1. Tales from the crypt keeper

2. Grizzly tales for gruesome kids

3. Frankelza: book of spooks(this is related to the “I am frankelda” movie that came out this year, the film being a prequel to this show)

Jujutsukaisen - Geto's power 'Uzumaki(which means vortex) is homage to Junji Ito's famous manga Uzumaki. However, controversy arose. Some people criticized that Gege(Jujutsukaisen author) imitated Junji Ito too much. Some even said he traced the drawing of Ito. So Gege changed the drawing. And after he allowed by Ito, he reused former drawing.(https://dennsisyosekisokuhou.com/archives/9731.html)

Jojo's bizzare adventure - Araki Hirohiko really love music. So he used to name his characters from famous singers like AC/DC, Vanilla Ice, Wham! Etc. However, due to potential copyright issues, some names have been changed in the English translation.

"Dark and Gritty Reboots/Reimaginings" were all the rage for awhile, and usually involved sucking all the joy, charm, and soul out of a beloved franchise. But sometimes they were actually pretty good.

Batman Begins: Considering the previous theatrical LA Batman move was the notoriously campy and hammy Batman and Robin, I'd say this counts. It still stands as the most grounded, dark, and serious of all theatrical Batman movies series, and is generally considered one of the best if not THE best.

Doctor Who: Originally a campy scifi romp, it got rebooted in 2005 with a much darker and more dramatic television series that has since earned it widespread acclaim. It's safe to say that most modern Doctor Who fans probably got their start with this series.

Power Rangers: While the 2017 movie had its faults, it definitely had heart and was overall pretty promising. That being said, it's still undeniably darker and grittier than almost any piece of Power Rangers media out there.

Star Trek: Though it's in many ways an unwelcome departure from the usual Star Trek tone and style, for what it's worth that first JJ Abrams movie is pretty damn good. Is it a good STAR TREK movie? Debatable.

Characters who return from long wars or quests and now have to decide what to do in peacetime.

Violet Evergarden, Violet Evergarden

Violet is a 14-year-old girl who spent much of the last four years as a living weapon, whose only purpose in life was to obey her commanding officer, Major Gilbert Bougainvillea, as they fought a brutal war against a foreign nation. In her final battle, she was grievously injured and lost both of her arms before passing out. She woke up in a hospital, with Major Gilbert nowhere to be seen and with the long war finally over. She had to adapt to new prosthetic arms before being taken under the wing of Lieutenant Hodgkins, a subordinate of Gilbert's who he charged with looking after Violet. The series is about Violet finding new purpose in peacetime and adapting to being human - two ideas she's never understood.

Frieren, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

At the end of a ten-year quest, elven mage Frieren and her adventuring party slew the Demon King, who had waged war on the world for 1,000 years. Now, as the series begins, they return home as celebrated heroes. After the parties fade and the party goes their separate ways, Frieren watches as her longtime friends wither away to age as decades pass, while her immense elven lifespan and perspective on time means she hardly changes at all. The series is about Frieren's second journey, in which she takes new traveling companions and heads to a location it may take another ten years to reach, where the living may speak with the dead. Frieren wants to speak to Himmel there - one of her original traveling companions who she regrets not getting to know better while he was still alive.

Odysseus/Ulysses, "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus of Ithaca trying to get home after a long war with Troy. After many tribulations, he makes it back to his wife and son. Tennyson's famous poem "Ulysses" describes Odysseus' discontent at being home again. He finds ruling Ithaca terribly dull compared to what he did during his journey. As the poem concludes, he resolves that in spite of his old age, he will set out again to adventure, as there may yet be one tale left before he dies.

Scorpion-Mortal Komabt

Despite being the mascot and poster boy Scorpion is a side character more often than not within the story of Mortal Kombat.

Boba Fett-Star Wars

Boba Fett is so popular he spawned a whole warrior culture but all he does in the original trilogy is say 4 lines and die.

Inivincible - Atom Eve can create and change the chemical composition of everything that's not organic. She is basically god, yet all she does is build the same pink shields that easily get destroyed all the time

Ben 10 - Gwen is a magician since she's 10 years old, which when she was 10 she did have a pretty diverse powerset. After the Alien Force time skip all she does is build the same pink shields that easily get destroyed all the time(sounds familiar) and easily gets stopped by a blowtorch being thrown in her direction

Also from Ben 10 there's Kevin, who can absorb literally anything he touches, yet all he does is absorb metal and do nothing with it. IK some of you are gonna be like "Oh but absorbing energy and DNA makes him insane" but even setting that aside, there are a lot of possibilities with absorbing different materials which he just never does. The only time he creatively uses his powers is when he absorbs the rubber in his car's tire to bounce

My Hero Academia - Momo can create anything as long as she knows the chemical composition of. Yet she also is useless for most of the time

The Lighthouse (2019) - The premise is just 2 people that have to tend a lighthouse. While the movie does get crazier as it goes on, it's always just about those 2 guys.

Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - This movie is just about 2 guys who stop being friends.

Backrooms

Like a lot of horror movies, this plot is dependent on characters experiencing something eerie and supernatural, having an easy ability to GTFO, and instead inexplicably choosing to wander down endless hallways. No, just go back and get the cops. There is no reasonable reason for y’all to be investigating this on your own.

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Prometheus

This is the ultimate example of highly trained professionals acting like fools just to kickstart a plot. Two world-class scientists encounter a terrifying alien lifeform on a hostile planet. Instead of retreating or calling their ship's security team, the biologist literally tries to pet the alien snake like it's a stray puppy.

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This doesn’t apply to characters who are legitimately trapped, want to hide the weird thing, or otherwise have a reason to keep it from authorities. This is a hated trope about lazy writing.

Tengen Uzui: Kimetsu No Yaiba

Sato: Ajin Demi human

Gojo Satoru: jujutsu Kaisen

All three absolutely revel in battle and take disadvantages in stride.watching them get hyped get's the viewers hyped.my Favourite kind of fighter for sure

1 - Godfrey The first lord, Elden Ring

2 - Nosferatu Zodd, Bersek

3 - Battlebeast, Invicible

4 - Yujiro Hanna, Baki

Keelee of Justgirlythings. Is a villain on the SCP universe and the leader of the GOI “Just Girly things” a transphobic, homophobic, and sexist cult that brainwashed people AFAB to act stereotypical “girly” as defined by modern America. Just Girly Things is one of the most skin crawling GOI because of how realistic they are. Like real life transphobia

Mother Gothel of Tangled is a disturbingly accurate picture of emotional abise. Who puts down Rapunzel with jokes and isolate her for her hair

You know the one. If it's used in every video essay, AMV, or reference then it's probably it.

The Leap of Faith (Spider-verse)

The Rotating Group Shot (Avengers 2012)

The Bike Slide (AKIRA)

1. Rafael Barba (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

2. Sypha Belnades (Castlevania)

3. Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

1. Shredder to his sword forgers - TMNT 2003

2. Shao Kahn to his hammer couriers - MK11

3. Hercules to his gauntlet goons - God Of War III

The Shibuya Incident(Jujutsu Kaisen):Slides 1-2.The Shibuya Incident unfolds on Halloween night in 2018, and this timing is no accident. Kenjaku deliberately chooses the holiday because he and the Disaster Curses need a massive crowd of civilians to serve as hostages when confronting Satoru Gojo. With thousands of partygoers flooding Shibuya’s streets, the area becomes the perfect sea of Human Shields—effectively preventing Gojo from unleashing his full power without catastrophic collateral damage. Given the sheer amount of supernatural chaos, horror imagery, and outright nightmare fuel that erupts throughout the arc, it’s rather fitting that it all takes place on Halloween.

The Crow(The Crow):The Crow (1994) is explicitly anchored to the Halloween season, beginning on Devil's Night (October 30th)—traditionally known as Hallow's Eve, or the night before Halloween—when the city of Detroit is plunged into absolute chaos by a wave of coordinated arson and criminal mayhem. It is on this gothic, fire-choked night that thugs brutally murder rock musician Eric Draven and his fiancée, Shelly. Exactly one year later, on that same supernatural threshold of Devil's Night, Eric rises from the grave guided by a mystical crow to exact his bloody revenge. As the relentless hunt unfolds across the rainy, industrial cityscape over the course of that night and stretches toward Halloween, the holiday's themes of death, the thinning veil between worlds, and masked vengeance seamlessly blend with the film's perpetual atmosphere of darkness and Halloween-adjacent terror.

