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* ''Literature/TalesOfThePack'': The Pack manages to defeat the evil Morloc werewolves with their allies, but lose one of their own in doing so.
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* ''Literature/TheSilenceOfBones'': The investigation is resolved with Officer Shim Jaedeok being arrested for the murders of Lady O, Scholar Ahn, the shaman and his own mother, with Woorim being saved. However, Inspector Han ends up dying from his wounds, with Lady Kang being executed for being Catholic. Seol is sent home to live with her sister but finds life in the country not what she had hoped for, and is asked to come back to the capital to join the Bureau once more.
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* ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' A big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, Tad dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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* ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' A big friendly dog that never wanted to only hurt anyone people due to a disease dies, Tad dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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* ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' A big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, Tad dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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* ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' A big friendly dog that never wanted to only hurt anyone people due to a disease dies, Tad dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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* ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' A big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, Tad dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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* ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' A big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, Tad dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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* ''Literature/{{Cujo}}:'' A big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, Tad dies ([[SparedByTheAdaptation unless you watch the movie]]), but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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* The ending of ''Literature/NoryRyansSong'' is a little more sweet than bitter, but still counts. [[spoiler:In the end, Nory receives the tickets from her father to join the rest of her family in America, just like she dreamed of, and sets out on her way to travel there. But she must leave Anna behind in Ireland, and they will likely never see each other again.]]
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* Literature/ShakuganNoShana ends with the Flame Hazes and Crimson Denizens finally making peace with Xanadu being created, meaning they can coexist. All of Misaki City's innocent casualties have been revived. Unfortunately, both sides have its casualties and it's at the cost of protagonist Yuji Sakai's existence for those not involved. His allies who were involved will never see him again as the entrance to Xanadu is sealed off and can never be reopened.
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* Literature/ShakuganNoShana ends with the Flame Hazes and Crimson Denizens finally making peace with Xanadu being created, meaning they can coexist. All of Misaki City's innocent casualties have been revived. undone. Unfortunately, both sides have its their own casualties and it's at the cost of protagonist Yuji Sakai's existence for those not involved.involved (I.e. his parents and most of his schoolmates). His allies who were involved will never see him again as the entrance to Xanadu is sealed off and can never be reopened.
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* ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'':The mermaid is given a LastSecondChance to kill the prince and return to the sea. She chooses death instead. However, the sacrifice earns her a provisional afterlife as a sort of ministering spirit, and when her time is done, she will gain an immortal soul and go to heaven.
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* ''Literature/TheLittleFriend'': Harriet doesn't find out who killed Robin, but she at least realizes that Danny was innocent.
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* In ''Literature/BootCamp'', the main plot is Garrett, Sarah, and Pauly fleeing Lake Harmony, an abusive reform school. Sarah and Pauly both make it safely to Canada, but Garrett is recaptured and sent back to Lake Harmony. Pauly is so sick after years of abuse that Sarah is forced to leave him at a hospital, but his father is so appalled by the condition he's in that he allows him to return home to Florida instead of sending him back to Lake Harmony. Meanwhile, Rebecca starts speaking out about the abuse she suffered during her time there, and as a result some of the inmates are pulled out by their parents, including Garrett. Unfortunately, by that point Garrett's mind is broken, and he believes that he deserved the abuse.
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* In ''Literature/BootCamp'', ''Literature/BootCamp2007'', the main plot is Garrett, Sarah, and Pauly fleeing Lake Harmony, an abusive reform school. Sarah and Pauly both make it safely to Canada, but Garrett is recaptured and sent back to Lake Harmony. Pauly is so sick after years of abuse that Sarah is forced to leave him at a hospital, but his father is so appalled by the condition he's in that he allows him to return home to Florida instead of sending him back to Lake Harmony. Meanwhile, Rebecca starts speaking out about the abuse she suffered during her time there, and as a result some of the inmates are pulled out by their parents, including Garrett. Unfortunately, by that point Garrett's mind is broken, and he believes that he deserved the abuse.
