i’m still thinking about how naruto and harry potter end in almost the exact same way
the final boss is defeated and everything wraps up happily ever after with almost zero emotional trauma or other fallout for our protagonists, cut to like fifteen years later where the protagonist is all grown up, has his dream job, is married to the younger sister of one of his best friends (with whom he had had only a cursory romantic interest in beforehand) and popped out a shitty kid with a terrible name