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/CanExplainThings 6d ago

Season 1 was honestly among the best single seasons of TV I've ever watched.

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u/Any-Eye6299 6d ago

And it's a pretty self-contained story so I think it can be enjoyed in isolation and I recommend people watch it.

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u/KindaKhorney 6d ago

It was the perfect cyberpunk/tech noir show.

And clearly lightning in a bottle because holy ball drop afterwards.

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u/CanExplainThings 6d ago

Every time I think about I get pissed off how you gonna turn the female lead from a side character at best into the main character in a thriller rescue to...

An avenging eco goddess?

Also, dichen Lachman was and remains smoking hot. 

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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 6d ago

What's better than one Dichen Lachman? A room full of Dichen Lachmans

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u/AlarnisToo 6d ago

It was so good. Amazing performances for the majority of the cast. Special call out to the dude playing the grandma. : D

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u/ObiFlanKenobi 6d ago

Why do you call it "season"? It was clearly a miniseries!