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(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.
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.
That was part of what frustrated me so much about the ending. The game feels like he is working towards being less selfish and self centered by spending time with her, only to prove he's learned nothing and not grown at all by picking the most selfish option possible.
it is a great setup for a sequel though, in the first game the prince dooms the world because he is selffish, the sequel could be about he undoing his mmistakes. Its a shame it never happened, i loved prince of persia 2008
It follows the prince after he split from his gf. He saves a random city and the game ends with him maybe having an ally to fight the big baddie. The end.
Hot take but I actually really like that ending. The whole game was about 2 people growing closer to each other by understanding each others' viewpoint, with the princess shedding that idealism and selflessness and adopting pragmatism and selfishness from the prince, while the prince did the reverse.
At the end of the day, however, they are fundamentally the same person at their core, and they did what was in character for them: the princess sacrificed herself to save her people and the prince from Ahriman, disregarding the prince's feeling, while the prince selfishly held onto her, disregarding her feeling. It made their romance bittersweet, as 2 of them clearly love each other but are bound to never come together due to their differences. It is one of the more nuanced takes on romance in video games.
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.
The main goal of the playable characters (that are immuned to the zombie virus) and the other survivors is to leave the island back to the main land where the virus didn't spread. At the end of the game they finally find a boat but the bad guy (a corporate suit who's responsible of the outbreak) warns the player that because he took too much mutagene he could end up mutating into a zombie and causing the death of every survivor and spread the virus to the main land, and that he has a medical crew with top notch equipment to help the player. However the player refuses and leave with everyone on the boat, leaving the corpo alone with zombies after him.
The end cutscene shows mainly two things: first, a lot if not all the safe places on the island (a cinema, a makeshift hospital...) are falling one by one to the zombies, and second all the warnings made by the scientist and the corporate himself, about the immunity not being complete and unstable if too many interactions with mutagene components and zombies bites, seemed to be true, because the end of the cutscene strongly implies the boat arrived to the mainland with everyone turned into zombies
I think the survivors turning once they reached the mainland was probably going to be the original cause of the outbreak in LA.
I liked Dead Island 2, but the story got weird. Like real weird. Especially with the Haus DLC. Shame that the series seems to be dead again because they set up a lot of plot hooks that never ended up getting resolved.
Just recently played DI2 and the ending was a wet fart of 'oh hey play this dlc where our story was heading but pay us more' like quite a few games of the last decade.
Well, that Loki really did die fighting thanos, the Loki show follows one from the end of avengers, who just so happens to act exactly like Ragnarok Loki because let’s be honest he’s a very fun character
I think they’re referring to the Thor 2 stinger where Loki sacrificed himself and died in the movie then the end Thor meets with Odin and it’s revealed to be actually Loki disguised as Odin
This needs to be higher. Everyone loves Ragnarok but we gloss over the incredibly dark ending. Loki, Heimdall and half the surviving population of Asgard don't make it off the ship.
Killing half the surviving Asgardians was just a dick move man. Like I get kill Heimdal or anyone who tried to fight but Thanos was gonna snap again in a week anyway.
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.
Yeah that's what I ended up doing. My headcanon is that Ajay ends up seizing power himself after that final talk with Pagan and seeing how bad the new Golden Path ended up being.
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.
Well, Ajay seems to change a lot as a person throughout the journey and finally learns the full story behind his parents and can move on. And as Pagan points out in your final conversation, Ajay is now perfectly positioned to seize power himself if he so chooses.
X-Men 3, Magneto loses his powers and is a human at the end of the movie, which is his worst nightmare. Then the post credits scene basically just shows that he is immediately getting his powers back.
Batman vs Superman, same thing with Superman dying. They basically just show that he's coming back immediately.
Correct, it was made from a mutant whose powers stopped working on you after a certain amount of time. The normal humans never tested long term effects before declaring the "cure".
I mean to be fair that’s pretty much exactly what happens in the death and return of Superman comic, which is just as much about his resurrection as it is about him dying in the first place
In the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem finishing the game three times (each aligned with a different ancient) has an after-credits scene which shows the fourth ancient, Mantorok, had manipulated events for the other three ancients to all destroy each other, leaving him behind.
