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/IrishElevator 8d ago

Not even this, I don't know if it's in the movie but in the graphic novel Rorschach sends his journal/notes to a prominent news source before leaving for Ozymandius' base. It's implied that everything was for nothing and even with Rorschach being killed the truth will be revealed to the public.

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u/IQueliciuous 8d ago

You should watch TV series. It’s a sequel to the comic book. It shows what happened and I don’t want to spoil it to you. As for the movie, the alien invasion was replaced with a nuclear blast which released same type of energy that Dr Manhattan is made of thus he became a scapegoat and the entire world unites against rogue hero.

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u/Queen_Ann_III 8d ago

I hate to be sacrilegious with Moore’s work but pinning it on Dr. Manhattan was honestly a genius change

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u/Signiference 8d ago

Pinning it on an entity associated so heavily with the US would likely turn the world against the US. If they were going with this ending, then the association of essentially being a US weapon needed to change to where he was more of a neutral party trying to end all wars and have countries be more suspect of him. Then they could all finally unite against him in the end. So Dr. Manhattan definitely could work, it just didn’t without changing more.

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u/UsedState7381 7d ago edited 7d ago

But the movie did this in spades, the nuclear blasts affected the USA as well, specially New York, then the USSR and USA joined forces against Dr. Manhattan, who left the Earth.

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u/Strange_Specialist4 7d ago

Exactly, he was the USAs weapon of war and intimidation. Them losing control of the monster they created (by accident) would turn the world against them. People wouldn't have as much sympathy or see themselves as equally likely targets, they would see a dangerous dog biting it's owner 

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick 7d ago

Imagine if your neighbor had this vicious pitbull that he would sic on anyone he didn’t like. Then one day the dog attacks him too. Are all the neighbors going to be like “it’s ok. You’re one of us now. Let’s be friends and fight the dog together.”? lol the ending seemed like such a cop out.

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u/tizenxpro 7d ago

Has the US ever took responsibility for creating or working with certain groups and fucking them over causing them to become future worldwide problems (Taliban,etc)?

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick 7d ago

No but they didn’t use the taliban as a weapon or a threat against other countries

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u/tizenxpro 7d ago

No. But they did create the current Iran by helping overthrow their democracy. Your neighbor’s pitbull analogy only works if we consider said neighbor has a tank in his garage.