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* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' 2 [[spoiler: [[BigBad Neue Regisseur]] pulls everyone back to Earth's Orbit where Neue fuses with the White Star becoming [[TrueFinalBoss Stern Regisseur]] and plans to ColonyDrop Earth]]

* In the ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' movie [[spoiler:after the meteorite fragment is returned back to the meteorite, both Worlds start fuse, and Mario and Koopa arrive back in Brooklyn]]

* At the end of ''StarOcean3'', [[spoiler:the main characters wake up from [[CessationOfExistence their entire universe being deleted]] with no explanation of how they're still alive, or how their universe is still intact. Maria speculates on it for a minute, but the party ultimately decides to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere not worry about it and just go home]].]]

* At the end of ''SuperMarioGalaxy'', after defeating [[BigBad Bowser]] and rescuing Peach, Bowser's galaxy explodes and destroys the universe. The Lumas all throw themselves inside the black hole that is tearing up the universe as an attempt to stop it, and after their sacrifice results in the birth of a completely new universe altogether, Rosalina appears and tells Mario that the material left from dead stars are actually used to create new ones, followed by him, Peach, and Bowser finding themselves back in the Mushroom Kingdom as if nothing even happened.

* The last track of {{Ayreon}}'s ''Into the Electric Castle'' describes the characters returning to their respective time periods without the memory of the Castle or Forever, but knowing that ''something'' happened.

* Happens if the {{PC}}s succeed in killing Lolth in the ''DungeonsAndDragons'' adventure Q1 ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits''.

* Robert A. Heinlein's ''Have Spacesuit Will Travel'' ends with the return of the protagonists home.

* At the end of {{The X-Files}} movie ''Fight the Future'', Mulder and Scully are stuck in Antarctica with a SnowCat with no gas on the verge of conciousness. The next scene shows them back in Washington D.C. without any explanation to how they got there. When this is brought up three seasons later by an admirer, Mulder and Scully comically bicker with each other and do not give a straight answer.

* ''SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' 2 [[spoiler: [[BigBad Neue Regisseur]] pulls everyone back to Earth's Orbit where Neue fuses with the White Star becoming [[TrueFinalBoss Stern Regisseur]] and plans to ColonyDrop Earth]]

The Heroes went to AnotherDimension where they fought countless {{Mooks}} and the BigBad is destroyed. But how do you deal with the point at the end where you have to explain how they got back home? Answer: you don't, you just transport them back through some undefined mechanism. Suddenly the Heroes are surrounded by a flash of light and then they see that they are back in their homeworld.

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* ''FinalFantasyV'': One minute, you're taking out the BigBad in [[StormingTheCastle his castle]], the next, you're back in your homeworld in front of Tycoon Castle. [[spoiler:Subverted in that you're not back in your homeworld; you're on the new world created by merging the two worlds together. Also, you're only two-thirds through the plot]].

* ''FinalFantasyV'': One minute, you're taking out the BigBad in [[StormingTheCastle his castle]], the next, you're back in your homeworld in front of Tycoon Castle. [[spoiler:Subverted in that you're not back in your homeworld; you're on the new world created by merging the two worlds togather. Also, you're only two-thirds through the plot]].

->After a short, dizzying, gut-twisting spin, they will black out, regaining consciousness somewhere on their own world...If characters delve into these events, they might learn that they were rescued by their gods as a reward for their services.

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* Robert A. Heinlein's ''Have Spacesuit Will Travel'' ends with the return of the protagonists home.

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* The last track of {{Ayreon}}'s ''Into the Electric Castle'' describes the characters returning to their respective time periods without the memory of the Castle or Forever, but knowing that ''something'' happened.

* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} movie: Bender's Game [[spoiler: After Mom gets the MacGuffin she, Fry, Leela, Hermes, Zoidberg and the rest return back to Earth.]]

* ''FinalFantasyV'': One minute, you're taking out the BigBad in [[StormingTheCastle his castle]], the next, you're back in your homeworld in front of Tycoon Castle. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's just the end of Act II]].

* The last track of {{Ayreon}}'s ''Into the Electric Castle'' describes the characters returning to their respective time periods without the memory of the Castle or Forever.

* The last track of {{Into the Electric Castle}} ''Another Time, Another Place'' describes the characters returning to their respective time periods without the memory of the Castle or Forever.

* The ''{{Pokemon}}'' video games do this every time you beat the Elite Four. Rather frustrating, especially if you're LevelGrinding and just have to turn around and go right back.

* At the end of ''ChronoCross'', the split timelines are united ("fixed"), and everyone supposedly return to their respective home, with Serge waking up at the Opassa Beach by Leena's side. Worth of note is that he can always flee from the FinalBattle if he so wish, but it's Schala's power that sends him back after the job is done.

* In the Futurama movie: Bender's Game [[spoiler: After Mom gets the MacGuffin; She, Fry, Leela, Hermes, Zoidberg and the rest return back to Earth]]
* In the SuperMarioBros movie [[spoiler: After the meteorite fragment is returned back to the meteorite, both Worlds start fuse, and Mario and Koopa arrive back in Brooklyn]]

* The ''[[{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'' video games do this every time you beat the Elite Four. Rather frustrating, especially if you're LevelGrinding and just have to turn around and go right back.

** In this particular case, it only happens in the "TrueFinalBoss [[MultipleEndings ending]]". The normal ending begins with the heroes essentially using a SpiritBomb-fueled teleporter to return home.

** In this particular case, it only happens in the "BonusBoss [[MultipleEndings ending]]". The normal ending begins with the heroes essentially using a SpiritBomb-fueled teleporter to return home.
* ''FinalFantasyV'': One minute, you're taking out the BigBad in [[StormingTheCastle his castle]], the next, you're back in your homeworld in front of Tycoon Castle. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's just the end of Act II]]

* HaloReach-[[spoiler: How the hell did Dr. Halsey get out of that Forerunner PocketDimension?]]

* The ''{{Pokemon}}'' video games do this every time you beat the elite four. Rather frustrating, especially if you're LevelGrinding and just have to turn around and go right back.