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Ending Aversion

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Ending Aversion	comment	This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. When people get involved in a story, many have the basic expectation that it will have a satisfactory ending. This, in and of itself, is not unjustified: no matter how good Acts One and Two are, if Act Three is unsatisfying, that is all that the people outside the theater will be talking about. The thing is, so much conspires against a satisfactory conclusion. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Maybe the show was Screwed by the Network and was canceled before any of the questions it raised could be answered. Maybe as time went on, the story collected so many elements that there was no possible way that they could do each justice. Maybe it was the first part of a series left unfinished by the now-deceased or bored author. Maybe the Series Goal was never achieved. Maybe the writers just plain ran themselves out of creativity by the end of it, and so much Fanon Discontinuity is claimed, you could swear the fandom was composed solely of historical revisionists. Maybe the whole thing devolved into such unspeakable surreality that tainted the rest of the experience. Maybe you know that in-universe material taking place later in continuity actually makes any happy part of the ending a study in Fridge Horror. An exceptionally bad Cruel Twist Ending, Sudden Downer Ending and/or Esoteric Happy Ending can also be the cause. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Hearing about all these things makes many people very wary. No one wants to spend dozens of hours dedicating themselves to something that will leave them slowly disappointed. Maybe the overall experience would have more than compensated for any supposed deficiencies of the ending, but the potential viewer has been scared off. This is Ending Aversion. Now, of course, someone could make an attempt to keep watching it for as long as they liked it, then turn it off when they didn't. When someone becomes too attached to the characters and the whole story, however, that's easier said than done. This, then, often results in the viewer going online to complain about what happened in the story... and the cycle begins anew. Ironically, the biggest contributor to Ending Aversion might just be those who consider themselves the most hardcore fans of a work. Criticism is fun to read and to write and fan discussion will inevitably lead to someone choosing to Accentuate the Negative of the shows they love: "They Changed It, Now It Sucks!", "It was better when all the mysteries were still up in the air.", "It was great when it started, but the last couple of seasons never happened", "The movie was actually pretty good until the ending ruined it", and so on. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })And well, it's hard to say that we're not somewhat to blame either. If a work is avoided because of a Downer Ending, that is Angst Aversion. Compare to Hype Aversion and The Firefly Effect (wariness of committing to a new show, as opposed to one that has concluded). See also Awesomeness Withdrawal. Contrast Ending Fatigue when the audience starts wanting the story to end. Warning: Ending SPOILERS below.
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Ending Aversion / int_104b5e68	comment	The Pendragon Adventure: Book eight raised some serious Timey-Wimey Ball questions and was considered inferior to most material preceding it, and books nine and ten are widely considered to be rot because they fail to adequately explain several plot threads, flat-out ignore others, throw in Villain Decay for the series' Big Bad, and hit the Reset Button to pair up the author's preferred couple (and drop a bridge on an Ensemble Dark Horse).
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Ending Aversion / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: After a divisive third season, the final one, which opens with the death of Mary Watson is generally agreed to be a major dip in quality (with a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes from both Audience and Critics). In particular, the finale revolves around the convoluted backstory of Sherlock and Mycroft's even more clever sister and her last-minute redemption.
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Ending Aversion / int_11b7db91	comment	While it was received well by critics, the ending of Adventure Time received a mixed reception from fans. Some fans praised the ending for being a satisfying conclusion for the series and officialy confirming Princess Bubblegum and Marceline's relationship as canon, but others hated it and considers it an incomplete ending for not having a battle between PB's army and the Candy Kingdom Haters (which were teased at the end of the previous episode before the finale), GOLB not having any character and just being a Generic Doomsday Villain who does nothing, the absence of the Lich, Finn being reduced to a secondary character and a Distressed Dude alongside Simon and Betty during the final battle, the Downer Ending between Simon and Betty's relationship, many plot points being left unsolved, the lack of closure of Finn's relationship with Huntress Wizard (doesn't help that most of the characters have some sort of romantic moment during the episode) and the lack of any scenes with Finn in the ending montage other than the last scene, with other characters such as PB and Marcy getting more focus. With the announcement of the Distant Lands sequel miniseries, fans are hoping that most of these issues get addressed. The post-finale comics somewhat reduce some of these issues. While Season 11 ends with a somewhat decent closure to Finn and the implication that he and Huntress Wizard are still dating, the ending of Marcy and Simon got a very mixed reception. While some are happy that Simon and Betty are finally together, others feel like it negates part of the finale since her sacrifice to save everyone from GOLB was rendered pointless. Sadly, this also applies to the Distant Lands special "Together Again". While it's considered the definitive closure to Finn and Jake's story, most of the problems of the finale, like Finn's love life not getting closure again and Finn not beating the final villain, this time being the returning Lich are still present here, plus with new problems like Finn's life after the finale being open, him not getting any character development since the series ended and becoming secretly suicidal for years, waiting for death so that he can be with Jake again being added, which soured some fans. Not helping matters is that the previous special, "Obsidian", gave more closure to Princess Bubblegum and Marceline than Finn by adressing most of their unresolved plot threads. And since this is the end of Finn and Jake's story, leaving these problems unsolved resulted in a finale that's equally as unsatisfying and divisive as "Come Along With Me".
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Ending Aversion / int_11cbe32d	comment	The Ballad of Halo Jones was planned as a nine-issue comic, but got cancelled after just three, due to a dispute between Alan Moore and his publisher. So, we never got to see Halo's full journey.
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Ending Aversion / int_11ef4051	comment	Outlast II: Blake fails to save Lynn as she dies in childbirth. Afterwards, cult leader Knoth tells Blake that his child is The Antichrist and there is nothing they can do to stop it. Knoth and all his remaining followers then commit mass suicide and Blake attempts to escape but then the sun explodes. What's worse is the sun exploding is implied to a hallucination, leaving Blake's fate a mystery. Outlast: The Murkoff Account explains some of what is actually going on. Basically, Lynn experienced a psychosomatic (aka fake) pregnancy, the baby she gave birth to wasn't real, and Blake, Knoth, and Knoth's followers are just all collectively hallucinating due to being driven insane via a brainwashing experiment over the radio. However, the comic also explains that Blake, while alive, has been dragged off to be experimented on by Murkoff. Either way, the protagonists are either dead or very likely doomed.
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Ending Aversion / int_160b4833	comment	The Clone High finale set up the first high-stakes conflict of the show, kickstarted a new romance, and ended with the entire cast getting frozen solid. Unfortunately the first season was cancelled due to low ratings and controversy; a reboot is in the process, but it's unclear if they'll resolve this cliffhanger or start from scratch.
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Ending Aversion / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony somehow managed to top DR3 in controversy with Chapter 6 and the final trial. Aside from the mastermind being fairly controversial compared to Junko Enoshima, it's revealed that the entire situation is all the 53rd season of a reality TV show, and the sixteen students were all normal people with fake personalities implanted in them. That in itself is bad enough, but then it criticizes and lampoons the fanbase for enjoying the series and its fictional characters and wanting more killing games. It doesn't help that in Japanese, the meaning behind "V3" (the number 53) is read as "gomi" or "trash". It had become so controversial, it was one of the many arguments used during debates where fans accused Kodaka of trying to Torch the Franchise and Run after it was revealed that he would leave the Danganronpa team after this game.
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Ending Aversion / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack: Creator Genndy Tartakovsky, originally intended for a movie to end the series. The film kept getting hit with Development Hell until it was ultimately decided to make it a fifth season instead several years later on Adult Swim. Season 5 was well-received but became divisive because of its Cruel Twist Ending where Ashi disappears due to Aku (her father) being destroyed before she was conceived, denying Jack a true Happy Ending. While it makes sense as a solution to what would otherwise be a paradox, it only brings up the other paradox of if Future Jack came back to the past and killed Aku shortly AFTER Past Jack had been flung into the future, how would Future Jack have come back to the past at all? Ashi wouldn't have existed in the future, because Aku was killed, but she was the one who brought Jack back to the past. You end up in a logic loop of "If Ashi exists, Jack erases Ashi's existence, but if Ashi doesn't exist, Jack can't erase Ashi's existence, allowing Ashi to exist. Three years after the series ended, Adult Swim Games and Genndy Tartakovsky released Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time to the public. Collecting every Corrupted Emperor's Kamon in the game and fighting Aku unlocks a revised version of the show's ending, this time with Ashi surviving and marrying Jack, ending the series with them sitting under the cherry tree. Said game is considered canon to the show.
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Ending Aversion / int_19ac6443	comment	Zot!, for quite a while. (The final set of print issues, representing Zot's adventures on our Earth, and often described as some of the best work of the series, was not collected in trade form until later.)
