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* ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru'' Does this by having Hotori write a story, and then be hit by a truck while she is reading of her failure to get the story published. While there is still some humor in this episode, it still ultimately gets played in this way.

* The second season of ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai'' is particularly a victim of this. The maids and slice-of-life were abruptly destroyed by ACTION, FIGHTING, and other such things in the last couple episodes.

* The first season finale for ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''. A captain from a previous episode is ambushed by monstrous-looking frakensteined spaceships and her ship is destroyed with no survivors. The ''Cerritos'' nearly suffers the same fate but for Captain Freeman's quick thinking and she is severely injured. Shaxs dies in a HeroicSacrifice to save the ship and rips out Rutherford's implant in order to allow his escape, leaving Rutherford with no memories of the first season.

* The first season finale for ''WesternAnimation/LowerDecks''. A captain from a previous episode is ambushed by monstrous-looking frakensteined spaceships and her ship is destroyed with no survivors. The ''Cerritos'' nearly suffers the same fate but for Captain Freeman's quick thinking and she is severely injured. Shaxs dies in a HeroicSacrifice to save the ship and rips out Rutherford's implant in order to allow his escape, leaving Rutherford with no memories of the first season.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': While Season 3 was certainly the most intense season by that point, the season's major story-arcs had all but wrapped up (Cole and Phoebe being the sole exception) and the last few episodes had been meandering towards the end, when suddenly magic is exposed, Piper is ''shot dead'', time is reversed, Phoebe and Leo are trapped in the underworld and [[spoiler:Piper and Prue are stuck on the surface, grievously injured and ''without a healer''.]] Cut to credits.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' ends this way. It's a comedic series, though a few episodes near the end had a more serious tone, but the second to last episode ends with a huge bomb being dropped on the audience(and the main characters!) and the last episode is full of drama.

* ''Anime/{{Potemayo}}'' attempts to do this by revealing the back story of Sunao's mother in the second to last episode, as well as aming it seem that Potemayo and guchuko were dead in the final episode, although they turned out to be merely unconscious and recovered by the end of the last episode.
* ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru'' Does this by having hotori write a story, and then be hit by a truck while she is reading of her failure to get the story published. While there is still some humor in this episode, it still ultimately gets played in this way.

* ''881''. ({{Papaya}}). A comedy show, ends with one of the main characters (Who is terminally ill) succumbing to her disease.

* The last act of ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' has aspects of this, but it didn't come out of nowhere; the setup for the sudden attack of tragedy had clearly been building since the beginning. However, it was significantly aided by the usually Creator/JossWhedon [[DiabolusExMachina cruelty]].

* Creator/TatsuyamaSayuri's Manga/HappyHappyClover series is mostly lighthearted and fun but the series started taking a very serious tone starting in volume 4 and especially volume 5. The fifth volumes stories while still lighthearted start getting more serious until the grand finale where Rambler is trying to save the forest animals from an oncoming forest fire and Clover sacrifices her life to prevent the fire. She gets better though.

