(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/ducknerd2002]

The show was already decreasing in quality (starting in either S5 or S7, depending on who you ask and whether that person has read the books), but S8 was almost unanimously considered one of the biggest disappointments in television history.

[u/Dark_Crow22 → u/ducknerd2002]

It's beautiful how it went from cultural phenomenon to a laughing stock everyone forgot few days after in just one season

[u/ThanatosWielder → u/Dark_Crow22]

My favorite part is that it was such a phenomenon that it got the directors a Star Wars contract and they got so desperate to do it they rushed and crumbled GOT in such a fashion that they turned into pariahs that no one wants to contact

[u/licoricenipple → u/ThanatosWielder]

Did it? Like 4 months later they got a contract for a multi-season billion-dollar Netflix show that now has an Outstanding Drama Emmy nomination.

[u/LiftingRecipient420 → u/licoricenipple]

What show was that?

[u/SkyShadowing → u/licoricenipple]

I honestly put far more blame for it on GRRM now than I do D&D. It's clear they came on to adapt published work, and then GRRM just... stopped publishing (at least, the actual novel series they signed on to adapt.)

D&D by all accounts are excellent adapters and did great I hear with Three Body Problem.

[u/cartoonsforever → u/Dark_Crow22]

And it literally ended the same day as Star Vs the Forces of Evil which means statistically there must be someone out there who had the displeasure of watching both one after another

[u/UpperRuster32 → u/cartoonsforever]

This is wild information.

Like, what were the odds. 

[u/Eurell → u/Dark_Crow22]

The ending sucks, but saying everyone forgot it is nonsense. It’s still one of HBOs highest watched shows. It’s had 2 spin offs that are still continuing. And it gets talked about on Reddit every single day lol.

[u/sonerec725 → u/Eurell]

I mean, you can find talks about a random underground 70s animated show with 3 episodes being mentioned "every day" on reddit if you search enough. But I know that for me I went from irl hearing about this show constantly from friends to strangers, casual conversation, parodies in other TV shows and on YouTube, it was almost inescapable to levels I havent seen since Harry Potter, to suddenly just . . . Nothing.

Like the biggest lasting impact ive seen beyind being the poster child for shit endings modern day is the continued prevalence of the phrase "oh you sweet summer child" continuing, many not even knowing its from GOT

[u/Eurell → u/sonerec725]

Because the show ended lol. Breaking bad was amazing and ended well, but I didn’t hear people talking about that in real life either.

You are ignoring everything else I said. It’s still watched a ton. It has popular spinoffs that are still going.

[u/adamgerd → u/Eurell]

Yep

I don’t know why Reddit pretends GOT disappeared, it had a terrible ending but it didn’t disappear, it just ended so people talk less about it

[u/sonerec725 → u/Eurell]

Havent heard anything about the spinoffs

[u/Eurell → u/sonerec725]

The knight of the seven kingdoms averaged 36 million viewers an episode. Rated super high and gained a ton of viewership as the season went on.

If you haven’t heard about it, that’s fine, but that’s a you thing. It’s a massively popular show

[u/fearless-fossa → u/Eurell]

It's popular, but it isn't the cultural phenomenon that GoT was.

And GoT lost more relevance than can be justified by its ending. There are plenty of other shows where people were talking about the ending the ending, and what led there, for weeks, months or even years (eg. M*A*S*H) about it, with GoT it was like someone pulled a plug.

[u/KeithBeans → u/Dark_Crow22]

Was it forgotten about? Joffrey is constantly talked about as one of the best villains ever, and there were multiple spin-offs. You also can’t go 20 seconds without someone on reddit saying “you sweet summer child”. It definitely has some remaining cultural impact

[u/The_Kadeshi → u/Dark_Crow22]

All those poor girls who were named Khalesi or Danyers only to have her arc end in total disgrace

[u/forman98 → u/Dark_Crow22]

It was like everyone was suddenly ashamed to be a fan. People used to talk about this show at work. It was literally talked about around the water cooler or before a meeting started. After the finale aired it was like people didn’t want to be associated with it. They were embarrassed they had fangirled so hard over it that they refused to even mention it again.