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Ending Aversion / int_19b50800	comment	Haven: Call of the King is one of the most infamous examples in video game history, as the game ends with Haven being betrayed by his best friend Chess, who was a mole for Lord Vetch all along, Athelion being killed and Haven being chained on a rock alongside Athelion's lifeless body for all eternity, leaving Vetch free to conquer the rest of the galaxy. This was the first game of a planned trilogy, but since the game sold poorly and had a mediocre reception, those plans were axed.
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Ending Aversion / int_1aa793b6	comment	Hiimdaisy left off her Persona 4 comic right after Rise's dungeon and has stated she has no interest in finishing it.
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Ending Aversion / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach fell into this for a sizable segment of the fanbase. After a very long, drawn-out final arc, the Big Bad abruptly kills all his remaining minions, is himself quickly dispatched with a method that had limited foreshadowing, and for the last two chapters the story fast forwards ten years to an epilogue that leaves multiple questions unanswered and included some controversial romantic pairings. Three months after the conclusion of the manga Kubo revealed on his Twitter that he decided to shorten the manga due to health concerns, though the Grand Finale was in fact what he had always intended from the beginning.
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Ending Aversion / int_1d858ce4	comment	Dark Angel's Season 2 cliffhanger finale was planned to be resolved in the premier of Season 3, but Fox's cancellation of the show left it in limbo.
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Ending Aversion / int_1dd9862b	comment	While Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School received mixed reception before the ending, the last two episodes have been accused of this to the point that many who were defending the anime changed tune after they aired. The penultimate episode saw a Fan-Disliked Explanation for the Final Killing Game that was widely criticized for raising a lot of Fridge Logic and rendering a good portion of the anime pointless, along with making the mastermind heavily disliked by the fandom. The Grand Finale saw Class 77-B coming Back from the Dead (which triggered a massive Broken Base) and basically hijacking the plot from the rest of the cast. Plot threads the show had built up were left abruptly dropped for rampant Pandering to the Base, creating a good number of Broken Aesops, an Anticlimax and capped it off with the widely divisive resurrection of Kyoko Kirigiri in the final two minutes. The English dub even has Kyoko lampshading this before they changed it to a more accurate translation by stating her resurrection doesn't make sense.
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Ending Aversion / int_1e5236ce	comment	Citrus ends with Mei leaving Yuzu for another Arranged Marriage, long after her first one ended up falling through, thus forcing Yuzu to pull out all the stops to get through to Mei in time. Not only do many people dislike that Mei doesn't seem to have changed at all, but the situation is also largely resolved off-panel with a montage of dialogue-less panels, before cutting to a standard happy ending in which the two stepsisters/lovers get married. Many people are dissatisfied with the events in the last six chapters of the manga, the rushed conclusion, or both.
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Ending Aversion / int_1e703d1f	comment	Gilmore Girls's original ending in season 7, while left things fairly resolved on a positive note, the fact that it (along with season 7) wasn't written by creator Amy Sherman-Palladino left many of the fandom wondering what her true ending was and begrudgingly accepted it for what it was. Come 2016, and Sherman-Palladino revived the series to give it the true story ending that she wanted. Most fans were happy with how Lorelai and Emily's story arcs concluded, but the fact that Rory ends up pregnant and likely to repeat her mother's mistakes and that Jess may or may not still be pining after her like his uncle did with her mother sent most of the fans into a rage and declaring the revival's ending non-canon.
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Ending Aversion / int_2073eb8a	comment	TRON: Uprising: We see in TRON: Legacy that Beck's rebellion does absolutely nothing to even slow Clu down and The Big Good of the series is twisted into The Dragon. Add a side of Bolivian Army Ending for good measure.
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Ending Aversion / int_22119589	comment	The show Alias had two fascinating and complex seasons, but then a series of mistakes on the part of the writers, the producers, a dose of Executive Meddling, and a nasty feedback loop from shippers in the fan community derailed the series in Season 3. Throughout much of S3, the show circled in a holding pattern. Then, in S4 and S5, the ongoing, overarching storylines collapsed and the writers even began to lampshade their own failures.
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Ending Aversion / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: The series ends with Angel and his friends and Spike, charging towards an army of demons and monsters they failed to prevent their incursion into Earth.
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Ending Aversion / int_2230ce4b	comment	Anna and the Apocalypse: Plenty of fans adore the first two acts of the zombie musical but take it pretty hard when the third act starts going into Dwindling Party territory.
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Ending Aversion / int_22ffc0f8	comment	Riget - not the author, just around 4 essential cast members.
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Ending Aversion / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter, starting with the fifth season, was heavily criticized for its focus on more less well-received characters, lots of padding resulting in uneven pacing, and often underwhelming resolutions to its plotlines. When the eighth season concluded, a lot of people would recommend newbies to stop at season 4.
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Ending Aversion / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty's ending has a sufficient reputation for being bizarre and incomprehensible to bring about this trope. There's some stuff about memes, genetic memory, passing the torch, and America's destiny in a narration by Solid Snake. There's also a little kind-of-but-not-really closure with Raiden and Rose, with a last-second Mind Screw to set up the next part of the series. The general consensus is that the ending is definitely meant to say something... it's just hard to tell what exactly it said.
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Ending Aversion / int_2823179d	comment	Towards the end of The Dirty Dozen, our protagonists trap some German soldiers and civilians in a cellar, and then burn them to death. This has made some people reluctant to watch the rest of the film, which is generally good fun.
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Ending Aversion / int_2a15962e	comment	Beelzebub was cut short during the Fuji Arc, resulting in a hurried Final Boss readers found unsatisfying (especially as the Takamiya Arc was a similar but longer version of it) and many plot threads about the Solomon Company left dangling. Thankfully the creator did manage to get an epilogue in, but that still left a lot unanswered.
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Ending Aversion / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes - Some people think the rot even began with the season one finale. The problem isn't that the writers never planned out the show... it's that they intended the show to have an anthology-format with a rotating cast. Problem was that the season one characters instantly became popular national sensations, so they were forced to come up with new plots for them on the fly. It didn't help that there was a Writer's Guild of America strike which truncated season 2. Viewers started leaving in droves during season 3 when they started just recycling plots from season 1 (how many times can Sylar flip-flop from evil to good and back?).
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Ending Aversion / int_2e7610d3	comment	River City Girls got hit by this fast and hard because of how drastic and out of nowhere the ending initially feels. Kunio and Riki were not only not kidnapped, but it turns out that Misako and Kyoko aren't their girlfriends, Hasabe and Mami are. The entire game was basically two ditzy Stalker with a Crush Ex-Girlfriends tearing up a city for the sake of a relationship that doesn't exist, for two guys who weren't in any danger and don't even know they exist. In response to the backlash, however, a patch has been released that changes the ending to be less mean-spirited with the original ending being Retgone.
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Ending Aversion / int_32318e9a	comment	Roseanne also had a variation of the It Was All A Dream ending which pissed many fans off to no end and has been the biggest barrier of entry for new fans. Naturally when the series was revived decades later, the ending was immediately retconned.
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Ending Aversion / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2: Episode 2 ends on a major cliffhanger. However, Valve seems to have lost any interest in developing a continuation... at least, until Half-Life: Alyx (which unfortunately doesn't actually help matters in the slightest due to being a self-contained prequel, but does at least suggest that Valve have some investment remaining in the franchise).
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Ending Aversion / int_392e6c59	comment	Seto and Ren from Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon head out together in search of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world, but the ending narration features an aged Seto in a voiceover claiming Ren has died some time afterwards and he's all alone again. Within context, this is nonsensical because the point of the story was to state how alone Seto wasn't thanks to the number of Non Player Characters who accompanied him on his journey, insisting You Are Not Alone; Seto's monologue essentially puts him back to square one, which he was trying to avoid from the start of the game. What should have amounted into a Bittersweet Endingnote A post-story Manga explicitly mentions Ren is an Ill Girl with Your Days Are Numbered in effect ties into her impending demise instead winds up becoming an Esoteric Happy Ending.
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Ending Aversion / int_3b222e47	comment	While featuring an entirely different continuity, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V's manga adaptation has a particularly infamous ending, considered worse than the anime's. In the anime (and for much of the manga), Yuya and Yuzu are love interests and one of the more popular pairings in the franchise. The manga's final chapter instead makes it so that Yuya is actually Yuzu's Kid from the Future, and that she married his father (Yusho, who is also Yuya's father in the anime.) The relationship was seen as very creepy, especially since there was also Ship Tease between Yuya and Yuzu in the manga, and their familial relationship was never alluded to beforehand. The twist utterly destroyed the manga's otherwise positive reputation, and it has completely overshadowed every other story element.
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Ending Aversion / int_3b73c4a0	comment	Caprica. Not as bad as some of the examples in that the writers were given time after the series' cancellation to write an epilogue to wrap the show up, but the entire thing is just one huge sequence of What Could Have Been.
