The Stinger / Fan Works

• The Child of Love: After the author's closing words in the final chapter there is a short extra scene: Shinji and Asuka's wedding.
• The post-Author Notes scene in the end of Supergirl fanfic Hellsister Trilogy's first Story Arc reveals who stole Satan Girl's child: Darkseid.
• After the final credits in Last Child of Krypton, there's a joke scene in which Pen Pen shows up and claims that he was behind everything.
• Every issue of Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams ends with a preview of what's coming up in the next issue. The second Halloween Special is different. After next issue's preview, the Special has a brief monologue from the issue's villain, a murderous scarecrow demon who plans to escape his supernatural prison and pay a very "special" visit in the near future to the youths he very nearly murdered...
• The last scene after the Author's Notes at the end of the Sailor Moon fic I'm Here to Help, which shows Rei/Sailor Mars meeting up with Emerald's past self several years later.
• You Got HaruhiRolled! always ends each chapter with an exhortation by the author to review the story. The original Stinger was "Review, Haruhi-worshippers! Your yellow ribbon-wearing goddess demands it!" Beginning in Chapter 56 this was altered to "Review, Haruhi-worshippers! Your yellow-ribboned, headband-wearing goddess demands it!" in response to a reviewer correcting the writer on Haruhi's Iconic Outfit. Starting in Chapter 85, he changes it to the more natural-sounding, "Review, Haruhi-worshippers! Your goddess with the yellow headband and ribbons demands it!" The author has since said that he intends to change the stingers on the previous chapters to the newer ones, but has not yet done so.
• The Final Words is a short scene following the epilogue of Game Theory from Gil Graham's perspective, as he puts his plan for the Book of Darkness into motion.
• At the end of the credits of SWAG.MOV, we see Fluttershy having tea in her shed (which doesn't appear to have any of the animal corpses from before) when Discord's head lands on it. He opens his eye to see Fluttershy glaring at him and saying "You're in my shed."
• Turnabout Storm: All episodes save the first and last end with a single piece of dialogue by one character that slightly foreshadows a future event. The final episode ends with a Cryptic Conversation involving Princess Celestia and someone heavily implied to be Mia Fey, indicating that she was the one who recommended Phoenix for Rainbow's defense. The later released Hilarious Outtakes also have a stinger, but of teasing nature instead.
• At the end of the credits of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Case 5: Turnabout Substitution, we see Rhea Wits standing in a cell, with blood in their hair, glaring at a (photoshopped?) picture of them and Apollo standing together. While the music from the intro cutscene is playing.
• The beginning and end of almost every chapter in the Tamers Forever Series has a short hilarious scene that involves the Author and characters discussing the previous and following chapters. These frequently involve the author being strangled for what he's written.
• The Calvinverse:
  • An odd In-Universe example from the original version of Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie — the Credits Gag shows the characters watching the movie itself, and the stinger is a static screen saying "DROP DEAD!" They are offended.
  • Attack of the Teacher Creature ends with a Sequel Hook: Retro forcing Galaxoid and Nebular to destroy Calvin.
• Yudhaikeledai's My Little Pony In The Sims includes these for humor value from the third episode onwards. One such stinger features Derpy happily talking in Simlish to a ghost about the Brotherhood of Nod.
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines is fond of doing this in its sidestories, showing extra scenes after the main plot has been resolved. Examples include:
  • The Koga & Janine Gaiden has a brief scene showing Ash helping his mother with the gardening when he was fourteen.
  • Hala & Hau Interlude shows Frax and Velvet volunteering at a Bug-Catching Contest as extra credit after failing a school assignment.
  • Gladion Interlude ends with Gladion and his Pokemon grabbed by the Bewear who'd normally bother Team Rocket.
  • Big P Pokémon Race Interlude ends with Ash's Pidgeot arriving on Vaniville Town and delivering Ash's message to Serena.
  • Clair Interlude ends with with a scene of Tobias and Clembot traveling to an unspecified time period as they try to track Celebi and Wes.
  • Steven Interlude ends with Steven contacting Lysandre for help in searching for the Megalith shards to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. It also has a scene of Steven and Wallace discussing the events with the Draconids and deciding to have a friendly battle with each other.
