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— Epic Rocking is the phenomenon where bands release really long songs that either seem to twist and change gears a million times before ending, or just manage to sustain themselves for their prolonged duration. More common in the '60s / rock era and in the '70s period. Psia Ready Writing And Creative Writing Handbook Mla. Also quite common in many forms of, particularly in the realm of,, and, as well as most forms of music (seriously, in the metal genre—apart from,, and — long tracks are easily more the rule than the exception). This trope is the polar opposite of: Instead of a short song with lyrics and catchy beat that anybody can play, these bands focus on deliberately complex songs where playing is a matter of superior technical skill and everything else is secondary to the instrumental showmanship and considerations of the sound itself, even lyrics.

Note There are exceptions, however; were notorious for building epic-length songs on as little as a single chord.. When there are lyrics, expect an to precede them. Songs featuring this trope also often feature, since changing time signatures helps maintain the listener's attention in a longer composition, and (which is the same thing, but for key signatures).

Done right, they maintain the listener's attention and sound really cool, sometimes. Done poorly, they just ramble, cause yawning, and suffer chronic. Put Epic Rocking in a and you have an instant. This trope also has the subtrope 'Epic Jamming', which is. Only studio versions are included, since live examples would bloat the list to hell.

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Many of those songs have a for everyone's sake. And for clarity's sake: This is a trope about long songs. Not about awesome songs.

Please don't add a short song here because it's awesome (we have for that) or delete a long one because it's not awesome. The trope doesn't apply to compositions either, as any work involving an orchestra can be expected to last from ten minutes up to several hours with very little 'rocking,' although it certainly may be epic. Also, this trope only applies to songs 6 minutes or more, anything less is too short to qualify. •: 'A Quick One, While He's Away', 'Underture', 'We're Not Gonna Take It', 'Won't Get Fooled Again', 'Who Are You', 'Eminence Front', 'I've Known No War'.

• 'The Song is Over' deserves special mention. It's the one song that Pete Townshend has sworn he'll never play at concert, because it would simply be impossible for four people to play all the parts it requires. • The Live At Leeds versions of 'My Generation' and 'Magic Bus' clock in at 15:47 and 7:48, despite being 3 minute songs originally. In live performance, 'My Generation' is regularly extended by incorporating quotations from other songs in their catalogue. •: As far back as, there was 'Rocket Queen'. I and II had several more, including 'November Rain', 'Estranged', 'Locomotive', and 'Coma'.

• 'Paradise City' from Appetite is a possible example, considering it clocks at nearly 7 minutes and gets faster and faster as it goes. • From Chinese Democracy, we have 'There Was A Time', which clocks in at just above 6:30, and two other 6 minute tracks, 'Sorry', and album closer 'Prostitute', which is pretty epic in the same way as 'Paradise City'. Among the fans that actually like Chinese Democracy, 'There Was A Time' is widely considered the most epic song, and during at least one of the concerts found on Youtube (from the LA Forum, December 21, 2011), you can hear the audience shout 'THERE WAS A TIME' at several times, more and more frequently as the concert progresses. •: 'Dahlia,' 'Silent Jealousy,' 'Forever Love,' 'I.V.'

, 'The Last Song,' 'Tears', 'Rose of Pain'. • And then there's 'Art of Life'. 30 minutes studio version, 33 minutes performed live. • 's overblown, symphonic style of rock includes lots of examples: 'Bat Out of Hell', 'I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)', 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light', and so on. Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf's principal songwriter, coined the term 'Wagnerian Rock' to describe this style, and is at least partly responsible for its epic excess. Witness Steinman's productions for artists like Air Supply ( Making Love Out of Nothing at All), Celine Dion ( It's All Coming Back To Me Now, which Meat Loaf would eventually ), and Bonnie Tyler ( Total Eclipse Of The Heart), and 's willing participation, as producer and lead guitarist on Bat Out Of Hell, are both mysteries that will probably never be solved.

• Mother Love Bone: 'Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns' •: 'Cortez the Killer', 'Down By The River', 'Pocahontas'. He and Crazy Horse stretched a live version of 'Cinnamon Girl' out to over 12 minutes. He's been known to do the same with the live versions of 'Sedan Delivery', 'Like a Hurricane', and 'Barstool Blues'.

• The studio version of 'Ordinary People' clocks in at 18:13. That's eighteen minutes without extended guitar solos. • 'Down by the River' has seen both a 19-minute version (with no less) at Farm Aid 1996 and a 26-minute version at the Rock am Ring festival in 2002.

