most fucked up ending to something you've ever read or seen.

[Lucifron]

I watched End of Evangelion when I was thirteen...

It... changed me... I can't explain it, but man, that is one fucked up end of a show.

Yes, I did understand it in its entirety at the time too.

Understand it at the time? Hell, I never cared to understand it even now. I've never seen anything try so hard to be obscurely ambiguous. In fact, it tries way too hard for its own good.

 

[Littlee300]

The end to School Days is pretty fucked up.

I started watching the anime because of this post and how did it turn into a cute anime romance to that fucked up stuff?

 

[Truehare]

The Mist. Seriously, if he just waited five minutes everything would have been okay. Also, that person you thought was dead? She's alive and she was right. Hope that wasn't very spoilery.

Ah you bastard, Ninja'd.

Yeah, The Mist had, by far, the most messed up ending to anything I've ever seen/read/played. It came right the hell out of no where, and I actually thought it made the movie stronger for it.

That makes you and me the only people I know who liked the ending to The Mist. For some reason, hyper-downer endings like that seem to upset most people...

Well, count me in. I was expecting to be disappointed after they escaped the supermarket, because the original story just ended there and was left open to speculation (and was brilliant for that), but the ending they gave the movie was almost as good as the original (and sometimes, I feel it's even better).

OT, I don't remember any particular fucked-up ending right now, but if I think of something, I'll be back...

 

[Darth_Dude]

I watched End of Evangelion when I was thirteen...

It... changed me... I can't explain it, but man, that is one fucked up end of a show.

Yes, I did understand it in its entirety at the time too.

EDIT: And, because I must...

You can't break those cuffs! [http://www.cuffs.ytmnd.com/]

watching that was the single greatest moment of my life

That was so gay...

 

[fleischwolke]

The Mist. That was just low, man, cruel and low.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Spoiler: If you really, really, really do not want to know the ending that you see coming from page 4, then do not click this. If, on the other hand, you're a normal human being, feel free to click for the Summary of The Road

Cold. Walking. Hungry. Dying. Starving. Gonna die. Cold. Don't have enough food. "Hi dad." "Hi son, what's on your mind?" "Nothing" "OK" "OK" Cold. Walking. Cold. Hungry. Dying. Walking. Cold. Hungry. Starving. Cold. Found some food. Cold. Walking. Hungry again. Gonna die. Gonna die. Cold. Found a house. Starving. No food in the house. Cold. "Hi dad." "Hi son, what's on your mind?" "Nothing" "OK" "OK" Leave the house because you found dying people in the basement. Now it's more cold. Even colder. Even more dying. Even MORE starving. No food. Gonna die. Dying. Dying... Dying.... Dying... Cold... Freezing... Find food again. Still cold. Cold. Cold. Cold. [The one action sequence in the book happens here and it's half a page long] Cold. Starving. Gonna die. "Hi dad." "Hi son, what's on your mind?" "Nothing" "OK" "OK". Cold. Dying. Need food. Gonna die. Cold. Dying. Need food. Gonna die. Complete asspull ending is here.

Read that all the way through. Every single word. How you feel at the end is how I and everyone I know felt after reading this book.

I stopped reading the Road. It was a good book, sure, but it's so damn predictable there's no real point in actually finishing it. I decided I couldn't be bothered to read the same scenario 8 times over, flicked to the end, found out I was right, and never picked the thing up again.

OT: Changes, the 12th book of the Dresden files.

Spoiler: Not fucked up, just kinda cheap

So Harry gets shot. And then describes dying in first person, which is annoying. A newspaper article describing the shooting would have fitted better. And then it's kinda ambiguous as to whether or not he's going to survive.

Spoiler: spoiler within a spoiler; may spoil things for some Dresden fans even after they've read the book

And then Jim Butcher announced that this was only the halfway point in Dresden's story. It's a good series, sure, but 20+ books seems excessive...

For actually screwed up endings, I submit either Ender's Game or The Stand.

Spoiler: Because I like spoiler tags

Ender's game - we've been manipulating you all along! You just led humanity into war and destroyed an entire alien species! Also, you're responsible for all the humans who died in the war. Which was a lot.
The Stand - A lot of the main characters just died in a nuclear explosion! But that's fine, because God said it was going to happen

 

[Littlee300]

The Never Ending Story.

It ended...

Lets sue those bitches for false advertising!

 

[Chronologger]

Easy..

Penumbra: Black Plague

If I were a lesser man I would have quite simply shit myself on the spot when I saw that ending.

 

[Littlee300]

Let me say the most f***ed up ending is definly Splinter Cell Conviction Co op because it totally sucked balls that you did all that coop stuff with your friend only to *SPOLIER ALERT (Now you cant blame me)* kill them and then you get shoot by a guy called Kobin now thats F***ed up...

I still wonder why Kobin shot them. They seemed very loyal, at least loyal enough to shoot someone they are very close to for no good reason to.

 

[k0kRoach]

1984. . .that ending is fucked. . .really thats just cold. .

Not to me, not to me! Do it to Czulkang!

 

[DanielSPG]

The last few episodes of Twin Peaks... just when you thought things couldn't get worse.

 

[LimitedPunctuation]

The Bridge to Terabithia. I swear the whole point of that book is to take children's dreams and crush them.

I read that book when I was like 10... /tears

 

[Dark2003]

Damn RepoMan(Movie not the musical)

Spoiler

I thought he was all bad ass chopping up his former co-workers, and it turns out he was dreaming.

 

[AceTrilby]

The end of The Grapes Of Wrath (the book).
The most depressing end to anything I've ever read, ever.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Hamlet's always been pretty fucked up. You can see the ending coming from a mile away, but it's still fucking crazy.

 

[SsilverR]

The mist

 

[HeavyMetalHamster]

Not sure if it qualifies as "fucked up", but the ending of Splice (recent kinda-horror movie for those of you who don't know) was the biggest waste of potential I've seen in a while.

How does one take a brilliant script, great directing and one of the most interesting creatures in recent movie history and then let it degenerate into a "chasing-around-in-the-woods"-scene??

Who's with me?

 

[freakyalex]

Inception. Just...Inception. Biggest cock tease of the new decade right there.

Yeah, this. I actually yelled at the screen when it ended.

 

[junkmanuk]

1984. . .that ending is fucked. . .really thats just cold. .

I agree with this entirely - it was never going to end well...

 

[Flamezdudes]

Many, many of h.p.lovecraft's stories like 'cool air', the dunwich horror,the whisperer in darkness and the thing on the doorstep. Creepy stuff man.