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** In the sequel, featuring the two main characters, everyone dies in an [[Ass Pull]] of epic proportions.
* The ''[[Final Destination]]'' series. The survivor of the first movie gets killed in the second and the survivors of the second one all survive the BBQ finale, with a [[Red Shirt]] biting the dust instead, but are said to be dead at the beginning of the third one. The third movie decides to not waste time and kills everyone in a not very ambiguous ending. The next movies turn it into outright [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] stories: the protagonists never had any influence on their respective demises, and all their actions were for naught. Death is a sadistic cosmic entity who plans out everything just the way he intended.
* ''[[Valkyrie (film)|Valkyrie]]'' ends with the deaths of virtually all of the major conspirators who organized the botched July 20 assassination attempt on Hitler. [[Based on a True Story|It's not like the screenwriter had a choice]].
* Very common in European war movies, especially [[WWII]] movies from Germany:
** In ''[[Das Boot]]'', just as the eponymous submarine returns home and the crew is greeted by the cheering people the air raid siren sounds and Allied aircraft attack the harbour, sinking the sub and killing everyone.
*** Actually, Werner and the Chief both manage to survive the air raid, and there was that one guy who got rushed to the hospital just before it happened.
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*** Did we mention that as the two stop moving and are slowly covered by the falling snow, the credits roll? [[Downer Ending|Yes, it's that kind of war movie.]]
**** If one pays attention to how the movie focuses on smaller and smaller groups of soldiers (from full regiments to single characters) it can be said that this trope is exactly what this movie is about.
* Russian war movies about
** A Russian [[War Movie]] ''The Crossing'' (not to mix with the USA film) depicts a Soviet atti-tank platoon, which is retreating towatrs the eponymous crossing, where the Soviet troops are regrouping. They travel obne whole day towards the crossing, then on the dawn of the next day they are attacked by a German armored troop, and are wiped out, without managing to inflict any (serious) damage to the enemy. A [[Shhot The Shaggy Dog|tragic and pointless]] end.
** Similarly, the [[Based on a True Story]] film ''The Brest Fortress''. The whole garrison is ultimately killed, with exception of a few captured soldiers. However, the causualties they inflicted on the enemy were horrendous.
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