History DownerEnding / FIlm

* ''{{Film/MFA}}'': Noelle's lost her friend Skye to suicide, gotten arrested by the police, and will probably spend the rest of her life in prison for killing the rapists.

* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'' part 1 has the protagonist nearly murdered by her love interest.

* ''Film/AMIArticifialMachineIntelligence'': Cassie manages to [[KarmaHoudini get away with]] murdering her friends, her father, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's father, and [[LeaveNoWitnesses some rando who saw her first murder]]. All she got was a limp courtesy of her boyfriend. At the end of the movie, she's shown to be living in her house, surrounded by phones with A.I.'s programmed to sound like her parents, her boyfriend, and a baby, and is basically completely lost in her madness.

* ''Film/EloisesLover'': Àsia kills herself, with her loved ones left behind devastated. Rubbing it in, the film ends with a fantasy sequence where she goes off with Eloïse on a trip instead

* ''Film/TheSkeletonKey'': Caroline and Ben have had their bodies stolen and traded, and are left in a state of paralysis by Mama Cecile and Papa Justify. And not only does the movie end with them likely following Caroline and Ben to put them out of their misery before they can recover, but it is strongly implied that Cecile and Justify are probably going to take their sweet little time with Jill, seeing as how she is more skeptical than outright afraid of Hoodoo, which makes her the perfect target.

* Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence''. David, the little robot boy, was programmed to love his human mother like a real child would, and when she abandons him in the woods (to save his life, but he doesn't understand this) he spends the rest of the film trying to find the Blue Fairy, thinking she can turn him into a real boy that his mother will be able to love. In the end, he finds an underwater statue of the Blue Fairy, and stays there wishing to be human for so long that he gets frozen inside a developing glacier. Two thousand years later, when humanity is now long extinct due to an ice age, he's discovered by advanced aliens, who use his mother's DNA to create an imperfect clone who will die once it falls asleep. David spends one idyllic day with her and then, as she dies, decides to die as well.

* ''Film/TheInnkeepers'': Luke's lost both his friend Claire and, given that the inn is closing down, his job.
* The original ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956'' had a terrifying one, but then bookended the movie with added footage showing the protagonist getting the authorities to believe him.
* The remake ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'': The protagonist is caught and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie his pod duplicate]] [[TheBadGuyWins outs the one known remaining human.]]
* ''Film/InfernalAffairs''. Yan is killed before he can expose Ming as the mole, and Ming is able to blame B for being the second mole and Yan's killer. Depending on how you interpret his character, either Ming is a KarmaHoudini who was able to get away with his crimes scot-free, or he's a broken man who genuinely desired to become a "good guy" cop, and is now in a self-made hell, consumed with guilt and regret over how things ultimately turned out. ''Infernal Affairs III'' confirms that it's the latter - he eventually goes completely insane.

* ''Film/InTheFade'': Katja, having her last hope dashed as the murderers of her family are acquitted, goes after them herself. She makes a bomb, killing them and herself with it.

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Thanos brutally murders Vision by ripping the Mind Stone out of his head. He uses it to complete the Infinity Gauntlet, snapping his fingers and engulfing everything in a bright light, then escapes before Thor can kill him. At first, nothing seems to have happened as Cap slowly gets up... But then Bucky crumbles to dust. Then Groot. Then Mantis, Drax, and Quill. And then the realization sets in: ''[[TheBadGuyWins Thanos actually won]]''. Scarlet Witch clutches Vision's body as she dies. T'Challa tries to help Okoye to her feet as he fades. Falcon vanishes in the long grass, just out of sight of the other heroes, as War Machine continues to call out for him. Peter Parker [[IDontWantToDie goes out terrified and weeping,]] [[DiedInYourArmsTonight clutching at Stark]] as he crumbles. [[PyrrhicVictory Even Thanos lost almost everything to accomplish his goals]] and is left satisfied it's over, [[WasItReallyWorthIt but also contemplating the cost]]. In TheStinger, we see the same fate befall Nick Fury, the BigGood of the entire franchise, and his right-hand woman Maria Hill. The only implications that hope isn't totally lost are Fury's distress call to [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Captain Marvel]] and Doctor Strange's cryptic final words to Stark: "There was no other way." No CreativeClosingCredits, no uplifting ending. The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has truly reached its DarkestHour.

* ''Film/Joker2019'': Arthur snaps and becomes the Joker, killing several people before confessing to his first three murders and then killing Murray Franklin on his own talk show. His actions subsequently spark a riot that leads to the death of Bruce Wayne's parents, which of course puts the boy down his fated path. Arthur is then arrested and gets locked up in Arkham, having completely lost his mind. And since he ''is'' in [[CardboardPrison Arkham]], he is last seen running from an orderly after apparently killing his therapist and presumably escaping [[HereWeGoAgain to cause more chaos]]. The ''only'' silver lining is that Gotham may be at its breaking point now, but one day, [[Franchise/{{Batman}} a protector]] will rise up when the city needs it most.

* ''{{Film/Logan}}'': Judging by how Logan, Charles, Caliban, and Laura live in a crapsack world, the whole film is already a downer to begin with, especially with Charles suffering from dementia and constant seizures, creating burst of potentially lethal telepathic energy (one of which was heavily implied to have killed nearly all the X-Men), while Logan deals with post-traumatic-stress-disorder, suicidal thoughts, alcoholism, depression, and fatal Adamantium poisoning. By the end of the film, Logan, Charles, and Caliban are all dead and while it should be noted that Zander Rice, Donald Pierce, X-24, and the Reavers are also dead, that doesn't necessarily mean that Laura and the the other children are completely safe. In fact, the film heavily implies that Eden doesn't even exist in the first place, and that the children could easily be pursued by other forces in Canada. What's more is that, with Logan and Elizabeth dead, Laura has now lost the closest thing she had to a family and her and the other children are now completely on their own.

* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Adrian Veidt detonates a nuclear deterrent that kills half of New York, forcing them into world peace. Dr. Manhattan had a stake in the construction of the bomb without knowing what it was being used for. The heroes are forced to keep their silence, or World War III will start. Rorschach disagrees, and Dr. Manhattan kills him before disappearing to another galaxy. Worse yet, Rorschach has been keeping a journal of his findings and suspicions, which he drops off at a newspaper office. At the very end of the film, the journal has ended up in the paper's "crank file" and a staff member is close to reaching for it, meaning that [[BolivianArmyEnding WWIII may start anyway]] if it gets published.

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* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' in so many ways. Charles is crippled and weary, loses his love interest because [[LaserGuidedAmnesia he erases her memory]] in order to protect her (which also ruins her career at the CIA), and also loses his friend, Erik, as he becomes Magneto. And his adoptive sister has run off with Magneto to become a supervillain. Hank is left mutated from his failed serum and has lost Mystique as well after he rejected her true mutant form. Also, despite all their heroic efforts, [[CrapSackWorld the government is now hunting all mutants]].
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