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A story or prove that employs an infinite-loop motif, ending in the very way it was put into motion. The circumstances need not be exact.

The thought is that the events that led to the story are going to lead to a very similar story. If the story ends up dorsum in the same place only the situation has changed that'due south Where It All Began. If the story starts and ends with similar scenes for dramatic irony/tension then that's Book Ends.

Compare And the Adventure Continues..., and Eternal Recurrence, which does this to the unabridged 'verse.

If the next iteration of the story happens to the next generation nosotros have Generation Xerox.

Non to exist confused with the Ray Charles song; or a Groundhog Day Loop, where time itself is repeating as a plot device within the story. Compare with Status Quo Is God. Opposite of We Are Not Going Through That Over again, where the hero refuses to set off on another adventure.

Examples of Here We Go Once more include:

Anime and Manga

Gunslinger Daughter. In the last episode of the (first season) anime, Henrietta and Jose are continuing in the same places that they did in the first episode, only without the dialogue.
Magikano ends this way by turning dorsum time to the get-go of the first episode.
The kickoff one-half of the last episode of the fourth season of Galaxy Affections uses reincarnation to rewind dorsum to the 2nd one-half of the first episode of the third season. Not confused yet? This show isn't fifty-fifty supposed to have continuity!
Madlax effectively opens and ends with the titular Activity Girl receiving a call from her liaison who informs her about a new mission. Which is a plot bespeak.
After the climax of Tekkaman Blade II's second arc, the serial ends with another Radam invasion, just similar information technology began, just with a lot more Tekkamen on the side of the World.
The Bittersweet Ending of Hell Teacher Nube concludes like this, with Nube going on some other foreign take a chance with his brand-new class of 5th-graders (all of whom share some similarities to Doumori Unproblematic's v-three homeroom students.)
Implied at the stop of Paranoia Agent.
At the end of Wolf'due south Rain some of the characters that died in the last episodes of the series appear alive (Perhaps reincarnated)in a mod metropolis. In the last scene, Kiba begins running, implying that the search for the Paradise started over again.
At the end of Elemental Gelade, Coud tries to pull off a very like heist like at the start of the anime, but this time with his new partner Ren.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica's Spin-Off Puella Magi Oriko Magica ended this way.

Comic Books

Five for Vendetta, V rescues/kidnaps someone and brings them to the Shadow Gallery.
The original run of The Sandman ended with the rising of a new Dream, but likewise with Dream looking out upon and recreating his kingdom, which was a common theme in the start of the series.
Superman Red Son. In the end, American President Luthor outwits and defeats Superman's global communist takeover and ushers in a new era of peace, prosperity, and technological mastery for mankind. For a billion years, Luthor'due south line of descendants assist make humanity the most avant-garde species in the known Universe. Eventually, as the Earth ages and the Dominicus dims to an angry cerise, Luthor's neat-grandson to the ability l, Jor-L, discovers that the Earth is in imminent danger of beingness destroyed. His warnings ignored, he launches his only son Kal-50 in a tiny rocket back in time to prevent the cold complacency of his order.
Grant Morrison's JLA run ends with all the new members added during the run written out of the team, leaving the core seven back in place. Then a distress call comes in well-nigh a supervillain threat, and the League heads off to deal with him.

