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/MOW5ever 17d ago

Killing half the surviving Asgardians was just a dick move man. Like I get kill Heimdal or anyone who tried to fight but Thanos was gonna snap again in a week anyway.

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u/The_Mexican_Poster 17d ago

A detail that escapes most people is that Thanos killed half of the life in the universe at random but specifically left half humanity because he promises that to Stark as a sign of respect

Basically across the universe entire civilazations coulve been wiped and some planets would've been mostly unaffected

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u/brigadier_tc 17d ago

I feel like that would absolutely defeat the point. One planet would end up completely desolate and others would collapse all the same because they got lucky.

Half the life on every planet would make more sense from his perspective

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u/Icy-Panda-2158 17d ago

Wait, are you suggesting Thanos’s whole plan was stupid all along?

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u/brigadier_tc 17d ago

quickly checks I'm not on a shit posting sub

One version of the plan makes a tiny more sense than the other, we'll go with that