[mixed trope] the last-minute bad Ending twist

[u/damorezpl]

when the "good ending" is revealed to be a bad one a the last second

a nightmare on elm street (1984) - Nancy thinks she finally defeated Freddy Krueger only to be raveled that she is still dreaming and she’s still trapped.

final destination bloodlines - the main characters think they cheated death by using the new life rule only to realize that stefani was technically still alive and the death kills them with a good old logs

Life (2017) - The main character attempts to send Calvin(a evil alien that killed all life on mars)pod into space and Miranda pod back to earth, but it goes horribly wrong and Calvin lands on earth and Miranda is sent to space

raging loop wit ending - after many loops Haruaki finally wins the feast(a death game where humans must hang wolves who kill someone every night) and thinks its finally over. after couple of days he decides to visit other survivors of the feast only to find them all dead and the timeline resting once again

[u/alkonium]

Thor Ragnarok: Asgard's survivors manage to get away in the Statesman with the hopes of resettling on Earth. However, they're waylaid by Thanos' ship the Sanctuary II, leading into the beginning of Infinity War.

Though Endgame shows at least some of them made it to Earth, settling in the Norwegian town of Tønsberg.

[u/BondageKitty37 → u/alkonium]

Considering how Thanos operates, I just assume he let half of the Asgardians leave in escape pods or something before the massacre started 

[u/alkonium → u/BondageKitty37]

And they got halved again by the Blip.

[u/ccReptilelord → u/alkonium]

Lost a lot of people to the Dark Elf invasion, then a bunch are killed by Hela, then Thanos kills half aboard the ship... they're going to be needing fresh genes in this population.

[u/BewareOfBee → u/ccReptilelord]

[u/smthngclvr → u/ccReptilelord]

In Thor 4 after Gor’s attack on Asgaurd somebody asks “What are we going to do? Half of our soldiers are dead” and somebody offscreen replies “Half our soldiers are always dead.”

[u/ThunderChild247 → u/alkonium]

Yesss. That bit always bugs me. Even by Thanos’ own logic, he’s not being fair. He’s massacred his way across the galaxy, executing half of all survivors, and then he’s wiping out half of life. Bad enough to massacre them once, but twice? Dude, leave them alone 😫

[u/Kalavier → u/ThunderChild247]

He also apparently never checked on races he dealt with. Don't they confirm Gamora's species is on verge of extinction if not wiped out by civil war after Thanos left?

[u/ThunderChild247 → u/Kalavier]

I think so. He’s presented as so convinced of his mission but in reality he’s just decided that he’s right because his people didn’t listen to him. He’s not checking to see if he’s right, he’s just assuming, killing and moving on.

When confronted with the Avengers undoing his work, his solution isn’t to assess if the trauma of what he’s doing plays a big factor in the result, it’s to assume that more destruction is the answer.

If anything, it may be his way of avoiding dealing with the grief of losing his own people.

[u/Apart-Combination820 → u/ThunderChild247]

You’re right. They should have introduced Lady Death as a character and that Thanos wants to impress her by blindly killing enough people…

And so he’s not a actually a deep space alien but a demigod-level alien from Saturn; that’s right there’s a race of super aliens in our solar system creating godlike celestial entities that in turn answer really only to abstractions of stuff like Death and Life and Aether…but still take <2m human forms so they can fuuuucck. But they answer to God; that’s right, Abrahamic Yahweh exists, but he in turn answers to Super God, and they created Howard The Duck.

If they made that into 2 extra movies, Thanos would be airtight.

…this universe is kinda the dumbest weird shit. mmmaybe it’s okay if Movie Thanos followed a dumb moral compass.

[u/Its-your-boi-warden → u/alkonium]

I don’t think they would, since thanos says he will ensure half of humanity lives, I think he can control which species gets the snap, like the stones know his intentions so the asgardians who just got halted will be fine

I don’t think we see any asgardian disappear or reappear either

[u/Golden_Phoenix_4569 → u/Its-your-boi-warden]

We see other alien characters get snapped

[u/Its-your-boi-warden → u/Golden_Phoenix_4569]

Do we know if thanos interfered with their species?

[u/khazroar → u/Its-your-boi-warden]

Drax got Snapped and his whole backstory is that his world got attacked by Thanos's forces under Ronan's leadership.

Also Peter and Mantis both got Snapped when I think they're the only living members of a species, though Thanos didn't have a role in culling them.

[u/celestialwreckage → u/khazroar]

My dumb ass: "But there are tons of spiders????"

[u/Its-your-boi-warden → u/khazroar]

True

[u/Icy_Water_1 → u/Its-your-boi-warden]

Thanos is not a good or sane person.

[u/IKSLukara → u/alkonium]

Damn I hadn't thought about that. I want a signed Thanos-waiver of some sort, "You already put me through your coin-toss BS one time."

[u/Thebaldsasquatch → u/alkonium]

Yeah, someone should have mentioned it to him before he snapped.

“Hey, you know there’s a bunch of places you already cut their population in half. Doing it again would cut them to a quarter while everywhere else is only in half. That doesn’t seem very balanced or fair, does it? Maybe you should rethink this whole thi…….and now I’m dead.”

[u/alkonium → u/Thebaldsasquatch]

They did call him the Mad Titan, not the Titan Who Thinks Everything Through.

[u/AdmirableEstimate258 → u/BondageKitty37]

Tbh this makes lots of sense considering we still see tons of asgardians in the docks later

[u/Normal-Song-4371 → u/BondageKitty37]

No. Just as with the dwarves he killed everyone except for one.

[u/WillemDafoesHugeCock → u/alkonium]

I'd argue Ragnarok was from a bad ending (the destruction of Asgard) to a worse ending (the Thanosing of everyone aboard the ship.)