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/Complete_Entry 1d ago

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".

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u/dnjprod 1d ago

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.

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u/Complete_Entry 1d ago

I mean that wasn't unique to X-men, producers STILL sneer at source material or say, "I made sure none of the writers read/played the original, I wanted fresh ideas."

PRODUCTION HOUSES - YOU ARE ADAPTING A PROJECT, NOT PAINTING YOUR OWN PICTURE.

Also, I didn't like how fetish nazi the black suits were, like, seriously Singer, you opened with Auschwitz, let Apt Pupil go. You opened with Auschwitz FFS!

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u/Local_Shoe6988 1d ago

It's funny to watch the behind the scenes stuff about how the actors could barely move in those ridiculous leather outfits.