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Line 4: All of a sudden..."Stop watching. Now. We mean it! It's for your own good!" The narrator has intervened to warn you about an upcoming [[Diabolus Ex Machina\|unpleasant plot twist!]] If the work in question [[Spoiled by the Format\|has more minutes/pages/episodes left]] than strictly necessary to write "And they lived [[Happily Ever After]]" over a beautiful sunset as they ride into the distance, [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle\|odds are that it won't]]. Whether it's a [[Mandatory Twist Ending]] or a [[Diabolus Ex Machina]], the end result is a supreme [[Downer Ending]] as the heroes' good fortune is [[Yank the Dog's Chain\|yanked out]] from under their feet. Normally, this happens without warning, but a [['''Snicket Warning Label]]''' will politely inform you beforehand that if you prefer the happy ending, perhaps it's best for you to quit now. A variant can occur when characters are viewing a [[Show Within a Show]], and one character delivers a warning to the other. Line 25: == [[Comic Books]] == * The "Season of Mists" story arc of ''[[The Sandman]]'' ends with a (fictional) [[G. K. Chesterton]] quotation about how any story can have a happy ending if you just stop reading in the right ~~place -- and~~place—and if you want ''The Sandman'' to have a happy ending, that's not a bad place to stop reading. == [[Film]] ==

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