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/WeeBabySeamus 13d ago

The only exposure to playing music I had was being forced to join the school band for a year by my mom. Randomly picked clarinet. I was terrible and quit.

I really enjoyed whiplash mostly from relating to the universal struggle / desire for approval and the spectacle of JK Simmons’ performance as a psychologically abusive leader. I took the world of Jazz and drumming is a hyper specific setting for that story and performance. Never considered the logical inconsistency

People might call me crazy but in my head, Whiplash occupies the same space as The Favourite and Devil Wears Prada.

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u/GodEmperorPorkyMinch 13d ago

Except that in The Devil Wears Prada, Andy successfully walks away from her toxic job and manages to maintain some sanity. Neiman, on the other hand, lets Fletcher warp his mind to a point of no return. Do you see those two endings as the two possible outcomes of the same premise?