Dan Torrance, now sober and working in a hospice, helps the powerful psychic girl Abra Stone destroy the True Knot, a group of near-immortal beings who feed on the “steam” of children with the shining.

Edward Cullen saves Bella Swan from the vampire tracker James in a ballet studio in Phoenix, sucking James’s venom out of her hand so she stays human.

Sung Jinwoo, now the Shadow Monarch, defeats the Monarchs who planned to destroy humanity, then uses the Cup of Reincarnation to turn back time.

After his toddler Gage is killed by a truck, Louis Creed buries him in the ancient burial ground beyond the pet cemetery, and Gage returns as a murderous creature who kills their elderly neighbour Jud and Louis’s wife Rachel.

Johnny Cade dies from injuries he got rescuing children from a burning building, telling Ponyboy to “stay gold.” Grief-stricken, Dally robs a store and is shot by police, Ponyboy is cleared at a hearing for the killing of Bob, and he begins writing his English assignment, the story readers have just read.

Old Yeller, the loyal stray dog who saved Travis’s family many times, is bitten by a rabid wolf while protecting them.

Paul Sheldon, held captive by his “number one fan” Annie Wilkes, finishes the novel she forced him to write, then sets fire to what she thinks is the manuscript, and in the brutal fight that follows, Annie is fatally injured.

Beth March dies of the lingering effects of scarlet fever, Amy marries Laurie, and Jo, after rejecting Laurie years earlier, marries the kind German professor Friedrich Bhaer.

After the dinosaurs break loose on Isla Nublar, Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and the survivors escape by helicopter while the Costa Rican military bombs the island.

In a rigged fencing match, Laertes wounds Hamlet with a poisoned sword, Gertrude drinks poisoned wine meant for Hamlet, and Hamlet finally kills King Claudius before dying himself.