The original post: /r/television by /u/Featherman13 on 2025-07-24 20:13:18.
I just gotta rant for a minute.
Does anyone actually enjoy the endings to shows or movies where they clearly make you think a character died, but at the last moment they’re suddenly saved? Doesn’t it feel like a cheap, cowardly trick to get the audience invested without actually giving the story any stakes?
Am I alone here?
X-Men 97, everyone who watched that show remembers episode 5. Unbelievable television with one of the most heart wrenching and intense moments i think I’ve ever seen in superhero media- When Magneto looks down at the little boy he’s protecting and says “don’t be afraid” in German before that big blast breaks through and the robot says “omega level threat (magneto) eliminated.” Are you saying the fkn robot made a mistake? It can’t tell when it’s killed something despite it literally scanning every single living thing in its radius at all times?
The next episode he’s fine, and that entire scene was revealed to be nothing but a cheap fake out.
I’m sure yall have others that piss you off. I was just rewatching this show, got to that scene, and remembered it’s just some emotional manipulation with 0 payoff, pissed me off to the point where I just stopped rewatching the show.
Anyone else have a fake out death like that?