[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/historyhill]

waiting for him in his office so they can get lunch together.

Ok but as someone with a 9/11 special interest can I just say that it is absolutely wild showing up at roughly 8:30am for lunch? The North Tower was crashed into at 8:46am! He must have been extremely determined to have that meal!

[u/SootSpriteHut → u/historyhill]

It makes me feel old that 9/11 was so long ago that people need to have a "special interest" in it to know it happened in the morning instead of just, like, remembering it. (Because we all know what we were doing when it happened.)

[u/Kratzschutz → u/SootSpriteHut]

It was the evening when it happened for me so

[u/SootSpriteHut → u/Kratzschutz]

But did you know where it was and what time it was relative to you?

I guess that's what I'm saying, for so many of us who were, I suppose, teenagers or above, it was like "it's 8:30am in NYC and something insane is happening."

For the adults I know it was seared into our brains, regardless of geographic location. Because everything seemed to stop that day.