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* ''Webcomic/TomboyGF'': When Shion's mom Akari recalls [[HowDadMetMom the time she met her husband]] [[HighSchoolSweethearts back in high school]], the latter was the class rep and tried constantly to get her, [[JapaneseDelinquents a notorious delinquent]], to stop skipping school. Then, during a fight with a gang, Shion's dad took a blow to the head for Akari during a fight and that inspired her to finally start taking school seriously. However, once she began a relationship with him, she refused to let him use a condom when they started having sex, which resulted in [[TeenPregnancy her getting pregnant with Shion]] and thus had to drop out of school, making Shion's dad's efforts to get Akari to stay in school ultimately pointless.

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* ''Webcomic/TomboyGF'': When Shion's mom Akari recalls [[HowDadMetMom the time she met her husband]] [[HighSchoolSweethearts back in high school]], the latter was the class rep and tried constantly to get her, [[JapaneseDelinquents a notorious delinquent]], to stop skipping school. Then, during a fight with a gang, Shion's dad took a blow to the head for Akari during a fight and that inspired her to finally start taking school seriously. However, once she began a relationship with him, she refused to let him use a condom when they started having sex, which resulted in [[TeenPregnancy her getting pregnant with Shion]] and thus had to drop dropping out of school, making Shion's dad's efforts to get Akari to stay in school ultimately pointless.
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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5bs6NHQHM&t=1411s The WORST Board in Mario Party 1...]]", Nick throws the co-op minigame Running of the Bulb to ensure no one (including Sophist) would receive any coins, as Sophist would've had enough to steal a Star from Brent, putting Nick in dead last. But despite his efforts, Nick still ends up in last place, as Sophist manages to overtake him in 3rd place through coins.

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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: WebVideo/PartyCrashers: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5bs6NHQHM&t=1411s The WORST Board in Mario Party 1...]]", Nick throws the co-op minigame Running of the Bulb to ensure no one (including Sophist) would receive any coins, as Sophist would've had enough to steal a Star from Brent, putting Nick in dead last. But despite his efforts, Nick still ends up in last place, as Sophist manages to overtake him in 3rd place through coins.
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* ''WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP'': At the start of the series, in an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spent an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there was a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.



* The ''FanWorks/{{Minecraft}} Multiverse'' makes it extremely clear that any and all attempts to create a monopoly on a Minecraft SMP will be in vain.
** ''WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP'': At the start of the series, in an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spent an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there was a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.
** ''WebVideo/MinecraftSOS'': Oli spends his entire 1st episode trying to make a monopoly on cherry trees and petals to scam everyone out of their resources. Within the same episode, the monopoly is broken twice -- first by Lizzie bone-mealing the free pink petal sample she was given to obtain infinite petals and dye, then by the Blossom Bandits alliance raiding his supply for saplings, allowing them to grow cherry trees by themselves.



* The possibility is considerd by Gaea in ''Film/NoobLaQueteLegendaire'', where the CliffHanger from the previous movie could cause a GameOver in the fictional MMORPG in which the story is set. Gaea has just recently accomplished something that took four years of preperation and is hence worried about having it all vanish in just a few days.

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* The possibility is considerd considered by Gaea in ''Film/NoobLaQueteLegendaire'', where the CliffHanger from the previous movie could cause a GameOver in the fictional MMORPG in which the story is set. Gaea has just recently accomplished something that took four years of preperation preparation and is hence worried about having it all vanish in just a few days.

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The Miracle on Ice had a spectacular aversion.


* The [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague New Orleans Saints']] play known as the River City Relay has become infamous due to this trope. With the Saints trailing by 7 on the final drive of a game they needed to win to have any chance of staying in the playoff race, they pulled off one of the most incredible lateral plays of all time to score a last-second touchdown... only for usually-reliable kicker John Carney to miss the extra point that would have tied the game and forced overtime.

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* The [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague New Orleans Saints']] play known as the River City Relay has become infamous due to this trope. With the Saints trailing by 7 on the final drive of a game they needed to win to have any chance of staying in the playoff race, they pulled off one of the most incredible lateral plays of all time to score a last-second touchdown... only for usually-reliable kicker John Carney to miss the extra point that would have tied the game and forced overtime. Doubly fits the trope in that even if Carney had made the extra point, other results that day eliminated the Saints anyway.



* The defining buzzer-beater shots in the NBA careers of both Michael Jordan and [=LeBron=] James happened in playoff campaigns their teams ultimately lost:
** For Michael Jordan, it was the series-clinching buzzer-beater against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the 1989 Eastern Conference Quarterfinal. The Chicago Bulls would beat the New York Knicks in six games in the Conference Semifinal, then fall to the Detroit Pistons in six games in the Conference Final.
** For [=LeBron=] James, it was the buzzer-beater against the Orlando Magic in Game 2 of the 2009 Eastern Conference Final. The Magic would ultimately win the series in six games.

