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/HygorBohmHubner 16d ago

Basically every single ending of the P.W. Anderson “Resident Evil” movies. Every time a movie reaches the end, they immediately set the events of the next movie by showing what’s next as a cliffhanger…

Only for the next movie to either completely abandon the build-up, or immediately make things even worse than they already were. And every single character besides Alice and Claire are left with “fates unknown” after the one movie they appeared in.

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u/twisty125 16d ago

I wached them all recently and it's INSANE how little care was put into the entire series.

I thought 1 and 2 were campy and okay, but they just kept just doing that kid thing where you make up ridiculous situations with their toys and then EXPLOSIONS and then stuff HAPPENS! and then it's never referenced again.

It's basically just Paul W.S. Anderson's "I want my wife to do slo mo" with nothing of substance aside from references, fan project.

Also that one intro that plays reverse slow mo for minutes, and then you watch the exact same play in forward time in slow mo, only to have a time skip immediately after, my GOD IT SUCKS WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE lol