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Ending Aversion / int_3e4d48d5	comment	Many would-be readers are put off by Food Wars!, knowing it ends with a decline in quality by introducing Asahi, who destroys the dynamic of the series by being a Generic Doomsday Invincible Villain, bringing alongside him Serial Escalation breaking the Willing Suspension of Disbelief, and Ass Pull reveals, culminating with the manga having a lack of any real resolution to its plot.
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Ending Aversion / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: Season 8 ended JD's story (our protagonist and narrator for the entire series) on a high note and was intended to be a series finale. Season 9, however, revamped much of the cast (Turk and Cox were still regulars, others were relegated to guest stars), changed the setting, and had a different focus (med school). Series Creator Bill Lawrence initially wanted to rename the show to make it clear that this was a new beginning, but this was nixed by the network.
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Ending Aversion / int_3ed8f6a3	comment	In 36 Questions, while the ending makes it clear that Jase finally forgave Judith for all the lies she told, it does not make it clear as to whether or not they got back together in the end.
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Ending Aversion / int_404b0f84	comment	Three years after the conclusion, The Homestuck Epilogues were released, which helped mend a few issues people had with the later parts of the comic. The concepts of the retcon and "canon" were elaborated upon and deconstructed, a few loose ends were tied up, characters were given more conclusive arcs, and the final battle from canon got a proper conclusion. However, the Epilogues broke the fanbase as well. Common criticisms/points of contention include the way everyone acted and whether or not it was Out of Character, the Mind Screw nature even by Homestuck standards, characters such as the Sprites being inexplicably absent,note Davepetasprie^2 does show up in the Meat path, but none of the other Sprites do despite being last seen perfectly fine and ending on a cliffhanger despite the title implying otherwise.
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Ending Aversion / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion is infamous for its Gainax Ending, and is the main reason (but far from the only one) why the studio that produced it, Studio Gainax, became the Trope Namer. The last two episodes make so little sense that some fans might recommend you skip them and go straight to the movie End of Evangelion... except that End is equally as divisive! This makes it the rare work that is a clear example of something hit by Ending Aversion, Hype Aversion, and Angst Aversion.
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Ending Aversion / int_47dfc6f	comment	Both halves of season 5, Total Drama's final season, have gotten this reception for different reasons: Few, if any fans, approve of the last episode of All-Stars (the last season to feature the Island or Revenge casts), as it left many loose plot threads hanging and abandoned several beloved characters unredeemed in the show, OR in the fandom. The fact that Fresh TV has abandoned the main series in favor of Total DramaRama only further adds to fans' dislike of it. The ending of Pahkitew Island gets this for the same reasons as All-Stars; several plot threads introduced in the season (such as Amy and Samey's dysfunctional relationship and Dave's ultimate fate) are left hanging without resolution, only exemplified due to it being the absolute last episode of the main series. The finale is also considered disappointing due to it not bringing back any of the previously eliminated contestants beyond Dave and Jasmine and the endings not varying to any significant degree beyond a few seconds at the very end.
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Ending Aversion / int_47f0eac3	comment	Metalocalypse infamously ended on a cliffhanger at the end of "The Doomstar Requiem" after a fallout between Brendon Small and Mike Lazzo, leaving the series unfinished for years. Fans begged to Adult Swim to bring back the series for years, but with no results. Years later, Small decided to appease fans by ending the story via a Fully Absorbed Finale with Galaktikon's second album, although without mentioning anything Dethklok related to avoid copyright issues. Eight years after the series was cancelled, Adult Swim finally listened to their fans by announcing a Metalocalypse movie that not only takes place after the events of "The Doomstar Requiem", but it will also end the series for good.
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Ending Aversion / int_489db6c3	comment	Platinum End: The last chapter of the series is extremely bleak and cruel after the brief Hope Spot that makes it seem as though everything will turn out okay for both the new God and the other characters, making the whole journey ultimately feel pointless as the entire universe dies out due to the new God's nihilism.
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Ending Aversion / int_4b882a66	comment	St. Elsewhere was one of the first television series to do this, ending with an All Just a Dream revelation. The show was notable for lots of other things in its day, including being one of the first medical dramas, laying the groundwork for all future shows in the genre. However, the twist ending of its final episode and the Tommy Westphall Multiverse Hypothesis theory that resulted from it have completely overshadowed everything else about the show since then — therefore making it not very appealing to new viewers.
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Ending Aversion / int_4ee1bd4a	comment	Three years after the series ended, Adult Swim Games and Genndy Tartakovsky released Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time to the public. Collecting every Corrupted Emperor's Kamon in the game and fighting Aku unlocks a revised version of the show's ending, this time with Ashi surviving and marrying Jack, ending the series with them sitting under the cherry tree. Said game is considered canon to the show.
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Ending Aversion / int_500bac67	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion is infamous for its extremely controversial Cruel Twist Ending. Especially troublesome because the original series already had a conclusive ending that was much more positive and hopeful; a sequel movie was never considered until the series became a runaway success, and with their starkly opposed conclusions, fans are forced to choose whether or not to consider Rebellion canon.
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Ending Aversion / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck had the one-two punch of Seasonal Rot in the form of the Base-Breaking Act 6 and a borderline Gainax Ending where only the bare-bones conflicts were properly resolved with a number of side characters seemingly vanishing. A number of things, including the fate of the Big Bad, are left to speculation. That the heroes' victory was mainly brought on by introducing a new form of time travel that "retcons" away the old timeline does not help. Also not helping is that the comic is regarded to invert this trope as well, with the Slow-Paced Beginning being seen as the biggest entry barrier for new readers.
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Ending Aversion / int_50cb8af5	comment	The Vision of Escaflowne: Is largely seen as disappointing. Its entire 26 episode run builds up the relationship between Van and Hitomi, the latter of whom almost never thinks of Earth. When she does return in Episode 24 (through her own magical pendant, due to being tired of war and death on Gaea), she's so bored with normal life and realizes she loves Van so much that she returns to Gaea to be with him, and in two episodes the strength and purity of their young love defeats the Big Bad and restores peace of Gaea... and then not five minutes later she casually decides to return to Earth forever anyway, despite still loving Van and still having a magic "instantly teleport between worlds" pendant. The fans who've seen Vision of Escaflowne Abridged actually find its ending to be Better Than Canon because it doesn't involve this trope.
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Ending Aversion / int_538833a4	comment	Retail left some people unsatisfied with the ending, with only vague ideas of what all the leads will do once the store closes, and the final strip showing the Grumbel's sign being taken down so a Dollar Admiral could move into its space. This resulted in some fans making up their own endings for characters. (There were some that did enjoy the non-ending though, as that's pretty much what would happen in real life when a store goes out of business: it just closes, is replaced by something else if it's lucky, and one may never know what happens to its former employees.)
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Ending Aversion / int_551a3bfc	comment	Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is this for the DC Animated Movie Universe. When Darkseid uses Cyborg as an Unwitting Pawn to catch the heroes off guard when they plan to attack him, the entire Animated Universe ends with a Pyrrhic Victory as most of the heroes are dead, insane or crippled and the Earth left near-inhospitable, on the verge of Krypton-style destruction. This leads to Constantine ordering Flash to go back in time and prevent the tragedy from happening, which will change the entire timeline. Many fans feel that this makes the entire DCAMU not worth watching or getting invested in.
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Ending Aversion / int_55a0c49c	comment	Silver Surfer was cancelled early because of Marvel's bankruptcy in the 1990s. So the show concludes on a major Cliffhanger where Thanos the Mad Titan ends all of existence.
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Ending Aversion / int_59b2199f	comment	Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time: The game ended on a massive Cliffhanger that would have been a great Sequel Hook... except that (depending on who you ask) either Sanzaru Games had no plans to make a sequel and wrap up the game's plot, or Sanzaru did want to make a DLC or sequel but got shot down by Sony. The game itself is a Contested Sequel to the first three games, and with that plus the cliffhanger being a major Downer Ending when taken on its own, fans just don't want the series to end that way.
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Ending Aversion / int_5bd6bb99	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is infamous for its Disappointing Last Dungeon, YHVH's Universe, being a massive network of teleporters in a dungeon that's not only obnoxiously big but also visually unappealing, with most enemies being simply souped-up versions of previously-encountered demons that can't be scanned and can't be talked to.
