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So, we've had a whole love story. The main couple have passed through all the possible obstacles separating them: physical distance, a Love Triangle, a properly jealous villain (Alpha Bitch, maybe), maybe even the Big Bad (common in epic fairy tales). Now, they are kissing each other at sunset as the very well-known words are narrated: "And they lived happily ever after..." Normally, that's the end.note Note that this is an English trope. German fairy tales usually end with "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute" - "and if they haven't died yet, they're still living today". French end with "ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants" — "They married and had many children", which is seen as an invitation for parodists. Russian tales involving romance actually account for death, apparently ending with, "And they lived their lives happily and died in one day," meaning that when they did eventually die, they died together, and didn't have to live without each other. Hungarian takes it even further with "Boldogan éltek, amíg meg nem haltak" - "They lived happily until they died", with no implication of togetherness. However, this ending is so classic it's sometimes considered a Discredited Trope, or even an Undead Horse Trope. It is often a subject to parody, and is frequently avoided in favor of a Twist Ending. Despite being one of The Oldest Ones in the Book, this trope is still used more frequently than you'd think. Many audiences simply want a Happy Ending because it makes them feel good. True art may be angsty, but Angst Aversion is also a fact of life. Everyone has their own favorite spot on the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism, and the Happily Ever After ending is meant to appeal to those who prefer the more idealistic side of things. The original source of the Happily Ever After endings, the Fairy Tale, often dealt with the end of the evil characters, with great finality and with more details than the hero and heroine's happiness. The Wicked Stepmother arrives at Snow White's wedding, whereupon she is forced to put on red-hot iron shoes and dance until she dies, and this is an utterly typical fairy tale ending. Interestingly enough, this is something of a Dead Unicorn Trope, as many of the older fairy tales had endings that provided An Aesop, however unfriendly. See also True Love's Kiss, Died Happily Ever After, Babies Ever After, Dance Party Ending, The Good Guys Always Win. Contrast Downer Ending and Bittersweet Ending, the cruellest examples of which make us think they're going to be a case of this trope before yanking the rug out from under the audience. Compare Maybe Ever After, which leaves open the possibility of a happily ever after ending, but doesn't make it a certain conclusion, and Earn Your Happy Ending, in which the characters only live Happily Ever After if they're prepared to put some effort into it. In more modern works, even a straight Happily Ever After can have the rug pulled out from under it in the sequel, in which we catch up with Prince Charming and his princess and find that they're getting on each other's nerves and have to fall in love all over again. As this is an ending trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Not to be confused with the animated Filmation feature. Or a certain song from a certain mecha show. Or even a series of multicultural fairy tales that aired on HBO. |
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At the ending of The Eyes of the Dragon there is a similar statement: "Did they all live happily ever after? They did not. No one ever does, in spite of what the stories may say. They had their good days, as you do, and they had their bad days, and you know about those. They had their victories, as you do, and they had their defeats, and you know about those, too. There were times when they felt ashamed of themselves, knowing that they had not done their best, and there were times when they knew they had stood where their God had meant them to stand. All I'm trying to say is that they lived as well as they could, each and every one of them; some lived longer than others, but all lived well, and bravely." | |
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This Immortal: Conrad and Cassandra are not only reunited in the end but also build themselves a new home, complete with a dog and their own private beach on which they end the story, watching the sunset. This is also implied with Dos Santos and Diane, whom Conrad suspects to be a couple from the very beginning, but who give up on Returnism and move together to Taler, never to be heard of again. |
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At the conclusion of the Baldur's Gate series, your character can earn a truly happy ending by renouncing godhood and marrying his/her Love Interest. Unless the Love Interest happens to be Viconia — that relationship ends on a more bittersweet note. | |
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Skins: The S4 finale very strongly implies that Naomi and Emily will be this, having finally realised they're each other's One True Love. There's even a sign hanging in Naomi's room in S4 that says "... and they lived happily ever after." And then Skins: Fire happened. |
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Into the Woods has a similar setup to The Fantasticks: Act One concludes with a classic Happy Ending, but then there's Act Two... | |
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In Dragon In Distress, the end has a Happily Ever After; immediately followed up with: Narration Qoute:...Or at least until Sir George fell off and broke his leg. He was riding a flying dragon at the time. | |
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Naruto: Most of the surviving heroes marry and have children. Naruto, in particular, marries Hinata after they finally became a couple in The Last: Naruto the Movie, has two children with her (one of whom headlines a sequel series), and finally achieves his dream of becoming Hokage. | |
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Subverted in Candide. The title character has reunited with his love and Pangloss goes on another diatribe about how this is the best of all possible worlds. Only the girl is sunburned, leathery, and peevish from outdoor labor and, with all the tragedy Candide gamely suffers throughout the story, he politely tells Pangloss to shove it. On the other hand, the point of the book is that "If this is not the best of all possible worlds, it is at least not the worst", and Candide manages to find some satisfaction in his new life. "We must all tend our garden." | |
