Wick check results:

• Work conclusion on a different medium (17/52)
• Work concludes in same installment but on DVD, the internet, or the like (8/52)
• Work concludes in different installment, but same medium (4/52)
• Other misuse (14/52)
• ZCE/PCE (3/52)
• Unsorted (1/52)
• Other (6/52)

The Resolution Will Not Be Televised is about shows whose conclusions are in a different work in a different medium from the rest of the original work. However, the majority of examples are missing at least both those things, if they're not confusing it with Cut Short or Aborted Arc. If the trope is kept, it should at minimum be made Trivia because it's about work production.

1. Half-Life 2 - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Episode 3 never saw the light of day as intended. Instead, ex-series writer Marc Laidlaw released what would have been the story of Episode 3 on his website under the name Epistle 3 with many names changed for obvious reasons to finally give fans closure.
2. Creator's Apathy: Avalon's original four-year run ended up suffering a bad case of the Schedule Slip as its creator, Josh Phillips, struggled with worsening depression and took long periods of time away from it as a result. Eventually, Phillips gave up drawing the webcomic after a year without any updates and simply wrote the ending out instead.
3. Metalocalypse The Doom Star Requiem: Brendon, however, would finish the series as an audio album, Galaktikon II, which alludes to the characters of the series though doesn't mention them by name.
4. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: After the VRAINS anime was cut short, Duel Links' story mode is continuing right where the anime left off with the mysterious reappearance of Ai and Playmaker preparing to fight Varis if need be to decide the AI's future.
5. JAG - Story Arc: The whole Will They or Won't They? and Unresolved Sexual Tension arc for nine seasons between Harm and Mac. Also Master of the Mixed Message. Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other in the last episode "Farewell and Following Seas": however it ends in the middle of the toss with a coin, is it Harm or Mac who will give up career for love? In the tenth season finale of NCIS: Los Angeles, Mac reveals that Harm lost the coin flip and stayed with her, but after a 10-Minute Retirement, got called back into combat while she found a better opportunity at the State Department.
6. As Long as There Is Evil: In Twin Peaks, Albert invokes this trope in a monologue he gives shortly after the initial defeat of the series' Big Bad BOB. Since it's established earlier that emotions like fear are BOB's "children" and that he is far older than he appears, and the movie suggests he feeds off of pain and suffering, it's probably safe to read BOB less as a person and more as the Anthropomorphic Personification of rape, madness, and savagery.
7. Fully Absorbed Finale: Combined with The Resolution Will Not Be Televised for the episode "A Hero's Fate", which serves as a finale for RPG World, a webcomic that creator Ian Jones-Quartey made as a teenager and had abandoned due to decreasing interest and an unpleasable fanbase. The episode has K.O. befriend the comic's main character, Hero, who had spent so much time solo Level Grinding for his final confrontation with Galgarion, that he's neglected everything else in his life. After the duo attempt and fail to beat Galgarion, who had also been leveling up due to being stuck in the boss room and having nothing better to do, K.O. tells Hero that there's more to life than just constantly training and leaves. Hero and Galgarion proceed to talk and, realizing that they've both forgotten why they're even fighting to begin with, decide to take a break from their conflict, with Hero going back home to reconnect with his friends and have a daughter with Cherry.
8. Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Ian Flynn really wanted to write a The Resolution Will Not Be Televised conclusion to Sonic Underground, but Executive Meddling always got in his way. He came close to being able to release the story in the fiftieth issue of Sonic Universe, with official promo art even being released, but those plans were nixed in favor of writing a lead up story to Worlds Collide. Thanks to the Cosmic Retcon destroying the series' multiverse, the chances of the story ever being released are unlikely.
9. Babylon 5: Time and budget constraints relegated some of the story to tie-in novels and comic books, namely a war fought between Telepaths and "Mundanes".
10. Tropes Q to Z - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: While the series finale wraps up most plot threads, the ultimate fate of Ursa remains a mystery. The finale even includes a Sequel Hook with the angry Zuko demanding Ozai to explain what happened to her, but the scene ends before we hear what his answer is. Several years later, this subplot is finally resolved in the comic book sequel Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search.
11. Eden of the East - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The series' main plot arc is mostly resolved, but there are a bunch of hanging threads left for the films.
12. The Middleman - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised : The show was canceled after 12 of 13 episodes. The finale, The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse has been adapted into a graphic novel (not to be confused with the earlier graphic novels, which were adapted into the TV show, take place in a different continuity to the show/new comic, and also ended on a mysterious-and-as-yet-unexplained cliffhanger). At Comic-Con 2009, the whole cast got together to do a read-through of the unfilmed script for Episode 13. A semi-approved 'bootleg' video of the event is available online (and at one point was linked to from the O2STK website, and it eventually appeared on youtube.
13. Dark Angel - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Since the show ended mid-plot, two novels (Skin Game and After the Dark) were published to finish the story, in addition to a prequel novel (Before the Dawn) which feeds into both the Pilot and After the Dark. Skin Game wraps up the siege of Terminal City, while After the Dark provides closure to the Myth Arc. Completing the set is a compilation of in-universe documents called The Eyes Only Dossier.
14. The Aquabats! Super Show! - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The Kickstarter videos end with the band reunited and planning a concert to raise funds, with Man Ant showing up to convince the villains to ruin said concert. This was in fact followed up in an actual concert to help raise funds.
15. Doctor Who S35 E12 "Hell Bent" - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: A downscaled version relating to plot points rather than an entire series: Viewers wondering if Rassilon ever tries to get back at the Doctor and/or if the Doctor ever speaks to Ohila again can find answers in the Expanded Universe stories Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen (a comic book miniseries) and The Lost Flame (a BBC Audio story), respectively.
16. Pushing Daisies - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Although a rather rushed epilogue of sorts was stuck on the end of the final episode, a "third season" of comics is due to be published by DC in 2011. It will apparently involve a "fresh take on the Zombie Apocalypse"
17. Doctor Who S35 E12 "Hell Bent" - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The 2017 BBC Audio story The Lost Flame has the Doctor suspecting he isn't as welcome on Karn as he once was due to the turbulence the TARDIS goes through when it lands there, implying that he hadn't been there since "Hell Bent". But the events of this episode are otherwise never brought up by either character. Ohila notes that she's never claimed to be the Doctor's friend, and she does secretly use him and his TARDIS to track down the wayward Sisterhood member behind the events of the Story Arc this audio (the last of four) concludes, seeing it as collecting on all the times the Sisterhood saved him. Otherwise the relationship is the same as it ever was, with both people apparently choosing to put the past in the past.

