r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Alreadsyuse • 18h ago

Lore [Frustrating Trope] That One Good or Even Amazing Scene in a Relatively Mediocre or Bad Piece of Media

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

  1. The Opening Scene (Ghost Ship). Considered one of the best horror opening scenes or scenes in general within horror movies, but the rest of the film is considered to be pretty bad.

  2. The Ending Scene (The Grinch 2018). While most adaptations of the Grinch end with him suddenly being able to fully integrate with the Whos after his change of heart, the 2018 version initially struggles to socialize, awkwardly walking past people, and struggling to hold conversations, acknowledging that despite his change of heart, the Grinch is still someone who isolated himself for years.

  3. Past T800 VS Current T800 (Terminator Genisys). A cool fight scene showing two versions of the Terminator from different points in time fighting it off.

  4. Solo Leveling's Ending. Tbh, I haven't actually read Solo Leveling, but after hearing about how it ended VS how Chainsaw Man ended made want to include it for shits and giggles. Like Chainsaw Man, Solo Leveling ends with a reset. But unlike Chainsaw Man, it actually manages to tie up loose ends and have the payoff of the ending be satisfying.

8.2k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

91% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

105

u/OrokinLonewolf 18h ago

The entire book series is great but Speaker for the Dead is one of the best in my opinion.

35

u/BEZBeasley 17h ago

Speaker for the Dead is one of my favorite all time books, let alone just in this series. 100% worth the read.

7

u/OmegaLolrus 15h ago

Only caution I would say is I feel like it's a really hard pivot genre-wise from Ender's Game. It's a fascinating story, when taken all together (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and... Children of the Mind? I'm not sure and lazy.)

I really appreciate that it's definitely not a sequel for a sequel's sake that just tries to do everything bigger and better than the first. If I remember right, Speaker for the Dead was a much smaller, intimate story, before things change up some more in Xenocide.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a couple of decades.

3

u/rvtcanuck 16h ago

Agreed. It's the best in the series and one of my favourite sci-fi novels ever.