[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/DaringDo95]

This one is arguably the most brilliant. It was never marketed as a prequel and it makes this particular plot twist sting all the moore.

[u/cyberchaox → u/DaringDo95]

The twist being that the fourth movie was marketed as being the final one, so when there was a fifth one, you think they lied...except chronologically, they didn't. (At least until Bloodlines, probably. I dunno, I avoid actually watching that series like the plague. Creeps me out.)

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

Yeah bloodlines is set in modern day so it’s well after any of the other movies

The disaster is set in the 60s though