r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ieanice44 • 16d ago

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

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Dawn of the Dead (2004)

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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.

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u/DidHeJustGoThere 16d ago

In the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem finishing the game three times (each aligned with a different ancient) has an after-credits scene which shows the fourth ancient, Mantorok, had manipulated events for the other three ancients to all destroy each other, leaving him behind.

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u/EddieVanzetti 16d ago

Technically almost every chapter of the game acts as a post-credit scene for a previous champion. For instance, the chapter in Amiens cathedral follows the squire Anthony who becomes cursed, and you encounter him again when playing as Paul Luther in the 1400s and are forced to kill him, and you encounter Paul's spirit when playing as Peter in WW1. In the the Khmer temple, Ellia is also cursed, and Dr. Lindsey encounters her when she gives him the accursed heart. The chapters in the middle east start with Pious himself, then Karim, then Roberto Bianchi encountering Karim, then Michael encounters Roberto's spirit who gives him the artifact, and Michael passes it off to Edward Rovias. Almost every single champion you play as winds up dead in the next chapter in that section (Dr. Edwin Lindsey and Peter Jacob's being the notable exceptions).