Films — Live-Action

The Robinsons using the hyperdrive once more in Lost in Space (prompting the comment, "Hither we go again").
The Md Who Made for Idiot box Movie opens with the Seventh Doc in the TARDIS, where he settles down to read The Time Auto and listen to a gramophone record. The record starts skipping, so he abandons this. At the end of the movie, the Eighth Medico settles in the same chair with the same book and music. When the tape starts to skip he says "Non again!"
At the beginning of the first Pirates of the Caribbean area motion-picture show, Cap'n Jack Sparrow has only a small gunkhole to his name after his coiffure stole his send and set off past themselves to become the treasure he'd establish a guide to. The end of the third film finds him in the same state of affairs again. Only this time, he was smart enough to keep the treasure map with him.
- Or more than specifically, he cuts out the critical center section of the map, leaving the rest, rolled upwards to hide the missing section, on his ship and so that the mutinous crew doesn't know until he's long gone that information technology'south been stolen.
- It goes a scrap further; Gibbs is back in Tortuga, while Barbossa and his surviving crew are dorsum in possession of the Blackness Pearl afterwards leaving Jack behind again.
At the beginning of the 1996 Mission Impossible picture show, Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) receives his "This Folio Volition Self-Destruct" mission orders from a flight attendant on an aeroplane, who enquires whether he would similar to lookout an Eastern European film: a reference to the location of his next mission. The film ends with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) on a plane, being asked if he would like to watch a film: "Would you consider the movie house of the Caribbean? Aruba, perhaps?"
The archetype horror anthology Dead of Night begins with the protagonist arriving at a house and telling the guests that he has seen that firm, and those guests, in a prophetic dream. Information technology ends with him waking up, then driving out to a familiar house...
The Bourne films begin and end with the titular protagonist globe-trotting in water.
Large Trouble in Little Communist china begins (apart from a brief pre-credits scene) and ends with sequences of Jack Burton driving the Pork Chop Express through pouring rain while delivering ane of his grandstanding bullshit speeches over the CB. Of grade, in the latter scene, we also move into Cliff Hanger territory. Only a shame that there wasn't a sequel...
This is basically the plot of Jumanji. Information technology stars with some kids getting rid of the game. Then the pb male child finds the game, they have to stop, then they endeavor to get rid of information technology. And it ends with some other pair of kids finding information technology and wanting to play. A wheel is reborn.
Infernal Affairs III ends with a flashback scene that ends at precisely the aforementioned moment that the showtime motion picture began.
All About Eve
The Happening has it happen once more in France.
Similarly, 28 Weeks After ends with Infected rushing into Paris.
The Crazies used this trope while simultaneously treading into Shoot the Shaggy Canis familiaris Story territory. The film starts with US Government setting up a quarantine around a pocket-sized town due to a virus epidemic. The main graphic symbol couple survived through the whole thing, escaped the town, and the movie ends with the two of them walking to a nearby city. Cue the US Government setting upwardly the aforementioned quarantine around that city.
Subverted in Dude, Where'southward My Car?. The movie starts with two guys waking up not remembering what happened yesterday and found out that their auto is missing. The end of the movie (later Laser-Guided Amnesia) seems to follow the aforementioned route with the ii not remembering what happened yesterday and realizing that their auto is missing, before some other car got out of the parking spot, revealing their own motorcar.
The Incredible Shrinking Woman ends with Lily Tomlin, restored to normal size, hearing the audio of textile tearing. She looks down to see her (growing) foot break out of her shoe, smiles, and rolls her eyes as if to say it.
Smokey and the Bandit: Throughout the film, Bandit had been racing to win an $eighty,000 bet to get a load of beer from Texas to Georgia in 28 hours. Having won the bet in the terminate, said clients then become a hankering for genuine Boston clam chowder...in 18 hours. "Double or cypher?" they offer. His answer? "You're on." And Bandit hits the route over again.
Manos: The Easily of Fate: The flick starts with Mike and Margaret and their girl Debbie arriving at a dilapidated motel, where they encounter an odd homo who greets them saying "I aM TORgo. I Accept CARe oF THe pLaCE whILE the Chief is abroad.". In the end, some other couple arrives, but are greeted by Mike who says "I am Michael. I take care of the place while the master is abroad.".
Jumanji ends with two French girls walking on a beach hearing strange drumming that was coming from the game, lying non also far abroad from the girls.

