End up
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Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra both have examples which, interestingly enough, are either not played straight or end up subverted in some way or another.
Source: All Girls Want Bad Boys -
The Powerpuff Girls, being the ultra super-powered heroines they are, play the PG-13 example of this trope straight and end up standing atop a mountain of their foes' brutally KO'd bodies at the end of the show's opening.
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One wonders in the cartoon show episode "Swapping Smurfs" what the Well Wizard actually did to the Smurfs that made them look so happy that the floppy part of their hats end up standing straight.
Source: Franchise / The Smurfs
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