#riverdale endgames

[jugheads-choni]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SHIPS!!! Riverdale’s endgames and four of my fav characters. Choni & Clevin. 🥰🏳️‍🌈♥️

It may seem like gloating, but when I point out that they’re Riverdale’s only endgame’s, I’m really highlighting how incredible and important it is that the only confirmed end ships were both lgbtq+. In a show where they were often mistreated, this means EVERYTHING. 🙌

[timlucys]

Actually, to clarify... Betty and Archie aren't dating, but they are endgame. ARCHIE ANDREWS & BETTY COOPER RIVERDALE (2017—2023)

[wallbeatjournal]

Are true riverdale fans of the opinion it is a very good and nearly flawless show or does being a true riverdale fan mean being able to mock writing choices

it's long-running serial television plotted a season/half at a time so definitely not even "nearly" flawless.

BUT. i'm not doing combat with the writing team. i'm not actively reading against the text the way i have to in order to enjoy something like supernatural or the 90s robin comics or the fucking sopranos, which are patriarchal christiancore copworld rapeworld white supremacist horrorshows that hate their minority audiences, with like 2 good creatives involved and martyring themselves to fight the good fight on sparse rare installments if you try to approach them sincerely.

riverdale writing staff are like a favorite smart problematic tumblr mutual to me. I don't always like what's on their blog or who they're referencing. but we're in the same community and i'm interested and inspired and i trust their agenda overall, even when i see shit i wouldn't have fucking posted. but bc i'm not being condescended to or actively spited i'm not gonna condescend to or spite them, you know?

i expect rvd to age like twin peaks (another very uneven, highly referential serial juggling a couple of intensely cool metanarratives on top of its core story). and twin peaks fandom mocks twin peaks all the time. twin peaks includes some CLUNKY shit. it's kitsch. it's camp. it has a second season that is largely ASS. james is there. and on top of that it also includes some genuinely offputting-to-me stuff that just bothers me to sit through, even though i feel like i understand and respect what they're going for with it. i just don't want to watch someone sweep the fucking bar for minutes and minutes as entertainment. OK!!?

...so yeah. mock riverdale but in the right spirit. is that an answer? do i sound like i'm chugging the flavoraid koolaid fresh-aid? probably.

[vibrantstarfire]

the disposable black girlfriend trope makes me angrier than any other trope. and it's so fucking annoying because even in 2025 writers still think it's progressive solely on the basis of including a black woman -- regardless of how she's portrayed. like, wow, they really think they're doing something, introducing a black woman trojan horsed as a white man's object of desire, surely this time she will be treated as respect, he actually is giving her attention and affection and- whoops! they've already broken up. she's such a short-lived love interest that they're just endlessly reinforcing the idea that black women aren't good enough for white men. they won't say it -- they won't ever, ever admit it while they're too busy patting themselves on the back for throwing her in there. but they believe it. writers will create these genuinely interesting, compelling black women as love interests -- but only after they've already introduced the endgame white girl, to soften those darn bleeding-heart liberals to the idea that it's not disposableblackgirlfriend's fault, mainwhiteguy and endgamewhitegirl are just destined to be together. and to soften the bigoted viewers (closeted or otherwise) to the idea that it's okay, disposableblackgirlfriend won't be here forever, just to serve her purpose. and is there for a purpose. she's there for a whole host of narrative reasons. to show you that the white boy isn't bigoted, that he's a genuinely good guy, so good that he'd even date a black girl and she doesn't see him as a threat, isn't he progressive and good and fun and cool? but also to show you that he's got some growing up to do, because she shows him some kind of fundamental difference in values, or because she's just so much more mature and capable than he is (she will mother and therapy him through the entire relationship, btw). to show him what he really wants in a relationship, something she's just ...missing (they'll say later that they had no real chemistry, or that she just wasn't endgamewhitegirl. but that's not quite true. she had all the chemistry and wit and fun; he just sort of stood there. because he was written that way. it's not that his relationship meant nothing; it's that it was supposed to mean nothing to him, because god forbid he doesn't end up with endgamewhitegirl. god forbid he had actual, real feelings for disposableblackgirlfriend.) he forgets her name within two episodes. the audience is expected to, too.

it's agonizing because sometimes, no matter how many times we've fallen for this bait and switch, we think they're going to end up together. the chemistry is actually that good. she's incredible, and fun, and genuinely funny and smart and creative and loves him. there's no chance they'll just pack it up and break them up for some contrived reason. right?

but they do it. every fucking time. the instant she's served her purpose and taught the mainwhiteboy the lesson he needed to learn, she's gone.

the instant you see this pattern you can never unsee it and it ruins a solid 80% of recent long-form media because it's so needlessly disrespectful to black women. and it's fucking everywhere. black women deserve so much fucking more than this.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Riverdale Started And Ended With Them

[girlsinthestars]

Every couple except the core four staying together Riverdale said if y'all can't shut up about who is endgame then no one gets to have the endgame. Confiscated.