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Ending Aversion / int_5bf355c7	comment	Thimbleweed Park: The four Player Characters (aka Delores, Agent Ray, Agent Reyes, and Ransome The Clown) all break into the Pillow Tronics Factory (each for their own reasons) and discover that the factory AI has merged with a copy Chuck's (Delores' Uncle) brain and is planning to take over the town and below. After Delores shuts down a few of the computer's cores, Chuck reveals the truth: that Thimbleweed Park is just a video game and that they are all video game characters playing out a story. He then provides the characters with items to quickly wrap up their respective storylines before Delores shuts off the game entirely. Not only are the incredibly rushed conclusions unsatisfying (with Ransome's being the only possible exception), many of the games other plot points are abandoned entirely (you never find out who killed Boris or Franklin and you never prove Willie's innocence). Even worse, you don't even have to resolve the other characters stories to finish the game, as the credits roll if you do Delores' part. Many felt the game took its fourth wall breaking way too far and deprived the game of a meaningful conclusion as a result.
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Ending Aversion / int_60bcf901	comment	The final book in the Pine Hollow book series ends with the eponymous stable burning down and the deaths of five horses. What's more, the subsequent ending of the book is rather abrupt, not even offering the typical level of resolution for a Downer Ending.
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Ending Aversion / int_616d06a5	comment	Army of Two: The Devils Cartel: The game had already pissed several fans off by dancing around the fate of a character from the previous two games (I.E. not revealing whether they were alive or just missing) and its major plot twist halfway through the game (which many felt was completely nonsensical and utterly destroyed the characterization of previously good character for no good reason), and then to top it off the final scene throws out some vague hints towards a sequel, which given the games disappointing sales and its studio going bankrupt will likely never happen.
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Ending Aversion / int_61b1bd67	comment	Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-: Tsubasa basically ends with the Japanese equivalent of The Clone Saga, which just makes the plot utterly confusing and is a large departure from the originally advertised multi-dimensional adventures through numerous other CLAMP settings. Word of God admits even they don't understand what's going on. The show is no longer remembered as fondly as it used to.
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Ending Aversion / int_63ac9ac1	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was originally going to be a trilogy, but thanks to the mixed reception of both episodes, the third episode was cancelled and the second episode ended with Little Planet trapped inside the Death Egg Mk. II. Even collecting all the Chaos Emeralds does nothing, as the Sequel Hook cutscene was removed before the game's release.
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Ending Aversion / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files, of course. Even attempts at The Resolution Will Not Be Televised did not go so well (the series ends with the protagonists "waiting" for a future cataclysm; the second movie was an unrelated plot that preceded this disaster; the supposed third movie to finally give closure languished in Development Hell; and while there was an Un-Cancelled tenth season miniseries, it started off retconning most of the built-up series mythology and itself ended on a Gainax Ending cliffhanger.
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Ending Aversion / int_6a989b15	comment	The TV series adaptation of The Tripods was cancelled after just two seasons, despite being based on a book trilogy. As a result, the series ends on a massively depressing cliffhanger (which was also completely original to the series).
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Ending Aversion / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Mortal Kombat 9 had this thanks to a desire by franchise co-creator; Ed Boon, to create a completely new cast of characters for the next game. For this to happen, they killed off nearly the entire cast at the end of Story Mode in a very sloppy fight scene where the Earthrealm warriors are killed off one by one by Sindel and turned into evil undead revenants. The purpose of this scene was clearly to allow for a roster full of new characters in the next game. However, the ensuing fan backlash over the deaths of iconic characters like Kung Lao, Sub-Zero II, Jax, Kitana and Jade and promising reimagined characters like Smoke forced them to include non-canonical older versions in the roster of Mortal Kombat X (with the exception of Sub-Zero and Jax, who are fully revived). This was most notable with Mortal Kombat 11 as its story brings the younger versions of Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Kitana, and Jade (alongside a pre-Character Development Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, and a younger and optimistic Jax) into the present to fight their evil undead versions. The ending of the vanilla Mortal Kombat 11 story has also become this as it ends with the current timeline erased and the promise of a new timeline. Aftermath was later released that allowed players to choose between a more fulfilling good ending or having Shang Tsung win, though that also came with its fair share of controversies (most notably over Retconning Sindel from a tragic martyr of Shao Kahn's cruelty and Mama Bear to an evil queen who willingly married Kahn).
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Ending Aversion / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 got a bit of a negative reputation after word of the ending, which involves either the Lone Wanderer or Sarah Lyons sacrificing themselves to start up Project Purity, got out. The backlash was more or less mitigated by later DLC, though due to not altering dialog the game still mocks the player as a coward for sending in a radiation-immune character to complete the task.
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Ending Aversion / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Mortal Kombat 9 had this thanks to a desire by franchise co-creator; Ed Boon, to create a completely new cast of characters for the next game. For this to happen, they killed off nearly the entire cast at the end of Story Mode in a very sloppy fight scene where the Earthrealm warriors are killed off one by one by Sindel and turned into evil undead revenants. The purpose of this scene was clearly to allow for a roster full of new characters in the next game. However, the ensuing fan backlash over the deaths of iconic characters like Kung Lao, Sub-Zero II, Jax, Kitana and Jade and promising reimagined characters like Smoke forced them to include non-canonical older versions in the roster of Mortal Kombat X (with the exception of Sub-Zero and Jax, who are fully revived). This was most notable with Mortal Kombat 11 as its story brings the younger versions of Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Kitana, and Jade (alongside a pre-Character Development Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, and a younger and optimistic Jax) into the present to fight their evil undead versions.
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Ending Aversion / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape - cut short due to abrupt cancellation at the end of season 4, after they'd already been told they'd get a fifth season, so they didn't plan it as the final season. The show did later get a finale-miniseries which was intended to be the truncated version of the plot developments in what would have been season 5. Surprisingly, this actually provided good explanations and resolution for many of the running plotlines, so ultimately Farscape averted this trope. And now it has comics wrapping things up even tighter, including wrapping up the series-long plot point of Rygel wanting to take his throne back from his traitorous cousin (never done on the show because making and operating so many Hynerian puppets would have been impossible).
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Ending Aversion / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1 - They'd sort of resolved all of the main story arc by the end of season 7, and a later episode broke the Fourth Wall to say that fans felt they phoned it in for season 8. Still, it ended with a Grand Finale that took out virtually all major galactic threats for good. The real break was seasons 9 and 10, when they introduced an entirely new set of villains, which to be honest were something of a retread of the earlier ones. They were even going to rename the show "Stargate Command" when season 9 began to try to emphasize how different it was, but rather than make a sequel/spinoff, the network felt more viewers would stay if they kept the name intact. The actual final episode isn't really a finale at all, so they had to wrap things up with two DTV movies.
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Ending Aversion / int_74801083	comment	Edgar & Ellen: The creators seemed to lose all interest in continuing the book series, after the animated TV series was greenlit. And if you were hoping the cartoon would tackle the serious Myth Arc the books were steadily building up, it doesn't; it quickly diverges from that plot to become an episodic comedy.
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Ending Aversion / int_760aead0	comment	The Event tried to set up an epic Jigsaw Puzzle Myth Arc about an Alien Invasion of Earth, but wound up bungling the setup so badly that it got cancelled after one season, just as it was Growing the Beard and finally moving into the proper meat of the story. You could watch it... if you don't mind sitting through hours of build-up only for the show to end right at the most dramatic part.
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Ending Aversion / int_763c5137	comment	Although some watchers feel OK about the ending of the Korean movie Love, So Divine, the others disagree due to an Esoteric Happy Ending where the male protagonist finally gives up becoming a priest and go together with his love interest, which is heavily implied that "Love is not like religion, but over religion" for some audiences who are Christians or Catholics.
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Ending Aversion / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 has gained a reputation of being to Video Games what Lost was to Live-Action Television and what Neon Genesis Evangelion was to Anime (something that was made especially infamous by an interview made with the developers pre-release, which mentioned the former example by name and explicitly promised that the ending wouldn't be anything like that). The overwhelmingly poorly received original ending scared off numerous potential players, although the company later released DLC that seems to have made the endings more palatable and is reducing the effect considerably.
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Ending Aversion / int_76c6fb6f	comment	Beastars: While the final arc is at least not hundreds of chapters long, it is much longer than any other arc in the series, and gives extremely little in the way of any story resolution. The only major change that happens is the Black Market gets taken down, which was never the focus of the series and had several good characters such as Louis argue that it's more of a necessary evil. Every relationship thread (even the main one!) is left at "Maybe it'll work, maybe not," the issue of food and how carnivores will satisfy their instincts are never resolved (especially since Yafya rejects a possible solution), no side characters get any kind of conclusion to any developments they had, and most importantly, despite the title of the manga being Beastars, and it becomes a plot point that Legosi actually does want to become a Beastar together with Louis (justifying the plural in the title), absolutely nobody becomes a new Beastar, and Yafya even quits the post, leaving the position empty.
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Ending Aversion / int_76d45579	comment	Sonic Mania: The game, in a first for the Classic series, ends on a Sequel Hook for Sonic Forces. Considering how divisive Forces is and the ending having Sonic getting sent away, some fans were not happy. This is somewhat reduced however with the Updated Re-release's new Encore Mode which happens after the events of Forces with an ending which doesn't tease anything new.
