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/Headstone_Blank 2d ago

Fellas, let me tell you about the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypithesis. It's not just all the shows you mentioned, it's estimated the 90% of all TV, live action and animated, canonically takes place in this kids head. Obviously no one can know for sure, but thousands of shows have been linked and traced back to this kid.

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u/throwaway17197 2d ago

If he was real he could have a monopoly on TV

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u/Rel_Ortal 1d ago

I've always thought this was silly, since a kid's imagination can easily (and frequently does) include things they've seen or read elsewhere. If you have a dream about someone you know in real life or imagine some scenario with them, that doesn't make that person imaginary, after all.