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/gilroygilgalahad 2d ago

Pretty much every medical drama made after St. Elsewhere owes it something, it's a true classic of television, and yet the thing its most remembered for is it's finale where it turns it was all a dream in the mind of an autistic boy playing with a snow globe.

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u/capt1nsain0 2d ago

The original run of Roseanne had the relatable poor family win the lotto, and it went down quickly from there.

Then they decided the last episode, Roseanne was writing a story of an alternate timeline. Half the story was true the other half was made up.

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u/scalyblue 2d ago

The lottery thing was just the final season and the last episode retconning it was a fuck you to the suits that forced the plot line in the first place

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u/Deer-in-Motion 2d ago

Now that I can get behind!

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 2d ago

I feel like I’m in the extreme minority that liked it. The show had already run a long time and it was a little bleak. “What would really happen if this realistic but loving family won the lottery” and it ran with it.

Complete with wild spending choices, damaging a strong marriage, the young kid getting friends who only liked him for his money, etc.

I like creative swings. I have more mixed feelings about the ending that retconned the whole show and I feel like that was maybe a response to people reeeeeally hating the lottery plot.

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u/garrettj100 2d ago

The wrong Conner got killed off.