Your biggest "Fuck you" to the audience

[thefascistpig]

The ending of "I Am Legend". It was moving towards a certain point and foreshadowing the end rather well, overall it was following the book.

Until the end.

Until the fucking ending.

Ironically enough, this "Fuck you!" towards the audience is a result of the initial test audiences "not liking" the ending. In the original version (and the way the book ended) there's a moment of sheer shock (shot beautifully, I might ad) when Smith's character realized the monsters he was fighting were sentient, and that they weren't after him because "RAWR! WE R TEH EVEL!" but because he quite honestly kidnapped one of their kind. It shows that not all the "monsters" are heartless and, from their perspective, Smith's character was the real monster.

But no. Test audiences didn't like it. So instead it ended with his character making a "heroic sacrifice" to murder the hell out of himself and all the other "filthy monsters" in the building, while his friend escaped with the cure! Completely negating all the foreshadowing and virtually everything that happened up to that point. What's worse, though, is that the alternate ending was labeled the "Controversial Ending" on the DVD. Because, yep, living beings not being monsters is so controversial.

What makes that movie worse is that it changes parts of the book that made the book live up to its name

 

[shintakie10]

the entire second season of darker than black. they take away his powers at the end of the second episode.

why just...why.

Not only that, but the second season of Darker Than Black was just fuckin awful in the creepiest way possible.

Spoiler

He's not exactly lighthearted in season 1, but the fuck happens to the main character in season 2? He turns into a drunken slob that beats on his charge multiple times an episode. Abusive boyfriend bullshit beats on too, both emotionally and physically. Then there's that creepy as fuck line from the girl "You hit me constantly and yet I still love you!" Just...the fuck did I just watch? As a showcase of how to spot if you're in an abusive relationship it works. Tryin to sit through it though was painful. Also Mao's obsession with ankles was really really freaky.

On top of that, literally nothin makes sense in the story and the ending is just so wtf happened. So her brother resurrected her after she died, then made a completely new world for her, then sent her and that one kid off to live there. What. The. Fuck.

 

[FPLOON]

Wait... It WAS?!
I wasn't able to finish that series because for some reason CN decided to not showcase the rest of the episodes... Are you telling me that I shouldn't wait until Toonami showcases the rest of the series because, in the long run, it would have seemed like as big of a "fuck you" to the fans as Teen Titans GO! is to the original animated Teen Titans series[footnote]Just to set up a compatible example, I guess...[/footnote]?

Eh, it wasn't terrible, you can find the rest of it online if you know where to look. CN will be finishing it later, but internationally it's done. I went into it expecting crap, and was therefore pleasantly surprised. I mean, I can't put my finger on what there was to like, but I don't regret watching it. It says a lot that I consider the intro to easily be the best thing about the show. On the flip side, I can recall quite a lot that was off. They didn't use any of the big name bat villains (unless you count Killer Croc), Katana is his first partner because reasons, Alfred is much more active than in other portrayals, the animation felt a bit weak at times, but mostly, they could have just given us more Brave and the Bold. (Mere words cannot express how much I wish that was still running.) Of course, I managed to make it all the way through "The Zeta Project", so I probably have an inhuman tolerance for DC's mediocrity. If you've already watched the first 20, might as well finish the last 6.
OT: Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated went off the deep end near the end there.

Spoiler

Why did they need to be outright fighting ancient eldritch horrors and Nazi robots? that is NOT what the series is about...

Well, for me, I've already seen the first 6(?) or so episodes of Beware The Batman... (Twice, I guess...) and I'm so curious that I'm willing to sit through the next 20 episodes... where I already know that the creators of the show were REALLY trying not to use any of the "popular" A and/or B-list villains in the first place anyway... Sure, I miss Brave and the Bold as well[footnote]Just the team-ups, alone, I miss greatly...[/footnote], but I also miss the animated Justice League series...[footnote]I don't know where I was going with that statement...[/footnote]

Also, in terms of Mystery Incorproated, wasn't the whole point of the series just to prove that

Spoiler: this is true?

everything took place on an alternate timeline, anyway?

If so, then they have succeeded...

 

[Meximagician]

The anime Gantz, the manga might have been better, but I wouldn't know. Slow paced, characters drop off like flies, the main character makes Shinji look like a hero for all of time, and motivations are "'cuz I'm a jerk!" and/or "I have no idea".

Also the movie Prometheus. If no one has taken that one scene and added Wile E. Coyote sound f/x and music to it, they should.

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

I hear Evangelion (the original series) gave its audience the middle finger to the point that Hideaki Anno received multiple death threats afterwards. Haven't seen that far into the show - got bored with it halfway through - but that's a pretty famous fuck you.

