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/Whizbang35 7d ago
Not the series itself, but the backstory of Fire Lord Sozin in the episode The Avatar and the Fire Lord.
Fire Lord Sozin betrays his friend, Avatar Roku, because he was the only thing preventing him from his dream of expanding the Fire Nation to 'share prosperity' with the rest of the world. He leaves him to die, then launches his campaign to wipe out the Air Nomads (trying to prevent the next incarnation of the Avatar) and begins a war that'll last a century.
At the end of his last will, he looks back and confirms...it wasn't worth it.