3.89 avg rating — 25,649 ratings

"Everyone dies unexpectedly. "

4.19 avg rating — 45,419 ratings

""Jack the Ripper is never caught." Gull dies believing "... that he's becoming a god...""

3.07 avg rating — 375 ratings

""In the final issue, Cerebus dies alone, unmourned, and unloved, just as The Judge had predicted, and left the world undoubtedly a worse place through his actions.""

4.36 avg rating — 238,695 ratings

""After the Joker paralyzes Barbara Gordon and tortures Commissioner Gordon, Batman confronts him... the two share a laugh, and the final panel suggests Batman may have strangled the Joker...""

3.91 avg rating — 34,031 ratings

""Dahmer becomes a Serial Killer, and the reader is left with the impression that his murders could have been prevented.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,356 ratings

""Russian scientists successfully launch Sputnik 2 with Laika in it, but she dies a painful death in less than four hours from overheating in the capsule.""

4.31 avg rating — 3,198 ratings

""The ending conveys that the system is too powerful to be torn down, and the story concludes without a triumphant or satisfying resolution for the protagonists.""

4.39 avg rating — 599,591 ratings

""Ozymandias... triggers a fake alien invasion, killing millions in New York to force world peace. Dr. Manhattan kills Rorschach to keep this secret, and the world is saved based on a massive, horrifying lie.""

4.36 avg rating — 2,612 ratings

"After Kid Miracleman dies, Liz leaves and "Miracleman creates a globally peaceful utopia, but at the cost of being a god-like dictator... his utopia is built on human suffering.""

3.72 avg rating — 1,889 ratings

""Daijal self-destructs, destroying practically all of Earth's Eastern Hemisphere. With all the other Supergods dead, Morrigan Lugus is able to spread its spores across the planet. The few survivors are left cowering in bunkers, and it's clear that they're only delaying the inevitable.""

3.14 avg rating — 672 ratings

""The local apocalypse ends with every protagonist dead, New York City nuked, and the titular zombifying gas implied to spread across the entire world.""

4.08 avg rating — 966 ratings

""The group is unable to free the remaining slaves... Eventually, they... track down the man who purchased the daughter, only to learn he has … eaten her. And then Dass Jennir – the Jedi of all people – kills him on the spot...""

4.11 avg rating — 314 ratings

""The story concludes with the natural end of the universe... only for Aja to somehow find himself surviving that too, leaving him floating endlessly through the void with no hope of escape.""

4.43 avg rating — 334 ratings

""Josh doesn't become a comics editor... he would end up suffering from a heart attack like his mother and dying from it... Pete would become a registered sex offender and... would later die of an overdose... and Bill later dies alone and unloved.""

3.45 avg rating — 3,168 ratings

""Plutona wakes up just in time to tell the kids to screw off and leave while their friend dies. They bury the body in the woods and never tell anyone.""

3.82 avg rating — 2,824 ratings

"Several stories have downer endings."

3.83 avg rating — 5,473 ratings

"Several stories have downer endings."

3.74 avg rating — 3,695 ratings

""...ends with the protagonist, a robotic assassin who thinks he's human, slaughtering most of the security forces... only to end up almost completely destroyed... put back together, having his memory reset, and returning to his (fake) family none the wiser about his true nature... the only hope for a planned revolution that would have freed all other robots from slavery...""

3.64 avg rating — 1,629 ratings

""Cain is now back to square one: alone and unable to end his misery in a hopelessly unforgiving world.""

4.46 avg rating — 38,839 ratings

""It has sort of a bittersweet ending, but Thorn saying her goodbye to Fone Bone, which almost seems like a permanent goodbye...""

3.88 avg rating — 952 ratings

""Patch... succumbed to the rabies... Lord has run back into the forest by himself... Jonas is killed by animal control, and finally Elsie and Gigi are on the run from both animal control and other rabid animals... with Gigi's three very young kittens in tow.""

3.93 avg rating — 22,227 ratings

""Hyde sacrifices himself to destroy a Martian tripod. The British government uses a biological weapon... Appalled by this, Nemo resigns... with Mina deciding to take a break from Allan...""

3.48 avg rating — 2,752 ratings

""Allan dies, leaving Mina and Orlando to continue living in a modernized, dystopian world they no longer understand or like.""

3.68 avg rating — 1,059 ratings

""The final volume ends with the immortals abandoning a wrecked, magical-overrun Earth. They leave for a new, interstellar reality, effectively "breaking the toys" and closing the series permanently.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18,614 ratings

""Meg dies in a tragic, meaningless truck accident... David is shot by a police sniper and falls to his death. ""

1.93 avg rating — 113 ratings

""Troy Hicks... becomes an omnipotent god. The police... are slaughtered, and he grants Birdseed Betty's family one small bit of happiness before crushing them all with a giant anvil... Frosty Pete is stuck in Hicks' original body, awaiting execution...""

3.69 avg rating — 13,896 ratings

""Wesley Gibson fully [embraces] his role as a nihilistic super-villain after killing his mentor... he destroys his own humanity to succeed in a world run by evil, cemented by his ultimate triumph.""

3.52 avg rating — 550 ratings

""Nemesis succeeds in his quest for revenge, killing the crooked cops and successfully joining the "Fraternity," a secret society of supervillains.""

3.72 avg rating — 316 ratings

""Nemesis is defeated by Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass... left alive but critically injured, paralyzed, and in custody...""

4.14 avg rating — 13,363 ratings

""...a poignant conclusion to the pre-Crisis Superman, featuring a final battle, the death of loved ones, the breaking of a sacred rule, and a peaceful retirement.""

4.08 avg rating — 379 ratings

""This cosmic horror story ends with the protagonist, Robert Black, losing his sanity and facilitating an apocalypse, with the ending offering little comfort as the world falls under the shadow of Lovecraftian horrors.""

3.51 avg rating — 1,279 ratings

""The ending is a form of symbolic suicide where the adult, unable to live with himself, is "replaced" by his younger, uncorrupted self.""

3.94 avg rating — 360 ratings

""He continues to damage the lives of those around him, manipulating his niece..." "Gemma, shoots a demon posing as John, and the overall conclusion is a "fitting, heartbreaking goodbye..."""

3.97 avg rating — 273 ratings

""The story leaves John on the brink of absolute oblivion rather than entering Heaven or Hell, which is presented as the ultimate, inevitable fate for this version of the character.""