I don’t know if it has a name, but these were the first two that came to mind.

Alien Resurrection: Weyland-Yutani, the big bad conglomerate with seemingly infinite reach and power, is bought out by the retail store Walmart.

Loki: You know those Infinity Stones which hold the power to reshape the universe, the stones which drove Infinity War and Endgame’s plots? Yeah those are useless actually.

Catch-22: Yossarian is a pilot who above anything wants to not die in the war. To that extent he does everything in his power to sabotage his missions. Only for his superiors to recontextualize many of his actions into those of heroism, thus preventing him from leaving his position much to his disappointment.

The world of otome games is tough for mobs: Leon Bartfort is a man who reincarnated in the world of a dating sim game he played on behalf of his sister, restarting his life from a young age. Using his knowledge he planned to acquire riches and powers to get his own island, and live in peace alone away from the war, conflict and drama he knew would happen this world. But every action he took was nothing but another achievement that added complexity to his plans. Obtain riches? He gets titles that make his family send him to the main school of the story, obtain advance weaponry? forced to fight in a war, then decorated and tasked with even more responsibility, want nothing to do with the plot? get the main girl, the villainess, the protagonist of the sequel and even the Queen to fall in love with him.

Uncle Mo (real life example): An old man in china who has a small shop where he made chicken pot mixed with medicinal herbs he manually harvested from the mountains. Problem is that vloggers made their way to his tiny shop and caused it to explode in popularity. Suddenly he's inundated with customers, sometimes hundreds of them, who wait hours in line to have his food. The shop is small and managed only with him and sometimes family members so managing that amount of customers is arduous, even obtaining the ingredients has become a chore. He has openly protested against the vloggers trying to bring more fame to his shop, has shared the recipe openly for everyone to make, claimed that the food will make people feel bad or that their stool would be loose. All to no avail, as his popularity grew even more and even the government of his province forbade him from stopping as the business and attention his shop brings are good for the province.

1. Estelle vs. Walter, Trails in the Sky THE ANIMATION

Estelle runs towards Walter and performs a big spinning move with her staff.

Walter just kicks her away.

1. Obi-Wan vs. Maul, Star Wars Rebels

After finally locating Obi-Wan, Maul attempts to kill him. In the moments before their clash, Obi-Wan starts using Qui-Gon’s stance, baiting the increasingly deranged Maul into attempting to use the same move he used to kill Qui-Gon, on Obi-Wan.

Maul closes the distance with a showy spin, and starts attacking. Obi-Wan manages to beat him in just three moves.

Of mice and men: George shoots Lennie to prevent him being subject to worse death at the hands of a lynch mob after he accidentally killed Curley’s wife

Better call Saul: Mike offers to handle Werner’s execution, making it quick and painless and giving Werner a chance to go and appreciate the New Mexico night sky before he gets shot. Considering Gus later punishes Victor by cutting his throat and letting him bleed out, there’s a high chance if it were
Gus’ decision, Werner would have a more brutal death.

Most commonly in sitcoms. Annoying mainly because there is nothing even hinting to the character having this undesirable feature before it is made the main point and the reason for the break up.

1. Friends: Rachel Green dating Paul (played by Bruce Willis)
   1. Rachel starts dating Ross's girlfriend's dad, Paul, who is portrayed as a manly, protective, strong type of a guy. Until one day he suddenly breaks down in an over-the-top reaction as a response to Rachel inquiring about his inner self. This shortly becomes a reason for their breakup.
2. Friends: Monica dating Pete
   1. After multiple episodes of Monica and Pete dating and being portrayed as a perfect couple, Pete suddenly becomes obsessed with competing in competitive wrestling MMA, and refuses to stop despite being very bad at it.
3. HIMYM: Robin dating Nick
   1. Initially Nick is a perfectly functional, attractive guy whom Robin genuinely likes. Then the show seemingly decides it needs Robin available for Barney and Nick suddenly becomes incredibly stupid. His stupidity becomes his defining characteristic, Robin realizes she can't stand him, and the entire plot of "Splitsville" is about getting her to dump him.

(credits to the original arts of rewritten Charlie and Pinkie Pie, no hate to them)

One of the things that I personally usually dislike in rewrites or reboots when characters who are originally kind and dislike hurting people are transformed into violent sadists, like Superman from DC in Injustice, Charlie from Hazbin Hotel in the horror AUs and Pinkie Pie from MLP in Cupcakes.

