End of the movie stingers can be a double edged sword. They can be the promise of huge, great things to come. But often times if and when we never get a sequel or promised follow up, we’re always left hanging and begging studios for some kind of resolution or extension of a story. Nine times out of ten, the studios don’t oblige movie fans. These days studios are getting bolder, offering end of movie, mid-credit, and or post credit scenes, many of which promise new developments for sequels or spin offs. Sometimes they’re great and sometimes… they amount to nothing.
Here are five more movies that promised us sequels, but never delivered.
Super Mario Bros: The Movie (1993)
“Luigi! Mario! You guys gotta come with me! I need your help! You’re not gonna believe this.” One of the all time classic stingers to a movie where we were promised a follow up but never got it was the live action “Super Mario Bros” movie. Princess Daisy returns and is in the midst of or on the verge of combat, and hints at something big about to develop. Did Koopa return? Did the Koopa Kids emerge to avenge their uncle? Did she discover an alternate universe where Wario resides? That’s up for us to decide. The movie flopped so the studio never went ahead with a sequel. The movie isn’t even technically considered canon.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
With the Andrew Garfield Sony “Spider-Man” movies, the producers of the series were obviously working not only toward giving Spider-Man an extended universe, but also building up toward the assembly of villains known collectively as “The Sinister Six.” With Electro and Green Goblin featured prominently in the sequel, we were also given glimpses at the new iteration of the Rhino in the final scene of “Amazing Spider-Man 2.” The team was promised for “Amazing Spider-Man 3.” Which Sony dumped all plans for, thus we never got the pay off. Sony continued on with their Spider-Man extended universe sans Spider-Man, while the character was rebooted yet again.
The Final Girls (2015)
“The Final Girls” is probably the only slasher movie to ever reduce me to a blubbering mess. It’s a meta-horror comedy based around a heartbreaking tale of a mother and daughter separated by a horrible unfortunate death. In the end when the heroine Max manages to escape the horror movie “Camp Bloodbath” by defeating Billy Murphy, she awakens in the hospital with her friends are alive and well, also having also escaped. But quickly she realizes she’s still stuck in the fictional world, and she and her friends now have to fight through “Camp Bloodbath 2” and face off against the slasher Billy Murphy once again. It’s a great finisher that I wish produced a fun follow up.
Jem and the Holograms (2015)
The movie adaptation of “Jem and the Holograms” was awful. Truly, truly, truly awful. Along with omitting almost everything that made the original eighties cartoon so good, “Jem and the Holograms” didn’t include the rival band known as “The Misfits.” At the very end of movie, we’re given a glimpse at “The Misfits” in the flesh, prepared to “get” Jem and the Holograms once and for all. Playing them was pop star Kesha as leader, Pizazz, with Eliza Gonzalez as Jetta, Hana Mae Lee as Roxy, and Katie Findlay as Stormer. The sequel never came since, well, the movie was a critical and financial bomb. It was cool seeing them in the flesh for a fleeting moment.
The Predator (2018)
I, for one, quite enjoyed “The Predator.” It packed in some good action, decent laughs, and did a good job at extending the universe of the Predator race. We even got the more advanced, larger predators, as well as the Predator hounds. After all the chaos and action drew to a close, we were given a glimpse at “The Predator Killer,” a mechanized suit of armor that was ready and able to take on any of the skilled predators in combat. Despite the cool tease, the movie was met with a lot of indifference, and we sadly never got a direct follow up. Even worse, we’ll likely never see “The Predator Killer” in action ever again as the studio has roundly ignored the events of Shane Black’s sequel.