History TheBadGuyWins / LiveActionFilms

* The Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie ''Cow Belles'', despite ending with Taylor and Courtney adverting the collapse of their father's dairy company, it doesn't change the fact that [[EvilFormerFriend Bob Fenwick]], Reed's friend who was like an uncle to Taylor and Courtney, still succeeded in robbing the company blind behind everyone's back, forcing the Callum family to start (mostly) from scratch while Bob remains a total KarmaHoudini.

* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'': At the end we know three of the main characters have been replaced by pod people (one of whom was killed by the other two before they were replaced). The ending reveals that the other one did, in fact, survive, but not for much longer because she blows her cover.[[note]]Although you wonder whether she effectively lost anyway since she's been able to survive for so long without showing any emotion[[/note]]]]

* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'': At the end we know three of the main characters have been replaced by pod people (one of whom was killed by the other two before they were replaced). The ending reveals that the other one did, in fact, survive, but not for much longer because she blows her cover.[[noteAlthough you wonder whether she effectively lost anyway since she's been able to survive for so long without showing any emotion[[/note]]]]

* ''Film/{{Terminator 3}}'': Skynet wins. Judgement Day happens. The only minor victory for the good guys is that [[RayOfHopeEnding John Connor manages to live]].

* ''Film/TheParallaxView'' deals with a reporter investigating a past assassination, who [[ConspiracyTheory believes it was actually connected]] to the shady [[EvilCorp Parallax Corporation]] ([[ConspiracyTheory not the patsy officially blamed for it at the time]] ), who ends up being [[FrameUp framed]] and killed by said corporation before he is able to expose them.

* ''Film/{{Husk}}'': Scott, the last survivor of the friends [[LostInTheMaize trapped in the cornfield]], is fleeing from theScaryScarecrow; trying to find his way back to the road. Badly wounded and having lost a lot of blood, he collapse at the edge of the field, in sight of the wrecked car. A pair of good Samaritans who have stopped to investigate spot him and come to help. Scott then sees the scary hiding in the corn. It raises a finger to its lips and lies in wait. Scott, his throat slashed, is unable to shout a warning to his rescuers as the advance towards the ambush...

* ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'': Lou not only manages to avoid jail time for withholding vital information from the police, but his Video News business seems to be [[JustForPun in bloom]], using Joe Loder's plan of using multiple vans to film different sections of LA at the same time.

* ''Film/{{Valentine}}'': Jeremy Melton/Adam Carr successfully murders four young women who framed him for AttemptedRape in middle school, pinning his crimes on the one [[LaserGuidedKarma who made the initial accusation. Then again his revenge can be seen as justified considering what happened to him was both extreme (framed for assault, beaten in front of a crowd that laughed at him, then shipped off to a reform school and later a mental institution) and out of his control]].

** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': Thanks to ''a lot'' of miscommunication between the Resistance, nearly half their forces are decimated by the First Order and only a handful escape on the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren, having killed Snoke, is now the leader of the First Order as well and Luke Skywalker dies using his power to project himself so that the remaining Rebels could escape. The only good that comes out of it is that the Resistance, while crippled, is still alive to keep fighting another day and force users are beginning to awaken to their powers, indicating a new age of Jedi is incoming.

** The prequel trilogy is one of these for Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine. Anakin, [[PyrrhicVictory not so much]]. (Not that the fans [[ForegoneConclusion didn't see it coming anyway.)]] However, by the end of the original trilogy, the good guys win, so this is one of the DoomedByCanon examples explained above.
*** In fact, every installment of the prequel trilogy ends with Palpatine winning. The ending of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' is cheery on the surface, but ultimately, he did succeed at getting himself elected Supreme Chancellor. ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' ends with the Jedi having failed to [[PreventTheWar prevent the Clone Wars]], although they get the consolation prize of winning the first battle. And in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Palpatine ''really'' wins, by destroying both the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order and crowning himself Emperor.
** Ditto for ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. The good guys are successfully trapped and barely escape with their lives; Darth Vader wins the lightsaber duel with Luke, mangling, psychologically wrecking, and almost killing him in the process; and Han Solo is captured, frozen in carbonite and taken by Boba Fett to Jabba the Hutt.

** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': Thanks to ''a lot'' of miscommunication between the Rebels, nearly half their forces are decimated by the First Order and only a handful escape on the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren, having killed Snoke, is now the leader of the First Order as well and Luke Skywalker dies using his power to project himself so that the remaining Rebels could escape. The only good that comes out of it is that the Rebellion, while crippled, is still alive to keep fighting another day and force users are beginning to awaken to their powers, indicating a new age of Jedi is incoming.

* '''Film/HobokenHollow'': Although the epilogue tells how the various underlings were rounded up, Mrs. Broderick and Weldon escaped justice and are shown restarting the slave operation in the closing scene.