History Main / WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue

!!Other examples hung up their sword, settled down, and opened their dream diner with their wife and two kids

!!Examples discovered the key to saving the world and now basks in international gratitude.

* Skawo parodies this [[https://youtu.be/ziHibxehscI?t=382 at the end of his playthrough of]] ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare: Get It Together]]'' with an explanation of what (he imagines) became of the cast:

'''This is an [[EndingTropes Ending Trope]], so expect spoilers.'''

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' ends with Scrat being frozen inside an ice cube and being washed up onto a tropical island and thawing out after being frozen inside the cube for 20,000 years, only to have his acorn washed away by the tide causing the poor squirrel to substitute his lost acorn with a coconut, causing him to accidentally trigger a volcanic eruption after driving the coconut into the sand.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' runs this as the artwork behind the end credits, showing what the Five and Po get up to after the story.

* An example from the WebAnimation/YouTubePoop "101 Poopmatians":

A staple of the VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory films, it differs from a DistantFinale in that we get little flashes (such as photographs, still frames, little captions, narration/voiceover, or a {{Montage|s}} of individual clips) that tell us what happened to the characters, instead of a full scene with dialogue or character interaction. If it shows how each character meets his maker, a DeadlyDistantFinale. Can be used to create a FastForwardToReunion. If it happens while the credits are rolling, it might be CreativeClosingCredits. In video games, this may be done in form of a dynamic ModularEpilogue. For works BasedOnATrueStory, this often overlaps with RealPersonEpilogue where the real inspiration for the fictional character is shown. HowWeGotHere is the exact opposite of this trope.

* The credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' roll with incidents from the next years about the future of the characters and the revival of the town.

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'' has this in Chapter 44 - "And When the Rain Clears..." as it skips forward 6 years. Beyond showing us how the Flaherty siblings finally reconcile, it also shows us how the rest of the gang's futures turned out.

* The end of WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter and WebVideo/PieGuyRulz's review of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Truth or Square" ends with one of these. "Life in Bikini Bottom" becomes a hit with three seasons and counting, Patrick is arrested for farting in people's faces, Squidward finds spiritual enlightenment in Tibet, Mr. Krabs gets a new fashion sense, [=SpongeBob=] learns he's actually married to Sandy and now pays her annual alimony, Plankton creates a hair-growth serum and becomes a millionaire, the demonic here puppet is turned into firewood, Pie Guy Rulz creates a five times platinum rap album, and [[HumbleHero Mr. Enter orders a pizza and gets a refund because it's cold when it arrives]].

* One of the alternate endings to ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Season 5 includes a sideshow of what happened to the characters after the end.

[[folder:Video Games moved onto a shelf, where he met many others of his kind. He no longer feels like he's the only one who's into the stuff he is.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven 2027]]'', a total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', has this at the end of the game as well.
* ''VideoGame/ArabianFight'' ends with a short montage after the final stage, detailing the fates of the four playable characters after rescuing the princess. Notably, the hero Sinbat (a younger and heavily-fictionalized version of Sinbad from the Arabian Nights) would continue his journey as a sailor before eventually becoming the famed adventurer from the myths ([[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis which he eventually decide to compile into a book]]), the heroine Ramaya marries herself into royalty three years later and rules over Arabia as a wise queen, the retainer Goldor gets promoted to the royal commander of the guards [[ShaggyDogStory only to be demoted back to a retainer because of his arrogance]], while the WarriorMonk Datta would establish his own monastery and teach kung fu to the public for the next 40 years.
* And, of course ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' had this as well.
* At the end of the ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' expansion pack, ''Throne of Bhaal,'' both the PC and every NPC in your party gets a text-based epilogue explaining how they live out the rest of their lives. Some are tragic ([[spoiler:Minsc and Boo are together still, beyond the stars, where hamsters are giants and men become legends]]), and some are very, very funny ([[spoiler:After a run-in with Elminster, Edwina the barmaid lives out the rest of her life as a bitter, bitter woman]]).
* ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'' has one of these during its ending credits sequence, featuring each of the major characters [[spoiler:pursuing their own futures, which depend on whether or not the Player chooses to revive the world]].
* The GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' reveals [[spoiler: that James Gordon has become mayor of Gotham, Tim Drake and Barbara Gordon are getting married, and though Bruce Wayne has been outed as Batman and appeared to have died, a Bat-like figure still hunts Gotham's criminals]].
* The second season finale of ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' briefly reveals the final fates of its main characters, based on your decisions.
* ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'':
** The epilogue text of ''Heir to the Throne'' explains what each of the four main characters do after defeating Asheviere.
** ''Dead Water'': After explaining that the merfolk don't have to deal with Mal-Ravanal since he has been destroyed by the Wesnothians, the epilogue continues with explaining what happens to each surviving party members.
* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' (the original NES game) ends with the revelation that the game is a story Super Joe is telling as an old man.
* ''VideoGame/BlazblueCentralFiction'' ends with this kind of epilogue for each surviving character, showing what became of them [[spoiler:after Ragna sacrificed himself to save all of reality]]:
** [[spoiler:Noel and Lambda become nuns, caring for a catatonic Nu.]]
** [[spoiler:Makoto and Tsubaki continue to work for the NOL alongside Jin, Kagura and Hibiki under Homura as Imperator.]]
** [[spoiler:Bang leads the reconstruction efforts of a new Ikaruga state.]]
** [[spoiler:Litchi adopts Platinum and they move to Orient Town together, with Mai and Kajun's help.]]
** [[spoiler:Carl follows the same dark path of his father and seeks out the Cauldrons.]]
** [[spoiler:Taokaka returns to the Kaka Village, to a hero's welcome.]]
** [[spoiler:Aname continues to travel the world with his troupe.]]
** [[spoiler:Bullet enlists with Sector Seven, serving under her old commander, Tager. Kokonoe keeps an eye on the captive Azrael.]]
** [[spoiler:Es returns to guarding the Azure Gate, while Naoto returns to his timeline.]]
** [[spoiler:Valkenhayn continues to serve Rachel, who visits Ragna's "grave" and vows to find him even though she has no memory of him.]]
** [[spoiler:In TheStinger, Ragna's WeaponTombstone goes missing.]]
* The [[GoldenEnding True Ending]] of ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' gives us one, showing how each of the protagonists spent their well-earned vacation after saving the Internet.
** [[spoiler:Catie is finally able to retire from adventuring and live a peaceful life.]]
** [[spoiler:Anon and Til go on a date, and [[BelligerentSexualTension spend all of it arguing]]. They have a great time and make plans to do it again.]]
** [[spoiler:Eddie and Arianna decide to open up a small library together.]]
** [[spoiler:Shift becomes king through a [[NoodleIncident chain of wacky misunderstandings]].]]
** [[spoiler:Tyalie dominates the local arcade, and [[ThankingTheViewer waves goodbye]] to the player one last time.]]
** [[spoiler:Shrimp and Cornelia enjoy a day at the fairgrounds, and ride the Ferris Wheel while [[HumblePie Boxxyfan]] sulks in the car below them.]]
** [[spoiler:[[FakeUltimateHero GmasterRED]] takes credit for everything. [[RunningGag Again]].]]
* Playing through ''VideoGame/BrutalPawsOfFury'' on Sega CD will provide you with the resulting disgraced state of each combatant you defeat through the single player campaign. [[MindScrew This includes a]] MirrorMatch.
* If you get the GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'', photographs will appear in the credits that reveal what the Grumpuses are doing after they left Snaktooth Island.
** [[TheExistentialist Triffany]] [[spoiler:finds her grandmother's grave and pays her respects]].
** Wambus [[spoiler:manages to cultivate the sauce plants on the mainland]].
** [[OneHitWonder Wiggle]] [[spoiler:makes a comeback and performs in front of thousands]].
** [[NaiveAnimalLover Gramble]] [[spoiler:knits more of his hat for donating to charity]].
** [[ConMan Cromdo]] [[spoiler:opens his own karaoke bar]].
** [[ValleyGirl Beffica]] [[spoiler:is gossiping with a friend]].
** [[ConspiracyTheorist Snorpy]] [[OfficialCouple and]] [[LovableJock Chandlo]] [[spoiler:try out each other's lifestyles by working out and studying in a library, respectively]].
** [[MadOracle Shelda]] [[spoiler: publishes a book about her time on Snaktooth Island, "[[TheCuckoolanderWasRight I Was Right]] But Not Because I Had Magical Powers"]].
** [[MadScientist Floofty]] [[spoiler:takes up teaching at a university and [[AnArmAndALeg now needs a prosthetic leg to replace the one they cut off]]]].
** Filbo [[spoiler:successfully runs for mayor with [[PlayerCharacter the Journalist's]] help]].
** [[OfficialCouple Lizbert and Eggabell]] [[spoiler:are still on Snaktooth Island, but they're free of mutations and are at least together]].
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' has one that is determined by the games MultipleEndings.
** Depending on where he is shot in "Suffer With Me", [[spoiler:Mason shows up at The Vault after a 30-year coma and reunites with Woods and his son]] or [[spoiler:David visits his father's grave with Woods decides to retire]]. Also if [[BigBad Menedez]] is not killed and Chloe is dead, he [[spoiler:breaks out exactly a year later as promised, kills Woods, and travels to Nicaragua where he [[SelfImmolation sets himself on fire over his sister's grave]]]]. Or Chloe is still alive [[spoiler:and becomes famous for helping stop Menedez and gets interviewed by Creator/JimmyKimmel a year later while Menedez is still in prison]].
* The second half of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'''s ending credits features brief, wordless cutscenes, depicting the characters after the story's end. The scenes vary depending on [[MultipleEndings which ending]] you got.
* ''VideoGame/ChroniclesOfInotiaChildrenOfCarnia'' has one too. [[spoiler: While Lydia [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself to impede the resurrection of the God of Darkness, she erases the memories of the party, while the epilogue shows how everyone would live if they didn't know each other. It turns out that it's actually a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion because [[MysteriousWaif Elina]] shows up and restores their memories for their new quest.]]
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' briefly shows the characters in different times as the main three use their time machine. The remakes extend this with anime cutscenes.
** Depending on when in the game you complete it, and which sidequests you've completed will alter the ending. Sometimes in minor ways, other times you'll get a whole new ending.
* The end of the MMORPG ''[[VideoGame/ClubPenguin Club Penguin Island]]'' shows some of the island's happenings and what the characters did after the servers shut down due to ExecutiveMeddling.
* ''Conflict Vietnam'' shows the main characters in a brothel (or something like that) while Cherry,er, Doc gives a voice-over about what happened to everyone. Junior goes home and joins the Black Panthers, only to [[spoiler:get killed in a shootout with the FBI]]. Hoss signs on for a tour of duty in Cambodia. Ragman comes home to a some divorce papers and moves to the Rockies with his dog. Doc starts a family and becomes a doctor, his specialty being gunshot wounds.
* The first ''VideoGame/{{Crash Bandicoot|1996}}'' game, as well as the racing spin off ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'' did these, with humorous intent. Interestingly though, one of the bosses, Ripper Roo, is stated as studying and becoming an academic, and in the next game you find him in a gigantic library, and you disrupt his studies. (Un)fortunately Dr. Nitrus Brio didn't stick to his bartending. ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' does it all over again [[spoiler:with voice-over provided by Crash himself, to boot!]]
* The ending credits for ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' will play you video messages from most of the characters you've met saying what they're up to now. [[spoiler:Unless you decide for V to shoot themself, they will only mention how distraught or furious they are over their death.]]
* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'':
** There's an epilogue for the [[ResetButton Restorer]] ending for the Septentrione Arc. It resets the world to how it was before the Septentriones invaded, but with CharacterDevelopment taken into consideration. The biggest changes are that Io is open about wanting to hang out with the protagonist and Daichi, and Airi and Hinako have formed a piano-and-dance duo, performing for cheering crowds.
** The UpdatedRerelease gave an epilogue to the [[GoldenEnding Record Breaker]] ending of the new Triangulum Arc. The new world is going well [[spoiler:and no longer part of the Adminstrator system]]. The protagonist, Daichi, and Io are heading to the beach for a relaxing trip. Yamato is letting [[DecisionDarts a dart]] choose where his next trip will take him, with Makoto shown to be working as his personal secretary. Airi and Hinako are still performing as [=AiHina=] Stars. [[spoiler:And the Anguished One and Miyako have both been reincarnated as regular humans.]]
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' (depending on [[spoiler:the HeroicSacrifice ending you chose]]) and ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'' with your character having the chance to talk to all of your companions so far and finding out what their plans for the future are (how much of their plans actually come true varies, as the sequels show). You can even influence them! Which is then followed by a slide show detailing the further fate of companions, factions, and people according to your decisions in the game.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' details the exploits of your chosen character after defeating the Ancient Dragon:
** The Fighter's exact exploits after defeating the Dragon are unknown, but he would tell high tales of his accomplishments at the taverns which became the stuff of legends. He was last seen departing for the high seas as an elderly adventurer.
** The Wizard had, in the past, attempted to save his ill sister from death by using forbidden magic, but only succeeded in placing her body in limbo. With blood from the Ancient Dragon, he creates an elixir to end her suffering.
** The Dwarf's kingdom had been subjugated by the Ancient Dragon, and his people were on the verge of extinction. After slaying the Dragon, he became renowned as the noble avenger and was hailed as a great hero.
** The Amazon came to Hydeland to search for her past, having been adopted by other amazons after being saved as an infant from orcs. While she had given up on finding her past since arriving, an elderly couple who sees her realizes her eyes are exactly the same as the son they had lost...
** The Sorceress achieved her dream of living the high life, becoming a fortune teller for nobles and enjoying a life of luxury. In time, however, she grew bored with mundane life and began to crave adventure.
** The Elf was a social outcast among her people, wishing for see the world while her kin were isolationists. Upon returning to her village, however, she is welcomed with open arms; having fulfilled the elves' prophecy of felling the Ancient Dragon, she is named Crown Regent.
* The ending of ''[[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones]]'' reveals that Billy and Jimmy Lee have continued to spread martial arts teachings around the world, Chin Seimei returned to China with his Master Kenpou and still remaining friends with the Double Dragons, Yagyu Ranzou returned to Japan to become a ninja, hoping to be called emperor, and [[TreacherousAdvisor Hiruko]](who died in a trap just before the FinalBattle) was not the first, nor will she be the last to let greed for power ruin their life.
* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'' gives an epilogue scene to major characters during the end credits.
* The ending credits of ''VideoGame/{{Fairune}} 2'' consist of a montage of Hope Girl, Layla and the Ancient Codex travel the worlds of Fairune together with the Fairies.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'', ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' conclude by describing what eventually happens to the various communities [[VideoGameCaringPotential you helped]] (or, [[MultipleEndings alternatively]], [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential hindered]]) along the way. ''New Vegas'' has these endings for the DownloadableContent, with ''Dead Money'' and ''Honest Hearts'' having the most charactes mentioned in the ending and the most variations.
** Though even your best intentions and what seems to be the best path can instead turn out very wrong...
** Also, even most of the good endings are just a less grey ending than normal. Take New Reno, you could have it turned into a place with schools and free, clean water for all...which'll be captured by raiders or forcibly subjugated into the NCR because they don't have any protection. On the other hand, you could leave it in the control of the Bishops, who'll fight for its place in NCR and turn it into a legitimate city...that'll fight for the rights for drug use, gambling, and prostitution.
*** Notably, ''New Vegas'' takes both the Wright and Bishop endings as canon; the Wrights are in control of a stable New Reno as part of the NCR, yet the Bishop child was conceived and became a powerful figure in the city.
** The endings also tell you what happened to your companions provided they survived to the end of the game. John Cassidy settled down and fathered [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas a daughter named Rose who would also follow a figure who will change the Wasteland in the future, Marcus went out east and founded a town where Mutants can live in peace]], and that arrogant little shirt Myron [[KarmicDeath was stabbed to death by an addict of the same life-destroying drug he invented.]]
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', however, notably doesn't have one, which was another reason people hated the ending.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' lacks one as well, although it's understandable considering the game immediately picks up where it left off and there were much fewer major choices for the player to make this time around.
* In ''VideoGame/TheFeebleFiles'', we get a brief slideshow montage of what each major character does after the ending, and then the credits roll.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' gets one of these. It goes through the fate of everyone who lived through the game.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has this: one of the surviving characters ([[spoiler:Krile]] by default) writes to Mid telling him what they and all the other surviving characters are doing since Exdeath was defeated.
** Inverted at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', where they show what each character ''did'' in order to escape rather to show what they were doing. After that, they show the real ending.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' shows some animations of the principle players and their fates some time after the game as [[spoiler: Queen Garnet recalls Zidane's sacrifice. Later, Garnet attends a play given by the Tantalus players, one of whom removes his hood at the climax of the drama revealing himself to be Zidane (although anyone with any sense would have figured that out ten minutes previous).]]
*** The ending scene shows other characters in its epilogue:[[spoiler: Steiner and Beatrix are now Alexandrian nobles, Eiko is adopted by Cid and Hilda, Amarant returns to his adventuring days along with Lani, Quina keeps being a Chef, Freja and Fratley fall in love all over again, and Vivi dies, but not before leaving a load of clones around]].
** The second season story of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius'' ends with a six stage epilogue in which Raegen and Citra are travelling throughout the worlds of Paladia and Lapis to see what the main cast has been up to since the end of their big battle with Emperor Vlad. [[spoiler:Sieghard becomes part of a travelling troupe together with Shamlin and Nagi, Folka spends the rest of her days in Olderion to atone for her past transgressions, Cid spends his days living peacefully together with his daughters, Ignacio takes up sculpting to honor his old friend Kagane, Sakura and Nichol become aides to Rain, the king of Aldore, Lid and Jake are travelling the skies together (and Jake plans to propose to Lid when the time is right), Physalis becomes a knight of Grandshelt by suggestion of Raegen, and Fina sets off on a new adventure together with Rain and Lasswell, just like old times.]] After the credits roll, one last cinematic plays setting the stage for the third season's story.
* The ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series also has this feature, upon completion of the credits short epilogues explain the unique future of all characters in the player's army who do not die during the story. In games in which you can pair the characters together, each character's ending will vary based on whether they were paired with anyone, and if so, who.
** It was also used for the epilogue of ''Hasha no Tsurugi'', the AlternateContinuity manga of ''Fire Emblem 6''.
* Not unsurprisingly, this is done in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' by the same creators as ''Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler:With a slight twist. This epilogue shows what happens to all the characters ([[WhatHappenedToTheMouse except Jeego and Tengo]]) after Sissel, Missile, and Yomiel rewrote the timeline. With the potential exception of the blue people, everyone seems to be happy with their new lives.]]
* ''VideoGame/HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'' ends with a collection of photographs (or in The Captain and his nurse's case, a letter) showing what happened to the game's cast of characters.
* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'', there's a variation. The credits show what everybody who got out alive is doing [[spoiler:when the atomic bomb hits Miami, [[KillEmAll killing them all]]]].
* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'''s ending includes a textual description of every [[PlotlineDeath surviving party member's]] fate, as well as that of at least one of the more memorable minor characters (Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom the MagnificentBastard; that's actually his full name).
** Ditto ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', and its expansion ''NeverwinterNights2/MaskOfTheBetrayer'', as well as ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights: Hordes of the Underdark''. Creator/BlackIsle[=/=]Creator/ObsidianEntertainment loves this trope, it seems.
* Team Japan's ending in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 1997''.
* [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI Five]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainofMemories of]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII the]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep entries]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII in]] the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series have credits that serve as this. While the former two only show certain characters and worlds, the latter three have epilogues for all the worlds that the heroes have visited.
* The ItsAWonderfulFailure bad ending of ''VideoGame/LauraBow 2'' lists the fates of the entire cast and the unfortunate things that befell them because of your failure.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' shows how Link used the Triforce to make people's lives better, and ends with a shot of Link returning the Master Sword to its pedestal.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' shows Link returning to his childhood and leaving the Master Sword in the Temple of Time, he and Navi parting company and young Link [[WhereItAllBegan returning to Hyrule Castle to meet Zelda.]]
* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has this: [[spoiler:Pogo and Gori [[BabiesEverAfter have kids]]. The Earthen Heart Inheritor takes up the master's mantle. Sundown is still a wanderer; either alone or alongside Mad Dog depending on the player's actions. Oboromaru either is a bodyguard to Ryoma Sakamoto or is continuing his missions. Masaru leaves the gym where he trained, perhaps shutting it down for good. Akira works with Tobei. Cube continues to aid Kato]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Lufia}}'' series typically shows these while the credits are playing. A particularly [[TearJerker sad]] example lies in ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'', where [[spoiler:everyone is waiting for Maxim and Selan to return from Doom Island...except [[HeroicSacrifice they won't]], and their spirits visit their child one last time before departing]]. [[spoiler:And then [[VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals the remake]]'s NewGamePlus ending finishes with "Jeros, we're home!"]]
* If you get the best ending of ''VideoGame/{{Lunarosse}}'', one of these plays before the credits.
* ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' has one that depends on the [[MultipleEndings which ending the player]]. based on this Lincoln Clay either [[spoiler:takes over the city ruling alongside Cassandra, Vito & Burke and eventually becomes the biggest mob boss in the American South and a VillianWithGoodPublicity]] or [[spoiler: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves New Bordeaux for good]] gets the welding job in California he mentioned at the start of the game and is constantly moving around between states (or even between countries) to remain one step ahead of [[InspectorJavert Agent Magurie]] but still sending postcards to Father James and the city in control of whoever is still alive.]]
** If in charge Cassandra [[spoiler:ends up getting into a war with every gang on the East Coast, assassinates the Louisiana Governor on the steps of the capital building when he sends in the National Guard and declares martial law in response to the gang war, leading to the state pulling all funding from the city, which ends up becoming a GhostTown after a hurricane]]. Burke [[spoiler: hires a BackAlleyDoctor for a liver transplant, becomes a booze and cocaine kingpin [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney who bought a seat on the city council legally changed New Bordeaux's name to Bourbon City]] and died in 1984 performing a FinalStand against the Cubans in a still-ongoing gang war]] and Vito [[spoiler: [[EarnYourOwnHappyEnding finishes Sal's casino, turned the city into the Las Vegas of the South, and is currently living in the penthouse on top of the casino]]]].
** Averted in the [[MultipleEndings Bad Ending]]: [[spoiler:if Lincoln goes insane and murders all three of his lieutenants, Father James assassinates him before he can go on a murder spree. There is no Where Are They Now because there's no more stories]].
** Regardless of which ending the player gets [[TheStinger a post-credits scene]] [[spoiler:Donovan is leading a one man crusade against [[WhoShotJFK the people behind The John F. Kennedy assassination]] starting the with the senator leading the [[HailedBeforeASenateSubcommittee his hearing in 1971]]]].
* The Extended Cut DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' provides official "Where Are They Now?" Scenes for characters that survive the events of all three games such as [[spoiler:seeing Wrex and Eve with their newborn baby]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** The ending of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' ends with everything in the series being wrapped up, including [[spoiler:Sunny, Olga's daughter who was kidnapped by the Patriots, finally going out into the real world, Raiden and Rosemary living normal lives with their son, Johnny and Meryl getting married, Meryl making up with her father Campbell, and Snake finally having a real talk with Big Boss. The ending also reveals that Snake and Otacon decide to live normal lives]].
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' both end with timelines offering details of what happened to certain characters or factions after the game. Most of the events are positive, except for TheStinger - the timeline in ''Peace Walker'', for example, ends by noting [[VideoGame/MetalGear Big Boss starting the Outer Heaven Uprising in 1995]] and then [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Kaz Miller's assassination in 2005]].
** Similar to ''Snake Eater'' and ''Peace Walker'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' ends with a timeline of the events that transpired up until the events of ''Guns of the Patriots'': [[spoiler:"2014: Big Boss dies."]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', the credits sequence shows what happened to every major character at the end of the game. [[spoiler:The Noble's Son and the Princess get married, the King is dealing with the fact that even his guards get hungry, the Genie and the Prince of Neksdor are bickering, the Fab Fairies wave at the camera, the Dark Lord is still back to his old self, and the Great Sage is still traveling the world and helping people (with the reincarnated Dark Curse, if you chose to spare him). Finally, there's a freeze-frame of all your Miis together.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'', a total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', has one of these for just about every named character, ala Fallout. This is in stark contrast to the original game's AmbiguousEnding.
* Pretty much all Creator/NipponIchi games have an epilogue in the best ending shown using either the in-game sprites or hand-drawn stills. For example...(open spoilers ahoy!)
** ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'': Marona's finally won the acceptance of everyone, and the world picks up the pieces.
** ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Celestia and the Netherworld work out its differences.
*** ''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2'': Etna awakens from her long slumber and reunites with her brother at the castle gates.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'': Veldime slowly recovers from the curse.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'': Mao finally makes peace with his father after turning the BigBad into his new guinea pig.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'' has a slightly different final epilogue depending on what RelationshipValues you've built up.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'': The Rebel Army's Overlords rebuild their Netherworlds and turns them prosperous, Zeroken opened his own dojo, Christo returns to Celestia, and Killia lives out a peaceful life with Liezerota.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has a variation of this in an e-mail sent to Mario by Goombella.
* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' has one for the GoldenEnding where the credits contain the most widely circulated rumors as to what happens to the Payday gang after [[spoiler:they kill the dentist]] in order:
** [[TheLeader Dallas]] [[spoiler:bought a yacht he dubbed the Medic Bag and alternates between throwing wild parties and sailing off on adventures]].
** [[ScaryBlackMan Chains]] [[spoiler:moved to LA and became a Hollywood stuntman working on major blockbusters]].
** [[ArmsDealer Gage]] [[spoiler:joins Chains after getting the use of his legs back]].
** [[AxCrazy Wolf]] [[spoiler: briefly traveled with Dallas aboard the Medic Bag before returning to Sweden and disappearing completely]].
** [[MeanBrit Hoxton]] [[spoiler:bought the Golden Grin Casino and divides his time playing poker there (because [[ItAmusedMe It Amuses Him]] since he doesn't care about winning or losing) and a beach house]].
** [[LegacyCharacter Houston]] [[spoiler:moved to Mexico where he opened a bar that runs a side gig mediating shady deals between gangs, criminals and corrupt government officials]].
** [[Film/PointBreak Bodhi]] [[spoiler:went back to extreme sports, briefly went into a coma after breaking the record for highest skydive, and is currently building a car to break the land speed record]].
** [[ViolentGlaswegian Bonnie]] [[spoiler:returned to Glasgow, opened a distillery, and made a popular brand of whiskey that is now the go-to drink for criminal victory toasts]].
** [[ConMan Clover]] [[spoiler:bought a castle in Ireland and now breeds and trains show horses alongside Hoxton's old butler Aldstone]].
** [[DirtyCop Dragan]] [[spoiler:went back to being a DoubleAgent for the Butcher before retiring and opening a world-class gym in Zagreb that has trained several world champions]].
** [[WebVideo/H3h3Productions Ethan and Hila]] [[spoiler:went back to being internet celebrities]].
** [[VideoGame/HotlineMiami Jacket]] [[spoiler:replaced his [[IconicItem tape recorder]] for an all-digital set-up and now runs a gang of high-quality thugs in Miami]].
** [[Film/HardcoreHenry Jimmy]] [[spoiler:discovered a new FantasticDrug and got contracted by a private space agency for a top secret project]].
** [[{{Yakuza}} Jiro]] [[spoiler:returned to Japan to where he avenged his family and is rumored to now be WalkingTheEarth]].
** [[TheCartel Sangres]] [[spoiler:traveled with Jiro to Japan and then decided to stay there and is currently one of the few foreign Yakuza bosses]].
** Film/JohnWick [[spoiler:returned home to a [[StealthPrequel final gift from his wife]]]].
** [[GamerGirl Joy]] [[spoiler:opened a retro-game hall in Seattle, and runs the biggest retro-game company in the world which has won several awards]].
** [[BadassBiker Rust]] [[spoiler:rebuilt his bike, grabbed a leather bag full of money and rode off into the wasteland never to be seen again]].
** [[Film/{{Scarface1983}} Scarface]] [[spoiler:went missing on an alligator hunt and depending on who you ask either got [[Film/ApocalypseNow renamed "The Colonel" and joined a lost warrior tribe]] or is running a cartel somewhere in the Florida Everglades]].
** Sokol [[spoiler:moved with his friends and family to Cyprus and is currently running an organization powerful enough to influence the country's government]].
** [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Duke]] [[spoiler:used the Gang's stolen artifacts to open a museum and is currently married and living with a number of cats in New York]].
** [[AwesomeAussie Sydney]] [[spoiler:retired from crime, became an Olympic gold medalist, used her newfound fame to support the fight against child cancer, and is now volunteering at wildlife rescue centers around the globe]].
** [[spoiler:[[GoodAllAlong Locke]]]] [[spoiler:[[CutLexLuthorACheck started a cyber security company after moving to California]], and is pursing a career to become a pro golfer [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking while competing in full combat fatigues]]]].
* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
** The SEBEC questline in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' ends this way for the party members that fought in the FinalBattle, although most of the characters return for ''VideoGame/Persona2'' anyway.
--->"As for his [the PlayerCharacter's] fate... That's for you to decide."
** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has this twice, technically. The Bad Ending takes place three months after you [[spoiler: kill Ryoji, the avatar of Nyx, and as such]] erase everyone's memories of the coming end of the world so you can live out the couple months of your life in peace. Or, if you choose not to and get the Good ending, the ending itself will take place inevitably on the same date as the bad ending, only with [[spoiler: Nyx dead, the main character dying slowly and everyone's memories suddenly coming back]], which itself takes place around a month after the final boss fight. [[PlayableEpilogue The Answer]] itself, an expansion/epilogue for the main story, takes place about a month after [[spoiler:TheProtagonist's death]].
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'' ''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'', the credits shown in the ending you get after completing the Third Semester shows what the party members are up to. Likewise, if [[spoiler:you accept Maruki's reality]], you will also see a montage of your party members in the credits.
* ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' tells the player what their various party members got up to after the game's end, as well as the fates of the communities the player has visited. The game being a bastion of GreyAndGrayMorality, sometimes benevolent-seeming options have less optimal ends.
* During the credits of the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' game, you see various Pokémon Rangers doing rangery stuff. And remember the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Go-Rock]] [[FourIsDeath Quads]]? They're [[spoiler:playing at a concert in front of the clock tower]]!
* The CreativeClosingCredits for ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'' show what the characters of the game are doing in the aftermath of Emperor Nefarious's final defeat:
** Clank gets a new arm that resembles Rivet's robot arm.
** Dr. Nefarious, having survived being crushed by Emperor Nefarious's derelict HumongousMecha, turns off the lights in Emperor Nefarious's office. He then returns home, and visits Lawrence and his new family.
** Gary and the Plumber look through a scrapbook together.
** The Zurkon Family hang around a scrapyard.
** Goons-4-Less meditate with the Dimension Monks.
** The Morts invite Ratchet and company to a picnic.
** Emperor Nefarious's robot assistant escapes capture by the Phantom and Mama Zurkon.
** Pierre and his crew play with Bubbles, the octopus monster that Pierre was nearly fed to.
** Ratchet and Clank reunite with Talwyn Apogee, and tell her of their latest adventure.
** The Fixer helps rebuild the Pocket Dimensions.
** Qwark and Quantum strike poses in front of a statue of Qwark.
** Rivet and Kit go through the Emperor's music collection.
** Crank sings karaoke at a party.
* The epilogue of ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'' takes place one year after the finale, and shows what all the characters have decided to do with their lives -- in a few cases, it also finishes their {{Character Arc}}s. Especially important because [[spoiler:the world was ''destroyed'' in the finale, and the epilogue shows how successful the cast was in rebuilding it]].
* The last buyable newspaper in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' describes how some of the minor characters ended up.
* In ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa3'', some of the [=NPCs=], each of the recruitable characters, minus the ones you recruited and the other 7 that you can choose, each have a small cutscene depending on the actions taken.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'', if you manage to complete all the sidequests and take over 100% of Hell, you unlock an epilogue that shows what happened to Gat's allies in Hell.
** [[spoiler:Dane Vogel married Kiki [=DeWynter=] and now has William Sharp as his poolboy.]]
** [[spoiler:Vlad the Impaler regains his turf and has Killbane continuously tortured.]]
** [[spoiler:William Shakespeare produces a play recreating Shogo Akuji's [[BuriedAlive death]] which becomes a smash hit in Hell, letting him put on repeat performances of exhuming and re-burying Shogo for all eternity.]]
** [[spoiler:Blackbeard sails across here to add to his crew (which includes Jyunichi, Kazuo and Mr. Sunshine).]]
** [[spoiler:Viola [=DeWynter=] manages to strike up a deal with heaven that allows the Saints and their friends to meet up and play volleyball once a year.]]
* The credits of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' is preceded by a montage of the bosses, showing where they went after the Order was broken up. Most of them find a new calling in life, but two are just shown being punished, and a third is left completely ambiguous--his screen doesn't even get a description like the others' did.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' ends with several shots of the minor characters and all the crewmembers you gather over the course of the game, with a continuation of what happens to them after the events of the game.
* After the final level of ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', what happened to rest of the gang after the Cooper Vault job is told, with some being quite humorous or a bit romantic.
** [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves The second game]] shows what happened to the Big Bads after they did their time in the slammer.
** [[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime The fourth game]] also shows off the various fates of the villains as well as some of the main characters. [[spoiler:Achieving 100% Completion shows what happens to Sly]].
* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft|I}}: Brood War'', there is a summary of what happened to all five of the main characters who survived.
** ''VideoGame/LegacyOfTheVoid'' wraps up the ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' trilogy with a cutscene that briefly reveals the fate of the three races of the game.
* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' has this at the end, showing what all the characters in your party are doing with their lives post-victory over the BigBad. It all depends on how you've built the character relationships throughout the game.
* Every ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' game ends with a short blurb describing what happened to every one of the
numerous characters you recruited. Brew some tea and get cozy.
* The closing credits for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' shows Mario and Yoshi showing Peach some of the planets they both visited on the way back to the Mushroom Planet, [[BigBad Bowser]] being spat out of his black hole and becoming tiny, before the heroes (and Lubba) are finally shown back in the Mushroom Kingdom standing in front of the cake mentioned in the prologue. And you can actually ''die'' in the credits!
* The ending cutscene of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' shows what certain characters are doing now that you've beaten Smithy. Bowser and his troops are repairing his castle (and a Shy Guy stole his copter), Yoshi beats Croco in a race, Toadofsky has a recital, Mallow rejoins Nimbus Land, Booster and Valentina get married (with Booster flying the altar at the last minute) and Jonathon Jones looks out at the sea.
* The credits of the remake of ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' at least show brief scenes of the ongoing lives of each of the protagonist characters. These are shown for every character, regardless of whether or not you selected them as playable in that particular playthrough. (At the beginning of the game, you choose three out of six possible playable characters.)
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has one in two of the MultipleEndings:
** In the GoldenEnding, nearly each one of the numerous characters are shown with a brief description of what they did after the game ended, with the major characters getting longer animated sequences. (The text varies depending on whether or not you met a special requirement for each monster.)
** The neutral endings have a less in-depth version of this. Sans [[spoiler:or Alphys]] calls the player character and tells them what everyone has been up to since they left the underground. What specifically, [[spoiler:including who becomes the ruler after Asgore's death]], varies depending on how many kills the player has.
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' shows the fates of the game's main characters via text, while [[DistantFinale a more elaborate scene for Welkins and Alicia]] is shown after the credits. The epilogues for the game's side characters can be seen in optional material unlocked in the NewGamePlus.
* ''VideoGame/VandalHearts'' has one of the characters writing a book about their adventure and what happened to each character.
** Ranging nicely from a stamp collection to being a major political player in rebuilding the land.
* ''VideoGame/Vixen357'' after credit rollout shows each characters with description what they are doing now after the final mission. Some of their portraits, however, not shown.
* ''VideoGame/WildArmsXF'' has one for each of the main characters except the one missing and presumed dead. Darn it!
** ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 4}}'' has one, too. [[spoiler: Jude becomes a forest ranger and lives in the woods, Yulie becomes a schoolteacher, Arnaud and Raquel get married and open a restaurant, but Raquel dies after the birth of their daughter.]]
** ''VideoGame/WildARMS2'' as well. [[spoiler:ARMS is disbanded; Ashley marries Marina and joins her family bakery, and they have twins; Lilka returns to her studies; Brad retires to T'Bok to stay with Billy and help the town grow; Tim joins Colette on a farm near Baskar; Kanon resumes bounty hunting; and Marivel goes back to restoring her standing as an aristocrat.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheYawhg'' always ends this way, though [[MultipleEndings the results vary WILDLY]]. In addition to learning what happened to each of the characters you guided through the game, you also learn the ultimate fate of your hometown after the Yawhg came.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The GrandFinale "Come Along With Me" shows what happened with many of the characters, including some [[BackForTheFinale who haven't been seen since earlier seasons]], in a montage set to the tune of "Island Song", the series' end credits song. This is in combination with a DistantFinale FramingDevice that shows, among other things, a future where Jake and Lady Rainicorn's descendants are the dominant species of the planet.
** Lumpy Space Princess becomes Queen of Lumpy Space.
** Gunther, who is now the new Ice King, marries Turtle Princess.
** Rattleballs gets fully rebuilt, and officially joins the Banana Guards.
** Carroll the cloud-person goes back to being a water elemental, and moves in with the water nymphs that live near the old tree house.
** T.V. opens up a detective agency in his grandparents' old office.
** Sweet P. graduates from kindergarten.
** Aunt Lolly moves in with Princess Bubblegum, and is seen singing to Neddy with her.
** Jermaine paints a new mural on the ceiling of the Earl of Lemongrab's bedroom, to replace the one from "The Mountain".
** BMO gets Banana Man's help in fulfilling Moe's last wish by shooting his consciousness into space.
** Flame Princess and NEPTR become a rap duo.
** The Jiggler becomes a businessman.
** Crabbit, Maja's old familiar, gets into interpretive dance.
** Susan and Frieda explore new lands, and run into Lemonhope.
** Simon, now no longer the Ice King, is a sane human searching for a way to return Betty to normal.
** Marceline and Princess Bubblegum are now a couple.
** The humans, including Finn's mother, return to the Land of Ooo.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In the final episode, we get a brief glimpse of what has happened to the major characters after the FinalBattle:
** [[spoiler:Nine months after Anne defeated the Core and she, Sasha, and Marcy returned home, Amphibia's landscape has returned to its natural state]].
** [[spoiler:Andrias has abdicated his throne and is seen helping to replant the flora he devastated, albeit under guard, though he's okay with it. He appears to be going blind due to his hazy looking eyes. He's also seen carrying around TragicKeepsakes of the three true friends he had: Barrel's warhammer, which he uses as a walking stick, Leif's leaf, and the toy robot pin Marcy had given him when they first met]].
** [[spoiler:Apothecary Gary found the other mushroom that was the source of the spore collars and seems to be living peacefully with them in Wartwood]].
** [[spoiler:Polly has grown into a teenage frog, with Wally still unable to get used to it. Based on the fact that she was wearing overalls and had a wrench in her pocket, she has kept up with her apptitude for Amphibia technology and has become a mechanic]].
** [[spoiler:Based on a billboard in the background, Bog and his fellow tax collectors have started a hybrid moving/junk removal service, with Jalinda apparently serving as their secretary]].
** [[spoiler:Maddie and her sisters are shown to have started a pharmaceutical business using Maddie's potions]].
** [[spoiler:Loggle has returned to his scrawny shape, which he blames on taking a cheat day]].
** [[spoiler:Grime, Olivia, and Yunan have become dignitaries for toads and newts, respectively, with Yunan having given up her position as a general while it's hinted she and Olivia are married]].
** [[spoiler:Toadie has become the new mayor of Wartwood, with Toadstool as his deputy.]]
** [[spoiler:Joe Sparrow and Bessie have fallen in love and had a trio of adorable [[MixAndMatchCritter sparrow-snail]] babies]].
** [[spoiler:Hop Pop has followed through with his goal of cultivating California avocados on Amphibia, starting a business selling them, with Frobo and [=MicroAngelo=] helping garden them]].
** [[spoiler:Sprig is shown to have turned the Plantars' basement (Anne's old room) into a place where he keeps a journal and records of his adventures with Anne, using her phone as a guide to draw the creatures they've encountered. After a ceremony in which Wartwood has unveiled a statue of Anne in honor of her heroics, Sprig is told by Ivy that a new continent untouched by any amphibians has been discovered, and he jumps onboard to check it out]].
** [[spoiler:On Earth, ten years have passed since the "Frog-vasion", with many people wondering if it was just a hoax. Despite trying to stay together after Marcy moves away, Anne and Sasha regretfully grow apart in high school. However, the trio reunite for Anne's twenty-third birthday. It's also revealed that Marcy has started a webcomic, Sasha has gained a psych degree to help kids with emotional baggage, and Anne has a herpetologist and works at [[RealPlaceBackground the real life Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific]], where she is in charge of a frog exhibit named after Amphibia and has named one of the frogs after Sprig]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': The final episode, "All Grown Up", ends with a look at what Arthur and his friends are doing 20 years in the future.
** Arthur is now an artist and has just finished writing his first graphic novel.
** D.W. is a traffic cop.
** Buster is a creative writing professor, and he mentions that Kate is one of his students.
** Francine runs a business that makes athletic sneakers.
** Binky is a weatherman for the local news.
** Muffy is a politician and is running for mayor of Elwood City.
** George is now the manager of [[LocalHangout The Sugar Bowl]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' has its big finale wrap up at Lois and Dave's wedding with an older Ginger taking over the narration.
* Spoofed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' that was a parody of the rise and fall of Music/TheBeatles. Otis became governor of Ohio, Abby joined the US Air Force, Freddy and Peck got a radio show in Cleveland, and Pig formed a boy band. Only the last one was actually true.
* Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', on what was the second produced episode.
* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has the heroes portrayed as adults, revealing that Numbuh 3 became the president of the Rainbow Monkey Corporation and BookDumb Numbuh 4 graduated from ''Harvard'' with honors and became a doctor. It's also flat out stated that the two got married, as did Numbuhs 2 and 5.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' had this in its GrandFinale. Instead of the usual "characters in funny costumes" CreativeClosingCredits, you got glimpses into the future for just about every character who had any screen time. Most were some kind of ironic twist--for example, [[TheCynic Daria]] and [[CoolLoser Jane]] becoming peppy morning talk show hosts. WordOfGod says that they don't need to be considered canon, but the idea of [[ExtremeDoormat Stacy]] becoming a NASCAR driver actually became quite popular in fanfic.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' parody of ''Film/AnimalHouse'', where Fry successfully dropped out of college, Gunther the monkey becomes the FOX network's latest executive, Leela dates the Dean (who doesn't call her or see her after that), Fatbot (the nerdy robot with the beanie) gets a virus in Tijuana, and Bender robs Robot House blind.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]:''
** [[BigBad Krogan]] gets executed by Drago Bludvist.
** Astrid changed to her red shirt.
** Snotlout and Fishlegs competing over Ruffnut.
** The Dragon Eye and Dragon Eye II destroyed.
** Dagur and Mala married.
** The Dragon Riders moved back to Berk.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has an episode which parodies ''Film/StandByMe'', and thus, also parodies its epilogue ending.
** Joe learned to live without the use of his legs and eventually went on to invent a kind of wheelchair rugby game called "Don't Feel Sorry For Us-Ball".
** Cleveland went on to marry Creator/RebeccaRomijn (a joke about the fact that she is married to Creator/JerryOConnell, the actor who had Cleveland's role in the film), which angers the narrator.
** Quagmire [[Creator/RiverPhoenix went on to become a big Hollywood star]], but eventually O.D'd at the Viper Room, and died on the curb outside.
* The PrisonEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/FunkyCops'' reveals what the characters therein are up to years later. The hardass head guard moved to New York and now owns a "notorious" prison-themed nightclub; the convict whose escape plan was foiled still swears revenge on Dick; [[TheOldConvict Bookboy]] hasn't been heard from since escaping and is believed to be quietly enjoying his freedom; and Ace and Dick returned to work as SFPD detectives, where they had long, distinguished careers and were only sent back to prison a few times; [[RunningGag Alcatraz itself was closed forever in 1963]], which [[LampshadeHanging confuses the narrator]] as it was the setting of the episode and the show is set in the 70s.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has one of these in its final episode, showing what happens to various characters throughout the series, main or otherwise. A more interesting example as its a mix of these along with some moments during the summer.
** Stanley and Stanford finally realize their childhood dream of sailing the world together, and are currently adventuring in the Arctic Ocean (though one scene implies they return sometime in the fall, as Mabel draws a hand turkey on Ford's hand as both laugh, implying it's Thanksgiving.)
** Soos becomes the new operator and Mr. Mystery of the Mystery Shack, and runs it alongside his girlfriend Melody who moves to Gravity Falls.
** The Northwest Family becomes bankrupt and are forced to sell their ancestral mansion to preserve their family fortune.
** Old Man Fiddleford [=McGucket=] becomes rich after selling patents of his inventions to the U.S government, and buys the Northwest Manor. He moves in there with his son (whom it's implied he patched things up with) and [[ItMakesSenseInContext his (as in Fiddleford's) raccoon wife]].
** Toby Determined finally makes it as a reporter, becoming a sportscaster for the local station.
** Lil' Gideon finalizes his HeelFaceTurn and vows to be more of a regular kid (though retaining the services of his prison buddy mooks, as seen when he called on them to 'handle' a kid who teased him.)
** Finally, Dipper and Mabel (along with Waddles the Pig) return home to Piedmont, California, now prepared to head into the unknown of teenagehood.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
** The end credits of ''WesternAnimation/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventure'' shows what happened after the heroes defeated Boogey and got Grim his job back; Grim went back to [[BrickJoke fighting supernatural toilet clogs]], Mandy became the new captain of Boogey's ship, Billy became president of the US, Irwin got mononucleosis and cooties from kissing Mandy, Skarr used the hole in his torso for birds to rest while he fed them, Creeper [[CutLexLuthorACheck made a fortune incorporating his time travel technology into pants]], Billybot and Mandroid [[TheyFightCrime now fight evil in space]], the cyclopses got a cooking show, the Kracken was arrested for 8-armed robbery, Numbuh 3 unsuccessfully attempted to start her own reaping business, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Hoss Delgado stayed home and watched TV during his absence from the movie]], Horror used his ability to play a guitar with his teeth to become a professional guitarist, Boogey is still afraid of everything following his HumiliationConga earlier and has since become a shut-in, [[OverusedRunningGag Dracula stole Grim's scythe to use as a golf club]], and Future Billy returned to his own time only to find that [[InSpiteOfANail it's now ruled by Fred Fredburger]].
** The ending of "Billy & Mandy Moon the Moon" shows the aftermath of the gang defeating the aliens: Sperg learned to live without a head after [[YourHeadASplode his was blown up by a bomb planted in it]], Grim and Mandy continue to fight crime in space as the Cheese Reaper and Milk Mandy, and Billy went home, still a werewolf and in his Green Squeaker persona, with neither of his parents seeming to notice or care.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' ends with one of these. It's actually very nice to see, after CerebusSyndrome turned the show as dark as it did, that [[spoiler:[[EarnYourHappyEnding Orel grew up to become the loving father of a happy, functional family]].]] It ''almost'' makes up for all [[TearJerker spilled tears from the final season]].
* In the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic,'' "The Last Problem," we are shown what the Mane Six and their other friends have been up to after Twilight's coronation:
** Twilight is the new ruler of Equestria with Spike as her royal advisor.
** Applejack still runs Sweet Apple Acres along with Big Mac and his wife Sugar Belle, who now have a son.
** Rainbow Dash is now the new captain of the Wonderbolts.
** Rarity has opened up more fashion chains all over Equestria, having just opened a shop in Yakyakistan.
** Fluttershy still runs her animal sanctuary with Discord, who uses his powers to help deliver new animals to the sanctuary.
** Pinkie Pie is the head planner for all of Canterlot's galas. She's also married to Cheese Sandwich and now has a son named Li'l Cheese.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders are now teachers at the School of Friendship, along with Smolder, Ocellus, and Silverstream.
** Starlight and Sunburst still run the School of Friendship with Trixie as the school counselor.
** Gallus is captain of the Royal Guard.
** Yona and Sandbar both run Rarity's boutique in Ponyville.
* The series finale episode of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', "[[DenouementEpisode Thank You for Watching the Show]]", uses numerous short vignettes to show what the various characters are up to. Naturally, the main characters show up the most, but even very minor characters make at least one appearance. Some notable ones:
** K.O., Enid, Rad, and Dendy remain best friends, and the latter three (and Carol and Gar) continue to celebrate K.O.'s birthday with him over the years. Individually:
*** K.O. became the hero he's always wanted to be since the beginning of the series and now owns and runs Gar's Bodega. In a Call-Back to earlier in the series, we learn that as an age 35+ hero, he is Level 100.
*** Enid reconciles her side as a witch and goes to witch college. After graduation, she is much more capable with magic and runs Carol's old Fitness Dojo with Red Action (whom she is still dating at least for her early adulthood), where she trains students with ninjutsu. Red Action appears to be training the next ([[StableTimeLoop or maybe first]]) generation of the Hue Troop.
*** Rad joins Planet X's space force for some time, and does well for himself. He eventually retires to return to the Plaza and open up a cat café there.
*** Dendy graduates from high school (along with K.O. and the rest of their class) as valedictorian, and later becomes the new CEO of POW Card Industries.
*** Mr. Gar and Carol get married, and Gar returns to his hometown to leave flowers at the site of the bodega that his grandmother used to run.
** Nick and Joff also get married, as do [[PuppyLove Colewort and Potato]].
** Elodie, Purrcival, and Biki are the new leaders of P.O.I.N.T. Prep Academy, which Combo Breaker is seen gaining entrance to. Former P.O.I.N.T. leaders/members Foxtail, Dr. Greyman, Rippy Roo, and Sunshine spend time together in their retirement.
** Boxman continues his villainy for some time, but eventually retires and passes the company to Ernesto, Jethro, and Mikayla. He and Professor Venomous get back together when the latter apologizes, and are heavily implied to have gotten married as well. He also seems to have finally reconciled with Mr. Logic.
** Some of the original Boxmore robots have gone elsewhere: Darrell owns a farm called Darrell Acres, and Shannon(s) has her own show, with Raymond(s) providing the music. Boxmore is run by Ernesto, Mikayla, and Jethro, who are still making new lines of robots to attack the Plaza with.
** Fink becomes a successful major league gamer, with Venomous shown to be proud of her.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' ends with a montage showing the residents of the Unknown going about their lives, all to the same tune that opened the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'':
** The episode "Fuzzy Dice" ends like this, PlayedForLaughs.
** And then they follow up on it in "Steak Me Amadeus".
** The series finale ends with this, all to the tune of Davie Bowie's ''Heroes:'' [[spoiler: After Pops sacrifices himself to stop his brother and end the cycle of destruction and rebirth of the universe, the park ends up back on Earth, after three years. Sometime after Pops' funeral, they all go their own ways. Mordecai finally becomes a successful artist with fame and ends up settling down with a fellow artist, a bat woman (later revealed to be named Stef on an AMA Reddit, in a ''Goonies'' shoutout) and starting a family. Rigby becomes a family man and marrying Eileen (implied to be a HouseHusband, but unconfirmed). Muscle Man finally meets his daughter and has several more children with Starla (though it remains ambiguous if he continues to work at the park). Hi-Five Ghost travels to Prague with Celia, possibly working as a DJ, and also ends up settling down with her, having a son. Benson and Skips remain in the park, while Benson raises animals with his wife Pam. In the end, they all meet up for a 25th anniversary party (with the children being pre-teen to young adults, along with the implication Muscle Man's first daughter now has a child of her own, making MM a grandpa.) Mordecai and Rigby reflect on Pops' sacrifice and looking to find some old video games in the shed before the whole thing zooms out and it turns out that Pops was viewing all of this from a television in the afterlife]]. "Jolly good show," indeed.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' episode "A Piece of the Action" explains what happened after a Sci-Fi Convention War.
** Mortimer Wilkofsky cloned 30 Leonard Nimoys from the stolen blood sample. Made millions on his "Nimoy Ahoy! Traveling Circus"
** The kid in the Darth Maul costume is still dead.
** Leonard Nimoy completed his Bean Bag Baby collection after accepting [=eBay=] into his life.
** George Lucas is still rich.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons:''
** Occurred in the episode where Santa's Little Helper went to obedience school. ("Bit Bart. Homer didn't mind.")
** In one of the earlier episodes, [[KentBrockmanNews Kent Brockman]] was about to lead in on a special of the actors that portrayed the Munchkins from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' with the following:
--->'''Kent Brockman''': The midgets who played the Munchkins from ''The Wizard of Oz''... where are they now?\\
''(News then cuts to a still image of thousands upon thousands of gravestones)''
** In the episode "Marge on the Lam", Marge had a night out with Ruth Powers and Homer went out as well and hired Lionel Hutz to watch over the kids. In the epilogue, it was mentioned Marge had to compensate a man whose cans she shot. Fifty cents to replace the cans and two thousand dollars for the mental trauma. Ruth's ex-husband had to pay alimony and blamed his lawyer (Lionel Hutz) for that. Hutz (a.k.a. Miguel Sanchez) was paid 8 dollars for his 42 hours of watching Bart and Lisa while Homer and Marge were gone. He was glad to have it. Homer Simpson was remanded to the custody of the United States Military [[BrickJoke for extensive testing for the serum trial he had participated in in a flashback]].
** Lisa learned the important thing wasn't how many friends one had on [[Website/{{Facebook}} Springface]] but how many followers one had on Springtweet. Mr. Burns gained 35 million dollars despite having done nothing. Kearney's avatar died in a war.
** The episode "Margical History Tour" revolved around Marge telling stories about historical figures (Homer as Henry VIII, Lisa as Sacagawea and Bart as Mozart) ends with one of these, complete with Homer singing the ''Film/AnimalHouse'' theme over the credits, with his own lyrics.
--->''Henry VIII still has the world record for eating''\\
''Sacagawea made a fortune posing for butter packets''\\
''Mozarts grave is now Viennas most popular gas station''\\
''Homer rewatched Film/AnimalHouse and went to work in a toga the next day''
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' ends with one of these, showing what happened to the main characters after the war ended. Zeb returned to Liresan with Kallus, Hera fought in the war until the end and raised a son, Sabine stayed on Lothal to keep it safe, and after the war ended she and Ahsoka went out to find Ezra, who had gone missing years before.
* Parodied in the ending of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Yearbook Madness":
** Starfire opens a school on Tamaran teaching English as a second language.
** Raven finally succumbs to her father's dark influence and enslaves the universe.
** Cyborg appears as himself in two blockbuster feature films.
** Beast Boy gets into some chocolate and dies.
** Robin is indicted on multiple counts of embezzlement and racketeering after the demise of his shoe empire, "Boots by Robin". Present whereabouts: unknown.
* ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', has one where all characters get a happy ending. Except [[ButtMonkey the Mime]].
* In a variant, the last few minutes of the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' finale had Professor X announcing that he'd had a vision of the future, including various guest characters joining the team, Magneto leading the New Mutants, the Dark Phoenix Saga, and the Brotherhood becoming Freedom Force.
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** Ben T. Looney auditioned multiple times to get parts in cartoons but never made the cut once. He fell in love with Jenny E. Wacky and [[HappilyMarried ended up marrying her.]]