Literature

Stephen King's The Dark Tower series uses this as well. The final volume ends with Roland making it to the peak of the belfry, and finding himself in the desert following the man in black - and it isn't the outset time he's been sent back to the starting time. There'due south an ambiguous inkling that he might change things this time around, though.
Some other King instance in Needful Things, which starts with a narrator talking to the reader about the new store coming into boondocks and telling us a bit well-nigh the town, and ends likewise in a dissimilar town.
Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents ends with Maurice finding some other stupid-looking kid to help earn his fortune.
The beginning Artemis Fowl book starts with the titular graphic symbol researching a hunch he has nearly fairies. At the end of the 6th volume, he'southward gone through a Stable Fourth dimension Loop back to earlier the showtime book with by!Artemis getting heed-wiped to preserve the timeline. The last scene is him waking up post mind-wipe, back in the past, and half remembering "Fairies. Something about fairies."
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, arguably Laura Numeroff's most famous work, begins with the mouse being given a cookie, and request for various other favors until the cease, where he wants a cookie over again. Numeroff herself described information technology as a "circular story."
- Several of Numeroff's other books follow the same pattern, either with the same mouse (If You Have a Mouse to the Movies) or with other animals (If You Give a Pig a Pancake).
Robert Cormier's I Am The Cheese
E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros
Word of God says that this is the basic premise of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Fourth dimension series, although the series simply depicts one Age rather than a full turn of the Bicycle.
The epilogue of The Aldous Lexicon ends by describing events like those which began the books, with Naia's child in place of Alaric/Naia, and a collage made by Naia replacing the sculpture by Alaric'south mother. Which raises the question of whether Naia'south mother had known about the other worlds, amid other things.
Every volume in the Captain Underpants serial e'er ends with George and Harold beingness dragged into another run a risk. Yeah, that'due south how information technology goes. The Genre Savvy kids even comment on this in one volume, when ane says that he's surprised that they made it to the cease of the volume without going "Oh no!" and "Hither we go again!". Of class, they don't really.
Ted Dekker's Circle series. The first 3 books came and it was quite a gripping story that seemed to pb to a happy ending. But then along came Green where Thomas is sent back in time to have some other risk to set things right, to the commencement of book 1, with the condition that his memories of what is to happen are erased. Effectively crating a loop, for without the knowledge of what is to happen, he is bound to make the aforementioned choices.
In-universe instance: The Dragaera novels are set up in an empire governed in accord with the Cycle, a system past which each of the 17 Houses rules in turn. The compiled editions of the Vlad Taltos books open up with an in-universe poem to illustrate this, that gives every House a line in order, both starting and ending with the House of the Phoenix.
The Harry Potter series combines a variation of this with Distant Finale, in which Harry and Ginny's son and girl are sent to starting time their first year at Hogwarts. At the same time Ron is sending his and Hermione'due south daughter to her first year. The variation occurs since it'southward not Harry and Ron themselves, just rather their children.
An odd Timey-Wimey Brawl variation in the Physician Who Expanded Universe novel "Borrowed Time"; the opening scene is gear up during the sub-prime mortgage bubble, and has ii mysterious figures in dark suits offering a beleaguered banker a wristwatch that lets him "borrow" time. The epilogue is gear up during the 16th century tulipmania bubble, and has 2 mysterious figures in dark doublets and hose offer a beleaguered tulip trader a pocket sentry that lets her "infringe" time. Less "Here We Go Again" and more than "There We Went Before".
In the epilogue of Replay, the Groundhog Day Loop is happening to someone new, but his replay date is when Jeff's cease engagement was.
The Walter de la Mare poem "Sam'southward Three Wishes, or Life's Little Whirligig" ends with Sam in the verbal same situation he was at the start, and contains some corking Fridge Brilliance if you're willing to start the poem all once more.
The first three Vernon Bright books end similar this.
- In the first book Bright de-magnetises himself simply to discover he's go electrically charged.
- The second ends with their "Faster Than Low-cal Machine" creating infinite Bright'due south
- The third has 2. Bright's father has to get and stop a falling star crashing into the planet and destroying all life on Globe and at the same time the gravity machine has inverted and is creating a miniature black pigsty.
- The quaternary volume is different because John realises that the "Frankenstein's Hamster" could just be hibernating ...

Live-Action Television receiver

Seinfeld did this for the entire series, ending its last episode with the main characters in jail, having exactly the aforementioned conversation that opened the kickoff episode.
The eighth season ending of Stargate SG-1, "Moebius", would have been this if the show hadn't been renewed; through time travel, the primary characters cease upwardly fighting Ra again, and in an contradistinct timeline, discovering the Stargate and being brought together to form the Stargate program, and even recruiting Teal'c again.
While the final episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 does take Mike and the 'bots escaping the Satellite of Love and returning to Globe, the episode ends with Mike, Crow, and Tom Servo sharing an flat, riffing on the cable broadcast of The Crawling Eye (the same picture that was featured in the very first episode).
In the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Dingle the Potent", comical Martians give the milquetoast title character Super Force. Hilarity Ensues until the Martians take Dingle'southward strength back--but they and then recommend him to comical Venusians who need a homo test field of study to give super intelligence...
In episode 6, Flavor two of The Big Bang Theory the episode begins and ends with Sheldon having a fan girl graduate educatee asking him if he wants dinner. He should have learnt afterwards the first time.
- The episode "Shadow Play" ends with a graphic symbol waking up from his dream... just information technology turns out, it's a recurring ane.
The Prisoner concluded with... the opening credits.
Thank you began the serial with Sam Malone coming out of the dorsum room, turning on the lights and opening the bar. The series ended with Sam locking the bar, turning off the lights, and strolling back into the back room.
Aye, Beloved started out with Jimmy and Christine, with their kids (Dominic and Logan), at Greg and Kim's firm request for shelter. The serial ended with the same four people at said residence asking Greg and Kim whether the guesthouse they had stayed in earlier moving out was yet available.
Battlestar Galactica Reimagined, possibly. The series was all almost a Robot War (really multiple Robot Wars in the distant by) so it'due south Arc Words ("All of this has happened before and all of information technology volition happen again") audio a bit... spooky upon the series finale ending with the photographic camera panning onto a present-day TV headline titled ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS. Head!Vi and Caput!Baltar even lampshade this.

Half dozen: Commercialism, decadence, technology run amok... remind you of annihilation?

Baltar: Take your selection: Kobol... Earth... the real Globe before this 1... Caprica earlier the Fall...

Arrested Development almost repeats itself likewise. Just like in the pilot, the family is having a party on a gunkhole to celebrate Michael condign the new CEO, and the SEC arrives. (Buster even acknowledges that "They still have boats?") However, this time, they get in to arrest Lucile. Inverting this trope at the last minute, Michael leaves with his son (and obviously his begetter) instead of staying to keep his family and the business intact.
Kenan and Kel ofttimes ended their episodes this way with the two addressing the audience later their latest misadventure. Kenan would come up with another zany scheme and tell Kel to meet him somewhere and bring something before dashing off. Kel would complain for a bit before yelling out "Awwwww, hither it goes!".

