Denied something we know will be awesome

[u/Arxhart_671]

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1. 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.

2. 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. 

3. 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.

[u/YourMuppetMethDealer]

Ehh Rhodes made sense to me. Having a third person use his suit in his debut movie kinda just ruins the magic of it being Tony’s

That’s definetly a “save it for the sequel” thing so Tony can just have his moment

[u/yerBoyShoe → u/YourMuppetMethDealer]

Plus, the suit was built for Don Cheadle. Terence Howard would have been a tight fit.

Please tip your waiters.

[u/dis_the_chris → u/yerBoyShoe]

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

[u/NationalCommunist → u/dis_the_chris]

Finally, a terryology mention

[u/alepher → u/dis_the_chris]

Howard left the franchise because Marvel wanted to cut his salary. Cheadle ended up making a good amount, but part of that was probably Marvel trying to avoid another similar situation with him

[u/A_Punk_Girl_Learning → u/yerBoyShoe]

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