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* In ''ComicBook/SubMarinerTheDepths'', Stein successfully covers up Atlantis' existence and kills all the witnesses, allowing to continue living in his materialistic lifestyle. It brings him none of the joy or peace he was clearly seeking, instead just adding unending guilt onto his trauma and misery.
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* [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] ended up being screwjobbed out of winning the WWE Championship at [=SummerSlam=] 2013 when special guest referee Wrestling/TripleH put the Pedigree on Bryan (after the match had ended), and Wrestling/RandyOrton cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to win the WWE Championship. After having his Night of Champions victory against Orton stripped away by Triple H, Bryan demanded a rematch at [=WrestleMania=] 30, with the winner of Bryan vs. Triple H going on to face Randy Orton and Wrestling/{{Batista}} in a triple threat match for the WWE Championship. After beating Triple H, Bryan went on to face off against Orton and Batista and win the WWE Championship belt. After successfully defending his championship against Wrestling/{{Kane}} at Extreme Rules 2014, Bryan lost all strength in his right arm and would have to undergo neck surgery, it was revealed that Bryan was physically unable to compete at Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank, which resulted in Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon stripping Bryan of his championship on the June 9th Raw episode, ending his reign at 64 days. Bryan would return in November 2014, and go on to face Intercontinental champion [[Wrestling/WadeBarrett Bad News Barrett]] and win the belt at [=WrestleMania=] 31, only to hit his head on the [=SmackDown=] announcers' table a week later, splitting his forehead open and requiring surgery. After undergoing an MRI, Bryan voluntarily relinquished the Intercontinental belt, and announced his retirement in February 2016. (Though he would return to the ring in 2018; he's since moved on to Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, now performing again under his real name of Bryan Danielson.)
* At Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2014, Team Cena (Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/ErickRowan, Wrestling/{{Ryback}}, Wrestling/BigShow, and Wrestling/DolphZiggler) faced Team [[Wrestling/TheAuthority Authority]] (Wrestling/{{Kane}}, Wrestling/LukeHarper, Wrestling/MarkHenry, Wrestling/{{Rusev|andLana}}, and Wrestling/SethRollins) with the stipulation that if Team Cena was victorious, Triple H and Stephanie [=McMahon=] would step down from power, but with a caveat: only Cena could bring back the Authority. In the end, after Big Show punched out Cena and walked away from the ring, Ziggler was the only remaining member of Team Cena, who would successively pin Kane, Harper and Rollins, giving Team Cena the win. On the December 29 Raw, Seth Rollins threatened to curbstomp special guest Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}, who had retired from multiple neck injuries, demanding that Cena bring back the Authority after little more than a month of exile. Cena had no other choice but to grant Rollins' demand, and as a result, Ziggler, Rowan, and Ryback were temporarily fired, and [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Cena was applauded by Triple H and Stephanie]] for bringing them back into power.
* After the breakup of Special K, The Lovely Lacey [[YouHaveFailedMe dumped]] Izzy and Deranged in favor of managing Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and BJ Whitmer. However they ended up being a less effective TagTeam as Lacey's Angels, mostly due to Lacey's attempts to "improve" Jacobs, which caused Whitmer to turn on him when Jacobs's concern for Lacey led to them losing an Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}oH Title match to [[Wrestling/AustinAries Generation]] [[Wrestling/RoderickStrong Next]]. Lacey didn't care about Jacobs but felt Whitmer had betrayed her personally and ordered Jacobs to put him out of wrestling. This led to a one-sided feud where Whitmer almost killed Jacobs with power bombs on two separate occasions. And when Jacobs finally did manage to give Whitmer an injury Jacobs was so injured himself he required crutches.
* [[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Britani Knight]] wrestled five matches in twenty eight hours, leading up to her defeating [[Wrestling/NikkiCross Nikki Storm]] in the tournament finals to become the first champion of Pro Wrestling Eve. Then she came down with glandular fever.

