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Ekonk

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Ah, Metro 2033 - what a book you are. Funny, dark, contemplative, exciting, moody...

Not to mention having an utterly depressing ending.

I'll put it in spoiler brackets for you.
Just when the missiles are en route to the dark ones' nest, Artyom has a sudden vision/telepathic message, because of which is he realizes that the dark ones wanted peace all along, that the dark ones are the new evolution of mankind, that together, humans and dark ones, they can perhaps reclaim the earth in a prosperous alliance - and then the missiles rain down upon the nest, and the dark ones and all hope for humanity are destroyed in torrents of fire, much like the torrents of fire that destroyed most of humanity in the first place. In the end, there is no hope anymore and it is strongly implied that internal wars will soon decimate the populace of the Moscow metro to the point of inevitable extinction.

So yeah, I was feeling kind of depressed when I finished reading that.

So Escapists, what are in your opinion the works - be they game, book, or movie - with the most depressing endings in existence?
 

Vhite

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His Dark Materials has a little depressing end but Im not gonna say why even in spoiler because WHOLE series could be spoiled by that.
 

Krythe

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Thomas Aquinas concludes his Suma Theologica that there is no such thing as free will and that scripture can never be contradicted. Add that to the fact that you just wasted several weeks of your life reading a useless book that's thick enough to beat cows to death with and it makes for a very unrewarding IRL submod.
 

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Ekonk said:
Ah, Metro 2033 - what a book you are. Funny, dark, contemplative, exciting, moody...

Not to mention having an utterly depressing ending.

I'll put it in spoiler brackets for you.
Just when the missiles are en route to the dark ones' nest, Artyom has a sudden vision/telepathic message, because of which is he realizes that the dark ones wanted peace all along, that the dark ones are the new evolution of mankind, that together, humans and dark ones, they can perhaps reclaim the earth in a prosperous alliance - and then the missiles rain down upon the nest, and the dark ones and all hope for humanity are destroyed in torrents of fire, much like the torrents of fire that destroyed most of humanity in the first place. In the end, there is no hope anymore and it is strongly implied that internal wars will soon decimate the populace of the Moscow metro to the point of inevitable extinction.
Damn I heard that the book was depressing but...damn...

I just finished reading Nineteen Eighty Four and the ending isn't really depressing, seeing as the whole story is depressing, but it is quite scary. Not in an 'Ahh big monster!' way more a 'Big Brother will kill you in your sleep' kinda way.

Smith gets 'reeducated' by the Party and sent back into society.
While he is essentially the same person he has different ideals, he is now blindly obedient to the government, the Thought Police don't even monitor him anymore because they know he won't have rebellious ideas.
He also knows that eventually he will be forced to confess to crimes he did not commit right before his execution, but he no longer seems to care.

The book ends with the line 'He loved Big Brother'.
 

JasonBurnout16

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I'm going to say the 1984 is more depressing than Metro 2033, but not by much.

But both totally amazing books. It's also really nice to hear from other people that have read them. Don't usually get to have discussions with people about books which is a shame =/
 

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The most recent read of mine that I found depressing was Frozen Fire.

At the very end of the book, Dusty and the boy are cornered by an angry mob, and they are about to kill the boy for raping two girls. But it's revealed that he is incapable of rape for a reason I won't say, and everyone still wants to kill him. So he steals a van, drives it off a cliff, and drowns... and the Dusty almost ends up in the same mess the boy was in before she is rescued by her family. And all told, Dusty was right in saying that the boy had nothing to fear from the people anymore, and he ends it all anyway. For good reason, but still...

I highly recommend this book, because a lot of awesome stuff happens that this comment doesn't spoil.
 

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Vhite said:
His Dark Materials has a little depressing end but Im not gonna say why even in spoiler because WHOLE series could be spoiled by that.
yeah, thats the most sad ending by far. i was a kid when i read it and it changed my life :(
 

Rylot

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Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' series ended on a rather down note.

With the whole killing the kid, again, and also killing Eddie. Granted Susanna travels to another reality where she meets up with them as kids, but that just felt weird. Also the whole 'you just read seven books only to find out the story loops back and doesn't finish' both depressed and pissed me off.
 

Ekonk

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IBlackKiteI said:
Ekonk said:
Ah, Metro 2033 - what a book you are. Funny, dark, contemplative, exciting, moody...

Not to mention having an utterly depressing ending.

I'll put it in spoiler brackets for you.
Just when the missiles are en route to the dark ones' nest, Artyom has a sudden vision/telepathic message, because of which is he realizes that the dark ones wanted peace all along, that the dark ones are the new evolution of mankind, that together, humans and dark ones, they can perhaps reclaim the earth in a prosperous alliance - and then the missiles rain down upon the nest, and the dark ones and all hope for humanity are destroyed in torrents of fire, much like the torrents of fire that destroyed most of humanity in the first place. In the end, there is no hope anymore and it is strongly implied that internal wars will soon decimate the populace of the Moscow metro to the point of inevitable extinction.
Damn I heard that the book was depressing but...damn...

I just finished reading Nineteen Eighty Four and the ending isn't really depressing, seeing as the whole story is depressing, but it is quite scary. Not in an 'Ahh big monster!' way more a 'Big Brother will kill you in your sleep' kinda way.

Smith gets 'reeducated' by the Party and sent back into society.
While he is essentially the same person he has different ideals, he is now blindly obedient to the government, the Thought Police don't even monitor him anymore because they know he won't have rebellious ideas.
He also knows that eventually he will be forced to confess to crimes he did not commit right before his execution, but he no longer seems to care.

The book ends with the line 'He loved Big Brother'.
Yeah that one as well. It's just so sad that it's all for nothing. The most depressing or most disillusioning part for me was when
the resistance turned out to not exist.
I found that rather shocking.
 

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Tolkien's The Children of Hurin definitely deserves a mention.

Nienor finds her husband (Turin) seemingly dead, learns from Glaurung that her husband is actually her brother, and that she's pregnant with her brother's child, whereupon she kills herself. Shortly afterwards, Turin regains consciousness, learns that she was his sister and that she's dead, and kills himself as well. After these events, Hurin (their father), having finally been released after 20 years of imprisonment, is finally reunited with Morwen (his wife and Turin and Nienor's mother) at the tomb of their children. She then dies at sunset.

It's some pretty damn bleak stuff.
 

Hashime

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"Where the Red Fern Grows"
My wonderful teacher read us this book in grade 6. The entire class was in tears and all of the dog lovers were scarred.
 

Talal Provides

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Green Eggs and Ham. I don't care if he liked them, he bent to pressure from advertising and compromised his principles.
 

Roperius

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The Children of Hurin (adapted from the Silmarillion); rather bleak, to say the least.

Hamlet-esque, perhaps?
 

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Vhite said:
His Dark Materials has a little depressing end but Im not gonna say why even in spoiler because WHOLE series could be spoiled by that.
True enough.
 

Koroviev

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Crime and Punishment...I realize that it's supposed to end on a positive note in that
Raskolinikov turns toward God
but man, I was depressed for day. FOR DAYS .__.
 

Spydercake

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The Cirquè du freak series,

it ends
With the main charecter sacrificing his future self so his past self does not have to go through what they did, Shifting the entire storyline onto a different charecter.