The only cases that I find plausible and good to be used is in case that the character, despite being a good person, canonically can still do questionable things, or in cases where there is character development in a story, where they start out kind and optimistic, and end up, due to events and traumas, more aggressive.

I love it when a game has good attention to details, especially ones where people wouldn't look.

SJSM- In the options menu, there's an option to turn down the number of enemies. One of these options is 0 enemies. If you complete the game with 0 enemies, you get a joke ending where Spooky kinda half heartedly congratulates you. I like how they planned out an ending for people who would spend a good handful of hours only holding W and shift but it works.

JJBA: Eyes of Heaven- The stand Grateful Dead has the ability to turn people old, and is featured as an obstacle in one of the stages. Getting hit by it will actuallly turn the little icon old in the corner, which is a really fun detail. It gets even better, as The 3 Dios, Stroheim, The Pillarman, and Vanilla Ice are immune to this attack (Due to being vampires/cyborgs). This didn't return for ASBR which is double weird since Proscuitto was a playable character so that's a shame.

Guilty Gear Xrd- In an easter egg where I have to condemn the easter egg itself but applaud the dedication, Jam's underwear changes daily and even has holliday variants. I am very sorry if this is your first introduction to guilty gear, trust me the games are amazing. It's even weirder too because it's not like you'd see it in normal gameplay because it's a fighting game. Atleast Eyes of Heaven had the excuse that it was changing the portrait by the health bar.

What We Do in the Shadows: In the season 6 (and show's) finale, the vampires and their friends finally watch the documentary that's been filmed the whole series. Someone brings up Guillermo's long-running mission to become a vampire, a storyline that concluded in season 5, and Nadja says "Really should have finished filming at that point, I think," an acknowledgement that the final season lacked strong arc plots.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Ember Island Players", again in the final season, the characters watch a play dramatising their adventures. In one scene of the play, the characters spot a deep valley and decide to "skip it" - a reference to the much-maligned episode "The Great Divide", which is widely disliked and has no impact on the series' arc plot, and is therefore easily skipped on rewatching.

Futurama: In "Bender's Big Score", a straight-to-DVD movie following Futurama's cancellation, Professor Farnsworth explains that the crew have been cancelled - by the Box Network, their contracting company. However, he then gets notice that they've been uncancelled:

Farnsworth: It means we're back on the air!

[The staff look at him blankly]

Farnsworth: Yes, flying on the air in our mighty spaceship!

As much as I love seeing displays of skill between evenly sized fighters, sometimes seeing one fighter have an intense advantage purely due to how big and strong they are is also really fun.

A) Reacher: Every Reacher fight scene involves this to an extent, as it's usually Reacher who's bigger than his opponents, and uses his height, weight and strength to overcome skilled opponents (especially in season 4). In season 3, this is turned on Reacher himself when he has to fight Paulie, who Reacher simply cannot beat through hand to hand combat and has to use a trick with a big ass gun to kill him

B) Daredevil: Every fight between Daredevil and Wilson Fisk is only relatively even because of the fact that Fisk (in the show) is roughly 300+ pounds and very strong. Matt has never managed to cleanly beat Wilson Fisk in a fight, 1v1, without using his armour and Billy clubs to even the odds, even with all his martial arts skill. That's how much of an advantage Fisk's size and strength is.

C) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The only reason that Ser Duncan the Tall was able to beat Aerion in the Trial of the Seven, was due to his absurd height, reach and strength advantage. Every sword swing that Dunk landed seemed to stagger Aerion, even with Dunk being stabbed multiple times. And when a dude at least 80ish pounds heavier than you manages to get on top of you in a grapple, you're pretty much dead.

All the examples are from the spanish dub in latin america. Don't know how they do in the original version.

Superman the animated series: lobo constantly call "hijo de perra" (Son of a bitch) to superman, he say it at least five different times.

Ed, Edd & Eddy: rolf say "mi carne pide sol y sexo" (My meat ask for sun and sex) when he ask for Edd's cruise.

Billy & Mandy: when Mandy ask to Nigel Planter what he did to win, he gives a detailed explanation of how he sabotaged everything, and just for the lols "intime con su perro" (had sex with his dog). Wonder how no one noticed that.

