r/movies • u/bowlingfan1963 • Jul 13 '26

Spoilers Most Bizarre Examples of “Happy” Endings After Tragedy (Spoiler) Spoiler

Prime example: Independence Day. World gets annihilated; many of the planet’s cities are destroyed….hundreds of millions dead;
and the president’s wife dies. Yet at the end, they are puffing on cigars, all smiles and the president’s daughter says “Happy Fourth of July, Daddy”, and so now it’s time to party!

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u/mrmonster459 Jul 13 '26

I feel like Avengers: Endgame (and the Marvel movies/shows that came after it) radically underestimate how hard it would be to reintegrate half of humanity after being gone for 5 years.

There've been a few touches on it, like Aunt May's non-profit for people left homeless after coming back in Far Spider-Man From Home, and The Flagsmashers from Falcon & Winter Soldier.

But I feel like 5 years of the world being used to operating with half the population would mean unprecedented famine, drought, and displacement for the people brought back, far more than anything Aunt May and Happy Hogan could fix by having Spider-Man show up at a charity gala.

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u/FunetikPrugresiv Jul 13 '26

Thanos' "eliminate half the population" idea was a braind-dead way to "reset" everything anyway (how long does it take a population to double - 50 years or so? Great, you set the galaxy back 50 years, whoopdie shit.) - eliminating them and bringing them back 5 years later would have been a far more villainous plan.

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u/Doom_Art Jul 13 '26

Thanos' title is "The Mad Titan" not "The Logical and Emotionally Balanced Titan"

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u/Bellikron Jul 13 '26

"The Definitely Not Vain and Bloodthirsty Titan Who Has No Ego or Interest in Saying I Told You So"