All for Nothing in Films and Animated Films.
Films — Animation
- The climatic chase of Boogie, a Race Against the Clock where Boogie must deliver Marcia to a courthouse to testify against the local mob kingpin, Sony Calabria. After driving like crazy in a chase scene involving what seems to be around 200 police vehicles, Boogie made it in the nick of time!... except Calabria already had a dozen of his mooks on standby, immediately ordering them to gun down everyone the moment Marcia tried testifying. At which point Boogie decided the best course of action is to just shoot everything in sight.
- Coco: Miguel becomes stuck in the Land of the Dead and needs to find a family member who will give him their (unconditional) blessing so he can go home. After some challenges, he finally tracks down Ernesto de la Cruz, who agrees. Then he finds out Ernesto is a murderous phony who stole the songs that made him famous from another musician, whom he killed. Not wanting to risk Miguel telling people the truth, Ernesto changes his mind and instead tries to trap Miguel. On top of that, it turns out Ernesto isn't even actually a relative of his at all.
- A Downplayed example in "Frozen Fever". After spending most of Frozen learning how to control her powers, Elsa again loses control in the sequel short. This time, however, she at least has a better idea of how to handle that loss of control, and the results are much less disastrous.
- In The Incredibles, Bob painfully swallows his sense of justice and grudgingly obeys Huph's order that he does not leave the office to help a mugging victim, else Huph will fire him. But afterward, Huph pushes Bob to his Rage Breaking Point, so that he throws Huph through several walls, seriously injuring him, and is fired anyway.
- Justice League Dark: Apokolips War features two:
- Zigzagged with the plan to save Earth from Darkseid's control, as while they ultimately couldn't stop Darkseid's Reapers from causing irreparable damage to Earth and thus end to have Flash cause a Cosmic Retcon to restart everything, their fighting allowed them to find Flash in the first place, so at least said Cosmic Retcon was an option because of their efforts.
- Given Lex Luthor was really the mole for the rebellion, their siege on Lexcorp Tower caused the deaths of Cheetah and Lady Shiva during it to be this.
- How Tai Lung's quest for power ends in Kung Fu Panda. He finally gets his hands on the Dragon Scroll, only to find nothing but a blank sheet of reflective gold. He fails to learn its message that Po figured out already. There is no secret ingredient. It's just you.
- My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): Tempest Shadow spent years building the Storm King's army, committing atrocities for him, and honing her own body into a weapon, all under the promise that once the Storm King had attained the power of the Princesses she had promised him, he would use it to restore her broken unicorn horn. Once he has the power, he decides not to honor his end of the agreement (if he ever could for that matter) and attempts to kill her, rendering all of her villainy for naught.
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Kingpin's ultimate plan is an attempt to undo his greatest mistake by finding an alternate version of his deceased family with the Collider. Little does he know that people transported to other dimensions with the Collider can't stay there for more than a few days before breaking down on an atomic level. Additionally, the reason his family wound up deceased is because they saw his secret violent side and got into a traffic accident when fleeing; a side that Kingpin refuses to change and will inevitably show again, as demonstrated when it happens during the climatic fight against Miles. As Spider-Man bluntly tells him, his plan to get his family back will never work and all the evil things he's done are all for nothing; even if he did get them, he'd just lose them all over again.
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse does it again with one of its main antagonists. Miguel leads the Spider-Society into basically committing mass Murder by Inaction because he thinks You Can't Fight Fate and that The Stations of the Canon must be preserved. He does this because he sincerely believes that doing otherwise will result in billions of deaths... but, as Gwen learns when her dad averts his "canon event" death by retiring early, this isn't the case at all. Miguel has been essentially killing people and traumatizing Spider-People for absolutely nothing.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars the Clone Wars as a whole ends up being this ultimately. Considering that the Jedi are fighting to protect the Republic and keep it from collapsing, the fact that Palpatine as Sidious seriously undermines this and ensures that the Republic is doomed already. All the warfare shed between the Republic and the Separatists is meaningless as the Sith effectively control both sides of the war. If the Separatists had won, the Sith take over. When Anakin falls to the dark side and joins Sidious, the Republic transforms into an Empire with the Sith firmly in control. As for the clones, once Order 66 is declared they themselves become the enemy to the Jedi Order and help destroy the Republic. The only ones who won were Sidious and his new apprentice, and said apprentice suffered from it.
