History Main / TrippyFinaleSyndrome

* FearEffect. It seems normal enough at first, and then suddenly it starts turning into a precusor to EternalDarkness....

* ''Earthbound'''s final area before the final boss battle looks like a giant bizarre vagina, leading into a maze of tentacle-like pathways over a void. If that's not bad enough, said final boss battle [[AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield sure]] [[EldritchAbomination as]] [[NightmareFuel hell]] is.

** The sequel, Mother3, does this as well. You're in a cavern miles below the city, when...whoa! What's the deal with the dropoffs? And the animate crystals and balls of electricity flying around?

* The last race of every ''MarioKart'' game, Rainbow Road.

* TheTreeofLife

* The Book of Revelation in The Bible

*** The actual battle against Ultimecia is plenty this as well. She conjures an imaginary creature, wields planets, and begins to [[{{AssimilationPlot}} merge with the universe]]. Defeat her and time decompresses into a bad trip.

* Which would be not to mention every episode of ''{{Superjail}}!''.
* The ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Safety Freak" ends with Spongebob, Patrick, and Sandy being attacked by a gorilla (played by [[RogerRabbitEffect a live-action human in a cheap costume]]). When Spongebob wonders out loud "[[MisplacedWildlife What's a gorilla doing underwater]]?", the gorilla stops his rampage, tries to explain himself, then shouts "George, they're onto us!" and rides off into the sunset on a pantomime horse, to the bafflement of [[NoFourthWall a live-action family watching the episode]], and probably that of the real-life audience as well.

* The ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Safety Freak" ends with Spongebob, Patrick, and Sandy being attacked by a gorilla (played by [[RogerRabbitEffect a live-action human in a cheap costume]]). When Spongebob wonders out loud "[[FridgeLogic What's a gorilla doing underwater]]?", the gorilla stops his rampage, tries to explain himself, then shouts "George, they're onto us!" and rides off into the sunset on a pantomime horse, to the bafflement of [[NoFourthWall a live-action family watching the episode]], and probably that of the real-life audience as well.

* In ''{{Perfume}}'', Grenouille finally uses his perfect perfume [[spoiler:at his execution. Overcome by the beauty of his fragrence, the crowd universally proclaims him innocent and then falls into a massive orgy. Unsatisfied with the perfume's hollow effects, Grenouille kills himself by dumping the remainder of the perfume over his head, causing a nearby crowd to devour him out of overwhelming love.]]

** ''FinalFantasyV'' has the "Cleft of Dimension," a twisted landscape of everything that has been trapped between the worlds for a thousand years, as its final dungeon. The final battle itself takes place in the very heart of the Void.
** ''FinalFantasyVI'' has a relatively tame final dungeon, but the end boss is preceded by an enormous tower of vaguely Renaissance-esque statues of nude men and woman, usually in bizarre positions, which all want you dead.

** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' involves the party being sucked through time to the far future, where the main villainess' castle waits floating ominously over a destroyed world. The rest of the ''world'' as the part knows it becomes like this as well due to Ultimecia's "time compression".

* ''Earthbound'''s final area before the final boss battle looks like a giant bizarre vagina. If that's not bad enough, said final boss battle [[AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield sure]] [[EldritchAbomination as]] [[NightmareFuel hell]] is.

** ''FinalFantasyII'' involves traveling to the capital of Hell. Though it makes sense, as the final boss has [[XanatosGambit used his own demise as a stepping stone toward dethroning and replacing the Devil as King of Hell]].

** ''FinalFantasyVII'' has the party traveling through a crater down into the heart of the planet, through strange and varied underground landscapes. The strangeness hits a fever pitch towards the bottom, which is just a series of floating rocks surrounded by flowing Lifestream.

** TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon of ''FinalFantasyIX'' is a collective mishmash of ancestral memories, taking the party to locations from the entire world's history and ending with the origin of the universe.

* In ''ChronoCross'', the Final boss is fought in The Darkness Beyond Time - the place where things go when they no longer exist. The finale also seems trippy just because all the dialogue on Disc 2 is dedicated to explaining the back story of the game... and even after reading it all, you still need a Master's Degree in Strange Back Story-ology to understand it.

* Almost every "StephenKing" book, at least those that include the supernatural

* The otherwise conventional western ''Blueberry'' (aka ''Renegade'') ends with the hero and villain taking peyote and entering the spirit realm to do battle. The hero then has an epiphany that is visualized with trippy abstract images and Native American chanting. It has to be seen to be believed.

* The 1974 ant thriller ''{{Phase IV}}'' ends with [[spoiler:the surviving human characters - and man and a woman - apparently being captured by ants and forced to become the next stage of human evolution, or something along those lines.]]
* John Boorman's deranged post-apocalyptic sci-fi film ''{{Zardoz}}'' ends with [[spoiler:the main character and his wife growing old in timelapse, as their child grows up to adulthood, to not discernible cinematic purpose.]]
* ''{{The Quiet Earth}}'' (1985), a rare post-70s example, ends with the main character [[spoiler:seemingly transported to the moon of a distant ringed planet, or possibly the afterlife, or perhaps he remains where he is and the universe changes around him.]]

* The 1979 Disney science fiction film ''{{TheBlackHole}}'' ends with [[spoiler:the main characters passing through a black hole; the villain appears to merge with a robot who then becomes Lord of Hell, whilst the heroes either ascend to heaven or simply pass through a white hole into another part of the universe. And then the film ends.]]
* The 1974 ant thriller ''{{PhaseIV}}'' ends with [[spoiler:the surviving human characters - and man and a woman - apparently being captured by ants and forced to become the next stage of human evolution, or something along those lines.]]

* ''{{TheQuietEarth}}'' (1985), a rare post-70s example, ends with the main character [[spoiler:seemingly transported to the moon of a distant ringed planet, or possibly the afterlife, or perhaps he remains where he is and the universe changes around him.]]

* ''{{Akira}}'', full stop. Most of the movie makes sense enough, but good luck deciphering the ending on the first viewing once the plot jumps its ball hitch and takes off without you.

* The last race of ''MarioKart 64'', Rainbow Road.