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* LetsPlay/TheDarkId's let's play of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}} 2'' ends with one, which describes [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the chaos and death caused by the "heroes'" destroying both the Knights of the Seal and those seals that hold the world together.]] [[RogueProtagonist Caim]] becomes the next GrimReaper on account of [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing the previous one]], Hierarch Seere uses an army of golems to rule the land as an undying emperor, Eris becomes his right-hand enforcer, and [[KarmaHoudini Nowe and Manah get off scot-free and live happily ever after.]]
* In ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'', the ([[SeriesFauxnale original]]) GrandFinale had this:
** Sonic [[ItMakesSenseInContext becomes the new Creator]] (with Tails apparently serving as his secretary).
** [[VideoGame/GoldenAxe Thunderhead]] and his new zombie wife are living a happy life terrorizing local villages and making their own asswine.
** Franchise/{{Kirby}} remains at large for murdering over 600,000 video game characters and is considered the "[=LeBron=] James of Hitlers".
** [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Mother Brain]] and her daughter Soniqua star in a show titled, "Grossy and The Freak," which is the #1 show on TV. Mother Brain married Alan Paterson, a [[RougeAnglesOfSatin pharmacutical]] [sic] rep at Phizer and now lives on Mars.
** Knuckles never figured out how to make himself a full character again. He works 39 hours a week at ''VideoGame/BurgerTime'', misses his boxing gloves, and wishes he was dead.
** [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] becomes the biggest gay rights activist in Hyrule, and is currently the spokesman for Super Gay Margarita Mixers.
** [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Princess Potato]] has been unconscious for three days, and the text box asks for someone to check on her.
** Eggman and VideoGame/EarthwormJim opened a beachfront cafe in ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive''. Their biggest selling item is the "Coke On Tits Breakfast Bonanza".
* Music/{{Brentalfloss}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ldhe504Mw explains what happened to the cast of]] ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'':
** Donkey Kong himself now hunts endangered species for fun and sport.
** Tiny has been exterminating all of the world's bees and nobody knows why.
** Lanky earned his college degree and became a sexual education-teaching clown who uses puppets.
** Diddy [[DepravedDwarf became bitter after turning out to have dwarfism]] and no women will date him because of it, and he runs a right-wing misogynist blog.
** [[TheRuntAtTheEnd Chunky]] [[BusCrash is dead]], presumably a reference to his own ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. The fade-out reveals that Cranky is also dead. And in the fridge.
* The eighth and final episode of ''WebAnimation/TheMostAmazingStoryEverTold'' has a credits sequence shows what happens to the various characters that appeared in the series, set to "Funky Cowboy" by Goober & the Peas.

* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' has its big finale wrap up at Lois and Dave's wedding with an older Ginger taking over the narration.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons:''
** Occurred in the episode where Santa's Little Helper went to obedience school. ("Bit Bart. Homer didn't mind.")
** In one of the earlier episodes, [[KentBrockmanNews Kent Brockman]] was about to lead in on a special of the actors that portrayed the Munchkins from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' with the following:
---> '''Kent Brockman''': The midgets who played the Munchkins from ''The Wizard of Oz''... where are they now?\\
''(News then cuts to a still image of thousands upon thousands of gravestones)''
** In the episode "Marge on the Lam", Marge had a night out with Ruth Powers and Homer went out as well and hired Lionel Hutz to watch over the kids. In the epilogue, it was mentioned Marge had to compensate a man whose cans she shot. Fifty cents to replace the cans and two thousand dollars for the mental trauma. Ruth's ex-husband had to pay alimony and blamed his lawyer (Lionel Hutz) for that. Hutz (a.k.a. Miguel Sanchez) was paid 8 dollars for his 42 hours of watching Bart and Lisa while Homer and Marge were gone. He was glad to have it. Homer Simpson was remanded to the custody of the United States Military [[BrickJoke for extensive testing for the serum trial he had participated in in a flashback]].
** Lisa learned the important thing wasn't how many friends one had on [[Website/{{Facebook}} Springface]] but how many followers one had on Springtweet. Mr. Burns gained 35 million dollars despite having done nothing. Kearney's avatar died in a war.
** The episode "Margical History Tour" revolved around Marge telling stories about historical figures (Homer as Henry VIII, Lisa as Sacagawea and Bart as Mozart) ends with one of these, complete with Homer singing the ''Film/AnimalHouse'' theme over the credits, with his own lyrics.
---> ''Henry VIII still has the world record for eating''\\
''Sacagawea made a fortune posing for butter packets''\\
''Mozarts grave is now Viennas most popular gas station''\\
''Homer rewatched Film/AnimalHouse and went to work in a toga the next day''
* In a variant, the last few minutes of the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' finale had Professor X announcing that he'd had a vision of the future, including various guest characters joining the team, Magneto leading the New Mutants, the Dark Phoenix Saga, and the Brotherhood becoming Freedom Force.
* ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', has one where all characters get a happy ending. Except [[ButtMonkey the Mime.]]
* Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', on what was the second produced episode.
* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has the heroes portrayed as adults, revealing that Numbuh 3 became the president of the Rainbow Monkey Corporation and BookDumb Numbuh 4 graduated from ''Harvard'' with honors and became a doctor. It's also flat out stated that the two got married, as did Numbuhs 2 and 5.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' episode "A Piece of the Action" explains what happened after a Sci-Fi Convention War.
** Mortimer Wilkofsky cloned 30 Leonard Nimoys from the stolen blood sample. Made millions on his "Nimoy Ahoy! Traveling Circus"
** The kid in the Darth Maul costume is still dead.
** Leonard Nimoy completed his Bean Bag Baby collection after accepting [=eBay=] into his life.
** George Lucas is still rich.
* Spoofed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' that was a parody of the rise and fall of Music/TheBeatles. Otis became governor of Ohio, Abby joined the US Air Force, Freddy and Peck got a radio show in Cleveland, and Pig formed a boy band. Only the last one was actually true.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has one of these in its final episode, showing what happens to various characters throughout the series, main or otherwise. A more interesting example as its a mix of these along with some moments during the summer.
** Stanley and Stanford finally realize their childhood dream of sailing the world together, and are currently adventuring in the Arctic Ocean (though one scene implies they return sometime in the fall, as Mabel draws a hand turkey on Ford's hand as both laugh, implying it's Thanksgiving.)
** Soos becomes the new operator and Mr. Mystery of the Mystery Shack, and runs it alongside his girlfriend Melody who moves to Gravity Falls.
** The Northwest Family becomes bankrupt and are forced to sell their ancestral mansion to preserve their family fortune.
** Old Man Fiddleford [=McGucket=] becomes rich after selling patents of his inventions to the U.S government, and buys the Northwest Manor. He moves in there with his son (whom it's implied he patched things up with) and [[ItMakesSenseInContext his (as in Fiddleford's) raccoon wife]].
** Toby Determined finally makes it as a reporter, becoming a sportscaster for the local station.
** Lil' Gideon finalizes his HeelFaceTurn and vows to be more of a regular kid (though retaining the services of his prison buddy mooks, as seen when he called on them to 'handle' a kid who teased him.)
** Finally, Dipper and Mabel (along with Waddles the Pig) return home to Piedmont, California, now prepared to head into the unknown of teenagehood.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has an episode which parodies ''Film/StandByMe'', and thus, also parodies its epilogue ending.
** Joe learned to live without the use of his legs and eventually went on to invent a kind of wheelchair rugby game called "Don't Feel Sorry For Us-Ball".
** Cleveland went on to marry Creator/RebeccaRomijn (a joke about the fact that she is married to Creator/JerryOConnell, the actor who had Cleveland's role in the film), which angers the narrator.
** Quagmire [[Creator/RiverPhoenix went on to become a big Hollywood star]], but eventually O.D'd at the Viper Room, and died on the curb outside.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' ends with one of these, showing what happened to the main characters after the war ended. Zeb returned to Liresan with Kallus, Hera fought in the war until the end and raised a son, Sabine stayed on Lothal to keep it safe, and after the war ended she and Ahsoka went out to find Ezra, who had gone missing years before.
* The series finale episode of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', "[[DenouementEpisode Thank You for Watching the Show]]", uses numerous short vignettes to show what the various characters are up to. Naturally, the main characters show up the most, but even very minor characters make at least one appearance. Some notable ones:
** K.O., Enid, Rad, and Dendy remain best friends, and the latter three (and Carol and Gar) continue to celebrate K.O.'s birthday with him over the years. Individually:
*** K.O. became the hero he's always wanted to be since the beginning of the series and now owns and runs Gar's Bodega. In a Call-Back to earlier in the series, we learn that as an age 35+ hero, he is Level 100.
*** Enid reconciles her side as a witch and goes to witch college. After graduation, she is much more capable with magic and runs Carol's old Fitness Dojo with Red Action (whom she is still dating at least for her early adulthood), where she trains students with ninjutsu. Red Action appears to be training the next ([[StableTimeLoop or maybe first]]) generation of the Hue Troop.
*** Rad joins Planet X's space force for some time, and does well for himself. He eventually retires to return to the Plaza and open up a cat café there.
*** Dendy graduates from high school (along with K.O. and the rest of their class) as valedictorian, and later becomes the new CEO of POW Card Industries.
*** Mr. Gar and Carol get married, and Gar returns to his hometown to leave flowers at the site of the bodega that his grandmother used to run.
** Nick and Joff also get married, as do [[PuppyLove Colewort and Potato]].
** Elodie, Purrcival, and Biki are the new leaders of P.O.I.N.T. Prep Academy, which Combo Breaker is seen gaining entrance to. Former P.O.I.N.T. leaders/members Foxtail, Dr. Greyman, Rippy Roo, and Sunshine spend time together in their retirement.
** Boxman continues his villainy for some time, but eventually retires and passes the company to Ernesto, Jethro, and Mikayla. He and Professor Venomous get back together when the latter apologizes, and are heavily implied to have gotten married as well. He also seems to have finally reconciled with Mr. Logic.
** Some of the original Boxmore robots have gone elsewhere: Darrell owns a farm called Darrell Acres, and Shannon(s) has her own show, with Raymond(s) providing the music. Boxmore is run by Ernesto, Mikayla, and Jethro, who are still making new lines of robots to attack the Plaza with.
** Fink becomes a successful major league gamer, with Venomous shown to be proud of her.
* In the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic,'' "The Last Problem," we are shown what the mane six and their other friends have been up to after Twilight's coronation:
** Twilight is the new ruler of Equestria with Spike as her royal advisor.
** Applejack still runs Sweet Apple Acres along with Big Mac and his wife Sugar Belle, who now have a son.
** Rainbow Dash is now the new captain of the Wonderbolts.
** Rarity has opened up more fashion chains all over Equestria, having just opened a shop in Yakyakistan.
** Fluttershy still runs her animal sanctuary with Discord, who uses his powers to help deliver new animals to the sanctuary.
** Pinkie Pie is the head planner for all of Canterlot's galas. She's also married to Cheese Sandwich and now has a son named Li'l Cheese.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders are now teachers at the School of Friendship, along with Smolder, Ocellus, and Silverstream.
** Starlight and Sunburst still run the School of Friendship with Trixie as the school counselor.
** Gallus is captain of the Royal Guard.
** Yona and Sandbar both run Rarity's boutique in Ponyville.
* The PrisonEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/FunkyCops'' reveals what the characters therein are up to years later. The hardass head guard moved to New York and now owns a "notorious" prison-themed nightclub; the convict whose escape plan was foiled still swears revenge on Dick; [[TheOldConvict Bookboy]] hasn't been heard from since escaping and is believed to be quietly enjoying his freedom; and Ace and Dick returned to work as SFPD detectives, where they had long, distinguished careers and were only sent back to prison a few times; [[RunningGag Alcatraz itself was closed forever in 1963]], which [[LampshadeHanging confuses the narrator]] as it was the setting of the episode and the show is set in the 70s.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': The final episode, "All Grown Up", ends with a look at what Arthur and his friends are doing 20 years in the future.
** Arthur is now an artist and has just finished writing his first graphic novel.
** D.W. is a traffic cop.
** Buster is a creative writing professor, and he mentions that Kate is one of his students.
** Francine runs a business that makes athletic sneakers.
** Binky is a weatherman for the local news.
** Muffy is a politician and is running for mayor of Elwood City.
** George is now the manager of [[LocalHangout The Sugar Bowl]].