Machinima

The first flavour of Cerise vs. Blueish did this; the first and terminal episodes began with the camera rising upwards to view Simmons and Grif having the same conversation. Grif has a different response each fourth dimension, though. ~~One of the series' Multiple Endings~~ the series' canonical ending does this as well, albeit with the ruddy and blue team switching roles.

Music

The children's favorite, "The Song That Never Ends" (aka "The Song That Doesn't End").
Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends ends with the hidden rail "The Escapist" which plays straight into "Life in Technicolor," the showtime rails.
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone". The flowers take gone to young girls, who have gone to young men, who have gone to be soldiers, who take gone to graveyards, which have gone to flowers...
A variation of this is in Snowfall Patrol'southward music video for "Chocolate". The entire video revolves around people panicking while an hourglass and digital timer count down to 0. When it gets there, everybody huddles down, only for nothing to happen. The vocaliser walks upwardly and flips the hourglass over, which causes the timer to reset and the panic to resume.
In Harry Nilsson's "Coconut", putting the lime in the kokosnoot and drinking them both up gives a woman a bellyache, prompting her to call the doctor and wake him up. He advises her to put the lime in the coconut and drink them both together, assuring her that "so you'll experience better". So forth.
"In that location's a hole in the bucket, honey Liza, dearest Liza..."
The Flanders and Swann vocal "The Gasman Cometh" utilizes this.
Taylor Swift seems to be very fond of this.
Alice Cooper's Concept Anthology Along Came a Spider does this. The prologue begins with "We found his diary today", and the epilogue begins with "They establish my diary today". A shut listening reveals that the events keep on repeating themselves.
Radiohead'southward anthology OK Computer does this. The offset vocal, "Airbag", describes the backwash of a machine crash. The last vocal, "The Tourist", features the lines "They inquire me where the hell I'm going / at a thou feet per second" and "Hey human being, deadening downward / Hey idiot, slow downwards", suggesting an imminent machine crash.
Pink Floyd's Rock Opera The Wall begins with, at the very outset second, Pink saying "we came in?". The very final song cuts off with Pinkish maxim "Isn't this where". Note that the background music in both the terminal vocal and the beginning of the beginning one is the same. So if yous play the whole album on a loop, it will be seamless. The Floyd did this earlier with the heartbeat sound effect (actually a treated bass drum) on The Dark Side of the Moon.
Almost identical to the Coldplay example, the AFI album Sing The Sorrow has a hidden rail called This Time Imperfect whose ending (deliberately-inserted static) blends seamlessly into the beginning.
"In the Year 2525" goes to the end of flesh, and so starts all over far away.
"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" The daughter winds up repeating the female parent's life.
In Dream Theater's 24-minute epic "Octavarium," the unabridged theme is coming full circle. In the second section, for example, the narrator wakes upwards from a 30-year coma. By the end, he has fallen back into the coma.
All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan has "Two Riders were approaching" as the 2d-to-terminal line. This (probable) refers to the the Joker and Thief who are quoted at the beginning of the song.
Whitesnake has a song all about this:

"Here I go, again on my own..."

The album BE by Pain of Salvation opens with the nascency of a god, the first track beginning with heartbeats and faint whispers of the line "I'm at the line, I see it all." This same line appears in its original class in the 2nd to last song as a space probe begins to gain sentience. The concluding track begins identically to the beginning, implying that information technology an countless loop similar to that in "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov.
Terrorvision's "How To Make Friends and Influence People" has the aforementioned "Tick... Tock... " at the beginning and the end.
Machine Head'south "The Burning Crimson" has the aforementioned riff at the beginning and the end.
Many video game soundtracks tend to loop, then guess this counts.
"Weird Al" Yankovic's "I Lost on Jeopardy!" ends with:

Invoked in Tom Lehrer'due south "A Christmas Ballad."
In the video for the Foo Fighters song "Monkey Wrench", Dave and the band find an apparent group of their clones singing the song in his apartment. Somewhen, they get in to observe them running away. Then they finish the song, however, nosotros pan out of the flat to encounter another grouping of clones looking inside, wondering what's going on.

Radio

The Business firm in Cypress Coulee, a horror story featured in a 1946 episode of the CBS testify Suspense, concludes in this mode.

Tabletop Games

Used word for word in an alternate ending to one of the Gehenna scenarios in Vampire: The Masquerade. This ending, titled "Hither We Go Over again," involves the Tzimisce Antediluvian beingness defeated just as it was in the original ending; however, the thespian characters do not transform back into humans. Not only exercise they remain vampires, only they announced to have become more powerful than ever earlier, and their clan weakness no longer affects them: now that the old Antediluvians are all dead or beyond all human concerns, the players have taken their place to start the unabridged history of vampires all over over again.

