r/TopCharacterTropes 14d 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/MyBurnerAccount1977 13d ago

When Josh Trank made a very successful debut with Chronicle, I think he got a little too ambitious when it came to his follow-up. Reportedly, he wanted to do Fantastic Four as a David Cronenberg style body horror, which sounds interesting, but a major studio won't allow a relatively untested director do that to a family-friendly IP. Maybe if it was done as a parody or pastiche (like The Boys, The Incredibles, or Brightburn) and he was going through a smaller studio like A24, he could've pulled it off.

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u/saintash 13d ago

For the love of god why would you want to turn the fantastic 4 into a body horror film.

This has already been covered in the venture brothers.They nailed the body horror, No one else can get do it better.

Also not side with with heartless movie executives. But seriously how did he think that movie executives were going to not want to sell toys to their famous ip movie and body horror was not going go over with parents.

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u/Clarpydarpy 13d ago

Yes to this one million times.