Meme Jenkins Tried to Ride Into the Sunset Again

It's the cease of the movie and The Drifter has to be moving on. At that place are other people in trouble, other wrongs to right, other paths to follow. He saddles up his horse and rides west into the setting sun. The townspeople await on as his figure, silhouetted against the orange disk, disappears into the horizon. The music swells and "The Terminate" appears.

Riding into the sunset is a tried (some would say "tired") and true ending to a show. Primarily a western trope associated with cowboys, but not exclusively so. The setting sun is symbolic of the end of the story.

Sometimes, heroes are known to ride into the sunrise instead — possibly as a symbol of a new beginning or fresh start on life afterwards their adventure is over, or possibly to show that the scriptwriters realize that setting off into the wilderness at sunset is non the brightest idea. (What'southward he gonna do? Go 2 miles out of town and then brand camp for the dark?) Of class, the sunset is somewhat cooler, and then a little Creative License is immune. In fact, the sunset is and so expected that using the more pragmatic sunrise in a Western might be jarring. Besides, riding into the dusk means you're riding W. A common theme in Westerns was the "taming of the West", so there was often an implication that once one town had been "civilized" the hero would and so ride further West to where he was still needed. In stories where the hero has somewhere specific and not besides distant to get and rest up, though, leaving at the cease of the 24-hour interval makes perfect sense.

A subtrope of Off-into-the-Altitude Ending, may utilized "Back to Camera" Pose.

Compare Confronting the Setting Sun, Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Death (for a darker ending), Watching the Sunset. Dissimilarity Outrun the Fireball.

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    Anime and Manga

• At the end of the Johto saga in Pokémon, Misty rides off into the sunset on her freshly repaired bike, with her Togepi in the basket.
• This kind of scenes were plenty in the Mazinger saga:
  • Mazinger Z: Many episodes ended upwards with the main characters -in their robots standing against the sunset withal within their robots or driving their Humongous Mechas back to the Institute.
    • I specific episode ended upwardly with Kouji using Mazinger'due south hand to -carefully- pick Sayaka and she calmly sitting on the behemot's hand and happily talking to Kouji as Sun set up afterward them.
    • Some other episode ended up with Kouji (within Mazinger-Z) holding Sayaka (inside Aphrodite-A) bridal style and walking together into the sunset.
  • The Keen Mazinger vs UFO Robo Grendizer ended up with Kouji and Knuckles gazing at the sunset together after the battle. Kouji even commented on it existence a cute sunset.
• Scientific discipline Ninja Team Gatchaman: About episodes of this classic anime — and its various dubs — ends with the God-Phoenix flying off into the sunset, or the squad standing around looking at a dusk.
• In Saiyuki the group often ends the episodes driving towards the sunset because they are travelling west to India. They commented on information technology once in-universe:

  Goku: [looking at the sunset] It's more than cute than a meat bun!
  Sha Gojyo: That'south quite an endorsement.
  Cho Hakkai: Come to think of it, we're always heading towards the setting lord's day, aren't we?

• In Bleach at the end of the Fullbringer Arc Moe Shishigawara carries Tsukishima on his back into the sunrise.
• Usavich seasons one, 2, 4, and 5 cease with protagonists riding toward horizon in a stolen car. In flavor 3 it's instead a prison van with the flavour'south villain.
• Subverted in Golgo 13. Duke Togo is hired to kill a Distaff Counterpart, who information technology'southward revealed he met iii years ago and had a relationship with. Knowing that Togo has the contract on her, she expects to be killed on meeting him over again, merely he only sleeps with her and leaves the side by side day. Realising she'southward been given a interruption, she decides to retire from the assassination concern, only as she pilots a speedboat into the sunset Duke puts a bullet through her caput with a single long-distance shot.
• The Dragon Ball Z special Episode of Bardock ends with Bardock walking into the sunset, away from the hamlet he protected.
• Gundam Build Fighters Try Episode 20: after having fought an exciting Gunpla boxing with one of the primary characters, Junya rides off in a convertible driven by his friend Akira. Things go hilariously to pot when the latter reveals that he only got his license two days prior.
• Cowboy Bebop, "Cowboy Funk": Andy, as befitting an bodily Space Cowboy, rides into the sunset after his battle with Spike... Which was assault the summit of a skyscraper. Don't enquire the states how he got downwardly.
• In the Warrior Cats manga well-nigh Graystripe, the terminal console of the starting time volume has Graystripe and Millie walking toward the sunset.

