8 Movie Sequels That Ruined A Perfect Franchise Ending

8. X-Men: Apocalypse

After years of haphazardly limping along as a franchise, Fox's X-Men franchise seemed to finally get its sh*t together in 2014. Tying together the previously separate narrative threads of the original trilogy, X-Men: First Class, and even James Mangold's The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past acted as a culminating and ridiculously satisfying culmination for the series as a whole.

So, of course, they had to go and ruin it.

Part of what made Days of Future Past so satisfying to long-time franchise fans was the way it cleared the stage, essentially creating a whole new narrative universe full of potential stories with its various time-traveling antics. So to see the follow-up, X-Men: Apocalypse just devolve into rehashing the same stories all over again was more than a little disappointing.

From retelling the exact same Professor X/Magneto conflict the franchise had been telling for decades, to a painfully grating attempt at making another memorable Quicksilver scene, to detouring the entire plot for a trip back to Alkali Lake for a piss-poor Wolverine cameo, Apocalypse was an absolute trainwreck that undid all of the good Days of Future Past had done just two years earlier.