Theater

The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, ends with Sabina coming out onstage, acting out her first scene of the show. She then stops and tells the audition that the play hasn't been finished yet, and they tin get home whenever the like, with the implication that the play-within-a-play is on an infinite loop. This is itself meant to symbolize how human history keeps repeating itself, and that virtually things don't change in the long run.
On the Town: Chip, Ozzie and Gabey'due south twenty-four hours are upwardly, and they return to the ship... but iii new sailors get off the ship on their shore leave, singing "New York, New York." (The catastrophe of the film version is the aforementioned.)
Woody Allen'southward play God ends with the two leads repeating their opening lines, which are complaining virtually the play not having an ending.
Candide has the comic ballad "What'southward the Use?" The Old Lady, who operates a rigged roulette wheel, is exploited past her employer, who pays protection to a police chief, who is beingness blackmailed by a crook, who has a terrible roulette habit.
JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls begins with the titular inspector visiting the upper-form Birling family unit to interrogate them nigh the death of a immature working-class woman, gradually revealing that each of them was partly responsible for her eventual suicide. At the end, it is revealed that the inspector who visited them was not a real policeman. The double-twist comes when Mr Birling receives a telephone call telling him that the girl'southward suicide really is being investigated, and an inspector volition be sent round to ask some questions.
Chicago: Moments afterward the jury finds Roxie Hart non guilty, three pistol shots are heard, and the crowd rushes out to investigate. It seems that another woman has shot her boyfriend and his wife.
The main plot All'south Well That Ends Well starts with Helena curing the King of France, existence offered the mitt of any nobleman she likes in reward, and having Bertram, who she chooses, reject her. At the end of the play, she's managed to win him dorsum with the assist of Diana; when she tells the story to the King, he says Diana tin take the paw of whatsoever nobleman she likes as a reward for helping Helena...
The Human being Who Came to Dinner ends with Sheridan Whiteside, having fully recovered from his injury, walking out the forepart door of the Stanley home and slipping and falling on the steps over again.

