Crappy Endings

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

So your reading a story you like, maybe its awesome maybe it's okay, but either way you like it. And then you find out it's putting out its final chapter and you read it expecting a satisfying end to a good story.

But instead what you get is a steaming pile of shit shoved right down your throat.

Post your experiences here, spoilers ahoy!






For me: I recently finished the Mirai Nikki manga. The I could live with the somewhat bitter sweet happy ending with Yuuno dying and Yukki going catatonic while the 3rd world got a good end but imping it will all happen again, it sorta fit the theme.

And then there was asspull after the fake credits that just came out of nowhere. Giant!Yuuno breaking into the 3rd universe with the biscuit hammer, Yuuno pretty much comes back from the dead in a way that could have been used originally to avoid the entire 3rd world bit, Deus apoints both Yukki and Yuuno as co-gods which pretty much invalidates everything that after Akise's death, hell even before that since if there can be 2 than there could be more. Though I have to admit the little bit with Minene's flying babies gave me a chuckle.

 

[ragnarok1337]

When I first saw you use the name Yuuno, I thought of the one from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Yes, THAT Yuuno.

Anyway, as for a Bad End...I'm not into very bad endings, but how the Elfen Lied anime ended...just, on a cliffhanger. We don't know what happens, it just gets cut off after Lucy supposedly Dies.

The manga has an even MORE WTF ending than the anime, or so I hear. I haven't read it.

 

[bissek]

Zombie Powder didn't really have an ending. It just stopped. Then Kubo went on to write Bleach instead.

Gunsmith Cats Burst had a lousy ending. Goldie goes unpunished, Percy goes unpunished, Misty remains a brainwashed sex toy of Goldie's, Roy leaves Chicago just to get away from Percy, Rally gives up bounty hunting after the rest of her team leaves to follow their own interests.

 

[gral]

Gunsmith Cats Burst had a lousy ending. Goldie goes unpunished, Percy goes unpunished, Misty remains a brainwashed sex toy of Goldie's, Roy leaves Chicago just to get away from Percy, Rally gives up bounty hunting after the rest of her team leaves to follow their own interests.

The impression I had was Sonoda just gave up on the story.

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

Gunsmith Cats Burst had a lousy ending. Goldie goes unpunished, Percy goes unpunished, Misty remains a brainwashed sex toy of Goldie's, Roy leaves Chicago just to get away from Percy, Rally gives up bounty hunting after the rest of her team leaves to follow their own interests.

The impression I had was Sonoda just gave up on the story.

Well, now i know not to try finishing that series.

 

[Croaker]

I thought the end to Inu Neko Jump was pretty crap.

 

[daniel_gudman]

I thought the end to Inu Neko Jump was pretty crap.

Yeah, it... it lacked pizazz. Like the author didn't really know what to do. I mean, OK they're together or whatever, but... it lacked.

 

[Python453]

I found the ending to the animated Arrancar arc in Bleach to be somewhat disappointing.

And way to set up a filler arc.

It made me want to :sick3:

 

[GenocideHeart]

The original Fallout 3 ending.

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EDIT: Also, I'm assuming non-manga are allowed, since this is the General forum...

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

The original Fallout 3 ending.

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EDIT: Also, I'm assuming non-manga are allowed, since this is the General forum...

Go aheadd when did I ever limit it to manga/anime?

 

[bissek]

The anime ending of Chrono Crusade was just plain lousy. The villain effectively won - because Rosette and Chrono tried to stop him. If they had written Joshua off, they would have lost. And the last third of the anime is pretty much dependent on Rosette undergoing massive character derailment.

 

[Croaker]

The original Fallout 3 ending.

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EDIT: Also, I'm assuming non-manga are allowed, since this is the General forum...

Go aheadd when did I ever limit it to manga/anime?

Oh well in that case Chrono Cross except that's more of a crappy game.

 

[Mick]

 

[goldenarms]

When I first saw you use the name Yuuno, I thought of the one from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Yes, THAT Yuuno.

Anyway, as for a Bad End...I'm not into very bad endings, but how the Elfen Lied anime ended...just, on a cliffhanger. We don't know what happens, it just gets cut off after Lucy supposedly Dies.

The manga has an even MORE WTF ending than the anime, or so I hear. I haven't read it.

Well, the director for Elfen Lied hated Nozomi and cut her her out entirely, even though she's the reason why the show is called Elfen Lied. The anime ends at the halfway point of the manga, and omits pretty much everything about Lucy's degeneration (and Kohta's remembrance of the events on the train when he was eight, which also sinks the Kohta/Lucy ship big time).

