History Main / HereWeGoAgain

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': After [[spoiler: Missingno]] is convinced to kill itself and everything is back to what passes for normal in a Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses show, WebVideo/ThatDudeInTheSuede is seen playing [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red]], [[spoiler:in the process of enacting the Old Man Glitch in order to spawn Missingno.]].

* Happens often in the [[Literature/{{Goosebumps}}]] series:

* Happens often in the [[Literature:Goosebumps]] series:

* Happens often in the Literature:{{Goosebumps}} series:

* Happens often in the [[Literature:{{Goosebumps}}]] series:

Compare with AndTheAdventureContinues, TheEndOrIsIt, HistoryRepeats, LastSecondJokeProblem, and EternalRecurrence, which does this to the entire [[TheVerse 'verse]]. Opposite of WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain, where the hero refuses to set off on another adventure. Can inspire an "Oh, No... Not Again!" from an exasperated character. If a particularly negative Here We Go Again moment is subverted, that's a type of ShockAndSwitchEnding.

** In-Universe example in ''Scrooge McDuck'' story "ComicBook/OnlyAPoorOldMan" by Creator/CarlBarks. Scrooge enlists his nephews to move his money to a secret location when the Beagle Boys start preparing to launch a heist. (This was [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness eaaaarly Scrooge [=McDuck=], who kept his money in the city and not on a private hill]].) After the money is moved, Scrooge is comforted by the thought of his fortune safe...until he learns that the Beagle Boys know about the hiding place. Scrooge once again enlists his nephews for the fight, and Huey, Dewey and Louie sing, "Once more around on the merry-go-round..." as they head off into battle.

* An ''in-universe'' example from the [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] story ''Only A Poor Old Man'' by Creator/CarlBarks. Scrooge enlists his nephews to move his money to a secret location when the Beagle Boys start preparing to launch a heist. (This was [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness eaaaarly Scrooge [=McDuck=], who kept his money in the city and not on a private hill]].) After the money is moved, Scrooge is comforted by the thought of his fortune safe...until he learns that the Beagle Boys know about the hiding place. Scrooge once again enlists his nephews for the fight, and Huey, Dewey and Louie sing, "Once more around on the merry-go-round..." as they head off into battle.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' run ends with all the new members added during the run written out of the team, leaving the core seven back in place. Then a distress call comes in about a supervillain threat, and the League heads off to deal with him.

* ''[[ComicBook/MarvelNow Marvel: NOW]] [[AffectionateParody What?!]]'' has the story ''Intervention'', about the other watchers staging an intervention for Uatu, who they claim is addicted to intervening in human matters ([[YoYoPlotPoint they're not exactly wrong]]). However, after Uatu is cured, he points out what they just did is, well, [[ShapedLikeItself an intervention]]. The story ends with Uatu being the one making an intervention for the other watchers.
* The original run of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' ends with the rise of a new Dream, but also with Dream looking out upon and recreating his kingdom, which was a common theme in the beginning of the series.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon''. [[spoiler: In the end, American President Luthor outwits and defeats Superman's global communist takeover and ushers in a new era of peace, prosperity, and technological mastery for mankind. For a billion years, Luthor's line of descendants helps make humanity the most advanced species in the known Universe. Eventually, as the Earth ages and the Sun dims to an angry red, Luthor's great-grandson to the power fifty, Jor-L, discovers that the Earth is in imminent danger of being destroyed. His warnings ignored, he launches his only son Kal-L in a tiny rocket back in time to prevent the cold complacency of his society.]]

* At the end of the ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' story "... And be a Bride of Chaos" a looter comes across a coffin and is tempted to lie in it... [[spoiler:which was how Dracula {{Body Surf}}ed his way between hosts.]]
* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': V rescues/kidnaps someone and brings them to the Shadow Gallery.

* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': At the end of “Miss Skinner’s Wig!”, Angela realises that Miss Skinner doesn’t wear a wig, but now she thinks that Mr. Weakly does.

