20 Installments That Ruined the Entire Franchise

These days, everything has to be a franchise. You can’t just have a stand-alone movie or a perfectly respectable four-season network run. There are advantages to that, though, one of which is that any single episode or film in a series is unlikely to tank the whole project. We’re calling it the Morbius hypothesis.

But “unlikely” isn’t “definitely.” Whether it’s a character’s death, the lack of a character’s death or just some seriously stupid shenanigans, one event occasionally really is enough to torpedo a series’ entire future. That’s why user mcflymartina asked r/AskReddit, “What movie killed a franchise? What episode killed a show? And most importantly, was it well-deserved?”