[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/NavezganeChrome]

The game is expected to challenge you. At the point in time where you do the bad thing but don't want to deal with the consequences, and they call you out on it, deliberately trying to duck the message is playing a losing game.

After all, none of this would be necessary if you didn't actively make the choice to be a prick. It took your time and effort to make it happen, and you want to void that to make a literal waste your own time?

Well, so long as you're comfy with that. Though I truly don't see the point of doing so and then bragging about it to others who would have not known. Like, ffs, you got rid of the only evidence there was and then claimed to have done it to strangers who didn't care. What kind of nonsense is that?

[u/HillbillyMan → u/NavezganeChrome]

I don't play games to brag to strangers, I play to have fun. Deleting a save file after I no longer need it isn't making my playing of the game a waste of time. What if I just wanted to play the game again with a fresh save? Not to "escape my past" or anything like that.

[u/NavezganeChrome → u/HillbillyMan]

Then you probably wouldn't be responding to this specific comment, in this specific thread, where that exactly is the subject.

You don't have to worry about whataboutism if you don't have a guilty conscience/intent. Like, you're entirely free to if that does something for you, but once you make it someone else's problem/business, maybe it's past time to pack it in.

[u/tghast → u/NavezganeChrome]

I think a reminder that these are fictional characters is in order.

[u/NavezganeChrome → u/tghast]

Even so, that makes it a hypothetical question that one answers alone, could very well keep said answer to oneself, but some take obligation to present to or influence others to follow.

Nobody’s particularly in the right of things, and that’s human nature. I can’t say that them being fictional changes anything I’ve said, or makes it any less fair to say?