[very common Trope] A universally supposed Good thing turns out to be a Bad thing

[u/macho_boy-420]

1. The Hero defeating the Villain (Gameoverse): You'd think that after the defeat of the very evil Big Bad means the day is saved, right? Well, no. Because the day is about to end, along with your entire world, your friends and family, all because the hero did what they thought was the right thing.

2. Believing into Getting adopted to a new loving "Family" (The Promised Neverland): Hey, Sweetie. What's that? You think you're going to live with a new caring and family? WRONG. You're actually the next new meal to bunch of demons. Hope you're doing well in the next life.

3. The 'Great Beyond' (Sausage Party): same premise as the Promised Neverland. The food all think they going to a wonderful place called 'The Great Beyond', being treated as Nirvana and sees us as their Gods. Well... You all know what we do with food, right?

[u/regretfulposts]

And as a double whammy, the MC is trying to cure the infected group throughout the movie including abducting them and applying some type of cure. He thought that he's doing good to the world which I guess was in the theatrical cut. But in the original cut and original short story, the vampire mutants are more or less paleolithic humans and are developing a new culture. The homo sapians are basically extinct, but humanity will continue to live on within these mutants and they began telling stories. The title "I am Legend" doesn't mean the MC is a legendary hero, but is actually the boogieman that the parents used to scare kids because of the amount of suffering the MC had done them.

[u/griffzy → u/[deleted]]

The movie takes plot beats from the novel but discards almost everything else. The novel is actually fantastic and worth a read. But the movie featuring Will Smith isn't even the first adaptation, theres been two others, one of which i can actually link in its entirety because copyright on it expired decades ago, and is arguably the more faithful adaptation

[u/griffzy → u/griffzy]

I decided to dig back in since its been a while since ive read it. Here are a couple passages i could find from the novel that touch on animals (and mostly dogs). I am aware of other animals that they mention in regards to the bacterium causing vampirism, the primary example being bats, and as far as i can tell most are carriers rather than being affected by the bacterium itself.

"Take that last, now. According to legend, they were invisible in mirrors, but he knew that was untrue. As untrue as the belief that they transformed themselves into bats. That was a superstition that logic, plus observation had easily disposed of. It was equally foolish to believe that they could transform themselves into wolves. Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs."-Ch2

"The dog jerked around and backed into the corner, hackles rising, jaws drawn back all the way from its yellowish-white teeth, a half- mad sound quivering in its throat. Suddenly Neville knew what was wrong. It was nighttime and the terrified dog was trying to dig itself a hole to bury itself in"

"He smiled down at the dog, his throat moving. “You’ll be all better soon,” he whispered. “Real soon.” The dog looked up at him with its dulled, sick eyes and then its tongue faltered out and licked roughly and moistly across the palm of Neville’s hand. Something broke in Neville’s throat. He sat there silently while tears ran slowly down his cheeks.In a week the dog was dead."-Ch13

TLDR: the book mentions animals being carriers, and briefly hints at dogs being able to both sometimes survive the infection and also being affected by it, though this is still a big departure from the Will Smith film

[u/SageDarius → u/regretfulposts]

IIRC, there's two groups of infected. Those that have learned to live with and suppress the symptoms of the virus, and those that have not. Neville eventually sees the 'thinking' vampires hunting the feral vampires at night, and eventually find out he's been killing both the feral and non-feral vampires while they sleep during the day, as there was no way for him to tell the difference.

That's what makes him a monster in the eyes of the non-feral vampires. The boogeyman that stalks them in their sleep.

[u/Eleeveeohen → u/regretfulposts]

Then the movie scraps this interesting and nuanced ending for "hand grenade go brr"

[u/SageDarius → u/Eleeveeohen]

The alternate ending is much better and, if rumors of a sequel end up happening, are the ending they're going with.