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'''Volcana:''' Now that we are free, what do we do next?\\

'''Scrooge: [[BigYes Yes!!!]]'''\\

'''Scrooge:''' It's ''gold! Solid'' gold! As big as a ''goose egg!'' Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ''I'm '''''RICH!'''''\\
''(the last word echoes throughout the creek as Scrooge skips about in excitement)''\\

--->'''Volcana:''' Now that we are free, what do we do next?
--->'''Carmilla:''' The same thing we always have done.
--->'''M'Shulla:''' The only thing anyone can ever do.
--->'''Killraven:''' Right, we ''live!'' We live for another day.
--->'''Caption box:''' ''The Beginning.''

* Oliver Stone's ''Film/{{JFK}}'', ends with "What is past is prologue."
** The phrase is taken from William Shakespeare's Theatre/TheTempest, and is engraved on the National Archives building in Washington, DC.

* The sci-fi BMovie ''Film/ThePhantomPlanet'' ends with the narrator stating that, as humanity continues to explore the cosmos, they'll discover even more amazing wonders. "This is only the beginning!" In the MST3K [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E02ThePhantomPlanet episode on this movie]], Mike and Bots lament that this means they have to watch the movie over again.

* The sci-fi BMovie ''Film/ThePhantomPlanet'' ends with the narrator stating that, as humanity continues to explore the cosmos, they'll discover even more amazing wonders. "This is only the beginning!"

* Creator/{{Marvel}} enjoys using "The Beginning!" whenever they can. Examples include the ''ComicBook/SeasonOne'' graphic novels, and the story in ''Marvel: NOW What?!'' detailing how Doctor Octopuppet decided to become the villainous... ComicBook/DoctorOctopus! *gasp*

* The final chapter of the third book in the ''Literature/HanSoloTrilogy'' features Han sitting in a cantina on some backwater planet and worrying about their financial debt to a crime lord. Chewie walks over to his table and tells him that he may have found the solution to their problems in an old man and a kid who need passage to Alderaan. Where most books say "The End," it says "The Beginning."

* The British [=WW2=] propaganda movie ''Film/TheWayAhead'' (1944) concludes with the soldiers advancing into the attack with the words THE BEGINNING. One assumes the producers wanted the audience to believe our heroes were [[AndTheAdventureContinues just getting started in defeating the Nazis]], as opposed to marching off to their [[KillEmAll END]].

* Music/{{Nightwish}}: The first words of ''The Poet and the Pendulum'' are "The End" and the last words are "The Beginning".

* Literally: At the end of the apocalyptic/time-travel sci-fi BMovie ''Film/{{Millennium}}'' (not related to the eponymous TV series), a solemn voice-over proclaims: ''"It is not the end! It is not the beginning of the end! It is the end of the beginning!"'' This is in reference to the AdamAndEvePlot ending.

* The final episode of ''Series/{{Bizaardvark}}'' is aptly titled "The End of the Beginning".

* It has been revealed that the 1993 live film, ''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAPTl_fJbkY Raffi on Broadway'', contains a bonus segment of a couple of songs after the credits. One song is from Japan called "Haru Ga Kita", and another song is from Russia called "May There Always Be Sunshine".

* The British [=WW2=] propaganda movie ''Film/TheWayAhead'' (1944) concludes with the soldiers advancing into the attack with the words THE BEGINNING. One assumes the producers wanted the audience to believe our heroes were [[AndTheAdventureContinues just getting started in defeating the Nazis]], as opposed to marching off to their [[EveryoneDies END]].

* The final song on Forgive Durden's album Music/RaziasShadow is titled, "The End and the Beginning" in this fashion.
* ''Music/{{Nightwish}}'': The first words of ''The Poet and the Pendulum'' are "The End" and the last words are "The Beginning".
* The final verse of the final track of ''Music/{{Revolver}}'': "So play the game Existence to the end/ Of the beginning/ Of the beginning/ Of the beginning..."