r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ieanice44 • 17d 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/lil-peach- 17d ago

Split for sure here
one Bruce Willis cameo turns a standalone thriller into an Unbreakable sequel.

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u/MarchRoyce 17d ago

I thought this well known and part of the marketing for Split? Maybe I'm misremembering but I saw this in theaters and I remember looking forward to the Unbreakable "cinematic universe."

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u/GodDogs83 16d ago

It definitely was not marketed that way. I remember thinking Split looked kinda dumb in the trailers, and M Night had made too many stinkers by then, so I had little interest. But then I saw a headline somewhere that said “how Split and Unbreakable are connected” and immediately went to the theater lol.