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* One ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' arc saw Jason attempt to shed his usual geeky habits after [[GirlsHaveCooties reading an article that said that girls are more attracted to nerds]]. At the end, he concedes that he can't change who he is and goes back to his regular personality...and then he lets it slip that [[CasanovaWannabe Peter]] read the same article.
-->'''Andy:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Peter read the article, also?]]\\
'''Jason:''' Yeah, why?\\
'''Peter:''' Jason, let's go! [[Film/BatmanBegins The movie]] starts in two hours!
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The idea is that the events that led to the story are going to lead to a very similar story. If the story ends up back in the same place but the situation has changed, that's WhereItAllBegan. If the story starts and ends with similar scenes for dramatic irony or resolution, then that's [[BookEnds Bookends]].

Compare with AndTheAdventureContinues, TheEndOrIsIt, HistoryRepeats, and EternalRecurrence, which does this to the entire [[TheVerse 'verse]]. Opposite of WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain, where the hero refuses to set off on another adventure. Can inspire an "Oh, No... Not Again!" from an exasperated character. If a particularly negative Here We Go Again moment is subverted, that's a type of ShockAndSwitchEnding.

* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': V rescues/kidnaps someone and brings them to the Shadow Gallery.
* The original run of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' ends with the rise of a new Dream, but also with Dream looking out upon and recreating his kingdom, which was a common theme in the beginning of the series.
* ''[[ComicBook/MarvelNow Marvel: NOW]] [[AffectionateParody What?!]]'' has the story ''Intervention'', about the other watchers staging an intervention for Uatu, who they claim is addicted to intervening in human matters ([[YoYoPlotPoint they're not exactly wrong]]). However, after Uatu is cured, he points out what they just did is, well, [[ShapedLikeItself an intervention]]. The story ends with Uatu being the one making an intervention for the other watchers.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon''. [[spoiler: In the end, American President Luthor outwits and defeats Superman's global communist takeover and ushers in a new era of peace, prosperity, and technological mastery for mankind. For a billion years, Luthor's line of descendants helps make humanity the most advanced species in the known Universe. Eventually, as the Earth ages and the Sun dims to an angry red, Luthor's great-grandson to the power fifty, Jor-L, discovers that the Earth is in imminent danger of being destroyed. His warnings ignored, he launches his only son Kal-L in a tiny rocket back in time to prevent the cold complacency of his society.]]
* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' run ends with all the new members added during the run written out of the team, leaving the core seven back in place. Then a distress call comes in about a supervillain threat, and the League heads off to deal with him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' starts and ends with the three Bone cousins journeying through the desert, with Phoney and Smiley getting into almost the exact same argument both times.

* At the end of the ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' story "... And be a Bride of Chaos" a looter comes across a coffin and is tempted to lie in it... [[spoiler:which was how Dracula {{Body Surf}}ed his way between hosts.]]
* Issue 6 of ''ComicBook/TheBadEggs'' ends with Ript and Claude having to find more ingredients to stop the forest from flooding due to the seemingly endless rain. This happens directly after they spent the entire issue finding ingredients to ''make it rain'' so they could stop a drought.

* ''Bruchbach Serenade'''s take on Myth/{{Faust}} ends with Mephisto offering [[DealWithTheDevil a new deal]] to Gretchen.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'':
** "Devil's Trumpet" is about a jazz musician's obsessive quest for a legendary instrument that he believes will make him the best player in the world, which ends in murder and an encounter with the Batman. The story begins with the obsessed musician discussing the legend of the trumpet with an old bluesman, and ends with the same old bluesman having a very similar conversation with a new character, implying that somebody else is now on the same quest.
** "Night After Night" begins with Bruce waking from a dream about his parents' death to a spokesman on the news claiming that there's no way the Joker will escape from imprisonment this time. The Joker escapes, and Batman recaptures him. The story ends with Bruce turning off a news report of the same spokesman claiming that the Joker's definitely not going to escape this time, and going to bed where he has the same dream.

* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': In the prologue, two main characters get ready to fight {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. In the final scene, [[spoiler:Maya and Ritsuko]] get ready to fight a new set of cosmic horrors who menace humanity again.
* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': While still early in the second sequel, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', this is Twilight's reaction at the end of chapter 5 when Discord tells her that something odd involving magical disturbances is going on in a small settlement, and advises she and her friends to check it out as soon as possible.
* Heavily implied by the ending of ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' Historically, it took less than two decades for the Sima princes to start fighting for the throne.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FragileHandleWithCare'' ends with Tae-young feeling better, only for Jesse to now have a cold instead.

