(Hated Trope) Endings so awful they completely destroy the legacy of the media.

[u/MeepMan324]

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)

[u/Deadlycup]

And then on the IRL side, Zachary Levi turning out to be such a huge tool ruined every project he's ever been in for me

[u/av_79 → u/Deadlycup]

Oh yeah, for a while people hoped there would a Chuck movie to fix the crappy ending, but Zac Levi's behavior has made sure that will never happen.

[u/CeruleanSovereign → u/Deadlycup]

Ooo what did he do? Didn't realise he was a dick

[u/hates_stupid_people → u/CeruleanSovereign]

Anti-vaxx conspiracy nut and maga "libertarian". Endorsed RFK Jr for president, then Trump, in 2024.

[u/Soy_ThomCat → u/hates_stupid_people]

And somehow even worse than simply being an anti-vax MAGA wingnut, he really tainted himself by being such a whiney little bitch about it all.

He begged people to see his crap movie (Shazam 2), and then when people didn't go see it because it was garbage he went full on into some trip about how Wokeism is to blame for why his movie failed.

[u/seguardon → u/Soy_ThomCat]

Which is doubly pathetic because The Rock was right there. Man bombed so hard he killed the DCEU, and did so with a character stolen from Levi's franchise. All because the Rock wanted to play Black Adam but felt Shazam was too beneath his star power, so had the studio retool the character as a Superman rival.

I get not wanting to piss off a star at the Rock's level at the time, but when that star fell, Levi could have capitalized on it with his story. Getting big-leagued by someone who wrecked an entire franchise of franchises with their arrogance would garner tons of sympathy and schaudenfreud. Instead he got bitter about the stupidest shit.

[u/Infamous_Creme8671 → u/seguardon]

There's also the fact that Johnson have absolutely no idea what Black Adam actually is.

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One of his co-actors died of cancer and he tried to blame it on the covid vaccine. Displaying literal ghoulish behaviour.

[u/MakeItHappenSergant → u/Deadlycup]

Adam Baldwin too.

[u/Financial_Cup_6937 → u/Deadlycup]

I read Zachery Quinto and was heartbroken for a moment.