His psyche is a wee tad shredded from the fun times in Room 101, so I doubt one can say he really ‘made it’. But he is breathing.
Bruce willis did it again in Armageddon.
Does Tom Robinson’s dying in *To Kill A Mockingbird * count?
After all, though technically a minor character, he was a good guy in the sense that (a) he was good to Ms. Mayeller, and (b) he was innocent but punished and died for a crime he clearly did not commit.
One could make the argument that he merely passed out from blood loss. He was able to row for some time after being injured, so his rate of blood loss couldn’t have been all that high, and unless he suddenly started bleeding much faster you’d expect him to pass out some time before actually dying. If the ship approaching had trained medical staff and/or first aid equipment (not implausible considering they were expecting to pick up a very pregnant lady) he could plausibly have been saved.
Das Boot.
I think Fallen has been mentioned, but I would think it is almost genre defining in the Bad Guy wins movie. Fallen is not just the good guy copping it before the end, it is a flat out, the bad guy not only survives but wins the day in every sense of the word.
It’s also handy, because I can creep my fiancee out every time just by singing, Tiiiiiimmmmme is on my side…yes it is 
I’d like to add a question in to the thread. I remember seeing many years ago another example of the bad guys win movie. I can’t for the life of me remember the title - If anyone can help - a brief plot synopsis follows -
A woman “escapes” from a witchcraft cult and is helped by a cop, she claims to need protection, otherwise this cult is going to sacrifice her. There are a few attempts on her life etc, one of which I remember is the cop and the woman in a house while the cult zoom around outside on motorbikes, lights flaring, rocks and stuff get thrown the windows. I think at the end of the movie the cult has got the girl back is on a beach holding a big ceremony ready to sacrifice her when the cop tracks them down, but is captured himself, and offers himself in her place to be sacrificed if they’ll let her go. After they’ve cut his heart out it is revealed the woman was a member of the cult all along, and was setting the cop up, because the cult needed someone “innocent” to volunteer themselves to be sacrificed or something to that effect. Anyone know it?
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Two out of the three main characters are killed in a totally pointless car accident at the end of the movie.
That happens at the end of the movie? If I remember right You find out about the accident about 1/4 of the way into the book. But time is a bit fluid in the book. Still, that would change the whole tone of the story. I really need to see that movie, I LOVED the book.
Hombre. Well, maybe a tie with Grimes, but the Mexican bandit outlived him for a few more seconds. “I would like at least to know his name.”
Wesley in “The Princess Bride”.
Although he was only “mostly” dead.
Vince Rommel doesn’t quite make it to the closing credits in Side Hackers, although it could be argued that the bad guy who shot him got his just desserts first.
Right. Also I would say this takes out any movie that features characters who are *anyway * living out the end of their lives.
Sounds like a rip-off of The Wicker Man.
Cool Hand Luke springs to mind. Yeah, Paul Newman’s character is a petty thief locked up on a chain gang and all, but the movie makes it pretty clear who’s considered the good and bad guys.
Oh yeah, and Kevin Spacey’s character in LA Confidential, although he’s arguably not a good guy until shortly before he buys it.
I know EXACTLY what movie you’re talking about but I too am unable to recall the title…it’s not Wicker Man, this one has a woman who is pretending to be escaping the cult and she seeks his protection and there is a confrontation where a guy tells her “no one ever leaves us” and when the cop intervenes he tells him something like “you don’t know what you’re getting into, friend.” I distinctly remember the scene where the cult surrounds the house and it looks like demonic forces are going to win the day, and how ultimately everyone in the movie except the cop are members of the cult and end up killing the guy. Kinda like a mix between Wicker Man and Rosemary’s Baby.
In Silent Hill (which is beautifully creepy and wrong-feeling until the ridiculous expositionary marathon that ruins the end of the movie), one of the two heroines dies horribly – the cop played by lovely Radha Mitchell. We’re left unsure of the fates of the heroic mother and her young daughter after they return home. Are they dead too, or is everyone else, or has something else happened entirely?
Nit pick: The policewoman was played by Laurie Holden. Radha was the main protagonist.
Oops, my mistake. I didn’t remember the other actress’ name, and I guess I just haven’t heard of Laurie Holden before.
Donnie Darko - He is the good guy, and he decides to die at the end, so it’s kind of the same thing…
The Seventh Sign - The main woman witnesses the seven signs of the apocalypse and her baby will be born without a soul, so she gives up her life to save everyone. Thus, she is good and dead.
All Dogs Go To Heaven - The mischievous dog comes back to Earth after death and learns to be good, then dies again to save the orphan girl. Poor pup!
Mrs. Small is still thinking so I might post more later. She knows every movie that I can’t remember…
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