History Main / RidingIntoTheSunset

* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': Wolverine's death in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfWolverine'' is done as a variation. After being covered by adamantium and starting to suffocate inside the almost solid metal, Logan, who is on top of a building, starts walking towards the sunset while having flashbacks of his life before finally dying on the edge of the building in front of the dying sun.

* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': The end of issue #7has two Wolfrider elves, appropriately enough, riding wolves into the sunset. It's worth noting that since Wolfriders are generally nocturnal, sunset is an appropriate time for them to set out.
* At the end of ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', Jesse reveals he never wanted to be a preacher as a kid. His girlfriend asks him what he wanted to be. "Girl, can't you guess?" he says, as they ride on a horse towards the sunset.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s death is done as a variation. After being covered by adamantium and starting to suffocate inside the almost solid metal, Logan, who is on top of a building, starts walking towards the sunset while having flashbacks of his life before finally dying on the edge of the building in front of the dying sun.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyKingdoms'': At the end of the final issue of ''[[ComicBook/FigmentDisneyKingdoms Figment 2]]'', Figment and Dreamfinder fly their dream catching machine off into the sunrise to start their next adventure.

* Subverted in ''Manga/Golgo13''. Duke Togo is hired to kill a DistaffCounterpart, who it's revealed he met three years ago and had a relationship with. Knowing that Togo has the contract on her, she expects to be killed on meeting him again, but he just sleeps with her and leaves the next day. Realising she's been given a break, she decides to retire from the assassination business, but as she pilots a speedboat into the sunset [[ConsummateProfessional Duke puts a bullet through her head with a single long-distance shot]].

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

Sometimes, heroes are known to ride into the ''[[CuetheSun sunrise]]'' instead -- possibly as a symbol of a new beginning or fresh start on life after their adventure is over, or possibly to [[ShownTheirWork show that the scriptwriters realize]] that setting off into the wilderness at sunset is not the brightest idea. (What's he gonna do? Go two miles out of town and then make camp for the night?) Of course, the sunset ''is'' [[RuleOfCool somewhat cooler]], so a little ArtisticLicense is allowed. In fact, the sunset is so expected that using the more pragmatic sunrise in a Western [[CoconutEffect might be jarring]]. Besides, riding into the sunset means you're riding [[TheWildWest West.]] A common theme in Westerns was the "taming of the West", so there was often an implication that once one town had been "civilized" the hero would then ride farther West to where he was still needed. In stories where the hero has somewhere specific and not too distant to go and rest up, though, leaving at the end of the day makes perfect sense.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', after their FinalLoveDuet Aladdin and Jasmine fly off on carpet into the horizon against the ''moon'' rather than the sun but the effect is visually the same sort of shorthand. Genie then takes over the moon and turns it around laughing revealing his face, [[ThatsAllFolks lifts up the "The End" cel on the film reel and says "Made you look!"]] before we get the credits.

* ''FanFic/TheEndingOfTheEndLoveAndToleranceEdition'' ends on the [[spoiler: now more less ReformedButUntamed LegionOfDoom]] walking into the sunset alongside each other.

-->'''Spielberg:''' I'm done with the series![[note]]Unfortunately, [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull nineteen years later...]][[/note]]

* At the end of the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'', Cassie ends up with her feet bound and tied to her inept BountyHunter Marion, so the two of them have to hop off into the sunset instead.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodTheBadAndHuckleberryHound'', Huck rides into the moon singing the last verse of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue only when the narrator reveals he later starts raising a family at the farm]] ''[[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue after]]'' [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue that]]. The scene is Creator/DawsButler's last in his final titular role.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodTheBadAndHuckleberryHound'', Huck rides into the moon singing the last verse of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", only when the narrator [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals he later starts raising a family at the farm]] ''after'' that. The scene is Creator/DawsButler's last in his final titular role.

** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'''s BittersweetEnding plays with this trope: Luke, Leia, C-3PO, and R2-D2 watch the ''Millennium Falcon'' fly, not into a sunset (they're in space, mind you), but in the direction of a bright protostar, on their way to [[spoiler: rescue Han Solo, who had been captured and handed over to Jabba The Hutt.]]
** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' ends with a shot of [[spoiler: Rey and BB-8 on Tatooine, walking into the distance with their silhouettes visible against the planet's two setting suns]].

* ''Fanfic/TheEndingOfTheEndLoveAndTolerenceEdition'' ends on the [[spoiler: now more less ReformedButUntamed LegionOfDoom]] walking into the sunset alongside each other.

* ''Fanfic/EndingOfTheEndLoveAndTolerenceEdition'' ends on the [[spoiler: now more less ReformedButUntamed LegionOfDoom]] walking into the sunset alongside each other.

* At the end of the Johto saga in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Misty rides off into the sunset on her freshly repaired bike, with her Togepi in the basket.

* ''WesternAnimation/HiawathasRabbitHunt'': Played with. The short appears to be ending with Hiawatha paddling away downriver into the setting sun, as Bugs quotes again from ''The Song of Hiawatha''. Then suddenly Hiawatha zooms back to the riverbank, gives Bugs a big wet TakeThatKiss, and then rapidly zips away.

* By the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodTheBadAndHuckleberryHound'', Huck rides into the moon singing the last verse of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", only when the narrator [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals he later starts raising a family at the farm]] ''after'' that. The scene is Creator/DawsButler's last in his final titular role.

* By the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodTheBadAndHuckleberryHound'', Huck rides into the moon singing the last verse of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", only when the narrator [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals he starts raising a family at the farm]] ''after'' that. The scene is Creator/DawsButler's last in his final titular role.

* The ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' special ''[[Anime/DragonBallEpisodeOfBardock Episode of Bardock]]'' ends with Bardock walking into the sunset, away from the village he protected.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Referenced in Season 2 episode 16. Big and Little M. are walking away from the school and into the sunset when Little M. mentions that he's only seen this happening in movies and that it's rather old-fashioned. Big M. says that it's actually a sun''rise'' and that it's not old-fashioned.

* By the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodTheBadAndHuckleberryHound'', Huck rides into the moon singing "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", only when the narrator [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals he starts raising a family at the farm]] ''after'' that. The scene is Creator/DawsButler's last in his final titular role.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', after their FinalLoveDuet Aladdin and Jasmine fly off on carpet into the horizon against the ''moon'' rather than the sun but the effect is visually the same sort of shorthand. Genie then takes over the moon and turns it around laughing revealing his face, [[ThatsAllFolks lifts up the "The End" cell on the film real and says "Made you look!"]] before we get the credits.

* By the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodTheBadAndHuckleberryHound'', Huck rides into the moon singing the last verse of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", only when the narrator [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals he starts raising a family at the farm]] ''after'' that. The scene is Creator/DawsButler's last in his final titular role.