The studio recording is already well over nine minutes, but live renditions tend to end up at least twice as long. • Equally 'Like a Hurricane' has been stretched well past the 20-mark, with Neil playing a variety of instruments in the proces. • 'Cowgirl in the Sand', ten minutes of pure Neil Young goodness. • A rule of thumb: If the album is credited to & Crazy Horse, chances are good that there will be at least one song that falls under this trope. • In general, the genre is built around this trope. Some acts like may use it less frequently by the genre's standards (which is still pretty often).

Others, such as, use it almost exclusively. •: The latter half of 2013 saw the band releasing several extremely lengthy neo-prog/jazz-rock pieces such as '299: Self-Traitor, I Do Bring the Spider Love,' which clocks in at just under 2 and a half hours. Still other pieces were released as lengthy collections such as 'Quasi Una Fantasia,' which is an hour and 45 minutes.

•: They have several epic jams like these: 'Suds & Soda', 'Hotellounge' ( ), 'Theme From Turnpike', 'Fell Off the Floor, Man' ( ), 'Instant Street' ( ). •: 'Karn Evil 9', 'Tarkus', 'Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman'. 'The Endless Enigma' (incorporating 'Fugue'), 'The Three Fates', 'Take a Pebble' and 'Pirates' are all shorter but over 10 minutes. •: 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis' and 'Five Bridges Suite' (both featuring orchestral accompaniment) •, being a prog rock band, naturally are great at this. • The self titled debut has a 7 minute cover of 'I See You', and the 6 and a half minute 'Survival'. • Time and a Word has a 6 minute cover of 'Everydays', the 6 minute 'Astral Traveller', and the 6 and a half minute 'The Prophet'.

• The Yes Album, their first album after the shift from to, has the 10 minute 'Yours Is No Disgrace', the 9 and a half minute, 3 part 'Starship Trooper', the 7 minute, 2 part 'I've Seen All Good People', and the 9 minute 'Perpetual Change'. • Fragile has the 8 and a half minute 'Roundabout', the 8 minute 'South Side of the Sky', and the 11 and a half minute 'Heart of the Sunrise', their longest song to the point. • Close to the Edge only has three songs. The 18 minute, 4 part title track, the 10 minute, 4 part 'And You and I', and the 9 minute 'Siberian Khatru'. • Tales from Topographic Oceans is a double album with just four songs (you read that right). 'The Revealing Science of God', 'The Remembering', 'The Ancient', and 'Ritual'. All are 20 minutes.

Some critics claim it's best to regard them as a single 83-minute song that had to be split up for vinyl, although each has its own distinct style. • Relayer only has three songs. 'Sound Chaser' is 9 and a half minutes, and 'To Be Over' is 9 minutes, but the real winner is their then-longest song, the 22 minute (only one part!) 'The Gates of Delirium'. • Going for the One has the 8 minute 'Turn of the Century' and 6 minute 'Parallels', but they are eclipsed by the 15 and a half minute 'Awaken'.

• Tormato has the 6 minute 'Arriving UFO', the 7 minute 'Future Times/Rejoice' and the 8 minute 'On The Silent Wings Of Freedom'. • Drama has the 10 minute 'Machine Messiah', the 6 and a half minute 'Does It Really Happen?' , and the 8 and a half minute 'Into The Lens'. • 90125 has the 6 and a half minute 'Changes' (), and the 7 and a half minute 'Hearts'. • Big Generator has the 7 minute 'Shoot High Aim Low', the 6 and a half minute 'Final Eyes', and the 7 and a half minute 'I'm Running'. • Union has the 6 and a half minute 'I Would Have Waited Forever' and 'Lift Me Up', as well as the 7 and a half minute 'Miracle Of Life'.

• Talk considerably scales up the epics. 'The Calling' is 7 minutes long, 'I Am Waiting' is 7 and a half, 'Real Love' is 9 minutes, and 'Where Will You Be' is 6 minutes, but the real champion is their first multi-part song since Close to the Edge, the 3 part, 16 minute 'Endless Dream'. • Keys to Ascension is a mostly live album, but the two studio tracks are epics.

'Be The One' is 10 minutes long and 3 parts, and 'That, That Is' is even longer, at 7 parts and 19 minutes. • The follow up, Keys to Ascension 2 is nothing but apart from the 3 and a half minute 'Sign Language'. In order from shortest to longest, 'Children of Light' is 2 parts and 6 minutes, 'Bring Me to the Power' is 7 and a half minutes, 'Foot Prints' is 9 minutes, and 'Mind Drive' is 18 and a half minutes. • Open Your Eyes has 'New State of Mind', 'Universal Garden', and 'Wonderlove', which are 6 minutes. It also features their new record longest song, 'The Solution'.

