WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Don't Look Up, now playing in theaters and streaming on Netflix Dec. 24

Being a darkly sardonic comedy about the end of the world, Don't Look Up is full of almost tragically comical situations and scenarios. In the end, this is a film where there's nothing to be done about the pending crisis because humanity keeps finding ways to ruin their best chance at survival.

Don't Look Up's tragic ending isn't even the worst thing that befalls humanity, as the post-credits scenes of the film highlight how even the attempts to survive the end of the world have been met with even more brutal conditions both on and off the remnants of the planet.

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The ending of Don't Look Up is a particularly bleak one for humanity. Having abandoned their initially sound plan to stop the comet hurtling to Earth, President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) quickly abandon everyone when it becomes clear their attempt to detonate the asteroid and later mine it failed. They reach an escape ship and blast off into space, avoiding the rest of humanity's ending. 22,740 years later, the ship arrives on a hospitable alien world, releasing the survivors out of cryogenic freezing. However, their joy is quickly ruined when the local wildlife approach and brutally kill President Orlean by biting her head and thrashing her about. The sequence ends with the surviving humans promptly surrounded by the alien's pack.

It's a brutal sequence, one of the more openly violent moments in Don't Look Up. Orlean gets her comeuppance for ignoring the chance to prevent nature from destroying humanity, instead reasoning there's never any real danger to her (and getting herself presumably picked apart and eaten in the process). It's also a hint that, like his previous ideas and inventions, Isherwell's plans to save himself might have backfired. He should have seen this coming  -- his algorithm to help predict the future actually foretold such an event happening. It deduced that Orlean would die via "bronteroc," which Isherwell distantly concludes must be the name for the alien species that just killed her.

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In an already pretty dark comedy, Don't Look Up's mid-credits scene is one last stab to the heart. While it's somewhat rewarding to see Orlean finally get her comeuppance after two and a half hours of skating past all consequences for her actions, it's still a grim reminder that in this universe, it's unlikely humanity is going to survive in any shape or form. Even though a scene at the very end of the credits reveals Orlean's son Jason (Jonah Hill) was a survivor of the comet's collision with the Earth, it's clear he's unprepared for the new life he's going to have to adapt to. It'll likely be the same for any other survivors, setting up the Earth as nothing more than a massive cosmic graveyard.

Meanwhile, even if it was the worst people possible going into space -- a slew of older men and women who were largely responsible for the decisions that resulted in the Earth's destruction -- there was still hope that humanity may find some way back to civilization on a different planet. But naked and alone on a strange world -- with an off-hand joke mentioning that many of their fellow passengers died on the journey -- it's unlikely the former CEOs standing alongside Orlean and Isherwell have long to live. In a brutal movie that doesn't pull punches when highlighting the short-sighted foolishness of humanity, the mid-credits sequence might be the most efficiently horrifying.

To see Meryl Streep go up against (and lose to) an alien, Don't Look Up is in theaters now and hits Netflix on Dec. 24.

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