All the Good Guys live happily ever after, except the Offical Best Friend, who always dies early on in the pice.

Aslan is really Jesus. Except a lot more tedious.

Medea kills her children than commits suicide



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Laura marries Almanzo.
Mary goes blind.

Oliver doesn't get some more.

Charlie wins the Chocolate Factory.

Peter captures the wolf.

The Nutcracker Ballet is a dream.

Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world/
(almost every action/adventure movie or book)

SLIGHTCAP wrote:

> The Nutcracker Ballet is a dream.
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sometimes you just have to be in my head.
sometimes it will be rather crowded in there, sometimes echoingly quiet...

young boy, befriends a wizard and bunch of other misfits, loses his guardians to the bad guy, and goes off to save the world(s), defeats the bad guy, only to have the bad guy come back in the next instalment (to the musical accompaniment of John Williams)



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sometimes you just have to be in my head.
sometimes it will be rather crowded in there, sometimes echoingly quiet...

Darth Vader kills the Emperor...

Little furry wookies defeat elite stormtroopers with sticks and stones...

old wizard loses his wand and gets blasted over the battlements of a tower...

person loses magic ring... another person loses magic ring... another person loses magic ring...

johnny english gets crowned king...

The narrator is the murderer of Roger Ackroyd.

I don't know if it's just me, but some of these spoilers are getting to be a little obscure! I guess a lot of it just depends on what you happen to have read...

Helena marries Bertram twice over... and he's still not worth the trouble.

Jocasta is Oedipus's mom.
(has this already been posted?)

Prophesies (and visions of the future) nearly always come true.
(Pretty much the solitary exception to this rule is the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, and his prediction is conditional anyway: "If these shadows remain unaltered by the future...")



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Metaphors be with you!

Tiny Tim does NOT die.

The answer to the Sphinx's riddle is "Man".

Just about any prize bull, swan, or shower of gold is Zeus in disguise, and Hera will take her revenge upon the unfortunate girl accordingly.

rich girl makes a mess of other people's relationships then falls in love with her brother-in-law

Elizabeth marries Mr. Darcy

widow and 3 daughters evicted by stepson and daughter-in-law. elder daughters left broken-hearted and then marry nice men.

Jack's REAL name is Ernest, which is of great importance, so he can marry Gwendolen.

The youngest of three brothers/sisters will always be the best-looking, most intelligent, most compassionate and most fortunate.

What a shame I'm the youngest of three sisters. :)