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Trapped on Draconica: Everyone on Team Good gets one, including Gothon. Ben reconciles with his mother, reconnects with his father (who is out of jail and turning over a new leaf) and meets cute a reincarnated Erowin. Daniar and Kalak are married with a kid on the way. Rana marries Taruok and they set about rebuilding the Baalarian Empire Gothon is escorted to the afterlife by his beloved wife. |
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Subverted in Atonement, in which the narrator Briony, who pulled an I Should Write a Book About This, says she wanted to give her sister and her lover a happy ending, but in reality both are dead. | |
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The High School Musical trilogy: Most of the gang get into the colleges they wanted to go to, Troy escapes from the pressure he's under in Albuquerque, and he and Gabriella go to schools near each other so they can stay together. | |
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A classic subversion is found in the play The Fantasticks. Act One concludes with a classic Happy Ending, with the fathers ending their "feud" and approving their children's romance after the boy rescues the girl from a (staged) abduction. Act Two starts as reality begins to set in. | |
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Subverted in The Last Unicorn. | |
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It is not confirmed, but it is heavily implied in Super Paper Mario that there was a happy ending for Lord Blumiere (Count Bleck) and Lady Timpani. At the end of the game (after the staff credits) there is a scene showing what appears to be a man and a woman on a peaceful, green hill in a bright meadow, the man wearing a hat that looks much like the one worn by Bleck. Most players assume that it's them, and that they are now living happily in a an undisclosed place. | |
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The Discworld novels often deconstruct this rather fiercely. Especially Witches Abroad. While many end happily, it's the "ever after" part that doesn't hold up past the start of the next book. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents in particular points out the exact point where another story would declare that everyone lived happily ever after, before abandoning it and showing the effort that is needed to make something like that work. In some ways, this ending is actually more satisfying. |
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InuYasha ends with Miroku and Sango Happily Married with Babies Ever After, and Kagome and Inuyasha reunited after 3 years of separation, this time more permanently. | |
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In Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (also known as Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk), there are three possible endings. In one, the "good ending" (dubbed "the mega-happy ending" by the author of this statement) Emil and Marta end up together, through a complicated series of circumstances. Emil's personality is separated from that of Ratatosk, and that personality is allowed to live his life as a human. | |
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Anastasia ends with Anya reunited with her grandmother but choosing to lead an incognito life with Dmitry, and the ghosts of her family surrounding her and Dmitry as they head off to start a new life. | |
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The eventual end of Higurashi: When They Cry had everyone (including the main villain) survive. Shame it took a thousand years to accomplish. | |
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Daddy-Long-Legs and its sequel give the impression that the heroine of each book will be thus rewarded; indeed, the sequel verifies that the original heroine has as close to a purely happy ending as a girl can possibly get in 1910's New York. | |
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Most Xanth books end like this, at least for the major protagonists, though even people who've had their happy endings sometimes get into an adventure again, usually because of an unrelated problem. | |
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The same applies to Cave Story. Aside from the "good" ending, there is also a Guide Dang It! "best" ending, which saves two NPC's who otherwise die, stops the island from falling, and offers redemption to the Quirky Miniboss Squad. The final cutscene shows Curly, Quote, and Balrog flying off into the sunset, resolved to find someplace with a beautiful view to live the rest of their days. | |
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Parody artist Jon Cozart, aka Paint, deconstructs the happy endings of Disney films in his "After Ever After" series by imagining what might happen if they were set in the real world. | |
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Rio, as per tradition of most of the known western animated films. | |
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A Brother's Price ends with Jerin's point of view and this slightly ambiguous sentence. | |
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Bob and George ends when all the characters who were supposed to die in the Cataclysm, plus Bob and George who were supposed to go home and be miserable and die young respectively, fake their deaths, move to Acapulco, and live happily ever after. | |
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Roswell has an epilogue tacked on to the series finale, revealing that Liz and Max get married and the gang is doing well even though they are permanently on the run from the government. The last line is "All I know is that I'm Liz Parker, and I'm happy." | |
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Subverted in The Princess Bride: the narrator's father said that the characters "lived happily ever after," but when the narrator gets around to reading the book himself as an adult, he finds out that it's actually an open ending with the success of the escape left in doubt. The movie adaptation, however, plays this trope straight. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: After some of the darker undertones of the series, the ending is downright saccharine. Every single main character survived to the end, the entire world is free from tyranny, our heroes are well-respected and lauded for ending the Hundred-Year War, and the male and female lead become an Official Couple after three seasons of handwringing and denial. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Insomiac Ren" had Stimpy reading a story to Ren. The ending of "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" has the titular cheeses transform into milk cur princesses and the narrator narrates: |