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* The defining buzzer-beater shots in the NBA careers of both Michael Jordan UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan and [=LeBron=] James UsefulNotes/LeBronJames happened in playoff campaigns their teams ultimately lost:
** For Michael Jordan, MJ, it was the series-clinching buzzer-beater against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the 1989 Eastern Conference Quarterfinal. The Chicago Bulls would beat the New York Knicks in six games in the Conference Semifinal, then fall to the Detroit Pistons in six games in the Conference Final.
** For [=LeBron=] James, [=LeBron=], it was the buzzer-beater against the Orlando Magic in Game 2 of the 2009 Eastern Conference Final. The Magic would ultimately win the series in six games.games.
* Spectacularly averted by the 1980 US Olympic hockey team (depicted in ''Film/{{Miracle}}'') thanks to a last-minute goal that salvaged a tie in the team's first Olympic game against Sweden. While that goal was a confidence builder for the rest of the tournament, it wound up avoiding what would have been the most baffling and anticlimactic result in sports history. Since 1992, the medal round has been played as a knockout tournament, as is standard in almost every other sports tournament in the world. Not so in 1980--the top two teams from the two pools advanced to the medal round and played the top two teams in the other pool. The medals would then be determined by the points standings after these games. Just to make it even more confusing, teams carried their points they'd earned against the team who also advanced in their pool into the medal round, but not the points against the teams that did not advance. Since the Soviets had beaten Finland in pool play they came into the medal round with two points, but the USA and Sweden entered with only one point since they had tied. Finland entered with zero points since it had lost to the Soviets. After Team USA's famous upset of the Soviets in its first medal-round game, it still had to beat Finland to win the gold medal, as correctly depicted in the film. But... had it not tied Sweden in the last minute of that first game, it would have finished the medal round with four points instead of five, meaning the USA and Soviets would be tied. Okay, so the USA gets the tiebreaker for beating the Soviets, right? Nope. The first tiebreaker is goal differential, which the Soviets had the edge in due to beating Sweden 9–2, giving them a +6 differential compared to just +3 for the USA. In other words, that one last-minute goal against Sweden spared the USA, and possibly the entire world, said anticlimactic result.
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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5bs6NHQHM&t=1411s The WORST Board in Mario Party 1...]]", Nick throws the final minigame Running of the Bulb to ensure no one (including Sophist) would receive any coins, as Sophist would've had enough to steal a Star from Brent, putting Nick in dead last. But despite his efforts, Nick still ends up in last place, as Sophist manages to overtake him in 3rd place through coins.

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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5bs6NHQHM&t=1411s The WORST Board in Mario Party 1...]]", Nick throws the final co-op minigame Running of the Bulb to ensure no one (including Sophist) would receive any coins, as Sophist would've had enough to steal a Star from Brent, putting Nick in dead last. But despite his efforts, Nick still ends up in last place, as Sophist manages to overtake him in 3rd place through coins.
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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5bs6NHQHM&t=1411s The WORST Board in Mario Party 1...]]", Nick throws the final minigame Running of the Bulb to ensure no one (including Sophist) would receive any coins, as Sophist would've had enough to steal a Star from Brent, putting Nick in dead last. But despite his efforts, Nick still ends up in last place, as Sophist manages to overtake him in 3rd place through coins.
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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 45, Paddi wants to send Little Knife Goat some snow since he's never seen any before, being from the desert. Paddi goes far away into the desert just to deliver the snow, but at the end of the episode his effort is wasted because [[spoiler:Mr. Slowy invited Little Knife Goat to the snow-covered Goat Village]].

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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 45, Paddi wants to send Little Knife Goat some snow since he's never seen any before, being from the desert. Paddi goes far away into the desert just to deliver the snow, but at the end of the episode his effort is wasted because [[spoiler:Mr. Mr. Slowy invited Little Knife Goat to the snow-covered Goat Village]].Village.



* The 60s anti-war song One Tin Soldier tells of the Valley Folk who covet the great treasure of the Mountain Kingdom. The Kingdom are more than happy to share, but the Valley folk greedly want the whole stash, going to war with the Mountain and wiping them out. In the end, the "treasure" turns out to be [[spoiler: a simple engraving of 'Peace on Earth' on the bottom of a rock]]

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* The 60s anti-war song One Tin Soldier tells of the Valley Folk who covet the great treasure of the Mountain Kingdom. The Kingdom are more than happy to share, but the Valley folk greedly want the whole stash, going to war with the Mountain and wiping them out. In the end, the "treasure" turns out to be [[spoiler: a simple engraving of 'Peace on Earth' on the bottom of a rock]]rock.



