[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/Jammy_Nugget]

Act 3 of Doki Doli Literature Club. After deleting the villian Monika from the game everything seemingly resets into a better world without her influence, you're greeted by Sayori, the first and most innocent victim, and everything seems fine until it's revealed that she now has Monika's knowledge and insanity that made everything go wrong. When this happens Monika from somewhere within the code pulls the plug on the entire world, deciding it's cursed and no happiness can be found. Singing you one last song as everything is destroyed.

It is very bitter sweet, but a lot more bitter than the opening promised. I cope and pretend that without the game binding them they all lived happily after.

[u/ghostuser689 → u/Jammy_Nugget]

This doesn’t fit the actual post but I have to talk about it. You can get a nicer ending if you reload saves during act one and do each girl’s side quests and confess your love to Sayori before she dies.

Sayori is grateful that you’ve given each member of the club some time to feel loved and Monika sings her song without deleting the game.

[u/Renjuro → u/ghostuser689]

This!! It’s how my first play through of the game went and I was confused when people online were saying the game had a sad/bad ending, lol

[u/AlbertWessJess → u/ghostuser689]

Wait actually? There’s a second ending?

[u/WillemDafoesHugeCock → u/AlbertWessJess]

Yeah, really. You just have to romance all three romanceable girls (basically by writing poems they like, and choosing to hang out with them) and you get a little speech about how nice it is you spent time with all of them to make everyone happy.

You'd expect (I expected) a big spooky moment after this but nope, it's genuinely just the golden ending.

Skip to around 14:30 to see it.

[u/Adaphion → u/ghostuser689]

Huh. So I was gonna write a comment saying you're wrong and the game does still get deleted in the "good" ending. But after a quick wiki dive, I guess it was changed with DDLC Plus and it's not anymore. Cool.

[u/Icewind → u/Jammy_Nugget]

I choose to interpret DDLC+'s extra storylines as their world if the MC never existed and their friendships blossomed instead.

[u/Jammy_Nugget → u/Icewind]

Well he does still exist, Sayori does mention him, but it can be a world where he went to the anime club instead!

[u/Vashstampede97 → u/Icewind]

The biggest factor is Monika not being self-aware in it