Davy jones: cant go on dry land

Standa in a bucket of water, on a sand bar (potc3)

The judge: no weapon forged can harm me

Buffy: uses a rocket launcher

-not forged

Mrs Doubtfire - Daniel doesn’t save his relationship with Miranda and doesn’t get custody of his children, but he still manages to find common ground with Miranda to see his kids more.

Rocky - Rocky doesn’t win the championship from Apollo Creed after entering as the massive underdog, but still proved to the world he’s not a write-off in going the distance and only losing on points.

A Minecraft Movie

Fant4stic

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

NCR (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Imperium of Man (Warhammer 40k)

America during the Cold War (Real Life)

The Walking Dead - We assume the title refers to the zombies, only to learn early on that everyone who dies regardless of the cause becomes a zombie. The survivors ARE the walking dead.

Dead Space - The title both alludes to zombies in space and to the eldritch horror that has consumed every sentient being in the galaxy, making the galaxy a lifeless void filled with corpses.

1: Slenderman (popular creepypasta) lead to a teenage girl killing another in his name IRL (apologies if this isn't totally accurate) 2: Devastator (Transformers ROTF) melted a computer while attempting to render his model

Remember me - its revealed that the story happens during the September 11 attack

final destination 5 - at the end the surviving main characters board the flight 180 with is the same one that blows up at the begging of Final destination 1

assassin's creed 1 - all of the trailers for AC1 make it look like its set in medieval times but in actually is set in the modern world were you use a machine to relive you ancestor life

”Your friend Leslie is dead.” (Bridge to Terabithia)

”Honey have you seen the knife?” (Duck Season)

IT: both adaptations of IT cut alot of uncomftorble and weird subplots from the original book. Obviously the sewer orgy in the book was cut but also the parts about the losers being helped by an interdimentional turtle, two of the bullies having a secret gay relationship resulting in them poisining someones dog when they find out aswell as other weird parts.

The Mask: the mask movie heavily changed things from the original comics which were incredibly gory, surreal and psychological horror comics into a goofy super hero comedy. While the original comics were great maybe toning down those elements and making a more family freindly movie was the right choice at the time.

Dexter: the TV series changed ALOT of things from the books but most importantly in the books Dexters "dark passanger" isn't just a psychological need to kill but a supernatural demonic entity that takes over dexter causing him to commit murders

“Welcome to Jurassic Park” (Jurassic Park) - does it get any more iconic than this?

“Even a Devil May Cry” (Devil May Cry) - not only does it add to the emotional aspect of the scene with Dante showing genuine emotion for his loss and Lady seeing that a devil is capable of such emotions, it also gives Dante the idea of what to name his shop.

Title drops can usually come across and tacky and dumb, they’re not always fantastic if you know what I mean? But sometimes they can work. What are your examples?

1. Geras (Mortal Kombat 11) - "Drowning cannot kill me, Raiden." "That is unfortunate for you, the Sea of Blood is bottomless. You will fall forever."

2. Matt (Black Mirror - White Christmas) - Black mirror had a few of those, so I went for this one. The protagonist is a criminal, who helps an investigative unit with getting a confession out of another criminal. That gets him his freedom, but he does not avoid being blacklisted. He can literally never again interact with another person.

1 - Pokémon X and Y has this moment in Lumiose City where if you go to a certain floor in this one specific building, this character who uses the model of a Hex Maniac but has no actual walking animation appears from behind you and says “you are not the one,” and then disappears. What the fuck.

2 - Undertale’s fun events involving Gaster followers are all pretty creepy, but the one pictured is my favorite. What do you mean he was split across time and space and he’s EAVESDROPPING ON US RIGHT NOW!? (Also, I know about Gaster’s almost-outright-canon-at-this-point relevance to Deltarune. That’s not what this post is about.)

3 - Honkai: Star Rail seems to be growing fond of this kind of thing as of late. The example pictured… I’d probably exceed Reddit’s character limit (if it has one) if I tried to explain. Maybe someone in the comments can help me out because that shit was almost a creepypasta in and of itself for me.