- Turning Red:
- Mei agrees to appear in panda form at Tyler's birthday party to get money to pay for her ticket to the 4*Town concert. During her break, she discovers the concert is the same day as her ritual, getting her so angry, she ruins the party by attacking Tyler when he pushes her too much and ends up not getting paid. In the climax, she parkours her way into the concert via the open roof, no ticket needed.
- Grandma Wu and the Aunties come earlier than expected to help prepare Mei for the ritual in separating her red panda spirit during a red lunar eclipse but on that day, Mei finally decides to keep and embrace her red panda spirit before running away to the concert; much to everyone minus Jin's shock and objections.
- Up: It's strongly hinted that Russell's Disappeared Dad will show up at the ceremony if Russell gets his final Wilderness Explorer badge, but when Russell is at the ceremony, right when the film sets up a heartwarming redemption/family bonding scene... his dad still doesn't show. Carl comes up to do it instead.
Films — Live-Action
- Horror movie franchises are infamous for this, such as killing off the Final Girl of the previous film (Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome) in the first two minutes of the sequel, often at the hands of the very same villain that she went through hell to defeat last time, who always comes back because he's too popular to be put down for good.
- Most heist movies end this way: The money blows away (The Killing), gets burned up (original Ocean's 11), or comes loose (The Lavender Hill Mob). Others include a boy collecting license plate numbers in The League of Gentlemen or the brains behind the operation staring at a young girl so long the cops catch up with him in The Asphalt Jungle. It's usually a way of showing that You Can't Fight Fate (and that Crime Doesn't Pay).
- 6 Days: The terrorist's cause fizzled up in smoke the moment they took the Iranian Embassy hostage, as the UK government had no intention with playing along. Inspector Max's attempts at a peaceful resolution ends with him lying to the confidant who trusted him resulting in the latter's (somewhat justified) deaths.
- In Nine Days of One Year, the hero, a nuclear research scientist, winds up absorbing fatal doses of radiation while running experiments designed to produce a fusion reaction. While he's in the hospital awaiting a long-shot bone marrow transplant that might save his life, he finds out that the effect he'd observed in his experiments wasn't fusion after all, and he hasn't found a new energy source.
- Addams Family Reunion Dr. Philip Adams and Katherine Adams were trying to get their father to rearrange the will so they can get wealthy. They also tried to get rid of the Addams family feeling threatened by their scheme; however, Walter Adams helped the Addams Family out and Walter cuts ties to his Adams family and left for California. Dr. Philip and Katherine get nothing at the end.
- Alien³ kills off two characters whom Ripley spent the whole second film protecting in the first few minutes... off camera.
- Are We There Yet?: Lindsey and Kevin's bratty, troublemaking behavior is because the two want to keep all men away from their mother in the hopes that she and their father can reconcile. Despite it being clear she doesn't want anything to do with him anymore, they're determined to make their goal a reality and give Nick nothing but trouble even when he's trying his best to get along with them. They finally ditch him and arrive at their father's house, where they discover he was lying about being sick and is in fact remarried with a new baby, not even noticing the two outside his window watching in. By the next scene, they've finally given up on him and their hopes of their parents reconciling, and realized that they wasted all their time driving away their mother's boyfriends for an impossible goal.
- Atomic Blonde: As the film proceeds, the characters come to the realization that the entire Cold War was more or less all for nothing, and that their place in the world is rapidly disappearing. In particular, Percival realizing this drove him to his Face–Heel Turn. Driven home by how Lorraine's mission ends: she gets at least two total innocents and a whole mess of bad guys killed in the name of helping the U.S. swindle their own allies out of some information that's going to be completely irrelevant in mere days.
- In Black Hawk Down, a couple of Delta Force snipers go to rescue one of the pilots of one of the downed helicopters, Durant, and after placing him in a nearby building, they go back to defend the chopper, drawing the militia fighters away from Durant by using themselves as bait. Unfortunately, after the two are killed off, Durant ends up being captured by the Somali militia anyway.
- Casper: The "treasure" Carrigan and Dibs try so hard to find turns out to be a baseball glove and ball signed by Casper's favorite player - and Carrigan's ghost crosses over before she even finds out what it is.note Subverted, however, as Carrigan and Dibs also could've been rich from bringing back info on the Lazarus.