* Creator/StephenKing's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series uses this as well. The final book ends with [[spoiler:Roland making it to the top of the tower, and finding himself in the desert following the man in black - and it isn't the first time he's been sent back to the beginning. There's an ambiguous clue that he might change things this time around, though.]]
* Another King instance in ''Literature/NeedfulThings'', which starts with a narrator talking to the reader about the new store coming into town and telling us a bit about the town, and ends likewise in a different town.
* "Literature/TheNothingEquation": The story ends with Green cracking from paranoia and being replaced by another scientist, Larkin, who is likewise convinced that the same thing won't happen to him.

* ''Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie'', arguably Laura Numeroff's most famous work, begins with the mouse being given a cookie, and asking for various other favors until the end, where he wants a cookie again. Numeroff herself described it as a "circular story."
** Several of Numeroff's other books follow the same pattern, either with the same mouse (''If You Take a Mouse to the Movies'') or with other animals (''If You Give a Pig a Pancake'', ''If You Give a Moose a Muffin'').
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%% * Robert Cormier's ''I Am The Cheese''
* E.R. Eddison's ''Literature/TheWormOuroboros'' begins and ends with the Witchland declaring war against the Demonland, the country ruled by the main characters.
* WordOfGod says that this is the basic premise of Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, although the series only depicts one Age rather than a full turn of the Wheel.
* The epilogue of ''The Aldous Lexicon'' ends by describing events like those which began the books, with [[GenerationXerox Naia's child]] in place of Alaric/Naia, and a collage made by Naia replacing the sculpture by Alaric's mother. Which raises the question of whether Naia's mother had known about the other worlds, among other things.

* In-universe example: The Literature/{{Dragaera}} novels are set in an empire governed in accordance with the Cycle, a system by which each of the 17 Houses rules in turn. The compiled editions of the Vlad Taltos books open with an in-universe poem to illustrate this, that gives every House a line in order, both starting and ending with the House of the Phoenix.

* In the epilogue of ''Literature/{{Replay}}'', the GroundhogDayLoop is happening to someone new, but his replay date is when Jeff's end date was.
* The Walter de la Mare poem "Sam's Three Wishes, or Life's Little Whirligig" ends with Sam in the exact same situation he was at the beginning, and contains some great FridgeBrilliance if you're willing to start the poem all over again.
* The first three ''Vernon Bright'' books end like this.
** In the first book Bright de-magnetizes himself only to discover he's become electrically charged.
** The second ends with their "Faster Than Light Machine" [[MesACrowd creating infinite Bright's]]
** The third has ''two''. Bright's father has to go and stop a meteor crashing into the planet and destroying all life on Earth and at the same time the gravity machine has inverted and is creating a miniature black hole.
** The fourth book is different because John realizes that the "Frankenstein's Hamster" ''could'' just be hibernating...
* Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore's ''Vernon Bright'' books for children always ended with the main characters solving the problem they'd been facing - by creating a very similar, different one.
* In the short story "Devil's Marauders" from the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' anthology book ''Deathwing'', a squad of soldiers fight their way through a hostile jungle sector to reach an evacuation point before they are bombarded. Once the remnants of the said squadron reach their destination, they learn that the area has been compromised and the evacuation point has been moved, and they have to fight through another area.

* ''Literature/TimeTo'': "Time to Pee!" ends with "At least, until you get that feeling again."

* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf'':
** ''Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares'': ''Death's Door'' ends with the kids, having narrowly escaped an early death, learning that Death is going to try again the next day.
** ''Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts II'': ''A Cry in the Night'' ends with two young sisters falling for the same trick that a horrific ghost initially used to capture and kill the protagonist.

* The children's favorite, "The Song That Never Ends" (aka "The Song That Doesn't End").

