Here We Go Again / Film

Here We Go Again! in Animated and Live-Action Movies. This is an Ending Trope, so beware of spoilers.

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Films — Animated

• All Dogs Go to Heaven ends with Carface doing what Charlie did when he died- ripping off his angel gear, grabbing his clock and winding it back so he can take revenge on his killer, while the Heavenly Whippet tells him that by touching his clock, he can never come back to heaven.
  Charlie: He'll be back! (Winks)
• In Alma, the title character is transformed into a doll and added to the huge collection of children transformed into dolls who are trapped in the toy shop. The film ends with another doll, resembling a brunette girl in a red coat, appearing in the storefront window.
• This is Passepartout's response at the end of Around the World in 80 Days (Burbank Animation), when Fogg claims that a journey around the world would be possible in only 66 days.
• Happens at the end of Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!: Everyone besides Fred is at the same café in Paris when they get a phone call. Fred has somehow ended up in the Amazon. The gang runs off to save him while yelling something along these lines.
• Bill Plympton's I Married A Strange Person starts with Grant being zapped in the back of the neck with television signals, giving him a mole-like "lobe" that gives him Reality Warper powers. During the movie's climax, the lobe was removed from Grant's neck with multiple characters vying to make it their own, only for it to get eaten by a dog after the Big Bad is vanquished. The movie ends with Grant and his wife Keri having sex, but suddenly the house starts to float into the air, with Grant's wife Keri saying "I've been watching a lot of TV lately", indicating she's got a lobe of her own.
• The Incredibles ends with Syndrome having been defeated, but then a new villain, the Underminer, appears.
• The LEGO Batman Movie ends with him and The Joker becoming friends/enemies again. They prepare to battle each other like they always do.
• Migration: Just when the Mallards are about to begin the trip back home to New England in the spring, Mack finds a flock of penguins lost. Cue the family migrating further south in the closing credits to bring them home to the South Pole.
• The ending of The Rugrats Movie has one of these, the movie kicks off when Angelica kicks the Reptar Wagon out the door with the babies inside causing it to eventually end up in the woods. In a scene after the ending credits, a goat Boris had given the Pickles earlier headbutts the Reptar Wagon with Grandpa Lou inside causing it to roll down the street and the goat chases after him.
• In Tangled Ever After, Maximus the horse and Pascal the chameleon cause all sorts of chaos trying to recover the rings for Rapunzel and Eugene's wedding. They manage it, but then the cartoon ends with Maximus accidentally sending the cart carrying the wedding cake rolling away.
• The Three Caballeros: "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" segment ends with Pablo staring wistfully at a poster for the South Pole, apparently considering making a trip back to Antarctica.
  Narrator: (laughs) Never satisfied! Well, that's human nature for you, even if you're a penguin.
• The Wind in the Willows segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad starts with Toad wreaking havoc with his mania for caravans. At the end, when it seems Toad has finally overcome his self-destructive passions, we see that he's found a new interest- aeroplanes!
  Toad: I'll show you the world! Travel, change, excitement! Ha Ha Ha!

Films — Live-Action

• 28 Weeks Later ends with Infected rushing into Paris.
• The ABCs of Death: "C is for Cycle" ends with Bruno in exactly the same place he was at the start, with the implication that he is now trapped in a unending loop (hence the title).
• Accidental Hero ends with Bernie and his son spending time at the zoo when someone falls into an animal cage. He reluctantly jumps into the rescue once more.
• All About Eve: Margot, a successful but aging stage actress gains an obsessive fan in Eve. Eve seems nice at first but is revealed to have gotten close to Margot to destroy her career and take her place. Then Eve becomes famous and is introduced to a very similar fan at the end.
• The Swedish comedy film Äppelkriget (The Apple War) begins with a German businessman arriving in Änglamark (the pastoral setting of the movie) and deciding to build a giant recreation park there, with stopping this taking up the rest of the film. It ends, after this is achieved, with an Anglophone businessman arriving in Änglamark and deciding to build a giant recreation park there...
• Although it led into the next film, the ending of Back to the Future was intended as an example of this trope as no sequel was planned. The film's main problem (that Marty accidentally erased himself from history) resulted because he used the time machine; just when everything is perfect, Doc arrives and whisks them off in it again.
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon ends with him coming back from the dead (he was covered in flame retardant ointment) to kill again.
• Big Trouble in Little China begins (apart from a brief pre-credits scene) and ends with sequences of Jack Burton driving the Pork Chop Express through pouring rain while delivering one of his grandstanding bullshit speeches over the CB. Of course, in the latter scene, we also move into Cliffhanger territory. Just a shame that there wasn't a sequel...