- In the Director's Cut of Das Boot, the German submarine crew survives many dangerous encounters to make it home — only to be killed by an Allied air raid on their port.
- In the DC Extended Universe:
- Wonder Woman (2017): Diana single-handedly liberates the town of Veld from the Germans on her quest to stop Ares. The next day, General Ludendorff uses it as ground zero to demonstrate his new gas weapon, killing every civilian Diana and her team saved.
- SHAZAM! (2019): After Billy spent over a decade searching for his mother, when they finally reunite he learns that after being lost at the fair and then found by the police his mother decided to leave him with them because she was too overwhelmed with her own issues regarding her parents kicking her out of the house and her husband walking out of the marriage. Ultimately, she felt Billy would receive better care from the police than she could provide. Billy tearfully walks away to return to his foster home.
- Zack Snyder's Justice League: The Amazons seal the entry to the stronghold that their Mother Box was in to trap Steppenwolf and his parademons, killing a good number of their own in the process as the building falls into the water. This is all for naught as Steppenwolf and the parademons rise out of the water afterward.
- Deep Blue Sea:
- Susan made illegal modifications to the sharks, inadvertently making her responsible for all the subsequent deaths when the super-intelligent sharks break out, but she did it to find a cure for degenerative diseases and uses this as a defense of her actions when given a What the Hell, Hero? speech. However, the cure is later destroyed when she is forced to electrocute one of the sharks as it attacks her along with the substance they extracted from their brains, making those sacrifices ultimately pointless.
- Amazingly, the same applies to the sharks. The entire film they've been working on a plan to herd around the humans and flood the facility so they can escape. After two of the sharks are already dead, the last one actually manages to break through the fence, only to be blown up five seconds later by a stick of gunpowder fired into her back.
- In Dirty Dancing, Baby says this when her efforts to get Johnny cleared of theft charges get him fired anyway for having a relationship with a guest.
- The beginning of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has Edgin at his parole hearing delivering his tragic backstory, all for the sake of buying time so that they can kidnap one of them (an aarakocra) to escape out the window. Unfortunately for him, it turns out that Edgin's backstory was more than sufficient enough to convince the committee since as he's escaping one of them tries to tell him that his pardon was approved, meaning that he's just become a fugitive for no good reason.
- In Gladiator, Commodus fatally stabs Maximus before their final battle to give himself the edge…which doesn’t work, as Maximus still overpowers and kills Commodus anyway in a Dying Moment of Awesome.
- At the end of Grand Slam, Anders and Mary Ann are sitting at outdoor cafe if Rome withe the bag containing the stolen diamonds on the table. They are distracted by a plane dropping leaflets, and a pair of snatch and grab thieves on a motorbike grab the bag and ride away, leaving them with nothing, meaning that The Caper and the deaths of the Caper Crew have been for nothing.
- I Shot Jesse James: Despite being his best friend, Robert Ford murders outlaw Jesse James in order to escape his outlaw life and be with his Love Interest. However, it all backfires. He's stiffed with the reward, he's considered a coward instead of a hero, and he loses the girl to another suitor.
- The Irishman: Frank murders Jimmy Hoffa and gets away clean. Too bad he destroyed his relationship with his daughter (who had been close to Hoffa), and the march of time sees all his friends and loved ones dying pointless and ignoble deaths from crime or old age. At the end, Frank is an old man Dying Alone in a nursing home, and no one knows or even cares about who Jimmy Hoffa was or why he was murdered.
- The Knowledge: On the day Ted passes the legendarily difficult exam that London taxi drivers have to take, he is disqualified for drunk driving.
- In The Lie Rebecca' and Jay's worry and efforts to cover up their daughter Kayla's actions. They end up killing the murdered girl's father (who knew Kayla was involved). And then they learn the girl is alive, and Kayla's story of pushing her off a bridge was a lie.
- The Life of David Gale: The governor had promised if evidence if an innocent person executed ever surfaced he'd call a moratorium on capital punishment. Gale's death is set up as exactly this. However, the governor refuses to call the moratorium, saying the state can't be blamed for a plot by someone else.