Video Games

Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time also did a time-reset to the offset. However, this was followed by a final fight scene in which the Big Bad is defeated, meaning that the events of the game never actually take place, and merely the Prince remembers them.
Prince of Persia, the side by side-gen game features this: Earlier the game, The Mourning King offers upwards his soul to resurrect Elika. At the cease, Elika sacrifices her life to re-imprison Ahriman. Ahriman then whispers the offer to resurrect the Prince'south love if he frees the nighttime god. The Prince accepts.
The Infocom text game Trinity begins and ends with your character spending the final few minutes before the start of World War III performing identical tasks in the Kensington Gardens. Complete with a foreshadowing/ironic slogan and "you lot feel yous should do X" epilogue.
Many video games from the 80s "concluded" in this fashion. Perchance most memorable was the game The Legend of Kage, which described the happy times of your character and the princess he merely saved, and and then with a foreboding "However....." begins the kidnapping process all over again.
The 2004 version of The Bards Tale has "good" ending exercise this. Incidentally, the other 2 are much more crawly. The expert ending is siding with Fionnaoch and killing Caleigh, with The Bard catastrophe upwardly having to con people for a living in one case once again.
The original Spyro the Dragon begins with Gnasty Gnorc, infuriated past the dragons' badmouthing of him, petrifying about every dragon in the land into a crystal statue. At the end of the game, after Spyro defeats Gnasty, frees all the dragons and re-collects all the treasure in the kingdom, Spyro makes a snide comment about Gnasty "non being a worthy opponent", which sets the original plot in movement over again, prompting Spyro to speak the name of this trope.
In the platformer Gods (the PC version, at least; other versions differ), at the completion of the game you are given the reward of immortality. Then the game suggests yous should apply your new ability to do something challenging, and warps you back to level one.
Shadow Hearts: Covenant had a version of this in the good ending. With his friends scattered throughout fourth dimension and his lover expressionless (the bad catastrophe of the starting time game was the canonical ane) Yuri chooses to die rather than allow the expletive he'southward nether to rob him of the memories of his friends and loved ones. When adjacent nosotros see him, he'southward at the beginning of the first Shadow Hearts game, clearly planning to alter the past and get the good ending.
In Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mario says it in a cutscene after you complete every world where Donkey Kong accidentally loses all his Mini Mario Toys and gain to kidnap the Toads who produce them instead. And so you have to consummate a new gear up of levels, albeit set in the same worlds as your first run. After you complete these levels, a similiar cutscene appears, where Donkey Kong had the Mini Mario Toys in his bag all along and takes these away with him. Mario then says "Here we go over again ... again!" and goes to the final dominate battle.
Subverted ever so slightly in Killer 7. The stop of the first mission has Harman Smith request Kun Lan "Are you awake from your dream?" to which Kun Lan responds "The size of the earth has changed." In the end of the last mission, Harman asks Kun Lan, "Are you lot awake from your nightmare?" The response is "The world doesn't change, all it does is turn."
- Too, their confrontation at the get-go of the game takes identify in Seattle; their confrontation at the end takes place in an unspecified Chinese city. Yous can probably fill up in the blanks.
Happens in the Best Ending in Metal Max Returns.
Paper Mario the M Yr Door ends with Princess Peach and Toadsworth arriving at Mario'south firm, telling him that they found a new treasure map and demand him to help them find the treasure. The large deviation is that the 2nd treasure presumably isn't secretly an Eldritch Abomination trying to trick someone into releasing information technology.
Dissidia Final Fantasy has an farthermost case : in the last cutscene, the heroes are in a cute land, and all warp back to their respective worlds... except the Warrior of Light, who just walks away with his crystal in hand to a town that'southward plainly Corneria, the City of Dreams. aka. the very commencement town of the entire series, effectively starting the plot of the very first game.
Every sports game ever made.
I'm not sure if this fully applies simply in the Sega Genesis platformer Saint Sword after you hack your fashion through multiple levels, defeat various bosses and climb to the pinnacle of Gorgan's sinister castle you'd call back you would emerge victorious after felling the evildoer. This is not the case, he promptly mocks y'all maxim that yous are as well weak and cannot defeat him then sends you back to the showtime level, stripping yous of all your items and transformation icons whilst generously letting you go along your score. Although there is a slight variation in the second playthrough, such as nighttime versions of the levels and enemies that now have ranged attacks, this is probably a fair instance of Nintendo Hard, he can exist beaten the second fourth dimension though. The evil bastard.
Super Mario Galaxy features a galaxy unlockable but after collecting all 120 stars and again as Luigi. The Grand Finale Milky way is actually just the game'southward intro level (Awesome Music and Scenery Porn included), where nearly of the characters in the game congratulate you on being crawly.
Comix Zone invokes the trope without lampshading it: if you beat the final boss, but don't exercise it quickly enough to relieve the girl, the protagonist will endeavour to recreate the circumstances that led to the beginning of the game, and then that he can bring her back.
Chrono Trigger's truthful ending is this manner, besides as nigh variations of it. Later finishing their primary quest, the main character'south mother hops into the last Time Gate only before it closes, forcing the political party to hop into their time automobile for one more than adventure.
The Path, after the girl in white visits the grandmother, returns to the empty graphic symbol select room. Each of the girls in red enters, takes up her original position, and they become selectable over again.
Yous just tin't keep Carmen Sandiego in jail.
Cho Ren Sha 68K: That explosion y'all meet at the outset of the game? Complete Stage 0 (the final phase of a given loop in this game) of the start loop and equally the issue screen shows upward, you'll find that the dominate doesn't explode right away like other bosses. After the upshot screen disappears, then it explodes, you come across the very explosion y'all saw at the beginning of the game, and you beginning Phase 1 of the second loop.
The bad ending of Suikoden Tierkreis is somewhere between this and Shoot the Shaggy Domestic dog. The Ane Male monarch you fight wasn't the original--he chose to sacrifice the lives of his allies to kill the previous One King, and wound upward replacing him. Sacrifice your ain allies, and approximate what happens?
In Tales of Monkey Island Affiliate two: The Siege of Spinner Cay, this is lampshaded past the MerLeader when McGillicutty repeatedly attempts to drown him/her as "torture":

Chieftain Beluga: Guybrush, sink his ship!

McGillicutty: I'll deal with you subsequently, Stinkwood! I call up old fin-confront here wants another dip in the drink! HA ha ha ha harr!

Chieftain Beluga: Here we get over again. [southward/he is lowered into the water]

The gun game Carn Evil ends with a ill, twisted version of this. After surviving the evil circus, yous end up back at the grave where information technology all began. A moment later, the token used to first the whole business pops out of the bottom of the tombstone like a prize coin. A manus picks it upward...and then (fifty-fifty as the girl screams in the background) puts it back in the tombstone. Without saying them, the catastrophe scene depicts the three near dreaded words one tin can hear at the end of a scary ride: "Wanna get once more?"

Web Comics

Gunnerkrigg Court's filler "City Face" lampshaded this. On the lesser right of the last panel, where in the comic proper in that location would be an antimony symbol marking the cease of the chapter, there was a box saying "goto #1".
Penny Arcade gives a single strip-wide example nigh a cyclical argument.
Xkcd, being XKCD, puts a non-orientable spin on the concept here.

Web Original

Atop the 4th Wall: After Missingno is convinced to kill itself and everything is back to what passes for normal in a That Guy With The Glasses show, That Dude in the Suede is seen playing Pokémon Blood-red, talking to the old man who sends y'all to Cinnabar Island where yous can take hold of Missingno.

