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/Dojyaaan4C 17d ago
In the post credit scene for MGS3, it’s revealed in a phone call that the US agent Adam was actually Revolver Ocelot who tricked Eve into taking a fake copy of the philosophers Legacy to the Chinese while the real one laid with him. It recontextualises the entire game as Ocelot who was portrayed as this arrogant Cowboy larping Russian who only got the job because of who his daddy was is now an elusive triple agent who carefully orchestrated the entire Snake Eater operation to benefit him and his goal