History HappyEndingOverride / LiveActionFilms

* In ''Film/YoungGuns'', the surviving Regulators beat the bad guy and split up. Doc even moves to New York. In ''Film/YoungGunsII'', Doc is arrested and dragged back to New Mexico. Chaves has also been recaptured. They both die.

* ''Film/ChildsPlay''. The first three movies play the trope straight, as both the first and second movies end with protagonist Andy successfully killing Chucky and moving on, only for the Killer Doll to come back from the dead by the next opus, where it's always revealed Andy's life only got worse in the mid-time. Andy is PutOnABus for the next two movies, but brought back in the sixth one, where the trope gets spectacularly subverted: Andy's situation [[EarnYourHappyEnding finally got better]] (he reunited with his mother and lives a normal life), and when Chucky does find him again, Andy [[CrazyPrepared welcomes him with a shotgun]]. Ultimately played straight again in the following movie, Cult of Chucky: Andy is miserable and obsessed with Chucky at the onset, and by the end of the movie, Chucky has a human form and his latest murders will probably be attributed to Andy.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndThrKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' ended with Indiana being reunited with his FirstLove Marion Ravenwood, [[HappilyMarried finally marrying her]] and being reunited with the son he never knew he had. Comes ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' which reveals that 12 years after the fourth film's ending, Indy and Marion are divorced after their son Was KilledOffscreen in the Vietnam War, turning Indiana into a GrumpyOldMan shortly before his retirement. At least, [[spoiler:Indy and Marion get back together]] in the end of the movie.

* ''Film/Godzilla2014'' ends with Godzilla returning to the sea after defeating the MUTOS, and ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' ends with Kong still the king of his home, both triumphant notes. The opening moments of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' then reveal that the Titans are being awakened at a dramatic rate, forcing Godzilla back into the conflict and [[Film/GodzillaVSKong setting the stage for a fight with Kong]], as Skull Island is caught in the crossfire. The Monarch Corporation is also [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome facing major scrutiny and public backlash for their role in the previous films]]. Then ''Film/GodzillaVSKong'' overrides things further by the opening moments showing the public having largely turned against Godzilla, and Kong having grown so much that Skull Island can no longer sustain him. Most of the natives he protected have also died off, and a CorruptCorporateExecutive is trying to harvest resources by using one of Ghidorah's heads.

* ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'': At the end of [[Film/Venom2018 the previous film]], Eddie and Venom seemed to have formed a fairly functional, relatively healthy mutualistic relationship. Come the first act of this movie, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome reality has set in]], with quite a bit of tension and bickering between the two, until it finally escalates into a physical brawl and PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure that lasts throughout the second act.

** ''Film/{{Creed}}'': Last time we saw Rocky, he had finally made peace with both losing Adrian and not being able to box anymore, having one last fight that he manages to go the distance for which earns him both the respect of the crowd and his opponent, and he's also got his son, Paulie, and Marie as part of his life. By the time this film rolls around, Paulie has died, his son has moved to Vancouver, Marie's been PutOnABus, ''and'' he's dying of Non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

* ''Film/TheKarateKid'': Daniel-san wins the tournament and gets the girl. Come the sequel, she's wrecked his car and dumped him for a college guy.

* The film ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' ends in the best possible and most uplifting scenario with the villains dead, Will and Elizabeth getting officially together and Norrington generously giving Jack a head start all of which is done with the approval of the Governor, who is the highest authority figure in Port Royal leaving nothing in doubt about the whole matter. Until ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' that is, where a higher authority figure named Cutler Beckett (Lord actually) does appear, who shares a history with both Governor Swann and Jack and proceeds to use this seemingly innocuous development to his advantage by taking over and sentencing all those involved to death by hanging for aiding a branded pirate - this also means that Will is ''forced to miss his own wedding''. And all this in order to blackmail Turner into fetching him Jack's magic compass. Oh and an old debt of Jack's comes back to haunt him. This leads to a far less happy ending and a lot of things that need to be fixed by the next film. In fact the second film manages to offer an alternate happy ending overriding case that doesn't lead to anywhere, since it shows Jack coming close to facing yet another mutiny from the same crew that seemingly accepted him as captain at the end of the previous film. Even Norrington is reduced to a drunken shadow of his former self.

* ''Film/PaulBlartMallCop''. The first movie ended with Paul a hero and getting married to his LoveInterest, Amy. The sequel opens with the reveal that Amy filed for a divorce less than a week later for unexplained reasons, and to make matters worse, a short time after that his mother [[DroppedABridgeOnHim gets hit by a milk truck one morning]] while getting the paper. At least Paul finds someone else (who's also a security guard) and Maya gets to go to her dream college at the end.