** The villain of ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' killed the victim to avoid a scandal becoming public. Even if he's found not guilty, the investigation and subsequent trial reveal the scandal to the world. [[spoiler: And that's only if Phoenix gets the Bad Ending. If he gets the normal ending, then all Engarde has to look forward to is a Guilty verdict, or being hunted down by the assassin he hired. He chooses to face prison rather than the angry assassin.]]

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** The villain of ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' killed the victim to avoid a scandal becoming public. Even if he's found not guilty, the investigation and subsequent trial reveal the scandal to the world. [[spoiler: And that's only if Phoenix gets the Bad Ending. If he gets the normal ending, then all Engarde has to look forward to is a Guilty verdict, or being hunted down by the assassin he hired. He chooses to face prison rather than the angry assassin.]]



** In the flashback trial during ''Apollo Justice'', Klavier asks the judge to clear the courtroom before [[spoiler: accusing Phoenix of forging evidence]] because he knew that such an accusation could have serious ramifications for the legal system. Come ''Dual Destinies'', we find out that despite his efforts, [[spoiler: his accusation against Phoenix and subsequent disbarment]] was one of two incidents that kickstarted the Dark Age of the Law, where the public lost its faith in the legal system.

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** In the flashback trial during ''Apollo Justice'', Klavier asks the judge to clear the courtroom before [[spoiler: accusing Phoenix of forging evidence]] evidence because he knew that such an accusation could have serious ramifications for the legal system. Come ''Dual Destinies'', we find out that despite his efforts, [[spoiler: his accusation against Phoenix and subsequent disbarment]] disbarment was one of two incidents that kickstarted the Dark Age of the Law, where the public lost its faith in the legal system.



** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Monokuma ''loves'' this. After all, what's more despairing than going through hell and becoming a murderer to escape a GildedCage only to find out that the reason you did it never mattered at all? He outright gloats during the final trial that all his motives were meaningless, [[spoiler: since the Tragedy ruined the outside world.]]
*** The general motive is 'escape the school'. [[spoiler: However, the students locked themselves in there ''willingly'' to wait out the Tragedy, and escaping would put them right back into the middle of it.]]
*** The first motive is videos that imply the students' loved ones outside are in grave danger, [[spoiler: which is why Sayaka snaps and tries to kill Leon, only to get killed herself]]. Problem is, [[spoiler: it's been a year since the Tragedy. Whatever happened to said relatives, it's not like the students could do anything about it ''now'' (though ''Ultra Despair Girls'' reveals that many of the loved ones mentioned in the videos are alive).]]
*** The second motive is promising to embarrassing secrets. While it's up in the air how the students themselves would judge each other with their secrets revealed, [[spoiler: it's highly unlikely that anyone left in the outside world would ''care''- for example, Mondo worries about his secret being revealed (which eventually leads to him murdering Chihiro) because the Crazy Diamonds would fall apart if they knew. It's highly unlikely that they made it through the Tragedy intact.]]
*** The third motive is money. [[spoiler: Money isn't all that useful in an apocalypse, and Celeste's dream of living in a castle with handsome butlers dressed like vampires now simply doesn't have the infrastructure to support it.]]
*** The fourth motive is revealing the identity of TheMole: [[spoiler: Sakura Oogami. By this point, Sakura had already turned against Monokuma, so killing her wouldn't hurt him at all and would in fact get rid of a powerful loose end.]]
*** This happens again in the 4th case with [[spoiler: Aoi trying to frame herself. She wants to get everyone killed out of revenge for dragging Sakura past the DespairEventHorizon, but Sakura ''never'' fell to despair; she killed herself for ''altruistic'' reasons, namely fulfilling her bargain with Monokuma (thus causing him to release his hostages) and so that the students wouldn't kill each other over her. Her suicide note begs Aoi to ''live'' for her, but Monokuma replaced it with a fake that claimed she died in despair. Had Aoi succeeded in her frame job, she'd have completely invalidated Sakura's HeroicSacrifice.]]
*** [[spoiler: Junko's whole plan. Sure, she created a VillainWorld and trapped her classmates inside the school, but she also trapped ''herself'' inside the school (and restricted herself further by playing Monokuma in the killing game), and Makoto manages to rally her remaining classmates against the game and her. In the end, she ''loves'' this, since it allows her to feel the despair of such an important plan failing horribly. She then promptly executes herself to complete it.]]
** As usual, most of the murders in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' are, on some level, meaningless. It's a Monokuma trademark. [[spoiler: "Graduating" wouldn't even mean leaving the island, since they're in a VR game and their real bodies are in a Future Foundation compound and observed by the previous game's cast. Even if they woke up, they likely wouldn't get very far.]]
*** Teruteru committed murder to be able to escape and see his mother. Aside from the above problems with escape, [[spoiler: He was a member of Ultimate Despair, who were known for killing their loved ones so they could feel despair at their deaths. It's highly likely that either his mom died from the Tragedy or was killed by Teruteru himself.]]
*** [[spoiler: Fuyuhiko and Peko fall into this in different ways. Fuyuhiko didn't get the chance to kill Mahiru, but he wanted to in order to avenge his sister. Mahiru really didn't have much to do with his sister's murder; Monokuma just implied this was the case to mess with Fuyuhiko. Peko killed Mahiro partially to protect Fuyuhiko (which did work) and partially because she saw herself as his tool and thought that he would be counted as responsible for anything she did (and thus he'd be the real Blackened and could escape at the cost of her life). However, neither Fuyuhiko nor Monokuma thought of Peko as a tool, so she gets executed as the sole culprit.]]
*** It's heavily implied that the "love" [[spoiler: Mikan killed for was ''Junko'', who aside from being a psychopathic manipulator has also been dead for years, having killed herself at the end of the previous game.]]
*** [[spoiler: Nagito schemed to make TheMole the Blackened so that they, as the only ''non''- Remnant of Despair, could escape. Thing is, the mole was there on behalf of the Future Foundation to ''rehabilitate'' the Remnants of Despair, so surviving at the cost of everyone else would be ''failing'' that mission (and incidentally handing the bodies of the students to Alter Ego Junko on a silver platter). And to top it all off, the mole is an AI and thus couldn't leave in any case. The mole ends up figuring out his plan and confesses in order to spare the other students, so the only one killed is the only one he didn't ''want'' to die.]]