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* In ''VideoGame/TheFeebleFiles'', we get a brief slideshow montage of what each major character does after the ending, and then the credits roll.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', the credits sequence shows what happened to every major character at the end of the game. [[spoiler:The Noble's Son and the Princess get married, the King is dealing with the fact that even his guards get hungry, the Genie and the Prince of Neksdor are bickering, the Fab Fairies wave at the camera, the Dark Lord is still back to his old self, and the Great Sage is still traveling the world and helping people (with the reincarnated Dark Curse, if you chose to spare him). Finally, there's a freeze-frame of all your Miis together.]]
* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' has one for the GoldenEnding where the credits contain the most widely circulated rumors as to what happens to the Payday gang after [[spoiler: they kill the dentist]] in order:
** [[TheLeader Dallas]] [[spoiler: bought a yacht he dubbed the Medic Bag and alternates between throwing wild parties and sailing off on adventures]].
** [[ScaryBlackMan Chains]] [[spoiler: moved to LA and became a Hollywood stuntman working on major blockbusters]].
** [[ArmsDealer Gage]] [[spoiler: joins Chains after getting the use of his legs back]].
** [[AxCrazy Wolf]] [[spoiler: briefly traveled with Dallas aboard the Medic Bag before returning to Sweden and disappearing completely]].
** [[MeanBrit Hoxton]] [[spoiler: bought the Golden Grin Casino and divides his time playing poker there (because [[ItAmusedMe It Amuses Him]] since he doesn't care about winning or losing) and a beach house]].
** [[LegacyCharacter Houston]] [[spoiler: moved to Mexico where he opened a bar that runs a side gig mediating shady deals between gangs, criminals and corrupt government officials]].
** [[Film/PointBreak Bodhi]] [[spoiler: went back to extreme sports, briefly went into a coma after breaking the record for highest skydive, and is currently building a car to break the land speed record]].
** [[ViolentGlaswegian Bonnie]] [[spoiler: returned to Glasgow, opened a distillery, and made a popular brand of whiskey that is now the go-to drink for criminal victory toasts]].
** [[ConMan Clover]] [[spoiler: bought a castle in Ireland and now breeds and trains show horses alongside Hoxton's old butler Aldstone]].
** [[DirtyCop Dragan]] [[spoiler: went back to being a DoubleAgent for the Butcher before retiring and opening a world-class gym in Zagreb that has trained several world champions]].
** [[WebVideo/H3h3Productions Ethan and Hila]] [[spoiler: went back to being internet celebrities]].
** [[VideoGame/HotlineMiami Jacket]] [[spoiler: replaced his [[IconicItem tape recorder]] for an all-digital set-up and now runs a gang of high-quality thugs in Miami]].
** [[Film/HardcoreHenry Jimmy]] [[spoiler: discovered a new FantasticDrug and got contracted by a private space agency for a top secret project]].
** [[{{Yakuza}} Jiro]] [[spoiler: returned to Japan to where he avenged his family and is rumored to now be WalkingTheEarth]].
** [[TheCartel Sangres]] [[spoiler: traveled with Jiro to Japan and then decided to stay there and is currently one of the few foreign Yakuza bosses]].
** Film/JohnWick [[spoiler: returned home to a [[StealthPrequel final gift from his wife]]]].
** [[GamerGirl Joy]] [[spoiler: opened a retro-game hall in Seattle, and runs the biggest retro-game company in the world which has won several awards]].
** [[BadassBiker Rust]] [[spoiler: rebuilt his bike, grabbed a leather bag full of money and rode off into the wasteland never to be seen again]].
** [[Film/{{Scarface1983}} Scarface]] [[spoiler: went missing on a alligator hunt and depending on who you ask either got [[Film/ApocalypseNow renamed "The Colonel" and joined a lost warrior tribe]] or is running a cartel somewhere in the Florida Everglades]].
** Sokol [[spoiler: moved with his friends and family to Cyprus and is currently running an organization powerful enough to influence the country's government.]]
** [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Duke]] [[spoiler: used the Gang's stolen artifacts to open a museum and is currently married and living with a number of cats in New York]].
** [[AwesomeAussie Sydney]] [[spoiler: retired from crime, became an Olympic gold medalist, used her newfound fame to support the fight against child cancer, and is now volunteering at wildlife rescue centers around the globe]].
** [[spoiler: [[GoodAllAlong Locke]]]] [[spoiler: [[CutLexLuthorACheck started a cyber security company after moving to California]], and is pursing a career to become a pro golfer [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking while competing in full combat fatigues.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' has one that depends on the [[MultipleEndings which ending the player]]. based on this Lincoln Clay either [[spoiler: takes over the city ruling alongside Cassandra, Vito & Burke and eventually becomes the biggest mob boss in the American South and a VillianWithGoodPublicity]] or [[spoiler: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves New Bordeaux for good]] gets the welding job in California he mentioned at the start of the game and is constantly moving around between states (or even between countries) to remain one step ahead of [[InspectorJavert Agent Magurie]] but still sending postcards to Father James and the city in control of whoever is still alive.]]
** If in charge Cassandra [[spoiler: ends up getting into a war with every gang on the East Coast, assassinates the Louisiana Governor on the steps of the capital building when he sends in the National Guard and declares martial law in response to the gang war, leading to the state pulling all funding from the city, which ends up becoming a GhostTown after a hurricane]]. Burke [[spoiler: hires a BackAlleyDoctor for a liver transplant, becomes a booze and cocaine kingpin [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney who bought a seat on the city council legally changed New Bordeaux's name to Bourbon City]] and died in 1984 performing a FinalStand against the Cubans in a still-ongoing gang war]] and Vito [[spoiler: [[EarnYourOwnHappyEnding finishes Sal's casino, turned the city into the Las Vegas of the South, and is currently living in the penthouse on top of the casino]]]].
** Averted in the [[MultipleEndings Bad Ending]]: [[spoiler:if Lincoln goes insane and murders all three of his lieutenants, Father James assassinates him before he can go on a murder spree. There is no Where Are They Now because there's no more stories]].
** Regardless of which ending the player gets [[TheStinger a post-credits scene]] [[spoiler:Donovan is leading a one man crusade against [[WhoShotJFK the people behind The John F. Kennedy assassination]] starting the with the senator leading the [[HailedBeforeASenateSubcommittee his hearing in 1971]]]].
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' like Mafia 3 above has one that is determined by the games MultipleEndings.
** Depending on where he is shot in "Suffer With Me" [[spoiler: Mason shows up at The Vault after a 30 year coma and reunites with Woods and his son]] or [[spoiler: David visits his father's grave with Woods decides to retire.]] Also if [[BigBad Menedez]] is not killed and Chloe is dead he [[spoiler: breaks out exactly a year later as promised, kills Woods, and travels to Nicaragua where he [[SelfImmolation sets himself on fire over his sister's grave.]]]] or Chloe is still alive [[spoiler: and becomes famous for helping stop Menedez and gets interviewed by Creator/JimmyKimmel a year later while Menedez is still in prison]].
* The end of the MMORPG ''[[VideoGame/ClubPenguin Club Penguin Island]]'' shows some of the island's happenings and what the characters did after the servers shut down due to ExecutiveMeddling.
* If you get the GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'', photographs will appear in the credits that reveal what the Grumpuses are doing after they left Snaktooth Island.
** [[TheExistentialist Triffany]] [[spoiler:finds her grandmother's grave and pays her respects]].
** Wambus [[spoiler:manages to cultivate the sauce plants on the mainland]].
** [[OneHitWonder Wiggle]] [[spoiler:makes a comeback and performs in front of thousands]].
** [[NaiveAnimalLover Gramble]] [[spoiler:knits more of his hat for donating to charity]].
** [[ConMan Cromdo]] [[spoiler:opens his own karaoke bar]].
** [[ValleyGirl Beffica]] [[spoiler:is gossiping with a friend]].
** [[ConspiracyTheorist Snorpy]] [[OfficialCouple and]] [[LovableJock Chandlo]] [[spoiler:try out each other's lifestyles by working out and studying in a library, respectively]].
** [[MadOracle Shelda]] [[spoiler: publishes a book about her time on Snaktooth Island, "[[TheCuckoolanderWasRight I Was Right]] But Not Because I Had Magical Powers"]].
** [[MadScientist Floofty]] [[spoiler: takes up teaching at a university and [[AnArmAndALeg now needs a prosthetic leg to replace the one they cut off]]]].
** Filbo [[spoiler:successfully runs for mayor with [[PlayerCharacter the Journalist's]] help]].
** [[OfficialCouple Lizbert and Eggabell]] [[spoiler:are still on Snaktooth Island, but they're free of mutations and are at least together]].
* Playing through ''VideoGame/BrutalPawsOfFury'' on Sega CD will provide you with the resulting disgraced state of each combatant you defeat through the single player campaign. [[MindScrew This includes a]] MirrorMatch.
* The credits of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' is preceded by a montage of the bosses, showing where they went after the Order was broken up. Most of them find a new calling in life, but two are just shown being punished, and a third is left completely ambiguous--his screen doesn't even get a description like the others' did.
* The credits of the remake of ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' at least show brief scenes of the ongoing lives of each of the protagonist characters. These are shown for every character, regardless of whether or not you selected them as playable in that particular playthrough. (At the beginning of the game, you choose three out of six possible playable characters.)
* The CreativeClosingCredits for ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'' show what the characters of the game are doing in the aftermath of Emperor Nefarious's final defeat:
** Clank gets a new arm that resembles Rivet's robot arm.
** Dr. Nefarious, having survived being crushed by Emperor Nefarious's derelict HumongousMecha, turns off the lights in Emperor Nefarious's office. He then returns home, and visits Lawrence and his new family.
** Gary and the Plumber look through a scrapbook together.
** The Zurkon Family hang around a scrapyard.
** Goons-4-Less meditate with the Dimension Monks.
** The Morts invite Ratchet and company to a picnic.
** Emperor Nefarious's robot assistant escapes capture by the Phantom and Mama Zurkon.
** Pierre and his crew play with Bubbles, the octopus monster that Pierre was nearly fed to.
** Ratchet and Clank reunite with Talwyn Apogee, and tell her of their latest adventure.
** The Fixer helps rebuild the Pocket Dimensions.
** Qwark and Quantum strike poses in front of a statue of Qwark.
** Rivet and Kit go through the Emperor's music collection.
** Crank sings karaoke at a party.

* ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' has this for the six main endings, though the contents don't really vary from one to another.

* At the end of every single main series ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' game (the full game--not just one case), during the credits, there's an epilogue that shows all the characters with unique models (except the killers, and those who have been arrested for other crimes, such as [[spoiler: Sal Manella or Machi Tobaye]]), and what's happening to them after the game ends. Most of them have bugger all information though. Some actually talk about them getting involved with whatever it is they're doing next time you meet them.
** There are a few exceptions. [[spoiler: The Judge appears in the epilogue of the first game he appears, but no other. Likewise Winston Payne and his brother, Gaspen Payne. The only killers who appear are Ashley Graydon, the final culprit of ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney: Adventures'', Courtney Sithe, the third culprit of ''The Great Ace Attorney: Resolve'', and Beh'leeb Inmee, the third culprit of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice''.]]
** Due to the first game's fifth case being a bonus case added to the DS remake, both the fourth and fifth cases have one of these. It's the only game in the series with multiple epilogues.
** The DLC cases in recent entries of the series contain short scenes as their epilogues; their characters are not shown in the credits after the main cases. In the DLC case of the fifth game, [[spoiler: Marlon Rimes, the villain (though he actually hasn't killed anyone), isn't seen on-screen, but it is shown that he still works at Shipshape Aquarium]]. In the DLC case of the sixth game, [[spoiler: Pierce Nichody, the villain, is still a killer, so he isn't present at the ending, which shows the Sprockets' wedding]].
** ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' also has one of these, depending on how you view it. Luke wonders what Phoenix and Maya are doing once they returned home, cut to them in a courthouse with Edgeworth making a [[TheCameo cameo]].
* Starting from the second game, the ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' series make use of such epilogues in the flagship games of both the Standard and the Girl's Side branches of the series.
* ''VisualNovel/FleuretBlanc'' combines this with ModularEpilogue: you're only guaranteed to see the fate of the judges, Florentine, and Roland. The other members' stories (and that of the Chateau itself) are only revealed if you've completed their subplots; otherwise, the ending slides just have a question mark with the caption "X's future remained a mystery..."

* ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' has a variation. On the final day of the main story, as Yuna [[spoiler:and Hina are going to help Sachi and Megumi have TheirFirstTime that evening]], Yuna briefly crosses paths with each of the other couples and thinks about how they're doing.

* The last strip of ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' has a series of images showing us the characters' future, one a ShoutOut to ''Animal House''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Inverloch}}'' showed the fates of the [[spoiler: surviving]] major characters.
* Webcomic/BobAndGeorge had one of these.
* ''Webcomic/GetMedieval'' (though a few named characters got left out, most notably Oneder, Iroth's bodyguard. Worse, [[spoiler:The BigBad]] gets a [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini]])
* ''Webcomic/MissAbbottAndTheDoctor'': The final strip sees Cati Abbott, 10 years in the future, writing to Rebeca and telling her about all things that have changed since we last saw them.
* ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' features this as well in ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
* ''Webcomic/MaterialGirl'' has photo-like epilogues leaving a rather open ending.

** The final arc of the ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' revival ends with a series of wordless single-panel pages showing the future of the strip's cast. [[spoiler: Rumy resumes her art career, the Oberfs have their first child while also bonding with Soulson (Rumy's child with an alien from an early arc), Di hooks up with Dexter and Rico starts noticing Helga. The last strip shows the entire cast as crewmembers of an [[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]] {{Expy}} [[AndTheAdventureContinues seeking new adventures]].]]
* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' ''[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/06/01/the-epilogue finally]]'' ends on one of these. To note, [[spoiler: White Mage is tracking down the Light Warriors to give them ''some'' credit for fulfilling the prophecy, the Dark Warriors are now world-renowned heroes having received the credit for everything the Light Warriors did, Red Mage has set up a group for sole survivors of mysterious sects with Dragoon, Thief is now living peacefully in Elfland as the King, and Black Mage and Fighter have disappeared with none of the others being sure of where they are (turns out they're exactly where they started when the comic began)]].

* Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy ended its final strip with this for the main characters and RunningGag Bob.

* After completing ''Webcomic/{{Inverloch}}'', Ellerton drew bonus pages for each character with a short written summary of what they did after the story ended.
* ''Webcomic/{{Newshounds}}'' featured this sort of epilogue when Newshounds II ended in September 2014, showing the lives that the characters had built for themselves.
* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' has more of a "Where They Will Be", as Dominic was granted a last vision showing him where many of his friends and family would end up in the future.
* ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'' shows how the cast get back on with their lives after Joel's plans implode. Concluding with Thonnen's daughter becoming President of the United States decades later.
* ''Webcomic/BiteMe''. The main comic involves vampires during the French Revolution, so the epilogue goes all the way to the present.
* ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'' ends this way, starting with a stunning [[http://www.errantstory.com/2012-02-13/5426 portrait]] of Sarine and continuing with her report about what happened to key characters (Meji, Sara, Jon, herself, [[spoiler: [[BabiesEverAfter their daughter Mari]] ]] ) and places (Emerylon, Praenubilus Astu, Tsuiraku, others not named).

* ''actionFigures Final Video'', parody of Creator/MarvelComics characters with, duh, action figures, ended with normal credits, that were interrupted by ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, who asked for changing it for that ending.

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' did this with stills and captions at the end of the ''[[Anime/YuGiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight Pyramid of Light]]'' parody:
** Yugi hit puberty at the age of 23 and still lives with his grandpa.
** Tea became a table dancer in New York and is given [[DoubleEntendre enormous tips]].
** Joey is set to appear at Anthrocon after coming to terms with his identity as a furry.
** Tristan became the President of the United States. [[ItMakesSenseInContext His voice is the vice president]].
** Kaiba joined the Church of Scientology and are milking him for every cent he has.
** Mokuba [[RunningGag got kidnapped once again]], with no ransom demands issued yet.
** Grandpa Moto suffered a heart attack at age 87. [[RefugeInAudacity Much to his frustration, he survived.]]
** Pegasus became a regular cast member of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. The caption asks "[[TakeThat What was he thinking?!]]"
** Mai Valentine appeared in an issue of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' to massive success.
** Rex and Weevil [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead finally scored]]. It apparently cost them a month's worth of pocket money.
** Bakura [[ButtMonkey was committed to a mental asylum]], with his fangirls sending him "Get Well Soon" cards.
** Zorc planned on destroying Disney World, but spared it because it was too much fun. [[TakeThat He destroyed Eurodisney instead.]]
** Yami became a huge Hollywood star. He will return in ''[[Franchise/JamesBond For Your Cards Only!]]''

* WebAnimation/HomestarRunner: Parodied in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "montage", where a series of captions during the "end credits photo montage" reveal the fates of various characters (like The Cheat's failure as a toner salesman, Strong Bad hosting "some show on Animal Planet" that was cancelled before the first commercial break, and the Wagon Fulla Pancakes moving to Long Beach with its spouse and two kids). It also foretold the retirement of The Paper in WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail #173.
* WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms parodies the slow-motion voiceover epilogue in "[[http://5secondfilms.com/watch/coming_of_age Coming of Age]]":
-->"''Eric married that lifeguard. Brian never came back from [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]]. And Gorlac [[BreadEggsMilkSquick enslaved us all]]."'''
* Parodied by Website/CollegeHumor in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnM8NPeTanM Every Teen Movie Ending]]". All the classmates and their teacher meet very unfortunate ends, and the narrator [[PosthumousNarration died when he was still a kid]] and never actually saw these people graduate.

* Sleuth Noir, the online detective game, has an example of this trope in Heimlich [=VonVictor's=] [[http://noir.playsleuth.com/case/scripted_mystery.spy?mysteryid=3319512 The Executor's End]] At the conclusion of the mystery, we find out in great detail what happened to every member of the ensemble cast of the mystery.
* When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic reviewed Mister Nanny, he used a caption over the last shot ([[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Sean Armstrong flying through the air because the kids tethered his motorcycle]]) to explain what happened as a result.
** Also spoofed during the football game scene in the Warriors of Virtue review.
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' uses text inserts in "The Longest Episode" to reveal the futures of mane six. According to this, none of the girls change or progress in any significant fashion.
* Parodied in ''WebVideo/SteamTrain''[='=]s playthrough of ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V: Brave New World''. [[spoiler:Ross was murdered by Danny (because he destroyed the recording by kicking the computer), who then slept for 44 years, Arin went to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] and then he fell asleep, and [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Mochi and Mimi (Arin's cats) continue to rule as the Unmet Player]].]]
* Checking up on your old friends and acquaintances on {{Friending Network}}s like Website/{{Facebook}} can have this effect.
* Matt Willson has a (unfinished) teaser for a project called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MqJ2LzHaI 8 Hours]], which, from the looks of it, has this sort of effect for ''WebAnimation/BonusStage'' and his earlier project High Score. Phil's become a school teacher, and Joel has a daughter named Kate. Other various characters from Bonus Stage show up for short clips, and some of the scenes from High Score's intro are referenced.
* In the original GrandFinale of reviewer WebAnimation/{{Benthelooney}} featured this in his ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' review.
** Neb T. Yenool started paying attention in school and [[TookALevelInKindness became more sensitive towards others.]] However, he's still pwning some n00bs in his video games.
** Looney T. Ben became a sane man and now works at the St. Louis Zoo.
** Sir Lord Charles Humperdink IV learned how to appreciate art and spends his free time strolling around in art museums.
** Negative Nick became more positive and changed his name to Positive Pete.
** Ben T. Looney auditioned multiple times to get parts in cartoons but never made the cut once. He fell in love with Jenny E. Wacky and [[HappilyMarried ended up marrying her.]]
* The end of WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter and WebVideo/PieGuyRulz's review of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Truth or Square" ends with one of these. "Life in Bikini Bottom" becomes a hit with three seasons and counting, Patrick is arrested for farting in people's faces, Squidward finds spiritual enlightenment in Tibet, Mr. Krabs gets a new fashion sense, [=SpongeBob=] learns he's actually married to Sandy and now pays her annual alimony, Plankton creates a hair-growth serum and becomes a millionaire, the demonic here puppet is turned into firewood, Pie Guy Rulz creates a five times platinum rap album, and [[HumbleHero Mr. Enter orders a pizza and gets a refund because it's cold when it arrives]].
* The end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK4ZGRF2uS8 this episode of]] [[WebVideo/GuruLarryAndWez Fact Hunt]] ends with a Double Subverted example of this trope when talking about the members of ''Gamelife'', a show that was on the verge of being [=YouTube=]'s first breakout hit, until host Andrew Rosenblum destroyed their chances with a school shooting threat the day after the V-Tech Massacre:
** Andrew spent two years under house arrest.
** Dave & Melissa tried to create a spin-off show called ''Dave's Life'' that ended after two episodes.
** Alex "sadly passed away after succumbing to third-degree bowl cuts."
** [[ThePeteBest Geoff Mendicino]] wound up finding the most success as a pro ''Franchise/StreetFighter''[=/=]''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' fighter named Darksydegeoff.
* LetsPlay/PhantomSavage ends his ''VideoGame/DeadRising2: Off The Record'' playthrough with one of these. In his story, Rebecca Chang's "Chang Weekly" replaces People Magazine; TK is zombified and used for the finale of Terror is Reality, hosted by Phantom Savage; his father is still missing; Fortune City is remade into Zombie World and surpasses Disney World as the most successful theme park; Chuck Greene was pronounced dead but may have become a hitch hiker murderer; Savage himself (under the Frank West alias) reported the story behind the outbreak in the book "Fortune's End"; he secretly continued to investigate the outbreak and destroyed Phenotrans.

* Music/SiIvaGunner's DJ Professor K takeover serves as one for a few of the ''King for Another Day'' contestants.
** Weird Al never got into contact with BEAT IT again, but he's back to his normal work of parody and polka.
** Eminem's still selling his D-12 salsa, though he took a vacation from it at the time of interview. He's currently hanging out with Weird Al.
** Monokuma partnered up with Rokkaku in an attempt to bring Professor K down, though stubbornly gives up when K once again refuses to give into despair.
** According to one of the commercials, Metal Ajit Pai is still trying to end net neutrality.
** Mariya Takeuchi's present self managed to get into contact with Professor K again, and the two of them head out for ramen shortly after the takeover ends.
* Skawo parodies this [[https://youtu.be/ziHibxehscI?t=382 at the end of his playthrough of]] ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare: Get It Together]]'' with an explanation of what (he imagines) became of the cast:
** Wario never recovered financially from this.
** [[OffscreenInertia Mona still has a giant gaping hole in her mansion.]]
** [Dr. Crygor, Mike, and Doris 1] performing together was so bad, the terribleness looped around and became good again.
** [[WorthlessCurrency Dribble and Spitz discovered that alien money is not convertible on Earth.]]
** [[DemotedToExtra 13-Amp still exists.]]
** Furukawa went on to become the president of some small game company.
** Also, all those people... died. [[DeathIsGray They're in grayscale, afterall.]]
** Leo finally got his Mariowiki article.
** The mandrakes went on to become completely uncredited.
** Jimmy got sued for his hair color.
** Orbulon got {{curse}}d by multiple ancient curses from all the artifacts he stole.
** [[spoiler:Penny had her device confiscated to clean up [[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine Delfino Isle]].]]
** [[spoiler:The Supreme Developer dreads the day the next [=WarioWare=] releases, whence he'll exist alone and forgotten forever.]]
** [[spoiler:And finally, Pyoro ate the entire world and became even more fat.]]

