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/tylerjehenna 2d ago

The fact that How I Met Your Mother isnt the immediate example proves it fits the trope insanely well

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u/mojao21 2d ago edited 2d ago

I hate how the whole show is completely written off because the ending completely throws out all of the genuinely great character development throughout the show. I really wish the alternate ending was more well known.

ETA: link to the video since a lot of people are asking

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u/bekahfromearth 2d ago

I hated the final series. They spent the entire series leading up to Barney & Robin’s wedding for them to divorce the next episode

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u/mojao21 2d ago edited 2d ago

Which is why it's so awful knowing the showrunners had a perfect ending lying on the cutting room floor. And now only big fans of the show ever know about and have seen it. Everyone else just knows it had a dogshit ending, immediately turning off potential new viewers.

ETA: link to the video since a lot of people are asking

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u/middl_mgmt 2d ago

…what is it

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u/mojao21 2d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/HIMYM/s/7YgPblm2qU

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u/Dear-Pomegranate4470 2d ago

Oh my god I've never seen that before. I love it so much more, thank you!

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u/Robo-Connery 2d ago

That is actually really good...

Can't believe the one they went with, ridiculous.

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u/alurkerhere 2d ago

Watched it again - it is always the real ending TM (to me)

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u/Good-times-roll 2d ago

I haven’t watched the show since it ended - after being a religious nut with this show. But every now and then, I watch the alternate ending and it’s all bliss 😌

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u/Eipa 2d ago

That's just cut-together actual scenes of the show.

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u/mojao21 2d ago

The clipshow is part of the alt ending. Bob Saget is voicing the narration through it, meaning they had him record those lines. We also see Ted and Tracy's wedding. Those were not in the original ending.

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u/Eipa 2d ago

Yeah its true that some lines musst be not from the actual ending. iirc now they made a fuss about filming different endings as not to spoil the actual ending too early.

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u/mojao21 2d ago

This as the official alt that was put on the DVD release

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u/Eipa 2d ago

ok!

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u/J_Bright1990 2d ago

What ending? I've not heard of this before.

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u/DangerZone69 2d ago

I actually don’t like the alternate ending as much as the normal one lol feels like a hallmark ending when it’s not a hallmark show

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u/mojao21 2d ago

Fair. Taking that perspective though, I feel they could have given us an ending that was a happy medium though. Not something that backpedaled everyone to where they were at the start of the show.

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u/wilkil 2d ago

Wait, why didn’t you just say what the alt ending was?

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u/mojao21 2d ago

I've been replying it multiple times in this thread. I didn't think so many people would be asking for it. Added it to the original comment but here it is for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/HIMYM/s/7YgPblm2qU