r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MeepMan324 • 2d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Endings so awful they completely destroy the legacy of the media.

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  1. Two and a Half Men's final episode teased Charlie Sheen's character coming back and going to harm the other characters whilst also having insults to his character and Charlie Sheen himself. It's clear the director had a grudge and the ending where his character comes up to knock then get crushed by a piano before it cuts to the director before he says "winning" before getting crushed by another piano
  2. This was an upbeat animated show about a magical teen princess. The writers desperately wanted a romantic endgame for her and her best friend, but the way they got there was essentially multiversal omnicide. To stop a villain, the main character unilaterally decides magic is the root of all evil and destroys it entirely. By doing this, she casually commits mass genocide against every purely magical being in the multiverse. It also triggers a massive apocalyptic event that violently crashes different dimensions together into a chaotic hellscape. But the show frames this horrific, mass-extinction catastrophe as a sweet, triumphant ending just because two teenagers get to hold hands in the rubble (Star Vs The Forces Of Evil)
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u/Justice9229 2d ago

Terminator Series. Peaked at 2, and each following movie was worse than the last.

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u/Membership-Bitter 2d ago

The Sarah Connor chronicles was awesome and Salvation was a fun look at post judgement day. I also heard the anime was good too. Most of the movies suck because they are just rehashes of T2 over and over

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u/GovernorGeneralPraji 2d ago

SCC was one of my favorites when it was on. I don’t remember it getting a lot of hate back then. Shame it was cancelled at a cliffhanger.

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u/WiggyDiggyPooPoo 2d ago

I didn't watch it at the time - it wasn't on channel I had - but I did go back to it a few years later.

Its really good, and Shirley Manson is an inspired casting choice. Like you say it ends on that cliffhanger which is a shame as the machine on machine civil war story had potential and was different to rehashing the human vs machine war.

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u/TheDoomBlade13 2d ago

Salvation's biggest problem was the marketing, they spoiled the 'twist' in the first trailer and it just really made the movie uninteresting.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 2d ago

I mean, that was a problem with T2 as well. So I guess it's just tradition.

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u/javjam 2d ago

It wasn't just that. Humanity was supposed to be scraping by, doing everything it can to combat the machines.

Instead we got guys with full on ipads broadcasting digital signals, magnetic bomb protected high tech silos, full heart transplant operational capacity, it was too much.

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u/Prestigious_Yam_6039 2d ago

I mean in T1 Kyle said that humans ended up winning. Which is why the Terminators were sent back to begin with. Salvation makes the war seem hard but not insurmountable.

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u/ThePopDaddy 2d ago

I loved the show so much.

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u/twoisnumberone 2d ago

SCC was stellar. Can't believe they axed it.

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u/Pokesabre 2d ago

I feel like I'm one of the few people who genuinely enjoyed T3 and salvation

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u/CryptographerIcy5130 2d ago

3 is mostly mid but that gut punch ending is so well done and memorable. Completely redeems the whole thing.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk 2d ago

But they made the Terminator a hot chick that could increase the size of her BOOBS.

Absolute cinema.

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u/CryptographerIcy5130 2d ago

I agree with your assessment, Big Balls.

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u/C0RDE_ 2d ago

T3 was just weak comparatively. Salvation was good, but again they're being compared to two genre defining classics that are cultural touchstones to this day. It's like coming on to do a stand up gig after Robin Williams is walking off stage. Unless you're on the same level, people will view you negatively.

I really enjoyed the peek into the Post-apocalypse Salvation brought, it was really well done.

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u/Embarrassed-Phrase30 2d ago

They were so much better then genesis or dark fate

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u/Gre8g 2d ago

I consider those two as just fanfics

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u/Embarrassed-Phrase30 2d ago

That’s just a insult to fanfic writers lol

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u/Gre8g 2d ago

hell haha creepypastas are better than those two

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u/Omega_Zarnias 2d ago

T3 was fun but it wasn't great.

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u/p_yth 2d ago

It’s fine but the first two are untouchable

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u/transemacabre 2d ago

I defend Salvation to this day. The twist on the time travel trope was good, and we actually get to see John meet Kyle (!!!).

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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak 2d ago

Absolutely loved Salvation for its setting as well. I wish it would have gotten some sort of sequel, but alas...

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u/SledgeGlamour 2d ago

T2 is just too perfect. The only way to continue from there is with an extended universe that's less ambitious. Let T2 be the jewel in the crown, and give us a gritty TV show following the parallel stories of Enrique and his future granddaughter in the resistance.

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u/WillDBlake 2d ago

I don't know why the last two movies wanted to kill John Connor. Like thanks to let me know that the second movie was pointless and he dies soon after, what a surprise now the new John Connor is a girl...

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u/waldeinsamkeit666 2d ago

I hope you got to go see the T2 stunt show at Universal before it closed, that show was better than all those crappy sequels combined 🤩

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u/Pegussu 2d ago

As incredible as T2 is, I think it can also be argued that it's a bad sequel. It ruins the closed loop plotline of the original film.

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u/No_Dragonfruit_1833 1d ago

T3 had the balls to start the war, t4 5 and 6 should have been about the war

If there is no t4 there is no real sequel

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u/Brotten 2d ago

Maybe unpopular opinion amongst 40-somethings, but Terminator peaked at The Terminator and making the second one a film about a boy and his dog (the T-1000 is the dog) was funny as a kid's movie, but weird for a sequel.