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* The ending to the ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi: Enishi'' anime had a series of animated and still images over the end credits, showing glimpses of the characters several years later. The manga goes into more detail, actually resolving the main romantic plotline, and ending with something of a DistantFinale.
* In ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'', Akari explains in a letter to Ai what is going on with several characters, apparently a few years after she took over Aria Company. At the very end there is an even bigger time-skip, showing [[spoiler:Ai as Akari's new apprentice]].
** In the manga, Akari's letter is not to Ai, but to [[spoiler:the readers of her blog, which include Cait Sith]], although the timeskip event is still the same.
* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': In two phases, covering Chapters 179-180:
** The first half of Chapter 179 focuses on [[spoiler:the immediate aftermath of Koro-sensei's death at the hands of Class 3-E. Shiro/Yanagisawa survives being blown away into the anti-tentacle barrier, but the damage to his tentacle-infused body has left him a vegetable, while his experiments have been finally canned by the government. Public outrage over revelations of Kunugigaoka's discriminatory policies forced Asano Sr. to step down, though he not only seems to have anticipated it, but also sees it as an opportunity to start anew. Class 3-E used part of their reward to support their later education, donate to some acquaintances, and buy the entire mountain they used to call their classroom, while the rest was returned to the government]].
** The latter half of Chapter 179 and the entirety of Chapter 180 [[TimeSkip fast-forwards to seven years later]]. [[spoiler:The moon has collapsed and coalesced again into a spherical form while it was pulled closer by Earth's gravity, implicitly normalizing the tides to pre-explosion levels. Karasuma and Irina are now married and work together as counterterrorist agents. And by the looks of it, Class 3-E's alumni have utilized everything they learned to lead successful and meaningful lives -- Ritsu is now a fully-sentient being, Okano the leader of a university athletics club (which uses her old turf as training grounds), Kurahashi an ecotourist guide (using the same mountain for explorations), Takebayashi and Okuda developers of universal artificial blood, Sugino a college baseball superstar, Terasaka an apprentice to a powerful politician, Yoshida, Muramatsu and Itona inheritors to their family businesses, Nakamura a university student in London, Hazama a librarian, Kanzaki a caregiver, Sugaya an experimental artist, Karma an aspiring statesman, Kayano has returned to showbiz and is currently starring in a popular drama, and Nagisa is now teacher to a class of delinquents, while the rest are implied to be most likely finishing their education and starting new careers as well -- even as they never forget to keep in contact with each other.]]
* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'' ends with the cast meeting up at the high school some time after they graduated. Yuu and Touko are still going out in a LongDistanceRelationship, Sayaka has found a girlfriend, and Koyomi got her first book published, among other things.
* The ending of ''Manga/BlueDrop'' shows Michiko on her way to a peace talk with the aliens, thirty years after her experiences with Hagino and Mari, [[spoiler:still holding a copy of the script of the SchoolPlay she wrote and which Hagino wanted to finish playing]].
* ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet'' had a DistantFinale with the wedding of its OfficialCouple, and only elaborated on the careers of a few of its characters. An extra chapter shows what the rest has been up to in the seven years since the story concluded.
** Romio, Juliet and Airu are all politicians now working on reforms to further establish peace between Towa and the West. Hasuki is an actress apprenticed under Juliet's mother Rackdoll. Char is still in line to inherit the West throne. Maru is a banker, Tosa is a soldier and Kohitsuji is a photographer for a magazine (he wanted to do gravure, but he wound up working for a bodybuilding outfit instead). Leon is a teacher at Dahia Academy, Rex a fashion designer, Kochou and Teria continued their respective career choices (as a pharmacist and roboticist, respectively), Cait Sith and Sieber a pediatrician and the nurse assisting him, respectively, Somali became a pro wrestler while Aby (also a politician) looks after their infant daughters, Shuna is a policewoman, Kougi a priest and Ameria a model. All in all, all characters have been pretty well off. ...Well, except for [[ButtMonkey Scott]], who became Char's "pet". And he still hasn't gotten over Romio and Juliet getting together.
** There are a few more snippets in regards to relationships. Kochou gets inspired by the wedding to try to get together with Airu, but is too shy to make a move. Sieber makes it clear that she rejected Cait's own proposal during Romio and Juliet's wedding ceremony because she wanted a serious proposal from him. As for Romio and Juliet themselves, they have bought a house in Dahlia island, but [[RunningGag once again]] they have little room for time together, since they have to return to Towa and the West because of their responsibilities and can only meet again on the weekends.
* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', the story arc before the FinalBattle basically serves this purpose, with the two remaining pilots traveling across Japan to visit the families and friends of the other pilots, [[spoiler:including the boy who was only pretending to be a Zearth pilot]], giving closure to the storylines brought up in their arcs.
* ''LightNovel/{{Canvas 2}}'' has one of these, including a scene which subverts [[spoiler:[[DelicateAndSickly Tomoko]]'s prior supposed death a couple of minutes before]].
* The collected volume of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' came with a bonus epilogue that functioned like this--{{justified|Trope}} by a video [[spoiler:Azmaria recorded for Satella telling her what had happened while she was frozen in crystal]]. The epilogue was ''not'' released in the magazine ''Chrono Crusade'' ran in, meaning that fans had to wait for the book to come out to get a clearer idea of what happened after the finale.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' has this before the Fuko and Kouko portion of the final episode.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' ends with one of these. The funniest is that Jeremiah, who had been tormented by the derisive name "Orange", ends up accepting the name and living HappilyEverAfter ''growing oranges''!
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland''--the CreativeClosingCredits of every episode shows cheery pictures of the characters from ''before'' the series began. Sometimes this hints at things that will be revealed eventually--for example, [[ClearMyName Ganta]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Shiro]] playing as children, hinting at their ForgottenFirstMeeting several episodes before Ganta remembers it.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** Last five minutes of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', specifically the shots that show us what the digidestined's careers are, now that they've grown up.
** Also used sort of at the end of the fourth movie (2nd in English due to the combining of the first three as ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie''). While the credits are on we see stills of what the characters got up to more or less directly after the film.
** Last five minutes of ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' (5 years later, and less controversial...yeah).
* The last episode of ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' ran pastel drawings under its closing credits that showed obvious "after the series" images -- Makoto and Ifurita snuggling under a tree, Allielle in a ''[[{{Joshikousei}} seifuku]]'', and so on. They may simply be non-canon art pieces, however.
* The epilogue of ''Manga/FairyTail'' jumps ahead a year after the FinalBattle, to a party celebrating an award Lucy's won for her first novel. During the party, she narrates all the various things that have happened to the Fairy Tail members and their allies in the intervening time. The next morning, Lucy, Natsu, and several others go off on [[AndTheAdventureContinues a new quest]].
* In the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' anime, the last few minutes before the credits are a version of this. It shows the current antics of most the characters of the Emiya household such as Sakura, Ilya, Rin and Taiga. And then it turns [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] and [[TearJerker depressing]] as it shows Myth/KingArthur's, also known as [[LoveInterests Saber]]'s last moments as she dies with her hoping that she'll be able to see Shirou again after her 'long sleep'.
* The final page/episode of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' depicts a collage of photographs to show what the characters are up to several years after the finale, including Ed, Al, and Winry finding ways to use Al's armor to help people.
** [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist The 2003 anime version]] does something like this, the last half of the episode showing what everyone's up to after the fallout. That is, until the movie picks up right where the epilogue leaves off at. Whoops.
* ''Anime/FushigiYuugi'' has an epilogue which starts off with a [[EpilogueLetter letter]]. A montage of events that occur over approximately three and a half months--particularly Miaka's transition to high school--and then we see Miaka and Yui in high school (complete with montage-filled credits). Keisuke and Tetsuya then set them up with Tamahome's reincarnation, Taka Sukunami--or not, depending on which version you accept, and... CliffHanger!
** The last few pages of volume 18 (which is the manga form of the second OVA) shows few pictures of the Suzaku Seishi after their rebirth. Nuriko seems to have gotten his wish of being reborn as a girl so "he" could be there for Hotohori, Mitsukake is studying herbs with Shouka, who is the reborn version of his girlfriend, Tasuki returned back to his bandit life. Even the cat Tama started a family! Chichiri is also shown, but we don't know if he used Mitsukake's holy water to cure his destroyed left eye. Miaka and Tamahome/Taka are happily married with a toddler aged son.
* The extra ending in the final episode of ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula SIN'' takes place one year after the 2022 racing season, a new racing season opens with some of the racers switching teams and new outfits for the PitGirls and ending with the marriage ceremony of the main couple.
* Right before the closing credits of ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'', Takao details what he did after the summer had ended.
* In the ''Anime/GhostStories'' GagDub, Satsuki starts to tell a somewhat vulgar one and is cut off. Stories involved her homeroom teacher getting arrested for feeling up one of her classmates and Hajime losing his voice from getting [[GroinAttack kicked in the balls]] or something like that.
* ''Manga/GreenBlood'' ends with an elderly Luke Burns traveling with his daughter and granddaughter to visit his brother Brad, who is buried next to their mother in New York and whose grave shows he lived to the ripe old age of sixty-eight.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' ended with a dialogue-free ending credits sequence that demonstrated what each character did almost immediately following. The extended movie version had completely new sequences that remained dialogue-free, but was a bit more elaborate in what it presented.
*** Most notably including [[spoiler:Lady Une taking Mariemaia to her "father's" gravestone]] (though the man in question didn't really leave a body to put in a tomb).
** The second half of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'''s series finale reveals the fates of the surviving characters. The characters, who were prepubescent at the beginning of the show, are grown-up as young adults while a grown-up Atra narrates the political outcome [[spoiler:after the defeat of Tekkadan]]. At the last part of the finale, viewers get to see [[spoiler:Atra and Mikazuki's son, Akatsuki]].
** Both seasons of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' show the TimeSkip aftermath of the last battle. The movie, ''Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer'', has its epilogue set after the ending credits and it shows humanity and the ELS coexisting peacefully [[spoiler:with Setsuna, who is now a hybrid ELS/Innovator, visiting an elderly and blind Marina]].
** The finale of ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' shows the fate of the characters and the resolution of the LoveTriangle between Loran, Sochie and Dianna. [[spoiler:Loran chooses Dianna which Sochie didn't take it very well while her sister Khiel takes Dianna's place as the Queen of the Moon with only a few people knowing her true identity]].
* The journey of ''Manga/HellsParadiseJigokuraku'' ends in Chapter 126, but the series concludes in Chapter 127 after showing how the rest of the cast are doing: [[spoiler:the Chobe brothers goes to Hong Kong, where they stir even more trouble among the already chaotic state of the British-occupied city; Shion and Nurugai roam across Japan to look for a peaceful life, but keeps on running into trouble; Gantetsutai, now officially pardoned, opens a dojo specializing in medicine and swordmanship; Jikka takes over as the head of the Yamada Asaemon clan and gets to live out his carefree lifestyle; Sagiri goes on a pilgrimage and travels with Yuzuriha to visit Gabimaru and his wife, who now lives in peace. Then cut to the modern day, where Gui Fa is now a teacher living with Mei, and waiting for the others to re-grow]].
* The end of the first season of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' uses this, with what looks like the main cast all enjoying themselves after Keiichi managed to save Rena. [[spoiler:The reader is treated to a [[TheStinger stinger]] in which everyone has ''still'' died and the GroundhogDayLoop has -once again- begun anew.]]
** Look at the ending again. [[spoiler:That isn't even the same world. Ooishi acts like Miyo died last night and told Rika. He told Rena before and that happened days before.]]
* Subverted at the end of ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor'': It shows most of the crew, having quit the military, going off to do what they want as per Tylor's advice... until Captain Yamamoto calls them back to serve on the [[SuperPrototype Aso]]... which is in of itself an epic BaitAndSwitch that is easier to watch than explain.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''Manga/BattleTendency'' ended with one of these for all the [[AnyoneCanDie surviving]] cast. Lisa Lisa [[spoiler:[[LukeIAmYourFather reveals to Joseph that she's his mother]] and returns to life as Elizabeth Joestar]], moving to America and later marrying a Hollywood screenwriter. Erina continues to work as a teacher until passing away at the age of 81, surrounded by her loved ones. Speedwagon continues his work as CEO of the Speedwagon Foundation up until his death via a heart attack at age 89, [[ConfirmedBachelor never leaving behind any children]]. Smokey goes to college, majors in political science, and becomes the first black mayor in his home state of Georgia. Stroheim never sees Joseph again after the battle against Kars, and eventually falls during the battle of Stalingrad, a proud German solider till the end. Jump to 1989, Joseph, now in his 60s, boards a plane to visit his daughter and grandson in Japan, setting up the events of ''Manga/StardustCrusaders''. Of course, given all this was scarcely 100 chapters into an (as of now) [[LongRunners over 900 chapter manga]]... yeah it wasn't quite done.
** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'' has a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version in the manga, which reveals the status of a few of the characters after the end of the Part. Okuyasu decides to keep Stray Cat after his father ended up bonding with it. Joseph was never able to find Shizuka's parents, and so decides to adopt her as his own. Suzi Q is initially angry at Joseph, thinking he had another affair, but is delighted to accept Shizuka after the situation is cleared up. And Jotaro earns his doctorate in Marine Biology after writing a thesis on a species of starfish local to Morioh's bay. The final episode of the anime [[AdaptationExpansion expands upon the ending]] by showing what a number of other character are up to after the Part as well. Of note, the Higashikata household is shown to have returned to a sense of normality, with Josuke and Tomoko being able to move on from [[PlotTriggeringDeath Ryohei's death]]. [[SerialKiller Angelo]] is still [[FateWorseThanDeath trapped inside of the stone Josuke fused him with]]. Koichi and Yukako have entered a stable relationship. Okuyasu attempts to heal his father's mutation with Tonio's [[{{Panacea}} food]], but it doesn't work, though it heals him enough that they're both at least happy with it. Rohan has returned to working on ''Pink Dark Boy''. And by the end of the summer of 1999, Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu are still friends and hang out.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' did this in the end, skipping the series forward six years, [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot leaving only four more before the new season]].
** The following season, ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', did the same thing, though it didn't skip forward as far.
* The second half of the final episode of ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'' took place months after Godai and Kyoko's wedding and illustrated how the lives of the various characters continued on in the months since: Akemi has married the owner of [=ChaChaMaru=] and moved out of Ikkoku, Kozue is living in Nagoya with her husband, Ibuki is attending an all women's college, Mitaka and Asuna are raising twins, with more on the way... and Godai and Kyoko come back to Ikkoku from the hospital with [[BabiesEverAfter baby in tow]].
* The final two chapters of ''Manga/MedakaBox'' jump ahead ten years to a reunion held by the former Student Council members on the anniversary of [[spoiler:Anshin'in-san's death]] and show the primary cast while telling about satellite characters.
** [[spoiler:Zenkichi and Tsurubami have high-level jobs in the Kurokami Foundation (which they earned on their own merits rather than relying on their connections).]]
** [[spoiler:Akune runs a highly successful toy company (though he has a habit of going into the factory and assembling the toys himself because it's too much fun) and married Wanizuki of the Not-Equals.]]
** [[spoiler:Kikaijima settled down after becoming a housewife and a mother, bringing her newborn son to the reunion.]]
** [[spoiler:Kujira runs the new Flask Plan along with most of the [=13s=], Mukae runs a flower shop, and Shiranui turned her family's village into a ninja village attraction.]]
** [[spoiler:Nobody's heard from Kumagawa in years, but the group assumes he's fine because he's not the kind of person to get in touch unless he needed help (and some readers thought it was implied that he's Kikaijima's husband). Additionally, Anshin'in-san left a message upon Medaka's graduation that made everyone certain she'll be coming back to life some time soon.]]
** [[spoiler:Most of the side characters have settled into adulthood well...but [[TheMagicGoesAway almost all of them have lost their superhuman abilities]], including Medaka.]]
** [[spoiler:Speaking of, Medaka mellowed out over time, but is thoroughly enjoying the fact that she no longer [[AnimalsHateHim terrifies animals]]. She's still the chairman of the school and is about to launch a plan to restore the moon (after all, she was the one who destroyed it). She still has the suggestion box, but it's become her "treasure box" for storing the precious memories of her youth, like the nametags from the 100 flower run.]]
** [[spoiler:The series caps off with Zenkichi asking Medaka for one last sparring match now that they're finally on a level playing field, with the stakes being that [[WackyMarriageProposal if he wins, she'll marry him and if she wins, he'll marry her]].]]
* The final episode of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' shows Doctor Tenma coming back to Germany to see Nina and Dieter, having joined Doctors Without Borders. It also shows Johan in a coma... until the ending credits reveal [[SequelHook an empty bed]]. Previously, it shows that Eva overcomes her problems, Dieter lives happily with Dr. Reichwein, Nina is being successful in her laws degree and Lunge fixes his relationship with his daughter.
* ''Anime/MyDaddyLongLegs'' ends with a scene where we watch various characters at Judy's wedding, but there is no dialogue. Instead, Judy provides narration, explaining what has happened to various people.
* ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' concludes with a short epilogue that takes place several years after the events of the series. The epilogue is narrated by Marie, the youngest member of the cast, now a fetching girl of about 18 or so.
* The last chapter of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is largely pictures of the time-skipped girls with a few short paragraphs mentioning how they're living now. Fan reaction to the ending was mixed, not least because of a few important plot points which took place entirely offscreen (Natsumi had another adventure in the Magic World, the twins met some princes and fell in love, Nagi was freed from the Lifemaker), and a number of other characters fans were interested in were simply not mentioned (such as Fate, Fate's girls, and Arika, Negi's mother).
* The last half of episode 11 in ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' Finale where it shows under the credits and the ending theme where everyone is going. Also, a case of All Love is Requited.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' doesn't have those as an epilogue (since it's still running), but it does have cover story mini-arcs that sometimes act as this, especially the post-timeskip "From the Decks of the World," which show characters who haven't been seen for dozens, if not hundreds, of chapters, and may not appear again.
* The final scene of ''Anime/OutlawStar'' shows the crew saying their goodbyes and going their separate ways. But wait: in the post-credit [[TheStinger stinger]], surprise, surprise, they all get back together again.
* ''Manga/PingPong'': The last part of the series touches on where the five prodigies went after the second tournament:
** [[spoiler:After beating Smile in the finals, Peco went on to rise through the ranks. After a series of commercial deals in Japan, he was drafted to the German national team and now plays in the European leagues.]]
** [[spoiler:After coming second in the finals, Smile continued to play competitively before his retirement. He now teaches ping pong to children with Obaba at her dojo.]]
** [[spoiler:Kazuma placed third in the second tournament, but returned to form with the retirement of Smile. He was drafted to the Japanese Olympic team, but was replaced by Kong soon after. He retired and now works with the family business.]]
** [[spoiler:Sakuma never returned to ping pong. Instead, he married his girlfriend soon after high school and had two children.]]
** [[spoiler:Kong became a naturalized citizen of Japan and took the name Tsujido Wenge. He continued playing ping pong and was drafted into the Japanese Olympic team, replacing Kazuma, and eventually attending the Olympic Games.]]
* The manga of ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'' closed with a scene showing the seven protagonists settling into their new lives several years later, as well as the circumstances of the spirits of the main couple.
* The ''Ruby/Sapphire'' arc of ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' ends by showing what the various side characters of the arc are doing after their brush with TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt... before cutting to a scene of Giovanni picking up the remains of the shattered Red and Blue Orb, setting things up for the ''[=FireRed/LeafGreen=]'' arc. The ''XY'' arc similarly sees the protagonists moving on after their adventure.
** Also, all of the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' movies end with scenes showing what Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, and his friends are doing following the films' events along with certain characters from previous movies such as:
*** In ''Lucario and the Mystery of Mew'' when Kidd appears to be exploring Forina, we see Butler and Diane from ''Jirachi: Wish Maker'', having apparently started a farm together.
*** In ''Arceus and the Jewel of Life'', we see Tonio and Alice from ''The Rise of Darkrai'' enjoying a date in a hot air balloon while Baron Alberto attempts to follow them. Darkrai is then seen looking over the town. Then later we see Zero, the villain from ''Giratina and the Sky Warrior'' in prison, only to be visited by Newton Graceland who gives him a copy of Infi that survived the Megarig's wreck, much to his delight. Shaymin is also seen, looking out to a sunrise with a smile.
* The last episode of ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' goes directly from the final TrueLovesKiss to what appears to be the events occurring about half a year after, showing what the characters' lives are now like (and stuffing half of the sequence with a collection of the show's {{Running Gag}}s).
* Within the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, while a case of this first used on ''[[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure Heartcatch]]'', it wasn't until ''[[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Go! Princess]]'' that this trope was used in full effect.
** On ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'', the first half of the final episode shows the conclusion of the final battle while the second half shows the group a few months later - they only show the main girls, mostly that Tsubomi is now a proud older sister (and she's gone back to wearing her glasses full time) and Itsuki's finally being a girl, letting her hair grow out and wearing the girl's school uniform. It goes one step further by showing Tsubomi's little sister, standing by Tsubomi's desk, looking at the picture of the Precures and holding Tsubomi's Heart Perfume, hinting that she's next in line to be a Precure.
** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' showed that in the future, Haruka continues to pursue her own dream, Minami becomes a marine biologist, Kirara is now a professional model, Towa (along with Kanata and the mascots) returns to the restored Hope Kingdom, while Yui continues to draw a book that chronicles the Cures' story. The final scenes, set at an unknown amount of year after the show ended, showed that Yui has completed her book while the Cures got themselves a crystal version of their TransformationTrinkets. Interestingly, unlike all the other cases in the franchise, the grown-up versions of the Cures and Yui didn't show up their faces.
** ''Anime/MahouTsukaiPrettyCure'''s proper epilogue episode shows that approximately 5 years in the future, Mirai has entered college while the PassingTheTorch episode reveals that Riko has become a teacher in the Magic World. [[spoiler:Through a miracle, they would have a tearful reunion with Kotoha and Mofurun at the end of the proper epilogue episode.]]
** The final scenes of ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'''s final episode showcased that Ichika now operates the [=KiraPati=] around the world, Aoi is now the lead singer of her band, Himari's now a scientist focusing on sweets, Akira continues her studies at medical school with Yukari also continuing to pursue her own studies, while Ciel also continued to operate her own patisserie shop that is now run jointly with Rio. The mascots also have now opened their own patisserie (independent of [=KiraPati=] and Ciel's shop) with Bibury as an assistant.
** The second half of ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'''s final episode is set ''11'' years in the future, a then-franchise record. It showcased that Hana is now a CEO of her own company, Saaya is now a doctor, Homare is now a gold-medalist ice skater, Emiru is full-fledged solo rockstar, while Ruru [[spoiler:was reunited with Emiru as a newly-created robot unit created by that timeline's Doctor Traum. Meanwhile, the members of the Crisis Corporation have new jobs or are just growing up. The episode ends with Hana giving birth to that timeline's Hagumi.]]
** The second half of ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'''s final episode is set even further than Hugtto's epilogue, as it's set ''15'' years in the future. Lala is now an investigator at Starry Sky Association while Yuni continues her work to restore her home planet with the help of Aiwarn. The rest of the Knotraiders aside from the Ophiuchus Princess have converted their former base into a massive botanical garden. As for the remaining three? Well, they continued to work in relation to each other: Madoka is now the leader of Japan's first manned rocket project (with her dad as the Prime Minister), Hikaru has fulfilled her dream to be an astronaut and has been chosen to be one of the astronauts of said project's first launch, while Elena now works as an official professional translator for the United States government to cover said launch for the worldwide broadcast. [[spoiler:The very final scene suggests that Hikaru is reunited with Fuwa.]]
* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has one in the last few minutes of the final episode of the series, showing what Kinkan is like after the story ended. It also shows that Fakir kept his [[ThePromise promise]] to [[spoiler:Ahiru]].
* Done in ''Manga/ProjectARMS'', where we see that Takeshi becomes a world-famous soccer player. Keith Violet is an American politician who campaigns for world peace. Hayato inherited his grandfather's dojo and is a wrestling champion. He and Kei are taking things slowly, while Kei is now a full-time employee for the Blue Men. Carol is in college. Al is a famous professor. Ryo and Katsumi got married and their daughter is implied to be the reincarnation of Alice.
* Five years after the events of the ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' manga, Kenshin and Kaoru have married and have a young son, Kenji. Yahiko is the acting instructor of the dojo, and WordOfGod implies that he and Tsubame eventually become a thing.
** Megumi has gone back to Aizu to work as a doctor/search for her family, Sanosuke has left Japan and taken on the role as TheDrifter, and Misao and Aoshi are still in the Oniwabanshuu. Saitou was transferred to an unknown police unit in the epilogue of the manga.
** The non-canon and controversial ''Reflection'' OVA takes place presumably 15 to 20 years after the manga, and depicts middle-aged Kenshin and Kaoru, and their teenaged son Kenji has left the dojo to study under Hiko Seijuurou. [[spoiler:Kenshin decides to go help out in the first Sino-Japanese war by taking care of people, despite being very ill. He and Kaoru make love one more time before he departs, and she contracts his sickness.]] Sanosuke is revealed to be in China and finds a very sick Kenshin and Sanosuke sends him back to Tokyo. Kenshin makes his way back to home and Kaoru is there to greet him. He later dies in her arms.
*** Some time later, Kenji is shown with a young girl named Chizuru, who appeared in one of the pilot episodes of the manga.
*** Other characters make brief appearances, such as adult Yahiko and Tsubame and an older Megumi.
* The ending of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' does this, showing the three protagonists walking along their individual paths after splitting up and enjoying the scenery while the credits play.
* Following the deciding battle of ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', time skips ahead a few months to show us the main characters back on their feet and getting ready to fight again, while Masamune and Yukimura meet for their all-important final duel, though the outcome is left ambiguous.
** Turns out Masamune kind of won (Yukimura was being distracted), but didn't get round to finishing the job before a ''new'' BigBad showed up.
* The last episode of ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' is one of these as well. Paraietta and Roatreamon run an orphanage together in Mamiina's memory, Kaim and Alty have made up and live together, Floe and Vyura (who both chose to become male) are being drafted on opposite sides of a war, Morinas married Wapourif, has a child (with a second on the way), and works for Wauf, Rimone and Dominura are still in the past establishing the Simoun traditions (and it's implied that they never choose a gender), Yun takes Onasia's place as the leader of Simaulcrum, and Aer and Neviril [[spoiler:AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]].
* The end credits in the GrandFinale of ''Manga/SoulEater'' show what almost the entire cast got up to after Asura's defeat. They're mostly lighthearted (such as Maka improving at basketball and Joe finally getting his coffee) and the final seconds show the students together one last time.
* At the end of ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'' Ogikubo is back where it belongs. Keiji and Luluco are living in space now, Over Justice is the new Commissioner of the Space Patrol, and Midori has taken his place as the Ogikubo Patrol Chief. Lalaco's still terrorizing planets somewhere, as well. And finally, Luluco takes up the name Miss Trigger and wanders the dimensions in order to find Nova again.
* The ''Anime/{{Steamboy}}'' universe's alternate timeline is show in clips during the credits where Lloyd Steam continues his pontificating to Ray, eventually dies and is buried, followed by a WWI style conflict complete dirigibles burning to the ground, and Scarlett standing proudly in front of a plane she flies.
* A few examples from ''Creator/StudioGhibli''.
** The credits of ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' show incidents from the future, starting with the mother's return from the hospital.
** Similarly, the credits of ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' show what happened with Tombo's aviator's club, Jiji and Lily, ect.
** The credits for ''Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' show Nausicaa reuniting with her people, Kushana and the Torumekian army leaving the valley peacefully, and Lord Yupa and Asbel exploring the toxic jungle together.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tayutama}} Kiss On My Deity'' combines this with AfterTheEnd in an ending that makes little sense whatsoever.
* In the final episode of ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'', Tenchi recounts what happens to everyone after he defeats Kagato.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', twenty years after the events of the show, we found out Rossiu became president over the entire galactic alliance with Leeron at his side, Yoko became a principal at a school, Darry and Gimmy now pilot Gurran Lagann, Viral became supreme commander over the entire fleet. And Simon of all people was WalkingTheEarth, though the movie epilogue expanded on what he was doing: he was helping people in need in exchange of planting flowers, fulfilling Nia's dream.
* The movie version of ''Manga/TheyWereEleven'' has a very straightforward one, detailing the future careers of the cast after the end of their Cosmo Academy exam.
* The credits to the final episode of ''Anime/{{Tokyo Magnitude 8}}'' show the characters relatively shortly after the show ends.
* The ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' anime has one of these in the last episode.
* ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' ended with Jean narrating what happened to everybody after Deathsaurus was defeated. Among other things, we find out that Star Saber and Victory Leo survived.
* The Japanese version of ''Anime/YuGiOh: Duel Monsters'' has one in the final episode showing the credits montage of the characters returning home and the whereabouts of minor characters.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' shows the epilogue over the last three episodes. After half a year after the defeat of Z-ONE, Jaegar became the new mayor. Aki is finishing up school and contemplates studying overseas. Crow becomes [[{{Irony}} a member of the Neo Domino Police.]] Yusei becomes a HotScientist and finishes his father's work. Lua and Luca received a letter from their parents who want them to leave Neo Domino City to live with them. Jack has been traveling and training. The last episode then shows everyone eight years after. Lua is training to be the future Rising Duel champion while Luca is studying in university. Crow continued to duel as a professional duelist, while Jack becomes the King of the Ride Ace Dueling league, making him the World King. Aki is a high-ranking doctor. Yusei decides to stay in Neo Domino City to protect it.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', at the end of the Chapter Black saga, the series shows what some of the supporting characters in the arc, from the three boys Genkai hired to test the heroes to Sensui's henchmen, ended up doing with their lives.
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* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': The epilogue is set seven years later the end of the story and shows what has happened to the Ikari family in the meantime.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': The epilogue shows the cast’s lives twenty years after the end of [[spoiler:SEELE]]. Most of them are retired, Asuka is still an army officer, Shinji is a music teacher...
* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': The epilogue chapter happens several years after the FinalBattle: [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka get married and their friends and co-workers attend their wedding. During the ceremony Shinji explains what everyone have been doing during the past years: he and Asuka still work for NERV, are living together and expecting a baby; Rei dealed with a depression for a while but got better and was experimenting with all kind of jobs; Touji and Hikari are still together; Misato started dating Makoto..]].
* ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'': The final scenes happen several years after [[spoiler:Third Impact]], and explain what happened to the characters and the world after the final battle.
* Chapter 68 of ''Fanfic/IntelligenceFactor'', The State of Pokérinian Civilization, gives summaries of Pokérin making its first steps to joining the Federation, and what various supporting characters got up to after the crew finished their survey.
* ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'': The LDD-fanfic sequel to [[Literature/BridgeToTerabithia the Katherine Patterson novel and its Disney adaptation]] ambitiously skips to two decades later, depicting the life of Jess and Leslie in their thirties. [[spoiler: Leslie is now a successful writer who had won multiple awards for her bestsellers, while Jess is an art scholar whose works are displayed in art galleries all across the country, earning millions upon millions from his masterpieces. Having moved from Lark Creek to the more rural countryside, they live together in a three-story lakeside mansion with their children, consisting of their daughter and son (both which seems like carbon copies of their parents)]]. BabiesEverAfter galore, with [[spoiler: three of Jess' sisters - Ellie, Brenda and Maybelle - having children with their respective spouses too, while the youngest sister Joyce Ann is mentioned to be engaged]]. Jake and Caitlyn, two {{O|riginalCharacter}}C whom are the closest friends of Jess and Leslie, also ends up a couple as well, [[spoiler: becoming the godparents to the children of Jess and Leslie while having a son of their own, and Caitlyn being pregnant with a second child]]. The story even mentions the aftermath of [[spoiler: Scott Hoager, Jess' former bully from the Disney adaptation, where Scott actually ends up with Jess' ex-girlfriend Sonia, with whom he had a son, which Jess' daughter had a crush on, much to Jess' surprise and chagrin]].
* ''Fanfic/MyLittleAvengers'' ends with a brief TimeSkip showing what happened after the defeat of [[BigBad Loki]]. In addition to showing what happened to the story's central characters, it also shows what happened to a few of the minor characters, [[spoiler: including Twilight Sparkle becoming [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Sorcerer Supreme]], and Rainbow Dash leading a team of ComicBook/XMen [[{{Expy}} expies]].]]
* The two-part epilogue of ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' includes a brief AP story that says, in essence, “Music/TheBeatles are not reuniting.”
* The end of ''Fanfic/WhoSilencedEllyPatterson'' was entitled Endgame and Epilogues, and after showing Elly's death (not a spoiler), it goes into the lives of the other characters through letters, ranging from six months after the death to fifteen years after. John marries Kortney and dies shortly after the birth of his twin sons, [[spoiler:Connie]] serves six years for Elly's murder and has befriended Kortney, Kortney is using the wealth she inherited from John to erase Millborough from existence and incorporate it into Greater Scarborough, Claire travels the world (and somehow meets [[spoiler:Lynn Johnston]]), Elizabeth and her family are thriving in Vancouver, April has also moved to Vancouver and works as a vet at an equine rescue, Deanna remarried, gained two stepchildren, and had a child with her new husband, Meredith is studying to become an archaeologist, Robin is going into physics, and Michael spent years getting over Elly's death, came to terms with his bisexuality, and is engaged to a man.
* ''Fanfic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'' has one of these at the end of the fic, showing [[spoiler: most of the Inner Senshi resuming their civilian lives, Ami going to study magic at Mid-Childa, Alicia and Hotaru being adopted by Lindy Harlown and the Takamachis respectively, and]] Nanoha and the rest of her friends resume their duties at the TSAB (presumably in time to start ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'').
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' story, ''[[Fanfic/LegacyTotalDrama Legacy]]'', which is set ten years after the events of the show, the reminiscence portion of the story ends with thumbnail sketches of what everyone is currently up to.
* The epilogue of ''Fanfic/PaperMarioX 2'' is ''actually named'' "Where Are They Now?". Of course, the story follows the plot of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', which also had one of these epilogues.
* ''Fanfic/TheMiracleAtPalaven'' ends with one, showing snapshots of the surviving viewpoint characters and a galaxy rebuilding in the aftermath of the Reaper War.
* The pro wrestling story, ''Fanfic/ARingOfTheirOwn'', ends with Victoria announcing her retirement and becoming commissioner of the FWF, followed by a Where Are They Now on all the major characters.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', we learn that Lavinia ends up married to Damon, with two children named after Vale and Kit, while Laurel Whitaker ended up with [[spoiler: Obsidian's cousin Glint]], and that both families survived the bombing of District Twelve and the war on the Capitol. The story ends with [[spoiler: Lavinia relaying Vale's story to Katniss Everdeen, thinking that Vale would have wanted her story to be told]].
* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'' uses this during the final credits in the same vein as ''Franchise/AceAttorney's'' final cases, involving Phoenix giving his goodbyes to everyone he met in Ponyville before he's sent back to his world.
* ''Fanfic/{{Hammerhand}}: Angels of the Storm'' ends with one:
** The Batarians are suffering under heavy reparations for their part in the Reaper Wars.
** Wrex is the leader of the largest Krogan faction on Tuchanka.
** Garrus fell off the map, although it's implied he became [[VigilanteMan Archangel]].
** Miranda is the military governor of this universe's version of Cadia.
** Tali formed this universe's [[TechnoWizard Mechanicus]] (with help from [[HumongousMecha Yamzarat Machtoro]] and a few others)
** Thane died peacefully in his sleep after hearing of the victory over the Reapers.
** Jack disappeared, leaving [[CoolTeacher Cyralius]] a message saying that she might go and do something similar to what Garrus was doing.
** [[AcePilot Kurias]] retired and lives in a nice home provided by the Alliance. He flies light aircraft in his spare time.
** [[TheMedic Apothecary Okeen]] fell off the grid and may be trying to recreate the [[SuperSoldier Space Marines]] with help from Cerberus.
** [[TheLancer Titus]] became a highly successful Spectre, albeit a highly noticeable one.
** [[MagicKnight Cyralius]] became a CoolTeacher at Grissom Academy.
** [[TheCaptain Malleus]] became the Citadel Council's Warmaster, and [[BabiesEverAfter had a child with]] [[LadyOfWar Samara]].
* There is a minor one in the epilogue of ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'' to show what happened to the Kingdom after the climactic battle and WorldHealingWave. It also serves as a cliffhanger for the next installment.
* FanFic/AGrowingAffection: The later half of the final chapter is this. Naruto reflects one the current situation of his friends and allies [[spoiler: as he walks forward to accept his appointment as Hokage.]]
* ''Fanfic/GodSaveTheEsteem,'' imitating [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} its parent show]], has brief descriptions of characters in odd scenes. They're actually even less serious than the show's--for example, [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]] becomes [[Comicbook/IronMan a superhero in]] PoweredArmor.
* ''Fanfic/IAmNotGoingThroughPubertyAgain'': After the four protagonists switch back to their bodies in Timeline Gamma (aka the canon timeline) and continue their lives post-canon, the epilogue of the story is this, covering the fates of those in Timeline Beta (aka the past timeline they meddled with).
* ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'' has something like this as its final chapter, with the story's editor - [[Franchise/DragonAge Varric]] - explaining to the author what everybody did after the victory party. He then adds that it will all be detailed [[SequelHook in the sequel]].
* ''Fanfic/LoveIsAFunnyThing'''s final chapter ends five years afterwards. Jem and the Holograms have broken up, but Jerrica is HappilyMarried to Riot. Most of The Stingers and The Misfits have settled down and they're all doing fine. The exception is Pizzazz, who died of a drug overdose.
* The author of the [[https://videogameshrines.weebly.com/ Video Game Shrines]] ends every one of his [[https://videogameshrines.weebly.com/short-introduction.html SRPG shrines]] this way.
* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': The epilogue of the fourth story, ''The Diplomat's Life'', mostly covers Twilight's walking through Ponyville, reminiscing about what everyone's been up to in the past six years, such as marriages and life goals achieved (including the Cutie Mark Crusaders getting their Marks). With the exception of a few villains who remain imprisoned in some way or another, and one who suffered a mental breakdown and had to be checked into a hospital, everyone she thinks about has gotten their happy ending (even [[spoiler:Chrysalis, who's living a quiet life in a cottage in the Everfree, albeit still under guard]]).
* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': The final episode is set three years after the FinalBattle. The four EVA pilots are living in a guardhouse in the USA. Shinji and Asuka are planning to move together when he goes to college, and they are expecting a baby, Rei has gotten better at socializing, and Keiko -whose wounds have fully healed- is one year from graduation. The flipside is that they are under constant and strict surveillance, which includes tracker chips, and they can never ever go back home.
* In the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' fanfic ''Fanfic/QuietAndTheDimensionalTravelerTimelineA'' there is this kind of epilogue in addiction to a normal one as to show the consequences of the protagonist's actions. Some characters's lives are completely ruined, while others get a happy ending. Only the protagonists's destiny is not shown, and left as ambiguous like in the previous epilogue.
* ''Fanfic/FallenKingdom'': The final chapter takes place [[DistantFinale ten years after the main story]] detailing everyone's lives and reveals that, in spite of the war, there is finally peace and no more fighting.
* ''Fanfic/CrumblingDown'': The epilogue of the story reveals just what the heroes, as well as Lila, have been up too in the [[DistantFinale ten years since the story took place]] when everyone comes back together to watch Marinette's debut into the fashion world.
* ''Fanfic/OlivesLastPartner'': The epilogue, "Flashforward", takes place after the events of the ''Series/OddSquad'' episode "The Jackies", where Precinct 13579 won their very first Jackalope Award and received quite a lot of honors for their accomplishment.
* ''Webcomic/{{Springaling}}'': The final canon comic[[note]]which is even titled "Where Are They Now?"[[/note]] details what happened to the people and places the inhabitants of Fazbear's Fright left behind when they moved on.
** Fazbear's Fright burned down, as per canon. The basement was filled with rubble, burying all evidence of Fazbear Entertainment's less savory side.
** The pigeons that were living in the ductwork escaped unharmed and relocated to a parking lot.
** Helpy was found and brought home by [[spoiler: the night guard of Fazbear's Fright]], but hasn't moved since.
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* ''Film/NineToFive'' ends with ''Animal House''-esque text blurbs telling us what each character went on to do with their lives. Dolly Parton's character appropriately became a country singer; Judy, who was practically drowned in paper by an overactive photocopier, fell in love and married a Xerox repairman; and Mr. Hart, the chauvinist boss wound up being karmically abducted by a tribe of [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon Amazons.]]
* ''Film/TheThirtyThree'', a fictionalized account of the 2010 Copiapó mining disaster in Chile and the successful rescue of 33 trapped miners, ends with images of the real miners involved.
* ''Film/{{Airheads}}'': A postscript at the end of the movie reveals that the Lone Rangers served 3 months in prison for kidnapping, theft, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking assault with hot pepper sauce]], and that their album ''Live in Prison'' went triple platinum.
* ''Film/AlanPartridgeAlphaPapa'' finishes with a rundown of what happened to the main characters after the siege.
* ''Film/AlphaDog'' shows the legal consequences to the individual members of Truelove/Hollywood's crew as a result of the kidnapping and murder of Zach Mazursky/Nick Markowitz at the end. Truelove himself was finally apprehended after eluding the authorities for five years.
* ''Film/AmericanAnimals'' ends with title cards explaining where the four actual perpetrators are doing at the time of filming. They're all free and living quiet, modest lives.
* ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' [[TropeMakers introduced what was to become the iconic form of the "Where Are They Now?" epilogue]]: a brief freeze frame of each of the major characters accompanied by subtitles giving their full name and a brief summary of their future lives. One character went on to becomes a famous writer; another enlisted and (reportedly) died in Vietnam. A third character died in a car accident.
* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' ends with one, concluding with [[CloudCuckoolander Brick]] becoming a top political advisor to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'':
** The end has a similar sequence with the camera pausing on multiple characters with a short text blurb describing their future, only their fates are all ironic and funny, from [[TheNeidermeyer the original Neidermeyer]] getting "killed in Vietnam [[UnfriendlyFire by his own troops]]" to "Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky." The "Double Secret Probation Edition" of the ''Animal House'' DVD [[DistantFinale takes this trope further]].
** WordOfGod states that ''Animal House'' was deliberately parodying ''Graffiti'', especially since both films were set in roughly the same era. [[ParodyDisplacement Ironically]], ''[[ParodyDisplacement Animal House]]'' [[ParodyDisplacement itself was so influential that the ironic, funny epilogues soon became the dominant version of this trope]], as can be seen from all of the homages and {{Shout Out}}s listed elsewhere on this page.
** It bled into RealLife when it was revealed that "Babs became a tour guide at Ride/UniversalStudios." In the credits, there's a line that says "Ask for Babs." If you asked for Babs when buying tickets for Universal Studios tours, [[DevelopersForesight you'd get a discount on admission]]. (Unfortunately, this has been discontinued.)
** In one of the segments of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', set in Vietnam, one of the soldiers mentions killing Lt. Neidermeyer.
* ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'': At the end a voiceover by Tom Hanks describes the later careers of the three Apollo 13 astronauts and some of the other NASA personnel.
* Creator/JeanPierreMelville's ''Film/ArmyOfShadows'' ended with [[spoiler:a series of title cards announcing the eventual death of each of the French resistance members]].
* ''Film/AshesOfTime'': The movie itself is a prequel to the novel, ''Literature/TheLegendOfTheCondorHeroes'', and the epilogue concludes with the main characters tying into their literary counterparts after a TimeSkip.
* ''Film/AspergersAreUs'': At the end of the documentary, we're shown how each of the members of the troupe fared in their respective courses after breaking up. [[spoiler:Then it announces that they got back together, and are working on new material.]]
* Korean film ''Film/AttackTheGasStation'' does one of these.
* One of the alternate endings of ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]'' had a montage of what all the non-dead characters (and some pretty-dead ones like Mustafa) did after Dr. Evil escaped and his base blew up, like Frau Farbissina founding the militant wing of the LPGA. Presumably, it was changed to the newlywed Powers' honeymoon in order to make room for the sequel.
* ''Film/BadEducation2004'' ends with a text screen describing the life of the three main characters after the film: Enrique releases his film and becomes successful, [[spoiler:Juan ends up becoming successful as well]], but eventually loses his fame on the silver screen and ends up on TV, and Sr Berenguer [[spoiler:is killed in a hit-and-run accident that Juan caused]].
* In ''Film/TheBlindSide'', it showed what happened to Michael and the Tuohys. [[spoiler:Michael becomes the first round pick of the NFL. Collins also goes to Ole Miss and becomes a cheerleader like her mom. And Leigh Ann and Sean still live in Memphis today.]]
* ''Film/BobRossHappyAccidentsBetrayalAndGreed'': The film states that Steve Ross and Dana Jester are still teaching people how to paint.
* ''Film/TheBrittanyMurphyStory'' reveals that Creator/BrittanyMurphy's husband, Simon Monjack, died five months later under similar circumstances as she did, as there are still suspicions about her death to this day.
* ''Film/BoggyCreek2AndTheLegendContinues'' didn't have one but [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike and the Bots]] were knid enough to give us their idea of one. In their ending, Doc's research department goes under, Leslie and Tanya bring Doc up on charges, and Tim just wanders off one day for no real reason and is never seen again.
* ''Film/BurkeAndHare'' ends with epilogues for everyone, including people who weren't properly introduced [[spoiler:like one doctor's assistant named Charles Darwin]] and ends with [[spoiler:the real-life Burke's skeleton on display in Edinburgh's anatomy museum]].
* ''Film/CantHardlyWait'' played with this. It was mostly set at a WildTeenParty. The following morning, there are scenes of various characters meeting up and saying their goodbyes, apologies, or thanks as appropriate, and during each one, the scene freezes and a caption says what happened to the featured teen in the future. In one case, the scene froze, the caption said that the couple on screen would break up 10 minutes later, the screen unfroze for 30 seconds as the couple continued to interact, and then the screen froze again with a new caption saying that they got together again soon after the breakup.
* ''Film/CanadianBacon'', including some of the following:
** [[spoiler:Sheriff Bud Boomer realized his dream and became a regular on ''COPS'']]
** [[spoiler:Honey is named National Rifle Association's Humanitarian of the Year]]
** [[spoiler:General dink Panzer took his own life upon learning ''Hogan's Heroes'' was entirely fictional]]
** [[spoiler:Prime Minister Clark [=McDonald=], still ruling with an iron fist.]]
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' has a montage near the end, showing what happened to most of the characters who survived the climax:
** Natasha is HauledBeforeASenateSubCommittee for [[spoiler: leaking all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secrets in order to expose HYDRA's infiltration]]. She is acquitted of all charges and looks for a new identity.
** Agent 13 aka Sharon joins the CIA.
** Maria Hill is interviewing for a job at Stark Industries.
** [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Rumlow]] survived getting a helicarrier dropped on his head, but he’s badly burned.]]
** [[spoiler:HYDRA mole]] Senator Stern is arrested.
** Fury, [[spoiler:still FakingTheDead]] burns all of his S.H.I.E.L.D stuff, including his eyepatch, and decides to head [[spoiler: to Europe to hunt down the rest of HYDRA]].
* At the end of ''Film/TheCatsMeow'', Elinor Glyn narrates what became the principal characters after the events of the movie.
* ''{{Film/Changeling}}'': Title cards explain what happens to the main characters.
* ''{{Film/Chaplin}}'': Between the last scene and the closing credits, title cards link the actors to the real life personages they played (Anthony Hopkins's character, a fictional editor who figures into the framing device, is also included and explained), and describe briefly the later lives/careers of said personages. ''Eighteen'' characters total are covered!
* ''Film/TheCommitments'' explains where the band members ended up after their breakup. [[spoiler: Deco got his recording contract but his bad attitude makes him impossible to work with; Derek and Outspan spend their time busking on Grafton Street; Imedla got married to "dopey Greg" who won't let her sing any more; Bernie sings in a country band; Mickah sings in a punk band; Steven became a doctor; Billy got kicked in the head by a horse; Dean is a jazz musician who "got quite good in the end"; Joey the Lips went on tour with Joe Tex (who was ten years dead by that point); Natalie "became very successful" as a singer; and Jimmy is still unemployed.]]
* ''Film/Conspiracy2001'' ends with a summary of the fates of the real historical figures involved, noting the limited punishments some of them received.
* ''Film/TheCrocodileHunterCollisionCourse'': A short sequence of clips after the main film tells us what happened afterwards:
** The US army got the beacon back, and Steve was none the wiser about what it was.
** The crocodile ended up taking to his new territory and finding some female crocodiles.
** The rancher, Brozzie, started doing volunteer work for the Fish and Fauna Department.
** The two agents who unsuccessfully chased the Irwins got pressed into work at the zoo.
* ''Film/TheDamnedUnited'' features an end roll that shows the future of its central characters, Peter Taylor and Brian Clough. [[DownerEnding With some things at the very end left out.]]
* ''Film/DasepoSonyo'' ends with drawings of the major characters and brief descriptions of their fates - Poor Girl works at a bank, Anthony lives on a farm in Switzerland, Double Eyes got a sex change, and Cyclops got rich selling toys modelled after him. Big Razor Sis' fate is left ambiguous - there is a before-and-after image suggesting that she got a sex change, but there's no accompanying text.
* ''Film/DeepwaterHorizon'': After the disaster on the rig, Mike and Andrea eventually left Transocean, while Jimmy is still with them.
* ''Film/{{Defiance}}'': Being based on true events, the movie ends with a black-white photo montage depicting the ''real'' Bielski brothers (portrayed in the film by Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) and their fates after the war: Asael Bielski, the youngest, joins the Soviets in the war against the Germans, and was sadly killed in action before the birth of his daughter, while Tuvia and Zus soon starts a trucking firm in New York City. Despite liberating hundreds and hundreds of Jews from the Germans in the war, the brothers never sought recognition for their deeds, and in the ensuing decades after the war the descendants of the Jewish survivors saved by the brothers totaled up to millions.
* ''Film/DesHommesEtDesDieux'': Some text informs the viewer that [[spoiler:seven of the monks were killed, one died 12 years later, and one was still alive as of the movie's making]].
* Both ''Film/DeuceBigalow'' films end with these;
** ''Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'' reveals that [[spoiler:Deuce married Kate, Deuce's father became a male prostitute, the overweight Fluisa underwent extensive liposuction and now worked as a model in Victoria's Secret known as Naomi, Ruth opened an all girls school for Tourette's, Carol managed to fulfill her dream trip to France, T.J. starts his own reality show dedicated to his experiences as a male prostitute, and an incarcerated Antoine marries Tina]].
** In ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' (with the opening [[spoiler:revealing that Kate was killed in a shark attack shortly after the marriage]]), the epilogue reveals that [[spoiler:T.J. moves on from gay man-whoring to become a rapper, Deuce marries Eva and she is shown being pregnant, Gaspar is gang raped in prison, and Kate's prosthetic leg is turned into a bong by a woman without a leg]].
* ''Film/DinnerForSchmucks'' ends with each of the character's fates being told through one of Barry's taxidermied mice dioramas.
* ''Film/DogDayAfternoon''. At the end of the movie, subtitles that say that Sonny (one of the bank robbers) was sentenced to 20 years in prison, that Angie (Sonny's wife) and their children were living on Welfare, and that Sonny's boyfriend Leon had his sex-change surgery and became a woman and was living in New York City.
* The mockumentary ''Film/DropDeadGorgeous'' has text blurbs for several main characters-- except for Amber, who also gets a couple quick scenes showing how [[spoiler:she becomes a news anchor, just like her idol, Diane Sawyer]].
* In ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', it shows that [[spoiler:Edward and Nancy]] got married in Andalesia. [[spoiler:Giselle]] opens up a new fashion/boutique business, staying with [[spoiler:Robert]]. After [[spoiler:staying in New York]], Nathaniel becomes a successful author, as well as Pip in Andalesia.
* ''Film/TheExpress'' tells of the futures of Ernie Davis ([[spoiler:HesDeadJim]]), Jim Brown, Floyd Little and Syracuse coach Ben Schwarzwalder.
* ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' ends with one of these. Brad is made manager of the convenience store after foiling the robbery seen at the end of the movie, Damone is busted for scalping Ozzy Osbourne tickets and now works at 7-11, Mr. Vargas switches back to coffee, Linda attends college in Riverside before moving in with her Abnormal Psych professor, Mark and Stacy are now a couple, but still haven't had sex, Mr. Hand is still convinced that everyone is on drugs, and Spicoli saves Brooke Shields from drowning, only to blow the reward money hiring Van Halen for his birthday party.
* ''Film/AFishCalledWanda''. This being a comedy, the protagonists go on to [[BabiesEverAfter have 17 children]] and found a leper colony, [[FriendToAllLivingThings another main character]] becomes Master of Ceremonies at London Sea World, and the villain goes on to become Minister for Justice in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_in_South_Africa apartheid-era South Africa]].
* ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix2004'' has a photo montage at the end that shows that Kelly now works on a rig out on the ocean, Frank & AJ have a new plane, and Elliott now works for NASA!!
* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'' ends with photos of each actor turning into photos of the real people the characters were based on and words below describing their fate after the battle, which is also a reverse of the opening credits, where historic photos transition into photos of the actors.
* ''Film/TheGreyZone'' ends with screencaps noting the success of the uprising, Oberscharführer Mussfeld being convicted and hanged for war crimes, and Dr. Nyiszli surviving the war, but not practicing medicine ever again.
* ''Film/TheHairyBird'' (also known as ''Strike!'' and ''All I Wanna Do'') end with blurbs describing the somewhat ironic fates of the main characters.
* According to ''He's My Girl'':
-->Sally became a world-famous [[spoiler:mud wrestler]].\\
Simon had a vision and abandoned singing to [[spoiler:become a T.V. preacher for the Church of the Rock and Soul]].\\
Lisa gave up sculpting, took voice lessons and got a job with a [[spoiler:telephone sex service]].\\
Mason left the music business and started a chain of [[spoiler:nudist colonies]].\\
Reggie stayed in Hollywood and opened a beauty salon called [[spoiler:"The Champagne Douche"]].\\
Tasha works at [[spoiler:"The Champagne Douche"]] and sells bibles door to door on the weekends.\\
Bryan became a major rock star, sold millions of records, and [[spoiler:returned to Missouri for sex re-education classes]].
* ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures'' ends with Mario Lanza singing "You'll Never Walk Alone", over text screens explaining how the girls were tried, convicted and sentenced, and later released. The last screen is an awful TearJerker, especially as it's timed to coincide with the line "you'll never walk alone": [[spoiler: ''It was a condition of their release that they never meet again'']].
** Ironically, (and probably because of lawsuits) they never mention that after her release, Juliet changed her name and became a very well-known mystery novelist, with two historical mystery series that are still going strong today.
* ''Film/HenryAndJune'' ends with text screens saying that Henry and Anais remained friends to the end of their lives; both wrote many books about June. June became a social worker in Queens, New York. Hugo became a filmmaker, and it was by his request that Anais' unexpurgated story remain unpublished until after his death. He died in 1985.
* The 1996 movie ''Film/HouseArrest'' ends with a montage of the major characters, with Grover providing a voiceover explaining their fates.
* The final scenes of ''Film/IntoTheWild'' show what happened to the various people Chris encountered on his journey. [[spoiler:The hippie couple continue WalkingTheEarth, Wayne, who had been arrested for drug dealing, was eventually released, the two Danish explorers Chris met while kayaking win big in Vegas...and his mother and father struggle to move on with their lives while dealing with the knowledge that their semi-abusive parenting led indirectly to their son's death, and its implied that his sister follows her brother's example and becomes an explorer.]]
* ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' shows what happens to the main characters. Handsome Rob got his Astin Martin and promptly got pulled over by a cop during its first ride. Left Ear moved to Spain and got a room for all his shoes. Lyle made it to the front cover of Wired Magazine and got a stereo (with speakers that could blow off a woman's clothes). And Charlie married Stella.
* Onscreen epilogues in ''Film/{{Jungle}}'' reveal what Yossi and Kevin did with their lives after they escaped the jungle. It is also revealed that Marcus and Kurt were never seen again.
* ''Film/KayfabeAFakeRealMovieAboutAFakeRealSport'' ends with Randy explaining to the documentary team how everyone in the federation has moved on to new endeavors, most with great success.
* ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' revealed that Bertie and Lionel remained friends for the rest of their lives.
* ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' had an epilogue that is both this and a DistantFinale, due to the request of the test audiences. It's a full scene with interspersed text blurbs detailing what happened to the supporting characters. [[spoiler:Elle has graduated with high honors, is the class-elected speaker at the ceremony, and has been invited into one of Boston's best law firms; Vivian is now Elle's best friend and has called off her engagement with Warner, who graduated without honors and with no job offers; Emmett has started his own practice, is now Elle's boyfriend, and will propose to her that night; and finally, Paulette has married her delivery man and is expecting a baby girl to be named after Elle.]]
* ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfPeterSellers'' ends with a text epilogue on what happened to Sellers after the release of ''Film/BeingThere'' (not much to say; he died less than a year later).
* ''Film/LordsOfDogtown'' has little blurbs about what each real life character did after the events of the movie during the credits.
* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' had one of these, although some of what was shown was pretty weird. Creator/KevinSmith has [[WordOfGod referred to the movie]] as his homage to ''Film/AnimalHouse''. Jay and Silent Bob's actually foreshadows the events of ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''.
* In ''Film/TheMartian'', [[spoiler:Watney]] now teaches students at NASA. [[spoiler:Lewis and Vongel]] are with their families while [[spoiler:Beck and Johanssen]] have a baby. [[spoiler:Martinez]] is returning to Mars while [[spoiler:Teddy, Kapoor, Park, etc]] can rest easy as humanity continues another expedition to space.
* In ''Film/McFarlandUSA'', we're shown the adult, RealLife version of the boys on the cross country team, and told in captions what happened to them.
* The final moments of ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'' reveal what happened to all the Feebles who managed to survive the film:
** After getting surgery on his kneecaps, which Heidi shot out during her rampage, Sidney takes up horticulture with Seymour, no longer having to worry about Sandy or her paternity suit since she was one of Heidi's victims.
** Arthur gets an award for his service towards the theater and retires to the countryside.
** Sebastian, having managed to escape being shot by Heidi, manages to procure a book deal about the massacre and is currently in deals for a movie, though he probably fabricated everything. The only consultation is that he somehow lost an eye.
** Robert and Lucille marry and have children, and Robert becomes a photographer.
** Finally, despite murdering many, many Feebles, Heidi only serves ten years in jail and, having lost a lot of her weight, takes up working at a check out line at a supermarket.
* ''Film/{{Milk}}'' ends with one of these, including photographs of the real people portrayed in the film.
* ''Film/MovingViolations'' ends with the police commissioner driving past one cast member after another, all of them having been pulled over for yet another traffic violation. An on-screen caption proclaims that the lead character was sentenced to traffic school so many times that the county made him the instructor in desperation.
* ''Film/MusicAndLyrics'' ends up with pop-up bubbles explaining that Cora got married and divorced in the same night, Sloan's book got made into an awful movie, POP eventually reunited but their performance cut short because Colin needed a hip replacement, and Alex and Sophie are still together, with his hip appearing to be fine.
* ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'' ends with Marilyn singing a song while text overlay tells us what happened to her, Colin and Laurence after the film.
* Shades of this in ''Film/{{Neighbors 2014}}''. [[spoiler:Mac meets Teddy outside Abercrombie & Fitch, and they discuss not only where they are in life, but also Pete and the other members of the frat. When Mac returns home, he and Kelly get a video call from their friends, tying that subplot off.]]
* ''Film/NoGodNoMaster'': The film ends with a summary of what happened to the major characters.
* ''Film/NoStringsAttached'' ends with a closing credits montage of future events.
* ''Film/NottePrimaDegliEsami'' (''Night Before Finals''), an Italian Teen comedy, does this with polaroids of the main characters and their destinies written on the white part.
* ''Film/TheOtherWoman2014'': After [[BigBad Mark King]] is revealed to be a [[LoveTriangle cheating womanizer]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive criminal fraudster]], the film ends with the following circumstances:
** His wife, Kate, divorces him and takes over his company, which is making big profits under her honest leadership, leaving him broke and destitute. [[spoiler:Mark intended to frame Kate for his fraudulent businesses practices, but Kate returned all the money he stole, sparing them both prison time.]]
** [[spoiler:One of his mistresses, attorney Carly Whitten, marries Kate's brother, Phil, and they are expecting their first child.]]
** [[spoiler:Mark's second mistress, Amber, is dating [[MayDecemberRomance Carly's father, Frank]], and in spite of their friendship, Carly absolutely refuses to call her "mom"]].
* ''Film/PainAndGain'' ends with the credits showing the main cast with a picture of the real person they were portraying. Two of the kidnappers were sentenced to death while the third served 15 years in prison. The gym owner who forged the transaction papers for them got 15 years as well and died in prison, while the survivors' names were changed.
* In ''Film/RememberTheTitans'', the movie opens with several characters gathering for a funeral. The epilogue shows what the players and coaches of the team did with their lives after winning the Virginia state football championship in 1971, [[spoiler:revealing that the funeral is Gerry Bertier’s, after he was killed by a drunk driver in 1981]].
* ''Film/SalvationBoulevard'' ends with one of these, revealing that Pastor Dan did get brought up on charges, Professor Blaylock remained an adamant atheist, and that Carl and Gwen divorced with Carl remarrying to Honey and becoming an ''ex''-ex-Deadhead.
* ''Film/TheSandlot'' ends with the ''[[Series/TheWonderYears Wonder Years]]''-esque {{Narrator}} giving brief descriptions of what the various players wound up doing as adults, which cuts into a final scene showing that Benny ends up as a professional ballplayer and Smalls becomes a sportscaster. Except one kid who "got really into the Sixties and was never seen again."
* ''Film/SchindlersList'' uses a unique and famously powerful variation on the trope: a procession of 128 of the real-life surviving ''Schindlerjuden'', accompanied by the actors who portrayed them in the film, walk past Oskar Schindler's grave in Israel and [[GraveMarkingScene mark it with stones]] as per Jewish custom. The scene's subtitles also inform the audience of the statistics of the lives Schindler saved.
* The HBO miniseries ''Show Me A Hero'' ends with many of the characters attending a funeral. Title cards are interspersed giving a summary of what happened to all of them in real life.
%%* Parodied in ''Film/ShriekIfYouKnowWhatIDidLastFridayTheThirteenth''.
* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' had text overlayed at the end of the final scene mostly with a focus on the results of the two lawsuits that serve as a [[FramingDevice framework]] for the story.
* Done briefly in the {{Documentary}} ''Film/SpecialWhenLit'' with Koi Morris, a synthetic chemist and pinball tournament player who had earlier failed to qualify for the PAPA 8 World Championship.
* ''Film/StandByMe'' has sort of a variant of this, with the adult Gordie describing his friends' eventual fates toward the conclusion of his voiceover narration.
Captions at the end of ''Film/{{Starkweather}}'' tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp (execution, life imprisonment, and induction into Nebraska Law Enforcement Hall of Fame, respectively).
* ''Film/{{Stripes}}'' -- another Ivan Reitman film, showing magazine covers illustrating the fates of the characters.
* Both ''Film/SupportYourLocalSheriff'' and ''Film/SupportYourLocalGunfighter'' finish with Jack Elam's characters Jake and Jug, respectively, detailing the fates of all the characters, including his. ("...one of the most beloved characters in western folklore." "...big star in spaghetti westerns.")
* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo'', the Tom Hanks-directed film about a young garage band turned one-hit Wonders, ends with a quick wrap-up of everyone's ultimate future over the closing credits.
** Jimmy formed a different band called the Heardsmen, made more hit records for Playtone, and now works as a record producer in Los Angeles.
** Guy and Faye got married, had four kids, and founded a music school in Washington state.
** Lenny manages a casino in Nevada (and got a divorce from the girl he married with in the film).
** T.B. Player (the unnamed bassist) was decorated for his service as a Marine in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar the Siege of Khe Sanh]] and is a building contractor in Florida.
* The UsefulNotes/GulfWar film ''Film/ThreeKings'' has a brief montage like this, mentioning that one character is now a Hollywood war movie consultant.
* ''Film/ThreeSistersSearchingForACure'': The ending text shows that Jenifer Estess died after battling ALS for six years and Project ALS is still raising money to find the cure for the disease.
* Not exactly this trope, but it uses the name: In ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'', the group hears a radio station play one of their very old songs, "Cups and Cakes", from when they used to be called The Thamesmen. After the song, the D.J. announces that The Thamesmen are now called Spinal Tap, and that they have been consigned to the "Where Are They Now File". The looks on the band members' faces when he says this are priceless.
* The documentary ''Film/TiltTheBattleToSavePinball'' ends with brief descriptions of where the movie's various subjects ended up after the closure of Creator/WilliamsElectronics.
* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': Rose mentions that Cal [[spoiler:killed himself when the stock market crashed in 1929]]. Photos beside her bed reveal some of the life Rose, herself, went on to lead after the sinking.
* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}''. The narrator describes what happened to various characters later in life.
* ''Film/TheToolboxMurders'' ends with it a card stating the film was based on true events, and that the main character spent some time in an asylum before settling down and having a child; it's also mentioned her mother died in a car crash.
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': the character of Elijah Price is [[spoiler:explained to be in a hospital for the mentally insane, once his crimes of mass murder are revealed]].
* ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'' crosses this with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
-->Frank Barnes got a promotion. He is now retired with full pay. Will is happily married. He and Darcy are expecting their second child. Connie Hooper was promoted to senior manager. Oscar Galvin continues the same job. Ryan Scott is alive and healthy. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Dewey]] [''{{beat}}''] works in the fast food industry.
* ''Film/Vice2018'': Parodied halfway through the movie. After Dick Cheney rejects the presidential bid to protect his lesbian daughter Mary, an epilogue is shown that's [[BlatantLies obviously fake]] (it mentions that Dick Cheney never got into politics again and that he regularly wins Ironman competitions) where the Cheney family lived a happy, quiet life and never came back into the public eye. The credits even roll after that. Played straight at the end, where the actual epilogue is far more grim.
* Frankie Lymon's wives (and Little Richard) explain what happened to them in ''Film/WhyDoFoolsFallInLove?''
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd''; Andy tells the story of the film to some kids, complete with what happened to each member of the gang, [[spoiler:in the [[AfterTheEnd burnt-out remnant of civilisation]]; Andy's marriage has recovered, Steven and Sam are in a relationship, the android Peter and Oliver have essentially picked up where their originals left off, and Gary is now travelling the country with the android duplicates of the gang as teenagers]].
* Used at the end of the first ''Film/YoungGuns'' movie, which was kind of invalidated by [[Film/YoungGunsII the sequel]] (which also made use of this trope).
* ''Film/{{Zodiac|2007}}'': Title cards explain what happens to the main characters.

