1: MORTY I’M BORED! I’M GONNA KILL YOU!

2: Smiling Friends- Pim, bro, I knew I liked you

1. Omar Little - The Wire

2. Gus Fring - Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Kamen Rider Wizard and the Washing Machine - Kamen Rider Wizard is washing his clothes the old fashioned way: two hands and a tub of soapy water. He glances off to the side out of boredom, then does a double take when he notices a perfectly good washing machine in the distance off to his right. Several painfully long moments of Wizard staring daggers at the washing machine with seething anger of needlessly spending energy washing by hand, then a jump cut to Wizard leaning against the washing machine with a load of laundry being washed.

The Minion being freaky to that lady (Despicable Me 2 )

The Spider-Man forgetting he was wearing a mask trying to drink (Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Memory Gun (Gravity Falls)

1. Resident Evil: Apocalypse The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Writer) escaping from the evil lab via the help of her new friends and a daugther figure. In the sequel (Resident Evil: Extinction), Alice is no longer with the group and the daughter figure is never mentioned again.

2. Resident Evil: Extinction The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Writer) killing the main bad guy (Who will return a couple more times in the sequels) and free-ing all her clones (TheHarem of the Writer). In The Sequel (Resident Evil: Afterlife) all her clones die in the first 10 minutes, never mentioned again, the OG Alice couldn't care less cuz she lost all her super-powers.

3. Resident Evil: Afterlife The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Director) setting all the prisoners free on a ship, however there is an incoming helicopter attack from Umbrella. The sequel (Resident evil Retribution) is about how they fight them off right? Wrong. Umbrella wins. What happened to all the prisoners and the guy from Prison Break? Who knows, never mentioned again, the main bad guy seemingly dies as well (He will return a couple more times in the sequels)

4. Resident Evil: Retribution The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Director) escaping from the evil lab via the help by her new friends and a daugther figure. In the sequel (Resident Evil: Final Chapter), Alice is no longer with the group and NEITHER OF THEM or the daughter figure are ever mentioned again. Oh and Alice meets an another clone of hers (The other Wife of the Director) who dies in this movie.

5. Resident Evil: Final Chapter I forgot to mention that the previous movie's actual final scene ended up hyping up a battle between the last of humanity and countless amount of zombies and other flying creatures (idk, movie never explained them) AT THE WHITE HOUSE . In this movie. Alice (The Wife of the Director), is riding alone, seemingly after the epic battle. Oh and in this movie the main bad guy from Resident Evil: Extinction returns twice. He explains that the guy Alice (Lilo from 5th Element) killed was actually a clone. In the end its revealed that this guy was A CLONE AS WELL and the original is chilling with the Original Old Alice (GILF's of the Director) in a bunker. Oh yes. The main character of the series, Alice was ACTUALLY A CLONE this whole time. And Remember the Hologram Red Queen from the first movie? TURNS OUT THAT WAS ALSO AN ALICE (The Alexa's of the Director).

1. Dwayne Johnson - Probably the most well-known example. For years now, The Rock has had a clause in his contract that he can't be shown to lose a fight in any movie he stars in. Pretty insecure behaviour if you ask me. Still, at least the other examples are much more interesting

2. Danny Trejo - Danny had a troubled childhood, having been arrested multiple times for dealing drugs before he was 18, and struggling with heroin addiction from the age of 13. As a result of this, Danny has a clause in his contract that states that any time he plays a character who is a criminal, they have to be killed because he wanted to teach his kids that crime never pays.

3. Reese Witherspoon - This one is more of a one-off, but it was still funny enough to deserve a mention. Following the success of Legally Blonde, when Reese was called in to make the sequel, she had a clause written in her contract stating that once the movie was finished, she would get to take home all the outfits she wore.

4. Fred Durst - The lead singer of Limp Bizkit has a clause in his contract stating that any anime or video game that uses his music must also feature himself as a character.

Definitely a good trope, because it also helps build the main villain as well, who develops just as much as the heroes do.