The song itself only lasts 5 minutes, but leads into 2 minutes of silence that follows into 16 minutes of nature sounds and vocal snippets. Overall, it is 24 minutes. • The Ladder has the 9 and a half minute 'Homeworld', the 6 minute 'Finally', and the 9 minute 'New Language'. • Magnification contains the 7 minute title track, the 6 minute 'Spirit of Survival', the 8 minute 'Give Love Each Day', the 6 and a half minute 'We Agree', the 11 minute 'Dreamtime' and the 10 and a half minute, 4 part 'In The Presence Of'.

• After a 10 year hiatus, Fly from Here has the 7 minute 'Into the Storm', but the real winner is Yes's longest song to date, the 24 minute, 6 part title track. • Most recently, Heaven And Earth has the 8 minute 'Believe Again', the 7 minute 'The Game', the 8 minute 'Light of the Ages', and the 9 minute 'Subway Walls'. •: 'One More Red Nightmare', '21st Century Schizoid Man', 'In the Court of the Crimson King', 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic Pt.

2', 'Pictures of a City', 'Epitaph', 'Starless and Bible Black', 'Fracture', 'The Talking Drum', and more. • Indeed, the entire album (1969) is epic rocking, with the shortest song being six minutes, and the longest being over twelve. Note that many fans feel the latter track ('Moonchild') is way too long even for King Crimson, since it's two minutes of the actual song followed by ten minutes of instrumental noodling. On the remastered edition, about three minutes of this section were removed. • The B-side of the 1970 album 'Lizard' is 23 minutes long and even has Jon Anderson of Yes. • Also, from their later albums: 'The ConstruKction of Light' (2000) - the titular song and 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part Four)' - and 'Level Five', 'EleKtriK' and 'Dangerous Curves' from 'The Power to Believe' (2003) qualify just as well as the earlier compositions.

• 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic' is actually an ongoing rock epic, spanning nearly 30 years and featuring segments on the albums Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Three of a Perfect Pair, and The ConstruKction of Light. • Even their poppier songs are long, not just their weird instrumentals: 'Dinosaur' is six and a half minutes, and so is 'Thela Hun Ginjeet'. Also, all of their 80s-era new wave albums had at least one long improvisation: 'The Sheltering Sky' (eight and a half minutes), 'Requiem' (seven and a half), and 'Industry' (just over seven). • Early -era. Most notably the 23 minute of ', but also the fan favorite 10 minute songs 'Firth of Fifth', 'The Musical Box', 'Fountain of Salmacis' and more.

• -era Genesis has some, too, like 'Domino' and 'Home by the Sea'/'Second Home by the Sea'. • The short-lived four-piece era (1976–78) has 'Mad Man Moon', 'One for the Vine', 'Ripples' and 'Inside and Out'.

• Speaking of Peter Gabriel, 'Down to Earth' from the soundtrack is almost 6 minutes. • Gabriel's album Up consists almost exclusively of this. There's only one song on it shorter than six minutes. Other examples include 'Biko' (7:26), 'Waiting for the Big One' (7:16), and 'The Family and the Fishing Net' (7:08). • Genesis also composed two other twenty-plus-minute epics, but they ended up getting split on the albums for various reasons, including that the band didn't want them compared to 'Supper's Ready'.

One, which goes for about twenty and a half minutes, consists of 'Dancing with the Moonlit Knight', 'The Cinema Show', and 'Aisle of Plenty', and can be found on Selling England by the Pound. The other, which goes for about twenty-eight minutes, consists of 'Behind the Lines', 'Duchess', 'Guide Vocal', 'Turn It On Again', 'Duke's Travels', and 'Duke's End', and can be found on Duke.

— Frodo,, The Two Towers, Book IV During the course of a, your characters can go places, have adventures, fight bad guys, and right wrongs. They've loved and lost and learned.and then something happens. Something that they never expected. The bad guys. And they don't have time to mourn or plan or get over their losses, because more bad things are happening. This is the point in a narrative when there's no hope, when the characters are at the edge of the.

It is frequently invoked for the strongest testing of 's character:., going back to. As an ancient and ubiquitous plot device, this scenario has received quite a bit of attention in literary circles; it's cognate to the 'death' stage (preceding the 'descent into the underworld', but not always clearly distinguished from it) in certain formulations of monomyth, and shows up elsewhere as well. At least one creative writing course views such bleak moments as essential to effective plotting.

This usually precedes a climax where only a few things can happen: • The moment, where either your characters will make a comeback. • There's a that is then cruelly crushed, which leads to a or a. • The author is but is feeling cruel enough to add a anyway before the heroes emerge from the mire.