    Asian Animation

• Happy Heroes: Referenced in Season 2 episode 16. Big and Little K. are walking away from the school and into the sunset when Piddling M. mentions that he's only seen this happening in movies and that it's rather old-fashioned. Large Chiliad. says that it's actually a sunrising and that it's not former-fashioned.

    Comic Books

• Lucky Luke: Every single adventure ends this way. In the metastory "Where the sunset is" the Dalton brothers effort to avert capture by keeping abroad from civilisation and hiding out in the wilderness. All to no avail as the place they choose to hang out turns out to be Luke'southward "riding into the sunset" identify. Manifestly sunset is a place, non a time.
• ElfQuest: The end of effect #7has ii Wolfrider elves, appropriately enough, riding wolves into the sunset. Information technology's worth noting that since Wolfriders are mostly nocturnal, sunset is an appropriate fourth dimension for them to set out.
• At the end of Preacher, Jesse reveals he never wanted to be a preacher as a kid. His girlfriend asks him what he wanted to be. "Girl, can't you lot guess?" he says, every bit they ride on a horse towards the sunset.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): The terminal console of "The Return of Queen Chrysalis" ends with the chief characters setting off into the dusk. Parodied, since the riders are their ain mounts.
• Wolverine'southward expiry is done as a variation. After being covered by adamantium and starting to suffocate within the almost solid metal, Logan, who is on peak of a building, starts walking towards the sunset while having flashbacks of his life earlier finally dying on the edge of the edifice in front of the dying sun.
• Superman:
  • The Jungle Line: Later on saving Superman, Swamp Thing walks back into the jungle every bit the morning Sun rises in front of him.
  • Superman vs. Shazam!: Once they have defeated Karmang and saved ii parallel Earths, the four heroes walk towards the setting sun, Supergirl wrapping an arm around Mary Marvel'south shoulders.
• Disney Kingdoms: An inversion occurs at the terminate of the final issue of Figment two as Figment and Dreamfinder wing their zeppelin off into the sunrise to start their next take chances.

    Comic Strips

• Gary Larson's The Far Side:
  • Someone gets dragged back into a saloon all burnt up because "the damn fool tried to ride off into the sunset."
  • Some other has a cowboy is riding off into a cardboard-stand up/cutout of a sunset, whilst various people wave. The caption reads 'The embarrassment of riding into a imitation dusk'.

    Fan Works

• In the Outlaw Star fanfic A Fistful of Dragonite this is how the 5-Man Band end their story, doubled up on a trio of horses and off to live at to the lowest degree somewhat Happily E'er After.
• Tales of the Canterlot Deportation Bureau: From A Typical Day: How the tale ends, but with walking, not riding:

  "It's a nice sunset — skilful color palette, some nice cloud touches, very artistic work — let's caput towards information technology for a while."

• In Everybody'southward Gotta Get out Sometime, the Peanuts gang have their final get-together to hash out the end of the comic-strip and say farewell to each other, possibly forever. As the sun is setting, all characters say their goodbyes to Charlie Brown 1 later another and then get out.

  Patty took one step, and so some other, and others in succession, over the field as the shadows lengthened and the lord's day's corona was barely visible in the distance.

    Films — Animated

• Washed in An American Tail: Fievel Goes Due west as a bit of a tribute to this trope, when Wylie Burp walks off into the sunset after the final battle and Fievel follows him, and they sit on a rocky outcropping and talk while watching the dusk. It works on a meta-level, too; the scene is Jimmy Stewart's terminal in his final film role.
• Has happened in every Cars film so far:
  • The first motion picture ends with Lightning and Sally racing each other back to Radiator Springs, while Mater flies by in the Dinoco helicopter.
  • The second moving-picture show ends with Lightning and Mater speeding off into the distance as Siddley winks at the camera and flies away, earlier the view irises out.
  • The tertiary motion picture ends with Lightning and Cruz racing each other around Willy'south Butte. In a rare inversion, it is sunset, merely they speed abroad and and so come toward the screen before the credits kickoff.
• In Monsters vs. Aliens, the monsters fly off into the sunset on their way to their adjacent mission.
• Lampshaded in Rango:

  Priscilla: It's the sunset scene.