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Ending Aversion / int_78fc0025	comment	Twin Peaks, which also suffered from Seasonal Rot in the second series, both of which resulted from Executive Meddling. The writers had no intention of solving the main mystery of the show (Laura's murder) but were forced to come up with a solution by the network anyway. Then the network proceeded to order another season, even though the writers didn't have any plans beyond that. This caused massive amounts of Mind Screw, Kudzu Plot, and The Chris Carter Effect.
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Ending Aversion / int_799145cf	comment	Keychain of Creation unfortunately came to an end after the artist ran into severe health issues, compounded by regretting some creative choices making them uncomfortable with containing the comic as-is, effectively leaving the story off at the start of a new leg of the adventure.
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Ending Aversion / int_7d5871b	comment	After School Nightmare alienated multiple fan factions with its ending to a degree that they no longer recommend it, for completely different reasons: The people who were reading for the mystery arc, who thought that the final explanation was simply too silly and bizarre. The shippers, who were unhappy that Mashiro and Sou end up in the real world but with no knowledge of each other or memory of their love. The people who were reading for the exploration of ambiguous gender, who thought that the revelation that Mashiro's gender ambiguity is because they are actually fraternal twin foetuses sharing a mind meant that the situation was either reactionary in implication, or too fantastic to have any possible real-world relevance.
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Ending Aversion / int_7f069934	comment	Final Fantasy VII Remake got a nasty case of this from the old guard once the ending of the first part came to light. Sephiroth (potentially the same Sephiroth from after the events of Advent Children) manipulates Cloud and his friends into killing the "arbiters of fate", leading to alterations in the timeline, the biggest of which is Zack's survival, with the implication that future events will not happen as they were supposed to as now Cloud and co. are aware of them. A lot of this is a case of They Changed It, Now It Sucks! when some became convinced that future installments would veer more heavily from the plot of the original.
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Ending Aversion / int_7f9dbbcf	comment	Far Cry 5 plays mostly like its two predecessors, until you've witnessed all three endings and realize there's absolutely no way to bring the Big Bad to justice. You either capitulate right in the intro cinematic, let him get off scot-free during your final encounter and assumingly get yourself brainwashed into killing all your friends afterwards, or you arrest him and thus trigger nuclear armageddon out of absolutely freaking nowhere, which means this raving lunatic was right all along. Doesn't get much more unsatisfying than that, something that quickly began making its way to prospective buyers from the day after the game's release. Thankfully, the sequel addresses this by having the player actually deal with Seed for good.
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Ending Aversion / int_826ef177	comment	Bionic Commando 2009 has a cliffhanger ending with Spencer falling to an unknown fate after killing Super Joe, and a Morse code stinger telling of the activation of a new Project Albatros[s]. Poor sales of this and the Licensed Game of Terminator Salvation led to development studio GRIN going out of business, and the following (and currently last) game, BC Rearmed 2, was a midquel.
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Ending Aversion / int_84986bf9	comment	The finale of the Dwarves' quest line in RuneScape was controversial for its big twist. Turns out you'd already won in the penultimate quest and didn't know it, with your victory in that quest convincing the bad guys to give up. The only reason they're fighting you is that you attacked them first in anticipation of an attack that was never going to come. In the end, the two main villains sort-of commit suicide because you won't leave them alone. Yay?
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Ending Aversion / int_84d455d4	comment	The Big O ran into a strange version of this. The first season ended on a Cliffhanger but due to the show's lack of popularity in Japan, the staff didn't expect to continue it. However, the show became massively popular in America, to the point where Cartoon Network co-produced a second season. Unfortunately the inverse situation happened, with the second season raising far more questions than it answered with the full expectation that it would get a third season...which didn't happen.
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Ending Aversion / int_84f3f987	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V's ending is generally disliked overall, with complaints about it being rushed, not tying up loose ends, and seeming happy even when it's not because the plotline about Yuya and Yuzu's alternate selves is resolved by said selves being merged within Yuya and Yuzu's bodies forever—a sore point for fans because they were established to be their own characters, with friends and loved ones of their own, and leaving them stuck in bodies that aren't their own is perceived as a Fate Worse than Death. The ending has also hurt people's opinions of the series overall.
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Ending Aversion / int_862e754d	comment	Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak has the most literal case of Doomed by Canon possible, because the protagonists are directly responsible for setting the events of the first game in motion... Including the part where it turns out everything your enemies were fighting to prevent ended up happening. Oops.
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Ending Aversion / int_8693f247	comment	Trinity Blood: Sunao Yoshida died in 2004 and all the novels, manga, and anime ended with the same conclusion: Ester is crowned Queen of Albion and Abel goes on his quest to defeat his brother, Cain. The author did leave his notes which are complied as Trinity Blood Canon Summa Theologica and it contains information about the story's world and how he plans to continue the story after Ester's coronation. Unfortunately, it was never released in English and nobody bothered to pick it up. And as seen in the notes, the events are much darker without no definite conclusion to the story.
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Ending Aversion / int_878d4e49	comment	Bunny Drop - While the second half of the story introduced a Genre Shift and a Time Skip that was disliked by some, what really turned off a larger portion of the audience was the inverted Wife Husbandry aspect of the ending, where the female protagonist Rin is revealed to be in love with the man who raised her for at least a decade, who is her nephew. It follows through 'til the end, and they end up as a couple. Worse, the author randomly reveals they aren't related after all, destroying the central aspect of the series.
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Ending Aversion / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil has its last season. While Season 3 was more divisive on whether or not it was a serious step down in terms of storytelling and characterization, Season 4 was nigh-unanimously agreed to be the lowest point of the series. Though there were fans who still enjoyed what comedy there was to be had, complaints were made towards everything else: from the main story arc mostly being sidelined in favor of excessive romantic drama, to characters being either underutilized, flanderized, or performing spontaneous Face Heel Turns, to the introduction of subplots that were either rushed or straight-up forgotten, to an Arc Villain deemed less intimidating as previous antagonists. The series finale only made things worse by ending with an Inferred Holocaust committed by Star that none of the characters seem to acknowledge or care much about, followed by a forcible merging of two vastly different worlds, with the show treating this all as a happy ending. This tarnished the series reputation to the point practically the only thing mentioned about the series afterward was complaints about the finale.
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Ending Aversion / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost, what with the fact that the ending chose to go for a more metaphysical angle, with several of the questions being unanswered.
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Ending Aversion / int_8d84a932	comment	Soap was written with a five-season story arc in mind, but was cancelled after Season 4, resulting in the show ending on several cliffhangers (specifically, Chester finding his wife and son in bed together, Burt being ambushed by a political enemy and Jessica about to be executed by a firing squad). The show did get a spin-off, but it did nothing to resolve these cliffhangers.
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Ending Aversion / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: A particularly frustrating example because although the series repeatedly goes out of its way to warn you there won't be a happy resolution, what it doesn't tell you until the last book is just how little will be resolved at all.
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Ending Aversion / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa: While Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School received mixed reception before the ending, the last two episodes have been accused of this to the point that many who were defending the anime changed tune after they aired. The penultimate episode saw a Fan-Disliked Explanation for the Final Killing Game that was widely criticized for raising a lot of Fridge Logic and rendering a good portion of the anime pointless, along with making the mastermind heavily disliked by the fandom. The Grand Finale saw Class 77-B coming Back from the Dead (which triggered a massive Broken Base) and basically hijacking the plot from the rest of the cast. Plot threads the show had built up were left abruptly dropped for rampant Pandering to the Base, creating a good number of Broken Aesops, an Anticlimax and capped it off with the widely divisive resurrection of Kyoko Kirigiri in the final two minutes. The English dub even has Kyoko lampshading this before they changed it to a more accurate translation by stating her resurrection doesn't make sense. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony somehow managed to top DR3 in controversy with Chapter 6 and the final trial. Aside from the mastermind being fairly controversial compared to Junko Enoshima, it's revealed that the entire situation is all the 53rd season of a reality TV show, and the sixteen students were all normal people with fake personalities implanted in them. That in itself is bad enough, but then it criticizes and lampoons the fanbase for enjoying the series and its fictional characters and wanting more killing games. It doesn't help that in Japanese, the meaning behind "V3" (the number 53) is read as "gomi" or "trash". It had become so controversial, it was one of the many arguments used during debates where fans accused Kodaka of trying to Torch the Franchise and Run after it was revealed that he would leave the Danganronpa team after this game.
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Ending Aversion / int_9096e12c	comment	Carnivàle was abruptly canned after its second season, leaving just about every plotline unresolved.