• Buffalo Soldiers: While the soldiers' drug plant is destroyed in a huge explosion in the end, none of the crimes committed on the base are tied to Elwood and he is reassigned to a base Hawaii where it's clear that he's up to his usual schemes.
• Cabin by the Lake ends with the reveal that Stanley has survived. Disguised, he presents his idea for another script to a new agent about a killer who buries people alive.
• The Cable Guy ends with him developing a new unhealthy fixation with the paramedic who has rescued him.
• The Caller ends with the Girl, having almost won her freedom from the forces keeping her from her family, receiving the Caller again at her house in the middle of nowhere as she did at the beginning of the movie — although he says she might actually succeed this time.
• In the epilogue of Cannibal Girls, it turns out that this entire event is actually being told by Mrs. Wainwright, this time about four Cannibal Girls to another couple stranded in their town. And the old lady is also recommending the bed and breakfast place to them, too. It is implied the young woman with her boyfriend will become yet another Cannibal Girl.
• Celtic Pride ends with Jimmy and Mike trying to kidnap another sports star, Deion Sanders.
• Code Unknown clearly implies a cyclical nature to the lives of the main characters. At the end, Georges is once again returning from a war torn country. Anne once again does not answer her phone, as something she says at the beginning informs us, 'In the bath I can't hear the phone'. Maria is back in the place she was deported from doing exactly as before.
• In A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood, after his big adventure through the Hollywood hills, the titular coyote was captured by animal control and taken back to the desert outside the city limits. Soon after, he ends up hitching a ride on a truck that took him to Hollywood in the first place. The narrator closes with him saying, "Whether he planned it or not, he's going to town again."
• The Crazies (1973) uses this trope while simultaneously treading into Shoot the Shaggy Dog Story territory. The movie starts with U.S. Government setting up a quarantine around a small town due to contamination by the bioweapon "Trixie". It ends with Colonel Peckhem being sent to another town where Trixie has broken out. The remake, The Crazies (2010), has a similar ending: the main characters survive through the whole thing, escape the town, and the two of them walk to a nearby city. Cue the U.S. Government setting up the same quarantine around that city...
• The Crush: After stalking and terrorizing her parent's tenant throughout the movie, Adrian is committed to a mental hospital... and develops a crush on her doctor. (To make matters worse, she isn't even over the first guy yet, as evidenced by the numerous letters she's sent him.)
• Dead Before Dawn: The Ash Demon is sealed away, and time is rewound so that nobody actually died. Last shot of the film involves Casper accidentally breaking the urn again.
• Dead Birds: After shooting Creature!William, one of the soldiers gets the brilliant idea to go to that big, foreboding house in the midst of the dead cornfield. Which means more victims for Hollister.
• Dead of Night begins with the protagonist arriving at a house and telling the guests that he has seen that house, and those guests, in a prophetic dream. It ends with him waking up, then driving out to a familiar house...
• The final shot in Death Ship shows another cruise ship about to be sunk by the titular vessel.
• Deep Rising: The remaining protagonists destroy the monster and wash up on an island, which turns out to be host to another monster.
  John Finnegan: NOW what?
• Dick Tracy, Detective: This is Tess's reaction when Dick is about to finally take her out to dinner, but instead races out with Pat to investigate a new murder.
• Dick Tracy vs. Cueball starts with Dick and Pat leaving Dick's birthday party after getting a phone call about a murder. At the end of the movie, Tess throws a second belated birthday party for Dick, and says this time the phone is staying off the hook. Then a shooting occurs outside the window, and Dick and Pat leave to investigate; much to Tess's frustration.
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ends with the conmen getting roped into another scheme, but this time led by Janet/The Jackal.
• At the end of Doctor in Clover, after the previous Matron (the disagreeable Miss Sweet) leaves, a new Matron takes her place and immediately starts an argument with Sir Lancelot the way her predecessor had.
• Doctor Who TVM (The TV Movie) opens with the Seventh Doctor in the TARDIS, where he settles down to read The Time Machine and listen to a gramophone record. The record starts skipping, so he abandons this. At the end of the movie, the Eighth Doctor settles in the same chair with the same book and music. When the record starts to skip, he says "Not again!"
• In Downstairs, Karl the evil chauffeur arrives at the mansion and, over the course of the movie, blackmails half the people there and has sex with the other half. Eventually, Alfred the sympathetic butler throws him out on his ear — but the film ends with Karl gaining employment with another sexy rich lady.