• The Road to El Dorado ends with Chel, Miguel, and Tulio riding off into the dusk... well, at least Chel rides off, as Miguel and Tulio brutal off Altivo just before he started running.
• In Sinbad: Legend of the 7 Seas, Sinbad, Marina, and his crew are sailing into the sunset in the last shot of the film.

    Films — Live-Action

• Blazing Saddles parodied this by having the heroes get off of their horses and into a auto, driving off into the sunset at the terminate of the film.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ends with Indy, his father, Sallah, and Marcus riding into the sunset. Spielberg said this was done with the expectation that this would be the last Indiana Jones film.
• Variation in Legend (1985). Jack and Lili walk off together into the sunset in ane version of the film. In the manager'south cut, Jack walks off by himself while Lili goes to her castle.
• Wild Wild Due west: plays with this at the end. Information technology appears that Jim West and Artemus Gordon are riding off into the sunset on horses... until the camera pulls back to reveal they are riding Loveless' giant mechanical spider. Also, since they were traveling from Utah to Washington D.C. they were really going due east, into the sunrise.
• In Slither the main characters are seen walking off into the sunrise at the finish of the film whilst the credits roll upwards.
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine includes this about the terminate — before a subversion. Logan/Wolverine and Kayla are walking off into the sunset — and a gunshot rings out as Stryker arrives with his adamantium bullets...
• Played with the sunrise version in Sam Peckinpah'due south Pat Garrett and Baton the Kid where Garrett rides off - although it was a dusk when they were shooting it, just it'southward dawn in the movie. It doesn't symbolise a new offset: Garrett's life is completely ruined, nil left except remorse and loneliness. It symbolizes the expiry of the Erstwhile Due west and too the whole genre.
• The title characters do this at the end of the film ¡Iii Amigos!!.
• At the end of Daze Treatment (the semi-sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Evidence), every bit the adept guys are driving off in a car, the narrator remarks "The lord's day never sets on those who ride into it".
• The Russian ostern The Elusive Avengers. Its authors were fond of this trope. All iii movies end with this. There are also a beginning, when the title team rides FROM the sunset.
• The ending of The Green Berets infamously features John Wayne's character walking onto a beach and into the sunset with the adorable little Vietnamese moppet that had accompanied his unit of measurement in the latter stages of the moving picture....on a embankment on the Due south China Bounding main, which faces east, significant it would actually exist impossible to detect a dusk on that beach.
• Used in The Men Who Stare at Goats. The primary grapheme'due south mentor (George Clooney) and his mentor's mentor (Jeff Bridges) fly a helicopter off into the sunset and are never seen again.
• The catastrophe of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered State has the Enterprise sailing towards a star.
• Parodied in Hot Shots! Part Deux, where the helicopter flies into the sunset from the side, then turns and flies into the sun, smoking as it comes out the other end.
• The ending of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: "At present, bring me that horizon."
• Besides parodied past Ellen Degeneres in Mr. Wrong: She and the main love interest are walking into the sunset earlier realizing that they're walking west and they accept to turn due north to get to the US-United mexican states border, It's a Long Story. She even comments on how the dusk is a chip blinding.
• Somewhat surprisingly, The Movie of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ends this mode every bit well, with Buffy and Pike roaring off toward the horizon on Pike'south motorcycle in a romantic scene equally Susanna Hoffs's cover of "We Close Our Eyes" plays. (In this example the lord's day has already set, only it still fits.)
• And even the more often than not tough and unsentimental gangland melodrama The Warriors ends happily, with the surviving heroes frolicking in the surf on the embankment off Coney Isle before disappearing over the horizon just as the sun is coming up.
• The Warrior's Fashion ends with the hero, Yang, having slain all his enemies in a lengthy showdown and saving the entirety of Lode Town, walking away into the setting sun in slo-mo. So comes a Time Skip where he somehow goes from a midwestern American desert town into an Chill wasteland.
• In Daybreakers, they are driving off into the sunrise. Given that the movie is about vampires and i of the characters constitute a way to turn back into a human being, this has additional symbolic value.
• The 1912 film The Land Beyond the Sunset features a little boy globe-trotting on a boat into the sunset, fleeing an abusive abode. Since he's in an open up boat with nothing to consume or drink and doesn't fifty-fifty have an oar or a sail, this is either an allegory of rebirth or Driven to Suicide.
• Both variants are a very common Godzilla trope with many movies ending with Godzilla swimming out to sea after saving the solar day.
• At the end of Furious 7, Paul Walker's graphic symbol Brian drives a white Toyota Supra off into the dusk after a final elevate race with Dom. It was a poignant send-off for the actor and was a overnice way of handling Real Life Writes the Plot.
• The last shot of The Book of Eli is the female lead character walking off into the sunset.
• In She Wore a Xanthous Ribbon this trope is subverted. Afterward the main disharmonize of the pic is resolved, the film narrator describes Nathan Brittle equally going where old men go, due west, with a bright image of him riding towards the Sunset (a John Ford Image), until a soldier catches up with him and he is informed that his career is not over, so the motion picture does not end with him riding into the sunset.
• Star Wars:
  • The Empire Strikes Back's Bloodshot Ending plays with this trope: Luke, Leia, C-3PO, and R2-D2 scout the Millennium Falcon fly, not into a sunset (they're in space, heed yous), but in the direction of a vivid protostar, on their way to rescue Han Solo, who had been captured and handed over to Jabba The Hutt.
  • The Rise of Skywalker ends with a shot of Rey and BB-8 on Tatooine, walking into the distance with their silhouettes visible confronting the planet's ii setting suns.
• 50: modify the WorLd: More similar "walking into the sunset". Fifty does this in the film'due south final minutes, as he realizes that he wanted to live longer.
• The Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve all end with Superman flight in a higher place Earth towards the sunrise.
• "Good day Mary Poppins, don't stay away too long," says Bert the chimney sweep as the titular nanny flies away on her umbrella after her piece of work is done with the Banks family.
• Lampshaded when Bloodshot ends with the characters driving off into the sunset, and ane of them worries that information technology's too cliched and they might exist stuck in another simulation.
• Death Race appears to cease this fashion, only for the 'sunset' to exist a rather tattered billboard in a motorcar wrecking chiliad where the protagonists are hiding out afterwards escaping from prison house.
• An extremely dark variation ends the Blackness Comedy brusk Forklift Driver Klaus. The title character rides into the dusk on his forklift.... with the bodies of ii of his coworkers impaled on the front end. Oh, and Klaus himself was decapitated a few minutes before, and is "driving" via Deadfoot Leadfoot.

