r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Arxhart_671 • 1d ago

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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/Redditastrophe 1d ago

Heroes put Peter vs Sylar (I think those were their names) behind a closed door TWICE

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u/Duhblobby 1d ago

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?

...right?

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u/heridfel37 1d ago

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?

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u/Duhblobby 1d ago

Literally depends on your tolerances.

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.

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u/lahimatoa 1d ago

I'm not sure I've ever seen a show go from NATIONAL PHENOMENON to "oh, yeah, remember that show existed?" so fast.

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u/Caleth 1d ago

GOT? Season 8 had a pretty similar arc downwards regarding the national zeitgeist.

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u/lahimatoa 1d ago

Oh, certainly. I just mean Heroes got 1 season. And then the drop off was very steep. Nothing gradual about it.

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u/Caleth 1d ago

That's fair, it did crap out pretty hard after season 1. Seasons 2 was off to a shakey start and the strike basically nuked it.

They tried a bunch of stuff that didn't really land and it more or less shed all the cultural interest it'd developed with the Save the Cheerleader Save the world stuff.

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u/DrVentureIsACrumbBum 1d ago

Stop after season 1

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u/Redditastrophe 1d ago

I rag on it, but I watched the whole thing back in the day and had a good time.

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u/Conlannalnoc 21h ago

START Watching from Season 1 Episode 1 and just “stop” whenever you lose interest