A
narrative
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional ( memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller
Thriller may r ...
typically ends in one set way, but certain kinds of narrative allow for multiple endings.
Comics
* ''
The Death-Ray'' by
Daniel Clowes.
* ''
Cliff Hanger
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction. A cliffhang ...
''.
Literature
* The ''
Choose Your Own Adventure
''Choose Your Own Adventure'' is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actio ...
'' series.
* ''
Fighting Fantasy
''Fighting Fantasy'' is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volume in the series was published in paperback by Puffin in 1982.
The series distinguished itself by mixing Choo ...
''
* ''
Life's Lottery
{{Infobox book,
, name = Life's Lottery
, image = Life's Lottery.jpg
, caption = First edition
, title_orig =
, author = Kim Newman
, cover_artist = Ian Miller
, country = England
, language = Engli ...
''
* ''
The French Lieutenant's Woman
''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and inde ...
''
Theater
*
Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and p ...
's 1934 play ''
Night of January 16th'' allowed the audience to affect the ending by acting as the "jury" and voting the defendant "innocent" or "guilty".
*The 1985 musical ''
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870.
Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opiu ...
''.
*
Dario Fo's 1970 play, ''
Accidental Death of an Anarchist''.
*The long-running play ''
Shear Madness'' has multiple, audience-selected endings
Films
DVDs and Blu-ray discs may include an
alternate ending
An alternate ending (or alternative ending) is an ending of a story that was considered, or even written or produced, but ultimately discarded in favour of another resolution. Generally, alternative endings are considered to have no bearing on t ...
as a special feature. These are usually not considered
canon.
Movies which include multiple endings within the main cut of the film:
*''
Clue''
*''
Wayne's World'' and its sequel, ''
Wayne's World 2''
*''
Scarface''
*''
Sliding Doors''
*''
Run Lola Run''
*''
Harikrishnans''
*''
28 Days Later
''28 Days Later'' is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly conta ...
''
*''
Unfriended: Dark Web''
*''
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch''
*''
1408 (film)''
Television
*''
Crown Court (TV series)
''Crown Court'' is a British television courtroom drama series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. It ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wa ...
''
*''Do the Right Thing'' (BBC TV series, 1994-1995)
Animation
*''
Dragon's Lair'' and ''
Space Ace''
*The
fifth season finale of the
Rooster Teeth web-series, ''
Red vs. Blue''
Video games
See also
*
Alternate ending
An alternate ending (or alternative ending) is an ending of a story that was considered, or even written or produced, but ultimately discarded in favour of another resolution. Generally, alternative endings are considered to have no bearing on t ...
*
Interactive fiction
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Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the ...
*
Visual novel
A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with sta ...
References
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Plot (narrative)
Video game gameplay
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Endings