[sethcohnn]

THEY NEVER LEAVE THE 50’S??

[rythmicjea]

Jeronica Endgame Analysis

I wrote this on Reddit and have been meaning to bring it over here. But commenting on @elizacinnamon's tumblr is what convinced me to do it. Buckle up because it's a long one!

Okay so, looking at all of the easter eggs in the episode, to me, it's heavily coded that Betty and Archie do end up together and that Jughead and Veronica end up together. The first thing that should be acknowledge is that everything in this episode is done with a purpose. They couldn't definitively say who Archie ended up with because Archie comics is predicated on the unanswered question of "Betty or Veronica?" so they had to make things "ambiguous" so people could come to their own conclusions.

When we hear of Veronica's life, Jughead says that she was known for her "impeccable taste" and "produced some of the most iconic movies of our time". So, right there, that's huge. That's a lot of heavy lifting. While he is complimentary and sensitive to everyone else's ending, the way he describes Veronica's life is just more. Take Fangs, he doesn't describe "Pixie Girl" as a "timeless" or "iconic" song. He just says that Midge and their daughter were taken care of and that his gold record will hang as long as there is a Riverdale High. He doesn't mention if Kevin or Clay won any awards for their work, but he says that Veronica won two Oscars. He goes out of his way to note the importance of Veronica's achievements.

The scene at The Babylonium is where I've found the most clues to their shared future. Jughead says "I always loved this theater". He doesn't say that about any of the other places they visit. Throughout the show, they regularly used characters to represent overarching themes. For example, Archie = Riverdale. I take Jughead's declaration to be a euphemism for Veronica. It's not that farfetched to believe that they fell in love while in high school. They were together for a year and a half before graduation. So, in the scene, he says "I always loved this theater. But it had a good run." At this time, in reality, both Veronica and Jughead have passed. Their run ended. He then lifts the seat and HIS CROWN is drawn under it! Why? This is a quick visual cue that he and Veronica are connected. If the Babylonium is a physical representation of Veronica (which is what the episode frames it as) then she essentially has a Jughead tattoo on her (a bit of a dramatic way of putting it lol). But, also this is not the first time something like that is in the show. In season 1 and 2, Betty wears a sweater with a yellow three pronged crown. It's universally recognized as Jughead's crown (she wears it on his birthday and in the Heather's musical episode). So, he makes his statement and BAM Veronica appears. Every time we see a character that isn't in the "relived day", it is a clip of them in the future. Veronica is the only character to essentially be an apparition. They didn't have to include her, but they did. And seeing as it's Narrator!Jughead (the real/angel Jughead is in the Pop's in the Sweet Hereafter, and the show literally ends with typewriter sounds) telling Betty all of this, Veronica's appearance can be taken as a clue that she is ever present in his mind/life.

When we see her in her office, she has four "The Comet" posters behind her. Hanging posters of the movies you made is very common. What isn't common is that one franchise has such a place of honor, so that means it's incredibly significant to her. Her clothing is in the style of the early 80s (the creators had an idea to bring everyone through time with each episode but it wasn't feasible so this is kind of a nod to that. Cheryl is seen in the late 60s, Betty in the 70s, and Veronica is the early 80s). We know that Jughead adapted The Comet into a comic book, and he was the one that introduced her to WEB DuBois' people. The artwork of the posters is the same as the comic he created. Making movies at that time was very time-consuming. Also, franchises like that were not common. The whole "Saga", "Trilogy", and "Universe" collections of today were not done to the same extent back then. So, not only was "The Comet" incredibly popular (because it got four movies) but it spanned over a large time frame (again, she still has the posters up decades after graduation via her clothing style), meaning that there was a consistent dialogue between Jughead and Veronica.

Outside of the Babylonium is a poster for "The Big Sleep" (It's also on the Marquis). This is a direct reference to the episode "The Red Dahlia" (3x14) where Veronica enlists Jughead's help. It is one of the main "Jeronica" episodes of the series. In that episode he says that he'll be her "Philip Marlowe". In The Big Sleep, Philip Marlowe is the main character played by Humphrey Bogart. In the same episode he says "Nice hat... Bacall." Lauren Bacall is the female lead of The Big Sleep. Bogart and Bacall were a huge draw for audiences. They were a power couple of their day (and they were also married... hint hint lol). They were the Bennifer and Brangelina first.

