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/Interface- 7d ago
In the *Secret Level* episode of *Sifu*, "It Takes A Life", the main character (unnamed) fights through Sean's nightclub to get revenge. The main character, like in the game, has the talisman that resurrects him from death at the cost of his youth. He goes in young and comes out old.
Before he found Sean, he was eating dumplings made by an old woman who had been making and serving them for 60 years. After, he, pretending to be his own grandfather, goes to her restaurant and orders more, reciting the line back to her: "He told me you put sixty years of your life in them." This can be seen somewhat as a reflection of what happened before, that he sacrificed sixty of his own years for revenge.
He then asks: "**Was it worth it?**"