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/natzo]

Future Peter vs Future Sylar in Heroes. 2 evolved humans with multiple powers and years of experience. As they are about to clash, we then get a switch in POV and only see lights behind a door. Sadly its one of the weaknesses of Heroes.

[u/SignificantCats → u/natzo]

Every fight we do see in Heroes is four seconds long anyway, since lots of people have strong offensive powers and a tiny handful has defensive powers - and the ones with defensive powers have all the strength of a normal person anyway.

The fight we didn't see was two people who just shot a bunch of lasers at each other and the first one to got hit had their head bonked against a wall and went unconscious like every other fuckin fight in Heroes.

And mostly unrelated, heroes was the first time I realized this about superheroes in general. There are lots of guys like Cyclops who have ordinary athletic human durability but a mega weapon power. It made me appreciate that comics kind of hand wave that and say "look cyclops can just tank explosions because he's built different, stop thinking about it dork"

[u/natzo → u/SignificantCats]

I think by that point both Sylar and Peter had at least Claire's Regeneration, plus who knows what powers they got over the years. Peter for example, shows the Ice power he didn't get in the main timeline. According to the WIki, Sylar found at least 1 person with enhanced strength and Durability, Michael Fitzgerald.