"That's AAAAAAAAAARGH folks!"
Kermit: Okay, Nadya, this is it! Your solo!
(Nadya prepares; interrupted by a The End card)
Nadya: KEEERMIIIIIIIIIIT!!!
(Nadya prepares; interrupted by a The End card)
Nadya: KEEERMIIIIIIIIIIT!!!
Sometimes, endings are simply too emotional to be conveyed in final one-liners or concluding monologues. In these occasions, the story ends with the character venting their emotions in one almighty scream before we cut to the end credits.
The emotion being expressed in the scream can include everything from rage to grief, depending on the genre, but easily one of the most common is fear, with pain a close second. A native of the horror genre, this variant usually features the main character screaming as the not-at-all thwarted monster kills them or a Fate Worse than Death befalls them, with the screams sometimes even echoing across the end credits in the case of film and television.
Needless to say, it's very common for this trope to overlap with a Downer Ending, for even if the ending doesn't feature the main character dead or worse, characters overwhelmed with this much emotion rarely have anything good happening to them. If they’re lucky, this ending might be a cliffhanger that the next episode or installation will resolve. If not, the story ends on that scream and all the negativity it entails.
However, there are major exceptions to this rule, and most of them lie in lighter stories like comedies, in which the screams usually involve pain at slapstick injuries, comically overexaggerated anger, or even jubilation.
As for what's being screamed, it can feature the classic Big "NO!", a character's name howled at full volume, a deafening expletive, a series of howled obscenities, a cut-off swearword, or it need not be anything coherent at all, with the character being so overwhelmed with emotion that all they can do is scream unintelligibly.
Related to Defeat Catchphrase, which a character may wail on their way out of the story. These can overlap if the loser gets the final scene. Might result from a Trauma Button Ending, Here We Go Again!, or a Last-Second Joke Problem.
More serious examples may overlap with It All Ends in Tears, Bolivian Army Ending, or Gainax Ending, though not always.
Contrast Ends with a Smile.
Compare Screaming Cut to the Break, which is more about the endings of chapters rather than entire stories/episodes.
Not to be confused with And I Must Scream, which can overlap with characters being trapped in terrible endings but does not include literal screaming.
CAUTION: As this is an ending trope, unmarked spoilers are found below. You have been warned.
Examples:
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Advertising
- An M&M's commercial
features Red and Yellow at an airport going through customs and security before following a Sexy Stewardess that leads them into a plane. The door then closes behind them, trapping them in the flight, and the ad ends with the two spokescandies screaming as the plane begins its flight.
Anime & Manga
- Angel Beats! ends with Otonashi screaming Kanade's name as she vanishes, having finally gained the courage to move on.
- Berserk (1997) infamously ends with Guts screaming in rage and despair as his right eye is clawed out after being Forced to Watch Griffith rape Casca during the Eclipse.
- Let's Go! Tamagotchi: Episode 10 ends with most of the others in the room screaming when the Gotchi King's shell starts to crack from him laughing at an Accidental Pun he made about "cracking up."
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Episode 18 ends with Shinji screaming in horror as he sees Toji being pulled out of the mangled Evangelion Unit 03; in the original ADV English dub, the scream even echoes into the first few seconds of the ending credits.
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby (2018): The first episode ends with Special Week agreeing to join Team Spica, and then promptly being told that she'll be running her debut race next week. Smash Cut to a bewildered Spe standing in the start gate, followed by a Scream Discretion Shot as she lets out a Big "WHAT?!".
Animation
- Booba: The episode "Attic" ends with Booba getting triggered by a fog toy and roaring out on an open window in a Shout-Out to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo.
Comic Books
- Blake and Mortimer: The comics are particularly guilty of this, with Blake or Mortimer screaming out “By Jove!” or “Heavens!” At almost every last panel of a page, leaving the reader in suspense until next week’s magazine reveals what they saw that made them scream so loud.
- Cerebus the Aardvark: The Form and Void Story Arc concludes with Cerebus going through a Trauma Conga Line due to being shunned by his hometown for missing his father's death and burial because he was running around with a woman, said woman rubbing salt in this wound by basically telling him that it's his fault for not being decisive enough about them getting there sooner, and then after yelling at her to go away, she's arrested and carted off because the government had earlier found that they had a gun, which is illegal for unmarried couples. Now utterly abandoned, Cerebus rends his clothes, grinds dirt into his face, and on the last page he pounds the ground with his fists and screams in mixed rage and grief.
Fan Works
- Wish Kid: Don't Be a Baby: This fanfic based on the Wish Kid cartoon has Nick wish to be a baby like his sister Katy to avoid responsibilities, only to find out that being a baby has many disadvantages. The fanfic ends with Nick returning to his normal nine-year-old self when his wish wears off, only to discover that he's still wearing a diaper. When he finds out about this from Darryl, he screams in horror. Darryl then tells him "Aw, come on, Nick! Don't be a baby!"
- Wish Kid: Game Boys ends with Nick, Darryl, Sonny, and Frankie being returned to the real world after Nick rescues Sonny from Frankie in Video World, a video game dimension. When Nick complains that his wish wore off before Sonny could kiss him, Sonny overhears and kisses Nick for real. This angers Frankie, since Sonny is his cousin and he does not approve of Nick's crush on her. Frankie shouts "MCCLARY! STAY AWAY FROM MY COUSIN!", and Nick screams as Frankie chases him through his house.
- With Apologies to Harlan Ellison: In the finale, the Engineer finally frees his teammates from their eternal torment and escapes the Announcer's Brutal Bunker, even returning to the surface... only to discover that the Announcer lied about wiping out all other life on the planet: human civilization is still thriving. In other words, the Engineer killed his friends for nothing, the Announcer's final act of torture was a complete success, and as the realization hits home, the Engineer opens his mouth and screams.
Film — Animated
- Ice Age:
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ends with Scrat screaming after losing his acorn in the dinosaur world under the ice world after a block of ice knocks it out of his hands.
- Ice Age: Continental Drift ends with Scrat accidentally sinking Scratlantis as well as an entire ocean and screaming on the top of his lungs when he ends up in the Bonneville Salt Flats.
- The short film No Time For Nuts ends with Scrat screaming after the time machine transports his acorn elsewhere and leaves him stuck in a Bad Future where acorns no longer exist.