* The finale of each ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' season tends to drop an actual Drama bomb rather than the parody ones the series makes use of.
** ''Total Drama Drama Drama Island:'' Courtney crosses the MoralEventHorizon by actually threatening to let fellow campers die if they don't hand her the money, an angry Izzy leads Noah and Eva in a tirade against their ArchEnemy Justin, Courtney betrays Duncan for the money leading to some bitterness between them, Heather has a [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]] and ''Harold'' of all people helps her through it and alot of the characters show how incredibly determined they are to win the competition, making the fact that [[spoiler: only fourteen of them qualify for season two]] quite depressing to the fans.
** ''Celebrity Manhunts Total Drama Reunion Special:'' After ''Total Drama Action'' ends the campers find themselves lost without their celebrity status. So when they find out that Chris is premiering a new show called, "Total Drama Dirtbags" with an all-new cast, the original campers, feeling bitter and wanting their fame back [[MisfitMobilizationMoment set off together to sabotage the new cast.]] In a bus war in the middle of a desert.
* Season Two of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' ends with a two-parter "A Canterlot Wedding", which involves [[spoiler: an army of {{shapeshifting}} creatures invading Canterlot, easily defeating PhysicalGod Celestia and attempting to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over Equestria]].]]
** Season four finale, "Twilight's Kingdom" is just as "bad", maybe even more. [[spoiler: It includes [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Tirek]], who manipulates Discord, [[ManipulativeBastard MANIPULATIVE BASTARD]] BY HIS OWN RIGHTS, into becoming [[FaceHeelTurn evil again]]. Princesses have to get rid of their magic so Tirek wouldn't steal it, then he imprisons them AND Mane 5. While he is on it, Fluttershy has to watch Discord, her new friend, being Jerkass again, and we know how [[FragileFlower she]] takes things like that. Oh, and then Tirek [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betrays Discord]], who gets HeroicBSOD thanks to that. And there is epic battle between Twilight and Tirek and near TheBadGuyWins. Thankfully, it ended happily, BUT STILL!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' actually has a few:
** The "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E25MirrorGem Mirror Gem]]"/"[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E26OceanGem Ocean Gem]]" two-parter Season 1 finale: Steven ends up [[spoiler:setting a new (and seemingly ''extremely powerful'') Gem named Lapis Lazuli free. It's revealed that Gems fought each other all the time; the various monsters fought over the course of the series are confirmed to be Gems that have become "Corrupted", and Steven [[TookALevelInBadass appears to have more control summoning his shield]].]]
** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E24IAmMyMom I Am My Mom]]", the Season 4 finale: [[spoiler:The Crystal Gems reason that the Diamonds must have sent Aquamarine and Topaz personally (presumably for the human zoo). Aquamarine reveals that her and Topaz were sent to collect [[CerebusCallBack the humans Steven mentioned to Peridot all the way back in "Marble Madness", causing him immense guilt.]] When Aquamarine threatens to kill the captives if "My Dad" is not handed over, Steven "reveals" it to be him and hands himself in. He manages to free everyone aboard the ship, Alexandrite stops it from going too far, and the captives (except Lars) escape, only for Aqua to freeze both Alexandrite and the escapees in place. How does it end? [[HeroicSacrifice Steven reveals his gem, declaring himself to be Rose Quartz, and goes with the invaders to Homeworld as a sacrifice in order to free the others and to try and make amends for his and his mother's mistakes]], ending on the ship warping away with him and Lars inside as [[SayMyName Connie screams out for Steven.]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Part 1 of the Season 1 finale, and is certainly downhill especially since it's right after [[Recap/Ducktales2017S1E22TheLastCrashOfTheSunchaser Last Crash of the Sunchaser]].

* The finale of each ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' season tends to drop an actual Drama bomb rather than the parody ones the series makes use of.

** Averted come season five, which ends with Jake and Amy tying the knot. The sole cliffhanger is whether or not Holt got the commissioner position.

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' is generally a low-stakes comedy, but ''every'' season finale has ended on a more serious note.
** Season one: Jake leaves on an undercover mission, and the risk this presents prompts him to finally admit his feelings to Amy. This is resolved fairly quickly the next season.

** Season four: [[spoiler: Jake and Rosa are framed for bank robbery and *convicted*.]]

* The VisualNovel ''Heart De Roommate'' is for the most a fluffy slice of life comedy with the odd burst of drama for flavour, generally kept upbeat even through the more serious second half of the game by the cheerful, quirky characters. Then you get to the downright dark finale, featuring an honestly suicidal new character with a very dark backstory and a nasty NonStandardGameOver for the incautious. The [[ClassReunion epilogue]] on the other hand is a straight BittersweetEnding, actually made all the more effective by the [[GrowingUpSucks previous happiness.]]
* ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}'' spends most of the game being a quirky, silly, absurdist take on [=RPG=]s with a generally [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism idealistic]] tone, but in the final area of the game, [[spoiler:the game drops all humour, transfers the party's conciousnesses into robots, and sends you into a cavern in the past to destroy a monster before it can destroy the world.]]

*''CtrlAltDel'' ends with one in the [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20121124 "Endings... And Beginnings"]] strip, which was entirely serious.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': While Season 3 was certainly the most intense season by that point, the season's major story-arcs had all but wrapped up (Cole and Phoebe being the sole exception) and the last few episodes had been meandering towards the end, when suddenly magic is exposed, Piper is ''shot dead'', time is reversed, Phoebe and Leo are trapped in the underworld and [[spoiler:Piper and Prue are stuck on the surface, grievously injured and ''without a healer'']]. Cut to credits.

