Most disappointing ending for a book, movie or video game [Possible Spoilers]

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

No. That is a cop-out. You just couldn't think of a good ending, so you decided to not write one.

I often wonder what is the greater sin: to end on a cliffhanging high note or release a mediocre, half baked finisher?


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

Fuck me sideways with a bread-stick. After 6 books she suddenly decides to remove everyone's plot armour and to add (personal) insult to injury, she kills off my favourite character, after having derailed her solidly in the last book, and then if I may quote Stephen Fry, the crowning turd in the water pipe was that epilogue.

Albus Severus Potter. Jesus-bling wearing-Christ I honestly thought it was a fanfic. That quality of naming for children of the main characters is something the fanfiction community has been railing against with its lesser authors for years; and she gives it Canon backing.

Jeeves fetch me a stiff drink, this is hurting my head.

 

[Samwise137]

Sorry but I've gotta say Serenity. I just feel like it shouldn't have ended there (comic books notwithstanding). If I'm allowed to say the ending that pissed me off most (as far as TV is concerned) was Angel. I don't have the time to read the comic books and I just want to know what happens!

 

[Krion_Vark]

I am going to go with a Television Series since I just finished Kamen Rider W two weeks ago.

Spoiler

The ending of the series was disappointing because the episode before it had an awesome fight and like 4 or 5 episodes before that had an EPIC fight between W, Acel and Terror. The ending was just stupid because it was like. Hey my sister Wakana gave up her life so that I could live I have been in the Hyper Memory waiting for my body to regenerate watching you. Then they henshin into W defeat a dopont with a single attack and its over. MOST ANTI-CLIMATIC THING EVER. Also they seemed to make up ANOTHER organization just to end it in a single episode. I mean the final guy that they beat before this episode his group was introduced in a MOVIE and there is an ENTIRE MOVIE on his group. But I feel like it was one of the biggest cop-outs ever. Yes I know I am ranting about a Japanese Kids show but still it was anti-climatic.

 

[xWestie]

Harry Potter 7.

Ninja'd

 

[Zannkimaru]

Mafia 2, the game was great it just had a horribly anticlimactic and sudden ending.

Oh god the ending made me go WTF!!! i mean seriously is this sequel material or dlc material? what the hell just happened?!

 

[C117]

Ranma ½.

Spoiler

I mean, what the hell? After 38 volumes of fighting and evolving relationships, we're back at square 1? AGAIN? And after it seemed like Ranma would finally tell Akane how he felt, no less! Sure, that last wedding scene was hilarious, but still. In the end, nothing is achieved, nothing is solved, and nothing is different from how it has been for the last 30+ volumes!

*sigh*
At least it was a better manga than Inuyasha...

 

[EllEzDee]

Mafia 2, the game was great it just had a horribly anticlimactic and sudden ending.

Oh god the ending made me go WTF!!! i mean seriously is this sequel material or dlc material? what the hell just happened?!

Having played the first Mafia, which had a weird but fulfilling ending for a mafia game, i'd love to know the ending to this bastard child of a game.
Anyone care to spoil it for me?

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Borderlands.

Really now, I liked the twist, I never saw it coming, but then it just ends. at least tell us wtf we just killed!

 

[Hosker]

House of Flying Daggers ends suddenly and on a cliffhanger, just before there is about to be a massive battle, bigger than all the others in the film.

 

[4173]

The hate for the ending of KotoR II has always baffled me.

Borderlands didn't bother me either, because I had been comparing it to Diablo II in my mind, and Baal is just an afterthought in that game.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Its about how Bell failed though. Its the point of the movie. Watch it again.

My nomination is the ending of the book "A Clockwork Orange". If Burgess hadn't ever written to 21st chapter of that book, I'd be so much happier. Its soooo disappointing. It would be a much darker book if it wasn't included.

It is better with the 21st chapter. Alex changes and wants to become a functional citizen on his own and not through brainwashing. Without that chapter there is little learned and nothing gained. With it, it shows how any of us (no mater how "evil") can turn ourselves around.

The book is dark enough, let us give our humble narrator a potential future.

