Role added by connieblackwood on May 9, 2024
The Bad Guy Wins is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: complete and ultimate triumph for the villain, and complete and utter devastation (frequently with death or worse) for the hero or heroes who dared to oppose them. A bad guy who wins is a Karma Houdini by definition, and such endings can frequently be depressing as hell itself — even more so than your regular Downer Ending. When this trope is parodied, it is the happy ending stuck on for the villain instead which is despairingly from the hero's perspective.
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The Bad Guy Wins
Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes (Platoon)
Jobe Smith
Edward Carver
AM (ihnmaims)
Brett (Eden Lake)
The Ferryman (Little Nightmares)
Rhoda Penmark
Mr. Onigawara / Ogre
Longlegs
Shepard Lambrick
Yuri (Girl from Nowhere)
Green Goblin (TASM2)
Xerxes (300)
Nurse Ratched
The Joker (The Dark Knight)
Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Merricat Blackwood
Damien Thorn
John Doe (Se7en)
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