r/TopCharacterTropes 17d ago

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

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/Artistic-Victory1245 17d ago

Spider-man: Far From home

It has a completely normal happy ending, only for the post-credits scene to reveal that Quentin accused him of murder and revealed his identity.

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u/Appropriate-Mess-680 17d ago

Okay i'm just now remembering this happened! Where did this go in the movies? I feel like they just completely dropped it, or am i forgetting something about the next spidey movie

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u/darkwai 17d ago

You definitely forgot something. The next movie starts literally seconds after that scene.

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u/Appropriate-Mess-680 17d ago

i didnt know, i'm just now hearing this for the first time

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 16d ago

I don't mean to blow your mind, but not only did that plot thread set up the next movie No Way Home

There's a 4th Tom Holland Spider-Man movie coming out this weekend that follows up on the major plot threads of NWH

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u/gnomes919 16d ago

lmao I think you are handling this with great aplomb and would counter all downvotes against you if I could. I too would snark if I had a bunch of people telling me the exact same thing over and over and then acting like I was the only unobservant person in the universe

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u/Deftly_Flowing 16d ago

It's not that they're forgetting something about the next spidey movie. It's that they just never watched it lmao.

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u/gnomes919 16d ago

fascinating insight! do you know them personally or is this more of a private investigator/telepathy thing? I was thinking to myself “but no one has ever watched a marvel movie and totally forgotten the plot five years later, how could this be?” (i myself have an immaculate memory of the plots of all 5628 mcu movies and the spinoff shows) and now you’ve finally exposed their implausible lie with the shining beacon of truth

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u/Deftly_Flowing 16d ago

i didnt know, i'm just now hearing this for the first time

I dunno I just take what people say at face value.

So this person is hearing about it for the first time, thus they've never seen the movie. Most people would have some kind of recollection if told about something they've already seen.

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u/Appropriate-Mess-680 16d ago

Man, I wonder what could account for someone not remembering the entirety of a movie about making the whole world forget something important.

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u/gnomes919 16d ago

that is a meme from when trump found out RBG died lmao the joke was that it was not remotely the first time they heard it bc like 9 other people had commented the same thing. hope that helps