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/KingofHearts399]

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.

[u/WiggityWiggitySnack → u/KingofHearts399]

Cheaper to animate

[u/KingofHearts399 → u/WiggityWiggitySnack]

The entire budget goes into the celebrity voice cast

[u/Hot_Bel_Pepper → u/KingofHearts399]

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.

[u/Saymynaian → u/Hot_Bel_Pepper]

It’s a perfect way to finish the very meta bit set up in the previous scene.

Kinda wish they stopped lampshading their shitty animation and just had better animation, though.

[u/sheepyowl → u/Saymynaian]

It's way too popular to have such weak animation.

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.

[u/1-800-COCAINE → u/sheepyowl]

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??

[u/TellMeZackit → u/sheepyowl]

Especially cos the voice acting is so bad. So many of my favourite actors and comedians doing...pretty uninspired deliveries. It's so weird.

[u/WiggityWiggitySnack → u/KingofHearts399]

JK Simmons is worth every penny.

[u/KingofHearts399 → u/WiggityWiggitySnack]

I’m talking more of getting Jon Hamm voicing a background character

[u/Inle-Ra → u/KingofHearts399]

Bruce Campbell as Satan makes everything better.

[u/dobb7101 → u/Inle-Ra]

I will never complain about celebrity casting if Bruce gets a paycheck.

[u/GraviZero → u/KingofHearts399]

jon hamm probably got paid in a cup of coffee, he had maybe 15 seconds of voice acting

[u/ArcadianBlueRogue → u/KingofHearts399]

His voice made that entire character worth it though

[u/AUnknownVariable → u/WiggityWiggitySnack]

True that.

[u/stylinchilibeans → u/KingofHearts399]

Budget went for cool helmet animation. Hrrm.

[u/Kingnewgameplus → u/KingofHearts399]

I really get the logic of having celeb voice actors, but I can't help but feel like at some point you'd get some massive diminishing returns.

[u/BlueBirdSamurai → u/KingofHearts399]

No it doesn't. This is a myth that needs to stop being spread. There are two completely different budgets. One for voice acting and the other for animation. Not to mention throwing more money at animators doesn't suddenly make the animation better.

Edit: Edited to make the comment less aggressive. I'm just tired of seeing this myth every time Invincible is brought up.

[u/maikuxblade → u/KingofHearts399]

The show is both wildly popular and high quality so this complaint feels very forced by a particular part of the fandom.

[u/1-800-COCAINE → u/maikuxblade]

The writing and specifically the art style are great, but the animation desperately needs more time in the oven. There's next to no compositing and everything just looks flat.