• Subverted in Dude, Where's My Car?. The movie starts with two guys waking up not remembering what happened yesterday and found out that their car is missing. The end of the movie (after Laser-Guided Amnesia) seems to follow the same route with the two not remembering what happened yesterday and realizing that their car is missing, before another car got out of the parking spot, revealing their own car.
• Easy Living begins with a mink coat landing on an unsuspecting girl leading to a sustained case of misunderstandings and ends the same way with another girl getting rained on by a fur coat, suggesting the same thing happening once again.
• Elevated: When it seems like the madness is over and Hank was just insane, a mass of people from outside the parking lot rush to get into the elevator, the same way that Hank rushed to get inside at the start.
• Ernest Saves Christmas features two deliverymen having to deal with Santa's reindeer. The movie ends with them now having to deal with the Easter Bunny.
• Fear, Inc. ends with the eponymous company receiving a phone from a new client, implying that the cycle is about to start over again.
• The Final Girls ends with the protagonists being resurrected and escaping Camp Bloodbath... and end up in the sequel.
• The title character mentions this by name at the tail (sorry) end of Francis the Talking Mule, after Sterling brings his boss to see him to convince him that Francis is real. This comes after he spent the entire plot of the movie in a flashback trying to convince the Army that Francis was real.
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell ends with Baron Frankenstein cleaning up his ruined lab and musing about where the last experiment went wrong: already planning his next experiment and intending to drag Simon and Sarah along with him.
• From Beyond the Grave: At the end of "The Gatecrasher", one of the new tenants of the flat decide to hold a seance in front of mirror, as Edward's face appears in the glass...
• The bulk of Funny Games is neither the first nor last time these killers will play their game. We see them with the neighbors early on, who later show up dead, and see them starting the whole thing over again with some other neighbors at the end.
• By the end of Ghost Ship, sole survivor Epps eventually succeeds in sinking the Graza, all the souls are released and Ferriman is destroyed, and she's rescued from the ocean by a passing ship. Then in the last scene she sees an unharmed Ferriman walk by, taking the gold onto another ship and starting the cycle anew.
• The Happening has it happen again in France.
• At the end of The Hazing, the surviving heroes are trying to leave Hack House when they discover that the doors have been locked again. The ghost of Jeremiah Hackford and the other Vengeful Ghosts of Hack House appear. Jeremiah announces that now Kapps' spirit has departed, they are free to return and wreak vengeance on the interlopers. Tim, Delia and Marsha just turn around with a 'Bring It' expression on their faces. Roll credits.
• Hoboken Hollow ends showing that Mrs Broderick and Weldon have escaped justice and starting up the slave ranch again.
• In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Kevin says, "Here we go, another Christmas in the trenches." just before kicking off another booby-trap war against the bandits.
• In The Army Now ends with another pair of slackers deciding to enlist in the army.
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman ends with Pat, restored to normal size, hearing the sound of fabric tearing. She looks down to see her (growing) foot break out of her shoe, smiles, and rolls her eyes as if to say the trope name.
• The Infernal Affairs Trilogy: The third film ends with a flashback scene that ends at precisely the same moment that the first film began.
• This is basically the plot of Jumanji. It stars with some kids getting rid of the game. Then the lead boy finds the game, they have to finish, then they try to get rid of it. And it ends with another pair of kids finding it and wanting to play. A cycle is reborn.
• Defied in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Unlike the original, the teens don't just bury the Jumanji game somewhere, they destroy it. However, the beating drums following the end credits suggest it still exists somehow.
• The Killing Room: The Sole Survivor of the experiment apparently escapes his captors, only to end up in another room with two more prisoners, to undergo Phase 2 of the experiment.
• Lifetime tends to use this for some of their thriller movies.
  • The Perfect Teacher ends with Devon becoming infatuated with her prison counsellor as they begin one of their sessions.
  • The Perfect Roommate shows Carrie in her cell looking at a magazine with another rich man on it.
  • Stalked By My Doctor. The first movie implies that Beck is either expecting Sophie to appear in the Mexican café he's sitting at or he's waiting for another beautiful woman to walk into his life. The second movie does in fact start out in Mexico, but he finds a different young woman to obsess over (an unconscious swimmer he saves via CPR), but it ends with Beck saving the life of a female prison guard via the Heimlich Maneuver, with the hint that he might become obsessed with her.
  • The Wrong franchise has had special "extended" editions shown by Lifetime which always just amount to a new ending with the villain apparently finding a new victim. A few of the non-extended movies also have these endings.
• The Robinsons using the hyperdrive again in Lost in Space (prompting the comment, "Here we go again").
