10 Sci-Fi Movie Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About Them

10. The End Of The Comanche -- Prey (2022)

Brought to the screen by writer Patrick Aison and writer-director Dan Trachtenberg, recent Predator flick Prey is set in 1719, and follows the trials of Naru (Amber Midthunder), a young female member of the Native American Comanche tribe struggling to be recognised as a hunter. Her opposite, and the star of the show, is the colloquially named Feral Predator, a subspecies of Yautja who wields primitive weaponry, with a penchant for savagery over stealth.

While the bad guy is a welcome addition to the canon -- especially given the slightly silly giant monster hounds of 2018's The Predator -- the forest hunting setup slips into a familiar groove, and by the end of the film the alien is defeated and what remains of the tribe are free to live on.

The film's reliance on the tried and tested formula, however, doesn't always land the same and here leaves the Comanches in a distinctly different position from many of the modern heroes who have faced the Yautja in the other films. Though it ends on an upbeat note, with Naru taking her place as the new War Chief, these events have huge ramifications for the survival of the Comanche. Half the tribe is dead, including most of the young, breeding men, and Naru is taking them out of their territory and into pastures new, where there are European invaders armed with rifles, muskets and heavy artillery...