- Mr. Puzzles Wants You to Be Less Alive ends with Jennifer "scream[ing] the scream of many sequels" after sitting in a Chair-Saw by mistake.
- NIMONA (2023): In the finale, Ballister is left deeply dispirited, for though his name's been cleared and the Kingdom is finally being reformed, Nimona had to die a Heroic Sacrifice for it to happen. He returns to the old lair where he first met Nimona, hears someone at the door, and rushes to answer it, only to find there's no one there... and then a familiar red glow appears behind him. Nimona's voice remarks, "Hi, Boss!" An ecstatic Ballister shouts "HOLY SH-" And we cut to credits.
Film — Live-Action
- Aliens in the Attic: A rare happy example. The movie ends with the leader of the evil aliens, Commander Skip, now shrunk to a tiny size, following the human family to the lake where they’re fishing, probably planning to kill them. However, a crow flies down and grabs Skip with its feet, and the movie ends with Skip screaming as it carries him away.
- The Blair Witch Project: In the finale, Heather and Mike are lured into a ruined house in the middle of the woods, during which Mike goes running off to the basement in search of Josh. Heather follows him, screaming Mike's name at the top of her lungs, only to grow progressively less coherent as her terror grows until she's just howling wordlessly. As she reaches the basement, she catches a brief glimpse of Mike standing in the corner with his back to her, something knocks the camera out of her hands with one final terrified scream from Heather — and then the film ends.
- Bullet in the Head has a non-comedic, Tear Jerker example in it's theatrical cut, which concludes with Ben, in the middle of a burning wharf, screaming aloud after executing Paul, his lifelong bestie who betrayed Ben and his other ally Frank to their deaths. Then the credits roll.
- Buried Alive 1990: Architect Clint Goodman is poisoned by his devious wife Joanna, and ends up buried alive in the local small-town cemetery. Clint is somehow able to dig himself out of his grave, whereupon he sets out to avenge his betrayal. He succeeds in killing his wife's lover, and getting his evil wife to crawl into her homemade coffin. She winds up in Clint's grave, where a camera zoom through the freshly dug earth reveals her terrified face locked in a horrified scream.
- Carrie (1976) ends with Sue Snell, permanently traumatized by the massacre enabled by her act of kindness to Carrie, suddenly shooting up from a nightmare and screaming in horror as her mother tries to calm her.
- The US cut of The Descent ends with Sarah's screaming as she finds Juno's ghost (looking mangled and bloody) sitting on passenger seat. Cut to credits. This is exclusive for that specific cut, however - every other country had the film released with the additional two minutes of ending as Sarah wakes up from a nightmare she just had, revealing the ending so far was a fervent dream and she's still trapped inside of the cave.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ends with Stephen Strange stopping in the middle of a crosswalk and screaming in pain as a Third Eye appears on his forehead, courtesy of his use of the Darkhold during the climax.
- Dont Go To Sleep: At the end of the movie, Grandma Bernice, Kevin and Phillip are dead because of Jennifer's ghost and Mary (who was manipulated by her). The latter is placed in a mental institution under suspicion of having killed the three and is abandoned by Jennifer. Alone in her now-empty home, their mother, Laura, sleeps in her bedroom when she is awakened by a sound at the foot of her bed. Jennifer's ghost pops up and says: "Hi, mom." The movie ends with Laura's horrified scream.
- Drag Me to Hell ends with Christine getting Dragged Off to Hell while screaming for someone to help her, while her boyfriend Clay, who was getting ready to propose to her and inadvertently returned the cursed button to her, can do nothing but watch.
- Eden Lake: The film ends with Jenny screaming as she is dragged into the shower by the furiously shouting parents, who kill her for killing their children (admittedly in self-defence).
- Event Horizon ends with poor Starck screaming her head off after receiving one final hallucination of the scarred-up Weir courtesy of what remains of the Event Horizon, with the rescue team having to sedate her.
- Evil Dead 2: As Ash realizes he's not only been transported back to medieval times but is also the chosen one fated to battle the Deadites, he lets out a Big "NO!" repeatedly until he's shrieking it in horror as the movie cuts to black.
- Goosebumps (2015): After the heroes have recaptured all the monsters that escaped from R.L. Stine’s books, it seems the movie will have a happy ending. However, Stine discovers that the Invisible Boy is still on the loose, and that he’s right behind him. The movie ends with Stine screaming in terror.
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch: At the very end, Dr. Challis has made it to a gas station and uses their phone to call up the tv studios in a desperate bid to stop the Silver Shamrock commercial from airing and killing thousands of children. He's able to convince two networks to block the commercial, but it plays on a third, and the movie ends with the deadly "Magic Pumpkin" flashing as Challis screams desperately into the receiver to stop the airing, most likely far too late.
- Happy Death Day 2U: The final scene of the movie consists of Danielle waking up in her bed screaming as she starts to undergo her own "Groundhog Day" Loop.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: A rare happy example. At the end of the movie, Sirius sends his godson Harry a brand-new Firebolt as a gift. The Gryffindors run outside to see Harry fly his new broomstick, and it's so fast that the last shot before the credits is Harry screaming in exhilaration.
- Home Alone:
- Home Alone 1 ends with Kevin's older brother Buzz yelling at him for leaving a mess in his room.
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ends with Kevin's father yelling at him for spending nearly a thousand dollars on room service while he stayed at a hotel for Christmas, which could be heard from Central Park.
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer concludes with Julie kicking and screaming as Ben Willis drags her under the bed to kill her.
- Immaculate ends with Cecilia screaming as she bludgeons her newborn baby — which may either be the literal Antichrist or a horrific product of mad science experimentation — to death.
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): The film ends with Nancy, having successfully blended in by pretending to be one of the pod people, seeing Matthew and approaching him... only for Matthew to let out a very uncanny-sounding scream, confirming that he’s been "turned" already, and Nancy screams in horror as she realizes what happened to him — and that she is presumably about to be turned.
- Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects ends with Duke yelling Crowe's name over and over again from his prison cell (which he's sharing with a big burly inmate who wants to do to Duke what Duke's done to so many girls) while Crowe simply walks away.
- MaXXXine In-universe. The Puritan — the predecessor to the film Maxine is starring in — is shown to end with a Freeze-Frame Ending that features the protagonist (played by Molly) screaming as she's being burned to death at the stake when Leon and Maxine watch it to prep for Maxine's new role.