Western Animation

Codename: Kids Adjacent Door has had this happen on 1 occasion or another.
- "Operation SPROUT": Bored while listening to his father'south stories at dwelling house during dinner time, Numbuh iv accidentally eats a Brussels sprout, supposedly to turn him into an adult faster, but his teammates were able to remove information technology from his body in time before he digested it, and just earlier the shrink result wore off within six minutes. Returning dwelling after the mission, Numbuh four then accidentally eats a piece of liver.
- "Operation HOTSTUFF": Numbuh 3 finds it uncomfortable sleeping at her home on cold nights, but Mr. Sanban likes the cold. When Numbuh three turns up the thermostat, the Sanban habitation transforms into a volcano about to erupt. While Numbuh 4 is keeping an middle on Mr. Sanban back at the treehouse, the rest of Sector V is sent in decline the thermostat to save the firm from erupting, but not later on contending with Numbuh 3, who had undergone a monstrous, volcanic transformation. After the mission is over and Numbuh three is back to normal, Mr. Sanban turns down the thermostat in the treehouse, causing it to freeze over into a block of ice and maybe causing Mr. Sanban to undergo a monstrous, icy transformation.
Dexter'southward Laboratory, "Nuclear Confusion": The volume Dexter had been reading gets stolen after he had to rails down some nuclear fuel he was using in his lab to ability the lamp he was using to read the book.
Johnny Bravo, "Brave New Johnny": Johnny Bravo slips on pilus gel, falls into a vat of the stuff. Wakes upwards in time to come. Eventually gets dorsum to the present through a descendant of Carl's fourth dimension auto. Promptly slips again.
Hey Arnold loves this trope:
- "Door #16": Arnold accepts package for Mr. Smith, a reclusive boarder at the apartment house his grandparents run. Hijinks ensue as he tries to keep the other boarders from opening information technology and deliver it to Smith. Boarders end up opening package in the terminate to reveal a photo of the boarders besides Smith. Arnold so discovers he has to take another package for him.
- "Salve The Tree": Arnold and friends have prevented Helga'southward dad from cutting down a tree they've built a treehouse in to build a beeper shop... but he's now focusing his attention on the lot they play baseball in.
- "Timberly Loves Arnold": The plot of the episode is that Timberly, the sister of Arnold's friend Gerald, develops a crush on Arnold for telling Gerald it was all right for her to accompany them playing frisbee in the park; fast-frontward to the end of the episode, where it'southward their common buddy, Sid, who talks them into letting her accompany them to a game of baseball. No points for guessing what happens as the episode ends.
- "Arnold Betrays Iggy": Arnold makes Iggy a laughing stock of the school when he indirectly reveals that Iggy wears bunny pajamas. Later a serial of favors and Iggy remaining mad at him, Arnold does Iggy 1 last favor and wears the same bunny pajamas on live telly making him the new laughing stock instead of Iggy. The episode ends with Arnold now mad at Iggy and Iggy begging Arnold to forgive him.
Recess, "The Game": It opens with Gus finding a carte that was simply thrown over the fence, and information technology'due south part of a very addictive game. At the end, afterward everything is straightened out, Gus throws information technology back over the fence, and the next kids to find it get down to the corner shop to buy some more cards.
Rocket Power, "Double-O Twistervision": Opens with the RP gang complaining about a movie they just saw ("A monkey could make a better flick!") and deciding to make their own movie. After the finished production is shown at the Shore Shack (information technology takes up nigh of the story), Mackenzie does the same complaining to her friends, replete with monkey comment.
The Earthworm Jim episode "Hyper Psy-Crow" almost has a Hither Nosotros Go Again catastrophe, just when Jim comes in and complains almost information technology (even using this exact term), they decide to Drop the Cow instead. The dialog:

Psycrow: Oh well. Hither nosotros go again!

EJ: Concord it! Nosotros are not going to do a "Here we go again" ending on my show!

(subsequently Psycrow asks what they'll do instead)

EJ: Accept a guess.

Psycrow: Uh... The cow thing?

