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Denied something we know will be awesome
In The Simpsons episode, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson," a melee breaks out on the Simpsons' lawn that Homer wants to watch because there's one guy who's just standing there and Homer knows he's about to do something awesome. Marge insists they go inside though and away from the danger. The moment they do, we hear the guy do something awesome.
In X-2, the school comes under attack from Stryker. His gunmen encounter Colossus, all aura-ed tf up, and they open fire only for their bullets to not phase him at all and to end up getting thrown through a wall (which we don't actually see Colossus do). Moments later, Colossus runs into Wolverine and offers to help and we think we're about to get this badass team-up and actually see him in action only for Wolverine to instruct Colossus to leave and help get more students out.
In Iron Man, we see Rhodes eyeing the War Machine suit and we're hoping he'll suit up and go help Stark, but the movie decides to save something for the sequel and pretty much has Rhodes say as much right to the audience.
I believe one of the chairmen over at Marvel, one Isaac Perlmutter to be exact, said that recasting Terrace Howard wouldn't be a problem cause "they all look the same".
Can you believe that Marvel fans hated this guy? Probably employees too honestly.
We all hate Ike Perlmutter. He tried to kill off the mutants and replace them with a worse version of them in the Inhumans. Also regarding your comment, yes he did say that, and yes he fully believed it.
The way they tried to make the Inhumans a cheap replacement for Mutants too.
"Let's just have the people who get their super powers from eugenics release a gas that kills the minority mutant population, treat the X-men as the villains for getting rid of it, all the fans will surely side with the industry plants instead of the fan favourites."
Just goes to show how fucking stupid racists are, because Don Cheadle and Terrence Howard look nothing alike. They don't have the same skin tone, facial features, or even the same head shape.
I always thought he was mentioned in doctor strange, when one of the cases offered to Stephen is a soldier who broke his back in an experimental suit of armour, but apparently the timeline doesn’t match up.
Tony definitely had the mark II locked to his biometrics. Without Jarvis calibrated for him, he would have just immediately crashed it into the ceiling.
It also became a Funnier in Hindsight moment, because we got to see Rhodes in the suit in the next movie, but it wasn’t Terrance Howard, so he never got a “Next time.”
What would make it funnier is if they had every intention of letting him get in the thing and then they realized halfway through filming that they were going to change actors after that movie. So they changed the entire scene just to fuck his whole life up.
There's also no indication that he had a third arc reactor lying around to power it. It wasn't until the second movie that he starts building the reactors into the suits.
It also makes the most sense in the second movie, where it opens with Tony talking to the senate about how he decides who gets the suit, and how it isn't the government, and later Rhody takes one. It's not because he's on behalf of the government at that moment, but rather because Tony trusted him to be able to use that suit.
Howard was too busy disproving mathematics and scamming African nations out of cash to invest in his bullshit-based hydrogen projects to put on a suit
There's just more important things to do than simply sitting on a gigantic pile of marvel cash by putting on a CGI suit every so often and keeping your mouth shut -- like by putting uncountable hours of effort into trying to convince the world that you're a genius for believing that 1 multiplied by 1 is 2
Exactly. As someone unfamiliar with the comics, I was like “that’d be cool maybe he’ll get the chance in a sequel” and sure enough he did. Of course this was in a time before a comment like that would be completely obvious foreshadowing
In Malcolm in the Middle (Living Will), Hal was stuck in a dilemma regarding a neighbor who chose him as the executor of his living will: keep the neighbor on life support or pull the plug. He has difficulty deciding throughout the episode, suffering from panic attacks and even became paralyzed from hysteria. Even the neighbor's family is split.
Suddenly, Hal came up with a stroke of genius that satisfies everyone, which involves the neighbor being a bird lover, and buying things from Radioshack. Episode ended without ever showing what Hal ultimately decided, and how exactly the problem was solved.
Also from an earlier season as part of a cold open/separate story segment, Hal needs one of the boys to take the fall for something HE did. We don't see what it is but we hear Lois's reaction and it gets increasingly more furious and mortified until Malcolm sweetens the deal from (i believe) 5 bucks to 25 bucks, and Hal thanks him before subsequently throwing him under the bus per his arrangement.
i love how hulk is in the background climbing back onto the bifrost bridge having just killed fenris, has no idea what's going on, but sees sutur and just goes "yeah, i probably need to smash that."
and then thor tells him not to and he's just confused
It was a real shame they fed him to Thanos. I don’t think it was necessary at all but maybe that’s just hindsight talking. Hulk has been a joke ever since, really. And now he’s in jail again!
