What does everyone have against Rome?

[Maeran]

Or you could treat Star Wars Episodes I-III as a seperate entity from the other films. Then a scheming Palpatine wins.

1984 is good for that, but it was the result of Orwell's anti-Stalinist political view (although he supported communism in the Spanish Civil War). It was a Warning. As was Animal Farm, which had a similarly dark ending.

In Catch-22 the protagonist (would you call Yossarian a hero? I would, but, yannknow...) escapes, but the bad side of authority is still in authority.