- The Longest Day: On D-Day, the U.S. Army Rangers launch a costly assault on Pointe du Hoc to take out several artillery batteries that could have threatened the main landings. However, after finally making it up the cliff and securing the bunkers, the Rangers find out the guns were never even installed and the entire assault was a waste of time. This is subverted if you know that, in real life, the Rangers later succeeded in locating and destroying the guns.
- Lost in Alaska: After Tom, George, Joe and Rosette make much effort to get Joe's gold, it ends up falling in the water. Fortunately, with the gold gone, everyone comes to their senses and become friends afterward.
- Nobody ends up with the gold at the end of A Man Called Sledge. All of the gang apart from Sledge are dead. The old man hid the gold before he died, so Sledge—who has decided he doesn't want the gold any more anyway—rides out of town with nothing to show for all the bloodshed and death.
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe has a few examples of this:
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier: The Reveal that HYDRA is alive and bigger, more seclusive and dangerous than ever, which rendered everything Captain America and his friends did to wipe them out in World War II meaningless. Black Widow even lampshades this later in the movie.
- Avengers: Infinity War: All the heroes' attempts to stop Thanos from completing the Infinity Gauntlet fail miserably, with half the heroes disintegrating by the end and a few others dead. This is ultimately played with, however, as Doctor Strange implies that it is All According to Plan.
- Throughout the movie, the Secret Avengers (plus Rhodey) try to find a way to destroy the Mind Stone without killing Vision. Wakanda is attacked before Shuri can finish detaching Vision's consciousness from the Stone, forcing Wanda to take him and flee into the forest. In the end, Wanda destroys Vision completely to keep Thanos from getting the Mind Stone, only for Thanos to bring him back with the Time Stone and brutally rip the Mind Stone out of him.
- Infinity War also rendered the whole plot of Guardians of the Galaxy story moot, where they tried to protect the Power Stone, given just a brief mention as "Thanos attacked Xandar" last week.
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: A particularly cruel example happens during the credits via Thanos's snap, killing those Ant-Man spent the entire film helping, and leaving him trapped exactly the same as Janet was with no way out.
- Avengers: Endgame has one right at the beginning, as when the heroes go after Thanos, he informs them that he ordered the destruction of the Infinity Stones exactly to prevent his actions in Infinity War from being reversed. Even if Thor then decapitates Thanos in anger, the bad ending remains. But then, after a Time Skip, Ant-Man comes back with an idea.
- A double layered example in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with the main villain's motive (aside from Darkhold corruption) of finding variants of her illusionary children that she can mother.
- Firstly, at the end of the movie, they're hit with the cold fact that while they can find their objective, murder everyone who gets in the way plus a few more for luck, and bodyjack-via-Dreamwalking or Kill and Replace her counterpart, she can't make the kids love her. She'll never be their mother, just the witch who killed their real mom that they'll be forever terrified of.
- Secondly, the mechanics behind Incursions and the consequences mean that even if Wanda managed to win the love of her children's variants, it would never last for long. Whether by eternally Dreamwalking into her counterpart or killing her to take her place in Earth 838, Wanda's mere presence in the alternate universe will ensure that the dimensional walls between the Sacred Timeline and Earth 838 will erode, eventually trigging an Incursion and destroying one or both universes, rendering everything Wanda did to get her new children meaningless as the Incursion kills them all.
- The Mummy Returns: Imhotep's three thousand year quest to revive Anck-su-namun and rule together as eternal lovers is dashed in the very end when he finds out the hard way that Anck-su-namun doesn't love him as much as she loves her own life, and she certainly doesn't love him as much as Evy loves Rick.
- National Lampoon's Vacation: After the Griswold family endured an endless barrage of humiliating moments in their road trip from Illinois to California, they finally arrive at the Walley World amusement park only to find it has been closed for two weeks for maintenance. This proves to be the very last straw for Clark Griswold (who insisted on soldiering on for the sake of having happy memories with his family) and the climax of the film is all about his attempt to defy this trope, by taking a security guard hostage with a realistic-looking BB gun and forcing him to let them ride the attractions. He succeeds — he doesn't even gets arrested when he explains everything to the police and Mr. Roy Walley.
