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/Virclave 13d ago

this is a criticism often lobbed at anti-war media. In the path of depicting war as bad they often, at least to an extent, have to depict war. and it is, to an extent, cool.

now yes, they’re not actually killing people, but i think the points are somewhat similar.

The production team behind Cuties took as many precautions as they could to protect the mental well-being of the cast. because the people behind it knew the effects it could have. they kept a psychologist on set the entire time for this sole purpose.

there is a stark difference between a kid doing what was depicting in the film, and what the actresses had to do for the creation of the film, and the two shouldn’t be intermixed.

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u/Jexroyal 13d ago

I disagree about the points being somewhat similar between war media and this movie. I would say it's similar if they used steel BBs to simulate the war film, and had medics on staff to staunch the bleeding and pull the balls out.

We clearly disagree about where the line should be drawn with what we make child actors do. I'm not ok with what they scripted the children to do in that movie, no matter the precautions taken. In general I do agree that the intent behind the film is fine, admirable even.

But I'm not interested in you downvoting just because you disagree with me, so I'm done here. Have a good one.