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Hearing about all these things makes people wary. No one wants to spend time dedicating themselves to something that will leave them disappointed. Maybe the overall experience would have more than compensated for any supposed deficiencies of the ending, but the potential viewer has been scared off.
This is
Now, of course, one could make the attempt to keep watching it for as long as they liked it, then turn it off when they didn't. When someone becomes attached to the characters and the story, however, that's easier said than done. This, then, often results in the viewer going online to complain about what happened... and the cycle begins anew.
Ironically, the biggest contributor to
And well, it's hard to say that [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|we're not somewhat to blame either]].
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{{examples|Examples and Reasons:}}
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is infamous for its [[Gainax Ending]], and is, as of now, the show that lead to [[Studio Gainax]] being the [[Trope Namer]]. The last two episodes make so little sense (they're essentially a [[High School AU]] of the series) that some fans might recommend you skip them and go straight to ''[[End of Evangelion]]''. This makes it the rare work that is a clear example of something hit by Ending Aversion, [[Hype Aversion]], ''and'' [[Angst Aversion]].
* ''[[The Prisoner]]''.
* ''[[The Big O]]'' (which was also possibly [[Cut Short]]).
* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' is quickly gaining a reputation of being to [[Video Games]] what ''[[Lost]]'' was to [[Live Action Television]] and what ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' was to [[Anime]]; its infamous ending, in more pessimistic interpretations, basically boils down to nothing more than a choice of which color of light you want to destroy the galaxy in a massive borderline [[Deus Ex Machina]] (Or [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]) which came practically out of nowhere. {{spoiler|It also involves, in certain interpretations, literally meeting a god in a previously secular universe, and the appearance of what could only be described as magic.}} Like Evangelion, it is a clear example of something hit by
* While not an ongoing series, ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'''s ending has a sufficient reputation for being bizarre and incomprehensible to bring about this trope.
* ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.
* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]''.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' - season 4 made some decisions that weren't very popular, though the general attitude is that season 5 got better again. Showrunner Joss Whedon then took a year off during season 6 to focus on the musical episode, and while people do remember and celebrate the musical episode even years later, this meant that he handed off writing duties for season 6 to other writers, and it showed. Things got moving again in season 7 when Joss came back full time, and the story intentionally built up to the final battle, but many still found it to be little better.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' - the first two seasons are great, to the point that it won a Peabody Award during the break between seasons two and three. When season 3 got underway, they started running out of ideas, and it was downhill from there. It didn't help that a large portion of the acclaimed writing staff (but not the head writer) left the show before season 3 got underway, particularly all of the female writers (who also were acknowledged to be the guiding hand in the writing of the female characters up to that point).
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* [[Super Mario Bros.]]. It doesn't help that the Princess' rescue isn't going to last very long.
* ''[[Angel]]''.
* ''[[Animorphs]]''.
* ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]''.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]''.
** The creator, Genndy Tartakovsky, originally intended to create a movie to end the series. However, after the less than stellar performance of his ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' movie, he shelved the idea and hasn't come back to it since. Interestingly, the series was never officially canceled, so he could theoretically end it at any time.
* ''[[The X-Files]]''.
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. In this case, The Chris Carter Effect [[Invoked Trope|was intentional]].
* ''[[Clone High]]''.
* ''[[Carnivale]]''.
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** The first anime also had a very rushed ending as the creators thought they would have multiple seasons to work with ([[Long Runners|as was necessary to adapt Negima faithfully]]) and were disabused of this notion with only 1/3 of the season left to wrap it up.
* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', though from what we've seen of Brandon Sanderson's first entry in the series, it may wind up averting this trope.
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', which gets bonus points for having a [[Downer Ending]].
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* ''[[Riget]]'' - not the author, just around 4 essential cast members.
* ''[[Cerebus]]''.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' by way of hasty resolution of the [[Myth Arc]] leading to [[Ending Fatigue]] until the actual finale.
* ''[[Inception]]''. {{spoiler|Don't bother to watch if never learning whether or not it was [[All Just a Dream]] would interfere with your enjoyment. However, it is [[Fridge Brilliance|possible to work it out on a second viewing]].}}
* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' is a particularly controversial example.
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* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. The most basic conflict is resolved, but a great many plot threads are simply left hanging.
* ''[[RPG World]]''.
* Every [[Dead Fic]] in existence, by the concept's very nature.
* ''[[Zot]]'', for quite a while. (The final set of print issues, representing Zot's adventures on our Earth, and inevitably described as some of the best work of the series, had not been collected in Trade form until very recently.)
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