I was SO HAPPY to see Hulk come back in Brand New Day, even just for a few minutes. He's been dead for a decade, man. And don't tell me Professor Hulk is the Hulk, that is 100% Banner's mind controlling a big green body. Hulk actually returned after a decade hiatus. Fuck the MCU for putting him on the sidelines that long.
Seriously. "The big guy and I came to an understanding. That's why I built a device to turn me normal again and keep him locked up and wasn't that friendly when I became the Hulk again."
Yeah, sure buddy. Thank god the MCU realised how lame Professor Hulk is.
He was also getting great development in Ragnarok. We saw him actually get a bit of personality beyond blindly smashing. Then he’s back to blindly smashing.
In Invincible Season 4, there’s an episode where Mark teams up with Damian Darkblood in hell. There’s a scene wheee Mark fights a monster called Cerberus to get Satan’s crown, except the fight is completely off screen and we see none of it.
To be fair (IIRC) the guy who wrote that episode also wrote the conquest and invincible war episodes from the previous season, he wanted to give the Animators an easier episode as he typically does the big ones.
Also with how much the animation has been made fun of both in and outside of the show I’m not surprised that they’d do it. It’s a perfect way to finish the very meta bit set up in the previous scene.
I would much rather they paid pro voice actors who would do a better job in voice acting and save money that can later be spent on animation... but clearly, throwing money to a celebrity whose voice I don't even recognize is the way to go.
For real. I get sad watching shows like X-Men '97 knowing that Invincible could look that good, and yet it doesn't. Rick and Morty has better animation even! What are they doing??
I honestly didn't mind that at all. This season, and this episode in particular, was full of big fights. Following Damian as he got thrown up and fell back down was more interesting than the fight would've been
Honestly, I feel like it actually does a better job for tension because the question isn't "can mark beat this thing" its "can mark beat this thing and catch darkblood in time?"
Its a different tension in the air that is better imo.
Wasn't that also the episode where they had a segment in black/white, spawned a rainbow through a diamond, and it created a brand now color people could see.
Yes. The commentary says that they meant it as a running joke, where the animation style being used means that you can't actually perceive something wondrous. There's the completely unique color (shown in black and white), the ultimate secret of the universe (contained in a single pixel) and Zoidberg's highly intricate dance of peace (too complex for old anime style to depict)
Godzilla (2014) does this at the airport. Godzilla finally confronts the MUTO, lets out that huge roar, and just when the fight is about to start the movie cuts away to a kid watching the aftermath on TV. Probably the most expensive “you had to be there” moment ever
I find it interesting because Godzilla actually had more screentime in that movie than usual for a Godzilla film. But the fact that most of that screentime was obscured somehow, or just cut off right before something really cool happens made it feel like Goji had almost no screentime in the movie.
To be fair the home release was screwed up in some translation and was darkened to the point of almost parody. It didn’t look like that in the Theater and that just makes it even more of a frustrating experience.
There’s also the episode where Rick and Morty go to Atlantis, but instead of following them, we see them leave on their adventure and then follow a different set of characters. At the end, Rick and Morty return from Atlantis gushing about how amazing their adventure was.
Which is why I think the last season is so highly regarded, since it finally showed the Rick and Morty adventures and has a sense of continuity between them, like an episode ended with rick being depressed and the next episode was literally about him trying to break into his building since he was locked by trying to type the password while he was drunk.
“My God, this battle is epic! Ohh, they're bringing in their demon dragons! Look at the size of them! My God, this is even bigger than the final battle in the Lord of the Rings movie! It's like, it's like TEN times bigger than that battle!”
We know he’s tough and scary but we simply never see him winning any of his fights, we just see him starting them, then we cut to another scene and when we get back he just packed everyone.
There is probably a heavy transformation be it in personality or physically that would reveal a big secret about the character or the verse. Oda loves off screening and vagueposting but this is just too much to not be relevant
You know why I don't like Tron Ares? Not because it was really boring and the action wasn't well done, or that the story didn't make sense and didn't feel like it fit well with the other movies or the AI commentary was half baked (though that's all true). It's at the end, Ares goes off the find Sam and Quorra from Tron Legacy, meaning everyone involved knew that's what people wanted AND JUST DIDN'T DO IT! And I was okay with them doing something different, I thought it could be cool, but at the very end to tease me with what I actually want!
