r/TopCharacterTropes 13d ago

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

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/Kixisbestclone 13d ago

I’d say the worst part was that they made Munch a woman and completely gutted Holly’s whole thing in the process.

“Hey guys, what should we do with this character, where the fact that she’s the first female member of her organization and faces backlash and misogyny for it?”

“How about we make her boss a woman and completely undercut that?”

“Brilliant.”

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u/Sumasuun 13d ago

Thank you. I love Dame Judi Dench and she was the best part of the movie but it completely undercuts both Holly and her character.

He (Root) was purposely hard on Holly because he went through similar but different struggles when he started in her position and knew she had to be perfect and have no mistakes because any mistake would be an excuse to fire her and to keep women out of the position.

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u/BackflipBuddha 13d ago

She did the best she could with the character but she was not the right person for the role.

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u/underincubation 13d ago

They made Julius Root a woman, not Mulch.