(a cow falls on Psycrow)

The cartoon Mighty Max literally ended where it started, with time resetting dorsum to the very first episode. The hero, however, remembered the events of the series and claimed that with that knowledge, the villain wouldn't know what hit him.
Can be used at the end of an All Just a Dream ep, e.thousand., Codename: Kids Side by side Door, "Operation: SITTER"
Sylvan, an obscure 80s cartoon was a 100% hither we go over again serial The protagonist was plant in the woods with amnesia. His skills and looks brand him resemble a Prince Valiant from another realm, who patently disappeared when saving his love. He eventually finds out that he really is the prince, and therefore he can ally the princess he loved. Who is unfortunately kidnapped past a Big Bad of the serial, which, to avoid capture casts a powerful spell, which makes the Prince wake up in the woods with amnesia.
Subverted and parodied in The Simpsons episode "Sideshow Bob's Final Gleaming". After Bart and Lisa thwart the villain, Grandpa rides up on a motorcycle and says that he'south going to "haul ass to Lollapalooza!" (a Remember to earlier in the episode, where a parody of Roseanne used the verbal same dialog). The rest of the Simpsons exclaim "Here we go again!", with Marge lagging a lilliputian backside and patently less than enthusiastic.
Looney Tunes
- A cartoon features several Hospital hijinks between Tweety, Sylvester, and Hector after their chase ends upward in traffic. At the end of the episode, the three of them are released, only for them to first running in the streets again. Nurse Granny, who had but checked them out, simply sighs "Que sera sera" as she prepares to cheque them back in.
- The Speedy Gonzales cartoon "Tabasco Road" has Speedy protecting his drunken friends from a cat, only to have them choice a fight with every true cat in the alley at the end.
- One Froggy Evening ends a hundred years in the future, when someone else discovers the box with the frog, and gets dollar signs in his optics.
The Tom and Jerry cartoon "The Truce Hurts" featured Tom, Jerry, and Butch fighting each other, and Butch eventually talks all 3 into a truce. By the end of the cartoon, the truce breaks down, and the three of them pick upwardly correct where they left off.
The Jimmy Two-Shoes episode "At that place's Always a Hiccup" ends with Heloise cured of her hiccups, and Beezy getting them.
In Tiny Toon Adventures, every Baby Plucky segment ends by showing Plucky nevertheless hasn't grown out of whatever abrasive habit he had in the flashback.
After dealing with a mischievous Energy Existence in the The Transformers episode "Kremzeek", a duplicate that hid out in Blaster jumps out and hops abroad, leaving the Autobots to hunt it all over once again.
The Fractured Fairy Tales version of Rapunzel, similar the ordinary version, starts with Rapunzel's pregnant mother getting a craving for the rampion growing in a witch's garden. Information technology ends:

Rapunzel: Darling, I know this sounds fantastic and utterly absurd, but I have this uncontrollable desire to have a salad made from that diverseness of European bellflower.

Prince: Rampion?

Rapunzel: Yes honey, rampion!

Witch: Well, here we go again! (Evil Express joy)

Hither Comes the Grump employs a variation: the Hither We Become Again moment is always at the first of the episode.
Taken Upwardly to Eleven in the Drawn Together episode where the gang plots revenge on a critic of the bear witness, start with them watching a show with a flight kangaroo. Spanky farts for an extended period of time to show his distaste of the show. At the end of the episode after they finally face the critic, Spanky calls a flight kangaroo to fly him out of the window. Information technology zooms out to the flying kangaroo, being watched on TV by the gang, when Spanky farts for an extended menses of time to prove his distaste of the testify.
The ending of The Rugrats Pic has one of these, the movie kicks off when Angelica kicks the reptar railroad vehicle out the door with the babies inside causing it to eventually end up in the woods, in a scene after the catastrophe credits a goat Boris had given the Pickles earlier headbutts the reptar carriage with Grandpa Lou within causing information technology to roll downwardly the street and the goat chases after him.
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin seems to end with Teddy, Grubby, and Gimmick returning to Rillionia, merely for the terminal episode to stop with the trio taking off in their balloon for more adventure.
The Oblongs episode "Affluent, Affluent, Sweet Helga" ends with Helga finally getting out of the sewers after Pickles inadvertently sets the sewage on fire with a discarded cigarette and ending up knocking Debbie's locket into the sewer again, making Helga retrieve it.
Phineas and Ferb, "Phineas and Ferb Interrupted": Phineas and Ferb terminate up losing involvement in their usual crazy projects afterward getting hitting past a stray shot from Dr. Doofenshmirtz's "Dull-and-Boring-inator". Perry goes back to Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. and convinces Doofenshmirtz to help him brand a Dynamic-inator. When the auto is finally built, the shot fired misses Phineas and Ferb, only they manage to snap out of it by themselves in time to save Candace. When the kids go habitation, they find Linda interim weird afterwards getting striking by the stray Dynamic-inator boom, and the episode ends with Perry going back to Doofenshmirtz to rebuild the Tiresome-and-Wearisome-inator.
Adventure Time, "Evicted": Finn and Jake finally repossess their dwelling from Marceline, only to observe a bunch of worms crawling around their living room. Then a behemothic "male monarch worm" descends from the second floor and brainwashes them into giving him a hug.
Arthur also likes this trope, so much they've even composed an annoying music cue to back-trail these kind of endings (such as in "Arthur Makes the Team," "Squad Problem," "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver," "Arthur's Dummy Disaster," "Francine and the Feline," and "Is In that location a Doctor in the House?")

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