No, the original series was Anno knuckling down and saying, 'Let's see how far we can take this'.

At the halfway point in the series shit starts to go down, and as the audience you're waiting for that sweet relief of the light at the end of the tunnel that you get most other shows like this. But this never quite happens in NGE.

End of Evangelion was really the rather mean-spirited slap, with Anno basically going 'Oh, you wanna know what really happened?! Well here you go...'

I heard one theory that Anno's first ending was how a person overcomes himself and becomes a better person while the EOE ending is a criticism of the otaku community and it's treatment of women and lack of ability to improve.

End of Evangelion and the Audience/Author Membrane [http://blip.tv/foldablehuman/s3e2-end-of-evangelion-and-the-audience-author-membrane-6540094]

I am somewhat inclined to believe it given the hospital scene and the fact that Shinji is supposed to be a deconstruction of mecha pilots at the time. That and combined with the knowledge of Anno's mental issues at the time and we got something that could only come from a unqiue (not good, not bad) mind.

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

The ending to Panty and Stocking is the biggest one I can think of.

Oh, Gainax.

I second the notion, God damn it give us a second season already

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

]Huh, a lot of Evangelion here. While I agree, none of that really stopped me from enjoying it. I guess because the whole series had a pretty mean spirited tone to begin with.

With that said, though, Evangelion 3.0 still sucks.

OT: The final episode to Masters of Martial Hearts.

Now, this is a terrible anime, but before the last episode it was just a really crappy, wacky action/ecchi show.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, the last episode goes fucking dark.

Spoiler

The episode begins with the main character, fairly brutally, beating her final opponent to death. then one of her friend, who was the main reason she participated in the tournament in order to find her whereabouts, pops up and congratulates her. She then takes her to a warehouse where she sees that all the previous contestants she defeated has been drugged up to be sold in sex trade, which is a scene that looks like it's taken straight from a hentai. it is then reviled that the main character's best friend and her brother, as well as the friend she was trying to save, were all behind it and were in on the whole thing. They explain very coldly that it was revenge against the main girl's mother and father, who caused their family great pain, and has caused their mother to go mute. They pretty much break the main girl, shoot her in the leg, and tell her how she's a monster and deserves to suffer. Then the main girl's mother comes in and kills them, snapping their necks, and saves her. The mother then sets the warehouse on fire, presumably killing the drugged contestants and herself. The main girl escapes.

It then cuts to the mother of the betraying friend, stabbing a picture of the main girl. She then hears someone at the door, she opens it, and then her face has an expression of horror, before cutting to black (I will say, though, that was a pretty good ending shot.)

There was no hint of this ending anywhere before in the series, and the rest of the show wasn't this tone. It's one of the most mean spirited endings I've ever seen.

Also, the final episode of Pupa.

Another terrible anime, but the last episode is by far the worst finale for a series I've ever seen (worst than Evangelion, in my opinion.)

Spoiler

The episodes prior has one organization following them, has them escape experimentation, and one of the characters impregnating herself with the siblings's child. How does a 12 episode series, each episode only four minutes long (three if you exclude the opening and ending), plan to conclude these plot threads?

Cutesy flashback episode.

it's an episode about the brother winning a hair clip for the sister when they were very young, which she wears throughout the series.

Yeah, because that was the biggest question I had while watching it; how she got her fucking hairpin?!

The Panty and Stocking ending comes to mind too, but I liked that one, and in hindsight it was kinda hilarious, which I think was the intent.

I guess Madoka Magica: Rebellion can be another one, but I loved that one.

Yeah, Eva 3.0 was an odd one. Half of me wants to like it because I am a fan of Kaworu and find him likable. The other half hates it because the whole thing would never have happened if they JUST EXPLAINED WHAT HAPPENED TO SHINJI. Explain the fact that you caused the third impact, explain that Rei is a clone, explain that Nerv is planning to cause a fourth impact, explain things to Shinji god damn it or else he will do something stupid.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

]Huh, a lot of Evangelion here. While I agree, none of that really stopped me from enjoying it. I guess because the whole series had a pretty mean spirited tone to begin with.

With that said, though, Evangelion 3.0 still sucks.

OT: The final episode to Masters of Martial Hearts.

Now, this is a terrible anime, but before the last episode it was just a really crappy, wacky action/ecchi show.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, the last episode goes fucking dark.