1. Persona 4: The Animation - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The TV broadcast only covered up to the "Good Ending", which deals with the confrontation with Adachi and the battle with Ameno-Sagiri. The REAL final episode, titled "No One Is Alone", was released with the tenth (and last) volume of the anime in Japan.
2. Persona 5: The Animation - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Averted; unlike Persona 4: The Animation, the two OVAs that each comprised the final third of the game (whereas P4's anime had a single movie) did air in December 2018 and March 2019, respectively, but only on web-streaming services like Abema TV.
3. Misblamed: Nickelodeon took a lot of heat for the second half of the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender taking so long to air that two episode premiered in Canada and another two on DVD. However, this was because production on the finale had been delayed, and Nickelodeon didn't want to air less than half of a season only to have another hiatus right before the end of the series.
4. Cancellation: In almost all cases this means that the show is gone forever. In some lucky cases The Resolution Will Not Be Televised, but released on video (or these days, online). In even luckier cases the series will be able to Wrap It Up and a miniseries or movie will resolve the story. If you're really lucky, the show might even be Un-Cancelled.
5. Orphaned Series: Seven Seas debuted with four OEL series, Amazing Agent Luna, No Man's Land, Last Hope, and Blade for Barter. Blade for Barter was cancelled after a single volume (with the conclusion to the cliffhanger published online to make it up to people who actually bought the first volume). Last Hope ran for two volumes with a third teased but then hit a wall when a contractual dispute arose between the publisher and the author that eventually led to the series being cancelled due to market concerns. No Man's Land was originally heavily publicized and also had a flash series started, but both the books and flash series were scrapped originally due to the artist and author having too many other commitments, and have been essentially cancelled due the company's concerns over the declining publishing market.
6. Ie Naki Ko Remi - Vindicated by History: When the show first aired, fans of the novel were NOT pleased with the changes the show made, and attacked it en masse. Ratings plummeted drastically, complaints were the order of the day, and the overall reception was so bad that the producers couldn't air the final three episodes and they went straight to DVD instead. It didn't help that even before all of this, the WMT and Fuji TV were waging some kind of war against each other back in the late eighties, and people were beginning to lose interest in stories like this. Thankfully, thanks to some international exposure and the internet, it has been gotten better reception from more appreciative fans who like to see it as its own entity and praise the things it did right instead of nitpick at the fact that it's drastically different from the source material.
7. Perfect Hair Forever - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised:
   1. The last few episodes were released on the Internet.
   2. Even in the seventh (and originally final) episode, the resolution isn't shown, Gerald just walks toward Tuna Mountain, then it cuts to some other scenes, then Gerald is coming back from Tuna Mountain, with perfect hair. He even mentions a bunch of cool adventures they went on that the audience doesn't get to see. Near the beginning of this episode, he sums it up best:
   Gerald: "Wonder what will happen next...on the Internet?"
8. The Resolution Will Not Be Identified: Invoked by [adult swim] in Aqua Teen Hunger Force's last season, combining this trope with The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It) was the normally-advertised Grand Finale and aired on August 23rd. Then, [adult swim] discreetly released the true final episode, The Greatest Story Ever Told, online just three days later, retroactively turning the other one into a Series Fauxnale. Then, they aired The Greatest Story on television in the show's normal timeslot a few days later, hiding it by identifying it in TV listings as a rerun of Mouth Quest, the first episode of the season.