    Literature

• Amelia Peabody Invoked by Chiliad. de Morgan in "The Mummy Case." He returns the protagonists' son after a truly minor escapade, and so rides his magnificent horse off into the sunset, despite having dinner plans in the verbal reverse direction. The parents in question recall that hes existence over-dramatic.
• Deathlands: Homeward Bound. Ryan Cawdor turns down the chance to dominion the barony from which he was outlawed years before, and his True Companions bulldoze off into the dusk Forbidden Zone in their Sec Wag.
• The Dreamside Road: The Aesir flies into the sunset at the terminate of the Wintertide Festival. Enoa and Orson are publicly honored and Orson's theme music is performed for the start time, as they exit.
• Parodied in Where's Wally? In Hollywood, which has a passenger crashing through a painted backdrop of a setting sun.
• The end of Kitty and the Dead Man'due south Hand. Which doesn't make a lot of sense since the machine's a rental, their luggage is back at the hotel, they're going the wrong manner to go home, and information technology tin't be much later than noon. Merely hey, it'due south the idea that counts...
• I of the "Star Trek" novels, in which the plot revolves effectually colonists' aggressive projection to set their tidally-locked planet rotating, ends with Kirk ordering an odd departure course. When questioned, he explains: "Considering all the work nosotros've washed to create a sunset, it's simply fitting that nosotros fly off into it."
• At the end of the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan heads off into Tatooine'southward Binary Sunset, after dropping off the infant Luke Skywalker with the Larses.
• In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix the Weasley twins ride off into "the glorious sunset" when they leave Umbridge sputtering furiously behind at Hogwarts. It'due south not the end of the book, merely it is the end of the chapter and of Fred and George's pupil life.

