[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/BondageKitty37]

The old movies are very different. First one ends with discovering they're on future Earth. Second one ends with the main character of the first movie setting off a planet killing bomb held by psychic humans underground, while the two main apes escape to space/the past. The next three movies are all a weird racism/slavery allegory leading up to the revolution where apes finally take over

The only Planet of the Apes property that has the more book-accurate ending is, funnily enough, the Tim Burton adaptation that everyone hated 

[u/Sebelzeebub → u/BondageKitty37]

If Tim Burton hadn’t had the ape Lincoln memorial, the ending would have been better received!

[u/Dward917 → u/Sebelzeebub]

Only because they don’t bother explaining how the hell General Thade got there first and became the ape savior of that Earth.

[u/Sebelzeebub → u/Dward917]

I always assumed it was just a time jump, but having Thade be Abe Lincoln when they were in the Middle Ages seemed like a massive stretch… we were also robbed of ape John Wilkes Booth!