Lucius Malfoy (Harry Potter) - Jason Isaacs

The studio originally wanted him in a modern Muggle pinstripe suit with short hair. Isaacs thought that looked like a boring businessman rather than a powerful wizard. He demanded the long platinum wig, wizard robes, and personally added the snake-headed walking cane that conceals his wand.

The Thin Man (Charlie's Angels 2000) - Crispin Glover

In the original script, he was just a generic, chatty action movie villain. Glover thought his lines were incredibly cliché and boring, so he suggested cutting all of his dialogue. He turned the character into a completely silent, hair-sniffing creep, making him the most memorable part of the movie.

Count Dooku (Star Wars) - Christopher Lee: In Episode II, George Lucas originally scripted/choreographed Dooku to use a standard, straight lightsaber. As a real-world world-class fencer, Lee found the standard hilt design clumsy and "lame" for a master duelist. He convinced the team to give Dooku the curved hilt, completely changing the character's fighting style and lore to fit elegant, fencing-based Makashi forms.

Superman (Superman 2025) - David Corenswet Following Henry Cavill's trunkless suit, director James Gunn and DC Studios initially leaned toward a "no trunks" design for the reboot, fearing that the classic red briefs looked too outdated, silly, or hard to make look "cool." However, David Corenswet passionately advocated for the trunks. He argued that Superman shouldn't care about looking cool. Instead, the trunks are intentionally a little silly and theatrical — like a professional wrestler—making an immensely powerful alien look approachable and safe, ensuring that everyday citizens and kids wouldn't be afraid of him.

The 100: the show starts as a somewhat grounded post apocalypse where humans who have taken refuge in a space station return to earth after it has become inhabitable again and resources on the space station run out. At first the show is about survival in a hostile environment. It slowly introduces more and more sci fi elements. At first, it's an Aİ that wants control over humanity. Towards the end of the show, the main characters have traveled throughout the galaxy, met humans from other planets, some of which have settled among ruins of ancient alien species, where they try to contact more advanced alien species in order to achieve "transcendence": rid humans of their physical bodies and become a more advanced lifeform.

AOT: this one is less gradual than the 100 and the change comes after a massive plot twist. The first 3 seasons of the show are about a relatively primitive society of humans who live inside humongous walls. Outside the walls are titans: giant monstrous creatures which hunt and devour humans. After a big plot twist and reveal, the society finds out that there is a whole bigger world out there, and the rest of the world is plotting to genocide them. They quickly industrialize after this discovery and wage war against other countries.

Charro Negro (Legend Quest/Las Leyendas)

With the rest of the movie using subpar flash animation this moment here feels like the equivalent to Vincent Chansard animating a scene for a show like Total Drama or Johnny Test (I love Legend Quest but its animation is definitely a weak point)

James Baxter animating Gumball (Gumball)

Honestly any time James Baxter shows up in a Cartoon Network show its gonna kinda stand out (in a good way)

Slides in order: Bree and Jonna (12 Feet Deep), Day and the crocodile (The Pool), Dale (From), Sims (The Sims franchise)

To count, characters have to be trapped in a pool to the degree where they can't easily get out. It could be filled or empty.

1. 12 Feet Deep - Two idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST go swimming in a pool after it's closed. An incredibly contrived sequence of events happens so they get stuck in a pool. So the movie can happen.

2. Frozen (not that one) - Three idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST get on a ski-lift after it's closed. To the point of bribing the operator who for some stupid reason doesn't say anything. Do the movie can happen. Also, Wolves are not that aggressive. They are typically shy and avoid humans.

3. 47 Meters Down- Arguably the most believable scenario on this list. It's still really stupid.

4. Fall- Two idiots decide to climb an abandoned radio tower without proper equipment that would make escaping their predicament trivially easy. Stop me if you've heard this one before

so the movie can happen.

It Was Them: Ben 10 Omniverse:
- Ben Tennyson calls out Swampfire, but transforms into Echo Echo, but the camera still pans as if he was the taller Swampfire for a fraction of a second before going down to Echo Echo's level.

