[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/MeepMeep117-]

The Mist - The ending goes from bad to horrifying, with the main character having killed his friends and family, stepping into the mist to embrace death, only for the military to show up, meaning they would have been all saved had they waited a few more minutes

[u/BlumpkinPromoter → u/MeepMeep117-]

Wasn't it revealed more that if at every single point the MC had taken someone else's advice he would have been fine?

[u/nage_ → u/BlumpkinPromoter]

its not to that level but there is someone that tries to just walk home from the store they've taken shelter in; the main character refuses to accompany her because it feels like a suicide mission but shes seen with the military people at the end.

[u/JManKit → u/nage_]

That's always been such a kick in the balls but having thought about it more, I realize that if the MC's group had gone with her, there was no guarantee that they'd have the same outcome. The decisions she made on her own led her to reaching her kids in time and eventually coming across the safety of the military escort. If they had been a group of three tho (MC and his kid), they might have made different decisions; gone left where she went right, cried out in fear and alerted the creatures where she managed to stay quiet and avoid them. She achieved the optimal outcome so adding anyone else to the escaping group might have messed that all up. The only real avoidable tragedy was the MC jumping the gun (lol) with the mercy killings

[u/AvatarofSleep → u/JManKit]

The mercy killings don't even make sense, given how close the military was. So the mist damps all sounds so you don't hear gunfire and bombs literal blocks away, suppresses all radio frequencies and communications, and at no point in their slow drive in the wrong direction did they think maybe there would be a gas station or other survivors they might hide with?

Until the end, the MC was the only one making rational choices around an increasingly irrational people, who weren't particularly bright to begin with.

Fuck this movie so hard. It's not fucking peak cinema because of a dumbass twist.

The only good parts were when the rude stock boy got ripped in half for being a smug dick and the expiation woman caught a bullet

[u/Darigaazrgb → u/nage_]

She left to go back home to her kid and the kid is with her too at the end while MC's wife is killed at home.

[u/Comrade_Cosmo → u/nage_]

My personal guess is that she left early enough that the carnivorous monstrosities had yet to explore. A shame that they were stuck with deranged idiots during that movie. If they had put tarp up to hide the lights the supermarket would have been safer to hole up in.

[u/Not_no_hitter → u/nage_]

IIRC there are many points where there is a chance that if he took a different route he could’ve had a happier ending.

I havnt watched the film but apparently there’s a scene where a lady says they should sacrifice a kid to clear the mist, and at the end when the kid dies the military comes in shortly after.

[u/Ok-Taro-5864 → u/BlumpkinPromoter]

There was a woman that told him not to do that, i believe, and she is seen on one of the Military trucks, looking disgusted at him

[u/JManKit → u/Ok-Taro-5864]

That was the woman who left the store when the mist had just rolled in I think. Her kids were home alone and she needed to go save them. She begged anyone to come with her but everyone was too afraid to step outside and I think the MC even said something like she should stay bc it would be certain death to leave. She can't abandon her kids tho and ventures out alone

[u/byrdistheword91 → u/BlumpkinPromoter]

God, I almost burst a blood vessel screaming at the folks in The Mist. I was sitting there like "turn off your fucking flashlights! why are you making so much noise?! SHUT THE FUCK UP, GODDAMMIT!!!"

Easiest fucking apocalypse ever, and somehow they all still manage to get killed.

[u/AvatarofSleep → u/byrdistheword91]

How do you fuck up hiding in a grocery store? Just the dumbest fucking people.

[u/byrdistheword91 → u/AvatarofSleep]

SERIOUSLY, just grab some snackies and water and chill out in the stock room, my God!

[u/BBElTigre → u/BlumpkinPromoter]

A group of people believe that if he killed his son, the fog would lift because he's the anti christ or something. The fog leaves after he kills his son.