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/Due_Enthusiasm1145 6d ago

Almost certainly a case of "shonen jump mangaka had beginning of series as an idea in their heads for years, then eventually reached a point where they didn't have a plan and ran up against how brutal jump's deadlines are, not giving them the breathing room to figure out what to do, resulting in them essentially doggy paddling until they can't anymore."

Happens more often than you would think. Chainsaw man is just a REALLY egregious example of it.

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u/Urusander 6d ago

Stormlight Archive says hello. I swear this always happens with long series where author had been polishing an idea for a while resulting in a very strong start, but has no clue how to develop it after initial hit.

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u/SpecialistEast9457 5d ago

Also ironic since part 2 of chainsaw man was a biweekly manga sometimes so fujimoto had more leeway than most!