History Main / TakenDuringTheEnding

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': At the end of "[[Recap/ArthurS9E8TheATeamEmilySwallowsAHorse Emily Shallows a Horse]]", Emily tells the DW the truth that she didn't own a rubber ball then was forgiven. James picks up the rubber ball, puts it in his pants pocket, and walks away.

* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'' ends with Ben Naasade (a.k.a a post-''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' Obi-Wan Kenobi who time traveled into the past to his ''Literature/JediApprentice'' days) being abducted from the hospital by Darth Plagueis after Ben kills Darth Sidious in a vicious duel during Padmé's coronation as Queen of Naboo. The implication is that Plagueis intends to forcibly turn Ben into his new Sith Apprentice to replace Palpatine.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'':
** At the end of "The Devil's Pitchfork", the Devil calls Cuphead's bluff ([[TemptingFate Cuphead had claimed there's nothing the Devil could take from him that he cares about]]) and abducts Mugman.

** At the end of the third season premiere, Megan is taken hostage by Crystal Hoyle after a date with Larry, which sets up the next episode, events that also influence the rest of the season.

* ''Series/Numb3rs'': At the end of the fifth season episode "Greatest Hits", Amita is kidnapped when she and Charlie are preparing to leave [=CalSci=] for the night, which leads to the fifth season finale where the team faces off against a cult that is holding Amita.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' - Garabaldi is in a fighter trying to defend the station in the season 3 episode ''Recap/BabylonFiveS03E22ZHaDum''. His fighter gets swallowed by a Shadow ship [[spoiler:and he is taken to be brainwashed]].

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' - Garabaldi is in a fighter trying to defend the station in the season 3 episode ''Recap/BabylonFiveS03E22ZHaDum''. His fighter gets swallowed by a Shadow ship [[spoiler:and is taken to be brainwashed]].

** At the end of "The Devil's Pitchfork", the Devil calls Cuphead's bluff [[TemptingFate Cuphead had claimed there's nothing the Devil could take from him that he cares about]] and abducts Mugman.

Can be a form of HappyEndingOverride, a SuddenDownerEnding, or a BolivianArmyEnding.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In Season 12 "[=CIAPow=]", at the end of the episode, after Stan and his co-workers are thrown into a Thailand prison again for trying to steal the King of Thailand's inhaler again, Deputy Bullock, [[ItMakesSenseInContext whose body is now cybernetic and has robotic spider legs]], breaks into their prison cell to rescue them and lets them ride on his spider legs as they escape.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': Because Clark and Lois had some issues to deal with, they completely forgot to meet up with Jimmy for his camping trip. After four hours of waiting for Clark and Lois to show up, Jimmy decides to go on the trip alone, but he soon gets kidnapped by a gorilla in the woods.

* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds1988'': in a late Season 1 episode, the team conducts psychological evaluations of people who claim they'd been experimented on by aliens. After a woman's interviews with the team, the aliens return to kidnap her. The episode ends with Harrison's voice-over that she was never heard from again and he's certain they have her.

** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': Doc Brown gets struck by lightning while in the Delorean in 1955, making Marty fear he's dead. A letter reveals that Doc was actually taken back to 1885 due to a fluke with the Delorean, leaving Marty to contact 1955 Doc.

* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey2ThePowerOfTwo'': Prescott is kidnapped by the Petes at the end of the game for their own pans.

* ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'': Horvath swipes the Sorcerer's Hat in the end credits scene as a SequelHook. Since the film never got a sequel, this became an AbortedArc.

* ''WesternAnimation/TimeWarpTrio'': At the end of one episode, Joe builds a box and puts The Book in it so no one can mess with it. It was taken away by Fred's older brother.