* ''SchoolRumble'' [[spoiler: Yakumo & Karasuma]] in particular.

* The ''RozenMaiden'' anime is a ''huge'' culprit of this. After spending the majority of the show switching between lighthearted comedy and action-filled drama, [[spoiler:Souseiseki decides to stop playing around and to win the Alice Game, but instead gets killed off by Suigintou in the process. This in turn triggers Hinaichigo's death in the following episode, clearly cementing that playtime is ''over'' in the anime, and the remaining dolls spend the final two episodes duking out in an ''extremely'' drama-filled FinalBattle]]. And the worst part is that the ending leaves a lot of openings for another season.

* ''Manga/DokidokiSchoolHours'' ends with the realization that Mika might not be teaching anymore due to marriage...though falls on its face after the meeting.

* Episode 24 of ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' sets one up, with the segment "Letter" being about almost all of the Matsuno brothers quitting their {{NEET}} lifestyle and moving out of their parents' house one by one to get jobs...except for Osomatsu himself, who stays behind and is clearly broken up about his brothers leaving. Then episode 25 [[spoiler:completely averts this when Osomatsu gets an invitation to play a baseball game and the rest of the brothers immediately quit their jobs in order to participate, returning to the show's usual comedy. This is a GagSeries, after all]].

*''CtrlAltDel'' ends with one in the [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20121124 "Endings...And Beginnings"]] strip, which was entirely serious.

* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' does this ''twice.'' The first game is mostly an extremely silly dating sim involving birds, then you unlock the true ending "bad boy's love" route [[spoiler:which opens with the ''dismemberment'' of the former protagonist and ''ends'' with an attempted genocide.]] Then comes the sequel, which is two silly, light-hearted chapters, one rather surreal chapter, and then [[spoiler:the entire cast being imprisoned in the afterlife and nearly forced into an AssimilationPlot by the vengeful spirit of a bird murdered by one of the love interests.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' can be summed up as: "Alright guys, let's PARTY!" [[spoiler: WHEN SUDDENLY, MECHANICAL ABOMINATION THAT CAN FREEZE TIME]]

* [[TheMovie The finale]] of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has one of Eddy's scams backfire and seriously injure the neighborhood kids to the point the kids muster up the guts to kill the Eds. It also shows [[spoiler: Eddy's older brother routinely abusing him, and the movie ends with the Eds finally being accepted by the other kids, with no SnapBack or ResetButton or anything.]]

* [[TheMovie The finale]] of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has one of Eddy's scams backfire and seriously injure the neighborhood kids. It also shows [[spoiler: Eddy's older brother routinely abusing him, and the movie ends with the Eds finally being accepted by the other kids, with no SnapBack or ResetButton or anything.]]

** ''Celebrity Manhunts Total Drama Reunion Special:'' After ''Total Drama Action'' ends the campers find themselves lost without their celebrity status. So when they find out that Chris is premiering a new show called, "Total Drama Dirtbags" with an all-new cast, the original campers, feeling bitter and wanting their fame back [[MisfitMobilizationMoment set off together to sabotage the new cast.]] In a bus war in the middle of a desert. Let's just say there's a reason this entire episode's listed as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

** Season four finale, "Twilight's Kingdom" is just as "bad", maybe even more. [[spoiler: It includes [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Tirek]], who manipulates Discord, [[ManipulativeBastard MANIPULATIVE BASTARD]] BY HIS OWN RIGHTS, into becoming [[FaceHeelTurn evil again]]. Princesses have to get rid of their magic so Tirek wouldn't steal it, then he imprisons them AND Mane 5. While he is on it, Fluttershy has to watch Discord, her new friend, being Jerkass again, and we know how [[FragileFlower she]] takes things like that. Oh, and then Tirek [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betrays Discord]], who gets HeroicBSOD thanks to that. And there is [[AwesomeMoments epic battle]] between Twilight and Tirek and near TheBadGuyWins. Thankfully, it ended happily, BUT STILL!]]