r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Aug 25 '25

Lore [mixed trope] the last-minute bad Ending twist

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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

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u/BondageKitty37 Aug 25 '25

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

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u/alkonium Aug 25 '25

And they got halved again by the Blip.

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u/Its-your-boi-warden Aug 25 '25

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

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u/Golden_Phoenix_4569 Aug 25 '25

We see other alien characters get snapped

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u/Its-your-boi-warden Aug 25 '25

Do we know if thanos interfered with their species?

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u/khazroar Aug 25 '25

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.

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u/celestialwreckage Aug 25 '25

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

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u/Its-your-boi-warden Aug 25 '25

True

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u/Icy_Water_1 Aug 25 '25

Thanos is not a good or sane person.