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His victory isn't so meaningless at first, until he starts to grow younger still, given the body of a year old, where the weight of his punches against Spider-Man start to feel weaker, eventually deteriorating into that of a pre-teen kid, and finally, an infant until Spider-Man himself even sheds a tear for him. Silvermane found the youth he sought The contract is no good. Brightest Darkness Act IV: Despite Tsukune and the gang's best efforts, Hokuto ultimately succeeds in his plan to resurrect Alu card , who proceeds to go on a rampage to destroy the world.

Of course, right after he succeeds in doing so, Hokuto is killed by Tsukune, and in the penultimate chapter of the act, Tsukune and co. Left Beyond has plenty, regardless of who you think the villains are. The Millennium Force score two with the capture of a prototype Spider Tank and the destruction of what they thought was the Omega mainframe The Omega deal a crushing blow to Satan God succeeds in fulfilling all the prophecies, and revels in the glory of judging humanity forever The immortality one is fairly common: In Megamind , the eponymous Villain Protagonist finally accomplishes what he's been working toward for years: He's literally spent his entire life trying to beat Metro Man at something, anything!

Well, Metro City is finally his for the taking. But that quickly loses its novelty. His life now direction-less , Megamind decides he needs to create a new super hero to fight against! Of course, this goes horribly right Cars ends with Chick Hicks winning the Piston Cup because Lightning McQueen forfeited his own chance, stopping just short of the finish line to go back and help the third racer whom Chick caused to crash. That plus Chick's gloating over his victory may have ensured that this win is his last. Po gets the message, Tai Lung doesn't, and gets his tail kicked by Po because of it.

In The Boxtrolls , Snatcher does get a white hat, and he does taste cheese in the tasting room in the end. That tasted-cheese causes his allergy along with the rest of his built-up allergic reaction to do him in.

Skinner manages to get Linguini's restaurant shut down Rich to open the Rich family vault, only to find that it's filled with priceless possessions of the Rich family that would be of no monetary value like baby pictures, a tricycle, and bowling trophies , and not a single cent of money.

When Van Dough angrily demands to know where the money is , Mr. Rich simply says that it's in banks, the stock market, and real estate, not sitting around in a zero-interest vault on their property. Van Dough does attempt to kill the Rich family there, but Richie and Cadbury foil that plan, too. In A Simple Plan , the brothers played by Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton kill a lot of people, including their third partner and his wife, to get the money they found in the crashed plane, ending with Thornton forcing Paxton to kill him, as it's the only way for the plan to work at that point.

Unfortunately, it turns out the money was the ransom in a kidnapping, and the serial numbers are on file at the FBI, making the money useless. A similar twist occurs in the underrated comedy Screwed. Miss Crock's assistant, Chip, steals the money intended as the ransom in the fake kidnapping of main character Willard, but is busted when one of his accomplices uses one of the bills to buy flowers, not aware of the serial number practice.

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The Indiana Jones movies almost always do this. Despite, and often because of, Indy's best efforts, the bad guys obtain their prize, only to be killed by it. Raiders of the Lost Ark has Belloq and the Nazis successfully obtain the Ark of the Covenant, but Belloq wants to perform a ritual with it to ensure its authenticity first. The ritual ends up eradicating Belloq and the entire Nazi unit. Indy and Elsa manage to acquire the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , but the knight guarding the Grail informs them that it can't be removed from the temple. Elsa tries anyway and dies for her efforts.

Irina achieves her goal in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull of attaining knowledge from the aliens. However, the information she receives is too much and she disintegrates while begging them to stop. The lone exception is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ; the artifacts there only kill Mola Ram because Indy invokes Shiva and causes them to superheat. He finally has it in his grasp and has a locksmith open it to find that it's in Braille. And he can't read Braille. This turns into a Humiliation Conga when it's revealed that his town has totally slipped out of his control because he sacrificed almost all of his men to get it, the blind woman he's been abusing for the whole film tells him to shove it when he tries to get her to read the book to him, and finally, a relatively minor wound he suffered earlier in the film is now badly infected, and he's likely to die from it if the uprising doesn't kill him first.

Meanwhile, Eli memorized the book after reading from it every night for 30 years, so the good guys can start printing their own copies as they please. Don't piss off God. The Maltese Falcon from the film and the book of the same name.

Supposedly a gold statue disguised as lead, turns out to actually be lead. The people obsessed with it to the point of being willing to kill for it decide that it must be a copy and the original must still be out there somewhere. In The Doberman Gang , a group of criminals train a pack of dobermans to commit an ingenious bank robbery.

But by the end, only one of the criminals is left. The person who trained the dogs is gone, and since he was the only one the dogs trusted, the criminals are unable to recover the money. The dogs escape, carrying all the loot with them. From the Marvel Cinematic Universe: In The Avengers , Tony Stark points out the futility of Loki's plan, because even if he wins , he's never going to be able to rule over anyone.

Humanity would rather just keep fighting until the bitter end. And the Avengers, regardless of whatever else happens, will be gunning for him ; Tony: Maybe your army comes, and maybe it's too much for us, but that's all on you. In Thomas by Robin Jarvis , the protagonists meet a magician and find themselves caught up in a quest to defeat an evil cult hoping to resurrect their demon master by recapturing the pieces of a magical egg from which he will hatch.