[[folder:Literature published his well-received autobiography, ''Far Different from Cliché: An Analysis of Common Plot Devices and the Results they could Lead To''.]]
* The epilogue of the last ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' book is primarily focused on Wistala [[spoiler:and her mate [=DharSii=] expecting eggs]], but the narration also touches on what's happened to all the other living characters.
* ''Literature/BeautyQueens'' combines this with a DancePartyEnding.
* The book of 2 Timothy, in Literature/TheBible, which is chronologically the last piece of writing from the apostle Paul, contains a moving passage in which Paul, awaiting execution, writes his friend a reflective farewell. He then goes on to tell Timothy where all his various friends, who have appeared at the end of his letters, are now. Most are ministering in various churches across the Mediterranean area "Titus is in Dalmatia... Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus" a couple have fallen away from Christianity, and one is "ill in Miletus". This serves as a 'where are they now' epilogue for Paul's generation of church leaders, alongside the passing of the baton on to Timothy and those he must lead.
* The epilogues of Creator/DaveBarry's novels ''Literature/BigTrouble'' and ''Literature/TrickyBusiness'' end with a series of short paragraphs explaining what happened to various characters. He likely borrowed it from his friend Carl Hiaasen, who uses it in many of his novels.
* Erich Maria Remarque's novel ''The Black Obelisk''. [[spoiler:Most of them died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII]].
* ''Literature/DeadEndJobMysteries'': The first book ends in this, covering both the main protagonists and the assorted side characters. Later books downplay it, but most of the characters still get explanations about what happened to them afterward.
* ''Literature/DearAmerica'':
** Every book (and those of its [[DistaffCounterpart Staff Counterpart]] series ''My Name Is America'') ends with one of these. Unusually for a kids' series, [[BittersweetEnding they aren't always]] [[DownerEnding happy endings]].
** Same goes for the series' Canadian counterpart, ''Dear Canada''.
* The last book in the ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' series ends with one of these, and describes Leif's reign with the exact same wording as King Adin's reign, described in the first chapter of the first book.
* The final pages of ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'', where it's written the characters are doing after the end of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]].
* The Civil War novels by Michael and Jeff Shaara (''Literature/GodsAndGenerals'', ''Literature/TheKillerAngels'', and ''Literature/TheLastFullMeasure'') end with the major figures in each having a paragraph about their later lives or legacy. ''Measure'' features a lengthier sequence before the blurbs recounting the last days of Lee, Grant, and Chamberlain.
* ''The Golden Road'' by L. M. Montgomery ends with a scene where Sara Stanley (a girl who is always portrayed as slightly otherworldly and magical) receives the inspiration of prophecy and predicts the futures of all of the main characters. Hints dropped over the course of the novel confirm them to be true.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheGreenMile'', it's not the epilogue, but near the end, during [[spoiler:John Coffey's execution]] where Paul describes the eventual fate of his friends.
* ''Literature/GrentsFall'' had one for surviving characters on both sides.
* The DistantFinale in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', which confirmed a number of pairings, and was supplemented by WordOfGod to include what everyone's jobs were in the future.
* In ''Literature/InTheTimeOfTheButterflies'', based on the true stories of the Mirabal sisters from the Dominican Republic, the last chapter is told in first person by Dede, the only surviving sister. She describes what happened to her sisters' families after they were assassinated by Trujillo.
* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': Each book ends with what happened to each character by the end of the story. That is, for the books except for ''Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge'', which ends with Jaine going on a date and reconnecting with [[spoiler:her ex-husband, the Blob.]] The format switches to a collection of news headlines in ''Death of a Gigolo'', then reverts back to normal in ''Murder Gets a Makeover''.
* Employed with variations in a number of Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper's books. A few examples:
** ''The Spy'': 33 years after the main events, during the [[UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 battle of Lundy's Lane]] a conversation reveals the fate of various characters. [[spoiler: Harvey Birch, the eponymous hero of the novel and now an old man, is killed in that same battle.]]
** ''The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish'': A modern-day narrator visits the town of Wish-ton-Wish and inspects the gravestones of the characters.
** ''The Prairie'': A year later, Captain Middleton visits the Pawnee village where the Natty Bumppo has settled down, just in time to witness the octogenarian dying attended by Hard-Heart and the others.
** ''The Deerslayer'': Fifteen years later Hawkeye, Chingachgook and his son Uncas (who was conceived shortly after the events of the novel) revisit Lake Otsego and the locations of the story. In a subversion Hawkeye is unsuccessful in his attempts to find out what became of Judith.
* Creator/JohnMasefield:
** ''Literature/TheMidnightFolk'' doesn't have chapter divisions, so there's no explicit epilogue, but the last couple of pages consist of a series of descriptions of what happened to various characters after the events of the novel.
** ''Literature/{{Odtaa}}'' ends with a section headed "Appendices and Notes", a collection of oddments and in-universe documents (including a letter from the protagonist to the author commenting on the manuscript of the novel) that collectively serve to show what became of the characters.
* ''Literature/KillTimeOrDieTrying'' does this in the form of last words and gravesite epitaphs for the main characters, mostly PlayedForLaughs. Some examples:
-->'''Nathan's gravesite''': 'Reserved Staff Parking'\\
'''Allan's last words''': 'Bad idea? How bad?'
* ''Literature/TheLastDogs'': The end of the tetralogy shows most of the pets being reunited, on a TV show that Max and his nephews and nieces like watching. Several endings include:
** [[SiblingYinYang Panda and Possum]], the two cat sisters in the house of cats, reuniting with their man.
** [[CowardlyLion Georgie]] and [[HeelRealization Belle]] reuniting with their owners and helping them clean up the latter's filthy mansion.
** Zephyr and the other Dalmatians being hailed as heroes for looking after the other dogs.
** Julep and Dixie the German shepherd police dogs returning from their trip to the Praxis laboratory.
** [[GrumpyOldMan Spots]] reuniting with his brother Dots, as well as [[SmellySkunk Stripes the skunk]] becoming a part of their family. Along with that, [[CloudCuckoolander Tiffany]] the raccoon finally got recognition as a master thief.
** [[BigBad Dolph]] the wolf having been relocated to a wildlife park, most likely giving up his quest for vengeance.
* The last ''Lion Boy'' book ended with a chapter saying what happened to every character.
* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' did originally have an epilogue, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen but it was cut for publication]]. The Appendices do fulfill this role though, especially Appendix A (with the tale of Aragorn and Arwen) and Appendix B, The Tale of Years.
* ''Literature/{{Magyk}}'', the first ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' book, has a "What happened to..." last chapter. Other books in the series have variations, such as "What happened before...", detailing each character's backstory. The twist being that they all detail what happens (or happened) to the very minor characters, those who are [[TheGhost named but never shown]] or [[NoNameGiven shown but never named]]. A nurse who gets two lines in the book, the never-seen girlfriend of one of the brothers, the gatekeeper's son, etc.
* ''Literature/AMemoirByLadyTrent'': The Afterword to ''Within the Sanctuary of Wings'' has Isabella recount briefly what has happened in the life of her and other people involved in her story, as well as some general information about the differences between the world from her memories and the world as it is now.
* The "Finale" of Creator/GeorgeEliot's ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'': Dorothea marries Ron, and Fred and Mary call their children Snape and Dumbledore... er, or something like that. It brings the reader up-to-date on the forty years or so between the end of the main book, and the time of writing, anyway.
* James Howe's ''The Misfits'' uses a variation where the epilogue is told from the perspective of the seventh-grade protagonist looking towards the future rather than an older version of the protagonist looking back, so it's framed as what ''will'' happen rather than what ''did'' happen (for example, the protagonist says of himself that "I will go into politics" rather than "I went into politics"), but it's clearly meant to be an accurate representation of what happens to the characters; the author likely wanted to be able to keep the epilogue in the same narrative voice (of a twelve-year-old) rather than shifting to an adult narrator.
* ''Literature/TheMysteriousDisappearanceOfLeonIMeanNoel'' has an epilogue explaining how most of the surviving characters lived happily thereafter.
* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfManhattan'' ends this way, briefly describing the fates of the surviving major characters as well as those of HistoricalDomainCharacter Oscar Hammerstein and the Manhattan Opera House.
* The last chapter of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' describes what became of all the characters after Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth's marriage.
** Mrs. Bennet remained silly, but luckily Mr. Bennet still found her amusing.
** Kitty and Mary both improved in character: the former because she was influenced less by Lydia and more by Jane and Elizabeth; the latter because she was no longer compared with her more beautiful sisters.
** Mr. Bingley and Jane bought an estate only thirty miles away from the Darcys', much to Jane and Elizabeth's joy.
** The affections Lydia and Wickham had for each other quickly cooled off, and they lived by leeching off the Darcys and the Bingleys.
** Georgiana and Elizabeth developed a great relationship as Mr. Darcy had hoped.
** Lady Catherine eventually relented, and Elizabeth managed to reconcile her and Mr. Darcy enough for Lady Catherine to visit Pemberley from time to time.
* The epilogue of ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'' tells what happened to the characters after the Fourth of July. It mostly ties up loose ends, particularly Harry and Grace's SecondActBreakup.
* There is a short epilogue of this type in ''Literature/RedeemingLove'', which shows that Angel was at last able to break out of the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor firmly on the Face side, the ministry she founded was successful in rescuing hundreds of girls from being forced into the sex trade, she reconciled with her antagonistic brother-in-law, [[spoiler:she and Michael miraculously [[BabiesEverAfter had four children]], and died calmly in their old age within months of each other]].
* Creator/EMForster wrote an appendix to ''Literature/ARoomWithAView'' 50 years later, detailing numerous adverse circumstances that befell Lucy and George after their wedding and through both world wars.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheJomsvikings'' ends with a short summary of what later became of the Jomsviking chiefs that survived the Battle of Hjorunga Bay: Vagn marries Ingibjörg, the daughter of Thorkel Leira, and moves back to Fyn, Bjorn lives out his life in Wales, Sigurd Cape returns to Bornholm, and also that Bui (who jumped overboard in Hjorunga Bay) ''may'' have turned into a sea-dragon.
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Chapter Fourteen; arguably a SubvertedTrope because they haven't gone anywhere, although a year had passed while they've been on the island and their views have moved on. ''The Beatrice Letters'' form part of an epilogue themselves. Even though the scrambled letters reveal that " BEATRICE SANK", there are hints that Baudelaires are apparently living out their lives doing what they love: 1) Sunny is said to be sharing her recipes on the radio in The Beatrice Letters. 2) In book 3 the narrator says that Violet would return to Briny Beach a third time in her life, and since she'd only gone there twice over the course of the series (in book 1 and again in book 12), she must have survived at least until they reached the mainland. 3) In book 2, the narrator states that Klaus would like awake in bed many years later wondering what would have happened if he'd managed to stop Count Olaf/Stephano from entering Uncle Monty's house - the last chapter takes place roughly a year and a half from this point, so his survival is also heavily implied. 4) Beatrice (that's the Beatrice born in Book 13) is currently trying to find Lemony Snicket, presumably to ask him the whole truth about what happened.
* ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'' (a ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' anthology: Since most of the characters in this book never really figured heavily in future stories, one of these was included where it had been absent from the other ''Tales From...'' books.
** Malaki the rancor keeper freed Porcellus the chef from his cell, then the pair looted the treasury and opened their own restaurant in Mos Eisley with the proceeds.
** J'Quille the Whiphid found he now had a bounty on his head if he ever left Tatooine and, unable to take the planet's heat any longer, joined the B'omarr monks and exchanged his body for a brain jar.
** Mara Jade was kept very busy.
** Gartogg the Gamorrean left the palace with others heading to Mos Eisley, where he became an enforcer for a smuggling operation and faithfully took the dried-out mummies of the kitchen boy and a B'omarr monk (whose murders he'd solved) with him everywhere he went.
** Ephant Mon returned to his homeworld and started a religious sect that worshipped the Force.
** Max Robo and Sy Snootles split up; Max joined the Rebellion as an entertainer and later started his own successful multi-planet chain of restaurants, while Sy tried for a solo career that went poorly, forcing her to hook up with other jizz bands to keep her career going. Droopy vanished into the desert and is supposedly still out there with other Kitonaks, whose music can still be heard.
** Bib Fortuna remained in the palace, [[spoiler:a brain in a jar]], though he managed to contact other allies and still hoped to escape some day.
** Dannik Jerriko went on a killing spree in the palace and ended up a wanted man.
** Like Mara Jade, Boba Fett was kept very, very busy by his later adventures.
** Yarna Gargan and her business partner Doallyn lived on their new ship and became free traders; Yarna danced for credits when needed, including at Han and Leia's wedding, and there became recruited as a model for a new line of jeweled brassieres. Doallyn managed her new career, with a side job of capturing specimens for zoos. Yarna's son and daughters discovered a talent for music and eventually became a swinging jizz trio.
** Of the other eight stories, six ended with the viewpoint character dead, and Tessek and Bubo's ended with them joining the B'omarr monks.
* In ''Literature/ThoseThatWake'', the first book and its sequel end with these epilogues.
* Taking place in the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' 'verse, Creator/DanAbnett's series for the ''Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}'' trilogy ends on this note, telling where the [[AnyoneCanDie surviving]] characters go. They are: [[spoiler:[[TheApprentice Ravenor]] went on with his own career as an Inquisitor (read: [[Literature/{{Ravenor}} "got his own spin-off"]]), with a note that spoiled the end of his own series, and [[TheBigGuy Nayl]] and [[TheChick Kara]] went with him. Medea retired from the Inquisition to work the family company, but disappeared years later. [[TheRival Inquisitor Heldane]] survived his encounter with Eisenhorn when Heldane tried to kill him, but left him radicalized and even more twisted and disfigured in his later life; he also went on to have a bit part in Abnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts''. Eisenhorn and Cherubael both went missing after the events of the book. Also a subversion with the case of Alizabeth Bequin: she was in a coma and written off as dead by the end of the series, but she survived at least for a time, and her comatose body was spirited away by another subversive group..]].
* ''Literature/TheWestingGame'' has an epilogue describing how every character became rich, famous and influential.