    Live-Action Tv set

• Star Expedition: The Next Generation has an episode ''A Fistful of Datas'' with a Western in the holodeck, and at the end, the starship flies off towards a star whose lower half is obscured past the planet.
• Red Dwarf ended its Western-themed episode, "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", with Starbug doing the same (a star, non a supernova).
• Subverted in Supernatural. At the finish of "Hollywood Babylon", Sam and Dean walk abroad silhouetted against a stunning sunset as Herb Alpert'due south "Green Peppers" plays. The dusk is then wheeled away and revealed to be a backdrop, with the real sunset behind it.
• Parodied in Friends: Joey gets a gig giving free aftershave samples out when a rival, dressed every bit a cowboy starts to invade his turf. In the cease, we see Joey (who by this phase is selling the aforementioned cowboy-branded aftershave) walking with the girl towards a wall-painting of a sunset.
  • The unabridged episode is a parody of Western tropes, with Joey as the good cowboy and his rival as the bad cowboy, complete with colour-coded outfits.
  • The director Kevin Bright too talks about this in the commentary for the Grand Finale, saying he wanted to finish with the gang going off into the sunset together. (It'southward actually a hallway but the sentiment is certainly there).
• The fourth season of 24 ended with Jack Bauer walking away into the sunrise with the intent of starting a new life. Of course, he comes back for the adjacent season.
• In an episode of Monty Python'southward Flying Circus a customer is talking to a clerk about purchasing an ending to the episode:

  Clerk: Walking into the sunset?
  Customer: What's that 1?
  Clerk: You know, two lone figures silhouetted against the dying rays of the setting sunday, the music swells and lovely... (music covers dialog)
  Client: No.
  Clerk: Pity, I rather similar that one.

• Variation in Battlestar Galactica: the eponymous ship and the remaining ships of the civilian fleet fly into the sun, while the Original Serial' theme music plays.
• Merely Fools and Horses: The ending of "Time On Our Hands", which John Sullivan wanted to exist the last-ever episode, before it was renewed for another prepare of Christmas episodes; the thought was that during this sequence, Del, Rodney, and Albert would be replaced past drawing versions of themselves.
• Lampshaded in (another testify called) Legend. The writer-turned-cowboy hero and his inventor buddy are looking at the sunset. The buddy asks "Shouldn't you lot be riding off into that?" The hero says "Yeah. It'south a device of the genre. They take to end that fashion."
• Hollyoaks had fun with this trope past giving the couple Jon Paul and Craig a riding off into the dusk catastrophe - past having them osculation in front of a holiday poster bearing a dusk earlier getting on a railroad train together.
• Veronica Mars has a symbolic variation. Veronica walks abroad into the rain, signifying the consequences of the series finale being rather crappy (her Dad's facing charges that could country him serious jail time for protecting her, and their chief opponent for her Dad's old job every bit Sheriff is a corrupt puppet of the mafia). As the camera pans out, we get the impression that Veronica is upset not only because she inadvertently got her Dad in problem, merely because she knows she'll never alter her ways.
• The Goodies episode spoofing movies has The End words catching on our heroes clothes, carrying them off across a archetype pic dusk (and yes, one of the movies genres existence spoofed was The Western).
• Parodied on General Hospital. After Ned and Lois reconcile, he has a dream of them doing merely this. . .and then trigger-happy through the fake properties.
• In Power Rangers Wild Force, Jindrax and Toxica walked off into the sunset after helping the Rangers save the Princess.
• The serial premiere of Touched by an Angel ends with Monica and Tess driving off in a red convertible. The serial finale ends with Monica driving off in the same way.
• Inevitably in The Mandalorian given that it'due south a Infinite Western, but the concluding episode of Season I has a subversion where the title character flies his spacecraft off in the direction of the sunset...then the camera pans over to Moff Gideon's crashed TIE fighter which he cuts his way out, and the final shot is of Moff Gideon standing earlier the sunset brandishing the Darksaber he used to do so.
• Sense8: In the first season finale Riley and Will narrowly escape the Evil, Inc. that's hunting sensates. The final shot of the episode is them sitting on the deck of Riley'southward friend's boat, which is carrying them out of Iceland, equally it sails towards the setting sun.

    Magazines

• The very final event of ZX Spectrum magazine Your Sinclair had this for the back cover. Two cowboys riding off into the sunset, guns aloft, with the Your Sinclair logo at the lesser, and below it five small words: "Our work here is done."

