Best endings

[Dioltach]

In honour of the late George Macdonald Fraser, I'd like to mention Flashman in the Great Game.

A movie with great ending is The Sting.

 

[Thanee]

A movie with great ending is The Sting.

That's also a good one, yep.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Arnwyn]

But yeah, many of those posted here I agree with. Here is a list of some of my favorites, off the top of my head:

Books:
- Lord of the Rings
- the Foundation series

Movies/TV:
- A Scanner Darkly
- Empire Strikes Back
- Blade Runner
- Kill Bill V2
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Cowboy Bebop
- End of Evangelion

Games:
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy VI
- Chrono Trigger

There's more, especially in movies and games, but it's getting busy at the office now...

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

The one that I really like the best is David Gemmell's Hero in the Shadows:

Spoiler

A dying Waylander is sent back in time to prevent the rape and murder of his wife and child.

Brad

 

[Gorok]

For this thread, you can't forget "The Planet of the Apes", both the original movie and for an even better "twist", the book by Pierre Boule.

 

[sckeener]

adding off the top of my head

Movies:
Run Lola Run

Spoiler

Who doesn't like everything working out plus an extra $100K

Ghost Dog

Spoiler

the circle is complete or the more things change the more they stay the same

TV
Dexter 1st season

Spoiler

morals vs morals or nature vs nurture

I haven't watched the 2nd season (yet)
Doctor who "The Family of Blood"

Spoiler

An ending where eternal justice is served

"I, Claudius"

Spoiler

ignore everything after Claudis becomes emperor and you'll have the ending of the first book. The second book is 'Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina'

Deep Space 9 the entire run.
The final episode of Buffy tVS had a good ending. Too bad the season didn't


Books
Mistborn: book 1 of the Final Empire
"I, Claudius"

Spoiler

ignore the 2nd book called Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina if you want a good ending

The Scar by China Mieville
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

 

[Thanee]

Another good ending... The Departed (same as the original movie, I suppose).

Also... Life of Brian.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Klaus]

I'll add in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She takes her sister's place, sacrifices herself and gets a snappy tombstone. What more can you want?

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Books: Dark Tower, namely what happens to Roland when he goes through the door...

TV: Since you nabbed Angel, Blake's Seven, with the best ending ever...

Comics: Preacher, actually riding off into the sunset....

Computer Games: None come to mind...

 

[TwinBahamut]

Videogames:

I really liked Final Fantasy X's ending, especially after watching some of the hidden dialogs you see when going back to the temples and meeting the various Fayth. It is a sad ending, but at the same time it wonderfully continues the theme of the game that death is not the end, and that there is a better world waiting for those who do not run away from it.

I also rather liked the bittersweet ending of Wild Arms 4.

Also, Vagrant Story and Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter both had very good endings, but I guess in these cases it might be simply because they are resolutions to extremely good stories.

Anime:

I need to give mention to G Gundam, simply because they managed to top a wonderfully over-the-top series with an even more over-the-top and wildly fun final sequence, even to the point of resolving the serious and dramatic elements of the story early in order to pull out a shamelessly fun ending.

I also really like the ending to Eureka 7, simply because it ends the series in the same spirit that series had followed from the start, and ends with the final recognition that the hero has grown up and become a better person because of everything that has happened. I think it is a great series as a whole.