10 So-Called Happy Endings That Absolutely Aren't
2. Kick-Ass 2
Kick-Ass 2 isn't as bad as you remember, but the ending was a shocker.
So, at the end of Kick-Ass 2, Kick-Ass/Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Hit Girl/Mindy (Chloe Grace Moretz) have defeated lead antagonist the Motherf**ker (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), Dave's team Justice Forever are taking a break but doing heroics in their everyday life, Mindy leaves New York in order to protect her guardian, and Dave continues to be Kick-Ass, training with more advanced equipment.
This was presented as a happy ending. It was anything but.
Both Dave and Mindy totally failed to move forward in everyday life without their superhero personas, especially Mindy, and both are still stuck in dangerous lives without having grown as people. Furthermore, the two nicest characters in the series are done so dirty.
Mindy's guardian (Morris Chestnut) not only has to deal with his adoptive daughter abandoning him to live a dangerous life alone, but he might be sent to prison because she used his gun to kill people. Worse still, Dave's dad (Garrett M. Brown) is murdered, and not only does Dave refuse to give up being Kick-Ass as he'd promised his father, but he ends the film still being friends with the guy (Augustus Prew) who sold his father out to the Motherf**er and co.
Over ten years later, Kick-Ass 3 hasn't materialized, and while that's disappointing - the first movie is a masterpiece, after all - it's not exactly surprising. How on earth do you follow up an ending this godawful?