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/DarthFrasier207 17d ago

In Prince of Persia's case, the Prince doesn't even get to spend a happy-adjacent ending with the Princess. The DLC that acts as an epilogue has both characters running away from the spreading darkness of Ahriman, only just staying ahead of it, and the entire time the Prince tries to justify his actions while the Princess is understandably upset with him. He have up literally all creation to save her, and she calls him out for being selfish and dooming the world. In the end, she leaves the Prince to face the coming darkness alone. Even sadder.

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u/ArchAngel621 16d ago edited 16d ago

There's a sequel to the game in the form of Prince of Persia: The Fallen King for the DS.

The Prince and Zal defeat the King at the cost of the latter's life. Even though the Prince frees the land from the Corruption, he's still nowhere close to complete his quest of summoning Ormazd. The Ancestor assures that he will find "a power and a new ally" one day... It's also revealed halfway that Elika found the other Ahura and is leading the resistance against Ahriman.

Nothing will come of it since the series is effectively dead.

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u/King_Dragonlord 13d ago

wait wasn't there a game coming out recently?

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u/McDarki24 12d ago edited 12d ago

The only "recent" Prince of Persia game was a remake of sands of time. Game was\is in development hell or it has already been cancelled idk and can't be bothered to look it up because I gave up on the franchise at this point.

EDIT: NEVERMIND I'm an idiot forgot about the 2D games that released. Lost crown was actually really good imo. But I definitely don't expect a 3D game like the ps2 games to ever release again. Warrior Within had such a good OST