"Where Are They Now?" Epilogues in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- The Boys: Real Justice ends with a one year Time Skip showing what the Boys are up to following the final battle.
- The Dragon and the Bow: The beginning starts with a man telling his grandson the story of Hiccup and Merida to help get over his sea sickness, only to reveal in the epilogue to be Fergus and his grandson Hiccup IV with their family, on their way to Berk to receive his own dragon.
- Hammerhand: Angels of the Storm ends with one:
- The Batarians are suffering under heavy reparations for their part in the Reaper Wars.
- Wrex is the leader of the largest Krogan faction on Tuchanka.
- Garrus fell off the map, although it's implied he became Archangel.
- Miranda is the military governor of this universe's version of Cadia.
- Tali formed this universe's Mechanicus (with help from Yamzarat Machtoro and a few others)
- Thane died peacefully in his sleep after hearing of the victory over the Reapers.
- Jack disappeared, leaving Cyralius a message saying that she might go and do something similar to what Garrus was doing.
- Kurias retired and lives in a nice home provided by the Alliance. He flies light aircraft in his spare time.
- Apothecary Okeen fell off the grid and may be trying to recreate the Space Marines with help from Cerberus.
- Titus became a highly successful Spectre, albeit a highly noticeable one.
- Cyralius became a Cool Teacher at Grissom Academy.
- Malleus became the Citadel Council's Warmaster, and had a child with Samara.
- Chapter 68 of Intelligence Factor, The State of Pokérinian Civilization, gives summaries of Pokérin making its first steps to joining the Federation, and what various supporting characters got up to after the crew finished their survey.
- My Little Avengers ends with a brief Time Skip showing what happened after the defeat of Loki. In addition to showing what happened to the story's central characters, it also shows what happened to a few of the minor characters, including Twilight Sparkle becoming Sorcerer Supreme, and Rainbow Dash leading a team of X-Men expies.
- The epilogue of Paper Mario X 2 is actually named "Where Are They Now?". Of course, the story follows the plot of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which also had one of these epilogues.
- Turnabout Storm uses this during the final credits in the same vein as Ace Attorney's final cases, involving Phoenix giving his goodbyes to everyone he met in Ponyville before he's sent back to his world.
- White Devil of the Moon has one of these at the end of the fic, showing most of the Inner Senshi resuming their civilian lives, Ami going to study magic at Mid-Childa, Alicia and Hotaru being adopted by Lindy Harlown and the Takamachis respectively, and Nanoha and the rest of her friends resume their duties at the TSAB (presumably in time to start Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS).
- Bridge to Terabithia 2: The Last Time: The LDD-fanfic sequel ambitiously skips to two decades later, depicting the life of Jess and Leslie in their thirties. Leslie is now a successful writer who had won multiple awards for her bestsellers, while Jess is an art scholar whose works are displayed in art galleries all across the country, earning millions upon millions from his masterpieces. Having moved from Lark Creek to the more rural countryside, they live together in a three-story lakeside mansion with their children, consisting of their daughter and son (both which seems like carbon copies of their parents). Babies Ever After galore, with three of Jess' sisters - Ellie, Brenda and Maybelle - having children with their respective spouses too, while the youngest sister Joyce Ann is mentioned to be engaged. Jake and Caitlyn, two OC whom are the closest friends of Jess and Leslie, also ends up a couple as well, becoming the godparents to the children of Jess and Leslie while having a son of their own, and Caitlyn being pregnant with a second child. The story even mentions the aftermath of Scott Hoager, Jess' former bully from the Disney adaptation, where Scott actually ends up with Jess' ex-girlfriend Sonia, with whom he had a son, which Jess' daughter had a crush on, much to Jess' surprise and chagrin.
- God Save the Esteem, imitating its parent show, has brief descriptions of characters in odd scenes. They're actually even less serious than the show's—for example, Tom becomes a superhero in Powered Armor.
- All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird has something like this as its final chapter, with the story's editor - Varric - explaining to the author what everybody did after the victory party. He then adds that it will all be detailed in the sequel.
- Springaling: The final canon comicnote details what happened to the people and places the inhabitants of Fazbear's Fright left behind when they moved on.
- Fazbear's Fright burned down, as per canon. The basement was filled with rubble, burying all evidence of Fazbear Entertainment's less savory side.
- The pigeons that were living in the ductwork escaped unharmed and relocated to a parking lot.
- Helpy was found and brought home by the night guard of Fazbear's Fright, but hasn't moved since.