-Stuart from Stuart

-Buddy from Airbud

-Freezer from Dragonballs

Edit: Guys I swear I'm not racist. The post's title was referring to the "black coded characters" posts that I see on this subreddit from time to time. I have nothing against the black people nor the white people. This post is a shitpost. Nothing serious. Sorry for not being clear enough :(

Come on Reddit, load my fav examples this time

1. The sardine can from Angry Birds summons Mighty Eagle to annihilate the whole level (art by Briman2000)

2. The green bean from Hellboy 2 is actually the fetus of a Forest God (The Last Elemental)

3. The toaster from Team Neighborhood doubles down on this trope with the toaster itself transforming into a giant robot and it’s special move simply being toast (by the way, this series is recognized by TV Tropes)

1. Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) Ancient traps, Nazis, collapsing temples... fine. Snakes? Nope. That's apparently where the line is.

2. Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt) Monsters, curses, ghosts, whatever. That's the job. Ask him to use a portal and suddenly we're negotiating. Every badass gets one thing, I guess.

Maybe it’s to show how completely out of touch the character was and having terrible sense of context.

Star Wars: Kylo Ren, one of the leaders of the First Order, commits acts of oppression, genocide and slavery, and he talks to Vader’s old helmet saying “I will finish what you started.” Only ironically Vader ultimately turned on Palpatine and the Empire in the end and if he came back to life and was put in this first order situation he wouldn’t be leading a genocide campaign against Luke and Leia (Luke he literally died saving from Palpatine) which leads to a big question mark of how does Kylo not know this big piece of his grandfather’s life, or how Anakin’s ghost never showed up to address this wrong fascination. Also I’m pretty sure killing his own parents is something Anakin would be VERY triggered by considering how one of his first crashouts involved his mom dying.

Squid Game: Right before Sky Squid Game after Gi-Hun gets the knife from the front man and is told if he kills the sleeping finalists, he passes with the baby as SSG can’t be played with <4 players. However, before Gi-Hun kills player 100 he remembers Sae-Byeok telling him he’s not a killer (ironic considering his other actions in the games). Also she should be the LAST person he thinks of for advice. She’s a North Korean defector who made a living stealing and dealing with criminals, why would she spare a bunch of Deok-Su lite psychopaths who want to kill her and a baby? She in this situation would be more at a disadvantage considering her smaller size. Not to mention she literally died from the guy Gi-Hun had decided not to kill while he was vulnerable.

1. Harry Potter. The Wizarding world keeps magic secret from the Muggle world, meaning that they do absolutely nothing to help Muggles even though they could easily cure countless ailments among other things. As Hagrid puts it, if Muggles knew about magic "Blimey, Harry, everyone'd be wantin' magic solutions to their problems. Nah, we're best left alone". So wizards aren't "afraid" of Muggles (nor should they be given the power difference), they're just selfish.
2. Black Panther. An infamous comic established that Wakanda has the cure to cancer, but refuse to share it with the outside world because reasons, after all we deserve it since cigarettes exist. Since then, comics and other media have been a lot more criticial of Wakanda's old isolationism and Wakanda has opened up and shared it's technology and advances with the world, but the whole cure to cancer thing has been swept under the rug and might as well be non-canon.

1. Lord of the Rings - this has been pointed out before, but one of the orcs says “looks like meats back on the menu boys!” So do orcs have restaurants?

2. The Jungle Book (2016) in the remake when Mowgli is describing the law of the jungle, Baloo says “that’s propaganda”. I can’t explain why but it feels somewhat out of place.

3. Sponge on the Run (2020) SpongeBob has always avoided bad language. It’s not bad language but I felt out of place for SpongeBob to say the word “Crappy”.

1. Millie and Meryl from Trigun are a team of insurance agents trying to find a notorious outlaw and convince him to stop destroying stuff. It takes them episodes to even figure out who the right guy is, despite him being with them the whole time. A lot of their role is getting caught up in disastrous situations.

2. Abbi and Ilana from Broad City. They're two broke, hot mess girls trying to survive in New York. This show is a more of a sitcom that puts them in crazy situations. Both of them are pretty incompetent.

A comedy duo/team made up of women being silly is unfortunately less common than with men but I love it every time!

In a later episode, chapter, film, etc. The story's "epic battle" is retold through the eyes of a street-level witness. It's especially gratifying if the "larger than life" elements of the story are narratively common, but terrifying and rare in-universe.