    Music

• At the stop of the video for "Give It Away", the Cherry-red Hot Chili Peppers run off into the dusk.
• Mentioned at the beginning of AC/DC's "T.N.T.": "Run into me ride into the sunset/On your colour TV screen."
• In the Kansas song "Miracles Out of Nowhere," the lyrics in the pseudo-bridge: "I just play and then I go/ Off into the dusk similar the western heroes practise."
• "Micha" by Die Ärzte is a lonesome cowboy parody - dusk riding is mandatory.

    Pinball

• Defeat the evil genie in Tales of the Arabian Nights, and the game will show the player and the princess flying into the sunset on a Flight Carpet.

    Radio

• In Motel Pressure, the final episode ends with Douglas and Herc being forced to fly into the sunday, ascent each time it appears to ready (in a Telephone call-Back to an earlier episode). Douglas declares "I hate flying into the sunset."
• The Brewing Network The episode only titled 'D 24-hour interval', which was the farewell for Session regular Daniela. She had gotten a job in her native Germany and this meant leaving the bear witness. At times information technology became a real Tear Jerker.

    Tabletop Games

• Hero Rides Away, a freelancer Charm from Exalted, allows you to regain power and create gratitude among the villagers you just saved by, well, riding off in some dramatic fashion, similar having your horse rear upwardly against the dusk or parting at the meridian of a thunderstorm. Of course, there's nothing preventing you from using this in the frozen North or verdant East rather than the desiccated S, meaning y'all tin can exist a cowboy-movie hero while riding a simhata ^annotation a king of beasts-like fauna specifically bred to serve as the steed to Exalts on a glacier.

    Theatre

• The fourth act of The Girl Of The Golden W shows the lord's day beginning to ascension on the Daughter and her lover, who are leaving the West behind to start a new life.
• In Moonlight And Magnolias, screenwriter Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming want to end Gone with the Wind with Rhett and Scarlett riding into the sunset together, rather than stay with Margaret Mitchell'southward more than uncertain finish. David Selznick, the producer, is tempted only vetoes the idea.
• Finale has an interesting variation. The evidence ends with the cast walking into the burning dusk, as they walk to their deaths.

    Video Games

• Fallout and Fallout2 begin their ending cinematics with footage of the actor graphic symbol walking off into the desert.
• The opening of Sunset Riders, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
• The Bad Catastrophe of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is a Warpstar Into The Heaven.
• In Kirby'south Dream Land, as well as in "Spring Cakewalk" in Kirby Super Star, the credits play as a behemothic Kirby is floating with Male monarch Dedede's castle towards the dusk.
• Also in Kirby Super Star/Ultra, after Kirby escapes from the sinking Halberd on a Wheelie Bike, he is shown riding off into the sunset.
• A riding into the sunrise variant occurs in the catastrophe of Metal Gear Solid in which Snake and some other graphic symbol (either Meryl or Otacon) ride a snowmobile in the direction of the Alaskan sun.
• Ben, the protagonist of Full Throttle, rumbles off on his bike into a cute dusk.
• The terminal campaign of Left 4 Expressionless, "Blood Harvest," ends with the survivors getting into a military APC, which then drives off into the sunrise.
• Mass Effect ends with the Normandy flying away from the camera into the sunrise of an unknown gas giant.
  • Mass Event 2 ends similarly, though the Normandy is flying towards a gaseous orange nebula this time.
  • Mass Result 3 drives the point home in the Extended Cut. After the Normandy crashes on an unknown planet, the team repairs information technology and flies into the sunset.
• Max Payne iii ends on one of these, with the title graphic symbol walking off into the sunset of a embankment in Bahia, Brazil.
• Red Expressionless Redemption despite existence a game based on Westerns has a bit of fun with both subverting and playing this trope straight. Since John Marston dies at Ross's hands at the end of the game he doesn't have the tried and true riding off into the sunset happy ending where we know his adventuring days will keep, the game doesn't fifty-fifty get a proper credits scene later this takes place. In fact at John's grave his son Jack is moping around in depressingly sad rain while an accomplishment/trophy pops upward lampshading the traditional ending to a Western called "Into The Sunset." Information technology is eventually played straight when Jack gets revenge for his male parent'southward death and kills Ross and then walks off into the setting sun as the Reddish Expressionless Redemption logo blares across the screen allowing the credits to roll, conclusively catastrophe the story.
• The credits cinematic of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood shows the three McCall brothers riding off into the sunset—not the straightest case, as William is actually dead by the terminate of the game, then this scene is presumably a flashback Thomas or Ray are having of the time when they still traveled together.
• Happens twice in the Monkey Isle series: once at the finish of The Curse of Monkey Island, when the newlywed Guybrush and Elaine ride the Sea Cucumber off into the sunset, with his mutinied crew waving them bye; and once near the end of Tales of Monkey Isle, when the newly-reborn Guybrush, Elaine, and Winslow ride the Screaming Narwhal off into the beautiful sunrise.
• At the stop of the Heroes of Might and Magic Three: Shadow of Decease main campaign, the four good heroes function way equally they ride into the sunrise.
• The ending of Snatcher.
• Every Time Crunch game ends with the protagonists riding into the dusk, unremarkably by helicopter. Except for the fifth, where the protagonists instead swim into the sunrise.
• Out of This Earth has Buddy and Lester ride a dragon into the sunset.
• Azure Striker Gunvolt: The ending has the sunrise version of this, where Gunvolt has battled both sides of the disharmonize in the game. In this instance, sunrise represents uncertainty of a new day, as Gunvolt has faced a tragedy and is at a loss on what he'southward going to do next.
• During the end credits in Star Trick 64, the Arwings and The Corking Fox are shown flight into the sunset.