• Manos: The Hands of Fate: The movie starts with Mike and Margaret and their daughter Debbie arriving at a dilapidated motel, where they encounter an odd man who greets them saying "I aM TORgo. I Take CARe oF THe pLaCE whILE the MASTer is awAY." In the end, another couple arrives, but are greeted by Mike who says "I am Michael. I take care of the place while the master is away.".
• Max Keeble's Big Move ends with him being chased by the ice cream man just like in his dreams.
• Mean Girls ends with a bunch of wannabe popular teen girls walking past whom Damian calls "The Junior Plastics". Cady then them imagines getting hit by a bus. Peace has returned to girl world, until someone pisses Cady off again.
• Mission: Impossible (1996) ends with Ethan being offered a new assignment, just like Jim Phelps was at the start.
• Miss Meadows: At the very end of the film, Miss Meadows is tap dancing down the sidewalk, on her way to another vigilante shooting.
• Mutiny on the Buses: After Susy leaves him, Stan falls in love with Gloria and proposes to her, starting up the trouble of having to save up for a flat all over again.
• The Odd Couple II ends with Felix moving in with Oscar again.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Cap'n Jack Sparrow has only a small boat to his name after his crew stole his ship and set off by themselves to get the treasure he'd found a guide to. The end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End finds him in the same situation again. Only this time, he was smart enough to keep the critical center section of the treasure map with him. It goes a bit further; Gibbs is back in Tortuga, while Barbossa and his surviving crew are back in possession of the Black Pearl after leaving Jack behind again.
• At the end of Please Turn Over, once all the drama from Naked Revolt blows over, Jo reveals her plans for a new book:
  Jo: I might be able... Yes, I can see it now: "L for Lust, by Josephine Halliday, author of Naked Revolt".
  Gladys: Enough is enough!
  Dr. Manners: Have a heart!
• After going to jail for their Springtime for Hitler scam in The Producers, the movie ends with Leo and Max putting on a new stage production with their fellow inmates as performers and pulling the same scam with their fellow inmates and the warden.
• C-3PO says this word for word in Return of the Jedi as the heroes go off on their mission to destroy the second Death Star.
• Serenity (2005) ends with another part of the ship falling off.
• Shoot 'Em Up ends with Mr. Smith being reunited with DQ and baby Oliver at a diner. The place gets stormed by robbers so Smith pulls out his guns once more.
• The final scene of Sleepy Hollow High implies that the events of the Dream Within a Dream might be a''bout to kick off for real.
• Smokey and the Bandit: Throughout the film, Bandit had been racing to win an $80,000 bet to get a load of beer from Texas to Georgia in 28 hours. Having won the bet in the end, said clients then get a hankering for genuine Boston clam chowder... in 18 hours. "Double or nothing?" they offer. His answer? "You're on." And Bandit hits the road again.
• Avi's arc in Snatch. ends with the same sequence that began it when he flies back to London (after implicitly swearing never to go back) to retrieve the diamond.
• Tales from the Crypt: "Reflection of Death" ends with Carl waking up from the dream of the car crash and his resurrection after the accident. As he wakes, he sees the lorry about to run in to the car, and grabs the wheel from Susan, thereby causing the accident in his dream. May be a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
• Talk to Me: An And I Must Scream Scenario for Mia. She realizes she is dead when her spirit is summoned by another group who has come into possession of the embalmed hand.
• Three Fugitives began when Ned robbed a bank and took Lucas hostage. It ends with Ned being taken hostage in another robbery.
• Torture Garden: After Colin's death at the end of "Enoch", the cat enters the police station and starts using its mental influence on the local constable.
• True Lies ends with Harry undercover at a party again but this time with Helen along for the ride.
• The last scene of Twentieth Century has Oscar and Lily rehearsing the same play they were at the beginning, with Oscar giving the same talk, though this time his "I love you all" clearly means more to Lily. Lampshaded by Owen O'Malley.
  Owen O'Malley: Here we go again, Oliver. With Livingstone through darkest Africa.
• Twilight Zone: The Movie: "Kick the Can" ends with Mr. Bloom arriving at Driftwood Convalescent Home, where he will once again use his powers to make the residents young.
• After fighting in World War I throughout Up the Front, the film ends with Lurk hearing of the outbreak of World War II.
• Vampire in Brooklyn ends with Julius becoming a vampire.
• Wedding Crashers ends with the two couples deciding to crash weddings together.
• Wendy: Peter runs away with Wendy's daughter just as she did beside him years before.
• The Wicker Man (2006) ends with two girls from the island seducing some more boys for sacrifice.
• The Windmill Massacre ends with another busload of tourists setting off on a tour of the windmills; including someone boarding the bus without a ticket.

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