Spoiler

The episode begins with the main character, fairly brutally, beating her final opponent to death. then one of her friend, who was the main reason she participated in the tournament in order to find her whereabouts, pops up and congratulates her. She then takes her to a warehouse where she sees that all the previous contestants she defeated has been drugged up to be sold in sex trade, which is a scene that looks like it's taken straight from a hentai. it is then reviled that the main character's best friend and her brother, as well as the friend she was trying to save, were all behind it and were in on the whole thing. They explain very coldly that it was revenge against the main girl's mother and father, who caused their family great pain, and has caused their mother to go mute. They pretty much break the main girl, shoot her in the leg, and tell her how she's a monster and deserves to suffer. Then the main girl's mother comes in and kills them, snapping their necks, and saves her. The mother then sets the warehouse on fire, presumably killing the drugged contestants and herself. The main girl escapes.

It then cuts to the mother of the betraying friend, stabbing a picture of the main girl. She then hears someone at the door, she opens it, and then her face has an expression of horror, before cutting to black (I will say, though, that was a pretty good ending shot.)

There was no hint of this ending anywhere before in the series, and the rest of the show wasn't this tone. It's one of the most mean spirited endings I've ever seen.

Also, the final episode of Pupa.

Another terrible anime, but the last episode is by far the worst finale for a series I've ever seen (worst than Evangelion, in my opinion.)

Spoiler

The episodes prior has one organization following them, has them escape experimentation, and one of the characters impregnating herself with the siblings's child. How does a 12 episode series, each episode only four minutes long (three if you exclude the opening and ending), plan to conclude these plot threads?

Cutesy flashback episode.

it's an episode about the brother winning a hair clip for the sister when they were very young, which she wears throughout the series.

Yeah, because that was the biggest question I had while watching it; how she got her fucking hairpin?!

The Panty and Stocking ending comes to mind too, but I liked that one, and in hindsight it was kinda hilarious, which I think was the intent.

I guess Madoka Magica: Rebellion can be another one, but I loved that one.

Yeah, Eva 3.0 was an odd one. Half of me wants to like it because I am a fan of Kaworu and find him likable. The other half hates it because the whole thing would never have happened if they JUST EXPLAINED WHAT HAPPENED TO SHINJI. Explain the fact that you caused the third impact, explain that Rei is a clone, explain that Nerv is planning to cause a fourth impact, explain things to Shinji god damn it or else he will do something stupid.

That wasn't my biggest problem with the movie. The movie is 67% spectacle. Literally the first and last 30 minutes (in this 90 minute film, mind you) are nothing but action scenes with very little explanation or development with any of the other characters. The middle is primarily used to develop Shinji's and Kaworu's relationship, which, outside of the music, is the best part of the film, but it only makes up a third of the movie and still doesn't establish anything about the previous characters or the setting, which is bad if you're gonna make this drastic a change to the story. We know nothing of Misaki or Asuka and what they've been through over the years, and we know absolutely nothing new about Mari, as she seems to be just there. Not to mention nothing in the previews from the last film was in the movie, which makes me thing the film went through some serious rewrites.

You can make the argument that it's setting up the next film, but that's also the problem. The movie doesn't feel like a complete film, and not just that but it feels short. The other Rebuild movies at least felt like full movies, and they were able to fit way more story and character development (How it compares to the original show is debatable, but as standalone films I think they do a good job.), while this one waste most of its time on long action sequences that are just boring when you are given no reason to care.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

The ENTIRE 7th season of Doctor Who. Never have I been so appalled by a tv show then when I watched that pathetic excuse of a season. I still think Russel T. Davies and Matt Smith should go and die a slow horrible death.

I think you mean "Steven Moffat". Russel T. Davies was the showrunner during the 9/10 era, a.k.a The Best Era And I Will Hear No Argument.

Here's the scene in Moffat-era Doctor Who that really makes me hate him:


"Let it go! We've moved on!" My ass. This is a direct statement to everyone who prefers David Tennant that they're being so silly, it's in the past, the new Doctor is so much better, blah blah fuck you. It's as much a fuck you to Davies as it is to the fans.

And yes, I know that Doctor Who has a long-standing tradition of poking fun at itself, but come on. Between the snide jabs and the systematic dismantling of everything Davies contributed to the canon (the Rift in Cardiff magically healed itself! Guess we don't have any reason to go there anymore!), can we really consider this shit good-natured?

 

[Akisa]

I have to say the ending of Gamer Dogs. I mean really.

 

[Sutter Cane]

Mass Effect 3 - your choices dont mean anything

So I assume you missed all the parts where say you couldn't interact with certain characters because they had died in your previous save game, or characters potentially living or dying based on decisions you made in ME 2, or the whole situation with the rachni queen, or the after effects of not saving the genophage research if you chose to go in that direction in ME2...

He said Mass Effect 3, not 2.

