There is nothing quite as frustrating as watching a film with an ending that promises a sequel that never arrives. In a thread on r/AskReddit, one redditor asks, "Which movie ended with an unresolved cliffhanger because the sequel never happened, and you're STILL mad about it?"

These are the movie plots that redditors are still dying to see concluded:

1. District 9 (2009)

It has been over a decade since Neill Blomkamp’s alien sci-fi hit left audiences staring at a massive spaceship hovering over Johannesburg. Fans are still waiting to see if Christopher Johnson keeps his promise to return in three years.

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District 9 ending with a literal “brb” and then ghosting us forever.

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District 9 for sure. that ending was clearly setting up a sequel, and it’s wild that so much time has passed with nothing happening. still frustrating.

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It's good enough it doesn't need a sequel. But in the same light it ended on a cliffhanger and was good enough that people definitely wanted the sequel.

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I'm glad because it was such an awesome movie so don't ruin it with a crappy sequel.

On the other hand there's so few good sci-fi movies and that was such a brilliant execution of the concept.

I didn't just want a sequel I wanted a D9 universe

2. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Guillermo del Toro’s vision for the demonic superhero was meant to be a trilogy, but studio decisions cut the story short right as the stakes were highest. Both the audience and the cast feel the sting of this unfinished business.

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Sucks so bad. Del Toro and Pearlman both want to finish the story but the studio wants nothing to do with them.

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Hellboy, they owed it to Ron Perlman and us to finish that story and they didn't.

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I've fully boycotted the reboot, I'm sure there are people proud of the work they did on that movie, but after watching the first two movies, I'm surprised they didn't hand Guillermo Del Toro a blank cheque and told him to go make the last one. The first one was interesting, a lot of fun, and looked pretty good, the second one was compelling and gorgeous. Ron Perlmen killed it as Hellboy, I just don't understand why they didn't just keep working with that worked.

Also I don't like being reminded of how old I am. This movie shouldn't be more than 5 years old...

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FYI, it's reBOOTS. There have been two. They have tried and failed twice to give us a rebooted Hellboy and yet refuse to give us the third Guillermo del Toro film.

3. Masters of the Universe (1987)

For children of the '80s, the post-credits promise from a certain skull-faced villain remains one of the greatest broken vows in cinematic history. The campy classic set up a return that never materialized.

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Masters of the Universe 1987 when Skeletor popped up at the end and said he would be back. Well....I'm still waiting, Skeletor, you fool!!

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Frank Langella was so good in that role. Not a great film, quite bad really, but Lundgren and Langella really gave it their all. I'd have watched another one. Maybe they could have had a real Orko instead of that creepy technognome.

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It wasn't that they used the script. Canon Films had the rights to both MotU and Spider-Man, but they tanked, thanks to a bunch of box office bombs and questionable business practices, and had to cancel the deals they made with Mattel and Marvel. They already spent $2mil on costumes and sets for both movies. The intended director of both movies was supposed to be Albert Pyun, and they asked him to come up with something to make use of some of the assets and he wrote the outline of what would become the movie Cyborg over a weekend. They shot Cyborg for 23 days at a cost of $500,000.

4. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

This historical epic is often cited as a perfect film that surprisingly failed to launch a franchise. With a library of books to draw from, the fact that Captain Aubrey never sailed again is a baffling mystery to enthusiasts.

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Master and Commander. Did the French captain steal back the Acheron? I MUST KNOW.

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Master and Commander

The cliffhanger was a set up for Captain Aubrey to face the French Captain for a rematch.

The movies was very well done and for fans of the Aubrey/Maturin books and 19th century sailing adventures it was an awesome movie.

But movie goers didn’t like it. Fools.

EDIT: 19th century, not 17th

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It's an absolute crime that we got only one Master and Commander film yet seven Pirates of the Caribbean.

I would love a Master and Commander film set twenty years after the last, a final adventure for Jack Aubrey.

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Master and Command: The far side os the world.

Great movie. I mean you could end it like that: as like a discussion piece, a way or showing how hard, endless, frustration life at sea was. But I think they were trying to setup a francise.

5. Jumper (2008)

While critics were mixed on the film itself, the mechanics of the teleportation world fascinated viewers. The lore teased a much larger universe that audiences wanted to explore further, ideally with the more compelling side characters.

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So happy to see some love for Jumper. The movie is very mediocre, but I thought they nailed the teleporting powers. I would have really loved to see what they would do with a sequel. I also read the first Book and thought it was phenomenal. One of my favorite books!

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Jumper. The movie wasn’t great, but it had some of the coolest teleporting abilities I’ve seen to date and the lore was decently interesting.

I know there was a tv show but I haven’t seen it. If anyone happens across this comment who has…

Are the jumping effects as cool? Is it in the same world as the movie or a different adaptation of the books?

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according to Jamie Bell had they not canceled the sequels we would've seen more of him. There was going to be an entire movie about him based on the book in the Jumper series titled "Griffin's Story" 😞

6. The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016)

In the midst of the dystopian YA craze, the final book in the Divergent series was split into two movies — and then the second movie was canceled. Redditors analyze this as a unique case where a big-budget franchise simply vanished overnight, leaving viewers with a significant cliffhanger and no resolution.

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The Divergent series. Didn’t do well enough but they made the last book into a 2 parter and only released part 1! Very annoying.

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I randomly watched them on some streaming service many years after they were released. I liked dystopian sci-fi so these seemed like they'd be pretty good. I didn't know they hadn't made the fourth movie, so after the third one I was surprised I couldn't find the fourth because it was so obviously a cliffhanger. A Google search later and I was pretty miffed. Soured the whole series for me.

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That was a striking failure. 

Nowadays, it's one thing for Netflix to cancel a series or film; it's second nature to them. Low budget films have always failed to make it. And multiple studios have failed to mimic the MCU. 

But Divergent failed big and early. Back in the 2010s, the hype of YA dystopia films had carried most big budget franchises to their finish. This was the age of Hunger Games, Twilight, and above all, Harry Potter. Then Divergent came, boomed big in round 1, did well in round 2, but staggered badly in round 3. And all of a sudden what had been a big budget franchise just died. Seemingly overnight. 

It was not the last. Since then, it seems like most YA film series fail to make it. But Divergent helped make history as the first big fail. 

Whether it was a villain who promised to return or a hero who was just getting started, the sting of an unresolved ending never quite goes away for dedicated fans. These abandoned cinematic journeys serve as a reminder that even the most enticing and ambitious storytelling can be cut short by the realities of Hollywood; and while reboots and belated sequels are becoming more common, some of these stories may remain unfinished forever. Which cancellation hurts the most?

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