The Nightmare Begins: Invader Zim:
- Dib points out that there's an alien in the classroom, and the camera pans towards the direction he pointed. It started to go back, be he reiterates his point and it pans back to Zim.

1. Tarzan, Tarzan

Tarzan was adopted by gorillas when he was a baby. As a human, he was always an outsider among them. This lessened as he grew older, but it was still there.

Eventually, Tarzan ends up fighting Sabor, the leopard that killed his parents, as well as the child of his adopted parents.

Tarzan manages to kill her in front of his whole pack, triumphantly lifting her body as everyone cheers him on.

1. Chihiro, Spirited Away

Chihiro ends up working in an otherworldly bathhouse, hoping to save her parents that got transformed into pigs.

Many of the spirits look down on Chihiro for being a human. Then a polluted spirit arrives, and most of the workers at the bathhouse keep their distance from it.

Chihiro is assigned to clean the polluted spirit. In the process of doing so, she discovers the polluted spirit’s troubles are due to stuck garbage inside its body, which she and the other workers remove by working together.

The polluted spirit is cleansed, and everyone cheers for Chihiro.

1. Grunt, Mass Effect 2

Grunt was a lab grown Krogan, a fact other Krogans looked down on him for.

He is allowed to take the Rite of Passage that all Krogans must take. During the Rite, the party is attacked by a giant Thresher Maw. It is possible to kill it, and since killing a Thresher Maw on foot is supposed to be borderline impossible, doing so earns Grunt the respect of the Krogan.

1. Slaine, Aldnoah.Zero

Slaine is from Earth, so he always faced strong discrimination from Martians after arriving on their planet.

As fate would have it, he is adopted as heir of one of the 37 Clans of Orbital Knights. Following the death of his adopted father, Slaine takes his place as count.

In order to silence all voices of disapproval over an earthling becoming a count, Slaine single-handedly attacks one of Earth’s most important military bases, a military target that Martians previously failed to defeat in a recent battle.

Slaine is victorious, and is received with respect upon his return, even from other counts.

1- Asia Reeves "They will kill you" powers through a entire New York apartment building full of un-killable satanists to save her sister, through pure spite and a decade of prison fighting experience.

2- Ashley J. Williams "Evil dead" franchise, all around lovable looser, with a savant-like aptitude for killing evil monsters, which he does well into his late 60's.

-Gortash from Baldur's Gate 3: He's an ambitious tyrant, a master manipulator, the chosen of an evil god, and he's literally proposing that you two should work together to take over the world. As a player, you naturally assume that this is just a temporary alliance and that he'll betray you the moment he gets the opportunity but if you actually play along with his deal, Gortash is remarkably straightforward about the plan. He genuinely wants to rule alongside you, even getting annoyed when YOU break the agreement because he actually trusted you on the matter.

-Soldier Boy from The Boys: While he isn't a mastermind like Gortash, he is still an arrogant asshole and a Supe who was essentially the Homelander of the previous generation. His deal is simple: help him get revenge on Payback (his previous team), and he will help The Boys kill Homelander. You would expect that once Homelander is dead, or once the Boys have outlived their usefulness, he'd simply turn on them. But that's not what happens. He actually sticks to that arrangement, and the irony is that Soldier Boy is the one who keeps getting betrayed. Payback betrayed him, the Boys betray him, and when he allies with Homelander, he gets betrayed once again just because Soldier Boy wanted to be out of the picture to fuck and inhale drugs to his heart's content.

-Oedon Chapel Dweller from Bloodborne: After a boss fight, you can encounter this creature with no visible legs, long arms, and a dry face. He tells you that you should send people to the chapel so they can stay safe throughout the night. Of course, your immediate reaction is basically "the fuck? He's a MONSTER. He's probably going to eat the NPCs or something if I send them here." but Bloodborne is deliberately playing with your prejudices and instincts. The Chapel Dweller is actually just a kind and harmless guy who wants to keep people safe throughout the night. He doesn't force anyone to come to him, and he is aware that his appearance scares people away, so he maintains some distance from the visitors.