- The Mist: The film ends with David Mercy Killing everyone in his car including his own son to save them from being eaten by the monsters in the mist, has no bullets left for himself, and is about to die… only to watch the military show up to clear the mist away. Realising that he did all of this for nothing, all David can do is scream in grief and horror.
- My Little Eye: Overlapping with It All Ends in Tears, the final shots of the film are of Emma injured and locked in a cell, screaming and crying as she bangs on the door, left to die.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) ends with Marge Thompson screaming as she's pulled through a window by Freddy Kruger.
- Nowhere ends with Dark screaming after Montgomery bloodily transforms into a cockroach and scuttles off.
- Pet Sematary ends with Louis and Rachel reuniting after Rachel's resurrection. As they embrace, Rachel grabs a kitchen knife off the table. The scene smash-cuts to black as Louis screams a Big "NO!".
- [REC]: Near the end, Ángela and Pablo manage to find the apartment in which Patient Zero is housed, a supernaturally strong girl that quickly seizes Pablo and drags him away, causing him to drop his camera. With Ángela the only remaining character, she grabs the camera and attempts to flee, only to be cornered by the girl and forced onto the ground. The movie ends with Ángela crawling towards the camera, before an unseen being grabs her by the legs, leaving her shrieking in terror as she's dragged off into the darkness.
- Saint Maud: The film appears to end with Maud smiling as she transforms into an angel and ascends to heaven. Smash to Black. However, it then cuts back for a split second to show that in reality, Maud is actually screaming in agony as she burns to death — and then cut to the credits.
- Saw: This happens a lot, usually with one of the Jigsaw Killer's victims being trapped in a Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere and screaming as they're left to die alone.
- Saw I: In the finale, just when it looks like the killer's been beaten to death and Dr Gordon is heading off to get help, the real Jigsaw finally reveals himself to Adam. Jigsaw then switches off the lights, declares "Game over!" and exits, shutting the door behind him. Adam, still chained to the pipe, is left trapped alone in the dark, screaming pleas for mercy as the end credits roll.
- Saw II: Eric awakens to find himself chained up in the bathroom, at the mercy of Amanda, Jigsaw's new apprentice. With her first subject having failed his test, Amanda coldly remarks "game over," before locking him in the bathroom to die. As the door shuts, Eric is left roaring at the top of his lungs and can be heard screaming obscenities and death threats as the film ends on a shot of Jigsaw's bloodied, smirking face.
- Saw III: In the climax, Jeff slits Jigsaw's throat, only for another tape to reveal that Jeff's daughter has been kidnapped, and the only way to get her back is to play another game. Worse still, as Jigsaw dies, his Dead Man's Switch goes off, sealing doors all over his hideout and triggering Lynn's bomb collar. Trapped and outgunned, Jeff lets out a Big "NO!" over his wife's decapitated body, and then we cut to the end credits.
- Saw V: Detective Strahm seemingly captures Hoffman in his own box of broken glass, only for the walls of the room to begin closing in around him, courtesy of a pre-arranged trap. The film ends with Strahm howling in agony as the room slowly crushes him to death and Hoffman is lowered to safety.
- Saw VI: Hoffman ends up getting put in the original reverse bear trap by Jill for sabotaging Amanda and getting Jigsaw killed. However, in the finale, Hoffman is able to pull yet another Karma Houdini and break out of the trap before it can kill him, though it rips his cheek open in the process, the film ending with Hoffman letting out a Skyward Scream of pain.
- Saw 3D: The climax features Hoffman being captured by Dr Gordon and chained up in the bathroom, with any means of escaping the manacle deliberately removed — so unlike Gordonnote , Adam note and Eric note , he really will die here. Hoffman can only impotently rage as Gordon switches off the lights, sneeringly remarks "game over!" and shuts the door behind him; the serial killer lets out one last Big "NO!"... and then we cut to the end credits.
- Scary Movie: When Cindy and the sheriff realize the killer was actually Doofus, they race out to try to catch him, only for him to get away. As the sheriff finds the knife and mask in Doofus' backpack, Syd lets out a Skyward Scream Big "NO!" and holds it... until a car runs into her.
- The Strangers ends with Kirsten seemingly just as dead as James after being stabbed by the masked strangers. However, the following morning, two boys handing out Mormon pamphlets stumble upon Kirsten's body, and one of them tries to touch her, whereupon Kirsten springs back to life with a bloodcurdling scream — and then the film ends with her ultimate fate left unknown.
- Thirteen (2003): After Tracy's life is ruined after her year-long toxic friendship with Evie, she is seen hanging off of a child's merry-go-round playground ride and then screams. If the scream is one of terror or catharsis though is left up to the viewer.
- Threads: Downplayed, since the screaming is only inferred, but the end of the movie sees Jane giving birth to a baby. However, because Jane lives in a world ravaged by nuclear war, the baby is severely mutated and likely stillborn. Jane studies the baby for a moment, opens her mouth to scream, and... cut to credits.
- Very Bad Things ends with Laura's Skyward Scream as she stumbles out into the street, narrowly missing being hit by a car, because she's been Driven to Madness by having to take care of Kyle, Charles, Kyle's dog, and Adam's bratty kids.
- Any Indonesian comedy films created by Warkop DKI usually end with one member of the main trio (Dono, Kasino, or Indro) screaming a word (usually because of pain or misery), and the word is written and zoomed to the screen.
Literature
- Don't Go to Sleep!: Matt Amsterdam spends most of the story hating his small, cramped bedroom and going against his parents' advice, decides sneaking into the spacious guest room past midnight, only to find out it's cursed (or something, the story doesn't make it clear) where he's stranded in a Dream Land and repeatedly stumbles into a different nightmare every time he tries waking up. Eventually Matt managed to escape and his life returns to normal... only for the final chapter to reveal his parents have a "surprise" for him, that they've decided to move Matt's bed into the guest room and let him sleep there after all. Cue Matt screaming his head off as the story ends.
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: Inverted in the end, Ted wishes that he could scream but is incapable of doing so due to AM's alterations to his body rendering him a mouthless, immortal blob.