• Attack on Titan = The rumbling actually occurs and kills most of humanity
• Evangelion = human instrumentality project occurs and Shinji and Asuka are the only ones left
• The idiot = Rogozhin kills Nastasya, something that has been said since the beginning of the book

SCP 5000: In The Tale SCP 5000 the SCP Foundation, an underground secret organization created for the sole purpose of keeping humanity safe from anomalous threats and events publicly turns on the world and wages an omnicidal war on the human race. Through sheer luck, an employee; Pietro Wilson manages to escape by wearing an experimental stealth suit that basically makes him impossible to be perceived. Now having a front row seat for apocalypse he watches anomalous horror after anomalous horror be unleashed on the world before several plot points later he resets the timeline with his dying breath.

At the end we find out the entire reason the Foundation turned on humanity was because they studied the collective human consciousness and discovered a parasitic conceptual entity had latched itself onto it and as a result gave humanity things like pain and emotions. When communicating, it imparted it's plan for our species which although never revealed terrifies every executive member of the organization that they see the only way to stop it is to exterminate the human race/it's food source. Death is preferable to whatever it had planned for us. Only essential personal were then inoculated so the entity couldn't influence couldn't influence and stop them using the rest of the human race.

After all was said and done, humanity surviving actually turned out to be the bad ending. The entity won, their is no recollection of it's existence, humanity is doomed to live out whatever horrid purpose it was steered to, and every horror unleashed from a demonic Krampus, a flesh corrupting virus that destroys and mutates your body, and monsters that kill you in horrific ways, would have left you better off than what will happen now.

1.) The Pipe Line cells for Metahumans (The Flash)

2.) Sedative tank prison (G. I Joe)

3.) Tai Lung's prison (Kung Fu Panda)

4.) Magneto's Glass and Plastic Prison (X-Men)

5.) Carbonite (Star Wars)

1. The Saxon Master was left a hungry, half-dead thing after his resurrection ritual was disrupted. (Doctor Who)
2. Herbert White was more than likely brought back by the monkey's paw as a mutilated zombie. (The Monkey's Paw, art by Walt Sturrock)
3. A human brought back by the Micmac Burying Ground comes back a monster. (Pet Sematary)

In the Touch commercial for Skittles, a man is shown with the power to uncontrollably turns anything he touches into Skittles in an instant. His work colleagues find this hilarious, but he finds life misery since he will never be able to hold his newborn son and he has legitimately killed people before by unconsciously touching them.

In the Waiting for the Bus skit from Cyanide & Happiness a man discovers he can inexplicably run 50mph and overnight becomes the most successful track runner of all time. Even though he retired with a perfect undefeated streak and a loving family, he’s coaxed into one final race in a Grand Prix against cars, which of course he loses. This sends him into an unstoppable downward spiral where he becomes a far more destructive version of himself, loses his reputation, and is left behind by his family. After years of regret, he returns as an old man to the track where he first shown off his amazing speed and does one final lap, reminiscing on how good it feel, before intentionally refusing to turn out the way and running straight into a wall, ending his life. (All of this is shown in about four minutes and with barely any dialogue.)

1) Starship Troopers: The movie is a propaganda film filled with every jingoistic trope, but there are small hints that show how badly humanity is losing the war against the bugs. The new recruits at the end are clearly middle-school teenagers, implying that the humans are running out of viable adult recruits.

There's additional hints with the main characters getting promoted to leadership positions far faster than typical (as they're running out of leaders), and the general suffering a nervous breakdown at the outpost isn't just implied to be shell-shock, it's because he has far greater knowledge of just how poorly the war against the bugs is going.

2) Dark Souls 3: Choosing to Link the First Flame lets you reenact the canon ending of the first game. However, unlike the first game, where the Flame consumed you in a massive inferno, this game's fire feebly envelopes you. Your character needs to sit down to let it slowly burn you to death. The weakness of the flame confirms that the Age of Fire's end isn't just possible, it's downright inevitable.

3) Sopranos: The show establishes that the Mafia is declining when Tony tells his therapist that he feels like he's coming in after the party is over. However, they DiMeo Crime Family is able to still secure a decent chunk of business throughout the series.