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* [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] ended up being screwjobbed out of winning the WWE Championship at [=SummerSlam=] 2013 when special guest referee Wrestling/TripleH put the Pedigree on Bryan (after the match had ended), and Wrestling/RandyOrton cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to win the WWE Championship. After having his Night of Champions victory against Orton stripped away by Triple H, Bryan demanded a rematch at [=WrestleMania=] 30, with the winner of Bryan vs. Triple H going on to face Randy Orton and Wrestling/{{Batista}} in a triple threat match for the WWE Championship. After beating Triple H, Bryan went on to face off against Orton and Batista and win the WWE Championship belt. After successfully defending his championship against Wrestling/{{Kane}} at Extreme Rules 2014, Bryan lost all strength in his right arm and would have to undergo neck surgery, it was revealed that Bryan was physically unable to compete at Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank, which resulted in Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon stripping Bryan of his championship on the June 9th Raw episode, ending his reign at 64 days. Bryan would return in November 2014, and go on to face Intercontinental champion [[Wrestling/WadeBarrett Bad News Barrett]] and win the belt at [=WrestleMania=] 31, only to hit his head on the [=SmackDown=] announcers' table a week later, splitting his forehead open and requiring surgery. After undergoing an MRI, Bryan voluntarily relinquished the Intercontinental belt, belt and announced his retirement in February 2016. (Though he would return to the ring in 2018; he's since moved on to Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, now performing again under his real name of Bryan Danielson.)
* At Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2014, Team Cena (Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/ErickRowan, Wrestling/{{Ryback}}, Wrestling/BigShow, and Wrestling/DolphZiggler) faced Team [[Wrestling/TheAuthority Authority]] (Wrestling/{{Kane}}, Wrestling/LukeHarper, Wrestling/MarkHenry, Wrestling/{{Rusev|andLana}}, and Wrestling/SethRollins) with the stipulation that if Team Cena was victorious, Triple H and Stephanie [=McMahon=] would step down from power, but with a caveat: only Cena could bring back the Authority. In the end, after Big Show punched out Cena and walked away from the ring, Ziggler was the only remaining member of Team Cena, who would successively pin Kane, Harper Harper, and Rollins, giving Team Cena the win. On the December 29 Raw, Seth Rollins threatened to curbstomp curb-stomp special guest Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}, who had retired from multiple neck injuries, demanding that Cena bring back the The Authority after little more than a month of exile. Cena had no other choice but to grant Rollins' Rollins's demand, and as a result, Ziggler, Rowan, and Ryback were temporarily fired, and [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Cena was applauded by Triple H and Stephanie]] for bringing them back into power.
* After the breakup of Special K, The Lovely Lacey [[YouHaveFailedMe dumped]] Izzy and Deranged in favor of managing Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and BJ Whitmer. However However, they ended up being a less effective TagTeam as Lacey's Angels, mostly due to Lacey's attempts to "improve" Jacobs, which caused Whitmer to turn on him when Jacobs's concern for Lacey led to them losing an a Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}oH Title match to [[Wrestling/AustinAries Generation]] [[Wrestling/RoderickStrong Next]]. Lacey didn't care about Jacobs but felt Whitmer had betrayed her personally and ordered Jacobs to put him out of wrestling. This led to a one-sided feud where Whitmer almost killed Jacobs with power bombs on two separate occasions. And when Jacobs finally did manage to give Whitmer an injury Jacobs was so injured himself he required crutches.
* [[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Britani Knight]] wrestled five matches in twenty eight twenty-eight hours, leading up to her defeating [[Wrestling/NikkiCross Nikki Storm]] in the tournament finals to become the first champion of Pro Wrestling Eve. Then she came down with glandular fever.



* Any gruesomely tiring or injurious match can be turned into one of these for the WWE Champion thanks to the introduction of the Money in the Bank briefcase. The briefcase can be cashed it at any time for a WWE Championship match, even if the champion is too worn out to properly defend their title. Notably, this is how the first cash-in went, with Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} defeating Wrestling/JohnCena in a short match after a bruised and bloody Cena had just defended the title in an Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution 2006. Other examples include Wrestling/CMPunk beating Wrestling/JeffHardy after winning the title from Edge in a Ladder Match at Extreme Rules 2009, Wrestling/{{Kane}} squashing Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}} after he just retained the title in a grueling match with Wrestling/JackSwagger at Money in the Bank 2010, and Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} beating Wrestling/RomanReigns after he just won a tournament for the vacant title at Survivor Series 2015.

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* Any gruesomely tiring or injurious match can be turned into one of these for the WWE Champion thanks to the introduction of the Money in the Bank briefcase. The briefcase can be cashed it in at any time for a WWE Championship match, even if the champion is too worn out to properly defend their title. Notably, this is how the first cash-in went, with Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} defeating Wrestling/JohnCena in a short match after a bruised and bloody Cena had just defended the title in an Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution 2006. Other examples include Wrestling/CMPunk beating Wrestling/JeffHardy after winning the title from Edge in a Ladder Match at Extreme Rules 2009, Wrestling/{{Kane}} squashing Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}} after he just retained the title in a grueling match with Wrestling/JackSwagger at Money in the Bank 2010, and Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} beating Wrestling/RomanReigns after he just won a tournament for the vacant title at Survivor Series 2015.



* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': The GrandFinale to the New Eighth Doctor Adventures, "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E9LucieMiller Lucie Miller]]"/"[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E10ToTheDeath To the Death]]" has a massive one. Though the Dalek plan to turn Earth into a plague planet is defeated and the Daleks destroyed, [[spoiler:the Doctor's great-grandson Alex and companion Lucie die in the process. The Doctor is left utterly [[BreakTheCutie broken]] and departs, deciding he needs to stop being so [[StartOfDarkness merciful]]]].

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* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': The GrandFinale to the New Eighth Doctor Adventures, "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E9LucieMiller Lucie Miller]]"/"[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E10ToTheDeath To the Death]]" has a massive one. Though the Dalek plan to turn Earth into a plague planet is defeated and the Daleks destroyed, [[spoiler:the [[spoiler: the Doctor's great-grandson Alex and companion Lucie die in the process. The Doctor is left utterly [[BreakTheCutie broken]] and departs, deciding he needs to stop being so [[StartOfDarkness merciful]]]].

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