1. Poxwalkers and Nurgle (Warhammer 40k) While these Zombies are produced by horrific diseases and plagues. The ultimate source and reason behind their Zombification belongs to the Chaos God Nurgle. Meaning the disease ultimately has a core spiritual component to it.

2. The Autophage (Dead Island) In the Dead Island series. We are initially lead to believe a series of Viruses created by mixing HIV and the Kuru Prion called Pathogen HK is behind the cause of all the outbreaks. Its only in the second game that we learn that HK only triggers a genetic timebomb in ALL of Humanity's Genes.

Meaning? Everyone will become a Zombie or an evolved Superhuman known as Numen. And from what the game said, Humanity only has at least one more generation left until we all sucummb to the Autophage.

1. Orks in Warhammer 40K. They're biologically wired to see wanton violence as fun and see nothing wrong in engaging with it. Comic by u/superfeyn
2. The Pyro in Team Fortress 2. He horrifically murders people with fire, but in his disturbed mind he's blowing rainbows out of a trumpet and having fun with everyone.
3. Toyohisa Shimazu from Drifters. While a man of honour, he was born and raised to be a bloodthirsty samurai who earns glory by hunting enemy heads. At one point he orders the commander of a surrendered fortress to commit seppuku like it's the most normal thing in the world. When the commander refuses to commit seppuku, Toyohisa kills him without hesitation. We later learn that the guy deserved it, but it's still a little unnerving how matter-of-fact he was about the whole affair.

Examples:

• Bear cavalry (Far Cry Primal and various media) - So, can bears become cavalry? Kind of; technically, bears would be the perfect animals for predator-based cavalry because they'd eat anything from grass and moss to the corpses of your enemies. The problem is that bears are solitary animals, so having an entire cavalry force of them would be a mess; not only that, but their running style would not work for saddles. Also, it would be nearly impossible to develop husbandry with bears.
• Tomacco (The Simpsons) - In the episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)," Homer accidentally mixed the tobacco seeds with tomato seeds and fertilized them with plutonium, which made a mutated plant called tomacco. The fruits would be incredibly addictive while still being considered vegetables meaning they could be sold without legal regulation. Tomatoes and tobacco are part of the same family (Solanaceae), so not only is hybridizing the two plants possible, it actually happened. Rob Baur, a farmer inspired by the show, actually made a Tomacoo plant; the problem is that it contains deadly levels of nicotine, so it wouldn't be an incredibly addictive snack.
• ODM Gear (Attack on Titan) - This is going to be a bigger stretch, but technically the idea behind ODM Gear is technologically possible; the problem is that a normal human would die from the intense core strain and G-force. Not only that, but you'd need a lot of force to move like Levi. In the show, there is a special mineral called Iceburst, which specifically allows ODM Gear to produce intense levels of steam force with small gas canisters.
• Eywa (Avatar) - Eywa is the All-Mother of Pandora, the goddess of the Na'vi. Upon closer inspection, you'd notice that the moon world's entire biosphere is part of one large connected network. Specifically, plants like the spirit trees and the fungi that save Spider are all part of one interconnected system. In real life, this is kind of possible; fungi are known for forming large connected networks, and the largest organism in the world is a giant cluster of trees. So the idea of an entire planet having an entire fungal network is 100% plausible; the thing is that everything else about Ewya is straight-up magic. Like how Spider was mutated with a kuru, which let him bond with spirit trees, or how it can control the animals. Not only that, but Ewya herself is a physical being in the Spirit World.

Walter White (Breaking Bad) Mike tells Walt that they had a functioning operation under Gus and that Walt’s ego and pride destroyed everything. Walt shoots him almost immediately afterward.

Perturabo (Warhammer 40k) Perturbao killed his adopted sister Calliphone because Calliphone tears apart Perturabo’s self-pity, telling him that much of his misery comes from his own choices and that he constantly demands recognition while rejecting people who actually care about him. Perturabo strangles her in rage. it’s additionally brutal because she was basically the most important person in his life and likely the only person that he was emotionally open with.