1. Milestone Comics - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Due to Milestone abruptly folding in 1997, Icon, Hardware, and Static all did not get proper finales at the time. In 2001, a limited series was released for Static, "Rebirth of the Cool," to tie into the cartoon airing at the time. It wasn't until 2010 that Milestone Forever was released which picked up where the comics left off. ^note Milestone Forever #1 completed the last arc that was cut short for Icon, bringing closure to it and the Blood Syndicate. Milestone Forever #2 was comprised as a Distant Finale for both Hardware and Static.
2. Leave the Camera Running: In Uru: Path of the Shell, three puzzles are solved by waiting at one point for several minutes. The reason for this is those puzzles were designed for the MMORPG which was dropped for various reasons. Cyan finished off the ages they'd been working on and packaged them as Path of the Shell, but their substitute for puzzles that needed multiple people was to put in ridiculous 15-minute pauses. When the online version was revived (briefly) we got to see how the puzzles were originally intended.
3. Batgirl (2009) - The Resolution Will Not Be Serialized: The last pre-Flashpoint story involving Stephanie Brown, which was originally going to be published in issues #8 and #9 of the ongoing Batman, Inc. series, has been collected into an oversized one-shot and will be published as Batman, Inc.: Leviathan Strikes.

1. The World God Only Knows - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: While the anime has basically stayed as close to the manga canon as possible (with some omissions in between season 2 and Goddesses), there are still loads of material from FLAGs 190 to 268, along with the unanimated capture arcs prior to Goddesses. Which, unfortunately due to Manglobe's closure, might never see the opportunity of being animated. - Cut Short
2. And Another Thing... - Aborted Arc: So, what about Vann Harl and Infini-Dim Enterprises? Last we heard, they were still utterly in control of distributing the Guide, as there has been no word on whether Ford's attempt to drain the company of its assets by spending excessively from his company-issued credit card came to any success. At one point, Ford himself mentions that he's still working on that, but will the question ever be revisited? It's improbable... - Aborted Arc
3. Gargoyles - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The series did have a Grand Finale ("Hunter's Moon"), if you believe that The Goliath Chronicles is a separate show. If you look at the The Goliath Chroniclesas season 3, then the series doesn't resolve. - Cut Short?
4. Yu Gi Oh Arc V Ep 96 The Imitation - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Averted. The TV Tokyo staff is forced to do two things: 1) delay the next episode so they could broadcast this episode for next week, and 2) re-schedule the upcoming episodes for the March 2016 (magazine scans included). - Cut Short aversion
5. Live-Action TV: In an obscure example is in the little-known show called Prey, where one of the heroes was put in cell in the middle of a blank room. The was the Cliffhanger show finale, so The Resolution Will Not Be Televised, although The Invisible Man gave a Shout-Out to it when the actor who had played the prisoner was let free. - Left Hanging
6. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vi Vid - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The anime was rather abruptly cancelled after one season^note (according to rumor, because of contractual problems between the producers and Yukari Tamura). It doesn't end at a proper breaking point, or even a Cliffhanger, but just sort of stops in the middle of the story. The final episode doesn't particularly feel like a finale — it's a mostly quiet and contemplative episode devoted to setting up Vivio's long-built-up match with Miura and Rio's fight against Harry, as well as foreshadowing Einhart's upcoming bout with former Interdimensional Champion Sieglinde. - Cut Short
7. Walker, Texas Ranger - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: The conclusion to the 2005 TV movie Trial by Fire was never made, because CBS pulled the plug on their made-for-TV movie stint. Most fans of the original series will disown the movie as non-canon for straying too far from the roots of the original series. - Cut Short