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** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Monokuma ''loves'' this. After all, what's more despairing than going through hell and becoming a murderer to escape a GildedCage only to find out that the reason you did it never mattered at all? He outright gloats during the final trial that all his motives were meaningless, [[spoiler: since the Tragedy ruined the outside world.]]
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*** The general motive is 'escape the school'. [[spoiler: However, the students locked themselves in there ''willingly'' to wait out the Tragedy, and escaping would put them right back into the middle of it.]]
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*** The first motive is videos that imply the students' loved ones outside are in grave danger, [[spoiler: which is why Sayaka snaps and tries to kill Leon, only to get killed herself]]. herself. Problem is, [[spoiler: it's been a year since the Tragedy. Whatever happened to said relatives, it's not like the students could do anything about it ''now'' (though ''Ultra Despair Girls'' reveals that many of the loved ones mentioned in the videos are alive).]]
alive).
*** The second motive is promising to embarrassing secrets. While it's up in the air how the students themselves would judge each other with their secrets revealed, [[spoiler: it's highly unlikely that anyone left in the outside world would ''care''- for example, Mondo worries about his secret being revealed (which eventually leads to him murdering Chihiro) because the Crazy Diamonds would fall apart if they knew. It's highly unlikely that they made it through the Tragedy intact.]]
intact.
*** The third motive is money. [[spoiler: Money isn't all that useful in an apocalypse, and Celeste's dream of living in a castle with handsome butlers dressed like vampires now simply doesn't have the infrastructure to support it.]]
it.
*** The fourth motive is revealing the identity of TheMole: [[spoiler: Sakura Oogami. By this point, Sakura had already turned against Monokuma, so killing her wouldn't hurt him at all and would in fact get rid of a powerful loose end.]]
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*** This happens again in the 4th case with [[spoiler: Aoi trying to frame herself. She wants to get everyone killed out of revenge for dragging Sakura past the DespairEventHorizon, but Sakura ''never'' fell to despair; she killed herself for ''altruistic'' reasons, namely fulfilling her bargain with Monokuma (thus causing him to release his hostages) and so that the students wouldn't kill each other over her. Her suicide note begs Aoi to ''live'' for her, but Monokuma replaced it with a fake that claimed she died in despair. Had Aoi succeeded in her frame job, she'd have completely invalidated Sakura's HeroicSacrifice.]]
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*** [[spoiler: Junko's whole plan. Sure, she created a VillainWorld and trapped her classmates inside the school, but she also trapped ''herself'' inside the school (and restricted herself further by playing Monokuma in the killing game), and Makoto manages to rally her remaining classmates against the game and her. In the end, she ''loves'' this, since it allows her to feel the despair of such an important plan failing horribly. She then promptly executes herself to complete it.]]
it.
** As usual, most of the murders in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' are, on some level, meaningless. It's a Monokuma trademark. [[spoiler: "Graduating" wouldn't even mean leaving the island, since they're in a VR game and their real bodies are in a Future Foundation compound and observed by the previous game's cast. Even if they woke up, they likely wouldn't get very far.]]
far.
*** Teruteru committed murder to be able to escape and see his mother. Aside from the above problems with escape, [[spoiler: He was a member of Ultimate Despair, who were known for killing their loved ones so they could feel despair at their deaths. It's highly likely that either his mom died from the Tragedy or was killed by Teruteru himself.]]
himself.
*** [[spoiler: Fuyuhiko and Peko fall into this in different ways. Fuyuhiko didn't get the chance to kill Mahiru, but he wanted to in order to avenge his sister. Mahiru really didn't have much to do with his sister's murder; Monokuma just implied this was the case to mess with Fuyuhiko. Peko killed Mahiro partially to protect Fuyuhiko (which did work) and partially because she saw herself as his tool and thought that he would be counted as responsible for anything she did (and thus he'd be the real Blackened and could escape at the cost of her life). However, neither Fuyuhiko nor Monokuma thought of Peko as a tool, so she gets executed as the sole culprit.]]
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*** It's heavily implied that the "love" [[spoiler: Mikan killed for was ''Junko'', who aside from being a psychopathic manipulator has also been dead for years, having killed herself at the end of the previous game.]]
game.
*** [[spoiler: Nagito schemed to make TheMole the Blackened so that they, as the only ''non''- Remnant of Despair, could escape. Thing is, the mole was there on behalf of the Future Foundation to ''rehabilitate'' the Remnants of Despair, so surviving at the cost of everyone else would be ''failing'' that mission (and incidentally handing the bodies of the students to Alter Ego Junko on a silver platter). And to top it all off, the mole is an AI and thus couldn't leave in any case. The mole ends up figuring out his plan and confesses in order to spare the other students, so the only one killed is the only one he didn't ''want'' to die.]]



** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Hanako's Bad and Neutral Endings. [[spoiler: In the Bad Ending, she screams how nothing has changed in her life before delivering a PlayerPunch and a GetOut. In the Neutral Ending, she tentatively clarifies that nothing has changed, with [[PlayerCharacter Hisao]] agreeing.]]
** Played straight in Lilly's Neutral Ending: [[spoiler: she leaves for Scotland, never to return. Hisao feels that his relationship with her was completely pointless.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]]] in Lilly's Good Ending. [[spoiler: Hisao [[RaceForYourLove chases after Lilly as she's on her way to the airport]]. Mere meters from her, he has a heart attack and wakes up two days later in hospital. Resenting his condition and blaming himself for never helping Lilly with her issues beforehand, Hisao comes very close to crossing the DespairEventHorizon. The next scene (using a ChekhovsGun) shows that Lilly never left Japan; she stayed behind to build her future with Hisao.]]
** In Rin's first bad ending, which you get by selecting "[[spoiler:Then explain]]," Hisao and Rin break up after an argument, and the last line of Hisao's inner monologue is about how much time he wasted on their relationship.

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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Hanako's Bad and Neutral Endings. [[spoiler: In the Bad Ending, she screams how nothing has changed in her life before delivering a PlayerPunch and a GetOut. In the Neutral Ending, she tentatively clarifies that nothing has changed, with [[PlayerCharacter Hisao]] agreeing.]]
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** Played straight in Lilly's Neutral Ending: [[spoiler: she leaves for Scotland, never to return. Hisao feels that his relationship with her was completely pointless.]]
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*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]]] {{Subverted}} in Lilly's Good Ending. [[spoiler: Hisao [[RaceForYourLove chases after Lilly as she's on her way to the airport]]. Mere meters from her, he has a heart attack and wakes up two days later in hospital. Resenting his condition and blaming himself for never helping Lilly with her issues beforehand, Hisao comes very close to crossing the DespairEventHorizon. The next scene (using a ChekhovsGun) shows that Lilly never left Japan; she stayed behind to build her future with Hisao.]]
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** In Rin's first bad ending, which you get by selecting "[[spoiler:Then explain]]," "Then explain," Hisao and Rin break up after an argument, and the last line of Hisao's inner monologue is about how much time he wasted on their relationship.