Commodus (Gladiator) Marcus tells Commodus that he will not inherit the throne and essentially confirms that Commodus lacks the virtues Marcus wanted in a successor. Commodus breaks down and murders his father. The criticism strikes directly at Commodus’s lifelong insecurity about never being good enough for him.

Examples:

• Odysseus (Christopher Nolan's Odyssey) - In the climax of the poem, Odysseus plucks his bow to create a musical note that signifies exactly who he is. The movie expands on this by making it a ritual that Odysseus does, where he plucks his bow before drawing it so that his target is aware of where he is, so that it's a fair fight/chase. He does this because he has a stern sense of honor. This is considered bizarre to many of his peers, as it typically defeats the purpose of hunting.
• L Lawliet (Death Note) - L is the world's greatest detective. Because of how secretive he is, he seldom goes to a crime scene or actively hunts the criminal himself, instead opting to gather evidence with a small team and compile his notes. Often he'll just be weirdly sitting in a chair, scarfing down sweets while going over findings. This is mostly to avoid any possible risks of being murdered, which comes in handy especially if your opponent is a secret wizard who can kill people by writing their names down.
• John Wick (John Wick) - Typically, an assassin would use rifles and snipers, but John often uses a pistol in the Center Axis Lock or CAR, which is basically where you treat a handgun like a melee weapon. This is because what makes him successful is how he is able to rampage brutally through waves of enemies.
• Miyamoto Musashi (IRL) - Miyamoto's entire thing was being unconventional; he lived during the Edo Period when Samurai transitioned from warriors to nobility and when honor codes started to take root. This meant that many Samurai were more interested in order and discipline, while Miyamoto was all about getting victory by any means. One ritual he had was arriving late to a battle to anger his enemy and make them reckless.

Although all the horse girls also have a huge appetite for carrots, their desire to run is more evident—something comparable to life itself (Uma Musume Pretty Derby)

Cat-girls have a tendency toward addictions—such as to cigarettes—a trait that dates back to tribal eras (Chainsmoker Cat)

i don’t dislike these scenes at all and some of them are really good, but it feels like this very specific way of showing a panic attack has started showing up a lot in the last few years, especially since Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. loud heartbeat, breathing gets worse, everything around them starts fading out and there’s usually some kind of grounding until it passes. at this point it’s starting to feel a little overused.

Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus). after everything finally catches up with him he starts shutting down. his breathing gets heavier, his heartbeat takes over the audio and he doesn’t have some joke or response ready.

Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish). after seeing Death again he runs off, can barely breathe and ends up on the ground struggling to talk. Perrito doesn’t try to give him some big speech, he just lies against him until Puss starts calming down. probably the example everyone thinks of now.

Riley (Inside Out 2). starts having one in the penalty box where her breathing gets faster, everything around her starts fading out and she completely loses track of what’s happening. she eventually starts grounding herself with what’s around her until she calms down.

i like this trope when it fits the character, i’ve just seen this kind of scene enough times now that i usually know what’s happening almost immediately.

Cole defeating a giant Oni (Ninjago: Duskfall)

Raiden defeating a Metal Gear RAY (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance)

David defeating Goliath (The Bible)

- RoboCop - Terminator/RoboCop: Kill Human

Possibly the worst crossover comic of all time. RoboCop is basically the most useless and gullible hero ever, to an almost comically absurd degree. He is basically manipulated by SkyNet into ruining the climax of Terminator 2 by bringing back more advanced technology to ensure SkyNet's creation and victory, and allowing the T-1000 to chop off young John Connor's head, leading to a future where humanity is 100% extinct. Seriously, I have never seen a writer hate a protagonist so much.