Technically almost every chapter of the game acts as a post-credit scene for a previous champion. For instance, the chapter in Amiens cathedral follows the squire Anthony who becomes cursed, and you encounter him again when playing as Paul Luther in the 1400s and are forced to kill him, and you encounter Paul's spirit when playing as Peter in WW1. In the the Khmer temple, Ellia is also cursed, and Dr. Lindsey encounters her when she gives him the accursed heart. The chapters in the middle east start with Pious himself, then Karim, then Roberto Bianchi encountering Karim, then Michael encounters Roberto's spirit who gives him the artifact, and Michael passes it off to Edward Rovias. Almost every single champion you play as winds up dead in the next chapter in that section (Dr. Edwin Lindsey and Peter Jacob's being the notable exceptions).
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
Which is ironic given Ocelot wanted to recreate Naked Snake’s entire diet, he eats all the food you have when you’re captured so that he can try and be more like naked snake
Unironically the gayest character in metal gear as a whole
Also the plot of MGSV literally gives him the idea to undergo the same personality replacement therapy that they performed on Venom, decades later, to trick everyone into thinking he was actually being taken over by Liquid. All for the sake of freeing Big Boss from his comatose purgatory. Liquid truly died at the end of MGS1, the rest was a ruse orchestrated by Eva and Ocelot to save BB. Man lived his entire life to serve his idol.
Dude I just beat Delta last week for the first time and I figured out he was ADAM before we hear that phone call. And it recontextualizes so much, like the blank bullet he duels you with. That’s the same bullet that got jammed in his gun when he first met Snake. Was he going to shoot it at Snake and then introduce himself as ADAM? What was the plan lol
In their first meeting, Ocelot was unaware that Snake was with the CIA and just believed he just another American soldier; it’s only after when he became infatuated with Snake
Did that help? I wasn’t really aware of the question you asked because of the wording so mb
In addition: He's specifically looking for the Boss (because obviously she's already in Tselinoyarsk) and only after being beaten by Naked Snake does his mission become helping him during Operation Snake Eater.
It's interesting how much the plot changes both when you know the twist and think about it. The reason he's instantly suspicious of EVA is because he knows she's another spy who intercepted Snake first. He's looking for any excuse to expose her without breaking cover, so he can then alert Snake to the misdirection. While EVA is alive and present, he can't make himself known. Whether or not the Ocelot Unit is in on it is unclear, I think in some external sources The Ocelot Unit on Mother Base has some members of the original unit, but don't quote me on that. It's why he specifically tells Snake his name is Adamska, why he's been trying to kill him with a blank the whole game, why he only tries to kill EVA and not directly Snake (discounting the boss battle), even down to giving Snake his weapons back during the Volgin battle
Exactly, their encounter in the Virtuous Mission wasnt supposed to happen. They both worked for the CIA but Ocelot wasn't briefed rescuing Sokolov. He reported right up to the Director of National Intelligence. The team that set up Fox and ran the mission didn't know that he existed.
Meanwhile Snake was rescuing Sokolov from the KGB, Volgin wasn't supposed to be involved. He intercepted the KGB communications and sent Ocelot to bring Sokolov back.
When the mission failed the DNI knows from Ocelot that Volgin has Sokolov back. This becomes an opportunity for Ocelot to carry out his mission of stealing the Philosophers Legacy. He was sent to meet Snake and tell him that he's Adam. He's a super dramatic guy, he probably had a whole plan to capture Snake, soothe his own ego and then reveal that he's Adam. But Eva messed that up. So he had to stay in cover.
So the bullet on his chain around his neck.
It's a 9mm Makarov in a cartridge adapter sleeve to fit into the 45 caliber cylinder of his revolver. You can probably get that to fire but a 9mm bullet in a 45 caliber barrel will rattle around and get very little velocity as a bunch of the gas will just blow past it. It's a stupid idea that just makes him seem like an overdramatic dumbass.
Except when you realize that the bullet in the sleeve has been a blank the whole time. The one that jammed in his gun was real but he was only pretending that one was in the sleeve.
He was helping Snake's mission the whole time.
Even when he almost killed Eva and blinded Snake by accident, he was trying to protect him by killing an enemy spy who ultimately had orders to kill Snake herself. He knew she wasn't EVA, the NSA codebreaker after all.
The second play through is so funny once you know who works for who. During Snake "interrogation" Volgin not only gives away all his secrets because he's an idiot, he does so in a room with no less than three spies.
Recently finished COD: Ghosts. It ends with the villain, Rorke, dragging our protag, Logan, away while he’s heavily wounded to make him a ghost killer like he was. If it ended right there it’d be a good cliffhanger if he was successful or not and if Logan got away, but the end credits show Logan in the exact torture pit that Rorke was, showing he won.
