(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/MicroplasticCumshot]

"Yes, the magic cripple has a better story than the half Targ half Stark who came back from the dead, brought the wildlings over the wall, and is the only reason there was an organised resistance against the undead army"

[u/SquirrelLuvsChipmunk → u/MicroplasticCumshot]

Yeah… if the final decision of who sits on the throne really came down to “Who has the better story?” Maybe, I don’t know, they shouldn’t have left the character with the “best” story out for an ENTIRE SEASON and make his story so freaking boring in the other seasons he was actually in

[u/Side_show → u/MicroplasticCumshot]

I will die on the hill that Jon Snow sucked.

He didn't rally anyone. Every single time anyone joined him, it was because one of his friends/advisors (not him) did the recruitment and inspired everyone else to join.

Be it Sam, Aemon, Tormund, Wun Wun, Davos, Melisandre, Lyanna, Sansa or even The Hound. He only ever gets his pals to trust him. Everyone else needs convincing by someone else.

And the number of strategic errors he makes is crazy. He is losing pretty much every battle he is in charge of until someone comes to rescue him. Loses to wildlings in his first ranging. Losing to the mutineers at Craster's Keep until Craster's daughters join and Ghost gets released. Losing to the wildlings at Castle Black until Stannis comes along. Gets shit-mixed by the white walkers at Hardholme. Gets (rightfully) deposed by his own men at Castle Black. Gets absolutely turned inside out by Ramsay until the Knights of the Vale come to the rescue. Gets surrounded by white walkers again north of the wall until Daenarys saves him (and loses a dragon because he's screwing around for too long). His dumbass plan at Winterfell is an absolute shambles in the big battle and is about to get ice burned by Viserion when Arya happens to end it all at that exact second.

In fact the only battle Jon Snow actually wins through his planning is the one where his army slaughters all the commoners of Kings Landing.

Also, despite being a "great warrior", he even needs to get saved multiple times by random characters or flukes when he is about to get smoked.

[u/goodnamestaken10 → u/Side_show]

IDK, it's how real leadership often works. The leader has really great people around them who trust them and will do the unsung work to make their vision into reality.

[u/sdpr → u/goodnamestaken10]

It's a fair criticism, but I think you're right. I only say I think because I can't recall shit for the life of me, but I don't recall anyone being a "hard carry" for any situation the characters we're rooting for were in.

[u/ZiroLeHutt → u/MicroplasticCumshot]

Yeah but he was a twit though and nobody liked him.

[u/ExternalPromotion542 → u/MicroplasticCumshot]

Well yeah but "I dont wuant eet" remember?