** Raven spends the fifth volume concocting plan to oppose Salem by obtaining the Relic of Knowledge for herself, and actually succeeds in reaching the Relic. However, the very act of her success reveals her entire plan was a lost cause, instantly undoing all the effort she went to. [[spoiler:Raven is a DirtyCoward who wants Salem to leave her alone, but the Relic attracts Grimm and would make Raven an ''even bigger'' target. When Yang forces her to confront this, Raven is left to flee, having lost her brother (he disowned her for good), her lieutenant Vernal (died as a Maiden decoy), and revealed herself as the Spring Maiden in return for nothing whatsoever.]]
** Ironwood spends the entire Atlas Arc attempting to save the city of Atlas from Salem and tried to stop her from getting the Relics in his possession. Unfortunately, this all ends in vain. [[spoiler:Ironwood begins using extreme measures such as declaring martial law and abandoning the people of Mantle to die when Salem is on her way and orders Winter to kill the Winter Maiden. Team RWBY and the rest of the heroes turn against him because of it, Penny obtains the Winter Maiden's powers instead and goes with them and Salem eventually finds a way to get through Atlas' defenses and launches a Grimm attack on the city. After Salem is temporarily taken out, Ironwood decides to threaten the heroes with bombing Mantle himself in order to get what he wants and leads to his remaining allies in the military abandoning him as a result. Even when he planned on Winter becoming the next Winter Maiden, she turned against him by the point it happened as he is left to die on the falling city of Atlas with everyone else in the Kingdom being evacuated and Cinder and Salem claiming the two relics as he gives up when attempting to shoot them.]]

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** Raven spends the fifth volume concocting plan to oppose Salem by obtaining the Relic of Knowledge for herself, and actually succeeds in reaching the Relic. However, the very act of her success reveals her entire plan was a lost cause, instantly undoing all the effort she went to. [[spoiler:Raven Raven is a DirtyCoward who wants Salem to leave her alone, but the Relic attracts Grimm and would make Raven an ''even bigger'' target. When Yang forces her to confront this, Raven is left to flee, having lost her brother (he disowned her for good), her lieutenant Vernal (died as a Maiden decoy), and revealed herself as the Spring Maiden in return for nothing whatsoever.]]
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** Ironwood spends the entire Atlas Arc attempting to save the city of Atlas from Salem and tried to stop her from getting the Relics in his possession. Unfortunately, this all ends in vain. [[spoiler:Ironwood Ironwood begins using extreme measures such as declaring martial law and abandoning the people of Mantle to die when Salem is on her way and orders Winter to kill the Winter Maiden. Team RWBY and the rest of the heroes turn against him because of it, Penny obtains the Winter Maiden's powers instead and goes with them and Salem eventually finds a way to get through Atlas' defenses and launches a Grimm attack on the city. After Salem is temporarily taken out, Ironwood decides to threaten the heroes with bombing Mantle himself in order to get what he wants and leads to his remaining allies in the military abandoning him as a result. Even when he planned on Winter becoming the next Winter Maiden, she turned against him by the point it happened as he is left to die on the falling city of Atlas with everyone else in the Kingdom being evacuated and Cinder and Salem claiming the two relics as he gives up when attempting to shoot them.]]



* ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'': Both Alice and Jesper. [[spoiler:Alice's efforts to keep her town low-tech in order to prevent another war is invalidated by the Praeses' escapees "awakening" humanity within a few years, while Jesper's plan to bully the Praeses into helping him uplift humanity is rendered moot by those same escapees doing exactly what he'd hoped for... which he doesn't even learn about before Alice kills him.]]
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Lady [[spoiler:Margarella Selnikov]] kidnaps a monk and forces him to lead her through the vaults of his monastery, which contain various confiscated mad science inventions. When what's in one vault does not match her guide book, she panics and begins opening ''all'' the vaults in an effort to find it, eventually releasing The Beast, which kills her. We later learn ''she wasn't even in the right vaults'' to begin with, rendering her death and the damage caused by The Beast all for nothing as far as she was concerned. (Agatha got a great ally out of the mess.)

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* ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'': Both Alice and Jesper. [[spoiler:Alice's Alice's efforts to keep her town low-tech in order to prevent another war is invalidated by the Praeses' escapees "awakening" humanity within a few years, while Jesper's plan to bully the Praeses into helping him uplift humanity is rendered moot by those same escapees doing exactly what he'd hoped for... which he doesn't even learn about before Alice kills him.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Lady [[spoiler:Margarella Selnikov]] Margarella Selnikov kidnaps a monk and forces him to lead her through the vaults of his monastery, which contain various confiscated mad science inventions. When what's in one vault does not match her guide book, she panics and begins opening ''all'' the vaults in an effort to find it, eventually releasing The Beast, which kills her. We later learn ''she wasn't even in the right vaults'' to begin with, rendering her death and the damage caused by The Beast all for nothing as far as she was concerned. (Agatha got a great ally out of the mess.)



