History Main / WinWinEnding

** ''VideoGames/PathfinderKingmaker'': The secret ending has [[spoiler: Nyrissa becoming the player's queen, giving her the queendom she wanted from the very beginning, while killing the [[GreaterScopeVillain Lantern King]] by turned all the curses he's been throwing around back at him.]]
** ''VideoGames/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous: The secret ending is literally just finishing Areelu Vorlesh's grand master plan with her. The thing is, her grand master plan is to [[resurrect her child through the player and ascend to divinity with them.]] Closing the Worldwound, the player's primary objective, is a necessary step for this. As part of the process, the Demon Lords Baphomet and Deskari wind up getting killed for spare parts.

* ''Film/Problem Child 2'' ends with things working out fine for everyone involved. Ben and Annie fall for each other, Junior and Trixie become good friends (and maybe even step-siblings, eventually), [[RichBitch LaWanda Dumore]] finds a more suitable and loyal new husband in [[GoldDigger "Big" Ben]], while his marrying her gives him a sugar mama to punch his meal ticket.

* The ending of ''{{Literature/Eric}}'' has Rincewind & Eric happy because they've escaped Hell, the demons and damned souls happy because Hell is back to the way it was before Astfgl took over, and Astfgl is happy because he's got the boring office job of his dreams.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' ends with [[spoiler:everyone getting his and her wish. [[BrokenAesop Except]] [[ButtMonkey the Mime]], [[EveryoneHatesMimes of course.]]]]

** [[spoiler:Er, subverted somewhat, as he goes on to rebuild his own Drum Kingdom after the two-year TimeSkip with a much more evil motif. Yeah, seems Wapol didn't learn diddly squat during his exile.]]

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' ends with Madoka [[AbstractApotheosis becoming a god of hope]] and creating a new system that provides [[BigBad Kyubey]] with the energy needed to stave off heat death, ''without'' sacrificing innocent people. [[SubvertedTrope However]] in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'', Kyubey decides they’re unsatisfied with this and [[FalselyReformedVillain goes back to their old ways]], which results in them [[DownerEnding screwing things over even]] ''[[DownerEnding worse]]'' [[DownerEnding than before]].

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' ends with Madoka [[AbstractApotheosis becoming a god of hope]] and creating a new system that provides [[BigBad Kyubey]] with the energy needed to stave off heat death, ''without'' sacrificing innocent people. [[SubvertedTrope However]] in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' Kyubey decides they’re unsatisfied with this and [[FalselyReformedVillain goes back to their old ways]], which results in them [[DownerEnding screwing things over even]] ''[[DownerEnding worse]]'' [[DownerEnding than before]].

* WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra features one of these at the finale of the fourth season. The BigBad is defeated, but does not die, and gets to see her dream of the Earth Kingdom brought to peace come true, just not in the violent manner she tried for. Korra fully recovers her powers and has ushered the world into an unprecedented era of peace. She also opens a new spirit portal in Republic City, meaning humans and spirits can travel easily between both worlds.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' ends with [[spoiler:everyone getting his and her wish]].
** [[spoiler:[[BrokenAesop Except]] [[ButtMonkey the Mime]], [[EveryoneHatesMimes of course.]]]]

** Disney's ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'', being a straight InSpace adaption of ''Treasure Island'', has the same 'everybody goes home happy' ending, including Silver escaping with a bit of treasure and his freedom.

* The ending of ''[[{{Discworld/Eric}} Eric]]'' has Rincewind & Eric happy because they've escaped Hell, the demons and damned souls happy because Hell is back to the way it was before Astfgl took over, and Astfgl is happy because he's got the boring office job of his dreams.

* [[http://john.seikdel.net/gocomics.php?date=811102&comic=blm This]] ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strip, which also [[TropesAreNotBad demonstrates an upside]] to BookBurning: as long as the burners are ''buying'' their kindling, the customers are satisfied, the stores that sold them their materials get paid, and the offending creator of the works destroyed gets another big fat royalty check.

* Many villains in ''OnePiece'' end up being even more well-off than before they took on (and got clobbered by) the heroic Straw Hat Pirates. The most prominent case is Wapol, who was previously an oppressive king in a failing kingdom and, indirectly due to the Straw Hats' meddling, became a CEO for a toy company and now makes weapons-grade metal for the World Government's military (that only he can make). Both positions make more money than he ever made as king.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', the very long-running villain Pain realizes that his and Naruto's goals are the same but winds up [[spoiler:preferring Naruto's approach over his own. He ultimately sides with Naruto and dies happy by sacrificing his own life to resurrect everyone he just killed]].

SubTrope to HappyEnding.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' ends this way. The heroes get their homeland's sovereignty back and the [[AntiVillain villains]] achieve their goal (which conquering the area was a necessary step in):[[spoiler:overthrowing Ivalice's JerkassGods]].

** A smaller, more literal version happens at the very end where Zenkichi, meeting with Medaka for the first time in years, challenges her to a sparring match and says that if he wins, she has to marry him. Medaka grins and says that if she wins, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming ''he'' has to marry ''her''.]]

** [[spoiler:Er, subverted somewhat, as he goes on to rebuild his own Drum Kingdom after the two year TimeSkip with a much more evil motif. Yeah, seems Wapol didn't learn diddly squat during his exile.]]

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' ends with Madoka [[AbstractApotheosis becoming a god of hope]] and creating a new system that provides [[BigBad Kyubey]] with the energy needed to stave off heat death, ''without'' sacrificing innocent people. [[SubvertedTrope However]] in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' Kyubey decides they’re unsatisfied with this and [[FalselyReformedVillain goes back to thier old ways]], which results in them [[DownerEnding screwing things over even]] ''[[DownerEnding worse]]'' [[DownerEnding than before]].

* The first appearence of Arkon, in ''Franchise/TheAvengers''. He comes from AnotherDimension, and the rings of his world (similar to our sun) begin to collapse and shut down. He discovered that the first atomic explosion could light the skies for a brief time, and a higher explosion at a certain place would light Polemachus forever. Of course, Earth would be destroyed, but who cares? The Avengers follow him to that dimension, and then again to our world... except for Iron Man and Thor, who stayed in Polemachus. In no time, Iron Man built a machine lighted by Thor's lighting, that solved the problem without destroying earth.

* In ''Literature/{{Bearskin}}'', a soldier successfully escapes the DealWithTheDevil he made out of desperation with a tidy profit, and gets a loving wife too. As for the devil, he proudly announces at the end that although he lost the soldier's soul, he gained the souls of his two new sisters-in-law in exchange: they had commited suicide out of envy when they saw what they had rejected.

* A version in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': [[spoiler:Thor gets to do what he wants: travel the worlds righting wrongs, fighting evil, and being with Jane Foster, without worrying about being king of Asgard, which he doesn't ''want'' anymore. Meanwhile, Loki gets what ''he'' wants: the throne of Asgard -- which even Odin and Thor came to believe he was better suited temperamentally to occupy than Thor -- no one the wiser, his adopted mother's killer dead, and Thor out of the picture). Even better, everyone else thinks he died a hero's death.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': ''Film/WakkosWish'' ends with [[spoiler:everyone getting his and her wish]].