History Film / MazeRunnerTheDeathCure

** Assistant Director Janson is hit with this as well. While in the books, he was a ruthless and undeniably evil MadScientist, he was still a WellIntentionedExtremist who's overall goals aligned with WCKD's. In the film? [[spoiler:Janson outright betrays and murders Ava Paige and tries to hijack the cure in Thomas' blood to play pick-and-choose with who lives and who dies to create a future of his own design.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Thomas and the Right Arm have settled in a new safe haven that Ava pointed out for them, Ava Paige and Janson are dead, Lawrence's group have destroyed the Last City with explosives and Gally is alive, well, and [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]]. However, many of Thomas's friends died for him to defeat WCKD, and there are still others in the world who are unsafe from the Flare and Cranks]].

** The [[Film/TheMazeRunner2014 first movie's]] opening scene (before the titles) had an OrbitalShot of the Maze, while zooming out from Thomas, where he is seen from the back. This is meant to convey his uncertainity of being in a far, unknown place. The last shot of this movie [[spoiler:is yet another OrbitalShot, only with the camera zooming into Thomas's face instead, as he contemplates his brighter future in a place where all the Immune can be safe]].

* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Teresa manages to splice Thomas' DNA into a sample of the virus which produces a vial of liquid she claims is the definitive cure. This means that, although the world will still continue to crumble, the Immunes have an opportunity to reverse them. Mind you, this is a major improvement from the book, which is not as positive; the cure is not and probably will never be found, so the Immunes are left by themselves and must build everything from the ground up]].

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--->'''Newt:''' [[Film/{{TheMazeRunner|2014}} Spent three years trapped behind walls, trying to break out,]] [[StormingTheCastle and now we wanna break back in.]]
** The [[Film/{{TheMazeRunner|2014}} first movie's]] opening scene (before the titles) had an OrbitalShot of the Maze, while zooming out from Thomas, where he is seen from the back. This is meant to convey his uncertainity of being in a far, unknown place. The last shot of this movie [[spoiler:is yet another OrbitalShot, only with the camera zooming into Thomas's face instead, as he contemplates his brighter future in a place where all the Immune can be safe]].

!!''Maze Runner: The Death Cure'' provides examples of:

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Gally]] returns to help the heroes fight WCKD in the final film.

** Two from the [[Film/MazeRunnerTheScorchTrials second film]]:

** [[spoiler: The surviving Immunes erect a stone slab in the Safe Haven where they can engrave the names of their dead loved ones, just as the Gladers did in the [[Film/{{TheMazeRunner|2014}} first film]]. [[TheCameo And Wes Ball's name comes back as one of those entries, one last time.]]]]

* BlueIsHeroic: [[spoiler: The cure for the flare virus, made from Thomas's blood, is blue]].

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!!''Maze Runner: The Death Cure'' contains examples of:

* AdaptationDistillation: The plot of the third book is distilled to incorporate elements of the previous installment, ''The Scorch Trials''

* AscendedExtra: A minor example: While Newt is still a main character in the book, he's not present or on the sidelines for a good portion due to [[spoiler: him getting the Flare and being taken by Cranks.]] He's present the entire time in the movie, which means [[spoiler: we get to see every painful minute of his transformation into a Crank. [[SarcasmMode Yay]]]].

* CallBack:

* ContrivedCoincidence: Happens disturbingly often. When the Gladers attack the WCKD train in the ActionPrologue, Thomas is explicitely called out on being late, yet they stop the train ''exactly'' where Newt and the others are lying in wait. Another good example is that stunt with [[spoiler:the crane lifting the bus full of Immunes out of the Last City to safety – Brenda doesn't really seem to know where she's headed during the escape, yet she ends up cornered in just the right spot anyway]].

'''[[spoiler:Gally]]:''' Yeah. Nobody's perfect, man. ''(pats Minho reassuringly)''

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: One of the symptoms of Newt [[spoiler: becoming a Crank]].

* OrangeBlueContrast: Though they're never actually shown in the same shot, the postapocalyptic desert areas contrast this way with the black-and-blue {{Cyberpunk}} aesthetics of the Last City.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: [[spoiler:When Lawrence's vigilante army finally breaks into the Last City, they don't settle with taking down WCKD – they destroy ''everything''. The whole city turns into a hellish war zone almost instantly, and within less than an hour they've blown up several skyscrapers, set fire to the rest and pretty much annihilated the very thing they wanted to claim for themselves.]] NiceJobBreakingItHero doesn't even begin to cover it.

->''"You can save us all."''

'''[[spoiler:Gally]]:''' Yeah. Nobody's perfect, man. ''(Pats Minho reassuringly)''

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Gally surprisingly holds nothing against Minho, despite the latter having thrown a spear that nearly killed him, and is perfectly willing to help the gladers rescue him ]].

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Gally surprisingly holds nothing towards Minho, despite the latter having thrown a spear at him that almost killed him]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Thomas and the Right Arm have settled in a new safe haven that Ava pointed out for them, Janson and Ava Paige are dead, Lawrence's group have destroyed the Last City with explosives and Gally is alive, well, and [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]]. However, many of Thomas's friends died for him to defeat WCKD, and there are still others in the world who are unsafe from the Flare and Cranks]].

* DemotedToExtra: Aris, Sonya, and Harriet, since they do not join the group infiltrating the Last City. They only appear in the beginning and the very end.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: [[spoiler:When Lawrence's vigilante army finally breaks into the Last City, they don't settle with taking down WCKD -- they destroy ''everything''. The whole city turns into a hellish war zone almost instantly, and within less than an hour they've blown up several skyscrapers, set fire to the rest and pretty much annihilated the very thing they wanted to claim for themselves.]] NiceJobBreakingItHero doesn't even begin to cover it.

* RousingSpeech: Lawrence gives one before leading the attack on the Last City.

** When Thomas, Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge are taken by a group of armed and masked people, one of them takes off his mask to reveal that he is [[spoiler:[[Film/TheMazeRunner2014 Gally, alive and well]]]].

Most of the lead cast from the previous films return, including Creator/DylanOBrien, Creator/KayaScodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Creator/GiancarloEsposito, Creator/AidanGillen, Ki Hong Lee, Creator/BarryPepper, Creator/WillPoulter, Creator/RosaSalazar, and Creator/PatriciaClarkson. New additions to the cast include Walton Goggins.