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Ending Aversion / int_909ca4b1	comment	In a truly stunning bit of bad luck, ReBoot narrowly avoided this with its third season, which warps up the major plot threads and gives a satisfying conclusion to the story, only to get Uncanceled. The creators proceeded to go into season four with the expectation they would have at least five... and proceeded to get canceled a second time! As a result, the last episode ends on a massive Cliffhanger where the Big Bad takes control of the heroes' headquarters and all hope seems lost. There are quite a lot of fans who suggest to newcomers that they simply stop watching at the season three finale because of this.
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Ending Aversion / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: While it's bad enough that the (still living) main characters are just as, if not more, broken and traumatized despite defeating the Yeerks, the knife twist comes when they decide to initiate what is most likely a suicide attack against an extremely powerful enemy that had only been vaguely alluded to in the previous books and just sort of shows up out of nowhere.
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Ending Aversion / int_92844ddb	comment	While the ending is a foregone conclusion what with it being a part of history, the ending to Dinosaurs made a lot of people unhappy due to its Sudden Downer Ending where Earl accidentally ends up causing the Ice Age, leading to the inevitable deaths of the entire cast.
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Ending Aversion / int_9431bab8	comment	Sleepy Hollow: After a well-received first season that was praised the most for having a well-developed black female lead (Abbie) who had great chemistry with her white co-lead Ichabod, the second season made the baffling decision to sideline Abbie in favor of Ichabod's family/relationship drama to the point where Abbie's actress decided to leave the show which resulted in Abbie being Killed Off for Real at the end of the third season. Disillusioned fans abandoned the show in droves and nowadays, hardly any of them will recommend watching the show except for maybe the first season alone.
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Ending Aversion / int_95521c97	comment	The Spectacular Spider-Man ended after only two seasons with a real Downer Ending of a cliffhanger in which Harry emotionally blackmails Gwen into staying with him, preventing her and Peter from getting together, the Connors are fired and made to relocate to Florida, and Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin) is revealed to have survived his battle with Spider-Man and is thus free to continue his schemes under a new alias. This cancellation resulted from the show being Screwed by the Lawyers (Marvel extending Sony's film rights to Spider-Man in exchange for the character's television rights), as the show was intended to last five seasons.
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Ending Aversion / int_959f1374	comment	For Naruto many fans dismiss everything following the Pain Assault. The following two and final arcs (The Kage Summit and the Great Ninja War) all bleed into one another. Also, not helping matters is Sasuke's Base-Breaking Character status and the Power Creep of the main characters finally reaches its zenith. That the Big Bad was brushed away in favour of a brand new villain out of nowhere doesn't help. Said fans consider the battles unsatisfying and the epilogue has its own bag of worms due to controversy surrounding the final pairings.
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Ending Aversion / int_96308290	comment	Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed has an In-Universe example with the anime Striprism. It's never explained why, but Nana, Kati, and Shizuku all agree that the final episode doesn't hold up to the rest of the series. Tohko, who's clearly not a fan, is just glad it's over.
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Ending Aversion / int_982fa89f	comment	Robin Hood ended its second season with the murder of Maid Marian at Guy of Gisborne's hands, described enthusiastically by the creators as "a shocking twist" and a chance to "rock the show". Audience reaction ran the gamut from bafflement to disgust, and it became increasingly clear throughout season three that the writers had put little thought into what would happen after removing the show's emotional centre. The show floundered through a range of unconnected plotlines and arbitrary new characters before being cancelled with all the fan-favourite characters dead, the hated Scrappies still standing, and several plot threads dangling. Still, it's quite fun telling non-viewers about Marian's death, they'll invariably pull a face and go: "Huh? Why would they do that?"
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Ending Aversion / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super's Future Trunks Saga started off strong; fans were glad to see Ensemble Dark Horse Trunks return, the plot was interesting, and the fights were some of the best-animated in the entire Dragon Ball franchise. But that all came crashing down around the Final Battle; firstly by playing up Goku's Idiot Hero tendencies despite the fact that they put the fate of the world at risknote The heroes had resolved to use the Evil Containment Wave to seal the immortal Zamasu away, but firstly Goku left the jar inside the time machine (which Goku Black blew up), then it was revealed that he left the Paper Talisman in the past, meaning the idea was doomed from the start. Plenty of fans were also unhappy with the Retcon giving the Potara Earrings a time limit seemingly just to bring back Vegito without having to worry about the fusion being permanent. Then came the Diabolus ex Machina at the end, where after being killed by Trunks, Zamasu returns as a bodiless energy being and manages to kill everyone aside from the main characters, followed by the Future Zeno completely erasing the timeline to permanently put an end to Zamasu, meaning Trunks' efforts were All for Nothing. And the final straw is the denouncement, where Future Trunks and Mai leave for a different timeline (where they'll still have to live alongside the versions of themselves from that timeline) presumably never to be seen again. The general consensus is that the story should have ended one episode earlier, with Trunks killing Zamasu.
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Ending Aversion / int_9beb9403	comment	Outlast: The Murkoff Account explains some of what is actually going on. Basically, Lynn experienced a psychosomatic (aka fake) pregnancy, the baby she gave birth to wasn't real, and Blake, Knoth, and Knoth's followers are just all collectively hallucinating due to being driven insane via a brainwashing experiment over the radio. However, the comic also explains that Blake, while alive, has been dragged off to be experimented on by Murkoff. Either way, the protagonists are either dead or very likely doomed.
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Ending Aversion / int_9c33b8ab	comment	Sliders, thanks to some of the most notorious Executive Meddling, lost the intellectual "what-if" in favor of "movie ripoff of the week" and bridge dropped almost the entirety of the original cast, leaving most fans abandoning ship by the fourth season.
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Ending Aversion / int_9cefc9f8	comment	Macross Delta: The finale has the… unenviable position of having to tie up so many loose ends at once, making it clear the production crew was on a deadline. Delta, especially in its second half, suffered from weak pacing, underdeveloped characters, and excessive subplots and the finale has to ignore for the sake of the main plot. Executive Meddling is to blame for this one, as it forced Shoji Kawamori to change the plans he had for the show.
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Ending Aversion / int_a04b0ca3	comment	The last Tintin book, Tintin and Alph-Art, was left incomplete by Herge's death in 1983. The book was published 3 years later (or at least, incomplete notes and rough drawings). The book ends with Tintin about to be executed by liquid polyester
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Ending Aversion / int_a0ae471	comment	The ending of Toy Story 4 has earned plenty of controversy from fans of the series, as Woody leaves Bonnie, as well as Buzz Lightyear and all his other longtime toy friends, for a new life as a "lost toy" with Bo Peep and her Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
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Ending Aversion / int_a2dee471	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, due to being Christmas Rushed, had two of its planned dungeons scrapped and replaced with a lengthy Fetch Quest of finding Triforce Charts, and paying Tingle to decipher those to find the Triforce Shards themselves. Luckily, the Wii U Updated Re-release simplified this quest so that only three of the Shards require Charts, the rest can be acquired directly.
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Ending Aversion / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross pulls more plot threads out of nowhere in one dungeon than some games pull their entire length. Chronopolis is already considered That One Level due to its status as a Marathon Level, a large amount of Info Dumps from NPCs throughout the level, and generally difficult random encounters. However, what really seals the dungeon's (and therefore, the game's) fate is the fact that the plot begins to enter full-on Mind Screw territory here in trying to properly tie it to the events of Chrono Trigger. Few of these plot points get properly resolved, it kills one of the characters from Trigger apparently just for the sake of shock value, and very little of it gets explained outside of the aforementioned info dumps if it gets explained at all.
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Ending Aversion / int_a947ca1d	comment	Joan of Arcadia suffered a lot of Executive Meddling in the second season, mainly using techniques to try and make it more marketable for teens, such as Joan getting missions from God to learn about herself rather than making the world a better place, and Adam cheating on Joan, for the sake of melodrama. Fans were not happy about this, and although the season finale did imply that there was a bigger threat coming for Joan to deal with, the show did not manage to get a third season.
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Ending Aversion / int_abb7e1fa	comment	Homestuck: Homestuck had the one-two punch of Seasonal Rot in the form of the Base-Breaking Act 6 and a borderline Gainax Ending where only the bare-bones conflicts were properly resolved with a number of side characters seemingly vanishing. A number of things, including the fate of the Big Bad, are left to speculation. That the heroes' victory was mainly brought on by introducing a new form of time travel that "retcons" away the old timeline does not help. Also not helping is that the comic is regarded to invert this trope as well, with the Slow-Paced Beginning being seen as the biggest entry barrier for new readers. Three years after the conclusion, The Homestuck Epilogues were released, which helped mend a few issues people had with the later parts of the comic. The concepts of the retcon and "canon" were elaborated upon and deconstructed, a few loose ends were tied up, characters were given more conclusive arcs, and the final battle from canon got a proper conclusion. However, the Epilogues broke the fanbase as well. Common criticisms/points of contention include the way everyone acted and whether or not it was Out of Character, the Mind Screw nature even by Homestuck standards, characters such as the Sprites being inexplicably absent,note Davepetasprie^2 does show up in the Meat path, but none of the other Sprites do despite being last seen perfectly fine and ending on a cliffhanger despite the title implying otherwise.
