Why do so many cartoon finales these days end with the main characters leaving?

Why do so many cartoon finales these days end with the main characters leaving?

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >these days
    AHEM
    also to answer your question, it's a great way to end a show, the characters grew through their adventures and are ready to start a new chapter in their life, or die

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because the most poignant moment at this point their shitty lives for the California CalArts rejects was leaving mommy and daddy for college because their insipid lives are just that meaningless.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm guessing that you still live with your parents.
      I'm not judging. Some people just can't afford it.
      I'm just pointing it out.

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It shows that the story is over, sure there's a chance they might return but it's unlikely. Although I wonder, how would (You) end a cartoon?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not sure if I want a cartoon at all if I can't even control how many seasons it will get and have to make an alternative ending for every end of a season

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Don't lie, you'd have fun with it while you can. When going to a network to do a show, you already know it will go for as long as they say it will. It's weird that you'd even consider signing up when you know that's how it works. Or is that all new to you?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >you already know it will go for as long as they say it will
          No, it doesn't work that way? In what imaginary world do you live?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Gravity Falls ended prematurely due to this conflict.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >show ending when the creator wants it to despite le network wanting to continue it forever is "ending prematurely"

              smartest Cinemaphilegay

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's just a simple way to end a story, also it happens all the time, even in books, it's very common

      I personally prefer the celebratory ending where everyone is having a big party/festival, ending on the high note instead of after it.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      everyone leaves after the journey is complete

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Everyone except a few side characters dies in grand Shakespearean fashion.
      And if the network complains about characters being killed off, I'll just immediately bring them all back to life, but their heads are on backwards.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    leaving to never return is such a cheap ending. all the characters you grew to like are just gone? it's shit like Samurai Jack undoing the future

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >leaving to never return
      Who said that

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >dana: i hate the they lived happily ever after finales, they're cheap
      >dana: yeah let's finish this show with a they lived happily ever after finale, whatever

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          i mean i could go search the Twitter post, but eh, it's Twitter, who cares.

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    they're telling you to

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I will just watch the next show for children that comes out

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anne doesn't live in frogworld, she had a home to go back
    Dipper and Mabel were in gravity falls for a vacation, they don't live there

    Steven's case is fricking moronic, the whole final season was fricking moronic
    I didn't watch molly's ghost to know the context

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I didn't watch molly's ghost to know the context
      The ghost wasn't actually a ghost, he was just a depressed guy, so he goes back to his body and doesn't remember anything, then he leaves town to travel the world

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        WHAT

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          What did you think had happened from that image?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah the finale gets real weird

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            This is fricking stupid

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Maybe that's why it got cancelled.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Why?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            So his wife just spent her whole life going on vacations? What?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Wait, wait, wait?
        I was on the Scratch being a wraith theory train for a long time though I haven't seen the finale I wasn't surprised to hear that it was confirmed
        But he loses his memory after going back to his body? What on Earth is the rationale for that?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >What on Earth is the rationale for that?
          Cause he lost it when he became a wraith. If they got a season 3 there was gonna be a whole arc that sets it up with Oliver getting Alzheimer's

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            But doesn't the first season finale hinge on Molly purposefully wraithing herself and being fine afterwards?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Cause she didn't do it for too long.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Steven's case is fricking moronic, the whole final season was fricking moronic
      He's so coward, he was dealing with the consequences of all his past adventures and the mental toll on him, but he escaped, left all those issues behind. Just like his father did, and this motherfricker had the audacity of calling Greg out for it. Fricking Steven became so arrogant and hypocrite in Future. Future was a mistake.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        What i really hate is how in peridot's episode it basically has her say he can talk to her about anything, and then the next episode he acts like he has no one to talk to.

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Steven leaves to finally live as a human, away from all the gem shit.
    he should've invited the Pizza sisters.

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Things change, anon. Show's over. Time to move on.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >main character
    Two of those characters weren't introduced until the finale

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cheeky c**t you are

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      ripped off so much shit that they had to do the main character

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its a message to you manchildren to leave mom’s basement and touch grass

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because years have passed. They're now fully grown, got a job, got married with kids, etc.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cinemaphile doesn't understand that concept.

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are you really villainizing the theme of "Grow up finally and move out of your parents basement" OP?
    Really?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Both the Pines and Anne go home though

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Perhaps to show viewers that they have reached the peak of characterization after going through trials and tribulations. Though, it's just a predictable way to end the show.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >they have reached the peak of characterization after going through trials and tribulations
      But there’s still like six more games after it

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Steven's is the worst because he's a dirty murderer and should not be left alone. The rest are good.
    TGAMM is also ironically the bolder version of the GF ending with the old character losing his memories and they stay lost.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't care that I'm eating bait here, but how is Steven a murderer? Technically if you really want to lean into exactly what happens in the show he is the flesh crafted abomination a murderer stuck its soul into but I wouldn't blame Frankenstein's monster for Frankenstein's crimes.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        He actively killed Jasper. And yeah this show is cheap enough to revive her later, but that doesn't nullify the intention of killing.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          I see where you are coming from but look at it like this, if two boxers were having a fight and one of them died as a result would you call the first one a murderer? I'll give you a hint, the answer to that question is the same answer to whether or not you are autistic.

          Jasper was training him and pushing him to test his own limits. Steven had fought her before and had seen her tank blows that would shatter most anyone else. It's negligent manslaughter at the most. Murder requires intent to kill.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Murder requires intent to kill.
            Then this case IS murder. This wasn't sportsmanship, Steven actively killed Jasper.

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Getting filtered by SU Future

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anne and the Pines Twins aren't leaving home, but coming back. And if what i've read about Molly is true, it also fits in the theme of not leaving but returning in some degree.

    Steven.

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These days
    Fricking heroes journey homie

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Including Amphibia is disingenuous as frick
    From the first episode the premise of the show is Anne eventually getting back home

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Hero's Journey is an endless cycle, not a straight line. By moving on, the Hero takes their growth and uses it to become the mentor to future generations of Heroes, continuing the cycle. Failing to do so results in the stagnation of society, decay, and eventual death. Their story is over, but they can give rise to new stories by inspiring and mentoring new heroes.

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because abandoning your friends makes you grown up and the more friends you abandon the more grown up you are.

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Steven left to travel and experience life outside of the skewed bubble gem drama built around him.
    Todd left to finally start living.
    Anne had to leave or she'd never see her parents again.
    Dipper left because Mabel needed a security blanket.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Steven left to travel and experience life outside of the skewed bubble gem drama built around him.
      Steven pulled a Greg. Hypocritical coming from him after calling Greg out for it.

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its "the adventure continues" ending
    The show is over but the "heroes" lives go on
    Basically the "the series is over BUT maybe we'll get greenlit for more later"
    A more friendly version of "kill them all and let hasbro figure it out" that the beast wars team did for season finales.

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    There was a point for movies when SO many movies were doing this shit. I came up with some theory it was the writers being sick of having to work on sequels and trying to write the movies in a way they had definitive endings (Even though that would never stop a studio). At the time, Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, How To Train Your Dragon 3, and even Wreck It Ralph 2 had these very elongated "GOODBYE" endings.

    I watched Hocus Pocus 2 with my niece and nephew on Disney+ when it came out and the ending was fricking depressing. I don't know why, but heartbreaking endings seem to have replaced the ending dance party.

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I posted on Cinemaphile how steven should be driving away in a bevan because everyone was moronic or mean. They actually frickin did it lmao what a dog shit ending.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Well at least it boosted alot more ConniexGreg NTR art.

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Steven Universe would have a better ending if all the gems got wiener vored by white diamond after she made them sniff and lick her gigantic feet.

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