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* "The only thing that's changed[...] is that a few ineffectual people have died." Yep, that just about sums up Robert Redford's ''[[Jeremiah Johnson]]''...
* ''Sha Po Lang'' (''Killzone'' in the US) is a Hong Kong police movie that pretty much ends with {{spoiler|all of the cops dying. Including the [[Badass]] and [[The Captain]]}}. Fortunately, the [[Big Bad]] doesn't get away unscathed either. He kills the [[Badass]] cop by throwing him out the window of his skyscraper....and right on top of the car the [[Big Bad]]'s wife and baby were waiting in. ''Ouch.''
* Both the original German and English [[R EmakeRemake]] versions of ''[[Funny Games]]'' follows a [[Hope Spot]] with a [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] to ensure that the movie has a [[Downer Ending]]. The entire movie is a [[Take That]] at [[You Bastard|its own audience]], so it's somewhat to be expected that it would [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] as well.
* ''Epic Movie'' ends with the four lead characters being inexplicably flattened by a runaway water wheel, making the whole movie pointless. Even more so than it already was.
** Well, it's a [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] movie. What can you expect?
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