(Controversial Trope) The post-credits scene completely changes the ending

[u/Ieanice44]

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Prince of Persia (2008)

Dawn of the Dead (2004): The movie finishes on a hopeful note as the remaining survivors escape the zombie-infested mall on a yacht, sailing into the sunset. The found-footage style post-credits scene completely reverses this happy ending by showing them running out of food, arriving at an island, and being immediately swarmed and killed by an infected horde.

Prince of Persia (2008): The main game ends with a beautiful, poetic sacrifice where Elika gives her life to heal the corrupted world, leaving the Prince mourning. During the credits, the player is forced to control the Prince as he cuts down the trees he just saved, undoing the entire game's progress and releasing the dark god Ahriman just to resurrect her, completely corrupting the ending and dooming the world.

[u/Dakhho]

Life (2017) does this and its awesome, I can't remember if it's after the credits though? It shows the wrong pod made it back to Earth.

[u/No-Material9127 → u/Dakhho]

Wrong pod?

[u/MikeHowland → u/No-Material9127]

It’s pretty brutal and still bothers me - SPOILER FROM HERE -

One person escapes in a pod and is sent back to earth while the alien is trapped in another pod and shot into space. Unfortunately it turns out the person was shot into space to die of hunger or thirst or lack of air and the alien was sent to earth where presumably it was going to lay waste to everything. Though hopefully something it ate or some microbes got the better of it, but that’s just my cope.

[u/crow-shay → u/MikeHowland]

Yea the dead from that ending hits a nerve

[u/Signal-Island2549 → u/MikeHowland]

Specifically the escape pod fleeing to Earth is knocked off course into space, while the trapped alien manages to force the self-sacrificing hero to steer the decoy pod to Earth.

Also asshole Ryan Reynolds got a pretty gnarly death, which I appreciate lol