(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/MackFather]

I’m not a critic by any means, and I can find enjoyment in things most people find to be hot garbage. But that entire season was so bad, I literally spent the last episode wondering if they were just fucking with the audience at that point.

[u/Lord_Detleff1 → u/MackFather]

I too enjoy many movies and shows that most people hate, for example I love the Fantastic Beasts trilogy, but Jesus Christ the ending of Umbrella Academy was just an insult

[u/nabagaca → u/Lord_Detleff1]

I enjoyed Joker 2 (the musical one), and even I cringed through most of the last season of Umbrella Academy