Halloween(Halloween)John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween unfolds on October 31st, 1978, in the quiet, suburban fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, capturing the holiday not just as a calendar date, but as an atmosphere of eerie innocence turned upside down. The film famously begins on Halloween night in 1963 with a chilling flashback of six-year-old Michael Myers murdering his sister, before fast-forwarding exactly 15 years later to October 31, 1978. As Dr. Sam Loomis hunts for the escaped killer who has returned to his hometown, the holiday serves as the ultimate atmospheric backdrop: children roam the streets in costumes carrying carved pumpkins, glowing jack-o'-lanterns sit on suburban porches, and the ambient chill of an autumn night provides perfect camouflage for a masked stalker blending seamlessly into the festivities of trick-or-treaters.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) embraces the holiday visually and atmospherically by setting its main events right around Halloween. The narrative kicks off in the fictional town of Winter River during a late-autumn tragedy that brings the estranged Deetz family back together. As Lydia—now hosting a paranormal talk show called Ghost House—navigates grief, strained relationships, and her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, the town serves as a quintessential autumn canvas. Storefronts are draped in seasonal decor, porches are lined with carved jack-o'-lanterns, and the crisp, spooky New England aesthetic provides a natural backdrop for the ensuing supernatural chaos, culminating in a wild, ghost-filled wedding interrupted by the chaotic spirit world.

Son family (Dragon ball): Goku, Gohan, Goten and Bardock are all voiced by Masako Nozawa in Japanese.

Valeska twins (Gotham): Played by Cameron Monaghan who has a very impressive range between the hot headed and talkative Jerome versus the more cunning and calm Jeremiah.

The Lich (adventure time) some early designs portray him as a more cartoony evil necromancer, meanwhile we have a talking rotting corpse in the final design.

Callie & Marie (Splatoon) early concept art portrays them as twins or as outright pallet swaps of each other, the final designs give them a unique design for each (different hair styles and different color pallets)

The power could deal with good or bad luck but as long as they have it

Domino from Marvel, she has probability manipulation that gives her good luck and everyone else bad luck.

Jinx from DC, along with some other mystical powers, she has the ability to change luck around her.

Baccarat from One Piece: Film Gold, using the Luck Luck Fruit, she can steal other people’s luck and use it for herself.

The Boys season 3 finale (Vought Tower)

RoboCop: Rogue City final boss (OCP headquarters)

Cyberpunk: 2077 final boss (Arasaka Tower)

The Strain season 3 finale (Stoneheart building)

1. Yennefer: Lauren Hissrich and her writers absolutely botched the Witcher completely, and it all starts with Yennifer. They absolutely destroyed her character, her motivations, how she interacts with other main characters and so on. There are MANY poorly written characters in this series, but Yennifer is the crux of it and it has destroyed what could have been an amazing show.
2. Galadriel in RoP: Another main character, that is well beloved in other media, who is just completely destroyed by poor writing. The entire season 1 arc with her was horrible, and now entering season 3, somehow we have seen exactly 0 magic from one of the ages most potent spell casters. Another show where many characters are written terribly, the plot makes no sense at times, and it is tranishing probably the most well known and popular fantasy world.
3. Taash Dragon Age: Before someone says it, no this has nothing to do with their orientation, but just how it is all approached and done. Its almost like the Babylon Bee wrote a characature of what they think a non-binary person is like, took a character that traditionally has a fairly strict code of guidelines, and then handed it to WB to write. This is, again, another franchise were there is a ton of poor writing around characters and lore and have completely destroyed a once beloved franchise and caused bioware to abandon Dragon Age

Captain Cold (DC), his nemesis is a speedster so it’s one of his schticks

FRZE (Scritters comic)

Katana from DC Comics- wields the Soultaker

Arthas Menethil, The Lich King from Warcraft- wields Frostmourne

Scenes where characters have to hear or see someone else talking about or doing the blessing , knowing the same "blessing" just only cause misfortune to them.

Parasite - The rich woman is talking about the flood as just mildly raining behind Mr Kim, and thanking the weather for clearing the air. It's only just mildly inconvenient for them to postpone the camping trip while for the Kim family (main characters), they just lost their house, jobs, possesions and have to live in shelter just because of that same rain.

The Hunger games - Haymitch watches the Capitol kids playing with fake swords and acting like their idol tributes like in Hunger game, knowing that same game is just a death sentence for him and other poor children and even sadder that other capitol children won't need to be in that game.

Also in the Hunger game novel, the Capitol citizens like to visit famous battle arena and reneact the scenes for fun.

Inspired by the "No Look Look" trope invented by Red Letter Media. The newcomer arrives at an already functioning scene/operation. Somebody already there has authority. The newcomer is challenged or told it's already under control. The newcomer asserts their higher authority to take control of the scene. Best when the higher authority has a dismissive attitude towards the people he's usurping.

Die Hard - FBI agents Johnson and Johnson arrive at Nakatomi Tower, taking over control of the situation from the LAPD

The Fugitive - US Marshall Sam Gerald shows up at the crime scene to take control from local police

Sonic the Hedgehog - Dr. Robotnik takes control from the military