    Web Comics

    Spider web Original

• "Can Twitch Chat beat ITSELF in a Videogame Tournament?", by YouTuber and Twitch streamer DougDoug, pits Doug's livestream audience against itself past dividing them into two teams and having them compete in a series of video game challenges. In the end, the 2 teams concur to work together in i final challenge, before ending the stream by having the graphic symbol they control jump into the sea and jump into the air like a dolphin, chasing the sunset.

    Western Animation

• Avatar: The Concluding Airbender:
  • Done by Zuko to complete the Showdown at Loftier Noon homage during his Day in the Limelight. Though he's definitely not the triumphant hero in this instance.
  • Aang, Katara, and Sokka terminate episodes flying on Appa at sunset no fewer than v times in the first season. inverting the trope, this is by and large used to show Aang'due south sense of loss and breach against the coming darkness, and that all they have is each other.
• Seemingly played direct at the very cease of Beavis and Butt-Head Practise America, where B&B walk down the street into the sunset after finally locating their honey TV set. Subverted but before the fade out when Butt-Head tells Beavis that he will most likely die a virgin because "You're too much of a Butt-Monkey". The original series finale, "Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead", ends with a parody of this trope as well.
• In Ben 10: Alien Strength, at the end of i episode featuring Professor Paradox, when the heroes leave the are, they ride off into the lord's dayrise.
• At the end of the showtime episode of Compensation Hamster, Cassie ends up with her feet spring and tied to her inept Bounty Hunter Marion, so the two of them accept to hop off into the sunset instead.
• Chuck Jones' Merrie Melodies brusque "The Dover Boys at Pimento University". Dainty Dora Standpipe sashays off into the dusk (with the occasional bunny hop) with a very strange man.
• At the end of the Chiliad Finale of Danny Phantom, afterward the long-awaited Relationship Upgrade between Danny and Sam, the ii wing away to see what the futurity holds for them.
• In the Family Guy episode "I Take Thee Quagmire", a parody of Malcolm in the Centre has Lois ranting until Hal kills her by hitting her with the freezer door, followed past him declaring that he and the boys are free as they walk off into the sunset.
• In the Garfield and Friends episode "Newsworthy Wade", the catastrophe shows Wade and the host who interviewed him on "Seven Minutes" walking into the dusk, and seconds later, a chicken who kept interrupting the prove makes a statement about how every cartoon these days ends with people walking into the dusk or laughing.
• Parodied in the Chiliad.I. Joe episode "Battle for the Train of Gold". Gung-Ho tries to ride off into the sunset on a horse but for said horse to buck him off. Gung-Ho and so decides to ride off into the dusk behind the wheel of a jeep.
• Gravity Falls: The final scenes of the Grand Finale show Dipper, Mabel and Waddles on the motorbus to Piedmont and Dipper monologues about the boondocks as several of the supporting cast are shown going in new directions in their lives:
  • One-time Man McGucket, now having recovered from his instability and having become rich thanks to patenting his inventions, moves into the former Northwest Mansion. A photo during the credits shows that he'southward too rebuilding his human relationship with his son.
  • Soos has become the new Mr. Mystery, happily running the Shack alongside his Dear Interest Tune. He also made a statue of Stan.
  • Stan and Ford finally alive out their childhood dream of sailing all over the world, hunting paranormal oddities in the northward on the "Stan O' War Two." They've also now fully repaired their relationship.
• Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt: Played with. The short appears to be ending with Hiawatha paddling away downriver into the setting sun, as Bugs quotes over again from The Song of Hiawatha. Then suddenly Hiawatha zooms back to the riverbank, gives Bugs a big wet "Take That!" Buss, and then rapidly zips abroad.
• Kim Possible: Slightly dissimilar in The Grand Finale: Kim and her partner/swain Ron jump into her supercar, osculation, and wing off into the full moon.
• Parodied in King of the Hill, after Hank and Bobby came in second at a shooting contest, they walk to the sunset, until they realize they parked the motorcar elsewhere. The final episode has them grilling into the sunset with their make new grills as father and son, holding a cookout for the whole neighborhood.
• In The Looney Tunes Show episode "That's My Baby", Daffy did this as Tina stared subsequently him. (He had only appear that he wanted to kickoff a family with her, but of a sudden derailed what he was maxim into a speech about frozen yogurt, and connected to talk as he walked off...kind of spoiled the moment a chip.)
• Fittingly, the final episode of the Mega Homo cartoon had Mega Homo flying into the sunset on Rush.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Niggling Pony 'n Friends: In "Crunch the Rockdog, Part 1", a story that Paradise is reading ends this way. So Current of air Whistler questions why anyone would start off on a journey at the end of the mean solar day.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: In "Pinkie Pride", Cheese Sandwich leaves Ponyville this manner. Since he's a pony, like nearly everypony else in the show, he just walks.

