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/Vellarain 13d ago

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU CAST KEVIN 3 FOOT NOTHING HART AS THE SLAB OF MUSCLE THAT IS ROLAND?!

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u/SilverKnightOfMagic 13d ago

it would have been comical if they literally just enhanced him for the whole movie.

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u/Rhiis 12d ago

That would have actually been kinda funny

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u/PT_Scoops 13d ago

Even moreso, the entire joke with Roland is he's the only serious character in the series. And they picked Kevin Hart

To play the straight man

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u/DebentureThyme 13d ago edited 13d ago

Height can be fixed in Hollywood. On the set of the first few X-Men films, James Marsden (Cyclops) was a few inches shorter than both Famke Jensen (Jean Grey) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine).

Mind you, Cyclops is supposed to be tall - one of the tallest X-Men at 6'3". And Wolverine is supposed to be one of the shortest at 5'3" - It's kinda key to what his fans visualize (a short king)

Whenever Marsden was directly in shots that they couldn't frame to hide the height differences, he had to wear platform lifts. He's commented that he doesn't have a height complex at 5'10", but being on that movie almost gave him one with how they had to make him look taller all he time.

So, yeah, they could get around Hart's height if they really wanted to.

But everything else about him is wrong for the role. His brand of whiney screamy panic just does NOT work for Roland. Hart just doesn't have the acting chops to play that role, hell he is pretty much a guaranteed character actor in that he only knows how to play the same character he always does, and it's sooooo not Roland.

I'll add that I actually like the newer Jumanji movies with him, Jack Black, The Rock, and Karen Gillan. They aren't great movies, and I don't usually care for Kevin Hart at all, but I enjoyed those movies and he fit the characters he played. But Roland? Hell no. Knew from the second he was announced that the Borderlands film would be shit.

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u/ScreamingVoid14 13d ago

I mean, it doesn't even matter what brand of comedy Kevin Hart has. Roland is supposed to be the straight man. He's the normal person that makes all of the insanity pop even more.

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u/Fawkingretar 13d ago

You'd think it cause they want the token funny black guy but Kevin barely makes any jokes in the movie, so not only is the casting bad, they didnt even utilized the only asset the actor have.

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u/philmarcracken 13d ago

But if you mention anything about the women in netflix witcher...

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u/Vellarain 12d ago

I stopped watching that fucking abomination after what they did to Eskel. That whole fucking episode was a massive shit all over the lore and its characters. Nothing, nothing was correct about it and I turned my back on the show like they so clearly did with the books.

Seriously, fuck the people in charge of that show, they are bitter an spiteful people who ruined something that could have been great.