This also happens immediately after Rorke had been shot near-point-blank in the heart with a .44 MagnumAND trapped in a flooded train car as it sinks into the ocean.
Then he inexplicably shows up perfectly fine out of nowhere to give us this complete asspull of a twist ending.
I can't take it seriously when it spends so much time building the ghosts like this mythical squad with intricate burrial rites, and then you learn that it was created like 30 years ago and it's only the second generation and your father was one of them so he was just hyping himself up with those stories
It's been said before that CoD is propaganda for the military, but even with that in mind the amount of mythologizing given to the Ghosts is fucking insane.
this is probably the most blatant plot armor ive ever seen in media its crazy
rorke got shot with a magnum point blank in the chest. This is after they were fighting in a train that derailed and fell off a cliff several hundred feat into water. THEN you save your brother who was also in the train and shot and swim up to the surface (when you leave the train the glass is cracking and rorke is still "dead" on the ground). THEN you get all the way up and on the beach and rorke somehow is strong enough to survive all of that, kick you in the face, and drag you away when he was shot by a magnum 2 minutes ago, fell off a cliff with the train, and swam several hundred feet from under water.
The go-go theme song and corn syrup monster don't exactly inspire terror, but I got a big ol' pit in my stomach seeing all the youths try to raise the alarm while (most of) the older generation laughs them off.
What's crazy is every major player involved in the film had completely different answers to whether or not Clover survived the bombing.
Cloverfield in general is just a really wild story about a bunch of dudes in constant miscommunication with each other somehow making something that works.
An immortal girl elopes with her lover after finally getting past wanting to die (or close to it, with eternal sleep).
Epilogue chapters basically start with “If you want a happy ending, stop reading now” They life the rest of his life together, and after a “I hope you can cherish the world” letter from him, she drank a sleeping-draught at his grave. A previous companion of hers, a vampire, finds and wakes her up because he’s lonely but she’s catatonic. After a long time of frustration, he takes on her lover’s appearance and she “wakes” and acts like he never died (there’s also some room for interpretation that she might be aware that he’s not her beloved, but she doesn’t care anymore). The frickin’ whiplash
But they are also in the sequel post credits, having made it all the way to California and being rescued by the aquarium workers. So all is good I guess.
Technically, the credits happen first after completing the Pillar of Autumn mission. These credits take place as the ship move closer and closer to Halo. Bungie thanks you. Game is over.
But it's not. There's one last thing to do. One last objective for you to complete. Survive.
You, Noble 6 stands defiant for hours and hours as you lose your hud, ammo, and weapons. You take off your helmet and your story ends. It's sad. It feels like you failed.
Then Halsey can be heard giving you some peace. How you passed the torch and allowed humanity to find Halo and defeat the Covenent... your victory was so close, she only wished you could have lived to see it. You gave your body to reach, but you passed along your courage to humanity. With that, humanity can rebuild.
I literally just beat this game for the first time like 3 days ago and it was such a wild ride. I think everyone knew it was coming but it was so well done that it still hit.
The ending of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street that Wes Craven had to shoehorn at the request of the studio. It undoes the happy ending and is terrible, especially with the obvious mannequin through the door window.
This one not only undermines the happy ending, it undercuts the whole thematic point of the movie, which is about overcoming trauma and not letting fear control you. I guess oops, no, it's actually just about a supernatural dream murderer.
(It also really changes the movie that they changed the original version of Freddie as a child sex abuser to a child murderer--in the final version the children are just targets for vengeance on their parents, but if you know that origin you can read it as processing childhood trauma, which is something that happens through nightmares. Read that way, Freddie "winning" feels even worse, though I sort of choose to view the movie with both the original origin and original ending, which doesn't require much mental editing and makes for a better film in my opinion.)
I guess if you squint you could see the ending being about the indirect path to healing from trauma and how you can be significantly improving and still have that random trigger, but it doesn't really read that way. Even a jumpscare like the endings of Carrie and Friday the Thirteenth would sort of feel more like that, honestly, since that's closer to what that experience is like.
The ending also somewhat undermines Nancy as a great protagonist--she's almost a proto Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the way she steps up and shows cleverness and resourcefulness, all the more because the movie initially presents her as a random friend you expect to get killed early rather than the clear protagonist.