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Ending Aversion / int_aca7b22d	comment	The final episode of The Amazing World of Gumball, "The Inquisition", ends on a Sudden Downer Ending wherein the Void starts to consume Elmore (something that had been heavily foreshadowed prior), with the heavy implication that the town and everyone in it is going to be erased from existence. Much of the show's fanbase was not impressed that the show ended with the show's world possibly being destroyed, and all of its beloved inhabitants along with it, especially since further Gumball material since the main show ended has so far ignored its cliffhanger ending entirely. Unusually for this trope, the show's creator Ben Bocquelet agreed with the fanbase, claiming that the show was meant to end on a different note than the highly uncertain one that the show ultimately used. Thankfully for the fans, not only a movie has been announced to properly finish the show, but a series revival was also announced.
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Ending Aversion / int_b18d447c	comment	To Love-Ru Darkness: The male protagonist chooses none of the girls in his Unwanted Harem, resulting in the awkward situation of everyone continuing to vie for his affections while he still remains oblivious about some of their feelings. To top it off, while he does state that the Girl Next Door/Childhood Friend is his "number one", and said characters are usually the preferred choice in such stories by most Western audiences, said girl is actually a Base-Breaking Character and viewed as the worst choice he could make by fans outside Japan.
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Ending Aversion / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones has a particularly disappointing final season, even compared to the previous mixed three seasons. Low points include the anticlimactic battle with the Night King and his forces in Episode 3, a confrontation that had been built up since the start of the story, Rhaegal suddenly killed off to artificially inflate Cersei's threat, Jaime declaring he never cared about the innocents and going off to Cersei, Daenerys Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and torching King's Landing, thereby doing what the Mad King would have done if Jaime hadn't killed him, and Bran being king because he had the 'best story'. Said developments sapped many people's interest in the show, and some only continued to see how badly it might turn out. Beth Elderkin at i09 noted that "It's kind of amazing how one of the biggest shows of the 21st century is now just something that happened", with merchandising, cosplay, etc. virtually vanishing in a few weeks.
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Ending Aversion / int_b407d2d7	comment	Corpse Party tends to have some aversion due to its Player Punch endings in Book of Shadows and Corpse Party Bloodcovered, Blood Drive (the game that is in theory the Grand Finale of the Heavenly Host saga, as all manga adaptations and mainline games led to this installment due to time loops) takes the cake for not only causing this trope (in the western fandom AT LEAST) but also causing a huge division in the fans due to its almost downer ending and being a HOPE CRUSHER. Because despite all trailers and promotional material might suggest... Nobody was revived in Blood Drive, which is one of the main plots of the game. To add insult to injury, not only Ayumi was left in a vegetative state and had all the people's memories of her erased (except Yoshiki, that stayed with her) and the survivors didn't even say goodbye to their dead friends is another common complaint. The kicker to top it all off even more? Dead Patient has expies of characters like Seiko, Mayu...
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Ending Aversion / int_b7296d31	comment	My-HiME, for undoing almost all the character deaths and associated traumas, although those critical of the darker tone in later episodes, among others, disagree.
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Ending Aversion / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the prose book series), which gets bonus points for having a resulting severe Downer Ending (with the villains victorious and all but one of the main characters dead), as Adams was in such a bad mood when he wrote what turned out to be the last completed installment. Another author however has since stepped up to continue the series, although his contribution (And Another Thing...) has divided the fanbase somewhat.
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Ending Aversion / int_bba9da2d	comment	Zero Escape's third and final game didn't follow up on that much from the previous game, and it ignored many promises made by Word of God.
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Ending Aversion / int_bc3e398b	comment	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which attempted to save the show by coming up with the biggest twist they could think of, only for it not to save the show and ultimately drive fans of the show insane. With a completely unrelated Terminator series on the cards, it seems fans will forever be in limbo.
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Ending Aversion / int_be040d57	comment	SpacePOP ends season 1 on a cliffhanger with nothing resolved, and due to lack of viewer interest, season 2 was never made.
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Ending Aversion / int_bf09bf33	comment	The Arrowverse's 2017 crossover, Crisis on Earth-X was mostly well-received, and was on track to being better than last year's own well-received crossover, Invasion!. Of course then the ending happened: the infamous double wedding, where Felicity Smoak interrupted Barry Allen and Iris West just as they were about to seal their wedding vows, so she could selfishly and haphazardly tack on her own wedding to Oliver Queen. And this was after spending almost the entire crossover wangsting about how she didn't want to marry Oliver. This ending pleased absolutely no one except the writers and the hardest of hardcore Olicity shippers; everyone else hated it to the point that it killed whatever was left of Olicity's dwindling popularity and cemented Felicity as the biggest Scrappy in the entire Arrowverse. For many, it was the moment they gave up on Arrow for good.
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Ending Aversion / int_c06a9c1c	comment	Final Space was cancelled after season 3 which ends up on a massive Downer Ending with Ash freeing Invictus from Final Space by draining Mooncake.
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Ending Aversion / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Stargate Universe: SGU was plagued with issues from the very start, and the steadily dropping ratings convinced SyFy to cancel the show after its second season. As a result, the second season ended on a major cliffhanger, since the writers had assumed they'd have a third season or at least a movie to resolve the remaining plot threads.
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Ending Aversion / int_c43df4d8	comment	The 1980s hit the Classic series of Doctor Who very hard. There are lots of wonderful times to be had in the decade, of course, including a couple of mini-golden-ages, but it eventually just peters out in a little speech from the Doctor in a field after the malicious Executive Meddling and increasingly minuscule budget finally choked the show to death. If you're not the kind of person who gets off on watching a hugely popular show get slowly derailed and destroyed over a decade, binge-watching the entirety of '80s Who is not going to feel good. (Of course, if you're not that kind of person, this may not be the kind of wiki for you either.)
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Ending Aversion / int_cac1ef14	comment	ALF ended the fourth and final season with a cliffhanger with ALF getting abducted by the government. While there eventually was a followup, a TV-movie made six years later, for starters it's hard to find due to not being widely available like the TV series, and second, the people who have seen it ended up disliking it especially due to having no mention of what happened to the Tanners, leading the same people to disavow its existence.
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Ending Aversion / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica: The first two seasons are great, to the point that it won a Peabody Award during the break between seasons two and three. When season 3 got underway, they started running out of ideas, and it was downhill from there. It didn't help that a large portion of the acclaimed writing staff (but not Ron Moore) left the show before season 3 got underway, particularly all of the female writers (who were acknowledged to have been the guiding hand in the writing of the female characters up to that point). Though there is also a large contingent of fans that thinks the second half of season 4 was where things started getting bad. And that's not even getting into the controversy over the series' Esoterically Happy Gainax Ending.
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Ending Aversion / int_d486ccc4	comment	The post-finale comics somewhat reduce some of these issues. While Season 11 ends with a somewhat decent closure to Finn and the implication that he and Huntress Wizard are still dating, the ending of Marcy and Simon got a very mixed reception. While some are happy that Simon and Betty are finally together, others feel like it negates part of the finale since her sacrifice to save everyone from GOLB was rendered pointless.
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Ending Aversion / int_d6b6971d	comment	While an unsatisfying winner can taint a season of Survivor (examples being The Australian Outback, Samoa, Kaoh Romg and Game Changers), none hit as hard as the finale of Season 35, Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, which throws a last-minute twist at the very last Tribal Council to save a contestant who was already a major Elimination Houdini and went on to win the game instead of several Ensemble Darkhorses, turning a previously acclaimed season into Seasonal Rot. An even more controversial example is Season 38, Edge of Extinction , in which a castaway who was eliminated third rejoined the game at the final five with an idol (meaning he only had to survive two regular Tribal Councils and was protected for one of them), and also won the game, angering fans of even more Ensemble Dark Horses who believed he shouldn't have won and that the game was rigged for the Edge of Extinction returnee.
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Ending Aversion / int_d8bda674	comment	X/1999 (the manga) went into a hiatus since 2003 with the last scene showing Kamui, lying on the ground with Fuuma, preparing to stab him with his sword. A decade has passed and CLAMP became too focused on other projects, not even bothering to touch the series which made fans of the manga feel that the story will never continue at this point.
