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/7dxxander 2d ago

the first three seasons were so good too. What a disappointment of a show

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u/JulianLongshoals 2d ago

Yep. If Netflix had canceled it after season 3 people would be talking about how it was a masterpiece that never got the chance it deserved. Instead no one is talking about it at all, except conversations like this.

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u/Extreme-Name-69 2d ago

lol this is first time i heard about it

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u/Bikes_Bocks_Rocks 2d ago

I remember watching the first three seasons then heard crickets through COVID, at which point I cancelled Netflix. Didn't realize they finished the show. Even if they bundle the ending, I may have to watch it through.

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u/JulianLongshoals 2d ago

It's not a TERRIBLE ending. It just doesn't live up to the first 3 seasons.

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u/Unlimited_Giose 2d ago

Damn, I dropped it after season 3 hoping to come back after it was finished...what was so bad about the ending? Like, what happened

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u/JulianLongshoals 2d ago

It's not so much that it's bad, it's just not as good as the first 3 seasons. Season 3 in particular was nearly perfect. It's still okay though. There are a few issues that really hold it back. Aaravos worked better when he was really mysterious, and as you actually find out his story, it's... fine... but nowhere near as compelling as when you first saw him in the mirror. You end up missing Viren as a villain, and Claudia's arc where she takes his place is pretty dumb.

I also think people were also expecting the series to take on darker tones as it went on, but if anything it is kind of the opposite. The first 3 season are darker than the later ones.

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u/suitedcloud 2d ago

I don't really have any plans on continuing the series but I am curious. Was the theory that the Father king dude switched his mind with the bird true or just wishful thinking?

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u/JulianLongshoals 2d ago

It is confirmed in the final season

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u/SolomonG 2d ago

A large part of the problem with the show is that some major character developments happen off screen between season 3 and 4.

Basically season 3's ending was a bit too much like a series finale so when they got 4 more seasons they had to untie some of the pretty package they had wrapped everything up in and they did so with a time skip.

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u/Edenfer_ 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's not a disaster per se. You can finish it. But the show was kinda rebooted after S3. The charm of the first 3 seasons was not there. Even the story felt weak.

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u/justadudeinohio 2d ago

i disagree. had potential, sure. but not good. hollow.

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u/Slayer1440 2d ago

I remember liking the story, but the animation is what threw me off. The framerate had no business being 24 fps or whatever it was. I've seen stopmotion that looked better. This was just either sloppy cheap animation or an intended aesthetic that was poorly executed.

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u/corvettee01 2d ago

I quit when they broke up Rayla and Callum. Threw my hands up and said "Fuck this."

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u/Martin_Aricov_D 2d ago

I quit because they decided to do this offscreen!

What sort of absolute nincompoop decides to, after a long arc of the two characters getting together, break them up in a comic between seasons!!

Also the wasted potential. They seemed to be going an interesting route with the "dark magic" possibly being not that bad and mostly elvish prejudice. The wizard boy with the Magic Type detecting Dice going the route of proving everyone wrong about humans by getting to use all types of magic. Etc.

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u/SolomonG 2d ago

Yea that was so dumb, mind-bogglingly dumb.

It was like admitting to the audience that they were bad writers and needed to milk that relationship for drama and pathos if the show was going to run for another 4 seasons.

There were plenty of other sources of conflict with the other characters and primal vs dark magic.

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u/Wild_Marker 2d ago

I recall the final battle also didn't make a lot of sense and felt like an ass-pull.

It's been so long that I don't remember the details for why.

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u/justadudeinohio 2d ago

it was definitely cheap to produce. it's why they got away with 6 seasons.

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u/geesefearme 2d ago

Genuinely I was so disappointed w what we got when we finally got a fourth season, but I think I made it all the way to the middle of season 5 before I gave up on it

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u/ExternalPromotion542 2d ago

Why dont shows have good endings anymore?

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u/Selgeron 2d ago

Man I tried but the dialogue felt cringe at a level that I couldn't get over, I couldn't even make it past 5 episodes.

There's a part where the super well trained elf assassin is like 'Can I see your holdy arrow thingie' and the other person is like 'my quiver?' or something like that, and it was fucking... Awful.

All the characters sounded so... idk... Joss Wedon Millenialesque.