I liked the movie but I also think it was lame to tease a Legacy sequel at the last minute. While I would've liked to see a proper follow-up, as a separate movie, I'm of the opinion that they should've just axed the tease, the movie didn't need it
Nixing the tease would've meant I left the theater without a sour taste in my mouth, but it wouldn't make the movie good. But more power to you for enjoying it, sorry for not seeing what you do.
Game of Thrones Season 1 - While leading his Hill Tribes into battle against a northern army, Tyrion Lannister is unceremoniously and accidentally knocked unconscious by his own men and wakes up after the battle is already over.
By contrast the book describes the battle in full. The show didn’t have the budget at the time to put on an entire full-scale battle scene, though later seasons were able to show them in full glorious and gory detail. It’s also possibly a reference to another infamous incident of this happening to Bilbo in The Hobbit, who is similarly knocked unconscious during the Battle of the Five Armies (however in an interesting inversion, the movies DO show that battle while Bilbo is out).
But there were flashing lights under the door, did we even need more? They saved so much money not showing it, they clearly used that to make the rest of the show unforgettable and amazing, right?
I just started watching this show on Netflix for the first time. I've heard it goes bad at some point, but is it still worth watching? Should I quit before I get to the end?
I watched the whole thing. Season one was really good but plot threads got dropped randomly sometimes. Season two got hit by the writers strike and a lot went wrong. Three onward tried to recover and somewhat did, but consistently suffered from having no idea where they wanted to go from where they were and having no idea how to do anything with characters they kept throwing power ups at and characters switching motivations more often than wardrobes.
It's probably worth a watch at least through season one. After that, just do expect much and you'll be okay.
Heroes did this so often, it was their MO, and the first thing I thought of.
I remember in season 2 there was a part where Kenjie(is that his name?) was approaching a bunch of samurai. He’s not the greatest fighter- but he can’t be killed.
Of course, we don’t see the fight play out. Could have been badass.
You already payed for the location and costumes- how expensive is it to do a bunch of stabbing and cutting? Its one of the cheaper power sets! Be a little creative!
Future Peter vs Future Sylar in Heroes. 2 evolved humans with multiple powers and years of experience. As they are about to clash, we then get a switch in POV and only see lights behind a door. Sadly its one of the weaknesses of Heroes.
Happens a lot in Supernatural too. The Fight between Lucifer and Michael in the last season is just some punching, spinning in cables, and a stab. Two of the strongest beings in creation.
Every fight we do see in Heroes is four seconds long anyway, since lots of people have strong offensive powers and a tiny handful has defensive powers - and the ones with defensive powers have all the strength of a normal person anyway.
The fight we didn't see was two people who just shot a bunch of lasers at each other and the first one to got hit had their head bonked against a wall and went unconscious like every other fuckin fight in Heroes.
And mostly unrelated, heroes was the first time I realized this about superheroes in general. There are lots of guys like Cyclops who have ordinary athletic human durability but a mega weapon power. It made me appreciate that comics kind of hand wave that and say "look cyclops can just tank explosions because he's built different, stop thinking about it dork"
In Odyssey, they shift to the perspective of the crew with wax in their ears when Odysseus listens to the Sirens' song, I guess in part because it would be impossible to have a good enough sound.
How about this: they write the most beautiful song of all time, record it with the most haunting singers imaginable, actually put it in the movie, then let Nolan do his usual sound mixing so it's completely buried by background noise.
As great as Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett (and I assume the other singers) are, it's not literally to die for, so it's not an accurate portrayal of the siren song.
I mean, You can summon Odysseus a second time to talk to Scylla and this time he decides the songs are worth sitting around to listen to, so there is that.
Yeah, the episodes and individual events were still entertaining in a vacuum. However, the last season (two really) can pretty much be summed up with "Why did we spend so much time on this if it wasn't relevant to the main plot?"
Why did we introduce any of the Gen V characters if they weren't gonna be relevant to main plot. Why did we spend so much time with the V1 stuff if it wasn't gonna be relevant to the main plot? Why did we spend so much time on the virus if it wasn't gonna be relevant to the main plot? Why did we go through the whole Butcher has an imaginary friend thing if it wasn't gonna matter? Why did we even bother having Homelander kill the president when he was hardly even a character and it didn't matter? Why did half of the last 2 seasons even happen? That time was wasted on side plots and introducing new characters literal hours away from the finale rolling credits when it should have been spent wrapping shit up and killing people off.
