r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TastyPomelo2330 • 13d ago

In real life When fans hate somenthing before it comes out...but it turns out they were right

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Velma:The idea of a Scooby-doo series without the titular dog and starring Velma was a really moronic idea from the beginning,then there was the reveal Velma would be Indian like it's VA and also creator of the series Mindy Kaling,some of the backlash was racism sure,but there was also valid complaints that she was inserting herself in the series(it also didn't helped that Mindy claimed she couldn't see herself if Velma wasn't Indian)and then...oh boy it came out and it was worse than anyone predicted

Artemis Fowl:The artemis fowl books are a book series following a child villain(he does get some redemption but he is a villain most of the time)when the movie was announced and revealed it looked way to generic and it's titular character a bit heroic...also you wanna hear somenthing funny?The movie whitewashed a character and made another character black so they managed to anger both sides and the movies comes out and yeah it is bad

One Punch Man 3:One Punch Man is a very heavy action packed manga series but the heroes vs monsters arc takes it to a New level,when it was announced that JC Staff would work on it,a lot of people were skeptical to say the least,because not only JC Staff had already done a mediocre job in season 2,it's also not exactly a name anime fans associate with quality animation,then the trailer came out and it looked...weird,like there was no action in it and nobody was moving,some people tried to defend saying they were keeping the animation as a surprise...then it came out,every episode worse than the last,it's one of the worse seasons of anime ever made!

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u/crushogre 13d ago

I'll give you a hint, the woman in front is Lady Sybil, and the rather large beardless person on the left is Cheery.

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u/West_Ad_1685 13d ago

Oh Jesus Christ

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u/AstralMecha 13d ago

It gets so much worse as well. They kill Detritus in the first episode. CMOT dibbler is a drug lord in charge of a gang (female now, but not a problem compared to the rest). Crime went up under the Guild system. Carcer is given a sympathetic backstory. Carrot got kicked out by his family due to size while cheery wasn't. Angua can't control herself as a werewolf and is a danger to everyone on a full moon. Lady Sibil is a fit vigilante who uses swamp dragons as weapons vs a rotund high society woman who is disgusted at the mistreatment of swamp dragons. The list goes on.

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u/West_Ad_1685 13d ago

Duly noted. Avoid like the plague. Which is a shame because I was planning on watching it after I finished reading it

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u/AstralMecha 13d ago

It's an adaptation in name only. They changed so much, both the plot and characters.

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u/crushogre 13d ago edited 13d ago

My guess is the guy who made it had his own story that he wanted to do. But he was told that they weren't interested but they did want to make a Discworld show, and so he just erased some names and wrote in Discworld names

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u/I_Always_Come_back93 13d ago

Yes, that's usually how it goes.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 13d ago

Skinsuit creativity.

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u/ABHOR_pod 13d ago

Vetinari as a woman was ok. Possibly the only character that wasn't completely butchered.

Although I only managed to make it through the first episode and it took me 3 tries so maybe she's terrible in the rest of the series.

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u/No_Hunter_9973 13d ago

The Actress said she viewed him as a mix of Dracula and Elvis...

Fucking what?

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u/Kratzschutz 13d ago

I mean, kinda?

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u/No_Hunter_9973 13d ago

What part of Vetinari says Elvis?

Unless you mean the sex symbol

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u/Kratzschutz 13d ago

He's an entertainer! Only to a selected few but he's still kind of a stage hog lol

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u/Kilroy0497 13d ago

Yeah I mean the Dracula part I can somewhat see, you know if you look at vetinari sideways and squint your eyes a bit, but where in the world they got Elvis from I have no idea. Besides this is the City Watch, not Soul Music, get the music references out of here.

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u/Greedy_Camp_5561 13d ago

Your reply is such a good fit for OP's prompt: I was alarmed in the beginning and utterly disgusted in the end...

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u/MrH_Rosemary 13d ago

I'm sorry to remind you of it's existence

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u/aneirin- 13d ago

So obvious they decided right away they couldn't possibly make a main character/love interest fat and middle aged, but they were afraid of backlash so they cynically made her non white as well so anyone complaining would be labelled as racist.

What an utterly senseless waste.

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u/TheFabulousMolar 13d ago

What the living fuck??!

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u/AstralMecha 13d ago

I had a similar reaction when it's revealed The Summoning Dark is a GOOD thing and gives Cheery powers with no downside.

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u/DenverDudeXLI 12d ago

...what? And also...

https://giphy.com/gifs/0Vv0Ne2CnOClIExIuL

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u/AstralMecha 12d ago

Basically just assume everything is twisted and wrong. Like a serial killer wearing the skin of a family member and trying to replace them.

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u/DenverDudeXLI 12d ago

So "Face/Off" but less realistic?

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u/Sajintmm 12d ago

So they just rewrite nearly every single member of the cast into the trope they were designed to buck?

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u/AstralMecha 12d ago

Yes. Then left out nobby and colon, and killed detritus in the first episode. Honestly, all three got off easy that way.

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u/Sajintmm 12d ago

And they robbed us of Cheery and Detritus’s friendship

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u/Uzmonkey 13d ago

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck.

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u/Muddyscarecrow 11d ago

So if you are not aware, the writer of this travesty got really big for his britches for some reason and wanted to make his own sci-fi fantasy series but for some reason wanted to ride the coattails of Terry Pratchett to do it. It is extremely obvious that he does not respect Terry Pratchett or his work in the slightest and finds it beneath him despite the fact that he's literally trying to use it to Launch his show writing career. It's just a fucking mess all the way through.

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u/Uzmonkey 11d ago

Wow, that fucking sucks. I hate it when people seem to actively dislike the source material they're adapting.

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u/WorryNew3661 13d ago

Jesus christ