“And they all lived happily ever after” should be replaced with “and that’s how they resolved that problem”.
Mario
Halo, chief could’ve spent the rest of his life in a ship drifting through space with his hot computer gf
but then it would go rampant and whatever the Mandalorian’s yt recording of Marathon says
Seen the word “Bleakquel” used for it, but since it’s handier to point people at, we have TVTropes with Happy Ending Override. It’s so damn common because a happy ending means they cannot continue the story, so it must be ruined.
Hi, Majora’s Mask.
Tears of the Kingdom too
You think with the happy ending, the next game is just being chill going through day to day life, chillmaxxing
Factorio. Your goal is to harness the power of Science! to provide for your vacation expenses; and when you start a new game, you inevitably strand yourself on a new planet with evil communist bugs, just to start all over again.
Many such cases
Poor Jak.
How can getting jerked off be ripped away from you?
Chronotrigger…
like even WHY!?
TLOU
The Longest Journey. They did my girl April dirty.
Final fantasy 13, kinda. I hated the start of 13-2
A plague tale
