10 Tragic Movie Endings That Probably Had Awesome Silver Linings

2. The Fly

The Tragic Ending: Man is not just harmed as a result of his own hubris in David Cronenberg€™s remake of The Fly, but transformed into an outrageous man/fly hybrid that not even his girlfriend (Geena Davis) can love. That man would be Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), a scientist and twitchy Jeff Goldblum-type, who desperately wants to prove his worth by getting the teleportation system in his apartment to work. After an aborted attempt that results in an inside-out monkey test subject, Brundle makes himself the guinea pig and manages to transport himself from one teleportation pod to another. But there€™s a catch: Brundle inadvertently mixes his own DNA with that of a fly during the teleportation process, slowly turning him into Brundlefly, a bug-eyed human/insect thing that has the ability to dissolve the hands of his girlfriend€™s potential love interests in case he gets jealous. Then he accidentally melds himself with one of the teleportation devices and his girlfriend shoots him dead with a shotgun. The Silver Lining: Sure, Brundlefly is dead, and it€™s his former lover who had to do the killing. But think of all this is going to do for science - an examination of Brundlefly-Telepod alone is going to advance the field of medical science by decades.