    Pinkie Pie: I never did get that pony's name.
    Everyone else: Cheese Sandwich!

• Parodied at the end of i episode of Recess: Gus, after winning a game of dodgeball in the nearly awesome style possible, ends the episode walking into a dusk that wasn't there before. Hector and so yells, "Safety Human, where're you going? Schoolhouse isn't over yet!"
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: "I Was a Teenage Stimpy" ends with the fully-developed Stimpy inexplicably becoming a Flying Brick superhero and flying off into the sunset... except that he really does wing into the sun and is burned up during the Iris Out.
• Usually, Ricochet Rabbit will ricochet like a bullet into the sunset. His deputy Droopalong Coyote would effort to do the same, only to crash into the sunset, shattering it to pieces.
• The end of Rocky and Bullwinkle boxtop story arc shows the title duo ride off the sunset being heroes.
• Parodied in The Simpsons when Bart helped a retired Television cowboy become a real hero. He rides back into his house then comes out and discards a sack of garbage.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Appears in the episode "I Had An Blow", with a gorilla riding off on a pantomime horse while the main characters watch. Cut to a very confused alive-action family watching on Tv.
• SWAT Kats ends "The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice" with the titular heroes flying their custom fighter jet, the Turbokat, into the sunset with afterburners blazing, later saving Megakat City from the undead sorcerer, The Pastmaster.
• That the Lone Ranger keeps doing this annoys the citizens in Thank You Mask Man, as he takes off earlier they can properly thank and reward him for his heroics around town.
• Total Drama:
  • Because Lindsay is eliminated in "That's Off the Chain!" for losing the challenge rather than being voted off during the evening campfire anniversary, she leaves the island a little earlier in the day than the other contestants do. Equally the Gunkhole of Losers with her on board sets sail, the sun sets earlier it.
  • In the exclusive clip for "Plains, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles", Ezekiel arrives at Tijuana Beach, United mexican states at sundown. He picks up the fresh scent of the contestants and equally he gazes at the ocean'due south horizon the setting sun takes the appearance of a bag of money. Now more than determined than always, he rises dorsum on two legs and calmly walks into the water to brand his way to Hawaii.

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