  • Ghosts of Maiden's Peak ends with Agatha's Gengar talking a Growlithe pack out of attacking a nearby village and leading them to a forest where they could live peacefully and undisturbed by humans. It also shows Gastly deciding to add him to his stories to keep alive in the future.
  • Melemele Grand Trial ends with several, including Frax encountering a Hawlucha, Team Skull attacking a Team Cipher ship coming into Alola on orders of Lusamine, and Lusamine detecting a Cosmog and calling for Zilant to go track it down for her.
• Earth-27. Literally called the Stinger, it reveals that not only did Fangirl survive the Bleed, but she has come upon a parallel earth where Batman and Wonder Woman have a daughter, and Lincoln March is not the Mayor of Gotham City. This thanks to the to a whole in the damaged walls that closes of Earth-27 from the other Earths.
• Infinity Crisis: The final chapter has a series of them: Secretary Ross recruits Helmut Zemo into a "Project Thunderbolts"; Miles Morales is a powered resident of Black Lightning's home town; Sin has landed on the Justice League Earth and been recruited by Amanda Waller; Lena Luthor is in reality Morgan Le Fey; and trapped in the Phantom Zone, Thanos has joined in an alliance with Zod and Darkseid.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series includes a joke at the end of every episode. One version was a clip from something, paired with that internet meme about Lex Luthor telling Lois Lane to "say the line"... that little exchange that ends in "WRONG!" To clarify — the video is taken from the series, while the audio is a random sound bite from somewhere else — examples are Gorillaz's 'Feel Good Inc.', Dan Green's "I'm going to do my laundry!" comment, the above Lex/Lois exchange, and a self Take That! on LittleKuriboh's marriage proposal over YouTube. Sometimes the video isn't from the series — one episode involved the Drama Hog, which was played again at the end with the caption "Rejected Cloverfield Monster".
• Although many abridged series have an after episode stinger, in a rare case in Tenchi Muyo Abridged in the season 1 finale, after the credits roll that credit every single person involved in the series to that point, a shot of space is shown as Kagato's dismembered hand is seen floating seemingly lifelessly through space until it suddenly bursts open and teleports away as Kagato is faintly heard to say "bitch".
• Ultra Fast Pony has one at the end of every episode (and the season one finale has three), after the credits. Either they're an extra joke that didn't fit elsewhere in the episode, or (similar to Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series) they're a scene redubbed with audio from an outside source.
• Four episodes of Adult Wednesday Addams have scenes after the credits:
  • One-Night Stand has Brian calling a locksmith to come take the chains off his legs. A later episode reveals that 100 locksmiths were unable to remove them but Brian does not mind because of his love for Wednesday.
  • Driver's Ed has the instructor reconnecting with his mom over the phone after Wednesday scares him into appreciating life more.
  • The Reality Star has an intern saying that Wednesday is "crazy but nice".
  • The Flea Market has an alternate take of the bearded guy running away from Wednesday after she tells him she's hiding a rusty knife behind her back.
• Freedom Fighters (Sonic x Freedom Planet) has the first episode end with a post-credits scene, in which the main villain is revealed to be Infinite, who sensed the new power in the world of Avalice and seeks to harness it for his own means.
• Heroverse:
  • Ace Savvy: A New Hope: Lisa and Lynn are talking to Lincoln about how there is great danger approaching and how they are forming some sort of L.O.U.D initiative.
  • Power Chord: High School Musical: Luan is inside her prison cell and being busted out by a mysterious figure who wants her for something big, which Luan agrees to.
• In Chapter 3 of the Encanto fanfic The Wrath of Avelina, there's a heckling end note courtesy of two very famous trolls:
  Waldorf: Do you believe in illness curses?
  Statler: If I wanted to get sick from Miss Kedabory, I'd read her stuff from middle school!
• The Marionette tries to listen to his musicbox: Foxy the Pirate suddenly shows up after the credits to say "DED", followed by canned laughter.
• The Mandela Magazine: The Newgrounds version of the video ends with a scene showing the Alternate that runs up and sniffs people incorporated into news footage of Selene Delgado Lopez and continuing to do what it does best.
• Fanfic writer CVGW James has gotten to including a stinger for a majority of his stories starting with 2022, from one-off stories like "SMG3 Kidnaps Tari (Because He Felt Like It)", to bigger stories like Perfection.

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