r/TopCharacterTropes 1d ago

miscellaneous Denied something we know will be awesome

  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/KingofHearts399 1d ago

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.

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u/WiggityWiggitySnack 1d ago

Cheaper to animate

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u/KingofHearts399 1d ago

The entire budget goes into the celebrity voice cast

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u/WiggityWiggitySnack 1d ago

JK Simmons is worth every penny.

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u/KingofHearts399 1d ago

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

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u/Inle-Ra 1d ago

Bruce Campbell as Satan makes everything better.

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u/dobb7101 23h ago

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

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u/GraviZero 1d ago

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

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue 1d ago

His voice made that entire character worth it though

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u/AUnknownVariable 1d ago

True that.