- Guardians of the Galaxy - Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame

One of the most highly anticipated parts of Avengers: Infinity War was finally getting to see the Guardians of the Galaxy team-up with the Avengers. Unfortunately, Gamora was killed off halfway through Infinity War, Mantis and Drax were reduced to one-note cartoon buffoons, and Quill was turned from a somewhat immature and hot-headed but capable hero into an idiotic, insecure man-child who is humiliated and made to look a fool at pretty much every opportunity. Only Rocket and Nebula felt like real characters in these films. Even though James Gunn was brought in to assist with the Guardian's characterisation, they still felt like parodies of the team as we knew them from their own solo movies

- The WCW/ECW Alliance - The WWE Invasion Storyline

After WCW ran itself into the ground after being the top wrestling company in North America in record time, The WWE (then WWF) purchased the company, along with the US's third biggest wrestling company, ECW. In late 2001, a storyline began where the WCW and ECW wrestlers formed an alliance to invade and crush the WWF! Fans were salivating at the idea of all these major dream matches... until they weren't. Firstly, all of WCW's biggest stars still had time left on their big money Time Warner contracts and were being paid to do nothing, and WWE owner Vince McMahon didn't want to buy out the contracts early, so that meant no Sting, no Goldberg, no Hulk Hogan etc., which meant that the 'invasion' relied heavily on WCW's B- and C-list wrestlers. Secondly, the WCW/ECW wrestlers were primarily portrayed as cowardly villains and henchmen for Vince McMahon's son and daughter, Shane and Stephane McMahon, who were (along with former ECW manager, Paul Heyman) the 'masterminds' behind the invasion. They were soundly defeated and humiliated at every opportunity, and never felt like a real or credible threat. This is primarily because Vince McMahon has a long documented history of disdain towards wrestlers who became successful in other promotions, and would often give them embarrassing gimmicks until they 'prove themselves' in WWF/WWE, or frequently book them to lose to make his own guys look good.

For non wrestling fans to understand how INSANE this storyline was, imagine back when the DCEU movies flopped, and there were rumors that Disney might buy them. Now, imagine if Disney did acquire the DC movie rights, and announced that the next phase of MCU movies would be the ultimate fanboy dream of 'Marvel Vs DC' (oh, and they also brought Image Comics, and rolled them in as well). Next, imagine fan confusion when the DC forces contain no Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Joker, Harley Quinn, Lex Luthor etc., and instead were led by Aquaman and Martian Manhunter. Oh, and all the DC/Image characters are the villains, working for Hydra. And for some reason, Spider-Man is also a villain (which NOBODY wants), and becomes the defacto leader of the invading force, leading to an embarrassing scene where all of the DC and Image characters come together to bring gifts and homemade cookies and sing a song about how wonderful and awesome Spider-Man is, before Captain America shows up and humiliated everyone by hosing them down with a milk cannon.

Randall Clark (Fallout New Vegas) After losing essentially everyone he loved, especially Sylvie and their baby, Clark repeatedly wanted to die. His final journal is unusually explicit about it: he says he had “tried continuously to end my life” but was never able to do it.

When he’s an old man dying of cancer he even reflects why he never went through with it and the best reason he can think of is that he realizes that preserving the memories of the people he lost was itself one of the things that kept him going.

Hamlet (Hamlet) Openly contemplates suicide several times, most famously in “To be or not to be,” but fear of what comes after death and his religious beliefs keep him from acting on it.

Funny enough both of my examples are from the venture brothers

Episode 2 s7; the Rorqual Affair

Dr mrs the monarch: Wait. You were at movie night?"

Red death: "The Guild, before your time, tried to do a hostage thing. Jonas Venture. The big man and his space station. Ah, the '80s. We did that back then.

Dumb kids gonna get famous. Notorious.

We dressed as crew members. Some of us had our space suits on, some of us didn't. With this face, the helmet never came off. Went perfectly. Flawless. Well, until someone opened the bay doors. No one knew who did it.

The crew shot out like their mamas were ringing the dinner bell. You ever see a man die in space? You can tell the ones that held their breath. Their lungs rupture from all that gas expanding. Blood from their mouth like a torn pillow stuffed with red BBs. Stab Girl, she was a little thing, carried switchblades. She knew to exhale.

