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"Kevin loved his wheel. But one day, it broke! Kevin grew bored...and died."
— The infamous "Kevin The Hamster" ad for Levi's
Blogs
The makers of ALF's Special Christmas just decided to give people a sad and then leave for Denny's.
Fan Works
"OF COURSE THIS IS WHAT WE GET! No justice, no revenge, no fucking CLOSURE! Just THIS!"
Literature
...there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing…
—Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
"All that I did," he whispered. "It was for nothing. All my struggles. My fights. My pain. The people I killed. The people I betrayed. For nothing."
Video Games
Where's your fat reward and ticket home? What the hell is this? It's not supposed to end this way!
— Epilogue for the first episode of DOOM
"These brave youths fought to change the world for the better, yet now their unfulfilled dreams lie dead with them on the battlefield... Was their sacrifice in vain? What were they fighting for all along? And what of the light...?"
"The ending is, to put it simply, a complete and utter cop-out. Basically, everything you did—it never happened. That’s it, the characters undo everything you’ve ever done, all your progress was for nothing and you might as well not even bothered playing it at all. No payoff, no replay value, YOU GET NOTHING. YOU LOSE. GOOD DAY SIR!"
— Roy Thompson on
BioShock Infinite
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"I'm lucky that way. My path was already there. I had only to walk it. I often thought even if no one knew of the good I had done with my life, it didn't matter. That it was done is all that counts in the end. But then I died. And I hadn't gotten to do any of it yet."
— Black Belt, 8-Bit Theater
Web Original
...Here the Kid of the title (Abdul) becomes a monster and becomes the kind of man that, in another world, might have been one of the aggressors that abused Precious. So, in essence, EVERYTHING Precious worked for in Push from her writings to her child, have been for naught. Here, that book's legacy has been stomped upon. Spit upon. Trounced. It's sickening, it really is.
SPOILER ALERT: In a surprise twist, the mom turns out to be dead. Dead! You labored through all those years of Neil Patrick Harris screaming out jokes about his dick, just to meet a corpse. It’s a sitcom. Why does it even NEED a twist? It’s not as if Cheers ended with all the characters turning out to be ghosts.
Having Mulder sit in a motel room and declare that he has failed in pretty much every respect is a really downbeat way to end the series. Given his crusade has cost him so much it would have been nice to have seen him exit with something to show for all of his efforts. Instead he is a wanted fugitive, a man with a suspended death sentence and he has lost everything (including his son) because of his pursuit of the truth. The ultimate question is was it worth it? The definitive answer is no. God I'm depressed.
—Joe Ford on The X-Files, "The Truth"
on The X-Files, "The Truth"There is no introspection. No philosophical meanderings. His characters simply aren't capable and until recently, most of them don't progress. There is no transformation into a better person or just punishment for the wicked. Everyone is wicked and the majority of them either get away with it or get gobbled up by those who are even more malicious.
—Tom Waters on Bret Easton Ellis, Interesting Motherfuckers
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"This is why I hate horror games, too. So many times they just kill your ass at the end. 'Thanks for playing. You're dead.' 'Congratulations surviving all of the monsters; you're now fucking dead. Eat shit.'"
Western Animation
Archer: Lana, that is the third saddest thing I've heard today. Pam told me about a little girl who drowned trying to save a puppy.
Lana: Jesus! What was the second saddest?
Archer: The puppy drowned, too.
Lana: Jesus! What was the second saddest?
Archer: The puppy drowned, too.
— Archer
"Once, there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end."
— Patrick Star on The Ugly Barnacle, Spongebob Square Pants
"This doesn't change anything. It doesn't change anything at all."
— Batman, Under The Red Hood