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You get to joke about the possibility with Liara in Mass Effect 2 at the end of Lair of the Shadow Broker if you romanced her in the first game. | |
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Back to the Future both subverts and plays this straight. We can assume Marty's parents lived "happily ever after" once Marty altered their meetup in 1955... if only Doc's time machine would quit getting in the way. | |
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Just about every Adam Sandler movie has this. Even if the film doesn't end with him "getting the girl," it will at least end with some kind of happily-ever-after epilogue (case in point: Big Daddy). | |
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Cardcaptor Sakura: In spite of the intentional Cliffhanger as Sakura jumps across the wide gap between her and Syaoran, it is already clear that the couple (and possibly the other characters, too) get to live happily after the story. The Power of Friendship and the Power of Love prevail! One of the very few anime shows that actually have true happy endings. | |
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Axe Cop once married Girl Abraham Lincoln and lived Happily Ever After... until he got really bored. | |
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Love's Labour's Lost also subverts the trope: everything is shaping up perfectly toward a happy ending, the four young swains have successfully wooed the four young maidens—but in the final scene the female lead gets word that her father has died, causing a palpable Mood Whiplash, and she and her friends decide to return to her kingdom,leaving their loves. It's substantially depressing, and it seems cruel that the sequel that was apparently written, Love's Labour's Found , is one of Shakespeare's works to have been lost. | |
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Kim and Ron in Kim Possible. The two Sealed with a Kiss series finales and the Word of God make this such. | |
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Happens in the epilogue of the final Animorphs book: while three of the surviving Animorphs go off into space to save Sixth Ranger Ax and ultimately face down a Bolivian Army Ending, Cassie gets to stay behind on Earth and enjoy the peaceful new life she's made for herself. | |
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This happened earlier in Mystery Science Theater 3000's sporking of Soul Taker, where Crow and Servo refuse to accept the movie's Happily Ever After and instead offer a Downer Ending where the protagonist ends up in jail. Mike asks if they aren't being a little doom-and-gloom, and they sarcastically suggest a Sugar Bowl ending that is literally rainbows and unicorns. Mike asks if there can't be a middle ground and they say nope, it's either prison or unicorns. | |
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Shrek 2 puts somewhat of a spin on this. Shrek willingly drinks a potion so that he and Fiona can live their happily ever after in beautiful human forms. To make it permanent, the pair must kiss at midnight. Fiona's decision? | |
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WALL•E: Played straight as the love-struck robots kiss at the end while the humans rediscover their humanity. The epilogue shows human civilization advancing back to full glory. | |
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Mike Nelson has inverted this trope a couple of times in his RiffTrax of movies. One example is his Riff of Road House where he goes into detail during the closing credits about how all the character's lives go horribly wrong after the movie's ending. This happened earlier in Mystery Science Theater 3000's sporking of Soul Taker, where Crow and Servo refuse to accept the movie's Happily Ever After and instead offer a Downer Ending where the protagonist ends up in jail. Mike asks if they aren't being a little doom-and-gloom, and they sarcastically suggest a Sugar Bowl ending that is literally rainbows and unicorns. Mike asks if there can't be a middle ground and they say nope, it's either prison or unicorns. |
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Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! invokes this in a couple of different ways. In their respective routes Wanko is Happily Married, Miyako gets Babies Ever After, and Mayucchi Grow Old with Me, to name a few examples. At the end of the Ryuuzetsuran route, the ryuuzetsuran is transplanted to the Kawakami School of Martial Arts, the family has gotten a new member and is still going strong, and even the villains are getting a shot at redemption. | |
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The film adaptation of Stardust seemed to be headed to a "happily ever after" ending, but the ending turned out to be even happier, as the lead couple get transformed into stars when they reach old age, enabling them to truly live "happily ever after" (or at least for several billion more years). This is actually a Double Subversion: the narrator notes that "no man can live forever . . . except he who possesses the heart of a star. And Yvaine had given hers to Tristan completely." |
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Enchanted: naturally, the Power of Love prevails over the modern world. | |
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Happily Never After obviously revolves around this trope with the main villain changing all the Fairy Tale happy endings to bad ones. | |
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RD Reynolds writes in his No Holds Barred induction "And thus everyone lives happily ever after... Well, except for Brell and Zeus, since they're dead." | |
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Played straight in one ending of The Bard's Tale. It's the evil ending. The good ending requires sacrificing wealth, power, and the hottest body in the world to save the world, with no reward or even recognition for doing so. | |
