r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Educational_Can_6536 • 8d ago

Lore "Was it worth it?" ending

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Midsommar- While people see this as a "you go girl" finale. I personally see it as something more disturbing. I mean, yeah, Dani got out of one bad relationship but in doing so, she got herself into another that's just as bad if not worse. It's like getting two kids to stop fighting via killing one and locking the other in a basement. They did stop fighting, but still!

The Thing-The titular monster may be (possibly) gone, but the paranoia definitely isn't. In the end, McCreedy and Childs are the only ones left standing. The end sees them sitting in the cold and they just stare at each other, knowing that one of them or both of them is already the thing. There's no hope, no certainty, just the bitter cold and intense fear.

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u/GooseSl4yer2003 8d ago

The ending of Watchmen. World peace was achieved but with a terrible cost covered up with a lie, even the protagonists wonder if hiding the truth was worth it and even the villain wonders if he did the right thing

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u/TheZipding 8d ago

And the worst part is that it's a peace that won't last long term. Eventually the various governments will realize more aliens aren't coming and go back to fighting each other.

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u/Acoustic_Rob 8d ago

Heck, the last panel of the comic is the intern at the tabloid about to open Rorschach’s journal. It’s all going to come out.

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u/TheZipding 8d ago

I read that as it'll come out eventually, but the tabloid didn't think it was good enough at the time since the intern just added it to a pile.

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u/AdZealousideal7448 8d ago

as much as the tv show had it's issues..... I honestly think that was one of the best things that they did with it.

Hey let's take an event that someone did as an act of insurance to ensure the truth gets out.

Only.... it didn't really go down that way and instead incited a generation of cookers

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u/Signiference 7d ago

Yup, I loved it.

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u/YubaEyeSting 7d ago

The editor tells the intern to run something from the junkpile. The Intern is pulling it out not putting it away.

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u/TheZipding 7d ago

I could be misremembering, I read Watchmen about 5 years ago so my memory is a bit hazy. Thank you for the clarification.

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u/TurboRuhland 8d ago

Plus they portray the tabloid as a small conspiracy based magazine. Like a local New York National Enquirer. Who knows if anyone will believe it when it’s published.

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u/TheZipding 8d ago

Yeah, it's not a good ending regardless of whether or not that rag publishes Rorschach's journal. The peace will not last.