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* ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'': By his own admission, Charles ends the book homeless, childless, loveless and middle-aged. Lady Marchmain dies knowing she has failed Sebastian; Sebastian never recovers from alcoholism; and Brideshead is robbed of his titular inheritance at the last minute. But for all that, Sebastian's journey through faith has him find peace through his personal suffering, and Lord Marchmain returns to the faith in his final hour and makes a deathbed confession, which inspires Julia to call off her pending adulterous union with Charles. And Samwise and Rex, the closest the book has to antagonists, wind up with their ambitions thwarted.
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* ''Literature/LittleMushroom'': The humans manage to avoid being completely wiped out and An Zhe's HeroicSacrifice enables them to stabilize the worldwide mutations enough so that they no longer need to worry about losing their minds if they become mutated, the mutated humans go from being hated and shunned to being widely accepted, scientists have begun doing successful research on how to use the newfound string frequencies to create clear water and other resources, and An Zhe is able to be resurrected through his spore and reunite with Lu Feng. However, thousands of human lives have still been lost for good, human civilization will never be able to return to its glory days, and they still can't take their chances of long-term survival for granted.
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* ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' In Larry Niven's ''The Ringworld Engineers'' the protagonist and his party kill 1.5 trillion people, a couple hundren times as much as the Earth's entire population. And they're marooned on an alien world far from home. On the other hand they save 28.5 trillion people, several thousand times the Earth's present populations.
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* ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' In Larry Niven's ''The Ringworld Engineers'' the ''Literature/TheRingworldEngineers'': The protagonist and his party kill 1.5 trillion people, a couple hundren hundred times as much as the Earth's entire population. And population, and they're marooned on an alien world far from home. On the other hand hand, they save 28.5 trillion people, several thousand times the Earth's present populations.
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* ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'': Kind of. The Patient is killed in a bomb blast, leaving behind his mother and fiancee, but he does go to heaven. If you have come to sympathize with stupid little Wormwood, though, this ending is not at all a happy one for him.
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* ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'': Dimmesdale comes to terms with his sin too late before death. For all the difficulties Hester faced, she still managed to have a positive effect on her community and offer comfort and advice to its outcasts. Despite considering herself far-from-saintly upon death, she discovered satisfaction in life.
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* ''Literature/{{Speak}}'': Melinda doesn't completely overcome her trauma and she'll have to take summer school to make up for her poor grades, but she manages to save Rachel (and presumably other future victims) from a similar fate and fights off Andy Evans from trying to rape her again in the school closet, exposing him as a predator. She also finally draws a satisfying tree for art class, and opens up to Mr. Freeman about what happened.
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* ''Literature/AMonsterCalls'': It's inevitable Conor's mother is going to die. But Conor, with the Monster's help, has managed to come to terms with it, inasmuch as a boy his age can. There's also the fact that Conor has alienated himself from all his peers due to his beat down of Harry, but still has a kindred spirit in Lily.
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* ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}'': Scarlett loses her home Balyhara and her tenants brand her as a traitor to their cause. She also has nowhere to go, though she has enough money to last for the rest of her life. But Rhett has come back for her, and they reconcile.
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* ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'': Gordon Zellaby, the Children's school teacher and the only person they respect, decides that the Children are too dangerous to let live and uses a bomb to kill them all alongside himself inside the school.
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* ''Literature/BeauGeste'': While John lives and the real reason for the loss of the Blue Water is revealed, his brothers and friends are dead.
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* ''Literature/AcidRow'': The protagonists are able to prevent Acid Row from being burnt down and eventually the riot disperses. However, three people still died, including [[DeathOfAChild two teenagers]] and an innocent old man who was mistaken as a pervert. No one is legally held accountable for the violence save Wesley Barber and the police, government, healthcare sector, media and social services all point the finger at each other. Gaynor has [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost her son]] Colin and will probably never get over it, but is glad the rest of her family is safe. Melanie [[BabiesEverAfter gives birth to a baby girl]] and is happy with Jimmy, who has officially gone straight and is helping the residents of Acid Row rebuild. Acid Row is slowly improving, with both the council and the residents working together to make it safer and more hospitable. It's implied that Franek gets arrested for his attack on Sophie, finally getting some comeuppance for his crimes and freeing Milosz from his toxic influence; he's already started standing up for himself more by backing up Sophie's version of events over his father's. Although she has some trauma and potential disfigurement, Sophie is getting on with her life and is HappilyMarried to Bob.
