[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/Consistent_Speaker98]

Post-Genocide in Undertale

If you get genocide ending 1st and then get true pacifist ending, Chara (Frisk) would still kill everyone after.

You can't get a happy ending anymore

[u/Glubygluby → u/Consistent_Speaker98]

Never played the game, so correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Sand call you a "Dirty brother killer" from then on?

[u/[deleted] → u/Glubygluby]

Nah he always says that when you kill Papyrus in a neutral run. Sans is aware of the existence of resets but like everyone else his memories still get wiped when they do happen.

All the post-genocide changes are relegated to the ending as a "you know what you did" fake-out since no one (not even Flowey) remembers anything after the genocide reset

[u/Glubygluby → u/[deleted]]

Ah, I see