Overlord Ending Theory

Surazaku said:
So I finally decided to watch seasons 2 and 3, I was hesitant to continue because of the two ways I think Overlord will end but after season 3 episode 9 I need to vent. After season 1 I had two possible endings for the show in mind and neither one was good, one possibility and is being hinted at Ainz and the rest of the guardians will be killed in a great war. The other equally soul destroying ending would be the guardians adapting and coming to the conclusion they don't need Ainz anymore and either kill him or leave him, Some of the guardians have already started to question him and Demiurge has been out thinking him for a few episodes now. I hope the show will have Ainz and the npcs win after all the time we have spent with these characters it would really suck to see them all killed off. What do you think? How do you think the show will come to an end? Will it be a happy end or a knife in the heart.

Grey-Zone said:

I don't think that Ainz will actually be like a true final boss that gets defeated in the end, because unlike those final bosses/"Demon Lords" from games and fantasy novels, he lacks the typical arrogance of such characters and doesn't cause enough resentment for everyone to just band together against him.

On the opposite, Ainz is actually so careful that it's close to paranoia, escpacially after the mistake with Shalltear. He is careless in some aspects like only "skimming" through the reports of his subordinates instead of thoroughly reading through them, but it's not to the point that he would suddenly be seen as the big bad.

Surazaku said:
So I finally decided to watch seasons 2 and 3, I was hesitant to continue because of the two ways I think Overlord will end but after season 3 episode 9 I need to vent. After season 1 I had two possible endings for the show in mind and neither one was good, one possibility and is being hinted at Ainz and the rest of the guardians will be killed in a great war. The other equally soul destroying ending would be the guardians adapting and coming to the conclusion they don't need Ainz anymore and either kill him or leave him, Some of the guardians have already started to question him and Demiurge has been out thinking him for a few episodes now. I hope the show will have Ainz and the npcs win after all the time we have spent with these characters it would really suck to see them all killed off. What do you think? How do you think the show will come to an end? Will it be a happy end or a knife in the heart.