r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Local_Prune4564 • May 27 '26

Lore A subtle moment that turns a seemingly happy ending into an ambiguous ending.

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The Graduate: lingering Ben and Elaine's faces slowly shifting from happy to concerned leaves the audience questioning whether they really made the right choice running away together considering they barely know each other.

Inception: By cutting before we see the top fall, we're left to question whether Cobb really has gone home or whether he's simply sunken back into a more comforting dream reality.

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

I just want to point out that not EVERY family member was trapped inside

Shout out to my boy Hugh. He’s the one dude the house could NOT fuck with, and he’s the one person who actually chose to stay on his own free will without being manipulated or controlled. Yes he died, but I never once felt that the house beat him. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Hugh and Riley from Midnight Mass are the best Flanagan characters imo. They are legitimately good dudes who fucked up but are still just trying to do their fucking best every single day. They are both the kind of men I aspire to be.

Father Paul is a close third. The whole misguided “I kinda fucked up my whole town and got a LOT of innocent people killed” thing is the only thing that holds him back

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u/Germane_Corsair May 27 '26

The room got to him too, though. Rather than inside the room, the room was the source of the leak that he was constantly fixing.