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* ''Literature/OfMiceAndMooshaber'', especially considering that the novel is set in dystopia of the CrapsackWorld type. It's a surprise the ending is not a total downer, but it still feels more bitter than sweet, perhaps because the whole tone of the book is disturbing and creepy. The rightful and beloved ruler Duchess Augusta is asked to come back to her palace and oppressed people now might hope for a better, brighter future. Duchess Augusta pardons several evil people who were sentenced to death for their crimes by the new regime, but she poisons herself.
* ''Literature/OurWivesUnderTheSea'': Miri realizes that Leah is an EmptyShell of her former self, and she has to accept that the Leah she knows is gone rather than keeping her decaying self around. They say goodbye for the last time when Miri lets Leah dissolve back into the ocean.
* ''Literature/OurWivesUnderTheSea'': Miri realizes that Leah is an EmptyShell of her former self, and she has to accept that the Leah she knows is gone rather than keeping her decaying self around. They say goodbye for the last time when Miri lets Leah dissolve back into the ocean.
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* "Literature/{{Okuyyuki}}" has its protagonist killed in action, but he was successful in defeating the enemy and saving his friends, and his dying moments imply that there will be an afterlife for him.
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* ''Literature/OfMiceAndMooshaber'', especially considering that the novel is set in dystopia of the CrapsackWorld type. It's a surprise the ending is not a total downer, but it still feels more bitter than sweet, perhaps because the whole tone of the book is disturbing and creepy. The rightful and beloved ruler Duchess Augusta is asked to come back to her palace and oppressed people now might hope for a better, brighter future. Duchess Augusta pardons several evil people who were sentenced to death for their crimes by the new regime, but she poisons herself.
* "Literature/{{Okuyyuki}}" has its protagonist killed in action, but he was successful in defeating the enemy and saving his friends, and his dying moments imply that there will be an afterlife for him.
* ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'': Santiago still caught his fish, and he promises his apprentice that they will be able to work together again, however he lost his catch to the sharks and it's left ambiguous as to how truthful he is; he may well soon be dead.
* "Literature/{{Okuyyuki}}" has its protagonist killed in action, but he was successful in defeating the enemy and saving his friends, and his dying moments imply that there will be an afterlife for him.
* ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'': Santiago still caught his fish, and he promises his apprentice that they will be able to work together again, however he lost his catch to the sharks and it's left ambiguous as to how truthful he is; he may well soon be dead.
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* ''Literature/RunningOutOfTime'': The men responsible for the experiment are arrested and Jessie and her friends and family can look forward to living a new modern life in the present day, but some of the children did not survive the plague that prompted Jessie to leave the village in the first place.
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* ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'': The Aviator is able to fix his plane and return home, but the Prince allows the Snake to bite him so he can return home to the asteroid, leaving the Aviator devastated. The Aviator is uncertain whether the Prince died or somehow did go home, since he NeverFoundTheBody, but is hopeful that this means he's still alive somewhere. The story ends with an absolutely devastating plea from the Aviator, begging the reader to let him know if the Prince ever comes back.
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* ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls'': Sweeney Todd is caught and executed for his crimes, Mark and Johanna are reunited and married, and Fogg's Asylum is taken down. However, some hundreds of victims were killed and made into Mrs. Lovett's pies, and the poor citizens who used to frequent her shop will never look at pies the same again...
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* ''Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45'' by Creator/MaxHastings: The final chapter is called "The Bitter End." Defeating Nazi Germany needed to be done, but the author would like to remind you that the victory came at a huge cost in blood and treasure, and was not without moral compromise. Meanwhile, the people of Eastern Europe exchanged Nazi tyranny for Soviet tyranny.
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* ''Literature/TheGrandmother'': The Grandmother dies and is generally mourned by everyone whose lives she has touched. All the same, she has lived a fulfilled life and has left a lot of good behind her in the community.
