire invades and razes the town to the ground, forcing him to defend himself in the heat of the moment. One thing leads to another and then he's fighting against a man-made God to save the world.

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* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
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''VideoGame/Persona4'' starts off with a group of friends discovering the (supernatural and thus unprovable) MO of a SerialKiller and resolving to catch him. If you manage to unlock the true ending it turns out [[spoiler: to be a conspiracy by an EldritchAbomination (disguised as [[TheDogWasTheMastermind a gas station attendant]]) to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
* ** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' starts with a group of friends travelling into an alternate universe formed from the human subconscious to perform HeelFaceBrainwashing on the wicked adults in their lives. As the game progresses, the stakes are raised [[spoiler:as the heroes must save their country from being taken over by a politician weaponizing said alternate universe, before taking on a wicked god hoping to subject humanity to his whims. [[SavingChristmas And just in time for Christmas!]]]]
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* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
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''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' begins with Cecil's demotion for questioning orders and being sent to deliver a package. This spirals out of control until you find yourself going to the Moon, fighting a {{Humongous Mecha}} that is going to annihilate all life on the planet, and then doing battle with the incarnation of all evil.
* ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' starts off with a mysterious girl named Terra working for the empire due to a form of mind control. She has no knowledge of who or what she is. When she gets knocked out in a mission, a treasure hunter named Locke quickly helps protect her. Before long she's helping TheResistance fighting against TheEmpire. The Empire itself poses a threat to the world, but the emperor himself would never go so far as to destroy it, which his seemingly comic-relief jester Kefka goes ahead and does just that. The world now in ruins, the heroes know that they at least have to stop Kefka from destroying all existence since he'd already gone that far.
* ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' starts with a resistance group known as Avalanche fighting against the Shinra MegaCorp just to help improve the lives of the citizens that live in the slums. One thing turns to another and eventually they're fighting a psychotic SuperSoldier who wants to destroy the world.
* ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' starts with a performance troupe putting on a play as a distraction while they kidnap the princess from her domineering mother of a queen. One thing leads to another and soon a weapons merchant is threatening the destruction of not one, but TWO different worlds. [[spoiler:[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere And then the personification of Death shows up to determine whether the universe itself is worthy of existence.]]]]
* ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': The game starts as a LighterAndSofter sequel, with Yuna and Rikku as Sphere-Hunters, {{Magical Girl}}-esque {{Transformation Sequence}}s, a GoldfishPoopGang as the primary antagonists and {{Fanservice}} ahoy. Then Vegnagun shows up halfway through Chapter Two and all of this is dropped in favour of [[spoiler:stopping [[BodySurf Shuyin]] before he can activate Vegnagun, resulting in an EarthShatteringKaboom]] - with {{Magical Girl}}-esque {{Transformation Sequence}}s, a GoldfishPoopGang as ''allies'' and {{Fanservice}}.
* ''VideoGame/XenoGears'' ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' starts off with Fei just living his normal life in a quiet village, devoid of conflict. Then TheEmpire invades and razes the town to the ground, forcing him to defend himself in the heat of the moment. One thing leads to another and then he's fighting against a man-made God to save the world.



* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' plays with this trope. While ''technically'' you are saving the world by stopping the Blight (i.e. a vast horde of [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] [[TheLegionsOfHell monsters]] led by a corrupted Dragon-God), the game's codex makes it quite clear that failure on your part will not actually lead to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]. Blights reoccur every few centuries in Thedas, so people who dedicate their lives to stopping them have created a military organization, the Grey Wardens, just for that purpose. If you do not succeed, then one of the other members of your organization, which is thousands strong, would finish it in your place. By stopping the Blight, all you really do is keep the country that you live in from being destroyed before the other Wardens could act. Your victory simply means that the threat ended before the rest of the world noticed the problem.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' averts this: [[spoiler: Templars and mages ''will'' end up fighting one another]], but [[ForegoneConclusion how that]] [[FramingDevice comes about]] is up to [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]], who can end up either [[spoiler: a symbol of rebellion or an accessory to a war crime]].