Now, moving onto Jughead. He doesn't talk much about himself. Everything that Betty says can literally be read on screen in his obituary. There are two main takeaways from this scene. The first is he barely talks about himself. When he does, he focuses on talking about his career and there's no mention of his personal life. This is a parallel to Veronica's description. He only describes her career and not her personal life. What is also a parallel is that in his summary of Veronica's life he says that she was known for "taking risks on young, raw talent" ie Jughead. Jughead tells Betty that he "put all of his eggs in one basket". That turn of phrase is to mean that you did the riskiest thing possible. When Betty asks if he ever regrets not getting circled he says 'sometimes'. It's a very ambiguous statement. BH shippers will say that he is talking about Betty. But his relationship with Betty ended in high school (both times) and were never rekindled later in life. It doesn't have to be that regrets not marrying Veronica, but it can be taken that way.

The second is on the artist easel in the Madhouse offices. There is a picture of Veronica. It is not a photograph it is the canonical comic book portrait of Veronica (Pep Comics IS Archie Comics). And it is smack dab in the middle of the easel. This is another parallel to Veronica's future. She has "The Comet" posters and he has her portrait. Remember, his first comic book line that he created was "Veronica: The Teenage Witch". So this is a clue that he has used Veronica's likeness IN his magazine for most, if not all of, the run. There's no picture of Betty or Archie. Why still have Veronica's portrait and use her likeness if they weren't still connected in real life?

Now we come to the final scene. So, throughout all of Riverdale (with a few exceptions) the milkshakes that the core four drink all correspond to their hair color. Betty = Vanilla, Archie = Strawberry, Jughead and Veronica = Chocolate (double chocolate to be specific - which can be extrapolated to represent them. It's a stretch but it can be made). In the final moments, we see that this formula has been flipped. When Betty sits in the booth, Archie is drinking a Vanilla milkshake and he hands Betty a strawberry one noting it's "her favorite". What are Jughead and Veronica drinking? Double chocolate milkshakes. If in the Barchie Endgame theory Strawberry being Betty's "favorite" is to mean "Archie" then we can apply that same logic to Jughead and Veronica. Then there is their seating arrangement. The girls on one side and the boys on the other. Betty is sitting directly in front of Archie and Veronica is sitting directly in front of Jughead. Again, because they had to keep the "Who will Archie choose?" answer ambiguous they use this blocking technique to show the pairings without the pair sitting right next to each other. (Couples either sit next to each other or across from one another.)

That is my analysis of the finale using clues to prove that Jughead and Veronica were "endgame". I hope you liked it! If you have any corroborating theories let me know!

[giibh]

Surviving with only 12 seconds🥺🩷

[theindefinitearticle]

[daemonsdarksister]

A wife looking at her husband. You expect me to think that they’re not endgame? Betty is clearly the Modesto girl.

BETTY AND ARCHIE ANDREWS - RIVERDALE 07x22

[jugheads-choni]

My Top 10 Riverdale Music Numbers

1. Do You Know What It’s Like?

Sung by Madelaine Petsch, Vanessa Morgan, Casey Cott, & Karl Walcott

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“I know I'll never find your lovin' in anyone else (In anyone else)

Though I'll try, oh, and I'll try

And I know I'll never find your smile in anyonе else (In anyone еlse)

Though I'll try, oh, and I'll try

If someone were to come up to me

And say that they knew how to love you better

I'd say, "Buddy, step into the ring, you're going down"

I'd fight a guy for you

I'd fight a girl for you

I'd fight myself, you know I would

If I thought it'd do any good

Oh, do you know?

Do you know what it's like when I lie in bed

And I think of you and the things you've said?

How they're almost exactly all the things that I've said too?

Oh, do you know?

How to look into your eyes?

To let go of your hand?

To start another life?

I just don't understand”

[whatwevegot]

credit: gallavarchie on TikTok

[louisandthedagger]

[girlblocker]

i don’t really ‘ship’ Archie with anyone but i do think he needs to have sex with a man . not for me for him

[crazymisscarly]

Since Betty and Jughead apparently regret not marrying each other (at least that’s what I’ve picked up on) I believe I made the right call by obsessively marrying them in the fanfic world 😂😂😂

Also low key does that means it’s an afterlife Bughead endgame? Lie to me if I’m wrong.