- Straight: Alice, Bob, and Catherine all die by the end of the movie.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice, Bob, and Catherine are all murdered in extremely drawn out, painful ways.
- Every single character that has been shown or mentioned in the movie is dead in the end.
- Class X-4 Apocalypse: the entire universe dies. As all lives in the universe are snuffed out one by one, the viewer is shown each lives' thoughts and (doomed to be unfulfilled) aspirations.
- Class Z Apocalypse (Metaphysical Annihilation): Not only the entire Omniverse ceases to exist, it's a Metaphysical Annihilation that erases them from time itself; In short, not only is all life destroyed, it never existed to begin with.
- Downplayed:
- Every main character in the film is brutally injured in the ending.
- Anyone Can Die; one of the protagonists is murdered in the ending.
- Final Girl
- Justified:
- Alice, Bob, and Catherine are all killed in a Suicide Mission, no one had any expectation of them coming back alive anyways.
- Alternatively, Alice, Bob, and Catherine all have dangerous jobs and the story takes place over a long span of time, thus making their fates inevitable.
- Inverted:
- Alice, Bob and Catherine are all sent on the above mission, but no one is killed.
- Alice, Bob and Catherine die early in the beginning, and the story is about them finding a way back to life.
- Everybody dies except for Alice, Bob and Catherine.
- Subverted: Alice, Bob, and Catherine are killed, but they are Only Mostly Dead
- Double Subverted: But they are Killed Off for Real later on.
- Parodied:
- Alice, Bob, and Catherine survive the suicide mission, manage to live through fifteen consecutive nuclear strikes, dodge the bullet from the crazed assassin, and make it back to headquarters to report on what happened, only to be killed by General Kilemall.
- The entire cast dies by falling rocks.
- Zig Zagged: "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE... just kidding. OMG THERE'S A BOMB... it's turned off. A METEOR IS HEADING FOR EARTH... it missed."
- Averted: None of them or only one of them die.
- Enforced: "We're getting to the end of the story, kill them all!"
- Lampshaded: "OH GOD, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! AAAAAAAAA-" *boom*
- Invoked: A character is an Omnicidal Maniac and said character gets his way.
- Exploited: They then decide to repopulate the world with their own master race.
- Defied: "Oh please why would I kill you all, I'd have no one to talk to."
- Discussed: "Is this the part of the movie where we all start to die?"
- Conversed: "So it's like when they kill characters off one by one before the end of a movie?"
- Deconstructed: The character thinks through his reasons for killing everyone and decides not to.
- Reconstructed: The character thinks through his reasons for killing everyone and decides, AWWW YEAH!
- Played For Laughs: Everyone just suddenly and unexpectedly dies, even when there was no setup and no reason for them to.
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