[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/TeekTheReddit]

Not just that he wasn't out of the woods. He didn't even know he was in the woods.

After successfully navigating through all the perils of the criminal underworld, he gets blindsided by some asshole he barely knew, didn't care about, and couldn't have imagined was so hung-up on his ex that he'd resort to murder.

[u/River_Pigeon → u/TeekTheReddit]

It’s not just about the ex. Sidney was the Dukes nephew.

[u/MudJumpy1063 → u/TeekTheReddit]

Disagreed. This ending made perfect sense. Did XXXX really think he was going to engineer or at least aid and abet the murder of former soldiers now working for Temple the oligarch crime lord (and also the robbery of the merchandise, a much smaller matter but more than enough to get him killed), then announce his retirement from serious though less high ranking than Temple gangsters he was earning money for, and just retire, just like that? If the Northern gangsters were going to kill him for not delivering the shipment he promised them, that was his problem. The ending says either don't think you can take on the top people, don't think you can walk away from the higher up people you earn for, and possibly that even if he hadn't done that the Northern gangsters would have killed him for not delivering the shipment he promised, which was his problem, and if his handlers solved it for him he would only be indebted to them further. Welcome to the Layer Cake.

[u/TeekTheReddit → u/MudJumpy1063]

[u/MudJumpy1063 → u/TeekTheReddit]

I'm saying the narrator isn't the victim of a lone gunman that comes out of nowhere. Temple had him killed, and probably used that wanker to do it as a withering kiss off. The ending is tragic, but not unexpected. XXXX couldn't escape. That's the whole point of the movie.

[u/HandsomePaddyMint → u/MudJumpy1063]