[[folder:Live-Action TV can now be found in a broadcasting studio, supervising everyone in its vicinity.]]
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': After the FinalBattle, there's a one year TimeSkip, and then the final scenes show where all the team members have been up to since parting ways: Elena is now a top field agent, on a team with Piper and [[spoiler: and LMD of]] Davis; Mack is still Director of SHIELD, now operating out of a Helicarrier; May is an instructor at SHIELD's academy, with Flint as one of her students; Fitz and Simmons have retired to raise their daughter; Daisy is running a deep space mission alongside Sousa and Kora; and Coulson is now WalkingTheEarth in semi-retirement.
* ''Ambulance'' is one of many British documentary series focusing on medical and emergency services, for which an unofficial "industry standard" has emerged whereby these epilogues are presented as silent footage or stills in a shrunken window with white-on-black text captions beneath and accompanying music (which will fade out to a MomentOfSilence if the person died).
* ''Series/TheAstronautWivesClub'' ends with Max narrating what happens to all of the Mercury families in the last minutes of the finale.
* Each episode of ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' had been topped and tailed by interviews with the survivors. After the final episode, the interviewees returned - this time with captions telling you who they were. Near the end of the final episode when Easy Company is told that they are going home, Winters briefly narrates the fates of several of the surviving main characters.
* Every episode of ''Series/BarRescue'' ends by describing what had been happening at the episode's featured bar a couple months after its relaunch, including updates on the staff's personal and financial problems detailed throughout the episode.
* After Candy Montgomery is acquitted of Betty Gore's murder, ''Series/Candy2022'' the epilogue states that Don Crowder, Candy's attorney, went on to run for Governor of Texas in 1986. Betty Gore's husband Allan eventually remarried Elaine. Candy moved out of state, changed her name and works as a mental health therapist. The epilogue neglected to mention Crowder's 1998 death or that Candy divorced her husband years after the trial.
* ''[[Series/AfterschoolSpecial CBS Schoolbreak Special]]'': The epilogue of the episode "15 and Getting Straight", which dramatized two newcomer teen drug addicts (Creator/DrewBarrymore and Creator/CoreyFeldman) to a 12 step-type counseling program. A teen named Rick seems to have made tremendous progress and has taken to mentoring the teens as he is at the end of the 28-day inpatient program, but most of the other teens believe they don't belong in the program and don't have a problem. David Birney plays the lead counselor, himself an ex-druggie. The irony follows at the end, where Birney's character tells the group that Rick had overdosed; he had run into some old friends who tried to get him to try a new drug, Rick refused at first but when they followed him home and kept hounding him, Rick took the drug and immediately had a seizure. Then follows the epilogue, zooming in on an empty chair. All of the teens that seemed that they weren't going to make it do ... and Rick (whose post-script is saved for last) is dead.
* ''Series/{{Charite}}'' ends with protagonist Ida Lenze narrating what became of her, Doctor Behring, Doctor Ehrlich, Professor Koch, Hedwig Freiberg, and Professor Virchow.
** Again in the follow-up series, ''Series/ChariteAtWar'', where Anni narrates how life went on for her and the other protagonists.
* The final episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', "[[Recap/CharmedS8E22ForeverCharmed Forever Charmed]]" says what is going to happen to the protagonists' kids and actually ends with a shot of their grandkids.
* The final ''Series/{{Coach}}'' has Dauber narrating what happened to most of the cast: Luther retired and got his own mansion as a retirement gift from Doris, Howard was fired but him and his wife sold their Barbie collection and now own a dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida, and Dauber himself coached the Breakers to back-to-back Super Bowl wins, then retired and became a "Monday Night Football" commentator.
* OncePerEpisode on ''Series/ColdCase'' as a ContrastMontage between what the people involved in the case were like then compared to how they are like in the present, if they're still alive.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': The episode "The Art of Discourse" ends with a FoodFight and the epilogue. This being ''Community'', it was done as a direct reference to ''Film/AnimalHouse''. While the obnoxious kids have their futures told, the main characters get spoof endings, with Jeff's being that he "banged Mark's mom. Twice." This later serves up a BrickJoke over four years later in the episode "Cooperative Polygraphy" when Britta does indeed become the proud owner of a used iPod Nano.
* On the day of UsefulNotes/JoeBiden's inaguration, ''Series/{{Conan}}'' ran a mock epilogue for UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, his family, his aministration, and a selection of supporters:
-->DONALD TRUMP continued to get impeached every year on his birthday.\\\
All 5 MELANIA TRUMPS returned to Slovenia.\\\
DON JR. got divorced from Kimberly Guilfoyle and found love on Creator/{{ABC}}'s new dating show, "[[Series/TheBachelor The Damp, Coked-Up Bachelor]]."\\\
After her political ambitions failed, IVANKA started selling a line of coffee mugs that say, "I WAS A MODERATING INFLUENCE."\\\
JARED KUSHNER was beaten up by his own children, shortly after being introduced to them.\\\
MIKE PENCE returned to Indiana, where he hired a shaman to give him Ayahuasca. He tripped balls for 3 days and now surfs in Santa Cruz under the name "Wiggie."\\\
After completely disappearing form public, STEPHEN MILLER re-emerged when White House cleaning staff discovered him inside a wall vent, nursing a new litter of ten thousand larvae.\\\
STEVE BANNON stopped drinking, lost 60 pounds and became a healthy and vibrant asshole.\\\
STEVE MNUCHIN set off on a personal "dreamquest" to find the vowel missing from his last name.\\\
In 2030, HOPE HICKS celebrated her 8th year as the fourth Mrs. Donald Trump.\\\
BEN CARSON spent the next 9 years at MAGA events, telling Trump supporters, "No, you're thinking of Herman Cain."\\\
BETSY DEVOS went on to develop a technology that converts poor people into nutritious dog food.\\\
RUDY GIULIANI continued to fight Trump's legal battles, taking his election fraud case all the way to "THE SUPREME CORK DISCOUNT WINE & LIQUOR."\\\
ROGER STONE lives in a sewer and vows to one day get revenge on Franchise/{{Batman}}.\\\
MIKE "MY PILLOW GUY" LINDELL was murdered by a disgruntled customer, who smothered him with one of his own pillows.[[note]]Due to the pillow's low density and poor quality, this took two weeks.[[/note]]\\\
KELLYANNE CONWAY retired from politics and tried to rehabilitate her image by becoming a ring card girl at cockfights.\\\
JACOB CHANSLEY, (aka QANON SHAMAN) made a wrong turn in Yellowstone Park, got cornered by a herd of buffalo, and was mounted over 800 times.
* The final episode of ''Series/CornerGas'' had brief snippets discussing what the characters were doing a few months down the line, which ended up sounding just like the plot of another episode, reinforcing the message of the ending that things weren't really going to change that much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] ends with an epilogue set six months later, showing that the family the Doctor and Donna rescued is doing well: the marble business continues, Evelina is wearing a short skirt that's the latest fashion, and Quintus is [[FollowingInTheirRescuersFootsteps studying to be a doctor]]. Oh, and they've adopted the Doctor, Donna and the TARDIS as their household gods.
* A mild version, the ending narration of ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'', describing the results of the case investigated in the episode over a mug shot of the suspect. This is also frequently parodied in its entirety.
* ''Series/DueSouth'' did a similar thing at the end of its finale, "Call of the Wild", although the revealed futures were slightly more obscure and unusual than most other series. For example, Francesca Vecchio was revealed to have six "virgin pregnancies". The futures were probably obscure because they were quickly written, after the scripted ending to the finale wasn't filmed. The unfilmed scripted ending was found a few years ago and made known to fans.
* ''The Ex-PM'' ends by revealing that Andrew Dugdale was re-elected to Parliament in 2017 and became Prime Minister again a year later, his wife Catherine somehow became Prime Minister in 2022, their daughter Carol would become backup singer for Tina Arena in 2019 and that Curtis was abducted by aliens in 2022, among others.
%% * Also done in ''Series/TheFBI''.
* ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' ended its series with a scene set a year after the events of the finale to show what happened to the main characters. [[spoiler: Sam and Jules have had a baby girl named Sadie (Jules having been pregnant during the main part of the finale), Sam's been made team leader of Team 3, Parker's near-fatal injuries in the finale forced him to retire from active duty and he's now an academy instructor, Ed is taking Parker's place as Sergeant of Team 1, and Spike and Winnie are officially a couple and happily dating.]]
* The ''Series/FridayNightLights'' GrandFinale ends with a series of scenes that show us what happened to the characters 8 months after the Lions' final State game.
* In ''Series/TheGirlFromPlainville'', Michelle was sentenced to 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, but was released after 11 months due to good behavior. Conrad Roy II (Conrad's father) ran in the 2018 Boston Marathon in his son's honor to raise awareness of mental health. Lynn worked with politicians on a bill called "Conrad's Law" that would make suicide coercion punishable with up to 5 years in prison.
* Perhaps the best spoof: Creator/EddieIzzard's ''Glorious'' stand up show, which cuts from audience applause to a somber tune and some captions telling us that Eddie went to prison for five years and is now called "Jeff", and is living on a duck farm.
* ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'': Each series ends by revealing what all the contestants -- including those eliminated as early as the first round -- are doing. Generally this means becoming bakers (or otherwise working in some sort of baking-related area) for contestants eliminated later, and a bit more community baking for the less successful. There have also been a couple of proper standalone Where Are They Now shows.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', in the episode "Gary Blauman", Future!Ted fills in on what happened with a lot of minor characters.
** Carl continues to run [=MacLarens=] [[spoiler:as a family business with his son]].
** Jeanette was arrested for sending jars of urine to Val Kilmer (not that Val Kilmer) but manages to avoid prison by [[spoiler: getting psychological help from Kevin. They romantically hook up and are now in Poughkeepsie]].
** Ranjit [[spoiler:now owns the limo service]].
** Patrice becomes a host for a call-in service radio show. She's still in touch with Robin [[spoiler:who calls the show sometimes and still screams at her]].
** William Zabka [[spoiler:became the youngest winner of the American Humanities medal with Literature]].
** Zoe still stages protests for noble causes [[spoiler:that don't always end well for her]].
** Scooter [[spoiler:marries Stripper!Lily]].
** Blitz [[spoiler:became a gambling addict but finally kicked the habit after a three day bender at the same slot machine ... only for an elderly woman to hit the jackpot right after he left]].
** Blah Blah [[spoiler:has her name finally remembered by Future!Ted. It's Carol]].
** Sandy Rivers [[spoiler:lost his job for his sexual harassment but becomes a news anchor in Moscow ... where he still sexually harasses his co-workers]].
** James [[spoiler:got back together with Tom]].
** Gary Blauman [[spoiler:drove back, apologized and was at Robin and Barney's wedding after all]].
* A few early episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' did this -- once the complications that made it a good story were ironed out, the actual verdict and sentence appeared onscreen prior to the credits. This model was dropped by the second season.
* An all-grown up Mabel explains what happened to the supporting cast of ''Series/MadAboutYou''.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' ended with a montage of each family member three months after Malcolm and Reese's graduation. Dewey enjoys being the oldest brother as he and Jamie continue to cause trouble; Francis rants on the phone to Lois about being a free spirit just before heading off to his secret office job; Lois is pregnant yet again; Reese enjoys living with Craig, and also loves his permanent job as a janitor which, as he explains to Malcolm over the phone, he got after framing the previous janitor for being a peeping tom; and Malcolm is doing well at Harvard, which he is paying for by also working as a janitor.
* The Creator/HBOMax docuseries ''Series/MenudoForeverYoung'' does one for all former Music/{{Menudo}} who appeared in it. Just a few examples: original member Ricky went into corporate law, and like Johnny (a regular in Univision "Despierta America", participated in the reunion; Ray became a filmmaker; Sergio got certified as a marine captain; Rawy is a senior pastor of an online church, and Cesar is a choreographer and dancer for the Metropolitan opera.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' ends with a brief scene of the now ''very'' old Merlin in the modern day.
* ''Series/Mouse2021'': The epilogue takes place three years after the main series. Young-shin is pardoned but implicitly killed after her release, Mu-chi and Bong-yi are still friends, and Ba-reum died in prison and Mu-chi visits his grave.
* The ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' finale had one of these, set [[TimeSkip five years after]] a Japanese developer had bought the entire town of Stratford, Vermont and turned it into a golf resort. Of course, they then subverted it by having the show - not just the final episode, but the entire ''series'' - turn out to be AllJustADream.
* After the penultimate episode of ''Series/NightAndDay'' closed on Jane stabbing Danny, Josh apparently stabbing himself and (less surprisingly) Roxanne shrieking at Alex, in the finale we revisited the residents of Thornton Street four years on, on Jane and Della's twenty-first birthday...
** Natalie and Duncan have moved out of the neighbourhood, but are still apparently together.
** Ryan is now a transvestite going by the name of Beverly, and still with Celeste.
** Della and Josh are living HappilyEverAfter at St Vincent's, with their own adopted children and £1m in the bank after Josh hit the jackpot on a TV gameshow.
** Alex has moved back to his hometown of Liverpool, while Roxanne is now a social worker, still living in Thornton Street - but there are hints that they may now reunite.
** Dennis is now a firefighter; he and Fiona have a son named Gabriel, and are cohabiting with Mike and his partner Jeremy.
** Tom has become a renowned pornographer, and lives with a partner and son, Bjorn, in Amsterdam .
** Jimmy and Begonia are expecting again, while Charlie and Dona bring up their first child, Fidel.
** Sam is training to be a rabbi, and announces his engagement to girlfriend Zoe.
** Lucy appears to be living happily with Rachel.
** Kate and Frankie continue to command the Virgin Army, with help from robotically resurrected Will.
** Steph has died, and Josh is seen visiting her gravestone.
** Holly is conspicuously absent - but on the videotape message Tom sends his parents, does the voice of his partner - who is curiously both pixelated ''and'' obscured from our view by Dennis's foot - sound familiar?
** Jane arrives for the celebrations, claiming to have been granted day release from a secure psychiatric unit, where she's been serving a sentence for Danny and Malcolm's murders. But her family later learns that she died in her cell earlier that morning - leaving us to conclude that it was in fact her ghost, having come to say her goodbyes before disappearing for the final time.
%%* The finale of ''Series/ThePacific'' is similar to the last episode of ''Band of Brothers''.
* ''Series/ParanormalState'' uses this as an EveryEpisodeEnding.
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' spends the entire last episode revealing moments from the future of each character, some almost fifty years in the future.
* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': Red Ranger Cole makes his peace with the deceased BigBad, and uses his talents to help animals. Yellow Ranger Taylor rejoined the Air Force. Black and Blue Rangers Danny and Max (respectively) went on a trip around the world. Silver Ranger Merrick also travels the world, but with his old enemy Zen-Aku (who is apparently BackFromTheDead AGAIN) at his side. The narrator is revealed to be White Ranger Alyssa, who is now a kindergarten teacher and has been telling the story of the Rangers to her students.
** In the above series crossover with ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', we learn that after the BigBad's Daughter's HeelFaceTurn, she got a job at a daycare.
** Its Franchise/SuperSentai basis, ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' also has this - Red Ranger Kakeru returns to being a veterinarian, Yellow Ranger Gaku rejoined the JSADF, Blue Ranger Kai worked in a surf shop, Black Ranger Sotaro runs a ranch with his love interest, White Ranger Sae resumed her kenpo training, and Silver Ranger Shirogane went road-tripping across the world.
** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' has one of these. Sky is promoted to Red Ranger after Jack leaves SPD, and Bridge is promoted to Blue Ranger. This one was followed up on during the ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' crossover episode, where Bridge explains that after Commander Cruger was promoted, Sky was promoted to Commander and he was promoted to Red Ranger.
*** The ''SPD'' crossover with ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' established that a year after graduating from Reefside, Conner [=McKnight=] was starting a few soccer camps for kids and Kira Ford was singing jingles for adverts, but by the time the SPD Rangers are active Conner has several camps all over the country, Kira's songs have made her famous, and Ethan James actually created some of the technology used by SPD. Oh yeah, and Dino Thunder itself revealed that [[BreakoutHero Tommy Oliver]] actually became an archaeologist and then a high school science teacher.
** In the crossover between ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' and ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', we learn that the Pink Ranger became a doctor, whilst the Green Ranger married Dr. Fairweather. A deleted scene would have explained that a new Lightspeed Aqua Base had been built ([[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs the old one was destroyed in the finale]]), and the old Titanium Ranger is the new commander.
** In the final part of ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'', we get a look into the future. Ravi has been bonding with his mom- who's been promoted to General- and Roxy over his art, Nate and Zoey are dating and leading Coral Harbor in its fight for renewable energy, Steel became a ''movie star'', Ben and Betty became actual security guards and captured the escapee Scrozzle. Guess who took over as commander? Devon. And he brings everyone together to [[spoiler:celebrate Steel's first birthday.]]
* ''Series/PrincessSilver'': The second half of the last episode shows what happened to the characters after Fu Yuan's death. Wu You and Rong Le are crowned emperor and empress; Wu Yu and Xiao Ke agree to get married; and Chen Yu is a tutor warning children not to make the same mistakes she and so many other people made.
* Due to its abrupt cancellation the series finale of ''Series/PushingDaisies'' ends with a brief montage that explains what the cast would have done if the series had continued. Olive marries Randy and they open a mac-and-cheese restaurant. Emerson publishes his pop-up book which allows his long-lost daughter Penny to find him. Lily and Vivian Charles resume their synchronized swimming careers with a world tour, but before that Ned and Chuck finally reveal to them that Chuck is still alive.
* ''Series/QuantumLeap'''s somewhat infamous 'Sam Beckett never returned home' captions at the end of the last episode, added on when the show was canceled.
** A variation happened in almost every episode. After he's changed time and just before he leaps out, Sam is given an update by Al on what happens to the people he's been helping.
* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' did this on its final episode. While it didn't cover all the cast members, it did highlight most of the major ones and even one or two who hadn't been seen in a while.
* ''Series/{{Rescue 911}}'' nearly ''always'' did this at the end of a segment. Usually, the show filmed the segment's protagonists walking along a beach or walkway, visiting a fun center or public park, or other somesuch. The show also liked to film the protagonists meeting back up with the dispatchers and/or other personnel that rendered assistance. (Plus, if their segment is posted on Website/YouTube, then sometimes the people involved--or those who know them--will post a comment, saying what they're up to today.)
* The mid-90s [=BBC=] documentary series ''Rock Family Trees'' had this as an EveryEpisodeEnding. If you see a British sketch show from the latter half of the 90s and they send up this trope, it's most likely this they're parodying.
* A variation; in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', at the end of "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor Death of the Doctor]]", Sarah Jane Smith, while talking about [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor's]] legacy, reveals the fates of some of his former companions, whom she researched online:
-->"There’s a woman called Tegan in Australia, fighting for Aboriginal rights. There’s Ben and Polly, in India, running an orphanage there. There was Harry... oh, I loved Harry. He was a doctor, he did such good work with vaccines. He saved thousands of lives. There was a Dorothy something. She runs that company, A Charitable Earth. She’s raised billions. And this couple in Cambridge. Both professors. Ian and Barbara Chesterton. Rumour has it, they’ve never aged. Not since the sixties. I wonder... echoes of the Doctor, all over the world. With friends like us, he’s never going to die, is he?"
** The spin-off ''Literature/VirginMissingAdventures'' and ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novels ''System Shock'' and ''Millennium Shock'' also established that Harry Sullivan was a commander in MI5 by 1997.
* ''Series/SeaPatrol'' ended with a shot of each character with a one line description about their future.
* The ''Series/SecretsOfTheDead'' episode "One P.M. Central Standard Time" ends with Cronkite saying "This is Walter Cronkite, good night" over two text screens: "Walter Cronkite died in 2009 at the age of 92. In the fifty years since he covered the events in Dallas over 150 million people have visited the grave of [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy]]."
* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'' closed with a montage of how each of the main characters would live out their lives and inevitably die, combined with music courtesy of Sia.
* The semi-canonical fan-made featurette "Message From Moonbase Alpha" works as both this and a DistantFinale for ''Series/Space1999'': As [[BridgeBunnies Bridge Bunny]] Sandra Benes reports on this final transmission, [[BittersweetEnding the Moonbase has just about given up its ghost after all of these years and the Alphans are going to take their chances on an Earth-like planet that they have managed to encounter]].
* ''Superior Court'', a TV courtroom drama from the late 1980s that featured court cases based on actual ones. Each case -- usually one, but sometimes two per show -- was followed with a "where are they now" epilogue, mostly telling what became of the principal characters in each case, but sometimes if a major social issue was addressed, what changed or did not change since the case was heard.
* ''I Survived'' finished every episode with details of the featured individual’s recovery. In the case of crime victims, the arrest and conviction of their assailant was also detailed. There were also lovely footnotes about subsequent marriages, children, careers, etc. (One especially sweet note assured viewers that a man’s dog, who had been trapped along with him, had also survived their harrowing ordeal).
* ''Series/ThirdWatch'' did this at the end of its finale, "Goodbye to Camelot", revealing what happened to the main and recurring characters in the few years to come.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
** In the closing narration of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E88TheLastRitesOfJeffMyrtlebank The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank]]", Rod Serling notes that [[spoiler:the title character and Comfort Gatewood are still alive and their only son, a United States senator, is regarded as "an uncommonly shrewd politician."]]
** In the final scene of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E100ISingTheBodyElectric I Sing the Body Electric]]", Anne, Tom and Karen Rogers have grown up and are ready to attend college. As they no longer need her, their robotic grandmother sadly leaves the house. Before she does so, however, she tells her former charges that they have brought her great joy over the years.
* Used in the form of text subtitles to show what happened to the various people each week's ''Series/UndercoverBoss'' met during his week in his company's trenches.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'' ''opens'' its final season with this. The cold opening for episode 7x1 depicts most mains meeting up for the dedication of Bartlet's presidential library three years after Santos wins the nomination. Turns out CJ [[spoiler: marries Danny, moves to Santa Monica and has a baby]], Toby [[spoiler:does not end up in federal prison but at Columbia]], Will [[spoiler:joins congress]], Kate [[spoiler:writes a book]]... They try ''not'' to spoil who wins the election by deliberately not showing the current president when he arrives, although [[spoiler:the fact that Josh is his chief of staff]] kind of gives it away. Eerily, the epilogue does ''not'' feature Leo, even though Creator/JohnSpencer was still alive at the time of shooting the episode and his character's untimely death [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim was written in due to Spencer's sudden passing]].
* Every season of ''Series/TheWire'' ended the last episode with one of these set to music. The final one was a heartbreaking use of HistoryRepeats, as a lot of the younger characters fall into the roles vacated by previous ones - Dukie is the new Bubbles, Michael is the new Omar, Sydnor is the new [=McNulty=], etc.
* ''Series/TheWonderYears'' concludes with seeing the adult Kevin and Winnie. The adult Kevin also gives an epilogue about what became of his immediate family: His father, Jack, continues to manage the furniture plant until his unexpected death in 1975 ... after which Wayne takes over the business; mother Norma becomes involved in city politics and business; and Karen and her husband give birth to a son. Kevin and Winnie split up one last time to go to college, he in the United States and she in Paris ... but they remain close friends and write each other weekly for eight years. When she returns home, he meets her at the airport with his wife and infant son.
%%* A staple in the graduation episode of any season of ''Series/YoureCutOff''.

[[folder:Music followed her dreams and formed a variety band called "Music and the Notes." Their first album sold over a million copies.]]
* The "Big Enough" music video ended with the following text epilogue after the credits:
-->''[[Music/KirinJCallinan Butch Callinan]] & [[Music/AlexCameron Alex the Kid]], having reconciled their past, would become partners ride west together where they would settle & see out their days operating an Apple Orchard on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California.''\\
''Forging a modest whistling career on the stages of San Francisco, Music/MollyLewis would later join them, managing the burgeoning apple business' finances and, ultimately, outliving both of the former rivals.''\\
''Never again did they speak of their fabled visitation from the ghost of old [[Music/JimmyBarnes Jim Barnes]].''
* Music/{{Blink 182}}'s video for "First Date" does this at the end.
* Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe"; they all lived sadly ever after.
-->A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe\\
Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo\\
There was a virus goin' 'round; Papa caught it and he died last spring\\
And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything\\
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge\\
And droppin' 'em into the muddy water off the Tallahatchee Bridge.
* Music/BowlingForSoup's ''Punk Rock 101''.
* The original Swedish edition of Music/TheCardigans' album ''Life'' ends with "Closing Time", which tells us what happened to some of the characters from the album's other songs. (Basically, they all lived HappilyEverAfter).
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy's "That's How the Story Ends" serves as a followup to most of their prior comedic songs. Some of the characters come back from the dead, and others [[DroppedABridgeOnHim get bridges dropped on them]].
* Music/TheFugees vid for "Killing Me Softly", appropriate since the entire video (like the title of the album from which this single came) is an homage to ''Film/CooleyHigh''.
* "Love at the Five and Dime," a 1986 top 5 country hit for Music/KathyMattea, had one such postlogue as the third verse of a love story involving a dime store clerk and an aspiring steel guitar player in a country band.
* And Music/{{Korn}}'s ''Twisted Transistor''.
* Music/TheStatlerBrothers' "Class of '57," which was a look at a high school class and what had happened in the years since graduation. A nostalgic but oft-bittersweet song, some of the members go on to blue-collar careers (such as the deliveryman for Sears, the housewives who sell Tupperware or play organ at the local church, the factory worker and the mill worker), while others become leaders in their community (a teacher, an insurance salesman and grocery store owner). One becomes extremely rich (the CattleBaron), another marries a multi-millionaire. There are tragic tales, such as a classmate who ends up in a mental institution and the young man named Freddie who, after his wife leaves him for another man, commits suicide. And then there are classmates they lost track of, such as Mavis. The chorus' underlying theme is one of high hopes and dreams being complicated when they realize they're in the real world and not with the protection of high school.
* Music/VanHalen's music video for "Hot for Teacher" ended this way, with Alex going on to become a gynecologist, Michael Anthony becoming a champion sumo in Tokyo, Eddie ending up in a mental ward, David Lee Roth becoming a game show host, and special guest [[ButtMonkey Waldo]] going on to an uncertain fate after graduation (he became successful with wealth and women, implied to have become a pimp).
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[[folder:Podcasts began recording himself talking about how to paint, cook, and do other things.]]
* In the ending of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'', Griffin asks how Magnus dies. Travis describes how Magnus lives to be an old man, and dies peacefully in bed, surrounded by his loved ones. Afterward, [[TheGrimReaper Kravitz]] leads him to a special spot in the Astral Sea reserved for him and [[TheLostLenore Julia]].
* After the main story of Season 1 of ''Podcast/LiveFromMountOlympus'' is complete, Hermes and Athena narrate the rest of Perseus's life up to his death and enshrinement in the stars.
* In the final episode of ''Podcast/InStrangeWoods'', Brett tells us where the other characters, as well as himself, end up after the main story concludes.
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[[folder:Radio — well, he's an unknown, having disappeared into the wild, blue yonder.]]
* ''Radio/AmericanTop40'': During the Creator/CaseyKasem era, this was a frequent feature, where he would update listeners on a popular act or one-hit wonder of past years, usually prior to 1970, and tell what had happened since their last major hit. The feature was parlayed into two ''[=AT40=]'' specials, called "Disappearing Acts," which was exclusively one-hit wonders and stories about what had happened to these artists since their one brush with fame.
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* Ditto ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', and its expansion ''NeverwinterNights2/MaskOfTheBetrayer''. Creator/BlackIsle[=/=]Creator/ObsidianEntertainment loves this trope, it seems.
** ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights: Hordes of the Underdark'' too.

* During the credits of the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' game, you see various Pokémon Rangers doing rangery stuff. And remember the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Go-Rock]] [[FourIsDeath Quads]]? They're [[spoiler: playing at a concert in front of the clock tower]]!

* [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI Five]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainofMemories of]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII the]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep entries]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII in]] the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series have credits that serve as this. While the former two only show certain characters and worlds, the latter three have epilogues for all the worlds that the heroes have visited.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has this: one of the surviving characters ([[spoiler:Krile]] by default) writes to Mid telling him what they and all the other surviving characters are doing since Exdeath was defeated.
* Inverted at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', where they show what each character ''did'' in order to escape rather to show what they were doing. After that, they show the real ending.
* ''Conflict Vietnam'' shows the main characters in a brothel (or something like that) while Cherry,er, Doc gives a voice-over about what happened to everyone. Junior goes home and joins the Black Panthers, only to [[spoiler:get killed in a shootout with the FBI]]. Hoss signs on for a tour of duty in Cambodia. Ragman comes home to a some divorce papers and moves to the Rockies with his dog. Doc starts a family and becomes a doctor, his specialty being gunshot wounds.
* The epilogue of ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'' takes place one year after the finale, and shows what all the characters have decided to do with their lives -- in a few cases, it also finishes their {{Character Arc}}s. Especially important because [[spoiler:the world was ''destroyed'' in the finale, and the epilogue shows how successful the cast was in rebuilding it]].
* ''VideoGame/ChroniclesOfInotiaChildrenOfCarnia'' has one too. [[spoiler: While Lydia [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself to impede the resurrection of the God of Darkness, she erases the memories of the party, while the epilogue shows how everyone would live if they didn't know each other. It turns out that it's actually a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion because [[MysteriousWaif Elina]] shows up and restores their memories for their new quest.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'' has one of these during its ending credits sequence, featuring each of the major characters [[spoiler: pursuing their own futures, which depends on whether or not the Player chooses to revive the world]].
* The closing credits for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' shows Mario and Yoshi showing Peach some of the planets they both visited on the way back to the Mushroom Planet, [[BigBad Bowser]] being spat out of his black hole and becoming tiny, before the heroes (and Lubba) are finally shown back in the Mushroom Kingdom standing in front of the cake mentioned in the prologue. And you can actually ''die'' in the credits!
* The Extended Cut DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' provides official "Where Are They Now?" Scenes for characters that survive the events of all three games such as [[spoiler: seeing Wrex and Eve with their newborn baby]].
* Pretty much all Creator/NipponIchi games have an epilogue in the best ending shown using either the in-game sprites or hand-drawn stills. For example...(open spoilers ahoy!)
** ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'': Marona's finally won the acceptance of everyone, and the world picks up the pieces.
** ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Celestia and the Netherworld work out its differences.
*** ''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2'': Etna awakens from her long slumber and reunites with her brother at the castle gates.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'': Veldime slowly recovers from the curse.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'': Mao finally makes peace with his father after turning the BigBad into his new guinea pig.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'' has a slightly different final epilogue depending on what RelationshipValues you've built up.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'': The Rebel Army's Overlords rebuild their Netherworlds and turns them prosperous, Zeroken opened his own dojo, Christo returns to Celestia, and Killia lives out a peaceful life with Liezerota.
* The ending cutscene of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' shows what certain characters are doing now that you've beaten Smithy. Bowser and his troops are repairing his castle (and a Shy Guy stole his copter), Yoshi beats Croco in a race, Toadofsky has a recital, Mallow rejoins Nimbus Land, Booster and Valentina get married (with Booster flying the altar at the last minute) and Jonathon Jones looks out at the sea.
* The SEBEC questline in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' ends this way for the party members that fought in the FinalBattle, although most of the characters return for ''VideoGame/Persona2'' anyway.
-->"As for his [the PlayerCharacter's] fate... That's for you to decide."
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has this twice, technically. The Bad Ending takes place three months after you [[spoiler: kill Ryoji, the avatar of Nyx, and as such]] erase everyone's memories of the coming end of the world so you can live out the couple months of your life in peace. Or, if you choose not to and get the Good ending, the ending itself will take place inevitably on the same date as the bad ending, only with [[spoiler: Nyx dead, the main character dying slowly and everyone's memories suddenly coming back]], which itself takes place around a month after the final boss fight. [[PlayableEpilogue The Answer]] itself, an expansion/epilogue for the main story, takes place about a month after [[spoiler: TheProtagonist's death]].
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'' ''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'', the credits shown in the ending you get after completing the Third Semester shows what the party members are up to. Likewise, if [[spoiler:you accept Maruki's reality]], you will also see a montage of your party members in the credits.

* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'', there's a variation. The credits show what everybody who got out alive is doing [[spoiler:when the atomic bomb hits Miami, [[KillEmAll killing them all]]]].
* ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' tells the player what their various party members got up to after the game's end, as well as the fates of the communities the player has visited. The game being a bastion of GreyAndGrayMorality, sometimes benevolent-seeming options have less optimal ends.
* The GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' reveals [[spoiler: that James Gordon has become mayor of Gotham, Tim Drake and Barbara Gordon are getting married, and though Bruce Wayne has been outed as Batman and appeared to have died, a Bat-like figure still hunts Gotham's criminals]].
* The second season finale of ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' briefly reveals the final fates of its main characters, based on your decisions.
* The ending of ''[[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones]]'' reveals that Billy and Jimmy Lee have continued to spread martial arts teachings around the world, Chin Seimei returned to China with his Master Kenpou and still remaining friends with the Double Dragons, Yagyu Ranzou returned to Japan to become a ninja, hoping to be called emperor, and [[TreacherousAdvisor Hiruko]](who died in a trap just before the FinalBattle) was not the first, nor will she be the last to let greed for power ruin their life.
* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'':
** There's an epilogue for the [[ResetButton Restorer]] ending for the Septentrione Arc. It resets the world to how it was before the Septentriones invaded, but with CharacterDevelopment taken into consideration. The biggest changes are that Io is open about wanting to hang out with the protagonist and Daichi, and Airi and Hinako have formed a piano-and-dance duo, performing for cheering crowds.
** The UpdatedRerelease gave an epilogue to the [[GoldenEnding Record Breaker]] ending of the new Triangulum Arc. The new world is going well [[spoiler:and no longer part of the Adminstrator system]]. The protagonist, Daichi, and Io are heading to the beach for a relaxing trip. Yamato is letting [[DecisionDarts a dart]] choose where his next trip will take him, with Makoto shown to be working as his personal secretary. Airi and Hinako are still performing as [=AiHina=] Stars. [[spoiler:And the Anguished One and Miyako have both been reincarnated as regular humans.]]
* If you get the best ending of ''VideoGame/{{Lunarosse}}'', one of these plays before the credits.
* The [[GoldenEnding True Ending]] of ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' gives us one, showing how each of the protagonists spent their well-earned vacation after saving the Internet.
** [[spoiler: Catie is finally able to retire from adventuring and live a peaceful life.]]
** [[spoiler: Anon and Til go on a date, and [[BelligerentSexualTension spend all of it arguing]]. They have a great time and make plans to do it again.]]
** [[spoiler: Eddie and Arianna decide to open up a small library together.]]
** [[spoiler: Shift becomes king through a [[NoodleIncident chain of wacky misunderstandings]].]]
** [[spoiler: Tyalie dominates the local arcade, and [[ThankingTheViewer waves goodbye]] to the player one last time.]]
** [[spoiler: Shrimp and Cornelia enjoy a day at the fairgrounds, and ride the Ferris Wheel while [[HumblePie Boxxyfan]] sulks in the car below them.]]
** [[spoiler: [[FakeUltimateHero GmasterRED]] takes credit for everything. [[RunningGag Again]].]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has one in two of the MultipleEndings:
** In the GoldenEnding, nearly each one of the numerous characters are shown with a brief description of what they did after the game ended, with the major characters getting longer animated sequences. (The text varies depending on whether or not you met a special requirement for each monster.)
** The neutral endings have a less in-depth version of this. Sans [[spoiler:or Alphys]] calls the player character and tells them what everyone has been up to since they left the underground. What specifically, [[spoiler:including who becomes the ruler after Asgore's death]], varies depending on how many kills the player has.
* ''VideoGame/BlazblueCentralFiction'' ends with this kind of epilogue for each surviving character, showing what became of them [[spoiler:after Ragna sacrificed himself to save all of reality]]:
** [[spoiler:Noel and Lambda become nuns, caring for a catatonic Nu.]]
** [[spoiler:Makoto and Tsubaki continue to work for the NOL alongside Jin, Kagura and Hibiki under Homura as Imperator.]]
** [[spoiler:Bang leads the reconstruction efforts of a new Ikaruga state.]]
** [[spoiler:Litchi adopts Platinum and they move to Orient Town together, with Mai and Kajun's help.]]
** [[spoiler:Carl follows the same dark path of his father and seeks out the Cauldrons.]]
** [[spoiler:Taokaka returns to the Kaka Village, to a hero's welcome.]]
** [[spoiler:Aname continues to travel the world with his troupe.]]
** [[spoiler:Bullet enlists with Sector Seven, serving under her old commander, Tager. Kokonoe keeps an eye on the captive Azrael.]]
** [[spoiler:Es returns to guarding the Azure Gate, while Naoto returns to his timeline.]]
** [[spoiler:Valkenhayn continues to serve Rachel, who visits Ragna's "grave" and vows to find him even though she has no memory of him.]]
** [[spoiler:In TheStinger, Ragna's WeaponTombstone goes missing.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'', if you manage to complete all the sidequests and take over 100% of Hell, you unlock an epilogue that shows what happened to Gat's allies in Hell.
** [[spoiler:Dane Vogel married Kiki [=DeWynter=] and now has William Sharp as his poolboy.]]
** [[spoiler:Vlad the Impaler regains his turf and has Killbane continuously tortured.]]
** [[spoiler:William Shakespeare produces a play recreating Shogo Akuji's [[BuriedAlive death]] which becomes a smash hit in Hell, letting him put on repeat performances of exhuming and re-burying Shogo for all eternity.]]
** [[spoiler:Blackbeard sails across here to add to his crew (which includes Jyunichi, Kazuo and Mr. Sunshine).]]
** [[spoiler:Viola [=DeWynter=] manages to strike up a deal with heaven that allows the Saints and their friends to meet up and play volleyball once a year.]]

