r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MeepMan324 • 6d 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/__M-E-O-W__ 6d ago

It fell off so badly... but I'm still grateful for the manga introducing Asa. Asa is a top tier character and I wish we could have a whole Manga for her. The manga went downhill when it shoved her to the side.

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u/Ok_Substance5632 6d ago

MAPPA Anime rewrite

I NEED YOU!

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u/77skull 6d ago

Yeah part 2 was at its best when Asa / yoru were the main characters, denji was completely missing for the first few chapters and honestly he should’ve stayed relegated to a side character

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u/dearth_of_passion 6d ago

Honestly I feel the opposite, because imo it's worse to introduce a good character and completely misuse/abandon them (which is what happened to Asa) than to just never introduce them at all.

A spinoff just following Asa might have been interesting.

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u/LondoMain95 6d ago

the manga kinda went downhill after Makima died

Should have ended like that tbh.

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u/NFQ___ 6d ago

Before. The last arc of the public safety arc is just kinda a mess and I feel no one really wants to admit it.

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u/Willing_Cause_7461 6d ago

Right when Nayuta erased Yoru/asa's memories I knew it was going to be a cluster fuck.