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** ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' concludes with [[spoiler:Sonic and Sage, the latter controlling the [[HumongousMecha Supreme Titan]], chasing after [[EldritchAbomination The End]] as it leaves Earth. If the player is playing on Hard difficulty, they even get to fight The End in a shoot-em-up sequence.]]

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We need to end the story with a bang. We need to really sell the GrandFinale. We need to use up the rest of our budget. We need something big: bigger than a [[ChekhovsVolcano volcano]], bigger than {{humongous mecha}}, bigger than a battle royale with all the characters.

* The finale of ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' takes place in space as the player and their allies fight to prevent the BigBad from eliminating all marine life on Earth.

* Rainbow Road, the final track in every ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', is in space or at least the upper atmosphere. In ''Mario Kart Wii'' your character even caught fire and burned up during re-entry if they fell off the track. In terms of the [[NostalgiaLevel Retro GP tracks]] in later installments, however, ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' and ''Mario Kart Wii'' avert it by using [[VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash GCN Yoshi Circuit]] and [[VideoGame/MarioKart64 N64 Bowser's Castle]], but ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart8 8]]'' finally play it straight with [[VideoGame/SuperMarioKart SNES Rainbow Road]] and [[VideoGame/MarioKart64 N64 Rainbow Road]], respectively.

* ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' was [[RealLifeWritesThePlot believed by the writers]] to be the last season of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' after ''[[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Turbo's]]'' failure, so they turned it into the GrandFinale to the storyline they'd been telling thus far. It turned out so well that the whole franchise was UnCanceled.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', from the beginning of the third act onward, is set entirely in space, specifically the home pocket universe of the Anti-Spirals. Venturing further into the cosmos is a major theme of the story: at the start the heroes are huddled underground yearning for the surface and sky, and by the end they have the power and will to traverse outer space and hyperspace. So it's only appropriate that for the finale, the outer space imagery is turned UpToEleven. The showdown with the FinalBoss is takes place in hyperspace, where galaxies are hurled like shuriken and the power of the Big Bang is wielded like [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]].

Not to be confused with RecycledInSPACE, though that can happen if the creators are careless. Also not to be confused with an [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Astral Finish]].

* The FinalDungeon of ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair'' is the alien invaders' spaceship, and the FinalBoss battle is [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]

* The last few boss fights of ''[[VideoGame/{{Klonoa}} Klonoa Heroes]]'' take place on the moon... then transition to [[FinalBossNewDimension inside a separate dimension forming on the moon]].

* ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'': The closing part of the first season FinalBattle has the three heroines going out to outer space to make a HeroicSacrifice.

It's time to go to space! Nothing is bigger than space! Total [[{{Pun}} big bang]] right there folks!

* ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'': The closing part of the FinalBattle has the three heroines going out to outer space to make a HeroicSacrifice.

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Not to be confused with RecycledINSPACE, though that can happen if the creators are careless. Also not to be confused with an [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Astral Finish]].

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Not to be confused with [[RecycledINSPACE Recycled IN SPACE]], though that can happen if the creators are careless. Also not to be confused with an [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Astral Finish]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', the FinalBoss is fought in deep space. [[spoiler:Fittingly, it took the appearance of a miniature golden sun]]. It provides the page image.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'' has a {{Downplayed}} example in the final battle between Joseph and [[BigBad Kars]], which ends with [[spoiler:[[ClimacticVolcanoBackdrop a volcanic eruption]] launching the large stone slab they're on all the way to the very edge of the Earth's atmosphere, to the point where stars become visible. Unfortunately for Kars, he gets hit by chunks of debris from the eruption that push him just a little bit further, outside of the Earth's gravitational pull, and dooming him to float through outer space forever. Joseph, meanwhile, survives riding on top of that big piece of rock all the way back down to the sea]].

Yes, space trumps almost any other environment, so it's a natural place to give an ending some style. It doesn't have to be deep space, though: the moon will do, since it gives everyone something to stand on and is still pretty spacy, what with no atmosphere. Once everyone's gotten up there, all the [[TropesInSpace space-related tropes]] apply, though since the action takes up a small portion of the overall runtime, don't expect to see [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay the fruits of a lot of research]].

* A recurring element in ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games is the finale taking place in space. A prime example of this is [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles The Doomsday Zone]] in which Sonic goes into Super/Hyper Mode and chases down Eggman in order to retrieve the stolen Master Emerald and return it to its rightful owner.

* ''Saul of the Molemen'' ended with everyone going into space.