* ''Literature/TheLastDogs'': The end of the tetralogy shows most of the pets being reunited, on a TV show that Max and his nephews and nieces like watching. Several endings include:
** [[SiblingYinYang Panda and Possum]], the two cat sisters in the house of cats, reuniting with their man.
** [[CowardlyLion Georgie]] and [[HeelRealization Belle]] reuniting with their owners and helping them clean up the latter's filthy mansion.
** Zephyr and the other Dalmatians being hailed as heroes for looking after the other dogs.
** Julep and Dixie the German shepherd police dogs returning from their trip to the Praxis laboratory.
** [[GrumpyOldMan Spots]] reuniting with his brother Dots, as well as [[SmellySkunk Stripes the skunk]] becoming a part of their family. Along with that, [[CloudCuckoolander Tiffany]] the raccoon finally got recognition as a master thief.
** [[BigBad Dolph]] the wolf having been relocated to a wildlife park, most likely giving up his quest for vengeance.
* ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'' (a ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' anthology: Since most of the characters in this book never really figured heavily in future stories, one of these was included where it had been absent from the other ''Tales From...'' books.
** Malaki the rancor keeper freed Porcellus the chef from his cell, then the pair looted the treasury and opened their own restaurant in Mos Eisley with the proceeds.
** J'Quille the Whiphid found he now had a bounty on his head if he ever left Tatooine and, unable to take the planet's heat any longer, joined the B'omarr monks and exchanged his body for a brain jar.
** Mara Jade was kept very busy.
** Gartogg the Gamorrean left the palace with others heading to Mos Eisley, where he became an enforcer for a smuggling operation and faithfully took the dried-out mummies of the kitchen boy and a B'omarr monk (whose murders he'd solved) with him everywhere he went.
** Ephant Mon returned to his homeworld and started a religious sect that worshipped the Force.
** Max Robo and Sy Snootles split up; Max joined the Rebellion as an entertainer and later started his own successful multi-planet chain of restaurants, while Sy tried for a solo career that went poorly, forcing her to hook up with other jizz bands to keep her career going. Droopy vanished into the desert and is supposedly still out there with other Kitonaks, whose music can still be heard.
** Bib Fortuna remained in the palace, [[spoiler:a brain in a jar]], though he managed to contact other allies and still hoped to escape some day.
** Dannik Jerriko went on a killing spree in the palace and ended up a wanted man.
** Like Mara Jade, Boba Fett was kept very, very busy by his later adventures.
** Yarna Gargan and her business partner Doallyn lived on their new ship and became free traders; Yarna danced for credits when needed, including at Han and Leia's wedding, and there became recruited as a model for a new line of jeweled brassieres. Doallyn managed her new career, with a side job of capturing specimens for zoos. Yarna's son and daughters discovered a talent for music and eventually became a swinging jizz trio.
** Of the other eight stories, six ended with the viewpoint character dead, and Tessek and Bubo's ended with them joining the B'omarr monks.
* ''Literature/GrentsFall'' had one for surviving characters on both sides.
* ''Literature/AMemoirByLadyTrent'': The Afterword to ''Within the Sanctuary of Wings'' has Isabella recount briefly what has happened in the life of her and other people involved in her story, as well as some general information about the differences between the world from her memories and the world as it is now.
* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': Each book ends with what happened to each character by the end of the story. That is, for the books except for ''Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge'', which ends with Jaine going on a date and reconnecting with [[spoiler:her ex-husband, the Blob.]] The format switches to a collection of news headlines in ''Death of a Gigolo'', then reverts back to normal in ''Murder Gets a Makeover''.

** Carl continues to run [=MacLarens=] [[spoiler: as a family business with his son]].

** Ranjit [[spoiler: now owns the limo service]].
** Patrice becomes a host for a call-in service radio show. She's still in touch with Robin [[spoiler: who calls the show sometimes and still screams at her]].
** William Zabka [[spoiler: became the youngest winner of the American Humanities medal with Literature]].
** Zoe still stages protests for noble causes [[spoiler: that don't always end well for her]].
** Scooter [[spoiler: marries Stripper!Lily]].
** Blitz [[spoiler: became a gambling addict but finally kicked the habit after a three day bender at the same slot machine ... only for an elderly woman to hit the jackpot right after he left]].
** Blah Blah [[spoiler: has her name finally remembered by Future!Ted. It's Carol]].
** Sandy Rivers [[spoiler: lost his job for his sexual harassment but becomes a news anchor in Moscow ... where he still sexually harasses his co-workers]].
** James [[spoiler: got back together with Tom]].
** Gary Blauman [[spoiler: drove back, apologized and was at Robin and Barney's wedding after all]].

* Music/VanHalen's music video for "Hot for Teacher" ended this way, with Alex going on to become a gynecologist, Michael Anthony becoming a champion sumo in Tokyo, Eddie ending up in a mental ward, David Lee Roth becoming a game show host, and special guest [[ButtMonkey Waldo]] going on to an uncertain fate after graduation (he became successful with wealth and women, implied to have become a pimp).
* And Music/{{Korn}}'s ''Twisted Transistor''.
* Music/TheFugees vid for "Killing Me Softly", appropriate since the entire video (like the title of the album from which this single came) is an homage to ''Film/CooleyHigh''.
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy's "That's How the Story Ends" serves as a followup to most of their prior comedic songs. Some of the characters come back from the dead, and others [[DroppedABridgeOnHim get bridges dropped on them]].

* "Love at the Five and Dime," a 1986 top 5 country hit for Music/KathyMattea, had one such postlogue as the third verse of a love story involving a dime store clerk and an aspiring steel guitar player in a country band.

* The "Big Enough" music video ended with the following text epilogue after the credits:
--> ''[[Music/KirinJCallinan Butch Callinan]] & [[Music/AlexCameron Alex the Kid]], having reconciled their past, would become partners ride west together where they would settle & see out their days operating an Apple Orchard on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California.''\\\
''Forging a modest whistling career on the stages of San Francisco, Music/MollyLewis would later join them, managing the burgeoning apple business' finances and, ultimately, outliving both of the former rivals.''\\\
''Never again did they speak of their fabled visitation from the ghost of old [[Music/JimmyBarnes Jim Barnes]].''
* Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe"; they all lived sadly ever after.
-->A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
-->Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo
-->There was a virus goin' 'round; Papa caught it and he died last spring
-->And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
-->And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
-->And droppin' 'em into the muddy water off the Tallahatchee Bridge.

* In the ending of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'', Griffin asks how Magnus dies. Travis describes how Magnus lives to be an old man, and dies peacefully in bed, surrounded by his loved ones. Afterward, [[TheGrimReaper Kravitz]] leads him to a special spot in the Astral Sea reserved for him and [[TheLostLenore Julia.]]

* ''Theatre/{{Cosi}}'' by Louis Nowra ends with the main character giving a monologue on the subject of where the majority of the characters had ended up a year after the play's events.

%% * ''Re-drowning Ophelia'' by Katie Henry ends like this.

* And, of course ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' had this as well.
* Ditto ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', and its expansion ''NeverwinterNights2/MaskOfTheBetrayer''. Creator/BlackIsle[=/=]Creator/ObsidianEntertainment loves this trope, it seems.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' ends with several shots of the minor characters and all the crewmembers you gather over the course of the game, with a continuation of what happens to them after the events of the game.
* Every ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' game ends with a short blurb describing what happened to every one of the
numerous characters you recruited. Brew some tea and get cozy.

* At the end of the ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' expansion pack, ''Throne of Bhaal,'' both the PC and every NPC in your party gets a text-based epilogue explaining how they live out the rest of their lives. Some are tragic ([[spoiler:Minsc and Boo are together still, beyond the stars, where hamsters are giants and men become legends]]), and some are very, very funny ([[spoiler:After a run-in with Elminster, Edwina the barmaid lives out the rest of her life as a bitter, bitter woman]]).

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has this: [[spoiler: Pogo and Gori [[BabiesEverAfter have kids]]. The Earthen Heart Inheritor takes up the master's mantle. Sundown is still a wanderer; either alone or alongside Mad Dog depending on the player's actions. Oboromaru either is a bodyguard to Ryoma Sakamoto or is continuing his missions. Masaru leaves the gym where he trained, perhaps shutting it down for good. Akira works with Tobei. Cube continues to aid Kato]].

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' gets one of these. It goes through the fate of everyone who lived through the game.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' shows some animations of the principle players and their fates some time after the game as [[spoiler: Queen Garnet recalls Zidane's sacrifice. Later, Garnet attends a play given by the Tantalus players, one of whom removes his hood at the climax of the drama revealing himself to be Zidane (although anyone with any sense would have figured that out ten minutes previous).]]
*** The ending scene shows other characters in its epilogue:[[spoiler: Steiner and Beatrix are now Alexandrian nobles, Eiko is adopted by Cid and Hilda, Amarant returns to his adventuring days along with Lani, Quina keeps being a Chef, Freja and Fratley fall in love all over again, and Vivi dies, but not before leaving a load of clones around]].
** The second season story of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius'' ends with a six stage epilogue in which Raegen and Citra are travelling throughout the worlds of Paladia and Lapis to see what the main cast has been up to since the end of their big battle with Emperor Vlad. [[spoiler:Sieghard becomes part of a travelling troupe together with Shamlin and Nagi, Folka spends the rest of her days in Olderion to atone for her past transgressions, Cid spends his days living peacefully together with his daughters, Ignacio takes up sculpting to honor his old friend Kagane, Sakura and Nichol become aides to Rain, the king of Aldore, Lid and Jake are travelling the skies together (and Jake plans to propose to Lid when the time is right), Physalis becomes a knight of Grandshelt by suggestion of Raegen, and Fina sets off on a new adventure together with Rain and Lasswell, just like old times.]] After the credits roll, one last cinematic plays setting the stage for the third season's story.
* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' (the original NES game) ends with the revelation that the game is a story Super Joe is telling as an old man.
* In ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa3'' this happens, some of the [=NPCs=] each of the recruitable characters, minus the ones you recruited and the other 7 that you can choose, each have a small cutscene depending on the actions taken.

* The first ''VideoGame/{{Crash Bandicoot|1996}}'' game, as well as the racing spin off ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'' did these, with humorous intent. Interestingly though, one of the bosses, Ripper Roo, is stated as studying and becoming an academic, and in the next game you find him in a gigantic library, and you disrupt his studies. (Un)fortunately Dr. Nitrus Brio didn't stick to his bartending. ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' does it all over again [[spoiler: with voice-over provided by Crash himself, to boot!]]
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has a variation of this in an e-mail sent to Mario by Goombella.
* ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'', a total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', has one of these for just about every named character, ala Fallout. This is in stark contrast to the original game's AmbiguousEnding.
* ''[[VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven 2027]]'', a total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', has this at the end of the game as well.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft|I}}: Brood War'', there is a summary of what happened to all five of the main characters who survived.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfTheVoid'' wraps up the ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' trilogy with a cutscene that briefly reveals the fate of the three races of the game.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' briefly shows the characters in different times as the main three use their time machine. The remakes extend this with anime cutscenes.
** Depending on when in the game you complete it, and which sidequests you've completed will alter the ending. Sometimes in minor ways, other times you'll get a whole new ending.
* The ItsAWonderfulFailure bad ending of ''VideoGame/LauraBow 2'' lists the fates of the entire cast and the unfortunate things that befell them because of your failure.
* Team Japan's ending in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 1997''.
* ''VideoGame/HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'' ends with a collection of photographs (or in The Captain and his nurse's case, a letter) showing what happened to the game's cast of characters.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' (depending on [[spoiler: the HeroicSacrifice ending you chose]]) and ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'' with your character having the chance to talk to all of your companions so far and finding out what their plans for the future are (how much of their plans actually come true varies, as the sequels show). You can even influence them! Which is then followed by a slide show detailing the further fate of companions, factions, and people according to your decisions in the game.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' details the exploits of your chosen character after defeating the Ancient Dragon:
** The Fighter's exact exploits after defeating the Dragon are unknown, but he would tell high tales of his accomplishments at the taverns which became the stuff of legends. He was last seen departing for the high seas as an elderly adventurer.
** The Wizard had, in the past, attempted to save his ill sister from death by using forbidden magic, but only succeeded in placing her body in limbo. With blood from the Ancient Dragon, he creates an elixir to end her suffering.
** The Dwarf's kingdom had been subjugated by the Ancient Dragon, and his people were on the verge of extinction. After slaying the Dragon, he became renowned as the noble avenger and was hailed as a great hero.
** The Amazon came to Hydeland to search for her past, having been adopted by other amazons after being saved as an infant from orcs. While she had given up on finding her past since arriving, an elderly couple who sees her realizes her eyes are exactly the same as the son they had lost...
** The Sorceress achieved her dream of living the high life, becoming a fortune teller for nobles and enjoying a life of luxury. In time, however, she grew bored with mundane life and began to crave adventure.
** The Elf was a social outcast among her people, wishing for see the world while her kin were isolationists. Upon returning to her village, however, she is welcomed with open arms; having fulfilled the elves' prophecy of felling the Ancient Dragon, she is named Crown Regent.
* During the credits of the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' game, you see various Pokémon Rangers doing rangery stuff. And remember the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Go-Rock]] [[FourIsDeath Quads]]? They're [[spoiler: playing at a concert in front of the clock tower]]!
* The second half of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'''s ending credits features brief, wordless cutscenes, depicting the characters after the story's end. The scenes vary depending on [[MultipleEndings which ending]] you got.
* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' has this at the end, showing what all the characters in your party are doing with their lives post-victory over the BigBad. It all depends on how you've built the character relationships throughout the game.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' shows how Link used the Triforce to make people's lives better, and ends with a shot of Link returning the Master Sword to its pedestal.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' shows Link returning to his childhood and leaving the Master Sword in the Temple of Time, he and Navi parting company and young Link [[WhereItAllBegan returning to Hyrule Castle to meet Zelda.]]
* Not unsurprisingly, this is done in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' by the same creators as ''Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler: With a slight twist. This epilogue shows what happens to all the characters ([[WhatHappenedToTheMouse except Jeego and Tengo]]) after Sissel, Missile, and Yomiel rewrote the timeline. With the potential exception of the blue people, everyone seems to be happy with their new lives.]]
* The last buyable newspaper in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' describes how some of the minor characters ended up.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** The ending of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' ends with everything in the series being wrapped up, including [[spoiler:Sunny, Olga's daughter who was kidnapped by the Patriots, finally going out into the real world, Raiden and Rosemary living normal lives with their son, Johnny and Meryl getting married, Meryl making up with her father Campbell, and Snake finally having a real talk with Big Boss. The ending also reveals that Snake and Otacon decide to live normal lives]].
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' both end with timelines offering details of what happened to certain characters or factions after the game. Most of the events are positive, except for TheStinger - the timeline in ''Peace Walker'', for example, ends by noting [[VideoGame/MetalGear Big Boss starting the Outer Heaven Uprising in 1995]] and then [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Kaz Miller's assassination in 2005]].
** Similar to ''Snake Eater'' and ''Peace Walker'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' ends with a timeline of the events that transpired up until the events of ''Guns of the Patriots'': [[spoiler:"2014: Big Boss dies."]]

* The ending credits for ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' will play you video messages from most of the characters you've met saying what they're up to now. [[spoiler:Unless you decide for V to shoot themself, they will only mention how distraught or furious they are over their death.]]

* ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'': At the end a voiceover by Tom Hanks describes the later careers of the three Apollo 13 astronauts and some of the other NASA personnel.

* Creator/JeanPierreMelville's ''Film/ArmyOfShadows'' ended with [[spoiler: a series of title cards announcing the eventual death of each of the French resistance members]].

* The final scenes of ''Film/IntoTheWild'' show what happened to the various people Chris encountered on his journey. [[spoiler:The hippie couple continue WalkingTheEarth, Wayne, who had been arrested for drug dealing, was eventually released, the two Danish explorers Chris met while kayaking win big in Vegas...and his mother and father struggle to move on with their lives while dealing with the knowledge that their semi-abusive parenting lead indirectly to their son's death, and its implied that his sister follows her brother's example and becomes an explorer.]]

* ''Film/TheSandlot'' ends with the ''[[Series/TheWonderYears Wonder Years]]''-esque {{Narrator}} giving brief descriptions of what the various players wound up doing as adults, which cuts into a final scene showing that Benny ends up as a professional ballplayer and Smalls becomes a sportscaster. Except one kid who "got really into the Sixties and never seen again."

* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': the character of Elijah Price is [[spoiler: explained to be in a hospital for the mentally insane, once his crimes of mass murder are revealed]].

* ''Film/MusicAndLyrics'' ends up with pop-up bubbles explaining that Cora got married and divorced in the same night, Sloan's book got made into an awful movie, POP eventually reunited but their performance cut short because Colin needed a hip replacement, and Alex and Sophie are still together, with his hip appearing to be fine.
* ''Film/DasepoSonyo'' ends with drawings of the major characters and brief descriptions of their fates - Poor Girl works at a bank, Anthony lives on a farm in Switzerland, Double Eyes got a sex change, and Cyclops got rich selling toys modelled after him. Big Razor Sis' fate is left ambiguous - there is a before-and-after image suggesting that she got a sex change, but there's no accompanying text.
* Both ''Film/DeuceBigalow'' films end with these;
** ''Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'' reveals that [[spoiler:Deuce married Kate, Deuce's father became a male prostitute, the overweight Fluisa underwent extensive liposuction and now worked as a model in Victoria's Secret known as Naomi, Ruth opened an all girls school for Tourette's, Carol managed to fulfill her dream trip to France, T.J. starts his own reality show dedicated to his experiences as a male prostitute, and an incarcerated Antoine marries Tina]].
** In ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' (with the opening [[spoiler:revealing that Kate was killed in a shark attack shortly after the marriage]]), the epilogue reveals that [[spoiler:T.J. moves on from gay man-whoring to become a rapper, Deuce marries Eva and she is shown being pregnant, Gaspar is gang raped in prison, and Kate's prosthetic leg is turned into a bong by a woman without a leg]].
* The 1996 movie ''Film/HouseArrest'' ends with a montage of the major characters, with Grover providing a voiceover explaining their fates.
* ''Film/PainAndGain'' ends with the credits showing the main cast with a picture of the real person they were portraying. Two of the kidnappers were sentenced to death while the third served 15 years in prison. The gym owner who forged the transaction papers for them got 15 years as well and died in prison, while the survivors' names were changed.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' has a montage near the end, showing what happened to most of the characters who survived the climax:
** Natasha is HauledBeforeASenateSubCommittee for [[spoiler: leaking all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secrets in order to expose HYDRA's infiltration]]. She is acquitted of all charges and looks for a new identity.
** Agent 13 aka Sharon joins the CIA.
** Maria Hill is interviewing for a job at Stark Industries.
** [[spoiler: [[TheDragon Rumlow]] survived getting a helicarrier dropped on his head, but he’s badly burned.]]
** [[spoiler: HYDRA mole]] Senator Stern is arrested.
** Fury, [[spoiler: still FakingTheDead]] burns all of his S.H.I.E.L.D stuff, including his eyepatch, and decides to head [[spoiler: to Europe to hunt down the rest of HYDRA]].
* ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'' ends with Marilyn singing a song while text overlay tells us what happened to her, Colin and Laurence after the film.
* ''Film/CantHardlyWait'' played with this. It was mostly set at a WildTeenParty. The following morning, there are scenes of various characters meeting up and saying their goodbyes, apologies, or thanks as appropriate, and during each one, the scene freezes and a caption says what happened to the featured teen in the future. In one case, the scene froze, the caption said that the couple on screen would break up 10 minutes later, the screen unfroze for 30 seconds as the couple continued to interact, and then the screen froze again with a new caption saying that they got together again soon after the breakup.
* Shades of this in ''Film/{{Neighbors 2014}}''. [[spoiler:Mac meets Teddy outside Abercrombie & Fitch, and they discuss not only where they are in life, but also Pete and the other members of the frat. When Mac returns home, he and Kelly get a video call from their friends, tying that subplot off.]]
* ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'' crosses this with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
--> Frank Barnes got promotion. He is now retired with full pay. Will is happily married. He and Darcy are expecting their second child. Connie Hooper was promoted to senior manager. Oscar Galvin continues the same job. Ryan Scott is alive and healthy. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Dewey]] [''{{beat}}''] works in the fast food industry.
* In ''Film/McFarlandUSA'', we're shown the adult, RealLife version of the boys on the cross country team, and told in captions what happened to them.
* The HBO miniseries ''Show Me A Hero'' ends with many of the characters attending a funeral. Title cards are interspersed giving a summary of what happened to all of them in real life.
* Done briefly in the {{Documentary}} ''Film/SpecialWhenLit'' with Koi Morris, a synthetic chemist and pinball tournament player who had earlier failed to qualify for the PAPA 8 World Championship.
* In ''Film/TheMartian'', [[spoiler: Watney]] now teaches students at NASA. [[spoiler: Lewis and Vongel]] are with their families while [[spoiler: Beck and Johanssen]] have a baby. [[spoiler: Martinez]] is returning to Mars while [[spoiler: Teddy, Kapoor, Park, etc]] can rest easy as humanity continues another expedition to space.
* The documentary ''Film/TiltTheBattleToSavePinball'' ends with brief descriptions of where the movie's various subjects ended up after the closure of Creator/WilliamsElectronics.
* ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' shows what happens to the main characters. Handsome Rob got his Astin Martin and promptly got pulled over by a cop during its first ride. Left Ear moved to Spain and got a room for all his shoes. Lyle made it to the front cover of Wired Magazine and got a stereo (with speakers that could blow off a woman's clothes). And Charlie married Stella.
* ''Film/SalvationBoulevard'' ends with one of these, revealing that Pastor Dan did get brought up on charges, Professor Blaylock remained an adamant atheist, and that Carl and Gwen divorced with Carl remarrying to Honey and becoming an ''ex''-ex-Deadhead.
* ''Film/KayfabeAFakeRealMovieAboutAFakeRealSport'' ends with Randy explaining to the documentary team how everyone in the federation has moved on to new endeavors, most with great success.
* ''Film/DeepwaterHorizon'': After the disaster on the rig, Mike and Andrea eventually left Transocean, while Jimmy is still with them.
* ''Film/DesHommesEtDesDieux'': Some text informs the viewer that [[spoiler:seven of the monks were killed, one died 12 years later, and one was still alive as of the movie's making.]]
* ''Film/AmericanAnimals'' ends with title cards explaining where the four actual perpetrators are doing at the time of filming. They're all free and living quiet, modest lives.
* ''Film/LordsOfDogtown'' has little blurbs about what each real life character did after the events of the movie during the credits.
* In ''Film/RememberTheTitans'', the movie opens with several characters gathering for a funeral. The epilogue shows what the players and coaches of the team did with their lives after winning the Virginia state football championship in 1971, [[spoiler: revealing that the funeral is Gerry Bertier’s, after he was killed by a drunk driver in 1981]].
* ''Film/NoGodNoMaster'': The film ends with a summary of what happened to the major characters.
* ''Film/TheOtherWoman2014'': After [[BigBad Mark King]] is revealed to be a [[LoveTriangle cheating womanizer]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive criminal fraudster]], the film ends with the following circumstances:
** His wife, Kate, divorces him and takes over his company, which is making big profits under her honest leadership, leaving him broke and destitute. [[spoiler:Mark intended to frame Kate for his fraudulent businesses practices, but Kate returned all the money he stole, sparing them both prison time.]]
** [[spoiler:One of his mistresses, attorney Carly Whitten, marries Kate's brother, Phil, and they are expecting their first child.]]
** [[spoiler:Mark's second mistress, Amber, is dating [[MayDecemberRomance Carly's father, Frank]], and in spite of their friendship, Carly absolutely refuses to call her "mom"]].
* ''Film/Conspiracy2001'' ends with a summary of the fates of the real historical figures involved, noting the limited punishments some of them received.
* Onscreen epilogues in ''Film/{{Jungle}}'' reveal what Yossi and Kevin did with their lives after they escaped the jungle. It is also revealed that Marcus and Kurt were never seen again.
* ''Film/SchindlersList'' uses a unique and famously powerful variation on the trope: a procession of 128 of the real-life surviving ''Schindlerjuden'', accompanied by the actors who portrayed them in the film, walk past Oskar Schindler's grave in Israel and [[GraveMarkingScene mark it with stones]] as per Jewish custom. The scene's subtitles also inform the audience of the statistics of the lives Schindler saved.
* Captions at the end of ''Film/{{Starkweather}}'' tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp (execution, life imprisonment, and induction into Nebraska Law Enforcement Hall of Fame, respectively).
* Not exactly this trope, but it uses the name: In ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'', the group hears a radio station play one of their very old songs, "Cups and Cakes", from when they used to be called The Thamesmen. After the song, the D.J. announces that The Thamesmen are now called Spinal Tap, and that they have been consigned to the "Where Are They Now File". The looks on the band members' faces when he says this are priceless.
* ''Film/Vice2018'': Parodied halfway through the movie. After Dick Cheney rejects the presidential bid to protect his lesbian daughter Mary, an epilogue is shown that's [[BlatantLies obviously fake]] (it mentions that Dick Cheney never got into politics again and that he regularily wins Ironman competitions) where the Cheney family lived a happy, quiet life and never came back into the public eye. The credits even roll after that. Played straight at the end, where the actual epilogue is far more grim.

* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Chapter Fourteen; arguably a SubvertedTrope because they haven't gone anywhere, although a year had passed while they've been on the island and their views have moved on. ''The Beatrice Letters'' form part of an epilogue themselves. Even though the scrambled letters reveal that " BEATRICE SANK", there are hints that Baudelaires are apparently living out their lives doing what they love: 1) Sunny is said to be sharing her recipes on the radio in The Beatrice Letters. 2) In book 3 the narrator says that Violet would return to Briny Beach a third time in her life, and since she'd only gone there twice over the course of the series (in book 1 and again in book 12), she must have survived at least until they reached the mainland. 3) In book 2, the narrator states that Klaus would like awake in bed many years later wondering what would have happened if he'd managed to stop Count Olaf/Stephano from entering Uncle Monty's house - the last chapter takes place roughly a year and a half from this point, so his survival is also heavily implied. 4) Beatrice (that's the Beatrice born in Book 13) is currently trying to find Lemony Snicket, presumably to ask him the whole truth about what happened
* ''Literature/{{Magyk}}'', the first ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' book, has a "What happened to..." last chapter. Other books in the series have variations, such as "What happened before...", detailing each character's backstory. The twist being that they all detail what happens (or happened) to the very minor characters, those who are [[TheGhost named but never shown]] or [[NoNameGiven shown but never named]]. A nurse who gets two lines in the book, the never-seen girlfriend of one of the brothers, the gatekeeper's son, etc.

* ''Literature/TheWestingGame'' has an epilogue describing how every character became rich, famous and influential.
* By the same author, ''Literature/TheMysteriousDisappearanceOfLeonIMeanNoel'' has an epilogue explaining how most of the surviving characters lived happily thereafter.

* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' did originally have an epilogue, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen but it was cut for publication]]. The Appendices do fulfill this role though, especially Appendix A (with the tale of Aragorn and Arwen) and Appendix B, The Tale of Years.
* The final pages of ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'', where it's written the characters are doing after the end of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]].
* Erich Maria Remarque's novel ''The Black Obelisk''. [[spoiler: Most of them died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII]].
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheGreenMile'', it's not the epilogue, but near the end, during [[spoiler: John Coffey's execution]] where Paul describes the eventual fate of his friends.
* The "Finale" of Creator/GeorgeEliot's ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'': Dorothea marries Ron, and Fred and Mary call their children Snape and Dumbledore... er, or something like that. It brings the reader up-to-date on the forty years or so between the end of the main book, and the time of writing, anyway.
* ''Literature/DearAmerica''
** Every book (and those of its [[DistaffCounterpart Staff Counterpart]] series ''My Name Is America'') ends with one of these. Unusually for a kids' series, [[BittersweetEnding they aren't always]] [[DownerEnding happy endings.]]
** Same goes for the series' Canadian counterpart, ''Dear Canada''.
* The last book in the ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' series ends with one of these, and describes Leif's reign with the exact same wording as King Adin's reign, described in the first chapter of the first book.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheJomsvikings'' ends with a short summary of what later became of the Jomsviking chiefs that survived the Battle of Hjorunga Bay: Vagn marries Ingibjörg, the daughter of Thorkel Leira, and moves back to Fyn, Bjorn lives out his life in Wales, Sigurd Cape returns to Bornholm, and also that Bui (who jumped overboard in Hjorunga Bay) ''may'' have turned into a sea-dragon.

* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfManhattan'' ends this way, briefly describing the fates of the surviving major characters as well as those of HistoricalDomainCharacter Oscar Hammerstein and the Manhattan Opera House.

* The DistantFinale in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', which confirmed a number of pairings, and was supplemented by WordOfGod to include what everyone's jobs were in the future.

* ''Literature/BeautyQueens'' combines this with a DancePartyEnding.
* The epilogue of ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'' tells what happened to the characters after the Fourth of July. It mostly ties up loose ends, particularly Harry and Grace's SecondActBreakup.
* The Civil War novels by Michael and Jeff Shaara (''Literature/GodsAndGenerals'', ''Literature/TheKillerAngels'', and ''Literature/TheLastFullMeasure'') end with the major figures in each having a paragraph about their later lives or legacy. ''Measure'' features a lengthier sequence before the blurbs recounting the last days of Lee, Grant, and Chamberlain.
* The book of 2 Timothy, in Literature/TheBible, which is chronologically the last piece of writing from the apostle Paul, contains a moving passage in which Paul, awaiting execution, writes his friend a reflective farewell. He then goes on to tell Timothy where all his various friends, who have appeared at the end of his letters, are now. Most are ministering in various churches across the Mediterranean area "Titus is in Dalmatia... Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus" a couple have fallen away from Christianity, and one is "ill in Miletus". This serves as a 'where are they now' epilogue for Paul's generation of church leaders, alongside the passing of the baton on to Timothy and those he must lead.

* James Howe's ''The Misfits'' uses a variation where the epilogue is told from the perspective of the seventh-grade protagonist looking towards the future rather than an older version of the protagonist looking back, so it's framed as what ''will'' happen rather than what ''did'' happen (for example, the protagonist says of himself that "I will go into politics" rather than "I went into politics"), but it's clearly meant to be an accurate representation of what happens to the characters; the author likely wanted to be able to keep the epilogue in the same narrative voice (of a twelve-year-old) rather than shifting to an adult narrator.
* The epilogue of the last ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' book is primarily focused on Wistala [[spoiler: and her mate [=DharSii=] expecting eggs]], but the narration also touches on what's happened to all the other living characters.
* Taking place in the TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 'verse, Creator/DanAbnett's series for the Literature/{{Eisenhorn}} trilogy ends on this note, telling where the [[AnyoneCanDie surviving]] characters go. They are: [[spoiler: [[TheApprentice Ravenor]] went on with his own career as an Inquisitor (read: [[Literature/{{Ravenor}} "got his own spin-off"]]), with a note that spoiled the end of his own series, and [[TheBigGuy Nayl]] and [[TheChick Kara]] went with him. Medea retired from the Inquisition to work the family company, but disappeared years later. [[TheRival Inquisitor Heldane]] survived his encounter with Eisenhorn when Heldane tried to kill him, but left him radicalized and even more twisted and disfigured in his later life; he also went on to have a bit part in Abnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts''. Eisenhorn and Cherubael both went missing after the events of the book. Also a subversion with the case of Alizabeth Bequin: she was in a coma and written off as dead by the end of the series, but she survived at least for a time, and her comatose body was spirited away by another subversive group..]].
* Employed with variations in a number of Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper's books. A few examples:
** ''The Spy'': 33 years after the main events, during the [[UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 battle of Lundy's Lane]] a conversation reveals the fate of various characters. [[spoiler: Harvey Birch, the eponymous hero of the novel and now an old man, is killed in that same battle.]]
** ''The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish'': A modern-day narrator visits the town of Wish-ton-Wish and inspects the gravestones of the characters.
** ''The Prairie'': A year later, Captain Middleton visits the Pawnee village where the Natty Bumppo has settled down, just in time to witness the octogenarian dying attended by Hard-Heart and the others.
** ''The Deerslayer'': Fifteen years later Hawkeye, Chingachgook and his son Uncas (who was conceived shortly after the events of the novel) revisit Lake Otsego and the locations of the story. In a subversion Hawkeye is unsuccessful in his attempts to find out what became of Judith.
* Creator/EMForster wrote an appendix to ''Literature/ARoomWithAView'' 50 years later, detailing numerous adverse circumstances that befell Lucy and George after their wedding and through both world wars.
* Creator/JohnMasefield:
** ''Literature/TheMidnightFolk'' doesn't have chapter divisions, so there's no explicit epilogue, but the last couple of pages consist of a series of descriptions of what happened to various characters after the events of the novel.
** ''Literature/{{Odtaa}}'' ends with a section headed "Appendices and Notes", a collection of oddments and in-universe documents (including a letter from the protagonist to the author commenting on the manuscript of the novel) that collectively serve to show what became of the characters.
* ''Literature/DeadEndJobMysteries'': The first book ends in this, covering both the main protagonists and the assorted side characters. Later books downplay it, but most of the characters still get explanations about what happened to them afterward.

* The back page of the final issue of British comic ''Buster'' gave final endings to all the strips, mostly involving [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120515062044/http://comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/download/file.php?id=1391&mode=view the central concept of the strip being reversed or deconstructed]].

* The first issue of the ''ComicBook/SuperBuddies'' mini-series showed what happened to the members of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational after their book was cancelled in the 90's. Most of the heroes were in dire straits, such as Fire, who was now running a softcore porn website.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'' Annual #4 stars infamous [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Injustice League]] (and the Scarlet Skiier and G'nort) recast as Justice League ''Antarctica'' under the mistaken impression that they couldn't cause any trouble down there. The last page reveals what the team members are up to after finally splitting once and for all. Among other things: [[DumbMuscle Big Sir]] (somehow) won $160,000 on the quiz show "Concentration". Major Disaster enrolled in dental school in Anaheim, CA. Cluemaster is writing questions for the tv quiz show "Concentration" (ah). And Clock King is taking some time off.
* The last issue of ''Hard Time'' was centered around Ethan's parole review, and all the principle characters, mostly Ethan's fellow prisoners, had their "endings" revealed. For instance, Curly was released after his granddaughter tirelessly petitioned for appeal, Cindy had her sex change and lived happily ever after, and Cole died during a robbery attempt less than a year after he got out.
* The Creator/VertigoComics series ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'' has one of these in its second-to-last issue for all the major and minor characters.
* The last few pages of DC Comics' ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'' has Johnny Chambers (formerly Johnny Quick) now retired from the superhero business and considering retying the knot with his ex-wife Libby Lawrence (Liberty Belle) and also mentioning the fates of the other Golden Age Heroes who survived the Dynaman identity revelation incident: Theodore Knight (Starman) retired and got married, Alan Scott (Green Lantern) retired and set up a scholarship fund in the memory of a GBS staff writer who died during the RedScare, Paul Kirk (Manhunter) liquidated all his assets and disappeared into the jungle, Rex Tyler (Hourman) still fights crime and is still fighting his drug addiction demons, Al Pratt (Atom) learned something about himself, Johnny Thunder became a total {{Jerkass}}, Paula Brooks (Tigress) returned to being a criminal after the loss of Lance Gallant (Captain Triumph), and the hero that stood up against Dynaman near the end, Captain Comet, became one of the heroes that would usher in the Silver Age.
* ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern'' has a theoretical DistantFinale (in a meta way, this is a GrandFinale for ''Creator/GeoffJohns''' run on ''Franchise/GreenLantern'') featuring the various Lanterns moving on with their lives and showing what they've all been up to in their old age.

* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' ended its 29-year run on [[http://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2008/08/31 August 31, 2008]] with a strip showing what happened to the members of the Patterson family. Detractors of the strip nicknamed it the 'Strip of Destiny', since it was...a tad {{Anvilicious}} in hammering in traditional female roles, what with [[spoiler: Deanna quitting her pharmacy work to start a sewing school, and that Elizabeth would be a wife, mother, and teacher for life, and only TheUnfavourite April fulfilling her dream job]]. This coming on the heels of Elizabeth marrying the CreatorsPet via StrangledByTheRedString, and...well, it's no wonder it's also nicknamed the 'Settlpocalypse.'

* The directors and the animators on ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' fought with the Disney Company, and won, to create additional animation and "photo" paintings of what happened to the characters after the events of the film, establishing the new family that they indeed formed after Stitch arrived.
* ''WesternAnimation/WallE''[='s=] closing credits begin with this, before [[spoiler:{{Art Shift}}ing to an 8-bit graphical recap of the movie's main plot]].

