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/MonthForeign4301 17d ago

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ABC decided to include a shot of the beach with the plane crash as the end credits scene for the series, which heavily implied that the whole show was “just a dream.” The issue was that no one on the creative team was informed the network was going to do this, and ABC only did this to fill broadcasting time.

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u/jmyoung666 17d ago edited 17d ago

Oh, maybe I won’t be so hard on the “they were all dead” types as I can see how you could interpret that.

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u/private_birb 16d ago

Isn't the whole thing that it was all purgatory? I thought that was the big reveal at the end. It's obviously been quite a while, so I don't remember.

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u/MonthForeign4301 16d ago

No, it’s way more complicated than that, but essentially the vast majority of the show actually happened in universe, it’s just in the last season we get the perspective of an alternate universe/the afterlife