* "Where Have All the Flowers Gone". The flowers have gone to young girls, who have gone to young men, who have gone to be soldiers, who have gone to graveyards, which have gone to flowers...
* A variation of this is in Snow Patrol's music video for "Chocolate". The entire video revolves around people panicking while an hourglass and digital timer count down to 0. When it gets there, everybody huddles down, only for nothing to happen. The singer walks up and flips the hourglass over, which causes the timer to reset and the panic to resume.

* [[http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player/-/pgpv/videoplayer/0/08399829-dc15-4f3c-a263-5d4b31c1484c/there_s_a_hole_in_the_bucket "There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza..."]]
* The Music/FlandersAndSwann song "The Gasman Cometh" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOA_SUKEZRE utilizes this]].
* Music/TaylorSwift seems to be very fond of this.
* Music/AliceCooper's ConceptAlbum ''Along Came a Spider'' does this. The prologue begins with "We found his diary today", and the epilogue begins with "They found my diary today". A close listening reveals that the events keep on repeating themselves.
* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s album ''OK Computer'' does this. The first song, "Airbag", describes the aftermath of a car crash. The last song, "The Tourist", features the lines "They ask me where the hell I'm going / at a 1000 feet per second" and "Hey man, slow down / Hey idiot, slow down", suggesting an imminent car crash.
* Music/PinkFloyd's RockOpera ''Music/TheWall'' begins with, at the very first second, Pink saying "we came in?". The very last song cuts off with Pink saying "Isn't this where". Note that the background music in both the last song and the beginning of the first one is the same. So if you play the whole album on a loop, it will be seamless. May be inspired by ''Literature/FinnegansWake'' above. The Floyd did this earlier with the heartbeat sound effect (actually a treated bass drum) on ''The Dark Side of the Moon''.
* Almost identical to the Coldplay example, the AFI album ''Sing The Sorrow'' has a hidden track called [[TearJerker This Time Imperfect]] whose ending (deliberately-inserted static) blends seamlessly into the beginning.

* Music/{{Cher}}'s "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" has the daughter winding up repeating the mother's life.
* In Music/DreamTheater's 24-minute epic "Octavarium," the entire theme is coming full circle. In the second section, for example, the narrator wakes up from a 30-year coma. [[spoiler:By the end, he has fallen back into the coma.]]
** The entire album Octavarium is an example of this. Track 1, The root of all evil begins with wavering synthesizer. Octavarium, the final track, ends in the same way.
* "All Along the Watchtower" by Music/BobDylan has "Two Riders were approaching" as the second-to-last line. This (likely) refers to the Joker and Thief who are quoted at the beginning of the song.
* Music/{{Whitesnake}} has a song all about this:
--> "Here I go, again on my own..."
* The album BE by Pain of Salvation opens with the birth of a god, the first track beginning with heartbeats and [[spoiler: faint whispers of the line "I'm at the line, I see it all." This same line appears in its original form in the second to last song as a space probe begins to gain sentience. The final track begins identically to the first, implying that it an endless loop similar to that in "The Last Question" by Creator/IsaacAsimov.]]
* Music/{{Terrorvision}}'s "How to Make Friends and Influence People" has the same "Tick... Tock... " at the beginning and the end.

