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/Justice9229 2d ago

Terminator Series. Peaked at 2, and each following movie was worse than the last.

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u/Membership-Bitter 2d ago

The Sarah Connor chronicles was awesome and Salvation was a fun look at post judgement day. I also heard the anime was good too. Most of the movies suck because they are just rehashes of T2 over and over

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u/TheDoomBlade13 2d ago

Salvation's biggest problem was the marketing, they spoiled the 'twist' in the first trailer and it just really made the movie uninteresting.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 2d ago

I mean, that was a problem with T2 as well. So I guess it's just tradition.

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u/javjam 2d ago

It wasn't just that. Humanity was supposed to be scraping by, doing everything it can to combat the machines.

Instead we got guys with full on ipads broadcasting digital signals, magnetic bomb protected high tech silos, full heart transplant operational capacity, it was too much.

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u/Prestigious_Yam_6039 2d ago

I mean in T1 Kyle said that humans ended up winning. Which is why the Terminators were sent back to begin with. Salvation makes the war seem hard but not insurmountable.