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One of the most surreal versions of this trope happens in an episode of Pokémon. James trades his overly-affectionate Victreebell to the Magikarp Salesman for a supposedly more-obedient Weepinbell, and gives it to Jessie. It spontaneously evolves into another Victreebell, and becomes just as affectionate. They ditch the new one entirely. At the same time, the Magikarp Salesman abandons James's Victreebell. The two Victreebell run into each other, and fall madly in love, bouncing off into the sunset together. | |
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Inverted in The Palm Beach Story by opening the film with a wedding. Reconstructed by showing how the marriage goes awry but the couple finding back together by the end. | |
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In Doctor Who, it's already a Foregone Conclusion that thanks to the Timey-Wimey Ball which is their relationship, the Doctor and River cannot have a Happily Ever After. But at the end of the Husbands of River Song, the Doctor takes her to the Singing Towers of Darillium, where they spend 24 years together. As River tells him, "happy ever after" isn't about forever, it's just about spending the rest of the time you have with the one you love. The closing shot shows the words: | |
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Twilight: the last line of the last book is ""And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever." 'nuff said. Breaking Dawn ends with all of vampire Bella's problems solved as she heads home to have sex with her eternally young and attractive husband. And despite several "battles" throughout the four books, all of the main characters survived. The final chapter is actually titled "The Happily Ever After". |
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The Dark Tower plays with the phrase: when Susannah enters the door in front of the Dark Tower and finds herself in another alternate version of New York City, she meets alternate version of Eddie and Jake, and in this universe they apparently are brothers and they already know her. It's stated that "Will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live." | |
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The Last Battle: However some characters' stories are not resolved, and the resulting unexplored ramifications put the ending well into Values Dissonance for many. |
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Totally word-for-word in the last ever Sharpe novel. Usually, Bernard Cornwwell's afterword explaining the historical context of the plot and pointing out any deviatios from historical fact would sign off with "...some day, Sharpe will march again". In the final volume, he signed off with, "Sharpe and Sergeant Harper returned home and, so far as I know, lived happily ever after." And goodness knows they'd earned it by then. | |
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Subverted in two South Park episodes, dropping a bridge on a character each time: "And they all lived Happily Ever After, except for Pocket who died of hepatitis B." "And they all lived Happily Ever After, except for Kyle who died of AIDS two weeks later." "Goddamnit Cartman!" |
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The Steve Harvey Show: Steve follows Regina to her new job in California, Ced and Lovita win the lottery just as Lovita goes into labor, and Romeo, Lydia, and Bullethead graduate from high school and are accepted at college. | |
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Good Times: Keith gets another shot at pro football when the Bears give him a contract, enabling him and Thelma to move to a swanky condo. Thelma is pregnant and she and Keith invite Florida to live with them. Michael moves to a dorm on campus. Willona is promoted to head buyer at the boutique and she and Penny also move to the same condo but on a different floor. JJ creates a comic book character called DynoWoman and she is modeled after Thelma. He is given a huge advance, enabling him to move out of the projects as well. | |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum plays this as a Foregone Conclusion. Well it's a happy ending for everyone except poor Senex, who's still stuck with his shrewish wife Domina. |
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The happy ending of How I Met Your Mother has been a Foregone Conclusion since the first minute of the pilot episode. Yet the writers somehow — beyond all realms of reason and imagination - managed to brutal subvert this in the finale. At best it managed a Bitter Sweet Ending. Played straight with the alternate ending through. | |
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The ending of the Wander over Yonder episode, "The Hero" parodies this notion as Princess Demurra and King Draykor get married: | |
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One guard in Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure, after delivering Queen Celesia Bad News in a Good Way and surviving, is stated to live happily even after. | |
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Friends combines this and a Bitter Sweet Ending. All the characters are clearly happy with their careers, spouses and families but its also the end of an era and they're, to a certain extent, parting ways. | |
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In Maoyuu Maou Yuusha The Hero, the Demon Queen and Lady Knight decide to retire in the end of the Light Novel series, seeing that the many people they came in contact with has absorbed and taken after their ideals, the trio leave together to travel to some faraway and quiet place. | |
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The Hobbit notes, shortly before the end, that Bilbo "remained very happy to the end of his days, and those were extraordinarily long." In a Continuity Nod in The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo mentions that he'd decided on using a similar phrase ("he lived happily ever afterwards to the end of his days") as the ending of his book. "But where will they live," Sam wonders under his breath in his case and Bilbo and Frodo's Eressëa - at least for a while. When Tolkien rolled up his sleeves to begin the "Hobbit sequel" his publishers had asked for, he invented Frodo because he realized, after a few false starts, it couldn't be a story about Bilbo because he'd said that. |
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In The Twilight Zoneepisode The Hunt, this is implied for Hyder and Rachel— They will be together forever in Heaven. | |
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