Hated FFX-2 normal ending. Brother turns out to be really creepy in the game with his Yuna-obessessed love (which Rikku smartly cockblocks at every turn), and if you couldn't be assed to complete every frikking thing in the game, you end up with the scene where Yuna just fuels his obsession with comments like, "Brother, higher!" Brother, Faster!" and he sounds like he's about to pop his cork every time he screams "Rrrogerrrr!" <_<

I swear, if anyone started panting, I was chucking the game into the trash.

Fanfiction side, I utterly hated how Lord of the Land of Fire's story, The True Monster ends. I grew to loathe the story before then, but someone mentioned that Naruto dies at the end, which was good enough to make me read it again (yes, I wanted Naruto to die a horrible, horrible death). I was greatly disappointed after a scene where it seemed the god-mode Naruto wasn't going to get his way, and would end up getting pwned in spite of all his power ups. Nope; karma Houdinis into a deus ex machina that defeats Moka's father, who was curbstomping his shit quite nicely, and then he goes on to reunite with Moka and wipe out Konoha a year later with a hundred vampire Fox-ified clones.

:no:

Final Fantasy VIII, hated the ending. The very existence of the game depended on a paradoxical time loop, and only because of this is why the ending sucks. Literally, Squall was railroaded from the outset, and you'd swear everyone but him was in on it, too.

Sin City: That Yellow Bastard. Somehow, Hartigan, killing yourself to protect Nancy just doesn't seem like the right thing to do. Especially since your nemesis is Roarke, who can find out about her anyway.

 

[knight_of_ni]

Lord of the Land of Fire occasionally comes up with something interesting, but he generally sucks in execution. I remember reading one of his Elfen Lied fics, and seeing that the author wanted us to feel sympathy for Lucy after she brutally murders some random people and is pretty sadistic about it. If he went about it in a different light, the premise would have been interesting. Another was the one where regular Moka didn't enter into the equation. It was fairly interesting, but he never quite got things right, and the punishment period just served to force the pairing that was pretty obvious.

The thing with Sin City, well, his enemy was after him, and only him. Killing the family/loved ones is okay if you are trying to get them pissed, or just cause suffering, generally most villains wouldn't follow up on it as intensely enough to go after them after they have died, though. That is the logic, anyway. The villain, who's name I can't spell, in No Country For Old Men is kind of an exception in that regard, in that he goes out of his way to hunt down the guy's wife after he died to follow up on the threat he said earlier in the movie.

 

[goldenarms]

The thing with Sin City, well, his enemy was after him, and only him. Killing the family/loved ones is okay if you are trying to get them pissed, or just cause suffering, generally most villains wouldn't follow up on it as intensely enough to go after them after they have died, though. That is the logic, anyway. The villain, who's name I can't spell, in No Country For Old Men is kind of an exception in that regard, in that he goes out of his way to hunt down the guy's wife after he died to follow up on the threat he said earlier in the movie.

True, but still, if you're going to go down, go down trying (or succeeding) to kill the bastard. John Creasy from Man on Fire, goes this exact route, violently putting to rest everyone he can find in connection to the kidnapping (and assumed death) of his charge Pita as well as those that profited from it.

It just seems wasteful, since Hartigan's time is already numbered, he will die forever known as a pedophile and Roarke will remain a problem long after Hartigan's gone. Keep one round for yourself, just in case you fail miserably and they try capturing you, instead of turning you into a STOP sign that's around hunters with new guns they want to try out.

 

[shiki]

Ai Yori Aoshi.

Good beginning, good middle, decent protagonist with crappy background, and likable female lead. Decent side characters.

Crap ending that made no real sense ruins the whole thing. I just ignore the whole last arc because it was built up only for the conclusion to be like... wtf!rage.

 

[grant]

Kurozuka anime: Utterly pointless. It was literally pointless. I don't know how the manga ends but the anime ending was totally pointless. Maybe they didn't know how it was going to end when the anime aired but still...bleh.

Code Geass R2: I've never been a fan of the idea of 'unite the world against me so it'll be at peace' because that has little basis in reality. In any case seeing Ohgi and co. happy with the E.U so pointless and a truckload of unanswered questions made me actually shout.

Gundam Seed Destiny: Gundam Seed (for all its flaws) had an alright ending in my opinion. Gundam Seed Destiny did not. 'nuff said.

Death Note: Going to be honest. This may be the first time that I've thought the movie handled it better than the original writer (wow, that is a first for me).

 

[knight_of_ni]

Kurozuka anime: Utterly pointless. It was literally pointless. I don't know how the manga ends but the anime ending was totally pointless. Maybe they didn't know how it was going to end when the anime aired but still...bleh.

