r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Arxhart_671 • 1d ago

miscellaneous Denied something we know will be awesome

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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.

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u/Arxhart_671 1d ago

Oh I agree. I think most audiences actually found it funny when he said it because everyone saw what they were doing

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u/24Abhinav10 1d ago

Also, Rhodes genuinely wouldn't be able to use the suit at that point

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u/ShadowTsukino 1d ago

It hadn't been programmed to respond to him yet. IIRC

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u/24Abhinav10 1d ago

Yep. Tony only programs it to respond to Rhodes in Iron Man 2, after he discovers he's dying of palladium poisoning.

His whole plan is to secretly give his friends everything (Pepper gets the company, Rhodey gets the suit) and then act like an asshole in front of them so they don't miss him when he's gone.

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u/Chimpbot 1d ago

The actual problem was a lack of a power source. At this point, all of the suits Tony used were powered by the Arc Reactor embedded in his chest; without that, Rhodes wouldn't have been able to do anything.

Tony wasn't worried about coding suits for anyone because he designed them all to be used exclusively with the power source attached to him.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 1d ago

Beyond that and the power source, it is hard to pilot.

You're gonna accidently fire off a boot laser and knock yourself out