8. TV Genius: Brainiac 5 from the canceled Legion of Super-Heroes animated series seems to use this persona to hide his true emotions. Which seem to involve a lot of Superman and wanting To Become Human. - Cut Short
9. Aladdin: The Series - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Malcho, a Mesoamerican deity monster was tricked by Iago and thereafter banished to the North Pole. He returns, vowing to exact revenge on the parrot. Though he tried several times to capture and devour Iago, Malcho was thwarted again and again by Aladdin. Tricked once more, he was now imprisoned in a volcano. At the end, he began to break free of his second prison, proclaiming that Aladdin was his. No follow-up episode was made. - Aborted Arc
10. Whatever Happened to Baron Von Shock? - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: As a result of series being cancelled halfway through. - Cut Short
11. Rave Master - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Due to the anime being canceled, everything after the first battle with Oracion Seis can only be seen in the manga. - Adaptation Cut Short
12. The Resolution Will Not Be Identified: Clifford the Big Red Dog was going to avert this with a finale where Clifford gets married and has puppies, but due to John Ritter's fatal aortic dissection, that episode was cancelled and the series instead ended with an episode about how Clifford met T-Bone called "Getting To Know You". Although it can be disputed that Clifford's Really Big Movie was the actual Grand Finale. - Examples Are Not Arguable
13. Anime & Manga - His and Her Circumstances' abrupt The Resolution Will Not Be Televised ending, especially since we were getting all hyped up about the play Yukino had been preparing for the past few episodes. This is made even more unforgivable by the fact that, after religiously following the manga virtually to the panel for almost its entire length, Gainax diverted from the story to add an original filler episode just before the end, when only one more episode would have allowed them to portray the play in its entirety. - Aborted Arc
14. Live-Action TV - The X-Files. Even attempts at The Resolution Will Not Be Televised didn't go so well (the series ends with the protagonists "waiting" for a future cataclysm; the second movie was an unrelated plot that preceded this disaster; the supposed third movie to finally give closure languished in Development Hell; and while there was an Un-Canceled tenth\eleventh season miniseries, it started off retconning most of the built-up series mythology and itself ended on a Gainax Ending cliffhanger). - Aborted Arc

1. SAYER - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Finally somewhat resolves the Season 1 Story Arc. (This was before Adam planned to make a fourth season.)
2. 24 - Karma Houdini: Max from Day 2, though he was finally defeated in The Game.
3. Doctor Who S35 E12 "Hell Bent"
   1. The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: In the Expanded Universe stories Supremacy of the Cybermen [Titan Comics] and The Lost Flame [BBC Audio], they're respectively still on his side in a crisis — and never bring the events of this episode up. In the latter, Ohila points out to another character that she's never said she was the Doctor's friend anyway.) - This is Frankensteined with an Only Friend entry and redundant to the actual TRWNBT entry
   2. Riddle for the Ages: Why doesn't the Doctor just go back to Gallifrey at the end now that he's capable of doing so and is alone in the universe? There's nothing that says he can't mend relationships with the Time Lords now that he's sane again. (As for his relationship with Ohila and Karn, that's The Resolution Will Not Be Televised.)

1. Babylon Five Telepaths - The Resolution Will Not Be Televised: Bester is functionally a Karma Houdini in the series, since his planned Crusade episode (which would have shown him now down on his luck) was never made. The final end of his story is instead found in the Psi Corps Trilogy. - Is this the same installment?

1. Gil Scott-Heron: Trope Namer
2. Ending Tropes: Belongs to this index
3. Aborted Arc: Related trope
4. Western Animation
5. Just For Pun - Related trope
6. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Trope namer