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/mojao21 6d ago edited 6d ago

I hate how the whole show is completely written off because the ending completely throws out all of the genuinely great character development throughout the show. I really wish the alternate ending was more well known.

ETA: link to the video since a lot of people are asking

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u/tylerjehenna 6d ago

To this day I genuinely believe the only reason Big Bang Theory is as big as it is is entirely cause HIMYM shit the bed that bad with its finale

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u/mojao21 6d ago

Say what you will about Big Bang Theory, it still had a great ending.

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u/Kammander-Kim 6d ago

It stuck the landing and it didn't wrinkle the characters into destroying multiple seasons of character growth.

You can like and you can dislike TBBT, but you can't say the ending ruined the show.

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u/yupyupyupyupyupy 6d ago

it did

the show to me was always about a yellow umbrella...not a blue french horn

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u/Kammander-Kim 6d ago

Yeah, that relationship was shot down really early in the show.

The twist that the show was about getting the kids' approval to date "aunt Robin" was utter crap.