- The end of Who Silenced Elly Patterson was entitled Endgame and Epilogues, and after showing Elly's death (not a spoiler), it goes into the lives of the other characters through letters, ranging from six months after the death to fifteen years after. John marries Kortney and dies shortly after the birth of his twin sons, Connie serves six years for Elly's murder and has befriended Kortney, Kortney is using the wealth she inherited from John to erase Millborough from existence and incorporate it into Greater Scarborough, Claire travels the world (and somehow meets Lynn Johnston), Elizabeth and her family are thriving in Vancouver, April has also moved to Vancouver and works as a vet at an equine rescue, Deanna remarried, gained two stepchildren, and had a child with her new husband, Meredith is studying to become an archaeologist, Robin is going into physics, and Michael spent years getting over Elly's death, came to terms with his bisexuality, and is engaged to a man.
- Percy Weasley and The Prefect Job That Isn't A Vanity Role: The final chapter elaborates on what became of most of the characters following Harry's years at Hogwarts.
- After taking a few years off to travel and discover more about himself, Harry goes to wizarding college and becomes the new History professor at Hogwarts. His lessons are much more engaging than Binns' lectures ever were.
- Percy resumes his job at the Ministry and finally does the Azkaban audit he was promised right after leaving school, eventually becoming Minister of Magic when he's about thirty.
- Dil resumes his life of leisure and catching up on Coronation Street, though he helps Percy become the Minister.
- Hypatia starts a home renovation business, with her first client being Narcissa Malfoy trying to make Malfoy Manor feel less empty.
- Sirius is displeased to discover he's actually pretty good with politics, but he excels at cutting all the nonsense out of court proceedings.
- Snape is tried for the murder of Dumbledore, though he's ultimately acquitted due to extenuating circumstances and vanishes from the public eye afterward.
- Remus and Tonks, Bill and Fleur, and Ron and Hermione all get married like they do in canon.
- Vernon and Petunia Dursley pretended Harry never existed in the first place after he moved out, which prompts Dudley to get therapy in college and ultimately strive to be a better parent than they were for his daughter Dahlia. She turns out to be a Muggleborn witch and eventually becomes a Prefect.
- At the end of Some Semblance of Meaning, we learn that Lavinia ends up married to Damon, with two children named after Vale and Kit, while Laurel Whitaker ended up with Obsidian's cousin Glint, and that both families survived the bombing of District Twelve and the war on the Capitol. The story ends with Lavinia relaying Vale's story to Katniss Everdeen, thinking that Vale would have wanted her story to be told.
- Love Is A Funny Thing's final chapter ends five years afterwards. Jem and the Holograms have broken up, but Jerrica is Happily Married to Riot. Most of The Stingers and The Misfits have settled down and they're all doing fine. The exception is Pizzazz, who died of a drug overdose.
- The Miracle at Palaven ends with one, showing snapshots of the surviving viewpoint characters and a galaxy rebuilding in the aftermath of the Reaper War.
- Quiet and The Dimensional Traveler (Timeline A) has this kind of epilogue in addiction to a normal one as to show the consequences of the protagonist's actions. Some characters' lives are completely ruined, while others get a happy ending. Only the protagonists's destiny is not shown, and left as ambiguous, like in the previous epilogue.
- Crumbling Down: The epilogue of the story reveals just what the heroes, as well as Lila, have been up to in the ten years since the story took place when everyone comes back together to watch Marinette's debut into the fashion world.
- Weight Off Your Shoulder tackles this in two ways:
- The final chapter of the main story jumps ahead to the day of Chloé's trial, explaining how several characters' situations were resolved. Such as how Adrien wound up in the custody of his paternal grandparents, the Grassettes, and revealing that Sentibug is now legally recognizes as Marinette's sister Bridgette and is dating Zoé.
- A bonus epilogue, "Always Find Our Way Back Together", reveals what happened in several of the Alternate Timelines that had been shown throughout the story. Without Bunnyx meddling and attempting to twist them to her own selfish ends, said timelines are no longer locked into being Bad Futures.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- A Diplomatic Visit: The epilogue of the fourth story, The Diplomat's Life, mostly covers Twilight's walking through Ponyville, reminiscing about what everyone's been up to in the past six years, such as marriages and life goals achieved (including the Cutie Mark Crusaders getting their Marks). With the exception of a few villains who remain imprisoned in some way or another, and one who suffered a mental breakdown and had to be checked into a hospital, everyone she thinks about has gotten their happy ending (even Chrysalis, who's living a quiet life in a cottage in the Everfree, albeit still under guard).