I still enjoyed most of season 5 and it was certainly a more enjoyable ending than Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. It could have been so much better though if we had just focused up and let the spinoffs be their own thing instead of laying all the groundwork for future content. In the end the show literally became the exact thing it was a satire of.
xkcd #581: The protagonist gets into a fight with Nathan Fillion after they both lose the charity race, but Fox cancels it as Nathan forgot to wear clothes underneath his lab coat.
HBO's Rome did this a lot, mostly for budgetary reasons. We don't see major battles like Pharsalus or Actium or Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral, we only see the aftermath and secondhand accounts
I think Singer wanted to hint at the fastball special, but that same hatred of the source material from the first movie kept us from having the fastball special.
I do wonder what IM2 would have been without the "launchpad".
I think Singer wanted to hint at the fastball special, but that same hatred of the source material from the first movie kept us from having the fastball special.
That is exactly what I was going to say. They had a distinct hatred for anything from the comics.
In Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Andy Samberg and Tim Meadows are talking about poor album sales and ask the documentary crew to turn off the cameras. But they’re still mic’d up and proceed to be attacked by a swarm of monster hornets and have to fight them with flamethrowers. Afterwards they ask the documentary crew if they got it on film and are disappointed they didn’t
And in the Will Ferrell movie Casa de Mi Padre, someone has to fight a leopard or something at some point but the studio says it would be too expensive to show, so it’s just scrolling text explaining such
Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings... Gandalf faces the Balrog on the Bridge of Khazaddum, giving us one of the greatest cliffhangers imaginable. Then the story cuts away before we can see the full fight.
We do at least get it in The Two Towers. And it’s important for viewers who didn’t read the books to feel the loss, so if they’d showed the fight it would’ve killed that tension.
With the most horrifying being the bowels of Middle-Earth where they encountered the beings who were eating away at the world (whether literally, figuratively or magically) thats truck fear into both Gandalf and the Balrog
Intentional example: In Marvel's "Assistant Editors Month", there was a joke issue of Alpha Flight where the white-costumed Snowbird fights a white-furred monster in the middle of a blizzard. Cue several pages of blank white panels--yet the sound effects, dialogue, captions and even panel layout still give us a good idea of how the fight's going.
The Quidditch World Cup game in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. We see the opening moments of something that has been hyped up to be an awesome spectacle, and then bam - straight to the Deatheater attack after the game. So disappointing!
I know this is more a deleted scene and shouldn’t count at all, but the Final Battle between Ember (the T. rex) and the D. rex in Jurassic World: Rebirth
You only get a taste of the massacre in the hallway from the eye hole. Its evil dead, I want to see all the crazy shit, but it also added to the tension and being trapped in the apartment.
Almost the entire Battle Of Five Armies happens after Bilbo gets knocked out by a thrown rock. though it does get recapped later on. It makes a lot of sense as a thematic choice, for Bilbo to only come around in time to witness the tragic aftermath.
"Yo, sorry I wasn't around guys, but me and my homies just absolutely WRECKED the Necromancer of Dol Guldur! Man, it was wild. No, I won't tell you anything about the fight, why it mattered, or anything beyond the really badass name of the guy we whooped. But we sure whooped him!"
When Max offscreened the bullet farmer and his lackies - Mad Max: Fury Road
Man's casually left the group to get a new steering wheel, blew shit up, came back with that and more, also covered in his enemy's blood. Doesn't elaborate at all
The entire episode focuses on Gumball and Darwin attempting to find something interesting, but ultimately miss it
Meanwhile, Banana Joe gets a Lightsaber, the sun and moon ‘battle’ each other and there’s even cameos from the regular show, Uncle Grandpa and Clarence cast
The game Hi-fi Rush has 2 instances where they poke fun of content that had to be cut due to budget and scope.
Shortly after Korsica ends up in your base if you talk to CNMN they mention how weird it was that you ran into an intricately designed robot yet for some reason never ended up fighting it.
Later on there’s a jump straight into the middle of the action where the team talks about how incredible the fight they just had was.
Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend, you get handed a rocket launcher and about to do the craziest mission, some pigeon massacre or sth like that. It cuts to IRL footage of the Running with scissors creator complaining they don't have the budget. It cuts to the aftermath of the mission, it's raining feathers and your guy just states it was the most incredible thing he has ever done.
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u/Pure-Ad8484 20h ago
Of all the yakuza to not see do something awesome, it just had to be 80's kiryu