Watched her for a full minute. Puffed up like she had a peanut allergy. Floating by me with her mouth open, screaming, making no sound, spit on her tongue boiling.

anyway, got to see a little "Sharky's Machine.""

Episode 6 season 7: the bellicose proxy

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch

: Well, that's treason. The punishment for that is a classic. It's called the Tub. It's filled with milk, you lay in it, if you're hungry we pour honey on your face.

Guild Stranger S-464: That sounds kind of nice, actually.

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch: At first — ya know, till the milk spoils. Soon the tub fills with your excrement, then the flies, and their maggots. At first it itches a bit, then it starts to burn. Your skin peels away with every scratch you can't stop yourself from making. The blood mixes with the foul milk and excrement, seeping into your open wounds. The smell of your own death causes you to vomit into your already toxic coffin. Then the rats.

Majin Buu (Dragon Ball Z) Buu before was on a killing rampage, but he’s basically a man child who was manipulated by Babidi, Buu only took orders from him because he didn’t know any better. Once Goku told him he didn’t have to do what Babidi says, he kills Babidi.

When he meets Mr. Satan, he somehow became friends with him and Mr. Satan simply asked him to stop being evil and killing people, and surprisingly it worked

Second Dimension Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb) He is an alternate version of Doof where he actually is evil and successfully took over the Tri-state area, turning it into a dictatorship. But the reason he became evil was because he lost his toy train as a child (yes that is the real reason, normal Doof points out how petty it is).

So at the end of the movie, Doof was finally able to make it to his apartment and he found the same toy train and gave it to second dimension Doofenshmirtz, which proceeded to make him happy and call off all the robots and destruction and he stops being evil. He still does get arrested though

Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra) The Prince of the Fire Nation and heir to the throne, Zuko is only 13 when his father orders him to start attending the war council. When one of the top generals says they’ll be using a crop of new recruits as decoys to walk into a slaughter while their more advanced troops go in for the ambush, Zuko openly and rightfully calls it out for being barbaric. Ozai doesn’t take this disrespect lightly and orders Zuko to fight him in an Agni Kai. When Zuko refuses and begs for forgiveness, not knowing that by disrespecting the general that he was also disrespecting his father, Ozai burns part of his face right over his eye and banishes him until he hunts down and captures the Avatar, who everyone believes has been dead for the last century and is still currently frozen in ice.

Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia) Because of his father’s abuse, his mother falls into a deep psychological breakdown, burning Todoroki’s face in a brief moment of psychosis. While not confirmed, I do like the theory that while the boiling water she poured on him would definitely hurt and scare him, it wasn’t what left the scar. She runs over and tries to help him by using her ice powers, which is like…the EXACT OPPOSITE thing you want to do to a burn, and that’s what actually scars him. Thankfully, things improve for Todoroki and his family as he grows up, but he’s way too cool for someone with that much childhood trauma, I’m actually kind of impressed.

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (Star Wars) After slaughtering the Jedi Temple and the entire Separatist council, Ani’s on what we call a bit of a power craze. This culminates in him Force choking his pregnant wife to unconsciousness, and making the foolish mistake of thinking he can surpass the High Ground™️. He loses his three remaining organic limbs, falls down to the lava river below, catches on fire and violently burns all over his body. His wife dies, his droid buddies leave him, and the only guy he thought was still his friend starts treating him largely with cruel apathy. He gets a pretty badass suit, though.

Fizzarolli (Helluva Boss) On his birthday, Blitzø plans to give Fizz a love note, but chickens out when he sees all the people in his tent. But because he wasn’t paying attention, he bumps into the Imp coming in with Fizz’s birthday cake. The candles set the tent on fire, killing Blitzø’s mother in another tent and when Fizz tries to escape, he crawls into the area where the fireworks are stored right as they’re lit. The explosion blows off his arms, legs, and most of his horns, as well as burns most of his face and upper body. Fortunately, he winds up working with Asmodeus, the Sin of Lust, who equips him with stretchy robo-limbs and all the silly little hats he wants!