* In the animated feature of ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', the narrator relates how Woundwort's body was never found and his memory lived on as a sort of lapine boogeyman.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' does this via CreativeClosingCredits.

-->[[spoiler: '''Flynn/Eugene''': But I know what the big question is? Did Rapunzel and I ever get married? Well I am happy to say after years and years of asking, I finally said yes.\\
'''Rapunzel''': Eugene!\\
'''Flynn/Eugene''': Okay, okay. I asked her.\\
'''Rapunzel''': And we're living happily ever after!\\
'''Flynn/Eugene''': Yes we are.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' ends with Scrat being frozen inside an ice cube and being washed up onto a tropical island and thawing out after being frozen inside the cube for 20,000 years, only to have his acorn washed away by the tide causing the poor squirrel to substitute his lost acorn with a coconut, causing him to accidentally trigger a volcanic eruption after driving the coconut into the sand.
* The ending credit sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' show scenes of Bolt, Penny, Mittens, Rhino and her mother living their new life together in their country neighborhood.
* The credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' roll with incidents from the next years about the future of the characters and the revival of the town.
* The credits of ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'' reveal that Anastasia met a sweet baker, Drizella and Lady Tremaine reverted from their transformation only to find themselves in maid clothes, and Cinderella and the Prince, of course, lived HappilyEverAfter.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' runs this as the artwork behind the end credits, showing what the Five and Po get up to after the story.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' shows that a lot of the characters in the film became excellent Scarers, at the end credits showing their scare cards. [[spoiler: Most of the members of Oozma Kappa made it]], along with [[JerkJock Johnny Worthington]] and Carrie from PNK, and Mike and Sulley became Rookies of the Year.
* ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters'' ends with one of these. It states that Bugs is enjoying a vacation in Palm Springs and reading about Daffy's downfall, Porky and Sylvester are stranded in the Superstition Mountains, with the latter being more cowardly than before, Cubish is still dead, and Daffy is [[{{Bookends}} back to where he started]], as a street corner salesman selling supernatural trinkets. He finds a dollar bill but it instantly vanishes (thanks to Cubish's ghost), [[CosmicPlaything leaving him sorely pissed]].

* ''Film/{{Apollo13}}'': At the end a voiceover by Tom Hanks describes the later careers of the three Apollo 13 astronauts and some of the other NASA personnel.

* ''Film/TheSandlot'' ends with the ''[[Series/TheWonderYears Wonder Years]]''-esque {{Narrator}} giving brief descriptions of what the various players wound up doing as adults, which cuts into a final scene showing that Benny ends up as a professional ballplayer and Smalls becomes a sportscaster. Except one kid who "got really into the Sixties and never seen again."
* Creator/JeanPierreMelville's ''Film/ArmyOfShadows'' ended with [[spoiler: a series of title cards announcing the eventual death of each of the French resistance members]].
* One of the alternate endings of ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]'' had a montage of what all the non-dead characters (and some pretty-dead ones like Mustafa) did after Dr. Evil escaped and his base blew up, like Frau Farbissina founding the militant wing of the LPGA. Presumably, it was changed to the newlywed Powers' honeymoon in order to make room for the sequel.
* ''Film/NineToFive'' ends with ''Animal House''-esque text blurbs telling us what each character went on to do with their lives. Dolly Parton's character appropriately became a country singer; Judy, who was practically drowned in paper by an overactive photocopier, fell in love and married a Xerox repairman; and Mr. Hart, the chauvinist boss wound up being karmically abducted by a tribe of [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon Amazons.]]

* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo'', the Tom Hanks-directed film about a young garage band turned one-hit Wonders, ends with a quick wrap-up of everyone's ultimate future over the closing credits.
** Jimmy formed a different band called the Heardsmen, made more hit records for Playtone, and now works as a record producer in Los Angeles.
** Guy and Faye got married, had four kids, and founded a music school in Washington state.
** Lenny manages a casino in Nevada (and got a divorce from the girl he married with in the film).
** T.B. Player (the unnamed bassist) was decorated for his service as a Marine in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar the Siege of Khe Sanh]] and is a building contractor in Florida.
* ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' had an epilogue that is both this and a DistantFinale, due to the request of the test audiences. It's a full scene with interspersed text blurbs detailing what happened to the supporting characters. [[spoiler:Elle has graduated with high honors, is the class-elected speaker at the ceremony, and has been invited into one of Boston's best law firms; Vivian is now Elle's best friend and has called off her engagement with Warner, who graduated without honors and with no job offers; Emmett has started his own practice, is now Elle's boyfriend, and will propose to her that night; and finally, Paulette has married her delivery man and is expecting a baby girl to be named after Elle.]]
* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' had one of these, although some of what was shown was pretty weird. Creator/KevinSmith has [[WordOfGod referred to the movie]] as his homage to ''Film/AnimalHouse''. Jay and Silent Bob's actually foreshadows the events of ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''.
* ''Film/AFishCalledWanda''. This being a comedy, the protagonists go on to [[BabiesEverAfter have 17 children]] and found a leper colony, [[FriendToAllLivingThings another main character]] becomes Master of Ceremonies at London Sea World, and the villain goes on to become Minister for Justice in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_in_South_Africa apartheid-era South Africa]].
* ''Film/TheHairyBird'' (also known as ''Strike!'' and ''All I Wanna Do'') end with blurbs describing the somewhat ironic fates of the main characters.
* The UsefulNotes/GulfWar film ''Film/ThreeKings'' has a brief montage like this, mentioning that one character is now a Hollywood war movie consultant
* The mockumentary ''Film/DropDeadGorgeous'' has text blurbs for several main characters-- except for Amber, who also gets a couple quick scenes showing how [[spoiler: she becomes a news anchor, just like her idol, Diane Sawyer]].
* Used at the end of the first ''Film/YoungGuns'' movie, which was kind of invalidated by [[Film/YoungGunsII the sequel]] (which also made use of this trope).
* Frankie Lymon's wives (and Little Richard) explain what happened to them in ''Film/WhyDoFoolsFallInLove?''.

* Both ''Film/SupportYourLocalSheriff'' and ''Film/SupportYourLocalGunfighter'' finish with Jack Elam's characters Jake and Jug, respectively, detailing the fates of all the characters, including his. ("..one of the most beloved characters in western folklore." "..big star in spaghetti westerns.")

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': Rose mentions that Cal [[spoiler: killed himself when the stock market crashed in 1929]]. Photos beside her bed reveal some of the life Rose, herself, went on to lead after the sinking.
* ''Film/StandByMe'' has sort of a variant of this, with the adult Gordie describing his friends' eventual fates toward the conclusion of his voiceover narration.
* ''Film/ThreeSistersSearchingForACure'': The ending text shows that Jenifer Estess died after battling ALS for six years and Project ALS is still raising money to find the cure for the disease.
* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}''. The narrator describes what happened to various characters later in life.
* ''Film/TheExpress'' tells of the futures of Ernie Davis ([[spoiler: HesDeadJim]]), Jim Brown, Floyd Little and Syracuse coach Ben Schwarzwalder.
* ''Film/{{Stripes}}'' -- another Ivan Reitman film, showing magazine covers illustrating the fates of the characters.
* ''Film/NottePrimaDegliEsami'' (Night Before Finals), an Italian Teen comedy, does this with polaroids of the main characters and their destinies written on the white part.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'' Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell has a voice over telling what happened to him and everyone else involved in the mission afterwards.
* ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix2004'' has a photo montage at the end that shows that Kelly now works on a rig out on the ocean, Frank & AJ have a new plane, and Elliott now works for NASA!!
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': the character of Elijah Price is [[spoiler: explained to be in a hospital for the mentally insane, once his crimes of mass murder are revealed]].
%%* Parodied in ''Film/ShriekIfYouKnowWhatIDidLastFridayTheThirteenth''

* In ''Film/TheBlindSide'', it showed what happened to Michael and the Tuohys. [[spoiler: Michael becomes the first round pick of the NFL. Collins also goes to Ole Miss and becomes a cheerleader like her mom. And Leigh Ann and Sean still live in Memphis today.]]
* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' had text overlayed at the end of the final scene mostly with a focus on the results of the two lawsuits that serve as a [[FramingDevice framework]] for the story.
* ''Film/{{Milk}}'' ends with one of these, including photographs of the real people portrayed in the film.
* In ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', it shows that [[spoiler: Edward and Nancy]] got married in Andalesia. [[spoiler: Giselle]] opens up a new fashion/boutique business, staying with [[spoiler: Robert]]. After [[spoiler: staying in New York]], Nathaniel becomes a successful author, as well as Pip in Andalesia.
* ''Film/TheDamnedUnited'' features an end roll that shows the future of its central characters, Peter Taylor and Brian Clough. [[DownerEnding With some things at the very end left out.]]
* ''Film/TheToolboxMurders'' ends with it a card stating the film was based on true events, and that the main character spent some time in an asylum before settling down and having a child; it's also mentioned her mother died in a car crash.

* Korean film ''Film/AttackTheGasStation'' does one of these.
* ''Film/TheCommitments'' explains where the band members ended up after their breakup. [[spoiler: Deco got his recording contract but his bad attitude makes him impossible to work with; Derek and Outspan spend their time busking on Grafton Street; Imedla got married to "dopey Greg" who won't let her sing any more; Bernie sings in a country band; Mickah sings in a punk band; Steven became a doctor; Billy got kicked in the head by a horse; Dean is a jazz musician who "got quite good in the end"; Joey the Lips went on tour with Joe Tex (who was ten years dead by that point); Natalie "became very successful" as a singer; and Jimmy is still unemployed.]]
* ''Film/AlphaDog'' shows the legal consequences to the individual members of Truelove/Hollywood's crew as a result of the kidnapping and murder of Zach Mazursky/Nick Markowitz at the end. Truelove himself was finally apprehended after eluding the authorities for five years.

* At the end of ''Film/TheCatsMeow'', Elinor Glyn narrates what became the principal characters after the events of the movie.
* According to ''He's My Girl'':
-->Sally became a world-famous [[spoiler:mud wrestler]].\\
Simon had a vision and abandoned singing to [[spoiler:become a T.V. preacher for the Church of the Rock and Soul]].\\
Lisa gave up sculpting, took voice lessons and got a job with a [[spoiler:telephone sex service]].\\
Mason left the music business and started a chain of [[spoiler:nudist colonies]].\\
Reggie stayed in Hollywood and opened a beauty salon called [[spoiler:"The Champagne Douche"]].\\
Tasha works at [[spoiler:"The Champagne Douche"]] and sells bibles door to door on the weekends.\\
Bryan became a major rock star, sold millions of records, and [[spoiler:returned to Missouri for sex re-education classes]].
* ''Film/BoggyCreek2AndTheLegendContinues'' didn't have one but [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike and the Bots]] were knid enough to give us their idea of one. In their ending, Doc's research department goes under, Leslie and Tanya bring Doc up on charges, and Tim just wanders off one day for no real reason and is never seen again.
* ''Film/BadEducation2004'' ends with a text screen describing the life of the three main characters after the film: Enrique releases his film and becomes successful, [[spoiler:Juan ends up becoming successful as well]], but eventually loses his fame on the silver screen and ends up on TV, and Sr Berenguer [[spoiler:is killed in a hit-and-run accident that Juan caused]].
* ''Film/BurkeAndHare'' ends with epilogues for everyone, including people who weren't properly introduced [[spoiler: like one doctor's assistant named Charles Darwin]] and ends with [[spoiler: the real-life Burke's skeleton on display in Edinburgh's anatomy museum]].

* ''{{Film/Changeling}}'': Title cards explain what happens to the main characters.
* ''{{Film/Chaplin}}'': Between the last scene and the closing credits, title cards link the actors to the real life personages they played (Anthony Hopkins's character, a fictional editor who figures into the framing device, is also included and explained), and describe briefly the later lives/careers of said personages. ''Eighteen'' characters total are covered!
* ''Film/{{Defiance}}'': Being based on true events, the movie ends with a black-white photo montage depicting the ''real'' Bielski brothers (portrayed in the film by Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) and their fates after the war: Asael Bielski, the youngest, joins the Soviets in the war against the Germans, and was sadly killed in action before the birth of his daughter, while Tuvia and Zus soon starts a trucking firm in New York City. Despite liberating hundreds and hundreds of Jews from the Germans in the war, the brothers never sought recognition for their deeds, and in the ensuing decades after the war the descendants of the Jewish survivors saved by the brothers totaled up to millions.
* ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfPeterSellers'' ends with a text epilogue on what happened to Sellers after the release of ''Film/BeingThere'' (not much to say; he died less than a year later).
* ''Film/DogDayAfternoon''. At the end of the movie, subtitles that say that Sonny (one of the bank robbers) was sentenced to 20 years in prison, that Angie (Sonny's wife) and their children were living on Welfare, and that Sonny's boyfriend Leon had his sex-change surgery and became a woman and was living in New York City.
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd''; Andy tells the story of the film to some kids, complete with what happened to each member of the gang, [[spoiler:in the [[AfterTheEnd burnt-out remnant of civilisation]]; Andy's marriage has recovered, Steven and Sam are in a relationship, the android Peter and Oliver have essentially picked up where their originals left off, and Gary is now travelling the country with the android duplicates of the gang as teenagers.]]
* ''Film/AlanPartridgeAlphaPapa'' finishes with a rundown of what happened to the main characters after the siege.
* ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' ends with one of these. Brad is made manager of the convenience store after foiling the robbery seen at the end of the movie, Damone is busted for scalping Ozzy Osbourne tickets and now works at 7-11, Mr. Vargas switches back to coffee, Linda attends college in Riverside before moving in with her Abnormal Psych professor, Mark and Stacy are now a couple, but still haven't had sex, Mr. Hand is still convinced that everyone is on drugs, and Spicoli saves Brooke Shields from drowning, only to blow the reward money hiring Van Halen for his birthday party.
* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' ends with one, concluding with [[CloudCuckoolander Brick]] becoming a top political advisor to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.
* ''Film/TheGreyZone'' ends with screencaps noting the success of the uprising, Oberscharführer Mussfeld being convicted and hanged for war crimes, and Dr. Nyiszli surviving the war, but not practicing medicine ever again.
* ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures'' ends with Mario Lanza singing "You'll Never Walk Alone", over text screens explaining how the girls were tried, convicted and sentenced, and later released. The last screen is an awful TearJerker, especially as it's timed to coincide with the line "you'll never walk alone": [[spoiler: ''It was a condition of their release that they never meet again'']].
** Ironically, (and probably because of lawsuits) they never mention that after her release, Juliet changed her name and became a very well-known mystery novelist, with two historical mystery series that are still going strong today.
* ''Film/HenryAndJune'' ends with text screens saying that Henry and Anais remained friends to the end of their lives; both wrote many books about June. June became a social worker in Queens, New York. Hugo became a filmmaker, and it was by his request that Anais' unexpurgated story remain unpublished until after his death. He died in 1985.

* The final moments of ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'' reveal what happened to all the Feebles who managed to survive the film:
** After getting surgery on his kneecaps, which Heidi shot out during her rampage, Sidney takes up horticulture with Seymour, no longer having to worry about Sandy or her paternity suit since she was one of Heidi's victims.
** Arthur gets an award for his service towards the theater and retires to the countryside.
** Sebastian, having managed to escape being shot by Heidi, manages to procure a book deal about the massacre and is currently in deals for a movie, though he probably fabricated everything. The only consultation is that he somehow lost an eye.
** Robert and Lucille marry and have children, and Robert becomes a photographer.
** Finally, despite murdering many, many Feebles, Heidi only serves ten years in jail and, having lost a lot of her weight, takes up working at a check out line at a supermarket.

* The last half of episode 11 in ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' Finale where it shows under the credits and the ending theme where everyone is going. Also, a case of All Love is Requited.
* The last episode of ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' ran pastel drawings under its closing credits that showed obvious "after the series" images -- Makoto and Ifurita snuggling under a tree, Allielle in a ''[[{{Joshikousei}} seifuku]]'', and so on. They may simply be non-canon art pieces, however.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' did this in the end, skipping the series forward six years, [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot leaving only four more before the new season]].
** The following season, ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', did the same thing, though it didn't skip forward as far.
* The manga of ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'' closed with a scene showing the seven protagonists settling into their new lives several years later, as well as the circumstances of the spirits of the main couple.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** Last five minutes of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', specifically the shots that show us what the digidestined's careers are, now that they've grown up.
** Also used sort of at the end of the fourth movie (2nd in English due to the combining of the first three as ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie''). While the credits are on we see stills of what the characters got up to more or less directly after the film.
** Last five minutes of ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' (5 years later, and less controversial...yeah).
* ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' concludes with a short epilogue that takes place several years after the events of the series. The epilogue is narrated by Marie, the youngest member of the cast, now a fetching girl of about 18 or so.
* ''LightNovel/{{Canvas 2}}'' has one of these, including a scene which subverts [[spoiler:[[IllGirl Tomoko]]'s prior supposed death a couple of minutes before]].

* The final episode of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' shows Doctor Tenma coming back to Germany to see Nina and Dieter, having joined Doctors Without Borders. It also shows Johan in a coma... until the ending credits reveal [[SequelHook an empty bed]]. Previously, it shows that Eva overcomes her problems, Dieter lives happily with Dr. Reichwein, Nina is being successful in her laws degree and Lunge fixes his relationship with his daughter.
* The end of the first season of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' uses this, with what looks like the main cast all enjoying themselves after Keiichi managed to save Rena. [[spoiler: The reader is treated to a [[TheStinger stinger]] in which everyone has ''still'' died and the GroundhogDayLoop has -once again- begun anew.]]
** Look at the ending again. [[spoiler:That isn't even the same world. Ooishi acts like Miyo died last night and told Rika. He told Rena before and that happened days before.]]
* The final scene of ''Anime/OutlawStar'' shows the crew saying their goodbyes and going their separate ways. But wait: in the post-credit [[TheStinger stinger]], surprise, surprise, they all get back together again.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' ended with a dialogue-free ending credits sequence that demonstrated what each character did almost immediately following. The extended movie version had completely new sequences that remained dialogue-free, but was a bit more elaborate in what it presented.
** Most notably including [[spoiler: Lady Une taking Mariemaia to her "father's" gravestone]] (though the man in question didn't really leave a body to put in a tomb).
* The final page/episode of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' depicts a collage of photographs to show what the characters are up to several years after the finale, including Ed, Al, and Winry finding ways to use Al's armor to help people.
** [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist The 2003 anime version]] does something like this, the last half of the episode showing what everyone's up to after the fallout. That is, until the movie picks up right where the epilogue leaves off at. Whoops.
* In ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'', Akari explains in a letter to Ai what is going on with several characters, apparently a few years after she took over Aria Company. At the very end there is an even bigger time-skip, showing [[spoiler:Ai as Akari's new apprentice]].
** In the manga, Akari's letter is not to Ai, but to [[spoiler:the readers of her blog, which include Cait Sith]], although the timeskip event is still the same.

* A few examples from ''Creator/StudioGhibli''.
** The credits of ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' show incidents from the future, starting with the mother's return from the hospital.
** Similarly, the credits of ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' show what happened with Tombo's aviator's club, Jiji and Lily, ect.
** The credits for ''Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' show Nausicaa reuniting with her people, Kushana and the Torumekian army leaving the valley peacefully, and Lord Yupa and Asbel exploring the toxic jungle together.
* In the final episode of ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'', Tenchi recounts what happens to everyone after he defeats Kagato.
* The last episode of ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' goes directly from the final TrueLovesKiss to what appears to be the events occurring about half a year after, showing what the characters' lives are now like (and stuffing half of the sequence with a collection of the show's {{Running Gag}}s).
* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has one in the last few minutes of the final episode of the series, showing what Kinkan is like after the story ended. It also shows that Fakir kept his [[ThePromise promise]] to [[spoiler:Ahiru]].
* ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' ended with Jean narrating what happened to everybody after Deathsaurus was defeated. Among other things, we find out that Star Saber and Victory Leo survived.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' has this before the Fuko and Kouko portion of the final episode.
* The ending to the ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi: Enishi'' anime had a series of animated and still images over the end credits, showing glimpses of the characters several years later. The manga goes into more detail, actually resolving the main romantic plotline, and ending with something of a DistantFinale.

* The collected volume of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' came with a bonus epilogue that functioned like this--{{justified|Trope}} by a video [[spoiler:Azmaria recorded for Satella telling her what had happened while she was frozen in crystal]]. The epilogue was ''not'' released in the magazine ''Chrono Crusade'' ran in, meaning that fans had to wait for the book to come out to get a clearer idea of what happened after the finale.
* The ending of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' does this, showing the three protagonists walking along their individual paths after splitting up and enjoying the scenery while the credits play.
* Following the deciding battle of ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', time skips ahead a few months to show us the main characters back on their feet and getting ready to fight again, while Masamune and Yukimura meet for their all-important final duel, though the outcome is left ambiguous.
** Turns out Masamune kind of won (Yukimura was being distracted), but didn't get round to finishing the job before a ''new'' BigBad showed up.
* ''Anime/FushigiYuugi'' has an epilogue which starts off with a [[EpilogueLetter letter]]. A montage of events that occur over approximately three and a half months--particularly Miaka's transition to high school--and then we see Miaka and Yui in high school (complete with montage-filled credits). Keisuke and Tetsuya then set them up with Tamahome's reincarnation, Taka Sukunami--or not, depending on which version you accept, and... CliffHanger!
** The last few pages of volume 18 (which is the manga form of the second OVA) shows few pictures of the Suzaku Seishi after their rebirth. Nuriko seems to have gotten his wish of being reborn as a girl so "he" could be there for Hotohori, Mitsukake is studying herbs with Shouka, who is the reborn version of his girlfriend, Tasuki returned back to his bandit life. Even the cat Tama started a family! Chichiri is also shown, but we don't know if he used Mitsukake's holy water to cure his destroyed left eye. Miaka and Tamahome/Taka are happily married with a toddler aged son.
* The journey of ''Manga/HellsParadiseJigokuraku'' ends in Chapter 126, but the series concludes in Chapter 127 after showing how the rest of the cast are doing: [[spoiler:the Chobe brothers goes to Hong Kong, where they stir even more trouble among the already chaotic state of the British-occupied city; Shion and Nurugai roam across Japan to look for a peaceful life, but keeps on running into trouble; Gantetsutai, now officially pardoned, opens a dojo specializing in medicine and swordmanship; Jikka takes over as the head of the Yamada Asaemon clan and gets to live out his carefree lifestyle; Sagiri goes on a pilgrimage and travels with Yuzuriha to visit Gabimaru and his wife, who now lives in peace. Then cut to the modern day, where Gui Fa is now a teacher living with Mei, and waiting for the others to re-grow]].

* The ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' anime has one of these in the last episode.
* Subverted at the end of ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor'': It shows most of the crew, having quit the military, going off to do what they want as per Tylor's advice... until Captain Yamamoto calls them back to serve on the [[SuperPrototype Aso]]... which is in of itself an epic BaitAndSwitch that is easier to watch than explain.
* The second half of the final episode of ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'' took place months after Godai and Kyoko's wedding and illustrated how the lives of the various characters continued on in the months since: Akemi has married the owner of [=ChaChaMaru=] and moved out of Ikkoku, Kozue is living in Nagoya with her husband, Ibuki is attending an all women's college, Mitaka and Asuna are raising twins, with more on the way... and Godai and Kyoko come back to Ikkoku from the hospital with [[BabiesEverAfter baby in tow.]]
* The Japanese version of ''Anime/YuGiOh: Duel Monsters'' has one in the final episode showing the credits montage of the characters returning home and the whereabouts of minor characters.
* The extra ending in the final episode of ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula SIN'' takes place one year after the 2022 racing season, a new racing season opens with some of the racers switching teams and new outfits for the PitGirls and ending with the marriage ceremony of the main couple.
* The last episode of ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' is one of these as well. Paraietta and Roatreamon run an orphanage together in Mamiina's memory, Kaim and Alty have made up and live together, Floe and Vyura (who both chose to become male) are being drafted on opposite sides of a war, Morinas married Wapourif, has a child (with a second on the way), and works for Wauf, Rimone and Dominura are still in the past establishing the Simoun traditions (and it's implied that they never choose a gender), Yun takes Onasia's place as the leader of Simaulcrum, and Aer and Neviril [[spoiler:AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]].
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tayutama}} Kiss On My Deity'' combines this with AfterTheEnd in an ending that makes little sense whatsoever.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' doesn't have those as an epilogue (since it's still running), but it does have cover story mini-arcs that sometimes act as this, especially the post-timeskip "From the Decks of the World," which show characters who haven't been seen for dozens, if not hundreds, of chapters, and may not appear again.
* In the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' anime, the last few minutes before the credits are a version of this. It shows the current antics of most the characters of the Emiya household such as Sakura, Ilya, Rin and Taiga. And then it turns [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] and [[TearJerker depressing]] as it shows Myth/KingArthur's, also known as [[LoveInterests Saber]]'s last moments as she dies with her hoping that she'll be able to see Shirou again after her 'long sleep'.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' shows the epilogue over the last three episodes. After half a year after the defeat of Z-ONE, Jaegar became the new mayor. Aki is finishing up school and contemplates studying overseas. Crow becomes [[{{Irony}} a member of the Neo Domino Police.]] Yusei becomes a HotScientist and finishes his father's work. Lua and Luca received a letter from their parents who want them to leave Neo Domino City to live with them. Jack has been traveling and training. The last episode then shows everyone eight years after. Lua is training to be the future Rising Duel champion while Luca is studying in university. Crow continued to duel as a professional duelist, while Jack becomes the King of the Ride Ace Dueling league, making him the World King. Aki is a high-ranking doctor. Yusei decides to stay in Neo Domino City to protect it.

* The last chapter of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is largely pictures of the time-skipped girls with a few short paragraphs mentioning how they're living now. Fan reaction to the ending was mixed, not least because of a few important plot points which took place entirely offscreen (Natsumi had another adventure in the Magic World, the twins met some princes and fell in love, Nagi was freed from the Lifemaker), and a number of other characters fans were interested in were simply not mentioned (such as Fate, Fate's girls, and Arika, Negi's mother).
* The end credits in the GrandFinale of ''Manga/SoulEater'' show what almost the entire cast got up to after Asura's defeat. They're mostly lighthearted (such as Maka improving at basketball and Joe finally getting his coffee) and the final seconds show the students together one last time.

* ''Anime/MyDaddyLongLegs'' ends with a scene where we watch various characters at Judy's wedding, but there is no dialogue. Instead, Judy provides narration, explaining what has happened to various people.
* ''Manga/GreenBlood'' ends with an elderly Luke Burns traveling with his daughter and granddaughter to visit his brother Brad, who is buried next to their mother in New York and whose grave shows he lived to the ripe old age of sixty-eight.

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', twenty years after the events of the show, we found out Rossiu became president over the entire galactic alliance with Leeron at his side, Yoko became a principal at a school, Darry and Gimmy now pilot Gurran Lagann, Viral became supreme commander over the entire fleet. And Simon of all people was WalkingTheEarth, though the movie epilogue expanded on what he was doing: he was helping people in need in exchange of planting flowers, fulfilling Nia's dream.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland''--the CreativeClosingCredits of every episode shows cheery pictures of the characters from ''before'' the series began. Sometimes this hints at things that will be revealed eventually--for example, [[ClearMyName Ganta]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Shiro]] playing as children, hinting at their ForgottenFirstMeeting several episodes before Ganta remembers it.

* ''Manga/PingPong'': The last part of the series touches on where the five prodigies went after the second tournament:
** [[spoiler: After beating Smile in the finals, Peco went on to rise through the ranks. After a series of commercial deals in Japan, he was drafted to the German national team and now plays in the European leagues.]]
** [[spoiler: After coming second in the finals, Smile continued to play competitively before his retirement. He now teaches ping pong to children with Obaba at her dojo.]]
** [[spoiler: Kazuma placed third in the second tournament, but returned to form with the retirement of Smile. He was drafted to the Japanese Olympic team, but was replaced by Kong soon after. He retired and now works with the family business.]]
** [[spoiler: Sakuma never returned to ping pong. Instead, he married his girlfriend soon after high school and had two children.]]
** [[spoiler: Kong became a naturalized citizen of Japan and took the name Tsujido Wenge. He continued playing ping pong and was drafted into the Japanese Olympic team, replacing Kazuma, and eventually attending the Olympic Games.]]
* The final two chapters of ''Manga/MedakaBox'' jump ahead ten years to a reunion held by the former Student Council members on the anniversary of [[spoiler:Anshin'in-san's death]] and show the primary cast while telling about satellite characters.
** [[spoiler:Zenkichi and Tsurubami have high-level jobs in the Kurokami Foundation (which they earned on their own merits rather than relying on their connections).]]
** [[spoiler:Akune runs a highly successful toy company (though he has a habit of going into the factory and assembling the toys himself because it's too much fun) and married Wanizuki of the Not-Equals.]]
** [[spoiler:Kikaijima settled down after becoming a housewife and a mother, bringing her newborn son to the reunion.]]
** [[spoiler:Kujira runs the new Flask Plan along with most of the [=13s=], Mukae runs a flower shop, and Shiranui turned her family's village into a ninja village attraction.]]
** [[spoiler:Nobody's heard from Kumagawa in years, but the group assumes he's fine because he's not the kind of person to get in touch unless he needed help (and some readers thought it was implied that he's Kikaijima's husband). Additionally, Anshin'in-san left a message upon Medaka's graduation that made everyone certain she'll be coming back to life some time soon.]]
** [[spoiler:Most of the side characters have settled into adulthood well...but [[TheMagicGoesAway almost all of them have lost their superhuman abilities]], including Medaka.]]
** [[spoiler:Speaking of, Medaka mellowed out over time, but is thoroughly enjoying the fact that she no longer [[AnimalsHateHim terrifies animals]]. She's still the chairman of the school and is about to launch a plan to restore the moon (after all, she was the one who destroyed it). She still has the suggestion box, but it's become her "treasure box" for storing the precious memories of her youth, like the nametags from the 100 flower run.]]
** [[spoiler: The series caps off with Zenkichi asking Medaka for one last sparring match now that they're finally on a level playing field, with the stakes being that [[WackyMarriageProposal if he wins, she'll marry him and if she wins, he'll marry her]].]]
* Right before the closing credits of ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'', Takao details what he did after the summer had ended.
* At the end of ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'' Ogikubo is back where it belongs. Keiji and Luluco are living in space now, Over Justice is the new Commissioner of the Space Patrol, and Midori has taken his place as the Ogikubo Patrol Chief. Lalaco's still terrorizing planets somewhere, as well. And finally, Luluco takes up the name Miss Trigger and wanders the dimensions in order to find Nova again.
* The ''Anime/{{Steamboy}}'' universe's alternate timeline is show in clips during the credits where Lloyd Steam continues his pontificating to Ray, eventually dies and is buried, followed by a WWI style conflict complete dirigibles burning to the ground, and Scarlett standing proudly in front of a plane she flies.
* The epilogue of ''Manga/FairyTail'' jumps ahead a year after the FinalBattle, to a party celebrating an award Lucy's won for her first novel. During the party, she narrates all the various things that have happened to the Fairy Tail members and their allies in the intervening time. The next morning, Lucy, Natsu, and several others go off on [[AndTheAdventureContinues a new quest]].
* The second half of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'''s series finale reveals the fates of the surviving characters. The characters, who were prepubescent at the beginning of the show, are grown-up as young adults while a grown-up Atra narrates the political outcome [[spoiler:after the defeat of Tekkadan]]. At the last part of the finale, viewers get to see [[spoiler:Atra and Mikazuki's son, Akatsuki]].
* Both seasons of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' show the TimeSkip aftermath of the last battle. The movie, ''Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer'', has its epilogue set after the ending credits and it shows humanity and the ELS coexisting peacefully [[spoiler:with Setsuna, who is now a hybrid ELS/Innovator, visiting an elderly and blind Marina]].
* The finale of ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' shows the fate of the characters and the resolution of the LoveTriangle between Loran, Sochie and Dianna. [[spoiler:Loran chooses Dianna which Sochie didn't take it very well while her sister Khiel takes Dianna's place as the Queen of the Moon with only a few people knowing her true identity]].
* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'' ends with the cast meeting up at the high school some time after they graduated. Yuu and Touko are still going out in a LongDistanceRelationship, Sayaka has found a girlfriend, and Koyomi got her first book published, among other things.
* ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet'' had a DistantFinale with the wedding of its OfficialCouple, and only elaborated on the careers of a few of its characters. An extra chapter shows what the rest has been up to in the seven years since the story concluded.
** Romio, Juliet and Airu are all politicians now working on reforms to further establish peace between Towa and the West. Hasuki is an actress apprenticed under Juliet's mother Rackdoll. Char is still in line to inherit the West throne. Maru is a banker, Tosa is a soldier and Kohitsuji is a photographer for a magazine (he wanted to do gravure, but he wound up working for a bodybuilding outfit instead). Leon is a teacher at Dahia Academy, Rex a fashion designer, Kochou and Teria continued their respective career choices (as a pharmacist and roboticist, respectively), Cait Sith and Sieber a pediatrician and the nurse assisting him, respectively, Somali became a pro wrestler while Aby (also a politician) looks after their infant daughters, Shuna is a policewoman, Kougi a priest and Ameria a model. All in all, all characters have been pretty well off. ...Well, except for [[ButtMonkey Scott]], who became Char's "pet". And he still hasn't gotten over Romio and Juliet getting together.
** There are a few more snippets in regards to relationships. Kochou gets inspired by the wedding to try to get together with Airu, but is too shy to make a move. Sieber makes it clear that she rejected Cait's own proposal during Romio and Juliet's wedding ceremony because she wanted a serious proposal from him. As for Romio and Juliet themselves, they have bought a house in Dahlia island, but [[RunningGag once again]] they have little room for time together, since they have to return to Towa and the West because of their responsibilities and can only meet again on the weekends.
* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', the story arc before the FinalBattle basically serves this purpose, with the two remaining pilots traveling across Japan to visit the families and friends of the other pilots, [[spoiler:including the boy who was only pretending to be a Zearth pilot]], giving closure to the storylines brought up in their arcs.

** Zorc had so much fun at Disney World, he didn't want to destroy it. [[TakeThat He destroyed Eurodisney instead.]]

* ''Film/TheOtherWoman2014'': After [[BigBad Mark]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive King]] is revealed to be a [[LoveTriangle cheating womanizer]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive criminal fraudster]], the film ends with the following circumstances:

* ''Film/TheOtherWoman2014'': After [[BigBad Mark King]] is revealed to be a [[LoveTriangle cheating womanizer]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive criminal fraudster]], the film ends with the following circumstances:

* ''Film/TheOtherWoman2014'': After [[BigBad Mark King]] is revealed to be a cheating womanizer and criminal fraudster, the film ends with the following circumstances:

** One of his mistresses, Carly Whitten, marries Kate's brother, Phil, and they are expecting their first child.
** His second mistress, Amber, is dating [[MayDecemberRomance Carly's father, Frank]], and in spite of their friendship, Carly absolutely refuses to call her "mom".