r/TopCharacterTropes • • 2d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Endings so awful they completely destroy the legacy of the media.

  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/readskiesdawn 2d ago

With how troubled the development was, it's astounding that the game worked at all, let alone pretty bug free at launch (I know they existed but compared to other games in the series they were rare). And the combat was actually pretty decent and worked well.

Writing aside, the people that worked on the game stability and level wise should be proud of it. The game worked, and it worked really well.

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u/Wild_Marker 2d ago

Oh yeah I didn't mention that but it was practically a technically perfect 1.0. Great optimization and almost no bugs. They didn't even put DRM in it because EA apparently just stopped caring.