* Many video game soundtracks tend to loop, so guess this counts.
* Music/BowlingForSoup's song "Highschool Never Ends" includes the line 'And here we go again' when listing a few things on how adult life has people in it still acting the way they did in highschool.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "I Lost on ''Jeopardy!''" ends with:
-->"Well, I don't know what I was thinking \\
I guess it just wasn't my night \\
Well, I sure hope I do better \\
Next weekend on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''
* In the video for the Music/FooFighters song "Monkey Wrench", [[ItMakesSenseInContext Dave and the band find an apparent group of their clones singing the song in his apartment]]. Eventually, they get in to find them running away. So they finish the song, however, we pan out of the apartment to see another group of clones looking inside, wondering what's going on.
* Towards the beginning of the video for Music/TomPetty's "Into the Great Wide Open", Eddie (Creator/JohnnyDepp) gets a heart-shaped tattoo in his rise to fame as a rock star. In the end, after his fall from fame, he returns to the same tattoo parlor where he finds another man (Creator/MattLeBlanc) getting a heart-shaped tattoo, who'll presumably rise and fall from fame as a rock star like he did.
* Perhaps inspired by ''Literature/FinnegansWake'' above, the last word sung on Music/JoannaNewsom's ''Divers'' is the first syllable of the word "transcending", and the first word on the album is "sending".
* NRBQ's "It Was a [''sic''] Accident". Guy and girl impulsively have sex, then they're terrified that she's gotten pregnant. They learn she isn't pregnant, they celebrate and end up impulsively having sex again.
* ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'':
** The video for "Shape Shifter" involves an app on a tablet computer [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext transporting a girl and her boyfriend to the studio of an indie rock band, who turn their heads into various objects for their own amusement]]. The two escape back to their home and close the portal by deleting the app, but as the video ends it shows malware causing the app to reinstall itself...
** The video for "I'll Be Haunting You" has a guy fall off a ladder and [[ChessWithDeath challenge death to a game of ping-pong for his life]]. He wins, but the video ends with the guy getting hit by a falling toolbox, and having a re-match with Death in the more traditional game of chess.
* Happens in the [[BannedEpisode nigh-universally banned]] music video for Music/NineInchNails' 'Happiness in Slavery'. A nameless man enters a room with an altar and machine and performs some sort of ritual before [[spoiler:being brutally tortured to death by the machine]]. The video ends just as Trent enters the room and performs the same ritual [[spoiler:implying that he's going to meet the same gorey fate as the other man]].

* Music/DonnaSummer's ConceptAlbum ''Four Seasons of Love'' follows a romance through the four seasons, from its beginning in "Spring Affair" to its end in "Winter Melody". Then the cycle starts all over again with the final track, a reprise of "Spring Affair".
* The song "Stargazer" by Music/{{Rainbow}} is a HeavyMithril anthem about a wizard who enslaves people to build him a tower from which he can fly to reach a star in the sky, only for him to fall and die in the attempt to launch himself from the completed spire. The following song, album closer "A Light in the Black", is about the despair of one of the wizard's slaves, who laments all the years lost on the pointless task. However, during the song's BigRockEnding:
--> ''Look to the sky''\\
''There, in the sky''\\
''I see a star!''

** At end of the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syj3dYJvHUQ "I heard my Dog Bark."]], the dog barks again and wakes up all the other pets in the house.

** The A-plot of ''Series/ChristmasEveOnSesameStreet'' is kickstarted when Oscar asks Big Bird how Santa Claus can fit down a skinny chimney, as if Santa can't, the presents won't be delivered on Christmas Eve. Big Bird decides to stay up all night in the cold to find out. He falls asleep and misses seeing Santa, but the presents still get delivered anyway. When Big Bird finds out, Oscar asks him how the Easter Bunny hides his eggs in one night, much to Maria's annoyance.

%%* The main plot of ''Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell'' kicks of when Helena's allowed by the king to choose any husband she likes. At the end of the play, Diana's reward for her kindness towards Helena is the king's permission to choose a husband.

* One work-safe Imbapovi video starts with [[{{Music/Vocaloid}} Miku]] finishing to vacuum her apartment room, then she notices the reverse button and the box of balloons she had received, so she removes the broom. She proceeds to have fun inflating to pop the giant balloons, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome until she notices that her room is covered with pieces of them]]. It ends with Miku preparing to clean it up all over again, to her dismay.
* ''WebAnimation/OllieAndScoops'': In "Gimme a Hand," Scoops goes to Dr. Toodles to get (large, disturbing) human hands grafted over his paws. The hands come to life and jump off of Scoops' paws, terrorizing Catlifornia. Ollie and Scoops defeat the hands, only for the audience to learn immediately after that [[spoiler:Dr. Toodles has put another pair of hands on himself.]]

* The final installment of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' sees the date, which has been June 19th for the past six episodes, switching to June 20th. Besides that and the colors of the main characters, the entire scene is the same as the first episode, and it abruptly ends after the first line of the song from the original ''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared'', implying the series will repeat itself.

* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', V rescues/kidnaps someone and brings them to the Shadow Gallery.
* The original run of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' ended with the rise of a new Dream, but also with Dream looking out upon and recreating his kingdom, which was a common theme in the beginning of the series.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Franchise/{{J|usticeLeagueOfAmerica}}LA'' run ends with all the new members added during the run written out of the team, leaving the core seven back in place. Then a distress call comes in about a supervillain threat, and the League heads off to deal with him.

* ''Theatre/AGentlemansGuideToLoveAndMurder'': Monty has [[spoiler: murdered his way]] to being the Earl of D'Ysquith, and appears to walk away with [[KarmaHoudini no consequences]] and [[spoiler: with both the women he loves]] In the finale, the jailor Chauncey, who is also a D'Ysquith with a BlackSheep disinherited parent like Monty, is heard singing "I am standing here with poison in me pocket" before the final "this is not the end" is finished being sung by the rest of the cast.

* ''Theatre/AGentlemansGuideToLoveAndMurder'': In the finale, the jailor Chauncey, who is also a D'Ysquith with a BlackSheep disinherited parent like Monty, is heard singing "I am standing here with poison in me pocket" before the final "this is not the end" is finished being sung by the rest of the cast.

* ''Theatre/TheSkinOfOurTeeth'' by Thornton Wilder, ends with Sabina coming out onstage, acting out her first scene of the show. She then stops and tells the audience that the play hasn't been finished yet, and they can go home whenever they like, with the implication that the play-within-a-play is on an infinite loop. This is itself meant to symbolize how human history keeps repeating itself, and that most things don't change in the long run.
* ''Theatre/OnTheTown'': Chip, Ozzie and Gabey's twenty-four hours are up, and they return to the ship... but three new sailors get off the ship on ''their'' shore leave, singing "New York, New York." (The ending of the film version is the same, and the ballet the musical was modeled on, ''Fancy Free'', had a very similar ending, with the exuberant opening music of "Enter Three Sailors" making a sudden return.)
* Woody Allen's play ''Theatre/{{God}}'' ends with the two leads repeating their opening lines, which are complaining about the play not having an ending.

* ''Theatre/AnInspectorCalls'' begins with the titular inspector visiting the upper-class Birling family to interrogate them about the death of a young working-class woman, gradually revealing that each of them was partly responsible for her eventual suicide. At the end, [[spoiler:it is revealed that the inspector who visited them was not a real policeman. The double-twist comes when Mr Birling receives a phone call telling him that the girl's suicide really ''is'' being investigated, and an inspector will be sent round to ask some questions.]]

* The main plot ''Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell'' starts with Helena curing the King of France, being offered the hand of any nobleman she likes in reward, and having Bertram, who she chooses, reject her. At the end of the play, she's managed to win him back with the help of Diana; when she tells the story to the King, he says ''Diana'' can have the hand of any nobleman she likes as a reward for helping Helena...

* ''Theatre/TheBaldSoprano'' opens with Mr. and Mrs. Smith having a conversation alone on stage before their maid enters to announce the arrival of their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Martin. It ends with Mr. and Mrs. Martin alone on stage, at which point they segue into the same conversation Mr. and Mrs. Smith were having at the beginning.
* In ''Theatre/SummerOfTheSeventeenthDoll'', Olive is in a long-standing informal relationship with Roo, who comes to town each summer to spend the money he saves up working the rest of the year up north as a cane-cutter. Over the course of the play, they have to face up to the fact that their arrangement can't last indefinitely and sooner or later they will have to either settle down to a steadier lifestyle or fall apart entirely. Near the end of the play, their young friend Kathie, oblivious to the troubled waters their relationship is in, heads out on a date with a cane-cutter her age, hoping it will be the start of a relationship like theirs.

* Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' ends with Utterson looking thoughtfully at a copy of Jekyll's lab notes while the Greek chorus tempts him to try the formula out himself.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', Kurumi's introductory chapter ends with her craving yet ''another'' kind of Japanese food.
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': One arc begins with [[CloudCuckoolander Osaka]] getting the hiccups and everyone trying to cure it with various CommonKnowledge remedies. The arc ends with Osaka's hiccups going away... and [[ChildProdigy Chiyo]] getting them instead.
* One ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case involves Conan, Doctor Agasa, and the Junior Detective League looking for missing member Mitch. They eventually discover that he had gotten lost in a forest in search of a firefly that he wanted to show them to impress them. At the end of the case a few days later, Conan is peeved when the other JDL members mention wanting to investigate rumored sightings of ''another'' creature out in the wilderness -- this time, a {{tsuchinoko}}.
* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': The "Influenza" episode ends with the white blood cells taking out the Influenza B virus infection, only for [[EvilEvolves an Influenza A virus]] to show up and curb-stomp the Effector T Cell, requiring the exhausted cells to come up with a new strategy in a hurry.
* In ''Manga/CityHunter'', the story arc involving [[CuteClumsyGirl Yoshimi]] [[NurseWithGoodIntentions Iwai]] starts with Ryo breaking his leg on purpose so he can protect her incognito [[note]]as her being the beneficiary of ''half of the massive fortune from a billionaire'' makes her a potential target for those wishing to have the fortune for themselves[[/note]]. After she is longer in danger [[note]]after the billionaire changes the will to set aside part of his fortune to build a nursing school instead of giving to her[[/note]], it ends with him under her care again, this time after he fails to watch the road he's crossing and, consequently, doesn't notice an incoming truck.
-->'''Ryo''': Hello! I came to see you again.
-->'''Yoshimi''': W-Welcome back...
-->'''Doctor''': [[WhyWontYouDie Why don't you just die?]]
-->'''Kaori''': He must have gotten hit on purpose...
* At the end of ''Manga/FairyTail'', Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia once again decide to go on a century-old quest with their friends in tow.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. In the last episode of the (first season) anime, Henrietta and Jose are standing in the same places that they did in the first episode, but without the dialogue.
* ''Manga/{{Magikano}}'' ends this way by turning back time to the beginning of the first episode.
* The first half of the last episode of the fourth season of ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'' uses reincarnation to rewind back to the second half of the first episode of the third season. Not confused yet? This show isn't even ''supposed'' to have continuity!
* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' effectively opens and ends with the titular ActionGirl receiving a call from her liaison who informs her about a new mission. Which is a plot point.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'' ends up right like it began: a mysterious army of {{Robeast}}s attacks the Photon Atomic Power Research Institute, and they are defeated by the sudden appearance of a Super Robot named Mazinger the enemy knew nothing about. Cue the sequel ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' starting the next week in the same time slot.
* After the climax of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade II's'' second arc, the series ends with another Radam invasion, just like it began, only with a lot more Tekkamen on the side of the Earth.
* The BittersweetEnding of ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'' concludes like this, with Nube going on another strange adventure with his brand-new class of fifth-graders (all of whom share ''some'' similarities to Doumori Elementary's 5-3 homeroom students.)
%%* Implied at the end of ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent''. ZCE
* Episode 41 of ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon Journeys]]'' ends with Ash and Goh facing the same situation as the previous day, except with multiple Mudkips.
* At the end of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' [[spoiler:some of the characters that died in the last episodes of the series appear alive (Possibly reincarnated) in a modern city. In the last scene, Kiba begins running, implying that the search for the Paradise started again.]]
* At the end of ''Manga/ElementalGelade'', Coud tries to pull off a very similar heist like at the start of the anime, but this time with his new partner [[spoiler: Ren]].
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'''s SpinOff ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'' ended this way.
* ''Anime/DotHackSign'''s ending cuts to the scene with which the anime series began.
* In an outtake of the ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' dub, this exchange occurs in a scene from the final episode.
-->'''Al:''' So, I've been thinking about something lately.\\
'''Ed:''' Me too. I think we should try to bring Mom back.
* ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan'' ended with [[spoiler: both Meg and Non failing the MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest and having to start over [[note]] originally, the show was going to end with Meg as the winner, but audiences had grown to love Non and didn't want her to lose[[/note]]. Meg is happy because she had grown to love her family, while Non is less impressed.]]
* ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'':
** In chapter 188, the main cast has its first day back to Ishiyama High. Some things never change.
** Thanks to the school being reconstructed (twice), the BalanceOfPower has been shifted, meaning that Oga has to conquer the school ''all over again''. Thus, the aptly named "Return to Ishiyama" arc is basically a redone version of the first arc of the series, except with more demons, more danger, and the stakes hiked up where it risks a [[spoiler:''civil war in the demon world'']].
* ''Anime/JapanAnimatorExpo'': ME!ME!ME! is an infinite loop of the protagonist's obsession with fictional girls. [[spoiler: after he was decapitated by HANA, the scene loops back to where he slept in his room, and opens his eyes.]]
* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'': One episode has a man turning up saying that Genma sold Ranma as a fiancé to his daughter for a fish and some noodles. Hilarity and a fast-food takeout race ensue, and the man and daughter leave. Right afterwards another man turns up with telling how Genma promised him Ranma as a son-in-law for another meal.
* ''Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu'' has this for several chapters.
** ''Black Forum'' shows Misa's friend finding a new thread with her name on it.
** ''Make-Believe Sisters'' shows another family, with heavy implications that the older brother is bullying and beating his younger brother, eating dinner and a [[MakeAWish shooting star]] across the sky.
** ''Best Friend Chocolate'' shows Mari being the next recipient of Chiyoko-san's chocolate.
* In episode 129 of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Himespetchi gets amnesia and thinks Prince Tamahiko is her crush. Then she remembers Mametchi is actually her crush, freaks out, and accidentally gives Prince Tamahiko amnesia and makes him think Himespetchi is his crush instead of Princess Tamako. When a bunch of bouncy balls hit everyone in the Gotchi King's castle near the end of the episode as Mametchi and co. are visiting, this is rectified... except now, everyone in the castle ''except'' for Himespetchi and the royal prince and princess have amnesia.
* The extended ending of ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'' [[spoiler: ends with a young boy (hinted to be a descendant of Mikasa) and his dog coming across the tree where Eren's head is buried and it has grown to resemble the tree where Ymir fell into and fused with the Source of All Living Matter centuries ago, strongly suggesting that the Titans will return.]]
* ''Manga/MahounoIroha'' starts with Naoki's future daughter Iroha traveling back in time to stop him from discovering magic and becoming an EvilOverlord. In the last chapter, [[spoiler: she travels back in time to stop him from discovering ESP and making the same mistakes he made the first time around.]]
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' starts with Asahi stumbling upon Youko spreading her wings in an empty classroom and discovering that she is a vampire. The very last scene of the series is [[spoiler: Asahi and Youko stumbling upon a vampire spreading her wings in an empty classroom in university.]]
* ''Manga/{{Debusen}}'' ends with the implication that [[spoiler: Keiko is going to try and kill Mitsuru again]].
* ''LightNovel/ExpectingToFallIntoRuinIAimToBecomeABlacksmith'': Prince Love begins and ends a chapter being knocked unconscious and spewing out drool.
* In Nicol's [[SwitchingPOV P.O.V. chapter]] in ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', this is Geordo's response when he heard from his ChildhoodFriend Nicol that Geordo's fiancee Catarina invited Nicol's sister Sophia for a visit.
-->'''Geordo''': (''Mumbles'') There she goes after another noble young lady... And to think I believed she had learned some restraint...
* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'':
** Iino and Ishigami's final apperance in the manga mirrors Kaguya and Shirogane's situation at the beginning. You even have the other students comment about how cute of a couple they’d be, as well as the council secretary fuelling their first of (presumably) many conflicts with two movie tickets.
** And not to be outdone Kaguya and Shirogane then get into a new conflict with who can get the other to propose first, since Shirogane first wants to gain the power to stand up to Kaguya's family on his own two feet while Kaguya wants them to be married as soon as possible (though the audience already knows from Hayasaka's FlashForward chapter and Kaguya's cameo in ''Manga/OshiNoKo'' that they'll be married by the time they're in their 30s).
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** And not to be outdone Kaguya and Shirogane then get into a new conflict with who can get the other to propose first, since Shirogane first wants to gain the power to stand up to Kaguya's family on his own two feet while Kaguya wants them to be married as soon as possible (though the audience already knows from Hayasaka's FlashForward chapter and Kaguya's cameo in ''Manga/OshiNoKo'' that they'll already be married by the time they're in their 30s).

** The end of ''Christmas Eve on Sesame Street''.

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