History Main / MovingAwayEnding

* ''Fanfic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'': The ending of ''Jakhowls Rising'' has Springer, Ace, and Mira decide to [[IChooseToStay stay with the rest of the Jakhowls in Aurarora]] so Springer can be their new chief and help them adjust to the new world, as the three of them learning more about the customs and lifestyle of their own species. It is played with a bit in the sense that the three [[CommutingOnABus can easily return at anytime thanks to the Rune Gates]], but everyone still has a heartfelt goodbye with them, and it is confirmed that Springer is no longer part of the main cast in future stories of the series.

[[caption-width-right:350:It's all part of being human.]]

So your show is ending and you want to add some drama? Why not have the characters move away? This trope is when a piece of media ends with the characters moving away from their home to another place. It can be anything - a new job, finally getting the chance to go to a dream location, [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil evil being still out there]]. What matters is that it's where the media ends. Generally, these endings feature the character having achieved their GoalInLife, and the show may end there as they may have nothing more to say about the characters. It's also used as a form of fitting dramatic conclusion - after all, NothingIsTheSameAnymore.

If the character has suffered over the course of said media, then it can serve as a form of EarnYourHappyEnding - they're finally able to escape the past and move on with their lives elsewhere. Whilst it usually occurs as part of a standalone, it can apply to series as well. Focus may be put on the character experiencing MovingAngst before being given AnAesop that life changes all the time. It may also be used to show off an end-of-series ContinuityCavalcade via the character seeing their favorite locations in their home location a final time before leaving. This is generally a BittersweetEnding - the character is usually heading off to somewhere better, but they have to say goodbye to all their friends as they do so.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'': After completing the main story and [[spoiler: killing their former president, Billy Grey, Johnny, Terry, Clay and Angus return to the Lost MC Clubhouse to find it ransacked while they were gone. With everything destroyed beyond repair, the four take a brief moment to reminisce and remember the Club's glory days, before Johnny tells Terry to "put the place out of its misery". Johnny, Angus and Clay leave the clubhouse while Terry douses it with gasoline and sets the building on fire, before joining the others outside. The remaining members of the Alderney Chapter watch on as the clubhouse burns to the ground.]] Years later, the remnants of the gang travel to San Andreas, [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV where they finally meet their ends.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'', the good/neutral hikikomori route endings have Sunny moving away after confessing to his friends the truth about [[spoiler:Mari's death]] and Sunny moving away without ever reconciling with his friends, respectively.

* ''Literature/{{City of Bones|1995}}'' by Creator/MarthaWells: The protagonist of Khat's FamilyOfChoice finally decides to move away to a city with more of their relatives and less FantasticRacism. Khat goes with them for the same reasons, explaining to the deuteragonist that [[LoveCannotOvercome they're too different]] for their romance to go anywhere.

* The near-ending scene of ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'' shows Sui and Neri sitting at the train station, as shown that Shida parted ways to both of them after the concert, where she ultimately left the island and the planet at the same time as soon as her summer vacation ended. She headed back to her grad school via commuting with a spaceship to another planet. It was nonetheless a more memorable parting-ways moment between her and the main characters.

Note that as an ending trope, the following entries are riddled with unmarked '''spoilers'''.

* The near-ending scene of ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'' shows Sui and Neri sitting at the train station, as shown that Shida parted ways to both of them after the concert, where she ultimately left the island and the planet at the same time, heading back to her grad school via commuting with a spaceship to another planet. Though this was her planned goal throughout her story, not without the transit problems she faced, it was nonetheless a more memorable parting-ways moment between her and the main characters.

* The near-ending scene of ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'' shows Sui and Neri sitting at the train station, as shown that Shida parted ways to both of them after the concert, where she ultimately left the island and the planet at the same time, heading back to her grad school via commuting with a spaceship to another planet. Though this was her planned goal throughout her story, not without the transit problems she faced, it was nonetheless a more memorable parting-ways moment between her and the main characters.

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Although not shown on-screen, Series 5 (then intended to be the final series) ends with this fate for several characters. Brittas (alongside his wife Helen and children) is due to moving to Brussels to take up the role of European Commissioner of Sports, Carole is moving to Austria to teach singing lessons to a man's children, and Laura is moving to America to [[BabiesEverAfter raise a child with her reconciled husband]]. When this proved to be a SeriesFauxnale, some of the fates had to be backtracked. Brittas also had a stint being dead at the end of Series 5, so this is revealed to have led to him failing the medical for said job, and the man who Carole was heading off with cheated with a nun, leading to both's return. Laura's departure stuck, however, and she's never mentioned again.