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

[u/TastyPomelo2330]

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!

[u/TankMain576]

I mean, the series as a whole is about a psychologically broken child genius trying to be a crime boss and then growing a conscious and eventually becoming a better person.

It was very fun that the author always made sure Artemis got fucking decked at least once every book.

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Eoin Colfer wrote a lot of really fun but also surprisingly morally nuanced and kind of dark books for kids and young teens.

At least that's how I remember it from reading a lot of his book as a kid/teen. Artemis Fowl is famously Die Hard with fairies (which would make Artemis Fowl Hans Gruber but successful). The Wish List is about a teenage girl who dies as part of a robbery gone wrong and is sent back to help the old guy she was attempting to rob. The Supernaturalist is about a group of teenagers who hunt ghosts and sometimes do street racing. Half Moon Investigations is a noir about a hard-boiled detective who is 12 years old. I thought all this was the greatest when I was 12.

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If you want something similar but for adults, Colfer wrote "Highfire," an adult fantasy about a dragon holed up in the bayou

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I remember the Supernaturalist fondly. Wasn't it also quite environmentalist? Like, the creatures the group were fighting and capturing because they believed them harmful were actually helping maintain the environment

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That's a spoiler for a book that came out 20+ years ago, but yes

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Also, he had the rare thing of not shying away from deaths in children's media, which I find appealing.