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* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
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''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' plays with this trope. While ''technically'' you are saving the world by stopping the Blight (i.e. a vast horde of [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] [[TheLegionsOfHell monsters]] led by a corrupted Dragon-God), the game's codex makes it quite clear that failure on your part will not actually lead to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]. Blights reoccur every few centuries in Thedas, so people who dedicate their lives to stopping them have created a military organization, the Grey Wardens, just for that purpose. If you do not succeed, then one of the other members of your organization, which is thousands strong, would finish it in your place. By stopping the Blight, all you really do is keep the country that you live in from being destroyed before the other Wardens could act. Your victory simply means that the threat ended before the rest of the world noticed the problem.
* ** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' averts this: [[spoiler: Templars this. [[spoiler:Templars and mages Mages ''will'' end up fighting one another]], but [[ForegoneConclusion how that]] [[FramingDevice comes about]] is up to [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]], who can end up either [[spoiler: a symbol of rebellion or an accessory to a war crime]].



* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'' has a "Save The City" Climax. Starting out as another mystery Layton gets involved in related to TimeTravel. The endgame has it turned out to be part of a grand revenge scheme masterminded for vengeance [[WellIntentionedExtremist against corrupt politicians]] with the use of a colossal weapon.



* The main ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games, at least since Gen III, barring most of the remakes. It always starts out as some kid leaving their small town on a journey ToBeAMaster, and escalates to them saving the world from the regional criminal organization who plans on TakingOverTheWorld (or reshaping it) using the version's indicated legendary pokemon. Gen IV ups the ante, where the protagonist is forced to intervene in order to save ''all of existence''.
* The ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games always begin with you helping your partner to chase their dreams, then eventually reveal you're a ChosenOne who needs stop some manner of world-ending crisis.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' goes from Luigi having to prevent Ghosts from causing chaos in Evershade Valley to stopping the entire dimension from collapsing.

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
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The main ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Pokemon'' games, at least since Gen III, barring most of the remakes. It always starts out as some kid leaving their small town on a journey ToBeAMaster, and escalates to them saving the world from the regional criminal organization who plans on TakingOverTheWorld (or reshaping it) using the version's indicated legendary pokemon. Gen IV ups the ante, where the protagonist is forced to intervene in order to save ''all of existence''.
* ** The ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games always begin with you helping your partner to chase their dreams, then eventually reveal you're a ChosenOne who needs stop some manner of world-ending crisis.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Mario begins his adventure to rescue Peach while collecting the {{Macguffin}}s that will lead to a legendary treasure. Partway through, the "treasure" is revealed to be [[spoiler:the spirit of an ancient demon]] that the X-Nauts wants to unleash for their plan to TakeOverTheWorld.
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''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' goes from Luigi having to prevent Ghosts from causing chaos in Evershade Valley to stopping the entire dimension from collapsing.



* ''Rampage 2: Universal Tour'' starts with the monsters doing their usual business of destroying every major city in the world, but by the end, through their blind path of destruction, they have thwarted an alien plot to conquer the galaxy.

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* ''Rampage ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}} 2: Universal Tour'' starts with the monsters doing their usual business of destroying every major city in the world, but by the end, through their blind path of destruction, they have thwarted an alien plot to conquer the galaxy.



* Almost all ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'' games end this way. They start off innocently enough and usually have little at stake, and seven worlds later you're fighting the EldritchAbomination MonsterOfTheWeek to save Planet Popstar/the galaxy/all of existence/etc.

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* Almost all ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'' ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games end this way. They start off innocently enough and usually have little at stake, and seven several worlds later you're fighting the EldritchAbomination MonsterOfTheWeek to save Planet Popstar/the galaxy/all of existence/etc.



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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' began with the misadventures of Anne and the Plantars in the titular world as they try to find a way to Earth while searching for Anne's friends. Later on, [[spoiler:King Andrias is revealed to be EvilAllAlong who soughts the calamity box to become a MultiversalConqueror starting with Earth]], which takes heed in the final season's climax.
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* Almost all ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'' games end this way. They start off innocently enough and usually have little at stake, and seven worlds later you're fighting the EldritchAbomination MonsterOfTheWeek to save Planet Popstar/the galaxy/all of existence/etc.

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