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| - As an audience, we expect a story to be played out in a certain order: Exposition, Rising Action, climax, falling action, and Denouement. In many stories, the climax also serves as the Final Battle. The events that occur afterward are normally devoid of action, serving to tie up any loose ends and create a satisfying ending. A particularly extreme version of Your Princess Is in Another Castle that occurs just when the plot seems ready to be over. To be a Post Climax Confrontation, the event must follow some criteria: Naturally, all of these examples are major spoilers.
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| - As an audience, we expect a story to be played out in a certain order: Exposition, Rising Action, climax, falling action, and Denouement. In many stories, the climax also serves as the Final Battle. The events that occur afterward are normally devoid of action, serving to tie up any loose ends and create a satisfying ending. But sometimes, writers like to throw in one last confrontation. Perhaps The Dragon assaults the heroes in one last attempt to kill them, or the Big Bad has a final form that took a while to set up. No matter how it occurs, our heroes will have to battle one more time before the day is saved. A particularly extreme version of Your Princess Is in Another Castle that occurs just when the plot seems ready to be over. To be a Post Climax Confrontation, the event must follow some criteria:
* The major threat of the day MUST be resolved. The Big Bad is defeated (or there's at least no sign that he survived), there's no sign of The Man Behind the Man, no army waiting outside to defeat the heroes. Examples of this trope are rarely the Big Bad (though both of the Alien examples are exceptions) and are typically an independent force.
* This conflict must be settled within the same installment of the story. If the event results in a new conflict told within a different installment (or just ends as a Cliff Hanger), it does not count.
* This is the crucial part: there must be closure. Plot threads and character arcs are being tied up. In stories that have a traveling party of characters, the party has begun to split off, returning to their homelands. The Post Climax Confrontation in these kinds of stories generally happen to a select few of those characters, rather than the whole group.
* As this is a twist trope, the final confrontation must be sudden and unexpected. The antagonist being confronted in question may or may not have had foreshadowing that he/she would be confronted. It is when the conflict occurs that's surprising: as the plot and character threads are being tied up.
* Finally, this is a final confrontation: there are no more conflicts after this threat has been taken care of. A subtrope is Dragon Their Feet, when The Dragon from earlier in the Sorting Algorithm of Evil returns unexpectedly for another go. Naturally, all of these examples are major spoilers. Examples of Post Climax Confrontation include:
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