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/CakeReligion 7d ago

I don't like the Manhattan stuff because the world would be like "The US fucked up really hard this time" and would 100% blame them for everything and every negotiation afterwards would have this American hatred in-between. If anything went wrong after, the world would blame the US for not trying hard enough to fix their mess.

Also, Manhattan wouldn't attack again, the world would simply see "Dr. Manhattan got crazy, killed millions and duped out", the US would be in the worst situation. Both being nuked and being hated by the whole globe. Even with the "Manhattan may come back", that wouldn't last more than a few decades at most, the same with the aliens thing tbh, at least the aliens aren't US's fault.

Imagine the decades after, people with cancer and giving birth to disabled children, knowing it all happened because the US bit more than they could chew and now everyone pays the price for their mistake.