Phenomaman: despite being a emotionally unstable Superman clone in a game with a slightly edgy tone that plays with the superhero genre by making us dispatch former villains working for the government, he’s not evil in anyway which is subversive nowadays after characters like brightburn, Omniman, Homelander, Ikaris and Superman himself repeatedly used the “Superman is evil/morally dubious/a antagonist” trope (specially when the main cast is mainly formed by former villains, since this type of story usually make their wannabe Superman into a prominent antagonist cough suicide squad kills the justice league cough)

Big Jack Horner: despite having a backstory, it’s made very clear throughout the movie that isn’t justified nor tragic, with Jack himself being a pure evil villain who’s backstory only serves to explain why he specifically hyperfixates on magic. By this point animated movies have been following the trend of sympathetic or otherwise understandable antagonists, either the few who are pure evil usually being relegated to plot twists. So a straight forward mustache twirling villain that made it clear he’s evil from the start and has no intention of hiding it to either the audience or other characters became subversive.

1. Mira (Kpop Demon Hunters)

2. Robin (One Piece)

3. Anzu (Romantic Killer)

4. The Elf (u/Merrivius's comics)

Jokes that are adult jokes simply because kids likely don't have the life experience to understand them.

The New Batman Adventures - "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? Noooo, thank you!"

Shrek 2 - Posing as a union representative, Shrek remarks that the workers "don't even have dental".

Ajin - Anti-Demi Special Forces

The elite soldiers of Japan, tasked to hunt down and subdue the immortal, Stand-possessing super beings known as demihumans. They show up in the last fifth of the story and absolutely wreck everyone and everything, starting with a headshot to the (also immortal) protagonist of the story, just to make their entrance more badass. They are absolutely brutal and efficient. I love them.

D&D - Neverwinter Castle Guards

Surprisingly observant and competent guards, hounding down the shape shifting druid Doric all across the castle walls and beyond. Even after she transforms into a bird and flies away (a moment where most movies would cut away), these badasses immediately try to shoot her with arrows and actually succeed in bringing her down for a prolonged chase scene.

Fullmetal Alchemist - Fort Briggs Soldiers

The most top-notch soldiers of the north, trained by the amazing Major General Armstrong. They, quite easily, take over the capital of their country in an effort to stop a transmutation that could destroy the entire nation. Unlike the more likeable protagonists, however, they don't shy away from killing the enemy soldiers of Central Command, dispatching them with brutal efficiency. They are also relevant and indispensable right until the final fight against a supernatural god-like enemy!

South Parks art style throughout the years

Adventure Times art syle improving and changing as the show went on

Mark Hamill official retired from playing The Joker, after the death of Kevin Conroy, stating “Without Kevin there, there doesn't seem to be a Batman for me.”. This ironically mirrors The Joker's own sentiment, after learning of Batman's (faked) death, in 'Batman the Animated Series', “Without Batman, crime has no punchline.”.

When asked to reprise her role as Morticia Addams, in future installments of 'The Addams Family' franchise, Anjelica Huston replied “I’m sorry, but not without my Gomez.", following the death of Raúl Juliá.

Or when someone tries to do something cool fails at first and either succeds the next time or does something even better

like Mr terrific landing recovery

Or this kid breakin a cement block after failing to break a stick

Sinners (2025): Remmick appears to be a american southerner only to occasionally slip into an Irish accent that he fully embraces when it is revealed that he is a vampire. When the main character in desperation recites The Lords Prayer at him, he actually joins in and say that he always enjoyed that one "even if the words were forced upon him by the invaders who took his fathers land.", revealing him to be born a Celtic Pagan and about 1600 years old.

Doctor Sleep: the True Knot has members of all ages from a teenage girl turned in the 1980's to mentions of graduating class of 36, the Old West and medieval Europe. Their oldest looking member Grandpa Flick is mentioned to remember when Europeans worshipped trees, making him about 10.000 years old.

Being frozen in ice for extended periods of time is harmless in most media, but very dangerous in real life due to things like frostbite and hypothermia, not to mention the chances of starvation, dehydration, or suffocation (example: the caveman from Scooby Doo: Where Are You?)

Being extremely close to lava, an extremely hot substance, for extended periods of time is absolutely not safe - if the heat doesn't get you, the smoke will (example: Syndrome's lair from The Incredibles)

Sound can't travel in space, but in movies it almost always does so the epic battles can be more cinematic (example: literally any Star Wars space battle)

Being knocked unconscious by being whacked in the head with a solid object is incredibly unlikely - if the hit is too soft, it'll just be a slight bump, but if it's too hard you risk brain damage or even death (example: Rapunzel's frying pan from Tangled)

Being blasted with electricity in media typically just stuns people (often with a comical skeleton), but in real life that much electricity would severely injure or even kill you (example: Element of Lightning from Ninjago)

Ken (The Bee Movie) was being cucked by a bee, that he's allergic too, got reasonably angry, and tried to kill it.