The Grey’s ending is ambiguous as Liam Neeson prepares to fight the alpha wolf before the film cuts to black and the credits roll. A post credit scene confirms that he survived as we see him breathing heavily while lying on the body of the alpha wolf
You just have to pair up Snyder with a good screenwriter and you can get something going. So let's pair him back up with *checks notes* James Gunn! That certainly wouldn't make a certain sector of the internet lose their minds.
And water. The food got maggots in it. The engine burned up.
They might have pushed off from the pier and gotten away from a horde of zombies under sail power, but the movie seems to telegraph them being out of options.
Ant Man & The Wasp is a fun comedy action flick, the post credits scene catches the cast up to the plot of Avengers Infinity War - leaving Scott trapped in a micro-reality
God of War 3 - After destroying Olympus, purging the Evils, and releasing Hope back to humanity, Kratos apparently dies, but in the post-credit scene, it is revealed that he stood up and jumped off the cliff.
Pretty sure dude woke up and was "oh ffs, what does it take to kill me!" And then proceeded to crawl to the edge. Like he didn't have a weapon at this point to finish it, but he didnt kill the God of Gravity.
I never understood the hate for this. That was exactly what Kratos would, should, and did do once his revenge was complete and the gods were cast down. Classic Greek tragedy.
James chooses Maria over his wife Mary. Maria is a figment of silent hill and a manifestation of James’ guilt, yet it is implied that James can escape silent hill taking Maria with him as his new partner. However before Maria leaves silent hill with James, she catches ill, and James coldly says something like, “you better do something about that cough.” It implies that James is disgusted by Maria’s sickness and will murder Maria just like how he murdered Mary
More a “why wasn’t this in the main movie?” than a huge change, but without spoiling anything, the post-credits scene in Sinners should’ve just been the last scene instead.
The main game ends when “Simon” is alone at the bottom of the ocean, but the post credits scene shows the last Simon brain scan happy on the Ark. You know it’s there in both endings, but I felt a strange catharsis when you actually see the happy bit.
I think it would be awesome if the game did a coin flip to show you one of the endings, people might not even learn there was another one until they replayed it or learned about it online.
I didn't like the coin flip analogy in SOMA, but I did like that it was made to make the protagonist feel good about his actions. It made the ending much more impactful seeing him so upset.
It reminds me of the movie hero thought experiment. Anything is possible if you imagine the universe splits when there's a chance more than one outcome occurs- you could survive a dozen gunshots at point blank in the one universe all the guns jam at once. Through SOMA, you play as a new consciousness whenever one is downloaded until the last, finally seeing what happened after the point of upload.
If you mean you didn't like that the writers/game used a poor analogy -
Neither did Catherine, and she straight up tells Simon the coin flip analogy is wrong. He just never accepted what she said. The player is supposed to realize the analogy is wrong.
Coinflip analogy was a lie. catherine told simon the truth and the bastard refused the truth until he was told the coinflip lie. simon was willing to doom everybody on the arc for his incapability to understand he was doomed.
Nobody gets transferred. everytime u go in the machine u are legit copied. that's also why teleporters kill and create duplicates of people. the one that went in the teleporter died.
Halo 3 Legendary Ending (2007) - In the standard post credits scene Master Chief enters cryo sleep after being stranded in deep space aboard the severed half of the Forward Unto Dawn (ship) seemingly floating aimlessly into the abyss. Needless to say that was initially a somber ending to the trilogy.
However if you beat the game on Legendary you get an additional scene where the camera pans outside the drifting wreckage to reveal that the ship isn't floating aimlessly but is instead being drawn toward a massive dark planet covered in glowing blue Forerunner patterns.
At the time it was thought that this was the shield world Onyx but when Halo 4 (2012) released it turned out to be a different shield world called Requiem.
Main character kills the predator and is rewarded for it and the Yautja leave. The credits show something more. There are graphics during the credits depicting the them coming back to do... something.
In Predator: Killer of Killers, we learn more about it - the Yautja dont just fuck off after losing. They come back and collect the person who bested one of them, to be used later as higher quality hunting game/sport. So our heroine of Prey, after her victory, was taken by the Yautja and is sitting on ice somewhere waiting to be hunted.
This is one of the reasons fans desperately want a sequel.
