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* The original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' was cancelled abruptly and the final episode of the series was appended with the message that the protagonist, Sam Beckett (misspelled as "Becket" in the original airing) never returned home. There were plans for a sixth season, but they never got off the ground. SequelSeries ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' would later pick up this plot thread, but as of this writing no progress has been made and Sam has been gone for thirty years.

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* The original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' was cancelled abruptly and the final episode of the series was appended with the message that the protagonist, Sam Beckett (misspelled as "Becket" in the original airing) never returned home. There were plans for a sixth season, but they never got off the ground. SequelSeries ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' would later pick up this plot thread, but as of this writing no progress has been made and Sam confirm that he has been gone for thirty years.years, and raised the hope of bringing him home again but made no progress before its own cancellation.
** Speaking of, ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' was similarly cancelled suddenly with its protagonist Ben Song still lost in time, but at least this one comes across more as a BittersweetEnding where AndTheAdventureContinues by not making the claim that he's lost for good.
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* The first, and only episode of [[Creator/TeamFourStar Team Four Star's]] ''Attack on Titan Abridged'' ended with Eren being eaten by a Titan.

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* The first, and only episode of [[Creator/TeamFourStar Team Four Star's]] ''Attack on Titan Abridged'' ended with Eren being eaten by a Titan.Titan as Armin tried unsuccessfully to save him.
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* The first, and only episode of [[Creator/TeamFourStar Team Four Star's]] ''Attack on Titan Abridged'' ended with Eren being eaten by a Titan.
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* ''VideoGame/LegoTheHobbit'': Since the game was released before the third and final movie of the trilogy, ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'', the game's story mode covers the first two movies, ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' and ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'', the latter ending with Smaug escaping the Lonely Mountain and heading to lay waste to Lake Town, and Bard, the only person who can stop him, is imprisoned by the greedy Master and his cohorts, while Gandalf's side of the story ends with him on the ropes in a battle against Sauron. ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' was planned to be added to the story mode with {{DLC}}, but it ended up getting cancelled.

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* ''VideoGame/LegoTheHobbit'': Since the game was released before the third and final movie of the trilogy, ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'', the game's story mode covers the first two movies, ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' and ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'', the latter ending with Smaug escaping the Lonely Mountain and heading to lay waste to Lake Town, and Bard, the only person who can stop him, is imprisoned by the greedy Master and his cohorts, while Gandalf's side of the story ends with him on the ropes in a battle against Sauron.Sauron, who is revealed to have coerced Azog into helping him. ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' was planned to be added to the story mode with {{DLC}}, but it ended up getting cancelled.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': The creators went into season four expecting at least five seasons, only to be abruptly cancelled. As a result, the show concludes with [[BigBad Megabyte]] winning and [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs taking over the Principal Office]], gleefully informing the heroes that he's going to hunt them all down. Creator/TonyJay's death in 2006 didn't help either. The continuation series ''Series/RebootTheGuardianCode'' deciding to completely ignore not just that cliffhanger, but also everything after the original's first season only made it worse,

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* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': The creators went into season four expecting at least five seasons, only to be abruptly cancelled. As a result, the show concludes with [[BigBad Megabyte]] winning and [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs taking over the Principal Office]], gleefully informing the heroes that he's going to hunt them all down. Creator/TonyJay's death in 2006 didn't help either. The continuation series ''Series/RebootTheGuardianCode'' deciding to completely ignore not just that cliffhanger, but also everything after the original's first season only made it worse,worse.
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* Thanks to a bunch of bugs and DummiedOut elements with event flags of its MultipleEndings, ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' has a handful of very nasty endings for a few locations - and to make it all that worse, players trying to get the best outcome will get the ''worst'' one due to said bugs. This involves things like Gecko being brutally conquered by Vault City, Vault City itself being taken over by the NCR as second-class citizens and without any internal reform, the completely messed up ending for New Reno's MobWar disjoined from player actions or the desolation of Modoc. One of the main selling points of the Restoration Project mod is the fact it properly flags the end-game states - to the point there is a separate installation option that ''only'' fixes the endings to work properly and otherwise keeps the game unaffected.
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* ''VideoGame/DarkestOfDays'' ends on a very sour note: you learn ''[[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong why]]'' [[GoodAllAlong the Opposition]] was trying to meddle with history and what sort of bleak future you were safeguarding for the whole game. This was set up as a SequelHook, with both Morris and Dexter switching sides in the outro to help Strinko with his mission to prevent the BadFuture... except the sequel never happened, so the game ends with the realisation the players were doing their darnest to police a timeline that leads to a multi-billion genocide and with no sequel, it's never prevented.
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* The original continuity of the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' series had to be rebooted due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers lawsuit agreements]]. Pretty much ''every remaining'' plot thread is left hanging on a very dour note, the entire echidna race has been banished to another dimension by Thrash, Naugus still has large influence over Mobotropolis and has now possessed his assistant Geoffery, Antoine is still in a coma and Bunnie is MIA, NICOLE and Mina are left trying to alleviate the stigma the former has, Snively has been disowned by Hope and imprisoned by Eggman after a failed coup, and while Sally has been neutralized and is back in the Freedom Fighters' hands, she is still roboticized (and likely in a state difficult to reverse due to Eggman heavily modifying her). The only plot that gets ''some'' resolution is Sonic letting go of his grudge against Silver, which happens ''just'' before the CosmicRetcon. Since this was the swan song for several characters under the copyright concern, needless to say they bowed out in the most miserable way possible, in favor of the new continuity came after and would later be succeeded by [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW IDW's game-based continuity]].

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* The original continuity of the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' series had to be rebooted due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers lawsuit agreements]]. Pretty much ''every remaining'' plot thread is left hanging on a very dour note, the entire echidna race has been banished to another dimension by Thrash, Naugus still has large influence over Mobotropolis and has now possessed his assistant Geoffery, Antoine is still in a coma and Bunnie is MIA, NICOLE and Mina are left trying to alleviate the stigma the former has, Snively has been disowned by Hope and imprisoned by Eggman after a failed coup, and while Sally has been neutralized and is back in the Freedom Fighters' hands, she is still roboticized (and likely in a state difficult to reverse due to Eggman heavily modifying her). The only plot that gets ''some'' resolution is Sonic letting go of his grudge against Silver, which happens ''just'' before the CosmicRetcon. Since this was the swan song for several characters under the copyright concern, needless to say they bowed out in the most miserable way possible, in favor of the new continuity that came after and would later be succeeded by [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW IDW's game-based continuity]].



* ''Series/MortalKombatConquest'': Shao Kahn wins, killing everyone but Raiden, who is now his prisoner, and displays their personal items as proof they've been slain. A second season was planned in which the Elder Gods would have intervened, revived everyone killed and punished Shao Kahn, but this never happened due to TNT not renewing the series, effectively ending the show on a completely bleak note.

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* ''Series/MortalKombatConquest'': Shao Kahn wins, killing everyone but Raiden, who is now his prisoner, and displays their personal items as proof they've been slain. A second season was planned in which the Elder Gods would have intervened, revived everyone everyone, and killed and punished Shao Kahn, but this never happened due to TNT not renewing the series, effectively ending the show on a completely bleak note.

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