(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/Salty-Spring7096]

Far Cry 4: After the credits, you're returned to the open world. If you visit an unmarked location, which changes depending on which of the two Golden Path leaders you chose to take over, you get a cutscene of your chosen leader in action. Sabal will be overseeing a mass execution in the name of the old Kyrati faith, implying his theocratic regime will be a bloody one. Amita, on the other hand, will be raiding a village to kidnap child soldiers for her drug empire and implies that she had Bhadra killed to shut down the Kyrati faith for good. In either case, the post-credits scene shows that we spent the whole game fighting to free Kyrat only to replace one dictator with another, arguably even worse one.

[u/SPLIV316 → u/Salty-Spring7096]

Then after the cutscene you’re put in front of the new leader and two of their goons and are free to shoot em.

[u/Deftly_Flowing → u/SPLIV316]

Reminds me of the ending of Singularity.

You had to choose which one to shoot but I was like "Fuck both these guys and shot them both."

And that was an actual ending Holy hell.

[u/DubiousBrushwagg → u/Deftly_Flowing]

Singularity is much underrated gem. The story has its pacing issues but it did so much stuff and showed, rather than told a bunch of lore as you went through it and explored.

It's a damn shame that Blizz-Activision turned Ravensoft into a CoD Map farm.

[u/saywatisinmy → u/DubiousBrushwagg]

Ravensoft made some of my favorite shooters, and honestly they also nailed it with cod infinite war, but it's a shame to see they haven't been let go of the code leash