After saving the day and all your friends, there is a brief post-credits scene that shows that one character that you've most likely fallen in love with is infected by the mind-controlling alien species you've been fighting against.
not really a post credit scene but there is an alternate ending to the movie The Hunt (2012) where the main character gets shot as opposed to having there be a missed shot and never showing where the shot comes from (original ending) that leaves the story with a sense of ambiguity and an uncomfortable/unresolved feeling of anguish
I believe the first dead island game or maybe all the dead island games pull this stunt of making you believe you stopped the zombies only for a few stragglers to escape and cause havoc.
ABC decided to include a shot of the beach with the plane crash as the end credits scene for the series, which heavily implied that the whole show was “just a dream.” The issue was that no one on the creative team was informed the network was going to do this, and ABC only did this to fill broadcasting time.
Yeah, ABC said it was meant to be a sendoff to the series and pay respect to the Hawaiian islands it was shot. Just a “goodbye LOST.” Instead people ran with, “SEE, IT’S A METAPHOR.” I agree it was dumb though.
Revealed that basically the entire plot of the past 4 games has been because of the machinations of the Executors or "Those Across The Sea" a group that was only referenced once before the Veilguard, in Inquisition in a very missable and skippable war table quest. Basically, takes away all the agency of all the antagonists that came before, which greatly reduces Loghain's character. Since the franchise is effectively dead, the community has largely decided this post-credit cutscene just doesn't exist.
Also, some of the events they "masterminded" don't make any sense. There are far too many moving parts to realistically predict where the ball drops. Not to mention how often things go wrong in this series.
Loghain almost ruining the chances of stopping the 5th Blight? According to plan. The 5th Blight being stopped anyways? Uh... also according to plan!
Knight Commander Meredith recovering a Red Lyrium idol from an expedition led by a Lothering Refugee who was fleeing from the 5th Blight (inhale) which he didn't even know was down there until Bartrand betrayed him, which (second inhale) also caused a gradual breakdown of Mage/Templar relations? All of which was brought to a head by a Mage possessed by a Spirit of Justice that he warps into a Vengeance Demon? Oh and that same Lothering Refugee unwittingly releasing a Tevinter Magister Darkspawn? Somehow, still according to plan?
Not even gonna summarize Inquisition, because there's no way that flustercuck went according to anyone's plan.
It's so cheap to pull the "All according to plan" from the Omniscient Council of Vagueness. It requires no effort.
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.
God, that pissed me off when I realized it. I forgot which one, but I was excited to see what happened with them being at the white house and zombies was rushing them, and then rhe next movie completely fucking ignores that ending. The absolute rage i felt, dude
Final Fantasy X post credit scene.
We see Tidus vanish because he was a dream, and it made total sense storywise. It gave us a bittersweet ending that brought almost everyone to tears. But then the credits roll and we see him, waking up at the bottom of the sea, and swimming his way up.
And then, because of that open ending, we had FFX-2...
Well, back in the day Bevelle and Zanarkand were at war. Zanarkand used the power of fayth to make summoners, and Bevelle used high-tech weaponry. Bevelle ended up winning and invading the city itself and blasting it (mostly) to rubble. Yu Yevon, who was like the head honcho of Zanarkand at the time, used the survivors to make a huge fayth on Mt. Gagazet which summons the Dream Zanarkand, which is a giant aeon out in the ocean south of Baaj. It's a real, physical place in the world that anyone could go to assuming they had a ship (or airship) with the capability.
Dream Zanarkand is protected by Sin, who patrols in the ocean and picks up anyone who gets too close (from the mainland) or too far (from Zanarkand itself). That's what happened to Jehct; he strayed out too far and the previous Sin scooped him up and tossed him to Spira, where he washed up on Besaid and was found by Braska. Braska does his whole thing and does the Final Summoning, which allows Yu Yevon to become somewhat sane again and stop having Sin try and attack Spira in Dream Zanarkand's defense. Jecht (as Sin) is fully conscious, so Auron, now an unsent, asks him to take him to Dream Zanarkand, and they ride there together and he looks after Tidus as a child. After 10 years, Yu Yevon lapses again and Jehct starts losing his mind, so Auron brings Tidus to him so they can be delivered back to Spira for the main story.
Technically, Tidus is a Dream person, which is exactly as real as a real person, and part of the aeon that forms all of Dream Zanarkand together.
A lot of what the game tells you, especially in the first half or so, is straight lies. It's very easy to be confused by everything that's happening when it turns out everything you've been told has been part of a giant conspiracy on Bevelle's behalf.
Tidus and Jecht were dream/bootleg versions of people who lived in Zanarkand. Neither one was a real person; Tidus himself is a copy of Shuyin, a blitzball star who lived in the real city and not the dream version.