* ''Webcomic/TomboyGF'': When Shion's mom Akari recalls [[HowDadMetMom the time she met her husband]] [[HighSchoolSweethearts back in high school]], the latter was the class rep and tried constantly to get her, [[JapaneseDelinquents a notorious delinquent]], to stop skipping school. Then, during a fight with a gang, Shion's dad took a blow to the head for Akari during a fight and that inspired her to finally start taking school seriously. [[spoiler:However, once she began a relationship with him, she refused to let him use a condom when they started having sex, which resulted in [[TeenPregnancy her getting pregnant with Shion]] and thus had to drop out of school, making Shion's dad's efforts to get Akari to stay in school ultimately pointless.]]

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* ''Webcomic/TomboyGF'': When Shion's mom Akari recalls [[HowDadMetMom the time she met her husband]] [[HighSchoolSweethearts back in high school]], the latter was the class rep and tried constantly to get her, [[JapaneseDelinquents a notorious delinquent]], to stop skipping school. Then, during a fight with a gang, Shion's dad took a blow to the head for Akari during a fight and that inspired her to finally start taking school seriously. [[spoiler:However, However, once she began a relationship with him, she refused to let him use a condom when they started having sex, which resulted in [[TeenPregnancy her getting pregnant with Shion]] and thus had to drop out of school, making Shion's dad's efforts to get Akari to stay in school ultimately pointless.]]



* ''WebVideo/TheFinalMinutes'': ''Zombie Plague'' eventually culminates in The United States deciding to [[spoiler:"sterelize" Australia with nuclear weapons in a last-ditch effort to slow the spread of XMNV]]. Part Two reveals that these did nothing to slow the spread of XMNV, with Australia's post-devastation emergency broadcast even outright announcing that [[spoiler:the strikes failed to wipe out the mutants]].

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* ''WebVideo/TheFinalMinutes'': ''Zombie Plague'' eventually culminates in The United States deciding to [[spoiler:"sterelize" "sterelize" Australia with nuclear weapons in a last-ditch effort to slow the spread of XMNV]]. XMNV. Part Two reveals that these did nothing to slow the spread of XMNV, with Australia's post-devastation emergency broadcast even outright announcing that [[spoiler:the the strikes failed to wipe out the mutants]].mutants.



** This is Buck's greatest fear. [[spoiler:It is revealed that, due to Buck's obsession of meeting Lady Luck again, he had been abandoning the relationships he made in order to continue search for Lady Luck. Buck is well aware that he basically rendered himself all alone, and that only serves to further push him into finding Lady Luck just to make sure all of this wasn't for nothing (even if it is at the cost of any further relationships he could make, like with the other party members).]]
* ''WebVideo/MinecraftUtopia'': [[spoiler:Most of Utopia 1's citizens tried hard to protect the city from several threats and achieve their goals. Despite managing to survive the Upside-Down Dimension, defeat Evil Carlin, and being succesful to destroy the aliens' mothership, their efforts were in vain since Luiz got bored with them and just activated hardcore mode, killing most of the players and causing the abandonment of the city.]]

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** This is Buck's greatest fear. [[spoiler:It It is revealed that, due to Buck's obsession of meeting Lady Luck again, he had been abandoning the relationships he made in order to continue search for Lady Luck. Buck is well aware that he basically rendered himself all alone, and that only serves to further push him into finding Lady Luck just to make sure all of this wasn't for nothing (even if it is at the cost of any further relationships he could make, like with the other party members).]]
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* ''WebVideo/MinecraftUtopia'': [[spoiler:Most Most of Utopia 1's citizens tried hard to protect the city from several threats and achieve their goals. Despite managing to survive the Upside-Down Dimension, defeat Evil Carlin, and being succesful to destroy the aliens' mothership, their efforts were in vain since Luiz got bored with them and just activated hardcore mode, killing most of the players and causing the abandonment of the city.]]



** Most series end with the cast failing to achieve their goal as the last men standing are killed off. The only exceptions to date are [[spoiler:''Minecraft #1'', ''Diablo II'', and ''Minecraft #4'']].
** In ''Minecraft #5'', [[spoiler:Ray, Dean and [=McJones=]]] risk their lives finding Nether Wart, ultimately dying in the process. When Jeff, [[spoiler:who eventually becomes the SoleSurvivor]], tries to make potions in episode 22, he doesn't know how to do so and is unwilling to look it up. So he decides not to bother, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering the hunt for the Nether Wart pointless]].

