What if...
the movie on which every character dies in Dragon Ball Z, were the actual ending to the anime? That would have been so, so awesome! I've always thought it! Let the series play until the android, then everyone dies and Trunks is left alone... a beautiful man, alone in a post apocalyptic hopeless world, lawning to the past and crying alone.
Tragic music enters, camera turns away, and it ends...
Beautiful.