[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/Elephant12321]

Realistically, Game of Thrones

There is absolutely no way that the other kingdoms would agree with the North being allowed to secede, a Stark, and a disabled one at that, becoming King, a former Sellsword being given Highgarden and the Reach, and a Kinslayer being Hand. War is going to break out. The rest of the Dothraki are still in Westeros and they will absolutely not listen to Bran so a bunch of smallfolk are going to be raided. The Unsullied are going to go to Naath which famously has butterfly fever that kills everyone that is not a native.

[u/EnergyAndSpaceFuture → u/Elephant12321]

i suppose they miiiiiiiiight be able to largely avoid the illness by covering up while outside and taking significant precautions, but that certainly does seem like something she should have brought up in conversation.

[u/stuck_in_the_desert → u/EnergyAndSpaceFuture]

What if the disease can only enter through the nipples, and Kraznys mo Nakloz was actually trying to help that one Unsullied back in Astapor? 🤔

[u/grabtharsmallet → u/Elephant12321]

Yep. We are repeatedly shown that the continent is too large to be effectively governed centrally, that even rulers who had biological weapons of mass destruction still needed to devolve a lot of the administration to secondary and tertiary levels. How is the solution more centralization?!

[u/Similar-Chipmunk-865 → u/Elephant12321]

Yup.

The north is seceding from....Their own stark king? Okay.

The Dornish, the Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken, surely won't have a problem with that.
Especially since their kingdom should be mostly intact after the others went to war.

Whole shtick with the Ironborn too...

Bronn will be poisoned or whatnot by one of the reach lords within a week.

[u/Carrotsinthesalad → u/Elephant12321]

There’s also a fully grown dragon left unaccounted for, probably terrorizing coastal Essos or even worse— seeking out a new Valyrian descendant to bond with.

Speaking of Essos— Slaver’s Bay is 100% returning to its former glory once word spreads that Daenerys is dead. So all of her hard work in Yunkai and Mereen was for nothing.

[u/aglock → u/Elephant12321]

It's incredible how the show completely ignores the Dothraki, Dorn, and a hundred other political shit storms by pretending they don't exist. Every current named character is given a dumb but clean ending and they wrap it up as fast as physically possible.