- The Knight in Screaming Armor: In one path, you and your cousins make the mistake of playing around with a magical clock that begins regressing the three of you to infancy. With Abby and Kip left overwhelmed by childish emotions, it's up to you to rewind the clock before a Death by De-aging occurs, which you manage at practically the last second... but unfortunately, though it resets your cousins to their original ages, for some reason, it doesn't restore you. This path ends with you still a baby, being cradled in Abby's arms, and wordlessly screaming at how unfair this is — the last line being "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!"
- The Midnight Library: Several tales, befitting the grim nature of the series.
- "Picture Perfect" has Brandon uncover the final panel of his Great aunt's mysterious mural, only to find the image of his aunt's long missing sister, who pulls him into the mural itself. He then realizes the Mural actually traps anyone who uncovers the secret in the painting forever, and that his brother Jake is covering it with wallpaper. Brandon screams desperately for help that will never come, still howling in hysterical terror as the story ends.
- "No Escape", following a group of kids sent back in time to the middle ages, ends with them about to be burned at the stake by crazed villagers who think they're the so called "Witch Children". One of the girls realizes the real witch children sent them back in time as revenge for disturbing their grave. As they begin to burn, she screams in agony at the irony that she ever felt pity for these monsters.
- "Don't Wake The Baby" has the protagonist Alice do a babysitting job for a strange old couple who dress and talk like they live in the 50s. She's told not to wake the baby upstairs, but eventually goes to calm him down and discovers that there is no baby, just a doll and a tape recorder. Realizing it was a trap, she's approached by the sinister couple and flees into another room where she finds two skeletons, because the couple were lonely ghosts looking to trap someone to be their "daughter". Cornered by two insane ghosts who plan god knows what for her with no escape, Alice screams in terror, to which the ghost father mockingly hushes her with "Don't wake the baby!"
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark:
- Several stories that end with a scream, enough that one volume had a chapter named "Aaah!" where all the stories ended that way. Most of these stories were meant to be read aloud to a group, with one or two giving directions for the reader to do things like pounce on/at a random listener for added effect.
- More specifically, in the story "Just Delicious", Mina steals the liver of a recently deceased lady to replace the one she absent-mindedly ate and cooks it for her husband George. That night, when she hears the ghost of the old lady looking for her liver, she tells her that her husband has it, causing the ghost to go after him. The story ends with George screaming in pain.
- The Twelve Chairs ends with Kisa letting out a terrible howl at learning that the treasure which he spent the novel hunting (and for which he just slit his accomplice's throat to avoid sharing it) has been found by others long ago.
Live-Action TV
- American Horror Story: Asylum:
- "Welcome To Briarcliff" wraps up with a return to the present-day segment, in which Teresa is still trying to escape the ruined asylum to find help for Leo... but as she runs frantically through the tunnels beneath the building, she's brought up short by a figure wearing a mask of human skin — Bloody Face himself. Tessa lets out a scream of terror, cut to black, roll end credits.
- In the finale of "Nor'easter", Shelley is captured by Dr Arden during the failed escape attempt and recruited as a test subject without the rest of the asylum staff's knowledge. When she comes to, Arden gloatingly remarks that he had to "clip your wings" to make sure she won't try to "fly away" again and pulls back the sheets to reveal that he's amputated her legs; the episode ends with Shelley looking down at the stumps of her thighs and screaming.
- The Ba***ds of Bollywood: The final shot of the show, in The Stinger, shows Anu screaming in shock and horror when she learns that Shaumik is now in a relationship with their maid Pushpa.
- The Big Bang Theory: Played for Laughs. In "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary", after Sheldon is tricked by his mortal enemy Wil Wheaton into losing a "Mystic Warlords of Ka'a" tournament, the episode ends on Sheldon screaming "WHEATON!" in rage as the camera pans out to show the Earth (a Shout-Out to a Memetic Mutation scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan).
- Black Books: Throughout "Cooking The Books", Fran has been trying to figure out what the mysterious sphere-shaped product she's trying to sell is, growing more and more frustrated to the point of forgetting that she's meant to be serving as a birth coach to a friend... and while she's frantically leafing through the phone book for a cab number so she can make it to the hospital in time, Manny takes one look at the sphere and realizes that it's a novelty cigarette lighter. Fran lets out an unintelligible howl of rage — and then we cut to the end credits.
- Black Mirror: In the finale of "Nosedive," Lacie has lost everything and has ended up in jail... but finds herself getting into an argument with the man in the cell across from her, the two of them getting more enthusiastic in their insults as they realize they're no longer held back by the social media points system, until they just start repeatedly screaming "fuck you!" at each other, the two ending the episode with a joyous roar of "FUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!"
- The Brittas Empire: "Biggles Tells a Lie" has Helen try to hide an explicit photo of her from Plaything from the eyes of her husband Brittas by hiding it in her coat pocket. At the end, she thinks she's in the clear... until she pulls out Carole's new pet kitten from her coat pocket and realises that Brittas has the coat containing the photo, which he is very likely to discover seeing as he has decided to return the kitten to Carole. The episode ends with Helen shouting out Brittas' name as she runs after him.
- CSI: Vegas: During "Long Pig", Maxine tells Allie she needs to find some kind of outlet away from work to use as a way to keep stress from building up inside her. She quietly agrees without letting on that she already has such an outlet. The episode ends with her, alone, diving into the deep end a swimming pool at night and screaming while underwater.
- Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson: The special begins with a music video in Pamela Anderson's honor titled "What We Like About Pam", which features a Montage of Pam throughout her career as a Ms. Fanservice set to a Medley of songs including "Looks That Kill", "My Humps" and "Lady". The video climaxes with a rapid barrage of images set to the song "You're So Damn Hot", ending with a scene of a giant Pam Anderson catching a falling man in her mouth and swallowing him. The scream at the end of the song and the moment she chomps down are synced up in such a way that its as if the man is screaming as she eats him alive.
- Doctor Who: The serials of the classic era took great delight in incorporating screams into the cliffhangers between episodes.
- Episode 1 of "The Daleks" ends with Barbara looking into a Shaky P.O.V. Cam and letting out a blood-curdling scream at the sight of the titular monster, of which the audience can only see the sucker arm.
- "Pyramids of Mars":
- In the climax of episode 1, Ibrahim Namin attempts to summon Sutekh while the Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Lawrence Scarman look on in secret. What Namin gets out of this ritual is the masked servant of Sutekh, who promptly murders Namin with his touch, and the episode ends to the sounds of Namin's agonized screams.
- Episode 2 ends with the mummies killing Clements, interrupting the Doctor's attempt to block Sutekh's psychic power, destroying his makeshift jammer, knocking out Lawrence and the Doctor, and leaving Sarah Jane at their mercy. As one of them starts winding up for a killing blow, Sarah Jane screams for the Doctor to help... and then we cut to the end credits.
- In the finale of episode 3, the Doctor is able to sneak into Sutekh's prison and distract him just long enough to lose control of his psychic powers, causing the explosion he was holding back to blast his half-finished missile to pieces. With his best means of escaping his prison having gone up in smoke, Sutekh turns his psychic powers on the Doctor, flinging him against the wall and making him let out a scream of pain. Cut to end credits.
- Episode 1 of "Terror of the Vervoids" ends with Mel screaming as an electrified fence catches fire and kills a crewman. Notably, Bonnie Langford screams in tune with the start of the theme music, allowing for a seamless transition into the end credits.
- Farscape:
- "Nerve" wraps up with Chiana having managed to escape the Gammak base and get the paraphoral tissue to Aeryn, but Crichton is still a prisoner and still being tortured in the Aurora Chair. Base personnel are now trying to figure out who helped Chiana escape, but Scorpius just remarks that Crichton will tell them. As the Chair roars to life again, Crichton lets out an agonized scream, we freeze-frame on his face, and the "TO BE CONTINUED" text appears.
- In the finale of "Die Me Dichotomy", Crichton finally has the neurochip removed from his brain, at the cost of leaving him paralyzed and incoherent until the doctor can give him a transplant of brain tissue... but at that moment, Scorpius arrives, kills the doctor, takes the neurochip, and then leaves Crichton alive to suffer. The episode ends with Crichton trapped alone in the operating theatre, letting out an unintelligible scream of anguish before "TO BE CONTINUED" appears on the screen.
- "Bad Timing" ends with Crichton and Aeryn getting engaged, only for an alien ship to swoop in out of nowhere and blast them into crystals that tumble into the ocean, with the episode fading out to the sounds of D'Argo howling in rage and grief.
- The Haunting of Hill House (2018): In "The Bent-Neck Lady," Nellie is lured back to Hill House, and after being lulled into complacency by the House, is tricked into hanging herself... whereupon her ghost is scattered across time, revealing that she is the Bent-Neck Lady that's been haunting Nellie since childhood, leaving her condemned to spend eternity bound to the House, out of sync with time, and unwillingly serving as a Sleep Paralysis Creature for her past self. The episode ends with Nellie's ghost right back at her younger self's first encounter with the Bent-Neck Lady at the start of the episode, letting out a bloodcurdling Ghostly Wail of horror and grief.
- Lois & Clark: the episode "Virtually Destroyed" ends with the villain's consciousness trapped Inside a Computer System. The final scene is the heroes walking out of the Daily Planet office. Suddenly, the newspaper's logo on one of the computer screens changes into the villain's image, pressing his hands and face against the glass while screaming No!. Somehow, everyone still in the room misses it.
- In Nickelodeon's soap opera parody interstitial series As Our School Bus Turns, one short ends with a boy screaming, because his friend took a bite out of his baloney sandwich.
- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide:
- The end of "Bad Habits" has Ned screaming a Big "NO!" when he realizes he accidentally turned down a date with Suzie Crabgrass after getting over his habit of never being able to say "no".
- "New Grade" has Ned, Moze, and Cookie screaming in despair when they learn Mr. Sweeny is teaching eighth-grade science.
- "Competition" has Ned and his classmates screaming and running out of their Social Studies class when their teacher announces he's holding another contest (after they just went through a grueling one that ended in dissatisfaction).
- Night Gallery: The pilot features all three of its stories ending on this note.
- "The Cemetery" ends with Osmond Portifoy successfully hoaxing the odious Jeremy Evans into accidentally killing himself in a panic over being haunted... only to suddenly find his own hoax being re-enacted for real when Jeremy returns from the dead, the segment wrapping up with Osmond screaming in terror as the front door opens.
- "Eyes" features Claudia Menlo being given an eye transplant that will allow her to see again (at the cost of a luckless debtor's eyeballs), but the treatment will only last for a few hours before her blindness returns. However, a blackout leaves her seeing nothing for most of this time, to the point of knocking herself out in the dark; she awakens just in time to see the sun rising before she begins losing her sight once more. In the grip of a full-blown Villainous Breakdown, Claudia stumbles towards the sun, begging it not to leave her, only to crash through her apartment window and fall to her death with a scream.
- Downplayed in "Escape Route." Josef Strobe finds himself cornered by Mossad agents at the museum and decides to finally enact his plan of projecting himself into the utopian fisherman painting, escaping justice by moving into the artwork full-time. When security turns the lights on, Strobe is gone... but his voice is heard faintly screaming as they leave, before falling silent. Turns out that the fisherman painting was a loaner that's been removed from the museum and replaced by the crucifixion painting seen earlier in the episode, leaving Strobe trapped in the place of the concentration camp inmate on the cross, mouth open in a silent scream for eternity.
- Red Dwarf:
- Played for laughs in "Stasis Leak." The episode finale features Rimmer's past incarnation convincing himself that his encounter with present-day Rimmer was due to being still high on the hallucinogenic mushrooms Lister spiked his breakfast with earlier that day. He's then met by — in order of appearance — present-day Rimmer, present-day Lister, the Cat, Lister's future self (now married to Kochanski), and the future Rimmer. The episode ends with past Rimmer screaming at the assembled incarnations to "GO AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"
- "Give and Take" ends with Rimmer unknowingly getting into the elevator that he had previously admonished and demoted for being occupied, unaware that it was being used by a future version of the crew who had gone back in time to steal Lister’s kidneys. The lift informs Rimmer that it can now travel at the speed of light thanks to Snacky’s modifications, and demonstrates as such. The final line of the episode is Rimmer screaming as he’s being hurtled down by the lift.
- "Mechocracy" ends with Rimmer trapped in the garbage hold with the obnoxious Talkie Toaster as part of a revenge plot by the Cat for being blackmailed over his need for glasses, with Talkie pestering Rimmer on whether he wants toast. The final line of the episode is delivered by Rimmer screaming, "NO TOAST!”
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Played for laughs in "You Are Cordially Invited". The finale features Worf and Jadzia being married and Bashir and O'Brien's torturous four-day-long Klingon bachelor party finally coming to an end. However, the ceremony itself concludes with Bashir and O'Brien then being tasked with ritually attacking the bride and groom, whereupon they both let out deranged war cries and gladly charge the newlyweds, and the episode ends with a cut to black.
- Twin Peaks: The Return ends its final episode with Dale bringing Carrie Page — an Identical Stranger to Laura Palmer who may or may not be the same person — to the Palmer house. They hear Sarah shouting "Laura!", at which point Carrie screams and the lights in the house go dark, ending the episode, The Return, and the entirety of Twin Peaks like that.
Music
- Elio e le Storie Tese's video for "Servi della gleba" ends with the protagonist letting out a horrified scream when he finds out he too has a broom up his ass (the symbol of being an Extreme Doormat), just like the characters in the magazine he was reading and that he dismissed as unrealistic.
- Ok Go: Befitting an ode to lust, the song "You're So Damn Hot" builds up speed and intensity until the song ends on the singer releasing it all in one abrupt but intense scream that acts as a Sudden Soundtrack Stop.
Video Games
- Ace Attorney: It is tradition that the last line of the last episode, before rolling credits, to be the main character yelling "Objection!"
- CarnEvil ends with Betty screaming as the player character puts the CarnEvil token back into Umlaut's mouth, with the implication that CarnEvil is about to be summoned again.
- The Darkness 2: In the climax, Jackie is finally able to rescue Jenny from the clutches of the Darkness in Hell, and the game seemingly ends with the two of them embracing each other... only for the post-credits sequence to feature Jenny being possessed by the Angelus, who gloatingly leaves Jackie behind in Hell, knowing that the Darkness won't be able to oppose her plans for world domination as long both it and its host are sealed away. As she flies off, Jackie lets out a Big "NO!" — and then the game ends, for real this time.
- Exmortis 2: The game's final stages features the player defeating the Exmortis and being greeted by the Mysterious Backer that sent them on the quest in the first place... only to find that it's actually Lord Vlaew, and by banishing the Exmortis, you've just made it possible for him to take over the entire planet unopposed. Vlaew decides to give you a reward for all your hard work, whereupon he lunges at you; cut to black, the sound of the player screaming, and Vlaew whispering "a quick death." The echoes die away. The end.
- Look Outside:
- The XIN-AMON ending shows the catastrophic consequences of defeating the mutant guinea pig. No longer bound by the humanity of the Astronomers, the beast starts assimilating Earth to the point that the whole planet becomes a single planet-sized being doomed to spend its existence note alone. Cue a screaming planet.
- The Flawed Ritual ending sees Sam escape from the roof back to his apartment, hiding from his friends in the bathroom as he realizes he's begun mutating into a monster. He closes his eyes and slowly tries to count to ten to calm down, the text getting more and more distorted as he does... and then the final shot of the game is a split-second glimpse at Sam's reflection in the mirror, horribly mutated with multiple limbs, eyes, and mouths as he screams in absolute terror.
NOOOO CLOSE YOUR EYES CLOSE YOUR EYES CLOSE YOUR EYES CLOSE YOUR EYES CLOSE—
Visual Novels
- Yet Another Killing Game: The Karma Ending, in which Cecilia and Oriana perform a Mutual Kill, ends with the protagonist, the only survivor, screaming in horror and despair.
Web Animation
- Happy Tree Friends: In "Wingin' It", Flaky, the sole survivor of an earlier plane slaughter, lands the plane into the sea and she slides down to safety...right near a shark who then mauls her. Then, a roar is heard, and the shark lets go of Flaky and flees, leaving Flaky screaming in terror as the monster approaches.
- Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: "SMG4 Babies" focuses on the cast recounting their childhood. At the very end, SMG4 is asked for his backstory... only for him to realise that he doesn't remember any of his past. The episode ends with him being so fearful over not knowing what he is (not helped by Mario suggesting that he's adopted) that he screams to the theme of "Gangsta's Paradise", a scream so loud that it can be heard from space.
Websites
- Reddit's perflectlycutscreams community features funny videos that all end in the middle of someone screaming.
Web Videos
- Dark Simpsons:
- In the "Sour Simpsons Reanimated" episode "Stupid Sexy Flanders", it ends with Homer screaming because a sock puppet threatened to kill him.
- In the "Reanimated" episode "Bill Cosby Loves Pokemon", the last scene is Homer screaming because the sculpture he's standing behind hurt his crotch.
- Real-Time Fandub's take on Sonic Adventure 2 ends with Sonic leaving the Space Colony ARK to go to Chipotle. A very drunk Eggman asks Sonic to bring back a burrito. Sonic immediately shoots the idea down, insisting that if Eggman wants something, he should go get it himself.
(Cut to a shot of the Space Colony ARK over the Earth.)
Eggman: SONIIIIiiiiic! - Solid jj: "Naruto Gets Mindf*cked" ends with Naruto screaming as he finds out that his whole adulthood is just another layer of Itachi's illusion and Itachi keeps piling up more illusions before he can even process that.
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: In the ending of "Ricardio the Heart Guy", Finn screams Big "NO!" after he realizes that Princess Bubblegum was acting like Jake did in the beginning of the episode; she was upside-down with a picture of Jake on her butt.
- Batman: The Animated Series:
- In "Feat Of Clay Part 1", Matt Hagen is effectively drowned in Renuyu by Roland Dagget's hitmen, his partially liquefied body being dumped in his car soon after. At the very end of the episode, we cut back to Hagen's friend Teddy stumbling upon the body still in the car, only to find that the overdose of Renuyu has transformed Hagen into a giant shapeshifting blob of clay. Hagen, regaining consciousness, takes one look at himself in the rearview mirror and lets out a scream of horror and despair... and then the To Be Continued card appears on screen.
- "Bane" ends with the heroes letting Rupert Thorne hear a recording of his secretary and the titular criminal plotting against him, and then walking out as he starts shouting at her.
- Captain Flamingo:
- "Past Imperfect" ends with Milo and Lizbeth entering a bus, but just when it seems like that everything will revert back to normal even without his baby distractor that he has left over from the past by his nemesis The Warrior Monkey (which led to a change in the timeline with him and Milo getting Switched at Birth), we see the titular monkey as the driver still having the distractor and everybody inside the bus (and presumably the rest of humanity) has now become entirely inhabited by monkeys, leading them to both scream in horror as they realized that they REALLY screwed up with the timeline as a result of him not getting his distractor back from the monkey back in the past.
- "Night of the Living Flamingo" ends with Milo, Lizbeth and Otto having a conservation outside of the hall where the Halloween potluck party took place, they encounter a zombie sitting next to them, which they originally thought it was fake and they all start to laugh, but then they all realize that there is a real zombie sitting next to them, leading all three of them running away screaming.
- "Alley Oops!" ends with Lizbeth giving Milo a favor to take him to see Return to Unicorn Island again after breaking her promise the first time by escaping from the theater (which led to her missing the ending), leading him to yell in frustration.
- Corneil & Bernie: In "Eau de Corneil", after Bernie's poorly made perfume causes panic around the school, he decides to call off his date with Julie, thinking she's upset at him. Unfortunately, Julie states she still wanted to go and assumes Bernie is no longer interested, then leaves. The episode ends with Bernie screaming in rage as Corneil tells him that things have now reached the lowest point for him.
- Most episodes of Count Duckula end with somebody, usually Duckula, crying or screaming in frustration, often as a result of a Yank the Dog's Chain, while the Horror Host narrator gives the closing monologue.
- Dan Vs.: Each episode starts with Dan being wronged (or perceiving that he has been wronged) before yelling the name of the perpetrator. Some episodes end with him or someone else yelling in the same manner.
- "The Wolf-Man": The wolfman howls in rage, upon discovering that Dan scratched his car.
- "The Dentist": Pullum yells Dan's name after the latter has destroyed the former's villain lair.
- "The Beach": Dan screams "hippies" after they damaged his car.
- "The Neighbors": After Dan's neighbors move away, a new one takes their place, who disturbs the peace with loud music. Then Dan screams "neighbor" like how he screamed "neighbors" in the beginning.
- "Monster Under The Bed": Dan screams Chris' name, after the latter tricked the former to be scared by a fake monster.
- "The Dinosaur": The t-rex roars when it has to pay for car repairs.
- "Reality TV": Dan screams when he has been lied to about going to an astronaut sleepaway camp and gets trapped with wild coyotes instead.
- "Anger Management": Dan screams when he sees an annoying squirrel family again and tries to kill them.
- "The Mechanic": Dan screams "mechanic" again after his car explodes, because the mechanic forgot to put a certain part in there.
- "High School Reunion": Chris screams when scorpions come out of his old locker.
- The Fairly OddParents!: "Which Witch is Which?" ends in the present day with Alden Bitterroot finally climbing out of the well he'd been knocked into back in 1665, only to be accidentally knocked back into it again. As the camera Irises Out on the well, Bitterroot's screams can still be heard as he continues to fall.
Timmy's Dad: They say if you listen closely, you can still hear the history!
- Franklin: The episode "Franklin's Pond Phantom" appears to go with an "Everybody Laughs" Ending like most episodes, until the kids hear a moan coming from the pond, and, thinking it's the titular cryptid, they run away screaming.
- Futurama: In the second segment of "Anthology of Interest", after Leela's increased impulsivity results in her killing off the Planet Express crew, she ends up sparing Fry by sleeping with him so he keeps his mouth shut about this. However, she turns off the lights to "finish" with Fry as the screen cuts to black, and Fry is heard screaming...before saying he really likes it.
- Hero: 108: In "Folk Game Competition", HighRoller wants to conquer the Moon. Once he has the means to actually get there, he stakes a flag... but there's no one on the Moon for him to battle, and he wanted to fight the inhabitants for his claim. This frustrates him to the point that the episode ends with him screaming.
HighRoller: This is boring! What's the point of conquering the Moon if there's no one to fight?! I HATE THE MOON!!!
- Horrid Henry:
- Many episodes end with a character, mostly Henry, screaming a Big "NO!" due to the events of the episode, such as having the opportunity to break a world record snatched away at the last possible opportunity.
- "Horrid Henry's Sick Day" ends on Henry yelling, "I WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL!", since even though he usually hates school, he'd rather go to school than catch the disease his mother and brother had.
- Making Fiends: In the episode "Vegetables", Vendetta tries to destroy Charlotte by siccing a bushel of killer vegetables on her. The plan backfires when Charlotte befriends them and teaches them to sing a song about how wonderful vegetables are. After performing the song, two of the vegetables kiss Vendetta on the cheek, causing her to scream in revulsion and frustration. Roll credits.
- Martha Speaks: "Martha Bakes" ends on Mariella yelling at Martha and Skits the dogs, upon discovering the mess they made on the carpet from trying, and failing miserably, to bake a cake.
- Miraculous Ladybug: At the end of "Evolution", Gabriel squanders a perfect opportunity to save Émilie to one-up Ladybug and with all his plans ending in failure, returns home. Gabriel, despite this, continues to blame his failure on Ladybug, which causes Nathalie to realize that he cares more about power than actually saving her and his wife, and ends up leaving his service. Gabriel is enraged and ends the episode screaming "LADYBUG!!!" as the episode cuts to the end card.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- At the end of "Hearts and Hooves Day", Cheerilee and Big Macintosh decide to have a picnic and mess with the Cutie Mark Crusaders by pretending they still have feelings for one another. As they leave, the Crusaders think they're still affected by the love poison and end the episode with a Big "NO!".
- At the end of "Just for Sidekicks," Spike has finally gotten all of the gems he needs to make his cake, until he realizes he's eaten them all yet again. He screams, "WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?"
- The Owl House: The episode "Any Sport in a Storm" ends with Luz and Amity seeing that their friends had invited the Golden Guard (who'd previously also caused trouble for each of them on separate occasions) into their Flyer Derby team, prompting them to let out a Big "WHAT?!" so loud it causes a town miles away to shake and causes some scared birds to fly off.
- Phineas and Ferb:
- The very end of "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers" ends with two in a row from Candace after failing to bust her brothers yet again; first a Big "NO!" in response to the launch pad disappearing, followed by repeating the final line of the last movie in the alien movie marathon at the beginning, ending with her howling to the sky: "I WAS A FOOOOOL! A FOOOOOL!"
- At the end of the first part of the Un-Cancelled Season 5 opener, "Summer Block Buster", Candace screams in horror in response to Linda disappearing out of existence (and turning into a cloud) by Doofenshmirtz's inator.
- Ready Jet Go!: In the final scene of "What Goes Up...", Mitchell has become suspicious of Jet's strange behavior enough he will find out and expose it someday, ending with him loudly shouting Jet's full name to the heavens as the camera zooms out into space.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show: "Egg Yolkeo" abruptly ends with Ren freaking out when Stimpy ate Egg Yolkeo after making him into an egg salad sandwich.
- Rugrats:
- In "Party Animals", the babies are scared by Didi's cousin Bucky, who is disguised as a baby, and lock him in the bathroom. The episode ends with Angelica going to the bathroom, seeing Bucky inside, and screaming, as the camera zooms in on the inside of her mouth.
- In "What the Big People Do", Tommy and Chuckie have imagined what life might be like when they grow up, and part of their fantasy involves Angelica being a Mean Boss. Then in real life, Angelica says she wants to play house, and the boys scream in horror and the episode ends with a Smash to Black.
- "Chuckie Gets Skunked" ends on Stu and Chas screaming after meeting the same Smelly Skunk that sprayed Chuckie.
- In "Cuffed", the episode ends on Angelica being cuffed to her bed and yelling, "COME BACK!".
- "In the Dreamtime" ends on Chas waking up screaming after a nightmare in which a Stu-like monster tells him, "I'm not Stu!"
- "Hand Me Downs" ends with Drew telling Angelica that her belongings will be donated to Tommy. Angelica is distraught and screams (either because she's upset about losing her stuff, or because she thinks she'll disappear because she previously lied that older siblings will fade away when their stuff is given to their younger siblings).
- "Early Retirement" ends with the babies jumping on the couch just as Angelica is about to see the ending to the Cynthia P.I. special. Just when Cynthia is about to reveal who the diamond thief is, Tommy accidentally steps on the remote, changing the TV to the Weather Channel. Angelica lets out a scream so loud, it can be heard across the galaxy.
- The Simpsons: In the "Treehouse of Horror-IX" segment, "Terror of Tiny Toon," Bart and Lisa get sucked into an episode of "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" when Bart uses a plutonium-powered remote control. When Itchy takes offense at Bart and Lisa laughing at Scratchy's pain at his hands, they chase Bart and Lisa with murderous intent throughout the cartoon and several channels, including a cooking segment on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. After Homer uses the remote to get Bart and Lisa out, Itchy and Scratchy use their weapons to break out of the TV. However, in the real world, Itchy becomes no bigger than a fancy mouse and Homer traps him in a hamster cage. Scratchy, no larger than a regular house-cat, becomes attracted to Snowball-II, which prompts Marge to tell him he'll have to be neutered, causing Scratchy to respond by covering his crotch area and yelling "NOOOOOO!!" as a heart-shaped iris closeout ends the segment.
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- "Plankton!" ends with SpongeBob thwarting Plankton's plan to steal the Krabby Patty formula. As he leaves, Plankton, trapped by his own analyzer, yells at him to come back.
Plankton: SpongeBob, that's my Krabby Patty! Give it back, you porous freak! I command you! My Patty... NOOOOOOOOO! ...I'll settle for some fries!
- "F.U.N." ends with Plankton getting knocked onto Bubble Bass' open palm, where he's holding a number of jelly beans. Bubble Bass mistakes Plankton for a jelly bean and reaches out for him, and the episode ends with Plankton screaming while running away from Bubble Bass' outstretched fingers.
- At the end of "New Leaf", Mr. Krabs reveals he knew Plankton never changed his ways and the "formula" he gave him was a slip that said "Gotcha!" to throw him off; once Mr. Krabs leaves, the final shot of the episode is an exterior of the Chumporium as Plankton lets out a scream of anguish and defeat.
- At the end of "Krabs à la Mode", Plankton screams after being frozen in an ice cube, which Mr. Krabs places in his drink.
- At the end of "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob", the sponge frees Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy of their brainwashing and leads the customers back to the Krusty Krab. Plankton then screams in frustration at the sight of his empty restaurant.
- At the very end of "Patty Caper", when it was revealed Mr. Krabs was the one who stole his own secret ingredient to avoid paying and tried to let SpongeBob take the fall for it, his punishment is to give away Krabby Patties for free all day, all while being Forced to Watch SpongeBob do so as he screams nonstop.
- At the end of "Boating Buddies", Squidward is unable to finish a test and screams at the thought of being stuck with SpongeBob for another week.
- At the end of "To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants", SpongeBob takes off the round pants, leaving him in just his underwear, and then Sandy passes by and calls him "SpongeBob Underpants", causing him to scream.
- "The Abrasive Side": After SpongeBob returns the titular abrasive side, he goes to apologize to his grandma but it turns out she got the abrasive side somewhat, and the episode ends with a cut to outside Grandma's house as SpongeBob delivers a Big "NO!".
- Squidward screams at the end of "Earworm", after SpongeBob's earworm moves on to him.
- "Teacher's Pests", ends with Plankton, Mr. Krabs, and SpongeBob being stitched together, cue horrified screams from the former two and laughter from the latter.
- The episode "Ink Lemonade" ends with Squidward screaming in horror as his mouth shows that the "chip" of cookies turns out to be spider eggs that SpongeBob and Patrick baked for selling cookies, as the spiders, hatched already, crawl out of his mouth and his ink sprays all over the screen, cueing the episode's closing.
- "Plankton!" ends with SpongeBob thwarting Plankton's plan to steal the Krabby Patty formula. As he leaves, Plankton, trapped by his own analyzer, yells at him to come back.
- Star Trek: Lower Decks: "Fissure Quest" ends with Boimler receiving a message from William, his presumed dead transporter clone, that a Negative Space Wedgie from another reality is on its way to destroy the entire universe. Cut to Boimler yelling " HOLY F***! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!" and running off in a panic, with his screams continuing to be heard as the To Be Continued card fades in. For extra hilarity, this had been immediately preceded by William saying that they should be fine as long as Boimler doesn't freak out.