Wait, what? Nah, that was actually closer to the beginning of the manga, from what I remember. The endless repeat thing was set up earlier in the manga than in the anime, before the main loses his memories after losing his head and becomes a complete an utter asshole as a result. Just be grateful there isn't any vampire Jesus in the anime, like the manga had. Though, that is somewhat surprising, given the amount of stupid stuff they included in the anime (no jet propelled swords or the two headed person), without much explanation. Still is one of my favorite anime, though.

 

[bissek]

Psychic Academy. The anime stops a third of the way through the story (The villain hadn't even been introduced yet), right after the plot twist that complicates the hero's relationship with the two primary members of his harem is revealed. The manga, on the other hand, resolves the harem with Ai deciding to spend his life emotionally true to the memory of the late Suzumi "Mew" Watabe. It also implies that Ai might become some sort of villain in the future with his statement of "The one who decides the future of the Aura will be me. And if Mew and I don't like what we see, I will bring this world to an end."

 

[SimmyC]

Hmm. Strange, I'm having a hard time thinking of series, movies, books, etc. with what I thought was a crappy ending. Not because I never encountered it (I have two I can think of off the top of my head) but, probably because they're so bad, I've been blocking the memories of said series and endings from my memory. Well that and some series are just bad in general, the ending alone didn't make it suck. They just sucked.

Well, the two I mentioned that I can think of off the top of my head are... I didn't like the old school PC adventure game Phantasmagoria's ending. Besides showing the limitations and issues of FMV games, after doing all the stuff to complete the game, getting through the hardships with the characters and their B-movie acting, it just, ends. Character walks out, over. Wut? No epilogue? Nothing?

On the anime side, I might say Gungrave the anime. Though a part of it can be blamed IMO due to poor planning and story telling. So they start the first episode in the 'present', but most of the series is a flashback. Now, for me, I thought the flashback was meh, and was hoping to get to what was happening in the present. But when it got there, the present (and in turn the ending) sucked even more. So after having this long build up with the flashback, they bring out a mediocre ending? Especially with the bad guy having his moment of 'boohoo, where did things go wrong? I'm not really a bad guy, it just happend' scene? Bah!

I probably have other examples. My mind is just deciding they'ed stay forgotten. :sisi:

 

[Python453]

Harry Potter, Book 7. I could've lived without the epilogue.

 

[fuyu]

There was this one book, fairly recently written within the past year I think. Humans versus aliens. Aliens have superior bombardment capability from orbit, but their infantry and air support suck ballz. Human infantry is superior in tactics and their level of armor is comparable. So ground clashes usually are won by humans, but then they end up getting bombed. As for why the aliens didn't just bomb the whole world? They wanted to enslave and colonize Earth. So when alien commander finally makes decision to go and bomb indiscriminately anything and everything, fucking vampires come out and lol!wtf!hax! happens. Seriously, hundreds of pages of a sci-fi story where humans are the underdogs and fighting tooth and nail and are dying while taking as many enemies as possible with them, and fucking vampires come out to save the day. Not just any vampire either, but the big daddy of them all Dracula. He and his minions hitch a fucking ride on the outside of retreating alien crafts and take over the mothership. Damned ridiculous end to a book that could've been great. Seriously, vampires?

 

[Prince Charon]

Harry Potter, Book 7. I could've lived without the epilogue.

A lot of people would've liked to go without Book 7, or 6 for that matter, after reading it, but it seems pretty clear that the epilogue make it that much worse.

 

[Croaker]

There was this one book, fairly recently written within the past year I think. Humans versus aliens. Aliens have superior bombardment capability from orbit, but their infantry and air support suck ballz. Human infantry is superior in tactics and their level of armor is comparable. So ground clashes usually are won by humans, but then they end up getting bombed. As for why the aliens didn't just bomb the whole world? They wanted to enslave and colonize Earth. So when alien commander finally makes decision to go and bomb indiscriminately anything and everything, fucking vampires come out and lol!wtf!hax! happens. Seriously, hundreds of pages of a sci-fi story where humans are the underdogs and fighting tooth and nail and are dying while taking as many enemies as possible with them, and fucking vampires come out to save the day. Not just any vampire either, but the big daddy of them all Dracula. He and his minions hitch a fucking ride on the outside of retreating alien crafts and take over the mothership. Damned ridiculous end to a book that could've been great. Seriously, vampires?

Hoooooly shit I need the title of this book because it sounds amazing.

The Phantom anime is pretty good up until like the last 90 seconds of it whereupon it takes a gigantic shit on itself.