Your choices in 3 had no effect on the ending at all, the only thing that could have been worse is if a menu came up saying "Choose the ending."

It's really no more that way than the first game was. I mean sure it gives us vermire, but the only effect it really has on the ending is which bodies you have available for the final mission. Granted this is a bit of a problem when compaed to mass effect 2 but the extended cut does remedy this by tying your readyness rating to events in the climax more closely.

Everything happened the same regardless of how many characters made it into the third game.
You couldn't make peace if Tali was dead
Everything else happened the same, sure the dialog was different but the events were unchanged.

If Wrex and Mordin are dead you still have to do the whole Tuchanka mission the same as if they both lived
Even if you made the choices that let you save Mordin you never see him again so it doesn't matter

The council setup has less than no effect
and the Rachnai thing just changes the number you get at the end of the mission not the actual mission and you never even see the repressions of it.
Ah, good ol' Mass Effect 3 I forgot how bad it was.

I think your problem is that your standards were set ridiculously high.There was no way that they were going to make drastically different levels for all of the choices that you made in the previous games (hell Skryim can't even have characters react to shit you've done within that same game. I mean I can be the archmage of the college at winterhold,the head of the theives guild and the listener for the dark brotherhood and it basically has no effect on anything outside their respective questlines. I know that has nothing to do with ME3 but it just really annoys me), and it's not like they have no effect on anything either. You get different dialogue, and different outcomes to the scenarios themselves. Also I don't really understand your point about character death. Sure you don't really see certain characters after a certain point, but in that case (and especially in the case of mordin) it's usually the end of their character arc. You might as well say that it doesn't matter if characters die at the climax of a film from a ramatic perspective, because the film is basically over and you never hear from them again (Unless there's a sequel). The death of well known characters is a legitimate consequence whether you want to admit it or not.

 

[Hades]

On disc DLC in general is one of the biggest fuck you's a company can give their fans.

You should find some way to reward your fans not make them buy access to parts of the disk they already paid for.

 

[Vegosiux]

There's a scene in a certain crazy-over-the-top ecchi anime. One scene involves a woman getting molested on the beach by a rather horny octopus.

The main character remarks "I'm sure there are some weirdos getting off to this out there."

 

[otakon17]

Now that I think about it Mahoromatic had one of the biggest bullshit endings I've ever seen.

The whole show is a light-hearted, nonsensical harem comedy, and then suddenly presents you with some overly dramatic, extremely far-fetched and convoluted "Gainax" ending. For no fucking reason at all. God, fuck that show.

It's like Gainax thinks, 'Oh yeah, we made Evangelion, let's give every show we make from here on out a similar ending, whether it fits or not.'

...has anyone mentioned Panty Stocking and Garterbelt? SOOOOOOOOOOOO fits in this list I think.

 

[BoogieManFL]

The ending of Mass Effect 3. It ruined me on the series, so much that I don't even want to go through and replay the whole thing again.



And Breaking Bad, mostly the ending. It was somewhat of a let down to me, the final show down was with a group of guys that weren't in 90% of the series and just got kinda tossed in there at the end. I don't feel like the show ever got to a point that it needed to go. Where Walter was sort of a badass and got to be the new Gus. Yeah it happened on occasion but for the most part he was constantly under the control of someone else.

I think a much better ending would have been one where Walter ended up forcing Hank reluctantly shoot him down. It would have made it more emotional and tragic.

 

[WWmelb]

I'd have to say the remake of the movie of "The Shining". It was fucking brilliant ... so perfectly in sync with the book, so much creepy and awesome...

Until the last 5 minutes ... Oh he had a change of heart and sacrificed himself to save his family!!! FUCK YOU!!! Ugh it was terrible.

And Shutter Island

Awesome movie full of mystery and awesome. Until the last 15minutes or so when Scorsese decided it was all too vague for his audience to comprehend so did a scene by scene run down of the movie carefully spelling everything out in case people didn't understand it.

I was SOOOOOOOOOOOO fucking insulted by that.

FUCK YOU SCORSESE

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

The ending of the anime Corpse Princess. It left me scratching my head and looking on the disc for any episode I might have missed.

Spoiler: For those interested.

The ending basically happens in the middle of a fight between the main character and her arch-enemy, but it happens on the second to last episode. The episode even ends with 'to be continued'. The last episode? It's a side story about characters who died in season one.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Oh, Jesus. I couldn't think of anything until someone in the comments mentioned George Lucas. I'm not even that big a fan of the original series, but they were at least decent films. And then he put a fucking sing along session in Jabba's palace section, in the HD release. Fuck! What was that about? What was he thinking? Was he taking the piss?