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/FromBeeBee 6d ago

Umbrella Academy, that ending is something has just wrecked the legacy of the show entirely even with the seasons before being good or great as much. It just burnt it out and the legacy since then

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u/shaunika 6d ago

It's insane how the final message of the show is essentially "being different means you should stop existing and everyone will be better off"

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u/CptBlake 6d ago

I love the message of “if you have family related trauma, kill yourself. It’s not getting better, no matter how hard you try”

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u/Beorma 6d ago

'There is no universe where you turn out OK, it's always better if you don't exist'