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/Solo_Wing_Buddy 2d ago

From what I heard, he was getting bored writing CSM and just wanted to finish it no matter what so he could move onto the next idea that had him interested. No idea how much truth there is in that but I believe it.

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u/arcodash 2d ago

I'd say more burnt out than bored.

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u/topdangle 2d ago

i mean he straight up does not give a shit about finishing the linework on characters even at the start of part 2.

drawing manga is a brutal job but if you hit it big it pays really well (big portion of every volume sale goes straight to the artist). part 1 already set him up for life.

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u/this_is_a_hellscape2 2d ago

drawing manga is a brutal job

And this is what forever cements Togashi as the penultimate god of manga.

Man fucks off for X days, offers no explanation, comes back for 3-4 months and drops generational chapters, announces a hiatus, drops concept art, repeat.