- A Growing Affection: The later half of the final chapter is this. Naruto reflects on the current situation of his friends and allies as he walks forward to accept his appointment as Hokage.
- I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!: After the four protagonists switch back to their bodies in Timeline Gamma (aka the canon timeline) and continue their lives post-canon, the epilogue of the story is this, covering the fates of those in Timeline Beta (aka the past timeline they meddled with).
- The Child of Love: The epilogue is set seven years later the end of the story and shows what has happened to the Ikari family in the meantime.
- HERZ: The epilogue shows the cast’s lives twenty years after the end of SEELE. Most of them are retired, Asuka is still an army officer, Shinji is a music teacher...
- Higher Learning: The final scenes happen several years after Third Impact, and explain what happened to the characters and the world after the final battle.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide: The final episode is set three years after the Final Battle. The four EVA pilots are living in a guardhouse in the USA. Shinji and Asuka are planning to move together when he goes to college, and they are expecting a baby, Rei has gotten better at socializing, and Keiko -whose wounds have fully healed- is one year from graduation. The flipside is that they are under constant and strict surveillance, which includes tracker chips, and they can never ever go back home.
- The One I Love Is...: The epilogue chapter happens several years after the Final Battle: Shinji and Asuka get married and their friends and co-workers attend their wedding. During the ceremony Shinji explains what everyone have been doing during the past years: he and Asuka still work for NERV, are living together and expecting a baby; Rei dealed with a depression for a while but got better and was experimenting with all kind of jobs; Touji and Hikari are still together; Misato started dating Makoto...
- Olive's Last Partner: The epilogue, "Flashforward", takes place after the events of the episode "The Jackies", where Precinct 13579 won their very first Jackalope Award and received quite a lot of honors for their accomplishment.
- Once Upon a Studio: Version 2.0: There is a short scene set on the afternoon of October 17th, 2023; the day after the Walt Disney Company's centennial. In the studio's main lounge area, Mickey, Cinderella, Prince Charming and a few other characters give us a nice monologue about the Walt Disney Company's bright future ahead, accompanied by a more tranquil rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star".
- As the characters wave farewell, we fade into the final end caption from the existing version of OUAS, reading "To all who have imagined, laughed and dreamed with us; Thank You".
- The Peer Gyntening: Played for Laughs at the end of the level Pear Jint. Terry remained dead, Necro apparently died at 92 despite already being a ghost, and ol666 - the creator of what the collection parodies - "has been crying in the corner for the last 30 years".
- There is a minor one in the epilogue of Warriors of the World: Soldiers of Fortune to show what happened to the Kingdom after the climactic battle and World-Healing Wave. It also serves as a cliffhanger for the next installment.
- The pro wrestling story A Ring of Their Own ends with Victoria announcing her retirement and becoming commissioner of the FWF, followed by a Where Are They Now on all the major characters.
- The two-part epilogue of With Strings Attached includes a brief AP story that says, in essence, "The Beatles are not reuniting."
- Fallen Kingdom: The final chapter takes place ten years after the main story detailing everyone's lives and reveals that, in spite of the war, there is finally peace and no more fighting.
- Legacy, which is set ten years after the events of the show, ends with thumbnail sketches of what everyone is currently up to.
- FURTHERFELL: In the vein of Undertale's neutral endings, some branches have characters call Hare after they leave the Underground to tell them what's happened in their absence.
- Rethroned:
- Undyne becomes queen after Alphys killed Toriel while seized by madness, with Papyrus becoming her advisor and the two resolving their differences.
- Sans becomes Royal Scientist after Napstablook resigns to reduce their stress and focus on producing music for Mettaton full-time.
- Flowey still lives in the Ruins and is crying a lot lately due to both of his parents being dead. Undyne and Papyrus check in with him regularly, but he refuses to tell them what's wrong.
- Alphys went into her lab after the climax of the story and never came out, leaving her fate beyond that up in the air.
- Drama! Romance! Bloodshed!:
- Papyrus became the new king after Mettaton died. He's trying his best to rule, but is exhausted and hasn't really been himself since he took over.
- Sans is experiencing regret over being the one to kill Mettaton due to not taking into account that he had good intentions behind his bad ideas, and everyone is avoiding him because of it.
- Flowey hasn't been seen in ages, though Sans doesn't really care what became of him.
- Rethroned:
