Where Are They Now Epilogue / Western Animation

"Where Are They Now?" Epilogues in Western Animation.

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• Adventure Time: The Grand Finale "Come Along With Me" shows what happened with many of the characters, including some 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 Distant Finale Framing Device 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.
• Amphibia: In the final episode, we get a brief glimpse of what has happened to the major characters after the Final Battle:
  • Nine months after Anne defeated the Core and she, Sasha, and Marcy returned home, Amphibia's landscape has returned to its natural state.
  • 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 Tragic Keepsakes 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.
  • Apothecary Gary found the other mushroom that was the source of the spore collars and seems to be living peacefully with them in Wartwood.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Maddie and her sisters are shown to have started a pharmaceutical business using Maddie's potions.
  • Loggle has returned to his scrawny shape, which he blames on taking a cheat day.
  • 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.
  • Toadie has become the new mayor of Wartwood, with Toadstool as his deputy.
  • Joe Sparrow and Bessie have fallen in love and had a trio of adorable sparrow-snail babies.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 is now a herpetologist and works at 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.
• 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 The Sugar Bowl.
• As Told by Ginger 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 Back at the Barnyard that was a parody of the rise and fall of The Beatles. 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 Clerks: The Animated Series, on what was the second produced episode.
• The Grand Finale of Codename: Kids Next Door has the heroes portrayed as adults, revealing that Numbuh 3 became the president of the Rainbow Monkey Corporation and Book Dumb 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.
• Daria had this in its Grand Finale. Instead of the usual "characters in funny costumes" Creative Closing Credits, 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, Daria and Jane becoming peppy morning talk show hosts. Word of God says that they don't need to be considered canon, but the idea of Stacy becoming a NASCAR driver actually became quite popular in fanfics.
• The Futurama parody of Animal House, 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.
• Dragons: Race to the Edge:
  • 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.
• Family Guy has an episode which parodies Stand by Me, 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 Rebecca Romijn (a joke about the fact that she is married to Jerry O'Connell, the actor who had Cleveland's role in the film), which angers the narrator.
  • Quagmire went on to become a big Hollywood star, but eventually O.D'd at the Viper Room, and died on the curb outside. And all we're left with is "a hair-lipped reminder of what might have been". (Cue Losing Horns)
• The Prison Episode of Funky Cops 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; 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; Alcatraz itself was closed forever in 1963, which confuses the narrator as it was the setting of the episode and the show is set in the 70s.
• The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound: In the final scene, after defeating the Daltons, Huck and his friends go their separate ways:
  • Snagglepuss goes on to becoming the toast of Broadway.
  • Quick Draw becomes Two-Bit's new sheriff with Babba-Looie as his deputy.
  • Hokey Wolf opens a used wagon lot.
  • Yogi and Boo Boo return to Jellystone Park and continue filching picnic baskets (and being tormented by kids saying "Look at the bears! Look at the bears!").
  • As for Huck, he marries Desert Flower, with the two of them settling down on a farm where they raise goats, pigs, and a family.
• Gravity Falls 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. He installs a statue of Stan Pines in the Shack in tribute of it's founder.
  • The Northwest Family becomes bankrupt (thanks to Preston carelessly investing in "weirdness bonds") 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 his (as in Fiddleford's) raccoon wife.
  • Toby Determined finally makes it as a reporter, becoming a sportscaster for the local station.
  • Grenda has a summer fling with her wealthy european boyfriend.
  • Lil' Gideon finalizes his Heel–Face Turn 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.)
  • Quentin Trembly, The 8th And A Half President Of the United States, is still free, exploring the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest on horseback (and still pantsless).
  • Finally, Dipper and Mabel (along with Waddles the Pig) return home to Piedmont, California, now prepared to head into the unknown of teenagehood.
  • Forgotten by everyone, the petrified form of Bill Cipher is still out there in the woods, waiting for the next person to shake his hand...
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
  • The end credits of Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure shows what happened after the heroes defeated Boogey and got Grim his job back; Grim went back to 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 made a fortune incorporating his time travel technology into pants, Billybot and Mandroid 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, 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 Humiliation Conga earlier and has since become a shut-in, Dracula stole Grim's scythe to use as a golf club, and Future Billy returned to his own time only to find that 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 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.
• Moral Orel ends with one of these. It's actually very nice to see, after Cerebus Syndrome turned the show as dark as it did, that Orel grew up to become the loving father of a happy, functional family. It almost makes up for all spilled tears from the final season.
• In the final episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "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 OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, "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 (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 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.
• Over the Garden Wall ends with a montage showing the residents of the Unknown going about their lives, all to the same tune that opened the show.
• The Owl House has a three year time skip at the end of "Watching and Dreaming", showing what the characters have been up to in the meantime.
  • Luz has been traveling back and forth between realms, and after graduating high school, is now moving out of Camila's house to go to university in the Demon Realm.
  • Vee is still living with Camila as part of the Noceda Family, having apparently gotten a legal Earth identity.
  • Willow is still captain of the Emerald Entrails, though judging by her custom jersey, the team has gotten a lot more professional over the years. She and Hunter also appear to have made their relationship official.
  • Hunter has taken an apprenticeship under Dell Clawthorne and the Bat Queen, and has become a prolific Palismen carver. He also appears to have gotten a lot healthier, his build being much more stocky and his perpetual eyebags gone. His relationship with Darius has only gotten stronger as well, with the two of them sharing some good-natured smiles. While he's carved himself a new Palisman — a blue jay named Waffles — he has not forgotten Flapjack, having set up a headstone with the phrase "Thank you for finding me. -H." as a tribute to his first friend.
  • Lilith is overseeing the construction of a new museum wing for the Bonesborough Library, and she and Amity have rekindled their mentor-student relationship from Season 1. She's also managed to make peace with the Raven Beast and unlocked a harpy form of her very own.
  • Matt Tholomule is seen as part of the Construction Coven helping with the construction of the new Library Wing supervising one of his workers Kikimora.
  • Amity has become an Adventurer Archaeologist procuring rare works of ancient literature for the Bonesborough Library. She and Luz are also still dating, with their romance just as strong as when they first got together.
  • Skara and Barcus have become teachers at Hexside themselves, teaching their specialties in the new mixed track system. Principal Bump, meanwhile, appears to have retired and has taken up gardening.
  • Boscha is seen in the Marketplace, she is now a proprietor of Grudgeby Supplies.
  • A large group of characters, including Alador, Darius, Eberwolf, Raine, Viney, Jerbo, and Emira, have created a way to remove people's coven sigils from their wrists, finally erasing what Belos did to them from their bodies.
  • Eda has opened a University for Wild Magic in the massive grove of trees where Belos's palace once stood, passing on her teachings to a new generation. Several characters are seen teaching there, including Edric, the keeper of the Looking Glass Graveyard, and Gus, who runs the Demon Realm - Human Realm exchange program.
  • The Collector is still traveling the stars but has maintained their friendship with King. At his request, they put on a massive fireworks show for the rest of the cast to enjoy.
  • King himself has gotten bigger, and his Titan powers are starting to manifest. While the original Titan is gone and the glyphs no longer work, King's glyphs will only become stronger as he ages, leaving Luz and the others with a brand new glyph language to figure out.
• Regular Show:
  • The episode "Fuzzy Dice" ends like this, Played for Laughs.
  • And then they follow up on it in "Steak Me Amadeus".
  • The series finale ends with this, all to the tune of David Bowie's Heroes: 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 marries Eileen (implied to be a House Husband, but unconfirmed), with the two having several children who Rigby introduces to video games as soon as they're old enough to play.
    • Muscle Man finally meets his daughter who was born while he was away in space. Over the years, he and Starla have several more children.
    • Hi-Five Ghost travels to Prague with Celia, working together as a DJ duo, and have a child together
    • Benson and Skips remain in the park, training a new generation of workers. Ben marries his girlfriend Pam and raise pets with her.
    • 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 Robot Chicken 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.
• The Simpsons:
  • 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, Kent Brockman was about to lead in on a special of the actors that portrayed the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz 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 dozens and dozens 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 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 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 Animal House 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 Animal House and went to work in a toga the next day
• Star Wars Rebels 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 Teen Titans Go! 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.
• Wakko's Wish, the Grand Finale of Animaniacs, has one where all characters get a happy ending. Except the Mime.
• In a variant, the last few minutes of the X-Men: Evolution 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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