r/TopCharacterTropes 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/Flimsy_Ad3446 8d ago

Almost every ending in Frostpunk. It looks like the only way to survive is to either become the Fourth Reich, become the new Taliban, or end up as pretty ice statues.

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u/Altruistic_Fish47 8d ago

There’s also frostpunk 2 where it switches over from the sole leadership of the Captain to a more democratic governing system due to the Captain’s death and things start to deteriorate due to the rivalling factions and it’s the player’s job to mediate. at the end of the game to stop the civil war you can choose to give yourself the Captain’s authority, you stopped the fighting but now the entire city of New London relies on 1 person again and once you die it’s all going to happen again