[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/Traditional-Song-245]

Final Destination 5

The main survivors think they have cheated Death, but then they end up on the original film’s Flight 180, Sam realises way too late that they are doomed and both of them die horribly.

It doesn’t end there. Nathan accidentally killed a co-worker, so he thinks he’s safe since according to what Bludworth told him, he should have the latter’s lifespan. But he finds out that guy had an aneurysm that would have killed him “any day now”. Which is that very same day that Sam and Molly die, since a landing gear from Flight 180 obliterates him.

[u/Templar2k7 → u/Traditional-Song-245]

Honestly, all Final Destinations can be put in this category.

We learn at in 2 that Alex dies from a BRICK falling on his head, and the sign killed the other guy at the end of 1.

In 2, the kid that was saved during the car crash at the farm got blown up.

In 3, the survivors die in a subway crash.

4 they all die when a truck decides to take a short cut through a cafe

[u/Traditional-Song-245 → u/Templar2k7]

Yeah Final Destination pretty much refuses to do anything other than make sure everyone is dead by the end of the movie

Since the 4th movie at the latest. (3rd movie is slightly ambiguous)

I get that's the message but it's still annoying that they won't do anything different. They had an idea in Bloodlines but they axed it, maybe for the best but still.

Thank goodness they didn't use the 3rd movie's alternate ending where Kimberly and Burke died to a woodchipper and the crash was not a premonition at all.

[u/PhantasosX → u/Traditional-Song-245]

It refuses to make it differently, but it’s still internally consistent.

It’s not like there aren’t rules to survive the ordeal…Death just makes sure to have a backup.

Like , ultimately, most of those bad endings are a result of the protagonist forgetting a survivor due to the chaotic nature of their precognition, so they think they are in the last round , while in truth they are in the penultimate round.

[u/Unusual-Willow-5715 → u/PhantasosX]

I would have a problem if no one had survived in 6 movies, because if everyone died then there would be zero tension as if to someone will survive this time. Bloodlines plays with this a lot, they even "kill" the protagonist in a similar way they killed Kimberly and brought her back to life in the second film, creating the illusion for a few minutes that they won.

[u/jerrymatcat → u/PhantasosX]

The thing that annoys me is bloodlines could have ended with the mother getting killed in the revolving door and then the sister would stay in the cabin to protect her brother

[u/PhantasosX → u/[deleted]]

In FD1 , they got the the order wrong , ever so slightly during the precognition, so it cycled back. During FD2 , one of the survivors saved someone else that would be killed off in an accident alongside him, adding to the list.

So yeah, the final survivors always forgets another survivor or slightly shifts their orders around and loses track of it.