how many stories are there where there's an impending world-ending event, the hero(es) spend half the book/movie/game trying to stop it, fail, and *that isn't the end of the story?*

it's not a thing we've seen very often at all

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we can think of exacty one off the top of our heads (spoilers obviously): 

Final Fantasy VI

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