Is there a trope name for the kind of ending that The Last of Us, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and No Country for Old Men all share? By which I mean ending on a downer conversation really suddenly where a character says something negative that seems to sum it all up and then credits?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I don't think there is one. At least, not for this particular sub-genre of the Downer Ending... ...which means you get to christen it.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
You don't gotta make a page, just give it a name right here right now. For posterity!
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Replying to @RaulIcochea
I'm so bad at that. I guess I might call it "and then I woke up" after No Country, which is where I first noticed it, but that's probably confusing since it's not really about waking up
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One of the things I know from reading Orwell's letters is that "And then you wake up" used to be a fairly common expression, something you said to cynically deflate someone else's attempt to be optimistic
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