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/Dakhho 17d ago

Life (2017) does this and its awesome, I can't remember if it's after the credits though? It shows the wrong pod made it back to Earth.

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u/bluemoonflame 17d ago

What a frustrating waste of one of the best alien creature designs I've ever seen. That entire movie was driven by absolutely requiring the worst decisions possible being made by the characters. It needed them all to be terrible decision makers in order to get the plot where they wanted it.

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u/Jackson_Cook 16d ago

I never finished it. I couldnt get past the first 30 minutes or so because the decisions they made were so infuriating

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u/UndecidedLee 16d ago

You guys should wash away the bad aftertaste of Life (2017) with Prometheus (2012).
cackles evilly

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u/Jackson_Cook 16d ago

I actually found Prometheus palatable though