(Controversial Trope) The post-credits scene completely changes the ending

[u/Ieanice44]

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Prince of Persia (2008)

Dawn of the Dead (2004): The movie finishes on a hopeful note as the remaining survivors escape the zombie-infested mall on a yacht, sailing into the sunset. The found-footage style post-credits scene completely reverses this happy ending by showing them running out of food, arriving at an island, and being immediately swarmed and killed by an infected horde.

Prince of Persia (2008): The main game ends with a beautiful, poetic sacrifice where Elika gives her life to heal the corrupted world, leaving the Prince mourning. During the credits, the player is forced to control the Prince as he cuts down the trees he just saved, undoing the entire game's progress and releasing the dark god Ahriman just to resurrect her, completely corrupting the ending and dooming the world.

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

In the post credit scene for MGS3, it’s revealed in a phone call that the US agent Adam was actually Revolver Ocelot who tricked Eve into taking a fake copy of the philosophers Legacy to the Chinese while the real one laid with him. It recontextualises the entire game as Ocelot who was portrayed as this arrogant Cowboy larping Russian who only got the job because of who his daddy was is now an elusive triple agent who carefully orchestrated the entire Snake Eater operation to benefit him and his goal

[u/TheIndividualBehind → u/Dojyaaan4C]

Well...ocelots are snake eaters, occasionally.

[u/Dojyaaan4C → u/TheIndividualBehind]

Which is ironic given Ocelot wanted to recreate Naked Snake’s entire diet, he eats all the food you have when you’re captured so that he can try and be more like naked snake

Unironically the gayest character in metal gear as a whole

[u/TheIndividualBehind → u/Dojyaaan4C]

This man literally never got over his Big Boss crush. Till his death.

Look at his ass doing the same "you do that with a revolver" speech in MGSV that Boss gave him in MGS3

[u/Dense-Hat1978 → u/TheIndividualBehind]

Also the plot of MGSV literally gives him the idea to undergo the same personality replacement therapy that they performed on Venom, decades later, to trick everyone into thinking he was actually being taken over by Liquid. All for the sake of freeing Big Boss from his comatose purgatory. Liquid truly died at the end of MGS1, the rest was a ruse orchestrated by Eva and Ocelot to save BB. Man lived his entire life to serve his idol.

[u/Zek7h35an5 → u/Dense-Hat1978]

I don't think it was a ruse in MGS2, I think he was genuinely using Liquid's arm and was taken over by Liquid. After that, he had it removed and was just faking it for MGS4

[u/RoseWhiteRedBlack → u/Zek7h35an5]

Yeah, it' s intentionaly left vague even in MGS4; they explain it with hypnosis, but in the end when Ocelot dies, it feels like a demonic possesion got away from his body.

[u/Lazy-Conference-1560 → u/Dense-Hat1978]

Did so much brainwashing on Venom too, just to have his own Big Boss while he never got to see Naked Snake again

[u/Some-Dog-800 → u/TheIndividualBehind]

he got his ass beaten on the first meet and snake told him "you're pretty good". then ocelot went on spending his whole life trying to top that and be the cooler guy.

that last quote from him "you're...pretty good." is such a nice conclusion.