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Ending Aversion / int_da79ff74	comment	Tru Calling was royally Screwed by the Network, only getting a six-episode second season, and then getting cancelled before the final episode (which itself ended on a cliffhanger) even airs.
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Ending Aversion / int_da861da1	comment	The 2019 revival of Veronica Mars had mostly positive reception. However, it received massive backlash from fans for the last ten minutes of the final episode in which Veronica's love interest Logan is killed in a bombed car shortly after their wedding.
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Ending Aversion / int_ddcf45dd	comment	Shenmue III finally came out after nearly twenty years of Development Hell. Not only was the game widely derided for its shoddy technical quality and archaic game design decisions, but it ended the story on yet another cliffhanger, with no certainty of a fourth game ever coming out.
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Ending Aversion / int_de8f1f24	comment	Kingdom Hearts III has gotten some serious flak with the revelation that the Big Bad, Xehanort, turns out to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist after all, and many saw him as too Easily Forgiven by the heroes despite being the man who unleashed darkness across many worlds, the man responsible for ruining countless lives as well as the man who flat-out murdered Kairi in the same game just to provide motivation, leaving his defeat to be utterly unsatisfying. There is also the issue that everyone in the cast got their happy ending... except Sora and Kairi as the former has just sacrificed himself to save the latter using a vaguely explained ability, leaving them separated once again in a ploy that many fans found it to be a cheap Sequel Hook that could possibly take decades to release. Fortunately, Square Enix eventually released an expansion named Re-Mind, set after the events of the story (but before the final scene and The Stinger) with the surviving characters (alongside returning Final Fantasy characters who were absent in the main game) tying up loose ends while giving them a chance to shine one last time. While not perfect, it gave a better finale to the characters than the vanilla game, which many felt rushed and unsatisfactory. Of course, you still have to pay 30 US dollars for something that (depending on who you ask) should have already been in the base game.
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Ending Aversion / int_df07d96e	comment	Lois & Clark - the series was cancelled after the 4th season ended on a Cliffhanger, with the newly married Lois & Clark finding an infant at their doorstep, and a note claiming that the child belongs to them.
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Ending Aversion / int_e1c03e21	comment	King Arthur & the Knights of Justice ended abruptly after two seasons, with only four of the twelve MacGuffins recovered, and the original King Arthur and his knights still trapped in the Cave of Glass.
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Ending Aversion / int_e278316b	comment	The final episode of The Prisoner (1967), "Fall Out", was so confusing to audiences that Patrick McGoohan had to go into hiding from fans who hounded his home looking for answers and clarification.
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Ending Aversion / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4 made some decisions that weren't very popular, though the general attitude is that season 5 got better again. Joss Whedon then took a year off during season 6 to focus on "Once More, With Feeling" (and Firefly), and while people do remember and celebrate the musical episode even years later, this meant that he handed off writing duties for season 6 to other writers, and it showed. Things got moving again in season 7 when Joss came back full time, and the story intentionally built up to the final battle, but many still found it to be little better due to problems with the characterization of much of the cast. There may be a slight aversion about "not being worth the trouble" because those who have heard about the issues with seasons 6-7 can simply stop at the conclusion of season 5, which wraps up most dangling threads and has a definite and satisfactory, although bittersweet, ending.
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Ending Aversion / int_e3c4fe80	comment	RPG World was dropped in the final arc, right as the hero was confronting the Big Bad, thanks to a combination of the creator losing interest and focusing on animation school. Years later, the creator got their own animated series called OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes and gave the comic a Fully Absorbed Finale at the behest of a crewmember.
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Ending Aversion / int_e5de5644	comment	XIII, a Licensed Game based on the first five volumes of the Belgian comic book series of the same name, ends with a "To Be Continued" after The Reveal of the Man Behind the Man. The game's poor sales meant that no further adaptations of the comics would be made.
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Ending Aversion / int_ec1315a6	comment	An early fansub for the Saikano has a disclaimer at the end of the third to last episode in which Chise abandons her duties and runs away with Shuuji saying that if the viewer wants a happy ending they should just stop right there.
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Ending Aversion / int_ed422854	comment	In a literal example, No Man's Sky: while the game is very open-ended, one of its goals is to get to the center of the galaxy. Upon doing so, players are immediately teleported to a different galaxy, with absolutely no reward for their efforts.
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Ending Aversion / int_ee1e7a12	comment	Stuart Little. It should be noted that this only applies to the original book and not the movies.
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Ending Aversion / int_eeaaec28	comment	Martian Successor Nadesico suffers from this due to Prince Of Darkness (Which was supposed to be the first in a trilogy) bombing from the number of problems with it including breaking from the spirit of the series. Having a Japanese Saturn-only game that explains what happens between the end of the series and the movie only made things worse. This also happens In-Universe with Akito hesitant to watch the last episode of Gekiganger. In the final episode, he did...and he said it sucked due to the massive amount of Ass Pull included in one episode.
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Ending Aversion / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager - Depending on who you ask, the mid-series switch from Kes to Seven of Nine may cause this trope to apply to the early seasons. The finale is also controversial, especially the sudden Chakotay/Seven relationship. Old viewers are likely to warn new ones not to get invested in pairings like Janeway/Chakotay and Doctor/Seven for that reason.
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Ending Aversion / int_efccb9da	comment	Voltron: Legendary Defender's final episode is disliked by a majority of the fanbase with some complaints being about the fates of certain characters such as the deaths of Allura and Lotor, the former being a major woobie and the latter being a very deep and compelling villain who many thought would have more to do, Honerva being a Karma Houdini who gets away with almost destroying the multiverse and for Lance's and Shiro's epilogue with the former becoming an Altean for some reason and Shiro marrying his communications officer who he barely interacted with as a hamfisted attempt at an Author's Saving Throw regarding the way they handled the character of Adam.
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Ending Aversion / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother's finale is one of the most controversial, love-it-or-hate-it endings on record. Barney and Robin get divorced after only three years; Barney goes right back to his womanizing ways and fathers a child with one of his one-night stands; Tracy (a.k.a. the Mother) is revealed to have died in 2024; the kids encourage Ted to go after Robin yet again. The meltdown among fans and critics was big enough to make the news and is likely to haunt the series for years to come, although some fans have been mollified by the alternate ending released with Season 9's DVDs (which basically just leaves out the unpopular bits at the very end).
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Ending Aversion / int_f38b71c4	comment	Dead Space 3: Awakened ends with Isaac and Carver returning to Earth after destroying the Tau Volantis moon, only to find the Brethren Moons converging upon Earth and their ship, before the credits roll.
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Ending Aversion / int_f39c217d	comment	Aldnoah.Zero: Season 2 already suffered issues, such as everyone surviving the season 1 finale, Inaho becoming even more overpowered and Lemrina being introduced out of nowhere. The ending itself was controversial for several reasons, such as Asseylum marrying a completely different guy and Slaine sentenced to life in prison.
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Ending Aversion / int_f5b3ff6a	comment	Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans disappointed fans with its Reset Button ending. As in, the Reset Button applied not only to the events of the movie, but to three complete series before it.
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Ending Aversion / int_f6eed39	comment	The Sopranos is a particularly controversial example. The ending may depict Tony's death but it's left very ambiguous and up to the viewer's interpretation.
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Ending Aversion / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Faced with uncertainty over the show's renewal, J. Michael Straczynski rewrote Season 4 to resolve the show's Myth Arc. Season 5 was greenlit during production, and JMS' attempts to rework unused story arcs from Season 4 led to Ending Fatigue until the actual finale. Fortunately, the Distant Finale (shot for Season 4 but held back after the show's renewal) is actually really good and satisfactorily wraps up all the remaining plot threads of the series. Many fans just skip straight from the end of the Shadow War (or the end of Season 4, which is after) to "Sleeping in Light." Some further downplay it by skipping the telepaths plot, which is the main source of Arc Fatigue in season 5.
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Ending Aversion / int_f88df431	comment	Mega Man Legends 2 ended with Mega Man Volnutt stranded on the moon, and Roll and Tron beginning construction on a rocketship to rescue him. Unfortunately, the third game got cancelled and Keiji Inafune left Capcom, so the story will likely never be concluded.
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Ending Aversion / int_f915263c	comment	Dying Light: Both of the endings in The Following result in either Crane being turned into a volatile and spreading the infection outside of quarantine, or willingly activating a nuclear warhead to contain the infection by destroying all of Harran and its inhabitants. Suffice to say, the endings hurt many potential players' desire to play the DLC, or even the original game, for that matter.
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Ending Aversion / int_fa603610	comment	Profiler ended on a season cliffhanger—the Big Bad for most of the final season has been killed by another bad guy, of unknown motives, who is in the middle of carrying out his scheme.
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Ending Aversion / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution added three more plot elements for every plot point it addressed directly, reminding viewers unfavorably of Lost.
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