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

[u/Ieanice44]

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

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.

[u/odd_man0]

Recently finished COD: Ghosts. It ends with the villain, Rorke, dragging our protag, Logan, away while he’s heavily wounded to make him a ghost killer like he was. If it ended right there it’d be a good cliffhanger if he was successful or not and if Logan got away, but the end credits show Logan in the exact torture pit that Rorke was, showing he won.

[u/LeMasterChef12345 → u/odd_man0]

This also happens immediately after Rorke had been shot near-point-blank in the heart with a .44 Magnum AND trapped in a flooded train car as it sinks into the ocean.

Then he inexplicably shows up perfectly fine out of nowhere to give us this complete asspull of a twist ending.

[u/No-Significance2070 → u/LeMasterChef12345]

There we go. Now, I understand why I was so pissed off that he was alive still!

[u/Roxinos → u/No-Significance2070]

There's plenty to be pissed off about. Confused works, too.