10 Movie Endings That Basically Doomed Their Franchise

6. Clones. Clones Everywhere. - Resident Evil: Extinction

The Ending

After revealing the existence of clones of Alice (Milla Jovovich) at the start of the movie, the ending hilariously teases that Alice is planning to take the fight to Albert Wesker (Jason O'Mara) with a massive army of her clones. Yup.

Why It Doomed The Franchise

Now, to be totally fair to the Resident Evil franchise, these films have always been spectacularly stupid, so throwing clones into the mix isn't an inherently terrible idea, but the way in which Paul W.S. Anderson integrates them into the series certainly is.

First and foremost, the next movie, Afterlife, kills off all the clones in its opening action sequence, destroying all the trashy promise of sitting through two hours of dozens of Milla Jovovichs fighting zombies.

Nevertheless, the whole clone plot lingers around awkwardly for the rest of the series, leading to the head-smackingly awful revelation in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter that the "real" Alice was in fact just another clone herself.

It's an ass-pull of monumentally contrived proportions that reduces Alice's agency as a character and retroactively makes the entire series worse.

And it's all the fault of Extinction's ending, which ensured those damn pesky clones would serve as an underwhelming and invasive staple of the franchise forever more.