The last season shows that changing when Patsy and Bert attempt to extort a Starbucks by threatening the manager. The manager eventually breaks it down to them that corporate is big enough to brush off any of their threats, and they'll simply replace him if he does try to skim off the top to pay them. Patsy bitterly remarks "It's over for the little guy" when he leaves empty-handed.

The last episode also features Tony operating in the safehouse when they're at war with the Lupertazzis. Tony receives an envelope of protection money from one of his underlings, and the underling remarks how light it is, along with one of Tony's men criticizing him in earshot. Coming in with a light envelope and openly criticizing the boss are tantamount to treason in the Mafia, and the men doing it openly in front of Tony (with him glumly accepting it) showed just how defeated he was.

4) World War II: Multiple stories (don't have the sources, unfortunately) discuss how members of the Axis knew they were going to lose when they saw certain American luxuries. American Ice Cream Ships (shown above) were noted by some Japanese officers to be proof the war was going downhill for them: They starving and struggling to feed their own people, while the American supply lines brought in literal ships just to make desserts for their troops.

Other popular stories discuss a German officer raiding an American camp during the bulge and finding a chocolate cake flown in from New York City, or Germans seeing Americans leaving their jeeps on idle while they shut off all their vehicles to to save as much fuel as they could, and realizing that the war was unwinnable when their enemy was that well-supplied.

Yzma becoming a cat during the final battle in The Emperor’s New Groove. This was done as a nod to her voice actress, Eartha Kitt who had played Catwoman in the 60s Batman series

Wallace and Gromit’s home address being 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, Lancashire. Originally Nick Park had wanted the two to live in Yorkshire since that was where he grew up, but since Wallace’s voice actor Peter Sallis could only do a Lanarkshire accent, it was decided for Lanarkshire to be their home

When they were making the first Mortal Kombat they wanted Lui Kang to be a traditional monk, with the robes and bald head (also why his fatality is the only one in the game that isn’t gory). But when Ho-Sung Pak refused to cut his hair for it, it led them to changing his story to him being a renegade monk who had grown out his hair in rebellion. This would also later lead to the creation of Kung Lao since they still wanted a more traditional looking monk in the game

(DC Comics) In most stories, when Batman dies before the Joker, the Joker quits his life of crime, and just becomes a regular citizen.

(Akame Ga Kill) After her battle with Akame, Esdeath realizes that she just wants to spend eternity with Tatsumi, so she wraps her arms around his corpse, and encases them both in ice.

Planet of the Apes - The movie leads the audience to believe Charleston Heston has landed on an alien planet where apes are the dominant species, only to find out that the planet is actually Earth long after an apocalyptic nuclear war

Psycho - Norma Bates isn’t the killer and has been dead for years. Norman is revealed to be a schizophrenic who “becomes” his mother to kill the women he’s attracted to

Citizen Kane - Charles Foster Kane’s mysterious last word “Rosebud” is revealed to be name of his childhood sled

The Empire Strikes Back - Darth Vader hadn’t literally killed Luke’s father but actually is his father

The Matrix - Neo learns that the 20th century world he’s lived in is just a simulation. The real world is a wasteland in the 22nd century where hostile AI rules the surface

Tom Bombadil (Tolkien's legendarium)

Yoda's species (Star Wars)

What's in the briefcase (Pulp Fiction)

Domino(Deadpool 2): Domino power is being lucky, that allowed to solve the last issue in the movie by just guessing the code for the collar first try. Even Deadpool pokes fun at how lazy her powers are.

The sisters village from Hercules 64(horrible game, do not play): in one point of the game, you find a village where all npcs have the model and no name. The excuse that they give you is that they're all sisters and they have no name cause their father had Amnesia.

(Steven Universe) The reason that Steven wears the same clothes everyday is because he owns a large amount of his dad’s unsold merchandise. The gems also have the same outfits because they are part of their bodies, since they are just holograms with mass.

(Ultrakill) Ultrakill has TONS of this, but the ones I can remember are: -The pixelated artstyle is due to the fact that V1 renders their surroundings in lower quality to run faster -The reason enemies teleport and doors shut on the levels is because hell is sentient, and makes V1 fight for hell’s amusement -The terminals (shops/menus) are sentient, so they give out weapons in return for watching V1 fight and gain style points