The heroes end up prisoners, helpless witnesses to the dark ritual The magician gloats to the confused baddies that they've fallen into the goodies' trap — the Big Good knew this would happen one day, so he and his followers spent years enchanting the egg with goodness so that it would destroy the demon instead of reviving him if the heroes failed to stop the cult.

Unfortunately, it turns out that demonic abominations are good at improvising Star Wars Legends novel Millennium Falcon does it twice in a row. The Heroes and their competitors are looking for a location of something "of immeasurable value". The Heroes get to it first and find an old relic made of common materials. The competitor then arrives and explains that the item had collector's value to him all along. But then he discovers that the item is actually a replica and the original relic is still out there somewhere — a Shout-Out to the Maltese Falcon, on which the plot was based.

The Bad Beginning , first in A Series of Unfortunate Events , ends with Violet successfully arguing that a marriage contract to her evil uncle wasn't signed "in her own hand" because she used her non-dominant hand and thus it wasn't her true signature. Occurs at the very end of The Dresden Files: Ghost Story , when Harry ultimately realizes that, although he is the Winter Knight, Mab still doesn't have any actual power over him, allowing him to retain his free will and enabling him to determine how or even if he follows Mab's orders.

This is different from the original Winter Knight , who was punished for allying with Summer, his supposed mortal enemies. As long as he doesn't commit treason, Harry is completely unbound. When Mab is told that he knows of this, she goes from creepy maternal to outright scary slave-owner in seconds, and Harry laughs in her face. The original plot is subverted in the Star Trek novel 'Dark Mirror'. Picard reads a mirror universe version of The Merchant of Venice.

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In the Mirror Universe Shylock gets his pound of flesh because no one would really think you can really get a pound of flesh without shedding blood. They weigh it, it is too much, and they laughingly say he can take some of it back.

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Theon and his Ironborn raiders capture Winterfell but they are too far away from reinforcement and resupply. He is Made a Slave by Ramsay Snow. Everything starts going to hell for the Lannisters right after their apparent victory over House Stark in the War of Five Kings, rendering it pointless.

Tyrion snaps after being falsely accused and convicted of his murder, turns against his family and kills Tywin. Cersei runs the Seven Kingdoms into the ground with her incompetent leadership and is overthrown by the resurrected Faith Militant. Meanwhile, House Stark isn't quite as dead as everyone believes, with some of the surviving Stark children poised to take a level in badass. Ser Gregor kills Oberyn Martell but Oberyn had poisoned his weapon and Clegane dies a long and painful death. The Freys and the Boltons massacred the Starks and their bannermen in the Red Wedding which earned them new titles from the Iron Throne.

However, this made them become easy targets by the Brotherhood Without Banner and everyone in the Riverlands and the North who like to remind them that "The North Remembers". Word of God says Aegon II was a villainous usurper who is recognized in the history books as the rightful king, but he lost his family, their dragons and his life after reigning for only two years. In the Left Behind book Kingdom Come , Abdullah Smith points out to Sarsour the futility of Satan's and The Other Light's plan to overthrow God by telling him that even if Satan has a chance of winning, he wouldn't be able to resurrect all the people who died as martyrs for The Other Light because God hasn't given Satan the power to do so.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , Voldemort spends a large portion of the book looking for the Elder Wand, and eventually takes it in Dumbledore's tomb. The Elder Wand transfers its allegiance to the one who defeated its last master. Voldemort assumed that this meant 'to kill' and so he killed Snape, who had killed Dumbledore.

However, Snape wasn't really the one who had defeated Dumbledore, as it had been planned out beforehand. Draco Malfoy, who had broken through Dumbledore's defenses and disarmed him, was the real master of the wand, although he didn't know it. Then Harry defeats and disarms Malfoy, meaning that the Elder Wand is his. Then when push comes to shove, the Elder Wand refuses to act against its master, and Voldemort's own killing curse backfires on him.

In Starlight and Shadows , various factions of evil drow attempt to steal a powerful magical artifact called the Windwalker from Liriel. Liriel's main nemesis, Shakti, eventually succeeds in claiming it; but by that point its magic has been exhausted and it is worthless.

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He heard words spoken that were meaningless to him, and other words that he had seen only in books and that no man or woman he had known was of large enough mental caliber to pronounce. For this decline political confusion is the chief cause; first, in the renewal of the Hundred Years' War, with its sordid effort to deprive another nation of its liberty, and then in the brutal and meaningless War of the Roses, a mere cut-throat civil butchery of rival factions with no real principle at stake.

I answered his greeting with a meaningless mumble and went on over the bridge. The answer is meaningless unless you discover it for yourself. The boats, and trains, and cows and horses were quite meaningless to him, but not quite so baffling as the odd little figures which appeared beneath and between the colored pictures--some strange kind of bug he thought they might be, for many of them had legs though nowhere could he find one with eyes and a mouth.

They listened to the French sentences which to them were meaningless , with an air of understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The scowl which occasionally showed itself on his square brow was not a meaningless accident.