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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' (the original game)

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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' (the original game)
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** Interestingly, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' is set up as a formulaic Elizabethan comedy, but suffers a tragic HalfwayPlotSwitch when Mercutio is killed and curses the survivors whose pointless conflict he got in the middle of. From there on, it's Tragedy.
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* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''
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* ''Film/FightClub''
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-->A hero learns of a [[BigBad great evil]] overshadowing the land (sometimes not his own land). He gets [[SupernaturalAid special equipment]], [[WeaponOfChoice weapons]], or skills, then heads out and defeats the evil, freeing the land.

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-->A hero learns of a [[BigBad great evil]] overshadowing the land (sometimes not his own land). He gets [[SupernaturalAid special equipment]], [[WeaponOfChoice weapons]], weapons, or skills, then heads out and defeats the evil, freeing the land.
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* The ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'', most obviously the "inside the game" elements of ''Only You Can Save Mankind'', but the world of the Dead in ''Johnny and the Dead'' and the past in ''Johnny and the Bomb'' also qualify. (Although Creator/TerryPratchett didn't like the idea that these things happened to Johnny ''in order'' to help him grow, because that struck him as a bit too pat.)

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* The ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'', most obviously the "inside the game" elements of ''Only You Can Save Mankind'', but the world of the Dead in ''Johnny and the Dead'' (yes, the Dead are apparently in the "real world", but only for Johnny and ''as long as they're there'' the world is operating on different rules) and the past in ''Johnny and the Bomb'' also qualify. (Although Creator/TerryPratchett didn't like the idea that these things happened to Johnny ''in order'' to help him grow, because that struck him as a bit too pat.)
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* ''Literature/TheJohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'', most obviously the "inside the game" elements of ''Only You Can Save Mankind'', but the world of the Dead in ''Johnny and the Dead'' and the past in ''Johnny and the Bomb'' also qualify. (Although Creator/TerryPratchett didn't like the idea that these things happened to Johnny ''in order'' to help him grow, because that struck him as a bit too pat.)

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* ''Literature/TheJohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'', The ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'', most obviously the "inside the game" elements of ''Only You Can Save Mankind'', but the world of the Dead in ''Johnny and the Dead'' and the past in ''Johnny and the Bomb'' also qualify. (Although Creator/TerryPratchett didn't like the idea that these things happened to Johnny ''in order'' to help him grow, because that struck him as a bit too pat.)
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* ''Literature/TheJohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'', most obviously the "inside the game" elements of ''Only You Can Save Mankind'', but the world of the Dead in ''Johnny and the Dead'' and the past in ''Johnny and the Bomb'' also qualify. (Although Creator/TerryPratchett didn't like the idea that these things happened to Johnny ''in order'' to help him grow, because that struck him as a bit too pat.)

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* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is an example Booker returns to a ''lot''. It's like the crystallized form of this plot, complete with three specific murders, each of which leaves behind a survivor who stays in the shadows until it's time to strike back at the monster [=MacBeth=] has become.

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* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is an example Booker returns to a ''lot''. It's like the crystallized form of this plot, complete with three specific murders, each of which leaves behind a survivor who stays in the shadows until it's time to strike back at the monster [=MacBeth=] Macbeth has become.


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* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', more specifically [[spoiler:Oersted's story arc]].
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"{{Comedy}}", for Booker, is the grand mesh of relationships among [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a large cast]], rooted in [[CannotSpitItOut miscommunication]]. The fog of misunderstanding is maintained by some dark figure, often the hero's parent but sometimes the hero himself; the focus of the dark energy is in keeping the hero apart from his other half.

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"{{Comedy}}", for Booker, is the grand mesh of relationships among [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a large cast]], cast, rooted in [[CannotSpitItOut miscommunication]]. The fog of misunderstanding is maintained by some dark figure, often the hero's parent but sometimes the hero himself; the focus of the dark energy is in keeping the hero apart from his other half.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Encanto'' fits this. The mystery of what is destroying the gift is resolved once all the relationships are fixed, and the antagonist is redeemed to make one big happy family.
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* ''Film/Encanto'' fits this. The mystery of what is destroying the gift is resolved once all the relationships are fixed, and the antagonist is redeemed to make one big happy family.

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* ''Film/Encanto'' ''WesternAnimation/Encanto'' fits this. The mystery of what is destroying the gift is resolved once all the relationships are fixed, and the antagonist is redeemed to make one big happy family.
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* ''Film/Encanto'' fits this. The mystery of what is destroying the gift is resolved once all the relationships are fixed, and the antagonist is redeemed to make one big happy family.

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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' consists of this [[spoiler:upon the return of Voldemort]].



* And pretty much any UnwantedHarem anime.
%% * ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' Admittedly you could call this a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tragedy poor]] [[SpiritualAntithesis example]] because [[spoiler:[[PlatonicLifePartners there's]] [[LukeYouAreMyFather no]] [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether romance]]]]. [[FridgeLogic On the other hand]] it fulfills [[DysfunctionJunction all]] [[DysfunctionalFamily the]] [[DramaticIrony stipulations]] in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything less obvious ways]], and depending on [[FridgeBrilliance how]] [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory you]] [[DeathOfTheAuthor look]] [[WorldOfSymbolism at]] [[RescuedFromPurgatory it]], [[WildMassGuessing this may just be]] [[TheEndingChangesEverything the]] [[EpiphanyTherapy ultimate]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding example]].

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* And pretty Pretty much any UnwantedHarem anime.
%% * ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' Admittedly you could call ''VisualNovel/BadEndTheater'' is this a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tragedy poor]] [[SpiritualAntithesis example]] because [[spoiler:[[PlatonicLifePartners there's]] [[LukeYouAreMyFather no]] [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether romance]]]]. [[FridgeLogic On once [[spoiler:the director breaks the other hand]] it fulfills [[DysfunctionJunction all]] [[DysfunctionalFamily the]] [[DramaticIrony stipulations]] in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything less obvious ways]], cast out of the cycle of disturbing {{Downer Ending}}s that the playwright TRAGEDY orchestrated. The two turn out to have been long-lost love interests, and depending on [[FridgeBrilliance how]] [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory you]] [[DeathOfTheAuthor look]] [[WorldOfSymbolism at]] [[RescuedFromPurgatory it]], [[WildMassGuessing the good end allows the main cast to live together, as well as reform relations between humans and demons. The director is even nicknamed "COMEDY" at times, accidentally fitting this may just be]] [[TheEndingChangesEverything the]] [[EpiphanyTherapy ultimate]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding example]].plot!]]



* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' is this, albeit thinly disguised as a Voyage & Return ([[spoiler:though there are alternate endings that lead to a straight-up {{Tragedy}}]]).

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* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' is this, albeit thinly disguised as a Voyage & Return ([[spoiler:though there are is an alternate endings route that lead leads to a straight-up {{Tragedy}}]]).
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* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' ([[spoiler:though it becomes a straight-up {{Tragedy}} if you fail to play your cards right]])

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* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' is this, albeit thinly disguised as a Voyage & Return ([[spoiler:though it becomes there are alternate endings that lead to a straight-up {{Tragedy}} if you fail to play your cards right]]){{Tragedy}}]]).

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