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/gilroygilgalahad 2d ago

Pretty much every medical drama made after St. Elsewhere owes it something, it's a true classic of television, and yet the thing its most remembered for is it's finale where it turns it was all a dream in the mind of an autistic boy playing with a snow globe.

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u/crestdiving 2d ago

I'm not from the US, so I never saw St. Elsewhere, and I only knew that ending as a joke from shows like Newsradio and 30 Rock, so I was really astounded when I found out that a show did that for real.

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u/11equalsfish 2d ago edited 2d ago

This does sound like a bad joke lol, how could professional writers think was the right choice

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u/No_Internal9345 2d ago

Probably a fuck you to the studio for ending the show or some other slight.

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u/Forsworn91 2d ago

Most likely pettiness, someone got screwed over and so they tried to get one over in payback.