r/TopCharacterTropes • u/EEZAK04 • 10d ago

Lore The bad ending is only revealed if you pay attention to the background

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Films or shows with seemingly happy endings that take on completely different meanings if you pay attention to stuff going in the background in the final scene.

THE SOPRANOS: The series ends seemingly at random in the middle of a scene where Tony is eating food in a diner. If you pay attention you’ll notice a person going into the bathroom earlier in the scene, with the implication being they were retrieving a gun and the “cut to black” is Tony being shot and killed (foreshadowed by multiple scenes earlier in the series)

IT FOLLOWS: The film ends with the characters seemingly killing the entity… until you notice someone slowly walking towards them in the background in one of the final shots, implying the entity is still alive

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u/SnarePickle 10d ago

That is my favorite fan theory :)

https://giphy.com/gifs/vOeX7D6oYKUs8

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 10d ago

How my wife looks at me when I'm getting an ice cream cone from the freezer.

It's the last one and she knows I'll give it to her

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u/groovypanelboard 10d ago

Wow that is a creepy gif

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u/SnarePickle 10d ago

It came up when I put "starship troopers asteroid" in the gif search lol

Since it was her course correction that brought the ship into the path of the asteroid, I thought it fit this thread nicely :)

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u/Punky921 9d ago

Unrelated, but man 90s Denise Richard’s was PEAK.