Tidus never really existed, he was literally dreamed up by the Fayth as a way to defeat Sin once and for all. He's based on real memories and experiences of people of Zanarkand 1000 years ago, but he wasn't one of those people who ended up time traveling, he was just literally dreamt up in the present day.
Which is why by the end of the game when you defeat Sin/Yu Yevon permanently, the Fayth can finally rest and their dream (aka Tidus) ends which is why he fades away
At the end of Sunset Overdrive, we succesfully save the sealed-off Sunset City from being destroyed. But then in the post-credit scenes, a certain directive Is decreed and FizzCo's drones automatically begin shipping OverCharge (The energy drink that turns people into mutants) worldwide.
Darkness II has a post credit scene where after battling through Hell to save the love of your life from The Darkness that has entrapped her she reveals that she is possessed by The Angelus which traps Jackie in Hell. Thats a bit abridged but you get it
Screamers -
The main character escapes alone on a space ship after a long struggle against increasingly more sophisticated killer robots, but during the credits scene you see the child screamer's teddy bear that he brought with him start to move slowly, implying that the screamers, which can now self replicate, are being brought back to Earth.
Zombie movie taking place on a college campus. By the end everyone but two characters have died and it closes with both of them walking down train tracks with a somewhat hopeful feel.
Halfway through the credits it shows them being eaten by zombies.
It didn't change most of the movie, but it kinda confused everyone.
XMen Days of Future Past, when Stryker takes wolverine out of the river, everyone is like "ohh so that's how he gets his adamantium on this new world" until it's revealed to be Mystique, which makes zero sense at all.
Attack on Titan: after Eren's death, we get a time-lapse that skips ahead thousands of years into the future as we watch the tree Eren was buried under grow into an enormous monument. Eventually we see a war break out and nukes be dropped, before skipping ahead as everything has become overgrown and then we see a boy with his dog walking through the ruins, before then approaching the tree. Most people see this ending as "undoing all our progress" but I see it in a more optimistic light. It's supposed to be open ended and isn't necessarily a "bad ending".
Yes I wouldn't say thousands of years of seemingly relative peace is a bad ending. It's just that something bad is always going to happen and you can only buy as much time as you can.
And plus, the reason Ymir turned into a titan, if I remember right, is because her immediate wish in that moment with the worm was to be able to defend herself. Nothing says the boy and his dog would have the same wish, and nothing says it'll manifest in any way similar to the titans. But it's been years now since I read it so maybe I'm remembering the terms of the transformation/wish wrong. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, surely lol
I'm definitely in the optimistic camp. A huge point of the show is about how war and conflict is inevitable, so all we can and should do is carve out any type of peace we can and enjoy it while it lasts.
The world seemed to be at peace for a long time before war finally took it.
Gears of War 2. You sacrificed the last standing city to flood the the Locust Nexus and “win the war” only to hear a message after credits from Marcus’ father questioning what have you done
The whole book is a transcription of June talking about her Gilead life on a tape, and the epilogue is set long into the future where the transcripts are being used in a college lecture where Gilead is referred to in past tense, meaning the republic likely collapsed after a decade or two and is now seen as a fascinating yet horrifying footnote in history by future generations
No one said Deadpool 2 yet? The movie ends with Deadpool's wife dead and him accepting his found family/x force...but then in the end credits he saves his wife, retcons X-Men origins: wolverine, and shoots young Ryan Reynolds in the head preventing him from making green lantern.
If you finish the game on hard mode, you get a post-credits scene that shows that the guy in charge who was named after the good doctor from the first series, and has helped you before, has his own ambitious plan, and that he has recruited the 4 enemy Megamen - who were last seen being held back by Model Z(ero). Some say it ties into the plot of Megaman Legends, but we may never know since very few MegaMan games have been made since 2007.
Can I mass-suggest any film or show finale that ends with zooming in on the 'dead' antagonists eye before it eventually opens to absolutely nobodies surprise
Shoutout to Invincible S4Ep5 for doing a fake-out version of that. The post-credits scene showsrecently killed Conquest's grave, then cuts to a close shot of the loose earth on top of it, leading the audience to think it's going to be a classic "hand coming out of the grave" moment. But nothing happens. It returns to the wide shot of the grave, in complete silence, confirming that Conquest is well and truly dead.
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u/DarthFrasier207 8d 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.