Trippy Finale Syndrome: Difference between revisions

Overlaps with [[Gainax Ending]] when it gets particularly [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolic]]. Video games tend to make this an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]. If the gameplay goes sour, it's [[Disappointing Last Level]].

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* The 1974 ant thriller ''[[Phase IV]]'' ends with {{spoiler|the surviving human characters - a man and a woman - apparently being captured by ants and forced to become the next stage of human evolution, or something along those lines.}}

* John Boorman's deranged post-apocalyptic sci-fi film ''[[Zardoz]]'' ends with {{spoiler|the main character and his wife growing old in timelapse, as their child grows up to adulthood, to no discernible cinematic purpose.}}

* ''[[At Play in the Fields of the Lord]]''. Moon gives the Indians the flu, they all die, Randy dies, and in the novel, Moon is (metaphorically) the only man on Earth. [[Gainax Ending]] indeed.

* [[The Tree of Life]]

** The first alternate ending of ''Final'' has you trapped in a really trippy dimension, fighting a space slug thing, and [[And Then John Was a Zombie|mutated by the Bydo]], then forced to fight your allies. You can see the mutant ship from this ending fly past in the first stage.

* ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'' had the Elegy of the Moon zone. In contrast to the bright, colorful, and vibrant zones previously seen, the Elegy of the Moon is a rather... odd zone which is essentialy purgatory for the souls lost to the mineral powder.

* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]: Origins'': The final boss is pretty standard, but if you {{spoiler|went back in time and killed Wiseman on the Battlefield of Atria, then Wiseman's spirit shows up, assimilates Verus and the afterlings in the core, and turns into a monstrous demon in a starscape. Then, the rest of Malpercio shows up to help you defeat Verus-Wiseman.}} Then, afterwards, you're back in Tarazed Core, like all ''that'' never happened. Granted, it ''does'' make for a hell of a boss fight.

* This is basically a requirement for ''[[Shadow Hearts]]''. In the first one, set before [[World War I]], the heroes head into ''space'' for the final battle.

** The final battle was in part inspired by the time the director walked into a porno movie when he was a kid.

*** Close enough, but if you check the facts it's an old-fashioned CSI-esque movie that starts (well, not immediately, but you get the point) with a close-up of the soon to be victim's face, suggesting a sex scene, we never see anything though. (and [[Word of God|Itoi]] was a kid at the time, so he mis-interpreted it.)

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