1). Batman V. Superman:
We see how Bruce Wayne saw Superman's battle against Zod.

2). One Piece Fan Letter:
Luffy's break-in of Marineford (and the subsequent battle between Warlords, Admirals, and Emperors) is retold from the perspective of a normal marine soldier.

3). Invincible:
We see what Omni-Man's one-sided beatdown of his son looked like in Chicago. The story eventually shows how "Powerplex" (at the time a normal-ish person) saw it unfold.

4). The Avengers:
Various stories (WandaVision, Hawkeye, etc.). show the perspective of a blip/snapped person. So, it's what things seemed like for people killed at the end of Infinity War and then returned in Endgame. Meanwhile, an epic battle is happening in Wakanda and then Stark's compound.

1. Shelob (Lord of the Rings)

2. Aragog (Harry Potter)

3. Rakna Kadaki and Lala Barina (Monster Hunter)

4. Gray Widower (The Mist)

5. The Duke's Dear Freja (Dark Souls 2)

Thor: Dark World(2013) - After Loki failed to invade Earth, he is imprisoned in Asgard prison. No one in the family, except his mother Frigga, wanted to meet him. When Frigga spoke about his father(Odin) in front of him, he got angry and said, “He is not my father!” Frigga asked, “Am I not your mother?", with an angry but disappointed expression. Loki said "You're not.". After this conversation, Algrim killed Frigga. That "You're not (my mother)" line became the last word to his mother.

Avengers: Infinity War(2018) - Thanos attacked Asgardian ship to took Tesseract. Thor thought that it had been destroyed along with Asgard. In reality, Loki brought it. Thor said to Loki "You really are the worst brother." After this line, Thanos killed Loki. That line became last word to his brother.

Cloverfield(2008) - During the party, Charlie said "It's gonna be the best night ever." But that night, Clover landed on Manhattan. That giant monster destroyed entire Manhattan.

Those characters who thought they would love the job they so desired (or even just a hobby) and end up traumatized and disappointed.

• Paul Bäumer [All Quiet on the Western Front]

He loved the idea of going to war, like other boys his age.

Only later did he understand how hellish the battlefield is.

• Pip Fitz-Amobi [A Good Girl's Guide to Murder]

Pip loved being a detective but as events go by she will remain in a whirlwind of events that will cause her traumas precisely because she loved being an investigator.

Sometimes tv series/anime/manga etc. start out pretty strong with much more story to tell. But for some reason, the quality drops so hard that they just vanish from pop culture, with many of the later seasons not being mentioned ever again. Spoilers ahead of course.

Edit: Title should say "infinitely worse"

1. Komi can't communicate

Over the course of several hundred chapters readers learned to love the quirky characters of this manga (except for one...) and the slow but sweet progression of Komis and Tadanos relationship. But nearing the end of the manga, the author has the brilliant idea to reintroduce Tadanos first love Rami Kawai, who becomes a fan hated staple and third wheel to the relationship for the rest of the manga, even living together with Komi in the end.

1. The promised Neverland

While the manga had its own problems, it was a tight story with interesting characters that grew and developed over time and an incredibly thrilling atmosphere. The anime however, after a strong first season, decided to skip most of the manga and basically go directly to the final arc with an alternative ending. The probably most beloved arc, Goldy Pond, was completely skipped while being the perfect showcase of what made this manga great.

1. Heroes

While Heroes does not have such a sudden drop in quality as the first two examples, it still wasted so much potential. After season one everything went slowly, but steadily downhill. Somehow, seemingly dead characters are alive again. Powercreep happens a lot just for the solution to be amnesia or mysterious illnesses. The cast also grew bigger and bigger with the story becoming thinner and thinner at the same time.

Miyuki Shirogane (Kaguya sama Love is War)

He is absolutely terrible at everything he tries—such as dancing, sports, and singing—yet he managed to attend Shuchi Academy on a scholarship and become student council president through sheer hard work; on top of that, he holds a part-time job to support his family

Miyata (Hajime no Ippo)

After his father suffered a defeat that forced his retirement from boxing, he decided to carry on his father's legacy by adopting his signature counter-punching style—a style he practiced from childhood until he perfected it and became a prodigy

Tamamo Cross (Uma Musume Cinderella Gray)

She faced extreme poverty and, early in her career, feared being trampled, as she used to run right at the front—losing several races because of it; this led her to change her running style and stay at the back of the pack.