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/AnotherDamnTransAlt 6d ago

Umbrella Academy. The last season was so bad, and the ending so comically offensive, that if the show had been more popular I am confident it would be the top answer every time this comes up.

I have yet to meet a solitary soul who thought it was good. I’ve never seen such an impressively terrible ending. Truly one for the history books.

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u/trashvineyard 6d ago

Multiple seasons of ' Noo dont kill yourself! ' ultimately building up to ' You should kill yourself actually ' was pretty funny

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u/not_the_chosen_onee 6d ago

Like we went through all that, season after season of world ending apolocypses only for the answer to be that they never existed at all. Everything we watched was for literally nothing.

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u/No_Syrup_9167 6d ago

Its half-a-step above "it was all a dream" levels of bad writing IMO.

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u/Rougarou1999 6d ago

IIRC, the explanation for why they had to die was because their powers’ origin (the marigold) were inherently destructive to the universe, an explanation that only popped up in that season, which started off with them powerless.

They had to force the plot to lead to their suicide.