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I would label it a DownerEnding because there was no question that Magneto would be beaten because its not a What If? story. Its not really bittersweet because the situation as a whole did not end up things looking better. In fact things got worse in general. Magneto already lost his kids, and was looking to punish not win so he was not expecting any sort of victory Pyrric or otherwise. A truckload of dead mutants and heroes, including Scott the last real leader the pro human-mutant peace cause had. Would put this in the downer section easily.
Compare it with Infinity War. That is a downer ending. Loads of heroes are killed, the villain achieves his goal and runs away scot-free, and there's no good ending anywhere (just some hope spots). Not the case here, as both the villain and the "man behind the man" (Doom) are executed for their crimes, and there's some catharsis for that.
Ultimate Secret Wars
A majority of heroes dead. The mutant peace movement dead and never recovered. Millions of New Yorkers dead. More downer then anything and nothing real sweet about the ending. No hope or upswing.
Ultimatum had a Downer Ending listed, because several heroes died in it, almost half of the regular cast of the Ultimate Marvel line. I changed it to Bittersweet Ending, because yes, half the cast died, but earth's axis was restored to its proper setting and Magneto (the villain of the story and the Big Bad of the Ultimate universe) was killed. Then, it was changed back to downer ending. I don't want to start an edit war, so which one is it? Or is it a Pyrrhic Victory, or some other alternative type of ending?
Edited by GrigorII