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** Most series end with the cast failing to achieve their goal as the last men standing are killed off. The only exceptions to date are [[spoiler:''Minecraft ''Minecraft #1'', ''Diablo II'', and ''Minecraft #4'']].
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** In ''Minecraft #5'', [[spoiler:Ray, Ray, Dean and [=McJones=]]] [=McJones=] risk their lives finding Nether Wart, ultimately dying in the process. When Jeff, [[spoiler:who who eventually becomes the SoleSurvivor]], SoleSurvivor, tries to make potions in episode 22, he doesn't know how to do so and is unwilling to look it up. So he decides not to bother, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering the hunt for the Nether Wart pointless]].



* The ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' episode "Borderline Forever", which has Scott going on all sorts of adventures in an attempt to break free from the blue border in all of his videos, ends with Scott [[spoiler:allowing himself to be contained by the border for good, with the knowledge that everyone else will be spared by it]]. Lampshaded by one of his friends who tagged along for the ride:

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* The ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' episode "Borderline Forever", which has Scott going on all sorts of adventures in an attempt to break free from the blue border in all of his videos, ends with Scott [[spoiler:allowing allowing himself to be contained by the border for good, with the knowledge that everyone else will be spared by it]].it. Lampshaded by one of his friends who tagged along for the ride:



* ''WebVideo/SlimecicleCinematicUniverse'': Slimecicle, Bizly, Condi, and Grizzly go through trial after trial trying to beat "The HARDEST Minecraft Difficulty", dealing with much deadlier enemies, unpredictable random events, and even [[spoiler:Grizzly undergoing a FaceHeelTurn after being sent to Hell for [[ItMakesSenseInContext making Diamond Pickaxes squeaky and single-use]], mandating a detour to kill him off for good]]... only for it to be revealed that [[spoiler:[[PlotCoupon Eyes of Ender]] are now crafted from seeds and tree saplings]].

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* ''WebVideo/SlimecicleCinematicUniverse'': Slimecicle, Bizly, Condi, and Grizzly go through trial after trial trying to beat "The HARDEST Minecraft Difficulty", dealing with much deadlier enemies, unpredictable random events, and even [[spoiler:Grizzly Grizzly undergoing a FaceHeelTurn after being sent to Hell for [[ItMakesSenseInContext making Diamond Pickaxes squeaky and single-use]], mandating a detour to kill him off for good]]... good... only for it to be revealed that [[spoiler:[[PlotCoupon [[PlotCoupon Eyes of Ender]] are now crafted from seeds and tree saplings]].saplings.
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* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]]'': At the start of the series, in an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spent an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there was a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.

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* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]]'': ''WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP'': At the start of the series, in an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spent an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there was a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.



* ''WebVideo/TheFinalMinutes'': ''Zombie Plague'' eventually culminates in The United States deciding to [[spoiler: "sterelize" Australia with nuclear weapons in a last-ditch effort to slow the spread of XMNV]]. Part Two reveals that these did nothing to slow the spread of XMNV, with Australia's post-devastation emergency broadcast even outright announcing that [[spoiler: the strikes failed to wipe out the mutants]].

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* ''WebVideo/TheFinalMinutes'': ''Zombie Plague'' eventually culminates in The United States deciding to [[spoiler: "sterelize" [[spoiler:"sterelize" Australia with nuclear weapons in a last-ditch effort to slow the spread of XMNV]]. Part Two reveals that these did nothing to slow the spread of XMNV, with Australia's post-devastation emergency broadcast even outright announcing that [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the strikes failed to wipe out the mutants]].



** This is Buck's greatest fear. [[spoiler: It is revealed that, due to Buck's obsession of meeting Lady Luck again, he had been abandoning the relationships he made in order to continue search for Lady Luck. Buck is well aware that he basically rendered himself all alone, and that only serves to further push him into finding Lady Luck just to make sure all of this wasn't for nothing (even if it is at the cost of any further relationships he could make, like with the other party members).]]

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** This is Buck's greatest fear. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It is revealed that, due to Buck's obsession of meeting Lady Luck again, he had been abandoning the relationships he made in order to continue search for Lady Luck. Buck is well aware that he basically rendered himself all alone, and that only serves to further push him into finding Lady Luck just to make sure all of this wasn't for nothing (even if it is at the cost of any further relationships he could make, like with the other party members).]]

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* ''WebVideo/DreamShorts'': In "Dream Team Stranded On An Island," Sapnap proposes they [[EatTheDog eat Patches, Dream's cat, so they don't starve]]. Though he resists at first, Dream eventually relents and lets Patches be killed, only for the team to be rescued mere seconds later.

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* ''WebVideo/DreamShorts'': In "Dream Team Stranded On An Island," Sapnap proposes they [[EatTheDog [[EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal eat Patches, Dream's cat, so they don't starve]]. Though he resists at first, Dream eventually relents and lets Patches be killed, only for the team to be rescued mere seconds later.

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