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/MagnorCriol 2d ago

GoT's rise and subsequent fall needs to be studied by future show runner generations. They were everywhere. They had the whole world in their grip. There were totally "normie", non-nerd related bars doing watch parties, giant fandom stretching across so many age and culture strata.

And then the last season was so bad that not only was it not liked, it actively undid all their fame beforehand and just almost erased the show. It's crazy.

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u/SlimpWarrior 2d ago

When the actors say the writing creatives are wrong, it's best to listen to the actors. The Witcher has fallen into the same sad shit by alienating Henry Cavill. Then we have Stranger Things written by the two new laziest writers who used AI to make a half-shit ending. There definitely needs to be protection in place, full discussions and changes to the script if it's so bad the actors don't want to be in it. Emilia Clarke, Kit Harrington both had been depressed about it. So many signals were ignored because HBO didn't want to monitor and take care of their breadmaker.

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u/Caffdy 2d ago

AI is an incredible tool, but if you're a buffoon with mediocre writing skills, you're never getting a great story even with AI help

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u/BadgerBodges 2d ago

I still remember the apopletic rage of one of my co-workers when she came in the day after GoT.

Not a big fantasy nerd, not huge into anything not "realistic", but GoT grabbed her and when it failed her I've never seen someone so angry.

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u/Reysona 23h ago

Hell hath no fury as a scorned non-nerdy nerd