- No Escape (1994): The mission to steal an engine part from the Outsiders camp costs Casey and The Mole for the heroes their lives. They never get a chance to use the completed engine before King blows it up.
- The Northman: While discussing Fjölnir, Amleth's fellow raiders make fun of the fact that Fjölnir killed his own brother for nothing, because King Harald of Norway took away his kingdom soon thereafter, resulting in his exile and becoming a chieftain of a far more modest Icelandic settlement.
- Not Okay: Danni actually got what she wanted, only for it to be incredibly disappointing. By the end of the film, her life is actually worse than it was at the start.
- Police Academy had a subplot which ended this way. The night before the driving test, Hightower comes to Mahoney and tells him that he hasn't driven a car in a long time and Harris told him he'd flunk out if he didn't pass. So, Mahoney takes him out for a driving lesson in Blanks' car and badly damages it in the process. Hightower ends up passing the test, but Hooks goes after him. At the end of her test, she runs over Blanks' foot. He calls her a racial slur as a result, inciting Hightower to go after him. After Hightower flips over the test car with Blanks in it, Harris expels him. Furthermore, Blanks sees the damage to his car and gets into a fight with Mahoney and Barbara. Mahoney ends up getting expelled as well after he takes the blame for the fight. Their expulsions get revoked — and they get commendations on top of it — when they show up to help contain the riot that breaks out in the climax and save Harris' life in the process.
- In Reservoir Dogs, Mr. Orange was a cop, after all. Additionally, Mr. Orange reveals to the audience that he's undercover when he kills off Mr. Blonde to stop the latter from hacking a fellow cop to death. This comes at the expense of potentially blowing his cover when the rest of the crew comes back to the hideout, and indeed, his bosses are so unwilling to believe his cover story for killing Blonde that it leads to the film's infamous Mexican Standoff. The real clincher? As soon as the crew returns, Nice Guy Eddie looks around at the carnage and pops a few slugs into Orange's fellow cop, killing him instantly. So not only was Orange's intervention all for nothing, it ended up dooming everyone else, as well.
- The Return of Count Yorga had the main hero Baldwin finally reaching Cynthia after barely avoiding Yorga's traps. He confront Yorga on the roof of the manor and, with Cynthia's help, manages to kill him. Looks to be all well...until it's revealed he was bitten by Yorga's brides on his way to rescue Cynthia and the change finally kicked in, to which immediately goes to bite Cynthia.
- Richie Richs Christmas Wish: After Reggie sabotaged a sleigh and framed Richie Rich for it, to the point that Richie himself believed the accident was his fault, he made a Christmas Wish that he was never born. For the majority of the movie, Richie continued believing this, until the TV version ending, where Reggie's parents force him to confess the truth, making Richie realize that he made his wish and went on the entire subsequent adventure for nothing.
- Robin and Marian: Richard has the Chalus castle burned down to seize a golden statue its lord allegedly has, while killing women and children doing so. Afterwards, it turns out that the statue was ordinary stone.
- Rurouni Kenshin: The Final: Yukishiro Enishi lost his sister, Tomoe, when he was young. This led to him pursuing her killer, Kenshin, in many attempts to destroy everything and everyone he loves. But eventually, Enishi is defeated, arrested and given his sister's diary in prison. Reading her last entry, it reveals that she intended to protect Kenshin from the men plotting his death, and fully accepted that she might die as a direct result. As such, Enishi had spent his entire life seeking revenge for someone who didn't want it.
- Safer at Home: The friends who had started by celebrating a birthday remotely go through hell during the night, culminating in Evan getting shot by the police. And it all could have been avoided if Evan had done a better job of checking Jen's vital signs after she fell and hit her head before assuming she died.
- Star Wars:
- Revenge of the Sith: Anakin Skywalker turned to the Dark Side because Chancellor Sheev Palpatine (a.k.a. Darth Sidious) promised him a way to keep his wife, Padmé Amidala, from dying. But when she learns what Anakin has done in pursuit of this, she confronts him, leading to him Force Choking her in a fit of rage. In the end, he became Darth Vader, destroyed the Jedi Order, murdered an unknown number of innocent Younglings, helped create The Empire, all to save his wife... only to ultimately cause her death. He lost the love of his life, his friends, and everything else he risked his life for in pursuit of a way to keep from losing Padmé like he did his mother. Plus being mangled for life by his former friend/mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, and being encased in a suit of life-supporting armor for the rest of his life.
