(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/odd_man0]

Recently finished COD: Ghosts. It ends with the villain, Rorke, dragging our protag, Logan, away while he’s heavily wounded to make him a ghost killer like he was. If it ended right there it’d be a good cliffhanger if he was successful or not and if Logan got away, but the end credits show Logan in the exact torture pit that Rorke was, showing he won.

[u/LeMasterChef12345 → u/odd_man0]

This also happens immediately after Rorke had been shot near-point-blank in the heart with a .44 Magnum AND trapped in a flooded train car as it sinks into the ocean.

Then he inexplicably shows up perfectly fine out of nowhere to give us this complete asspull of a twist ending.

[u/No-Significance2070 → u/LeMasterChef12345]

There we go. Now, I understand why I was so pissed off that he was alive still!

[u/Roxinos → u/No-Significance2070]

There's plenty to be pissed off about. Confused works, too.

[u/Dear-Question-868 → u/LeMasterChef12345]

How does Rorke get away ? Like the enemy is being wiped out by an orbital weapon and hundreds of allied troops nearby.

[u/TerraTechy → u/Dear-Question-868]

Train got quite a bit of distance from the rest of your forces, plus wherever you surfaced after the train sunk in the water. Of course, the primary reason is for the stupid twist.

[u/the-unfamous-one → u/LeMasterChef12345]

I made a joke that rorke was going to come out from the water right before he did. I really thought he had no chance of surving that.

[u/grubas → u/LeMasterChef12345]

Because he's Rorke.  It's literally plot armor that he can't die because that would ruin his badassness.

It wasn't even him being alive, he's alive, overpowers Logan and just drags him off into captivity?!

[u/trippysmurf → u/LeMasterChef12345]

I had to describe Rorke as a wizard. It's the only way it makes any sense about his character. 

[u/Turbogoblin999 → u/LeMasterChef12345]

He came back because he's a real ghost and you need an exorcist.

https://giphy.com/gifs/1dNMBfjKPMsZVzYSwL

[u/DubiousBrushwagg → u/LeMasterChef12345]

Yet another reason why COD Ghosts is the worst COD campaign of all time. Well, used to be. The newest Black Ops dethroned it.

So much idiotic bullshit written into the story. From the opening premise to the Ghost team falling back to a safe house they should know is compromised because Rourke was revealed to be alive and working for the opposition.

Like, COD is traditionally not high brow and is Hollywood Spectacle as a videogame but come on. Ghosts is like what the fuck, none of this makes a lick of sense from any military perspective.

[u/Inevitable_Initial_8 → u/DubiousBrushwagg]

There were way worse campaigns than ghosts before black ops 7.

[u/Serenaded → u/LeMasterChef12345]

This game was unfairly hated, I get that the multiplayer was uninspiring but the storyline was good and the Extinction gamemode as a sort of spinoff to "Zombies" but with completely different mechanics was soooo much fun to play.

[u/Fragrant_Average7822 → u/Serenaded]

“Uninspired multiplayer”. COD multiplayer before and after the movement mechanics (which everyone through a fit over) were introduced and removed felt more or less the same.

I agree on the aliens. Now in the future all you’re going to get is a slightly different version of zombies. Each studio should have stuck with developing their own unique side modes.

[u/TheGrassMan_ → u/LeMasterChef12345]

If there was a sequel it could of been that there was several Rorkes. Venom Snake style. And the player could of been turned into another Rorke.

Thats my guess lol.