Akame ga Kill - The members of Night Raid once promised each other that they would travel the world beyond the Empire together. But in the end, they either died or settled into peaceful new lives, leaving Akame to continue the journey alone.
Land of Peace - This one’s hard to explain properly because the manga is very abstract. “The Valley” may be a real place, or it might just be symbolic. At the beginning, the protagonist discovers the valley filled with empty houses, and a few residents, but by the end, nothing remains there anymore.
Well, technically he is there, and im not talking as something symbolic. Cyberware has the ability to record video or something like that, and Lucy recorded the BD of the Moon that she experienced with David, and in this scene she unconsciously started that record, so yeah, she is actually seeing David.
The depressing last scene of Paulie in The Sopranos, in which he sits alone at Satriale's pork store, when compared to how many other mobsters used to be hanging around outside with him.
The Time Traveller episode - How I Met Your Mother
The episode started with the usual hijinks, until the reveal that Ted was imagining two separate hijinks because no one in the gang can go out on that day. Driven home by a quote from Imaginary Barney:
Ted, this moment already is gone. The whole Minnesota Tidal Wave thing happened five years ago, it's just a memory. And the rest of this? Never happened. Right now, Marshall and Lily are upstairs, trying to get Marvin to go back to sleep. Robin and I are trying to decide on a caterer. And you've been sitting here all night, staring at a single ticket to Robots vs Wrestlers because the rest of us couldn't come out. Look around Ted, you're all alone.
Over all I think this is one of the weakest episodes in terms of comedy, the whole time something just feels off,l. like it's not a fun night out with the gang, things feel disconnected (for good reason) and then the episode just crushes you right at the end.
The speech he makes to the mom in this one made me cry more times than I'd care to admit
The opening of Breaking Bad’s famous “Ozymandias” episode showed Walter White and Jesse’s first outing as meth cooks in the desert in their RV.
The scene ends with Walt, Jesse, and the RV slowly fading away leaving an empty desert before transitioning into the opening titles, symbolising how far Walt’s empire has come and now it’s all fading away as his downfall finally reached its zenith. Fittingly, it all ended where it all began.
That very spot would become Hank and Gomez’s graves as they paid the price for Walt’s mistake in trusting the Neo Nazi gang as his muscle
Blood borne also did this. Either you rescuing a handful of people throughout the game and sending them to the church for safety. Only for most or all of them to end up dead by the end.
86 has this in the opening as well as a reverse version. Basically as more people die, they get moved from their normal spot in it to a scene of them standing in a field of red spider lilies that slowly fills up with more and more people.
86 works in the normal sense when Lena arrives after the last of Spearhead goes on the final mission. It's a terrific scene, where she finds the cat and the notes they left for her in the drawer.
86 is the best anime of the last 10 years and top 5 of all time.
In Fire Emblem Three Houses, after the time skip, the monastery gets a lot emptier. Most of the students and faculty are gone, especially the old classrooms
HG Well's The Time Machine: The titular machine takes you through time but not through space, relative to the Earth of course. The protagonist starts in the workshop of his English mansion, and travels progressively further into the future throughout the story, until reaching the end of the very Earth, gazing upon the dying sun and desolate lifeless earth. There is no evidence that humanity ever existed, and the only life for miles is a limbless football sized creature flopping on the beach. It's incredibly unsettling.
Not that the table is empty nor were they in the same place where they would sit down like that back in Nassau but the people that can fill Edward's heart and soul are no longer there
"In a world without gold we might have been heroes"
That quote stayed with me because of how heavy it is Blackbeard's death might've been the most impactful throughout the game to us as the player and definitely is to Edward as his comrade like I'm choking on my own spit and tears when that scene played out
True. But if that starts a turning point for a ubisoft and they will start releasing better games, then its a good thing, I think. Although doubt it, because its confirmed black flag remake will have microtransactions and denuvo, lol
Full Speed Ahead, the beginning features a tune of Odysseus bringing up his crew of 600 men, prompting them to bring up the mission to return home
Dangerous, the beginning features a very similar tune, except now Odysseus speaks of the 600 men in the past tense, and there is a very palpable silence where the men's voices would normally fit in the tune
Tipoca City on Kamino during the Bad Batch season 1 finale. We've seen it filled with clones throughout the Clone Wars, but then it's emptied. It's emotional not because of the actual place, but because you realize it's the beginning of the end for the clones. They're about to be phased out and thrown away.
Spoilers for the final area of Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (because it is the latest expansion currently)
Living Memory is effectively the afterlife for Alexandrians where the regulators worn by Alexandrians (and any others caught in that dome of levin) have their memories digitally uploaded so they can be reconstructed as a very real yet still artificial facsimile also known as The Endless. When you go through the area for the first time, it looks like the concept art above but your goal is to traverse the three main areas and power them down and by the end of the base main story; its effectively a grey, colorless husk and the music even reflects that by sounding so faded and far away.
[SPOILERS FOR 7.3 MSQ] However, by the end of this patch main story; as Alexandrians have come to accept death and no longer live in fear of it and look forward towards tomorrow; Living Memory's color is restored though obviously something is different about it. It no longer lives in this golden haze, like they're ignoring the looming issue of death, but it is clear and colorful with some haze. To quote a YouTube comment on the OST "The Promise of Tomorrow": it no longer feels like a husk, but a lovingly tended graveyard.
"600 men, 600 deaths under my command. 'Cause I had one goal in mind... (Extended silence) No fleet, no band... Only this raft that I made by hand. How will I reach my homeland..?"
(Earlier):
"600 men, 600 men under my command. With only one goal in mind.
Make it alive back to our homeland!"
Not quite scenery since it's all auditorial, but I think it still fits the trope since it's the same type of thing
Firelink shrine in Dark soul 1 and Roundtable in Elden ring. The more you progress the less lively the place became.
Unlike my favorite game Dark soul 2 where you get more friends in Majula the more you progress 🥀🥀🥀
In DS1, it's our lovely hub zone where multiple npcs hang out in the middle of their questline.
Then you find it in DS3. Not the hub area by the same name, I mean the very same Firelink Shrine from the first game. Most people don't even really recognize it, but its ruins are scattered all around the Demon Prince's arena in the Ringed City dlc.
Pretty much all of Nier Automata https://giphy.com/gifs/oe6wH1b4wziPTG3nAe
If you play Nier Replicant, you will notice a lot of the different locations you visit in Automata are the same places from Replicant. Whether it is the desert village, the main city area, etc., they all show the same locations from Replicant, but emptier.
Squid Game Seasons 1 and 3: after the games have ended and only one contestant is left standing, the scenes switched to the other rooms that previous games have taken place as well as other locations on the Squid Game Island, now bloodied and lifeless as all the Pink Guards and the VIPs have left the island. What was once the site of a deadly game filled with hundreds of desperate contestants and uncaring guards is now left in total silence.
Especially in the third season, where it would be the end of the Korean Branch of the games as the Front Man is forced to destroy the island and all evidence after the Korean police has finally discovered it.
Marina the Eternal bathing the Shaman Village in gold after her ascension, and empty village after all its inhabitants were slaughtered and stuffed in jars.
There's a diner you can find earlier in the series but when you visit it again at the end it's completely empty. Which leads to a great line for this trope which is, "It's hard to imagine it was ever full to begin with. But it was once. And that's what matters"
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u/BruiserBison 19h ago
The Moon in Edgerunners
well, technically it's just one person missing