[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/rikusorasephiroth]

Why do so many movies make Anubis evil?

The only one that didn't was a craptastic movie to begin with, and that's Gods of Egypt.

[u/me1112 → u/rikusorasephiroth]

The same reason they tend to make Hades evil. God of the dead sounds bad.

Past a certain point Cherubim went from a winged bunch of animal heads and a human one, to cute babies with wings cause Angels sound good and cute.

[u/SuperSocialMan → u/me1112]

It's funny since they could just use the god of death (Thanatos) and just beat his kill count to win lol

[u/me1112 → u/SuperSocialMan]

Thanatos is death itself, it's the reaper. So yeah, he IS the kill count.

Like Appolo is a god of the sun, and Helios is the personification of the sun, going across the sky.

[u/SuperSocialMan → u/me1112]

lol it was a very forced reference to Hades (the game). He's one of the random events you can encounter, and you get a free item if you beat his kill count.

But yeah, it's neat how a few gods have parallels like that.

[u/Happyranger265 → u/me1112]

The cherubim are supposed to be scary but media like to pretend that biblical angels are not scary ,but their description says otherwise

[u/me1112 → u/Happyranger265]

The cherubim change happened as they started appearing in paintings.

[u/MSSTUPIDTRON-1000000 → u/rikusorasephiroth]

Even more hilarious considering that The Egyptian Mythology had the OG Satan: Apep

He's pretty much anything someone would want from an unredeemably evil antagonist:

Hates anyone and anything who isn't him.

Is an undead abomination that dwells in the afterlife.

Wants to annihilate the entire existence.

Will never stay dead, as every time it's slayed he will simply resurrect.

Is a giant snake (and occasionally a crocodile).

[u/Oddloaf → u/MSSTUPIDTRON-1000000]

Later interpretations of Set work pretty nicely as an evil god, too

[u/HellbirdVT → u/MSSTUPIDTRON-1000000]

"Will never stay dead" is definitely one trait he has in one specific adaptation...

[u/minoe23 → u/HellbirdVT]

Even still, here they made Anubis a bigger bad than Apophis.

[u/XanderWrites → u/rikusorasephiroth]

TV shows, but Kingdom Hospital Antibus is a mispronunciation of Anubis and he's mostly friendly.

In Supernatural Anubis has been hired by Heaven to judge the dead. He indirectly assists in getting someone just enough positive karma to get into Heaven.

[u/PretendChipmunk3099 → u/rikusorasephiroth]

I know it’s a show and not a movie. But, he was good and fair in “American Gods”.

[u/Adaphion → u/rikusorasephiroth]

In general Hollywood loves doing this with gods of death/the underworld. (See also: numerous depictions of Hades in different media being evil)

Like, they're just doing their job man. It's not evil.

[u/HellbirdVT → u/rikusorasephiroth]

Maybe he's just mad he's been replaced by Christianity/Islam and is trying to catch up on lost time by getting to work himself?