Also, the full ending, as I'll call it, can be considered to be a quite dark one anyway, because even though Alex turns himself around, he reflects on the cyclical nature of it all, and how if he has a child this child will most likely do the same things Alex did, and Alex would not be able to prevent him from doing so, just like with his own parents.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

Mortal Engines

Spoiler

"hey lets spend 4 books getting to like these characters. Then kill them in bullshit ways!"

Yeah, that did make me rage a fair bit.

Spoiler

the deaths had no sense of purpose but I rather liked the whole "He was built to last" epilogue.

 

[Danial]

Fable 2, Fable 2 can fuck off.

Oh and War of the Worlds ala Crazy McCruise. I actually said out loud in the cinema "if this fucking ends here I'll get my cock out" Only for the credits to roll 10 seconds later.

Apparently standing up and shouting "RIGHT" and fumbling with your belt will get you rugby tackled by you GF and best mate.

 

[Lionsfan]

Harry Potter 7.

Dang It, Ninja'd
That whole book felt rushed and JK "Ralphing" up and killed off almost all of the characters i liked and then tacked on a very blah epilogue.


I also would have said Twilight but the whole series was dissapointing to me so didnt quite fit the OT of this thread.

I kinda hoped that Harry would die at the end. That would have had meaning.

Or maybe he would have killed Voldemort. Then we could have seen Harry progress as a character and actually have to make a tough choice that would stick in his mind in the future. And I didn't like that Epilogue, it just seemed too easy and too Fairy Taleish with the Happily Ever After

But for my own example I really didn't like how The Road (book) ended. It just seemed so sudden and fast compared to the rest of the book

 

[Bocaj2000]

Howl's Moving Castle

The ending made me rage. (no worries; no spoilers)

 

[Syrus Vikeruce]

Basically every one of the Legend of Zelda series.

Oh also Mother 3 as well. Great story, great characters...

Generic happy ending.

 

[Arayle]

I was about to say Halo 2, but then remembered that game only had a start and a middle, Bungie mustn't have had the time to make the ending =/

Otherwise, I nominate Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/indigo-prophecy

Awesome game for a majority of it, awesome Police Detective storyline, the main character you played as was great. so the game was still completely worth getting. =)

Until the end when the game went from Police Detective storyline into Evil Cultists with Magic! the reason why all those bad things happened? A Wizard did it. and the fight with the last boss looks like something out of Dragonball Z >.>

 

[LordVikingofFire]

No. That is a cop-out. You just couldn't think of a good ending, so you decided to not write one.

I often wonder what is the greater sin: to end on a cliffhanging high note or release a mediocre, half baked finisher?


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

Fuck me sideways with a bread-stick. After 6 books she suddenly decides to remove everyone's plot armour and to add (personal) insult to injury, she kills off my favourite character, after having derailed her solidly in the last book, and then if I may quote Stephen Fry, the crowning turd in the water pipe was that epilogue.

Albus Severus Potter. Jesus-bling wearing-Christ I honestly thought it was a fanfic. That quality of naming for children of the main characters is something the fanfiction community has been railing against with its lesser authors for years; and she gives it Canon backing.

Jeeves fetch me a stiff drink, this is hurting my head.

Oh and don't forget anti-feminism! We can't forget that!

 

[CleverCover]

My Side of the Mountain:
What the hell was the point of having everyone move into the forest when he was just fine on his own doing what most kids wish they could even attempt?! No, Mom, go back to the city and leave him alone. He was doing awesome before you butted in.

Harry Potter 7:
Really? That spell. You're kidding! NO way...I can't....fine...ok, just fine. And why did those people have to die? Not every book needs to have people die. I like happy rainbow marshmallow endings sometimes too. Seriously? Dobby? Fred? Hedwig!? Really?

 

[ingednicol]

Oh and War of the Worlds ala Crazy McCruise. I actually said out loud in the cinema "if this fucking ends here I'll get my cock out" Only for the credits to roll 10 seconds later.

Apparently standing up and shouting "RIGHT" and fumbling with your belt will get you rugby tackled by you GF and best mate.

you sir, deserve a medal, a cookie and an internet

OT: Probably Fable 2, or pre-Broken Steel Fallout 3, hate open and shut endings with little-to-no input from the player, so i'll throw in oblivions too