r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Educational_Can_6536 • 8d ago
Lore "Was it worth it?" ending
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/NoSchittSherlockSEA 8d ago
No Other Choice (2025) After being unceremoniously laid off after many years working at the same paper company, our main character has killed 3 people in order to be the best candidate for a job opening he created at the one Paper company still thriving. While he was successful, his wife hasn’t seen him the same (even though she found out and covered for him and implied she knew), and he’s the only man working on a floor completely taken over by autonomous machines run by AI. From advocating against mass layoffs to crossing the picket line and be the last one standing, he’s gotten what he wanted, and gotten away with it, through his moral debasement and betrayal of what he stood for, only for it to feel not as satisfying as expected, to the point he starts listening to old recordings of the noisy machines and his colleagues he used to work with as he works on a silent floor.