Compare, the first of the dark hours. May overlap with. The is someone who begins to fight back despite appearing to have no chance of survival. Is the natural conclusion of such a moment. Unless, of course, the story features a. The is a proverb that ' but its exact origins are uncertain. Most likely, English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller was the first one to say something like it in his A Pisgah-Sight Of Palestine And The Confines Thereof, where it is quoted, 'It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth.'

It should go without saying, but ' Here there be spoilers!' •: Piccolo Daimaou had killed Goku's best friend Krillin, with him failing to avenge him, now his Muten Roshi is also dead along with Chiaotzu, Piccolo got his wish for eternal youth, and worst of all, he killed Shenron himself so that he is no longer challenged. • • Just prior to the climax of the Namek saga: Frieza has survived everything Goku has thrown at him, including the 20x Kaio Ken and the Spirit Bomb, Vegeta, Dende and the Namekians are dead, and Piccolo is mortally wounded, and were he to die, the entire purpose of the journey to Namek would be moot.

On top of that, Frieza decides to kill Krillin next. • There's an episode devoted to this in the Cell Saga where Cell powers up a massive Kamehameha blast to destroy the Earth, as a badly injured Gohan and the rest of Z warriors look on helplessly.

• Because of Gohan's own arrogance, his father sacrificed himself in vain; Trunks is lying in a pool of his own blood; Vegeta, the only other person even remotely capable of standing up to Cell has been incapacitated with a single blow; and, • In the Saiyan saga, fighting Vegeta and Nappa, Gohan and Krillin are the only ones still standing,. • Occurs on a galactic scale in the Majin saga, when Kid Buu destroys the earth, then proceeds to zip from one planet to the next, destroying them as he goes.

When Kid Buu arrives in the Other World, Goku and Vegeta try to fight him, but find themselves horribly outmatched. •: • During the Chapter Black where the whole objective is to prevent a portal to the Demon Word from opening potentially letting in that can potentially wipe out the Earth. Also the the heroes are so used to gets thrown out the window. Made even worse that even the protagonist of the series.

• Sensui's power far exceeded Yusuke's, being an S class while Yusuke was a B+ at best. Knowing he had no chance of ever beating Sensui, Yusuke opted for a, letting Sensui kill him, thus boosting the the power levels of Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei up to A class. 3 A Class fighters against an S Class was still a very one sided in favor of Sensui. It took two just to beat him. •: Commander Yoneda is missing, Orihime Soletta has been ambushed and by Patrick Hamilton, Maria is missing after attempting to investigate Douglas-Stewart, and the Imperial Flower Combat division has been placed on indefinite standby and isn't allowed back at the Imperial Theater. •: Its Darkest Hour happened in episode 92, but the Mazinger vs Great General of Darkness expanded upon it and turned it even more tragic: The army of Mykene Empire struck, easily razing several big cities (London, New York, Moscow.) to ruins. When they raided Tokyo, Kouji flew to fight them.

And got the crap beaten out of him. When he returned to the Institute, he found out several Mykene Beasts had smashed the place, destroying Sayaka and Boss's. And Shiro, his little brother, had been hurt when a ceiling collapsed, and he urgently needed a blood transfusion.

In spite of he was weak -and he was underage- Kouji DID demand they used his blood. Later, at the night, he was sitting in what was left of his bedroom, observing a picture of his father and his grandfather and crying as he muttered the Mykene Beasts would return, and he could not win, but he would fight even though he knew he was going to die (unbeknownst to him, Sayaka was observing him, shedding tears as she heard him talking). •: In the anime it happened in the last episode: the Mykene bombarded the Fortress of Science, Kouji and Tetsuya were forced to fight separately, Tetsuya was defeated and nearly got killed and Prof.

Kenzo Kabuto died. And in the episodes it was worse. • Nevertheless, in that same manga the Darkest Hour happened in one of the last arcs: Great Marshall of Hell blackmailed the Government into destroying the Fortress of Science, Great Mazinger and Venus A. The Fortress was blown up to bits and crumbled into the ocean, the heroes were forced to flee and hiding, and while they were seeking a shelter and lying low, the Mykene army conquered Japan.

•: In the finale of the first season, was defeated and forced into hiding with his, his was shot down, his was dying, the base was taken by one of the of, and the Professor was tortured. • Most of the Rossiu arc of, where the heroes are discredited, stripped of power, and seemingly impotent in the face of the apocalypse. The Darkest Hour for the first two arcs is Simon's. • In, the episode 'That Day, Riot Force Six'. It ends with most of their forces injured, both the Ground Forces HQ and destroyed, and and captured. • By the last episode of, Pacifica has sustained a mortal wound, Prince Forsythe has given himself a mortal wound, Shannon and Zefiris have been dragged off by the surviving Peacemakers, and for good measure, the Royal Forces start blasting the place.

