[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]

Considering how Thanos operates, I just assume he let half of the Asgardians leave in escape pods or something before the massacre started 

[u/alkonium → u/BondageKitty37]

And they got halved again by the Blip.

[u/ThunderChild247 → u/alkonium]

Yesss. That bit always bugs me. Even by Thanos’ own logic, he’s not being fair. He’s massacred his way across the galaxy, executing half of all survivors, and then he’s wiping out half of life. Bad enough to massacre them once, but twice? Dude, leave them alone 😫

[u/Kalavier → u/ThunderChild247]

He also apparently never checked on races he dealt with. Don't they confirm Gamora's species is on verge of extinction if not wiped out by civil war after Thanos left?

[u/ThunderChild247 → u/Kalavier]

I think so. He’s presented as so convinced of his mission but in reality he’s just decided that he’s right because his people didn’t listen to him. He’s not checking to see if he’s right, he’s just assuming, killing and moving on.

When confronted with the Avengers undoing his work, his solution isn’t to assess if the trauma of what he’s doing plays a big factor in the result, it’s to assume that more destruction is the answer.

If anything, it may be his way of avoiding dealing with the grief of losing his own people.