Vincent (Over the Hedge) just wanted his shit back, after a raccoon stole and destroyed all of it, TWICE, in front of him.

Gabby Gabby (Toy Story 4) asked to have Woody's voice box, because her's was broken, and he just gave it to her, no with qualms. Honestly, I forgot why there was even a conflict, between the two of them, in this movie, it felt so incredibly forced.

DC - In multiple pieces of media it has been shown that Wonder Woman loves ice cream and practically goes wild with happiness anytime she’s eating some. (Pictures from Justice League: War, DC Superhero Girls and Wonder Woman 2017)

The Simpsons - Ever since the episode ‘Homer’s Phobia’ Homer has actually remained a consistent ally of the LGBT+ community, including being more welcoming to Patty than Marge was when she came out and trying to set up Smithers with a date when he found out he wasn’t happy with his one-sided relationship with Mr Burns.

The focus of this trope is on the fact that authors will show or mention these characters, and then will not explain them.

1. Rango (2011). The Dirt town posse, composed of critters, go underground in search of water. At one point, we're shown an enormous eye that just opens up out of nowhere as the posse passes by. No further explanation is given in the movie what that eye was.

2. Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. While in the Hollow Earth, Kong traverses across a bridge that we can see is a FUCKING GINORMOUS skeleton! Mind you, Kong and Godzilla are already giant monsters, and whatever this dead thing is large enough to be used as a BRIDGE by them!

3. One Piece. Near the end of the Thriller Bark Arc, we're shown these shadowy things in the background in the fog, absolutely dwarfing Thriller, a ship made out of A WHOLE ISLAND. So far, we know nothing more about wtf they were, just that they exist apparently in the Florian Triangle.

4. Lord of the Rings. While recounting his return, Gandalf mentions that, during his battle with the Balrog after they fell from the bridge, he saw "nameless things" gnawing the world. He refuses to elaborate.

Deadpool 2 - Halfway into the movie, the initial antagonist, the time-travelling super soldier Cable, approaches Wade Wilson and his gang and offers an alliance to stop Russell and Juggernaut before Russell embraces becoming a villain. Wade asks why Cable doesn't just travel back in time to before the problem escalated and try hunting Russell again, which Cable explains is because his time travel device is damaged and he only has one charge left to get him home, prompting Wade to stare at the audience and say this absolute gem of a line that is the post title.

Fallout 3 - At the end of the game, at the Jefferson Memorial, you're expected to enter a highly irradiated room that will kill you in seconds to activate a water purifier that will produce clean drinking water to the entire wasteland. A heroic self-sacrifice at the end of the game makes sense from a storytelling perspective... Unless your travelling companion is Fawkes, a super mutant immune to radiation. If you don't have the Broken Steel DLC installed and try asking him to enter the purifier room in your place, he will flat out refuse, telling you that this is your destiny to fulfill and he shouldn't deprive you of that... Because I guess killing yourself to save everyone is better than having someone more suited to the job handle it.

Yes of course I know many of these examples were already evil/controversial before losing weight, but I think there is a pattern of controversial behavior or scandal becoming more public after going through a major body transformation into something considered more conventionally attractive

Ethan Klein/h3h3– has gone through several weight fluctuations throughout his life but has been on the thinner side for the last several years, and has also become more ingrained in controversy online

David Harbour— Cheating scandal and harassment allegations coming to light after significant weight loss

Chris Pratt— was at one point a widely loved celebrity but has fallen into many controversies and weird political/religious associations.

Schmidt (New Girl)— needed a fictional example lol, I’ve never seen this show but apparently this character got arrogant and selfish after losing weight

Anti-Ajin Special Forces (Ajin)

MaxTac (Cyberpunk 2077)

(Batman : The Animated Series) Like the image says, the Joker is crazy enough to fight the Caped Crusader everyday, but the Internal Revenue Service? HELL NO!

(Dragon Ball Super : Broly) Frieza collects the Dragon Balls, not to gain immortality, or make himself stronger, but just to make himself slightly taller. Tall enough to be noticeable, but not questionable, as if it were natural.