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* The end of the awful ''VideoGame/LimboOfTheLost'' features this, as well as a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment huge song moment]].

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': Anakin's shade is standing, smiling-- albeit reticently-- with Obi-Wan and Yoda.

Closely related to DancePartyEnding, SuddenMusicalEnding, and ClimacticBattleResurrection. For more metaphorical fantasy party sequences, see LovedOnesMontage.

* The end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' has everyone in the film come back to the swamp for Shrek and Fiona's wedding. Cue karaoke and a great party. Though it happens for real in-universe and most of the attendees are not unexpected (and see Shrek as a hero), Lord Farquaad joins in the karaoke from Dragon's stomach. Similarly, the Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming are both at the end party in ''Shrek 2'', despite being the main antagonists.

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* ''AbreLosOjos'': It takes place inside a man who's in a sleeping virtual reality simulation, so it's not surprising his best friend and girlfriend appear once again. Since 150 years have passed while the man is in stasis, they're long dead and won't be around when he's awakened.

* In ''Theatre/MackAndMabel'', Mack Sennett narrates in the last scene that Creator/MabelNormand died on September 23, 1930, but the show doesn't end there (at least with the RevisedEnding first used in the 1976 national tour). Rather than a true-to-life DownerEnding, he presents an ending worthy of a Mack Sennett film, bringing back all his friends for a big slapstick wedding ceremony where, with a SquirtingFlower in his lapel, he puts a ring on Mabel's finger and the preacher gets a PieInTheFace.

* At the end of ''Wolves of Kromer'' all the characters who died dance together over the credits to "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Spirit in the Sky]]."

* Anyone in ''Literature/BridgeOfBirds'' who wasn't a villain shows up under the titular bridge of birds. The ghosts of everyone appear including Miser Shen, his family, Henpecked Ho, his concubine, her lover and the three handmaidens. In a bizarrely SugarWiki/{{heartwarming moment|s}} the living Doctor Death is suddenly killed by a giant bird, only to be reunited with his late wife.

* A very elaborate one happens in TheStinger of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'': Menendez and Woods provide, respectively, guitar and drums for Music/AvengedSevenfold as they play their song "Carry On" to the crowd of characters headbanging in Club Solar. It's about as [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] as you'd expect.

* In ''Theatre/MackAndMabel'', Mack Sennett narrates in the last scene that Creator/MabelNormand died on September 23, 1930, but the show doesn't end there (at least with the RevisedEnding first used in the 1976 national tour). Rather than a true-to-life DownerEnding, he presents an ending worthy of a Mack Sennett film, bringing back all his friends for a big slapstick wedding ceremony where he puts a ring on Mabel's finger and the preacher gets a PieInTheFace.

* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/DeconstructingHarry'': Characters from Harry's books and real people from his life all mingle, with music provided by the StarWars Barmitzvah band from one of his stories, playing "I Could Write a Book.

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* A very elaborate one happens in TheStinger of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'': Menendez and Woods provide, respectively, guitar and drums for Music/AvengedSevenfold as they play their song "Carry On" to the crowd of characters headbanging in Club Solar. It's about as [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] as you'd expect.

* In ''Theatre/MackAndMabel'', Mack Sennett narrates in the last scene that Mabel Normand died on September 23, 1930, but the show doesn't end there (at least with the RevisedEnding first used in the 1976 national tour). Rather than a true-to-life DownerEnding, he presents an ending worthy of a Mack Sennett film, bringing back all his friends for a big slapstick wedding ceremony where he puts a ring on Mabel's finger and the preacher gets a PieInTheFace.

* The "Confused" ending of ''TheWhiteChamber''.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' subverts this ''hard'' with the sequence called "Tea Party" after the end of Episode 1. It starts as a cheerful conversation between several characters (some of whom supposedly died during the episode) where they wonder [[AnyoneCanDie who killed everyone and how]] with a cup of tea. But as it goes on the mood becomes increasingly heavy and serious, until [[CardCarryingVillain the Golden Witch Beatrice]] appears and kills the victims all over again, claiming that she commited the murders with magic. From that point on, the hero Battler (and the reader) [[FairPlayWhoDunnit will have to prove her wrong.]]

* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC ''Citadel'' ends in one of these, with all living party members capable of being invited to a big party thrown by Commander Shepard. Characters killed in the course of ME3 are also included in the DLC posthumously, since as ME3's final piece of content, it's considered the series' farewell.

* Mocked at the end of ''Film/KissKissBangBang'', when Harry the GenreSavvy narrator points out how corny it is that Perry, who got shot in the chest, is now "magically alive, on crutches; I mean fuck, why not bring 'em all back?" -- while in the background, all the dead characters walk into the room, followed by Lincoln and Elvis, until a nurse shoves them back out.

* The end of the awful ''LimboOfTheLost'' features this, as well as a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment huge song moment]].

* The 2004 Film ''Casshern'' has the entire cast - including the villains - come back for a dance party/picnic which is oddly appropriate since it is implied that not only are they all dead and in heaven, but that they are reincarnated souls that have just finished another tour.

* LesMiserables has the entire cast come back at the end to sing "Do You Hear The People Sing?", even the ones who have died which is most of them, if not all.

* The ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'' novel Under a Velvet Cloak ends with this exact type of scene with all of the Incarnations as well as quite a few other significant characters, even those from the other timeline. Interestingly, it is Justified since the special scene is created by the new Incarnation of Dreams

* In ''Theatre/MackAndMabel'' (at least in some versions), the show doesn't end with Mack Sennett narrating that Mabel Normand died on September 23, 1930. Rather than a true-to-life DownerEnding, he presents an ending worthy of a Mack Sennett film, bringing back all his friends for a big slapstick wedding ceremony where he puts a ring on Mabel's finger and the preacher gets a PieInTheFace.

* The IncarnationsOfImmortality novel Under a Velvet Cloak ends with this exact type of scene with all of the Incarnations as well as quite a few other significant characters, even those from the other timeline. Interestingly, it is Justified since the special scene is created by the new Incarnation of Dreams

* The finale of ''FushigiYuugi'' has both their families and the Suzaku Seven attending Miaka and Tamahome's wedding in the real world as a supernatural ImagineSpot aided by the souls of the dead, among whom can at that point be counted Tamahome's entire family and most of the Suzaku Seven, to save Miaka from the despair Suzaku is using to consume her as a sacrifice.
* The end of the {{Hot Springs|Episode}} {{OVA}} for ''IkkiTousen: Dragon Destiny'' had all the female Fighters, living and dead, relaxing around a hot spring.

* The end of the ''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack]]'' series, where everyone from the four-part PS2 series is having a party. Sora, realizing how much of a jerk he's been, is sitting off to the side and crying, because he knows full well that no one would want him around, and rightfully so. But someone invites him in anyway, and good times are had by all.

** ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'''s first Tea Party was basically a parody of this, as it's NOT a 'meta thing', it's part of the main plot.