It ends well. • 's Darkest Hour begins around episode 20, with the president being assassinated, a Vajra infestation on the main ship causing wholesale civilian slaughter, the death of Michel as he defended his love, and the departure of Ranka Lee. • The Darkest Hour in is when the children realize they can't beat the D-Reaper even with, Juri is in a suicidal, catatonic state, they learn that the D-Reaper obliterated the Digital World, making it a Barren Wasteland, and they realize it's plan to cause a. • In, the Darkest Hour comes in R2 episode 19.

Suzaku uses a nuke-equivalent in Tokyo because Lelouch's geass command from season 1 compelled him to. This leads to terrific and terrifying destruction, much civilian death, and Nunally's demise. Lelouch, Suzuka and Nina all go into shock, thinking while a new weapon that fires these on command is in development. This leads to. And then Schneizel takes advantage of the whole situation to reveal Lelouch's identity to the Black Knights, and manipulates them all into turning against him. • This takes place in after a disastrous battle with Aion leaves the broken.

• In the manga, Rosette is nearly killed when Chrono goes into an. Chrono realizes what he's doing in time to save her life, but Aion uses it as his chance to incapacitate him. Azmaria is then kidnapped, Aion leaves the rest badly injured, and Chrono is so distraught that he into an so he won't take any more of Rosette's lifespan. It ends once Rosette and Chrono decide to follow Aion to his base of operations. • In the anime, Rosette is kidnapped by Aion and brainwashed to take part in his plans.

Chrono manages to free Joshua from the horns, but they've damaged his mind so much he barely remembers anyone, and in the process Chrono is frozen in time. Thing spiral out of control from there, and don't get better until Chrono's final fight with Aion, and the rest of the series is grim up until the • In, the Darkest Hour is when the Raven turns the townspeople into crows and captures Mytho when Princess Tutu can't remove her pendant from her neck (which is Mytho's last heart shard). Ahiru becomes so depressed that she believes the only way she can help everyone is by killing herself. Fakir stops her by convincing her that he will always be with her and they can save Mytho together. The Darkest Hour comes to an end when Ahiru finds the courage to give Mytho the pendant and return to being a duck. •: • During the Invasion of Pain arc.

The village has been leveled, with several important characters and hundreds of nameless villagers killed. Naruto's has failed and he is pinned to the ground helpless.

Worse still, he can find no response to Pain's nihilistic. Then tries to come to his aid, makes an and attacks Pain, only to get. And the power of the bursts free like it has never done before. As Kyuubi-Naruto is fighting Pain, the scene switches to Yamato (the only person who can rein in the Nine-Tailed Fox when Naruto loses control), who's miles away. He looks down to his tattoo that shows how many tails Naruto has unleashed (if all of them are released, the Nine-Tailed Fox can break free completely), and sees the number changing from 8 to 9. • The battle against Madara Uchiha manages to top this.

Madara effortlessly absorbs all nine tailed beasts at once, killing Bee and knocking out Naruto, and then he stabs Sasuke in the heart. Naruto's condition rapidly deteriorates into cardiac arrest and is utterly unresponsive to any of Sakura's medical jutsu, forcing her to resort to CPR. The alliance has already been devastated by several attacks from the Ten Tails and the Zetsus. Sasuke is bleeding out with no one able to help him, and he may already be dead. • Minato tries to transplant his half of Kurama into Naruto, but Black Zetsu interferes and Madara shows up.

Sakura is still performing CPR, but who knows how much longer she can hold out. Gai wants to help, but he can barely stand. An unknown figure is approaching Sasuke. Madara became Ten Tails' jinchuriki and finally activated Infinite Tsukiyomi; after this, the Sage of Six Path's mother is revived and has Black Zetsu take out Madara, becoming the true final villain. • There's one at the end of each season. •: The result of a orchestrated by the main villain, Tamaki's grandmother, in an attempt to separate him and Haruhi: disolve the host club and force Tamaki away to France. • In, the main one comes when Sakura believes she's lost to Yue; she has a lucid dream in which the catastrophe takes place, and friendships no longer exist for the people Sakura was close to.

• In, when all of the seven great robots of the world have been destroyed. Except for Atom, who may be insane at that point. • 's darkest hour is at the end of the second arc, which sees an even crueller person donning the Friend mask, killing several million people, and, making all the protagonists work up till then all for nothing.]] After that, things start to eventually look up, starting with the return of the supposedly dead hero from the first third of the story. •: • Father's just activated his transmutation circle and absorbed the entirety of Amestris. Then he absorbed.

• The Elric brothers' first meeting with Father and the aftermath. They've found out the horrible secret of their country and they're led to believe there's nothing they can do to stop it. One of the chapters in this arc is even called 'Inside the Belly.'

•: Dante and the Homunculi kidnap and immobilize Alphonse, place him in a giant transmutation circle, and plan to use him as a Philosophers Stone, so Dante can pull a on Rose. Then Edward gets killed by Envy while trying to save them. •: • Episode 45.

The girls finally decide to take on the Dark Kingdom at its source, because Metallia will soon break free of her imprisonment and destroy the world if not stopped. The episode ends with all but Sailor Moon dead. Even though she's encouraged by the spirits of her friends to keep going, it still wasn't looking good for Usagi at that point. • The climax of. Sailor Moon and the Starlights are the only Sailor Soldiers left.

This is on top of the dark shadow of Tuxedo Mask's disappearance that's been hanging around for half the season. The is a dream as well, and really not that close to the end.

• The has one that's worse: Galaxia destroys all the Sailor Crystals, leaving herself, Sailor Moon, and Sailor Chibi Chibi the only ones left. • 's Darkest Hour is everything that happens after the Governor's ball, most of it to Negi. The Governor tries to kill him after Negi uncovers his real objective, all while his is threatening to consume him. His mentor is erased in front of him. The secret organisation headed by his nemesis is activating the plan to destroy the Magical World, which erased a lot of his students' new friends in the crossfire as they watched. Oh yeah, Mahora Academy might not survive either.

His childhood friend Anya and Asuna are being held hostage, and he's just found out that the Asuna he's been with for all this time is a sleeper agent that he has to unmask. On top of this, he has to beat the evil side into submission, otherwise he'll turn into a feral, homicidal demon the next time he uses Magia Erebea. He feels personally responsible for most of these. And he's just ten. Most overwhelmed little boy since. • As if that wasn't enough, the final showdown between Ala Alba and Kosmo Entelechia has gone wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong.

Negi is incapacitated (bad), so the rest of the team pull off a daring rescue (good). Half the attacking group is in the clusterfuck (bad), but at least they've stopped the world-ending ritual and stolen the artifact, rescued the princess and saved the world, right? • One for every part: • Part 1 - The seemingly dead Dio attacks Johnathan on his honeymoon. • Part 2 - Cars achieves his goal of becoming an ultimate being and is now immune to Hamon, and Joseph's out of ideas. • Part 3 - Kakyoin, Iggy, Avdol, and Joseph are dead and just Jotaro remains to take on Dio and his almost invincible.

• Part 4 - Kira has gained a new Stand ability that allows him to easily pick off the only people who can stop him, and the only person who knows Kira's real identity has no way of telling them directly. • Part 5 - Polnareff's Requiem Stand has gone berserk, and thanks to some body-switching, Diavolo is in Buccarati's body, Narancia is dead, and the Requiem Arrow is almost in Diavolo's hands. • Part 6 - Pucci upgrades his Stand to one that can reset the universe, and he plans to make a world where the Joestars never existed. The only one stopping him is a kid with no offensive abilities whatsoever.

• Part 7 - Valentine has all the corpse parts and merges them with Lucy, giving him complete immunity to Johnny's attacks, Gyro's strongest attack doesn't work and gets him killed, and then Diego shows up. •: The last couple episodes are a never-ending barrage of this. As in, all the main characters die. And not just die, but die horribly.

Finally, it's just Kiba left standing against the. He wins, but he's dying. Cheza exploding into a pile of seeds! Yes, there is wait, never mind. All the characters you had some attachment to And the last thing you see is Only not really.

See a whole other existence is apparently made because of this. One possible explanation is that it really is a reset, but only the wolves are reincarnated in it (Darcia did say that it was 'a paradise only for wolves'). • Out of 50 episodes in, episode 44 arguably takes the spot for this trope. The entire episode is a depression.

• The last part of the manga develops with the city of London destroyed by vampires and crusaders, with Alucard far away in a ship, and the Hellsing manor almost destroyed and under the attack of vampires. The situation doesn't get better until Alucard arrives (which actually makes things worse). • It gets much, much worse. The Vatican authorizes purging of London.

Anderson becomes a thorn-monster-thing. Walter pulls a.

Alucard DIES and does not come back before the end of the war. • Episode 12 of. Stocking's ascended to Heaven, Panty's lost her powers, and the abducted Brief to unlock the Ghost sealed away. Then • The Water Seven and Sabaody arcs in, both storylines in which the Straw Hat Pirates have come close to annihilation.

• Those are tame compared with The Marineford arc. The marines succeed in executing Ace, Blackbeard kills Whitebeard and steals his powers, Luffy has sustained a massive amount of damage and sacrificed part of his lifespan in vain, and several villains from previous arcs have now been freed from prison (), and as the cherry on top, Luffy lost his brother despite all the sacrifices he made. • Perhaps one of the darkest as a whole for the was during the Dressrosa arc. There was a fruit user in Doflamingo's crew who had the ability to turn anyone she touched into a toy. And everyone who is turned is completely forgotten, by everyone, and they have people.

During an assault, Nico Robin, the only person in the world capable of reading the, gets turned into a toy. Keep in mind, the Poneglyphs being deciphered is serious enough for the World Government to practically glass an island, and it is heavily implied reading them is necessary to reach Raftel. If not for, the bad guys would probably have won. • The Totta Land arc is yet another, especially for Sanji. Sanji is in an with one of Big Mom's daughters, and his own family is blackmailing him by threatening to kill his adoptive father Zeff if he doesn't go along with it.

Luffy and Nami have gotten captured and are on death row in the dungeon, Pedro is locked in a battle against Tamago, Brook is trapped in the treasure room with Big Mom herself, Carrot and Chopper are trapped and lost in a mirror world, and on top of that, his would-be wife Pudding turns out to be a manipulative sociopath who fully intends to kill Sanji during the wedding ceremony while her family kills the rest of the Vinsmokes as well for their cloning technology. The kicker is that the name of the chapter this is revealed in is called, and ends with the solemn narrative words 'Not a single ray of hope, left in this world.' • The end of Hong Gildong arc in. The main character willingly traps himself in a which he considered a betting on of breaking free versus certain death otherwise. His main companion is deceived into working for the. Antagonists of the arc are mostly dead. The main character's former old friend remains undead in the thrall to the, and is revealed to be unable to die or to break free unless his body is completely obliterated.

The city that the protagonists protected in the arc is taken over by the. The decides to stop fooling around and get to the businness of, revealing his vast true power and his array of superhuman henchmen. Few good guys still standing are being manipulated by him.

• It gets So.Much.Worse in the final battle. After a gruesome battle where Munsu loses his right arm just to redeem Sando, Aji Tae appears, and decides to make a little show of power. Obliterating his stronghold and most of the battlefield in one go, killing most of the characters in there, including his henchmen.

Then, almost dead from blood loss and the cost of using the mandrake getting to him, Munsu still doesn't have any other idea against Aji Tae rather than claiming that he is Aji Tae's origin (And thus, his death could affect Aji Tae). Aji Tae thus decides to make a point blowing up Munsu's eye and other arm, and showing he considered that option, and that's why he used another as insurance to avoid the worst case scenario. Only mean getting instakilled, and it looks like Munsu just succumbed. • And then Munsu decides to have the very best death ever and show the bastard who's boss. • By episode 11 of, Homura is the only magical girl left alive and is fighting a losing battle against Walpurgisnacht even after unloading a small army's worth of firepower on it.

After repeating the same six weeks who knows how many times, she finally gives up hope. Cue courtesy of her beloved Madoka. • carries this trope to its logical extreme. It's pretty dark.

•: Most of Neotopia's population is, Commander Sazabi has stolen Captain's soul drive, and is preparing to rule over the world with it. • near the end of season two; the turns out to be the demon kingdom's and possesses the protagonist, performed a prior to that and has been planning it for centuries, and the practically invincible army is not only invading the rest of the world but also starting to come over to Earth.

•: • Ichigo's lowest personal moment occurs during the Lost Agent arc. Thanks to, Ichigo's friends and family have united with the against him or are critically injured. The guy he thought was a friend turns out to be a villain instead and the powers he worked so hard to regain are stolen from him.

He's abandoned on his knees, a sword through his chest, crying in the rain. • Soul Society suffers a crushing defeat at the beginning of the Thousand-Year Blood War Arc. The city is laid waste by the Vandenreich and Urahara, Sado and Orihime are defeated at a second front in Hueco Mundo. Within fifteen minutes, fully half the Gotei 13 is dead or critically injured, five bankais have been stolen and Ichigo himself is imprisoned between worlds, forced to listen helplessly to the screams of the dying. Significant characters that are brutually defeated include Byakuya, Kenpachi, Renji, Rukia and Kira. Yamamoto and Choujirou die.

• Yhwach and his defeat Squad Zero, considered the ultimate shinigami force, with ease. Afterwards, he manipulates Ichigo(through his Quincy blood) into finishing the Soul King off, which starts the collapse of the three worlds. Ukitake releases the minor god who kept him alive since he was a child in an attempt to slowdown the crisis, but it proves to be a vain sacrifice when Yhwach absorbs said god. A good measure of how bad the situation is, is the fact that Kyouraku has to release Aizen from his prison, seeking aid, and that. • Ichigo pretty much experienced the worst of his life just as he showed off his Bankai against Yhwach, who immediately snapped it in two before Ichigo can use it with his 'The Almighty'. Then Yhwach bypassed Orihime's shield with his powers easily to lay waste on Ichigo in order to break him further before he finally absorbed his Hollow and Quincy powers.

Reducing Ichigo as both physically and mentally powerless while Yhwach got what he wanted as he leaves into a portal. •: • Sango and Miroku waiting for the Wind Tunnel to absorb them while their despair consumes the light within the Shikon no Tama leaving it in darkness.

• When Sesshoumaru finally learns the truth about Tenseiga's origins and Meidou Zangetsuha's purpose, he concludes his father has groomed Inuyasha to. He's so shaken that he abandons his, Inuyasha's group having to save them from Naraku. Nothing - not even Kagura's death or Rin's second death - has ever made him despair the way thinking his father hated him did.

• Inuyasha is tricked into thinking he murdered Kagome in his blood rage. This breaks him down so completely that he gives into his despair and demon blood. • 's Darkest Hour occurs in the 11th volume when Opfus had 75% of her powers drained from her. Then they're trapped in an alternate dimension surrounded by grim reapers. They were able to destroy the statues and were already about to get out of that place when Opfus gets kidnapped by a newly-rebuilt Shalba Beelzebub, and Ise has to rescue her. The volume ends with Ise getting hit with a on an arrow, leaving him to die in that place. That's not all however; Hades starts a war on the Underworld, Azazel's been accused of cooperating with terrorists even though he's the one who wanted peace in the first place, and every single member of the Occult Research Club suffering a.

•, the Darkest Hour is when the nuclear armed Blue Cosmos is ready to nuke the PLANTs with over a hundred nukes, and ZAFT is ready to use their on Blue Cosmos and Earth, and the Three Ship Alliance in between trying to prevent both sides from wiping each other out. • While Popotan isn't exactly a dark series to begin with, it does reach a very bleak point in episode 11. The main characters have been told that they can either continue time travelling with all the impediments that would put on their social lives, or live away from each other in three separate time periods; after Mai leaves, Ai and Mii find going on to be pointless and eventually abandon their journey too. The next episode reveals that none of them are very happy about the situation. • happens three times, the pilot's, then the colonies decide to, and finally Quatre goes on a colony destroying spree • has the, 'Fright to the Finish.'

Fire Kirby has used up all of his energy and reverted back to normal after tiring himself out trying to attack Nightmare physically. Nightmare then decides to enter his sleep and give him a nightmare by torturing him before moving on to crush him. Tiff tries calling for the Warp Star, but it's nowhere to be found in Kirby's dream. Just when all hope seems lost, Kirby summons it in his dreams and eats it, becoming Star Rod Kirby and beating Nightmare in one hit. • In the Band of the Hawk's darkest hour comes after the completion of their Griffith rescue operation, which was the first victory for the Hawks since their downfall upon Griffith's imprisonment, but a at that, since Griffith now disfigured and crippled beyond repair after a year of torture can never wield a sword again and the Hawks can never return to their status without his leadership.

Most of the Hawks are confused and emotionally distraught, especially Guts, Casca, and most of all Griffith himself. He goes through a as a result, but during it, he finds a glimmer of hope for himself; unfortunately, it's a for everyone else involved. It's made that much worse for watchers of the anime, where all of the above happens.. • In, the girls end up confronting Dune for the first time. And he easily, kidnaps Tsubomi's grandmother, regains his full power, then proceeds to turn the Earth into a desert and it seems that, for a little while, those four are the only people alive.

• In, the final series has a freaking god invade the mortal realm. This from a series where, it happens in the anime a full ten episodes before the show ends. •: By the end of episode 13, Satsuki sets off to raid the last few schools not under her control, and Mako is forced to take part in it. The Elite Four return and are on the verge of getting even stronger.

Nui,, and its shredded pieces are scattered across Satsuki's forces and used for combat data. All of this presumably makes Ryuko's go. • And then things get even worse during the course of episodes 18-20.