- The Clone Wars end up being this as the two armies are both under the control of Darth Sidious. The Republic is doomed with either side winning and the true battle was between Palpatine and the Jedi, a battle that the Jedi lose as the Republic is reborn as the Galactic Empire.
- The original trilogy, episodes IV-VI, showed how the Rebellion triumphed over the evil Galactic Empire and the Galactic Republic was restored in its place. Episode VII (The Force Awakens) starts off with the remnants of the Empire having been organised into a new faction called the First Order that has the run of the Galaxy and wipes out the Republic in passing when they feel like it. The plot of Episode VIII (The Last Jedi) takes the Rebellion even further back from victory, to the point that they seem to be worse off than at the beginning of Episode IV, and the beginning of Episode IX (The Rise of Skywalker) adds a final step backwards by bringing back the Big Bad of the original trilogy on top of that AND having every single Skywalker die due to Palpatine's villainy.
- Similarly, Terminator 2: Judgment Day has the characters Screw Destiny... but the third film reveals that You Can't Fight Fate, and all the efforts in the second film to stop apocalypse were pre-destined to fail.
- Terminator: Dark Fate has John Connor killed in the opening scene to really hammer it in that protecting him in the first two movies was ultimately for nothing, and goes further with the reveal that Skynet being gone doesn't make any difference because another AI will eventually rise anyway and do the exact same thing. The machine war and human resistance is inevitable no matter the names of the players, with latter being destined to win the only saving grace.
- Tetris (2023): Kevin Maxwell plays this straight. After going through all the trouble to make a deal with ELORG for Tetris, it turns out that due to his father's fraudulent activities, the Maxwells don't have the liquid assets necessary to keep their end of the deal in time for the Tetris rights to be secured. His father Robert Maxwell still congratulates him however, because Kevin's efforts means the Maxwells are now able to bluff Nintendo into signing a fraudulent contract, something that horrifies Kevin. After all of this, he understandably goes into a Villainous BSoD.
- Trap for Cinderella: Julia admits at the end that her plan was this, as Elinor left her estate to Do rather than Micky so the elaborate Surgical Impersonation of Do taking Micky's place (who before had been the intended beneficiary) was wasted.
- In Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Burt destroys his entire house and everything in it to kill an Ass-blaster after it gets close to his MREs (Meals-Ready-To-Eat) because he believes that it, like the Shriekers, will vastly multiply when it eats enough food. It's only after the destruction of his house that he gets a call from Nancy and Mindy to inform him that Ass-blasters go into a "Food Coma" when they eat enough food, meaning that it would have been better if Burt had let the Ass-blaster eat his supplies and that he destroyed his house for no reason. Cue Thousand-Yard Stare.
- Despite Blissworth finally getting his chance to help improve the Creeper torpedo at the end of Watch Your Stern, it malfunctions just as the Mark I had and sinks the HMS Terrier.
- The Wild Bunch: Thornton spends the entire film chasing down the titular Wild Bunch, only for him to find them all massacred by the time he finally catches up to them in a Mexican village. To add insult to injury, after the bounty hunters who accompanied him leave with their bounties, he's informed later that they didn't manage to make the return trip. At least he gets to avoid jail time.
- The World of Kanako: In the end, after being beaten, shot, betrayed and kidnapped by the Yakuza (and after dealing out a lot of punishment too), Akikazu still cannot find Kanako. As far as we know, she's dead and buried in the snow but he refuses to accept this and keeps searching for her.
- Would You Rather: The film ends with Iris winning the game by shooting the final survivor - only to come home to find that her brother, Raleigh, had committed suicide so that she wouldn't be indebted due to his cancer.
- X-Men Film Series: All the struggling that the Professor Xavier and his X-Men went through to protect mutantkind in the previous movies—especially in X-Men: Days of Future Past—come across as a moot point in Logan, given the fact that most mutants died out anyway, along with several of the X-Men themselves, not due to some big final battle, but thanks to one of Xavier's telepathic seizures and the birth of future mutants has been stopped thanks to crops being genetically modified to suppress the mutant gene. The whole saga, including any future installments, is ultimately for nothing and comes to a horrible end.
