(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/Deist_Dagon]

Dont even get me started... Old Gods, Darkspawn, spirits, blood magic? All completely different than anyone thought. There was no worldbuilding, no setup, no payoff. Just pure retcon for the sake of retconning.

[u/mxcn3 → u/Deist_Dagon]

I'm pretty sure the fandom had figured out (or at least theorized) the correct nature about most of these, because I remember the only thing that I was surprised about was the way everything was so casually revealed. Several games worth of mysteries and interesting hints and occasional reveals, and Veilguard characters will drop the true lore in an offhand remark.

[u/TheHolyGoatman → u/mxcn3]

I also felt like the reveals were absurdly casual. No gravitas to any of them.

[u/VeniceRapture → u/mxcn3]

It's worse. Everyone figured out what they were, then said "Nah that's too simple" and then proceeded to theorycraft the most amazing detailed thesis on each of these and none of it were true because in the end, it was actually the simple shit that was canon.

[u/8TrackPornSounds → u/mxcn3]

Did they ever reveal more about the qunari/kossith blood experiment thing? I got to the point where you learn about fire breathers but never finished the game

[u/VeniceRapture → u/Deist_Dagon]

The lore was reduced to "everything is elves" and then they killed the elves as if to clean the slate. It's like that meme about pinning the world's debt onto one guy and then killing him to erase the debt.