Cartoons with no resolution

He-Man/She-Ra: He-Man never kills Skeletor, but rather, ends up in the New Adventures of He-Man fighting mutants in space.
Dungeons and Dragons:  Final episode written, never produced
Transformers:  With no resolution, becomes mentioned in Beast Wars or endlessly spun off into alternate continuities.
TMNT:  Episodes become increasingly stupid, no one dies.
Gargoyles:  Cancelled, series would have continued in future timeline anyway
Batman animated series:  Original conflicts are not resolved, but they either continue to exist behidn the scenes in spinoffs, or have faded away by the time of Batman Beyond

Really, any show with a central villain will never have that villain killed  permanently due to marketing potential.  The moral is that evil will always prevail, and that the heroes are only following hopeless idealism.

For example:

Ghostbusters (not the Real version)
Go-bots
Silverhawks
Thundercats

>>Gargoyles:  Cancelled, series would have continued in future timeline anyway
Thank goodness, that future tense episode was retarded. Outside of the awwwwthat'ssosweet bit where Brooklyn and Demona hooked up. Someone voraciously reads the fanfics surrounding their own show apparently. I liked it because I liked that pairing but good god was that horribly done. Should've just grabbed a bunch of us fangirls and picked a scripter at random from the pool in a contest.


>>TMNT:  Episodes become increasingly stupid, no one dies.
Was actually resolved, but by then had run so long nobody was paying attention any longer.
The ending series brings in an all new villain the turtles, Shredder, and Krang had to team up against. Despite the fact he was obviously Sling Blade from Space, their combined efforts barely pulled off a victory (and I think dumbshit managed to take over earth too, I remember something about a red sky over the channel 6 building.) Talk about cartoon characters literally battling the show's writers here.
You can now thank me for killing your childhood memories.
Oh I think they had one extra episode after that where Krang and Shredder were bad again just to let people know things went back to normal after.
I wish Mona had appeared again. How could they write out such a neat character? DEPRESSION.

When a series kills off the main villain, that is the end of the series.

Of course, you could come up with a newer, more powerful villain. Of course, that runs the risk of having villain inflation where you find the hero fighting against cosmic entities or some junk.

Killing off the main villain never happens in childrens cartoons because killing is always bad you should let the person live and get away instead ok

Roswell Conspiracies. Awesome ending with full resolution of the storyline, plus they killed that bastard Rinaker for good.

Pirates of Dark Water. It was kickass, but it just... stopped.

Biker Mice From Mars = Furries.

>>6  

Yeah. 

>>7

And this has relevance to the topic because...

Furries = dead.  The same goes for Street Sharks, Tigersharks, Cowboys of Moo Mesa... they all die out because they are homosexual and cannot breed.

>>10

Thundercats

>>10
Well if Vinnie is gay I sure wouldn't mind stuffing a sock in that bad boy's tailpipe. Rowr!

>>12

Scary...

>>6
Signed. Pirates was great, I wish they'd finished it. It had a definite story and definite progression and people getting killed left and right. The bad guy was BAD too, really BAD.

Flash Gordon and Roughnecks

>>12
GTFO GAY FURRY FAGGOT NIGGER

MISSION HILL went off of the airwaves around here after the masturbation episode...

>>3
This is called "space opera".

>>3 When a series kills off the main villain, that is the end of the series.

Alternatively, you could kill off the main characters. See David the Gnome.

>>3
DBZ maybe?

It'd been cool if American cartoons of the 80s had a real END.
We would have better memories of them instead of feeling some shame when remembering them nowadays.

>>20
Are you out of your mind. Dbz iz anime. Should not be uuttered in this thread.

Mighty Max. Built-in endless loop.

>>20 It'd been cool if American cartoons of the 80s had a real END.
Sure, but keep in mind most of this shit is created solely as 22 minute advertising space to peddle toys.
A story in perpetuity is easier to push year-in and year-out (And to sell).  
Flagship American (superhero) comics have this same problem, wherein there is no real end.

>>3 When a series kills off the main villain, that is the end of the series.
It's over when the quarterly report says buisness is down.

>>23
mumies attack

>>22
I loved that. Not every show can do something like this and be successful, but I loved even that on Mighty Max. This not only makes sense in the grand scheme of things, but allows them room to make new episodes if the company ever chooses to do so, also allows fans to do it, if any of'em are close enough to get together.

>>23
cartoons in the 80s were pretty good though, in spite of that. I'd say stuck-up protestant beliefs are more the cause they couldn't have an advancing storyline than anything else. Not allowed to do anything realistic in regards to characters. Anyone else old enough to remember the outcry in certain communities over the GI Joe movie? (Specifically, Duke getting a snake in the chest)

Did the original Sonic the Hedgehog end?

>>26
No.

It got cancelled in spite of its high ratings due to network policy to cancel kids shows after 3 seasons.

Y'know, I can never remember there being an ending to /any/ of the numerous Power Rangers series.

Actually there was a "tie up all loose ends" episode where Zordon dies and his spirit travels across the universe killing every single remaining villain and army still in existence.  Fans consider it the best episode ever.  So much for wrapping up plots in each individual season. 

>>30 Geez why didn't he just kamikaze in the first place.

>>1
Actually the moral is evil will never go away, so never fall into the trap of feeling complacent.

Now you see that evil will always triumph.  Because good is dumb.

The Simpsons man. Once in a while I think the show's lack of hard continuity can really hurt. There's some great character development in some episodes thats completely forgotten thereafter just to constantly meet the status quo. It sucks because even though its a comedy show, the characters can be some of the most three dimensional around when it comes to personality. There have been so many times I wished a nicer, sweeter ending to an episode would be kept as canon...but then the rather depressing realization that it won't sets in.