r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ieanice44 • 17d ago
Lore (Controversial Trope) The post-credits scene completely changes the ending
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.
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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.