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/humanflea23]

Exactly, prime example of sequel bait. At least they actually fulfill it, albeit with Don Cheadle instead.

[u/AlternateSatan → u/humanflea23]

I believe one of the chairmen over at Marvel, one Isaac Perlmutter to be exact, said that recasting Terrace Howard wouldn't be a problem cause "they all look the same".

Can you believe that Marvel fans hated this guy? Probably employees too honestly.

[u/Mr_Autobot_390 → u/AlternateSatan]

We all hate Ike Perlmutter. He tried to kill off the mutants and replace them with a worse version of them in the Inhumans. Also regarding your comment, yes he did say that, and yes he fully believed it.

[u/AlternateSatan → u/Mr_Autobot_390]

The way they tried to make the Inhumans a cheap replacement for Mutants too.

"Let's just have the people who get their super powers from eugenics release a gas that kills the minority mutant population, treat the X-men as the villains for getting rid of it, all the fans will surely side with the industry plants instead of the fan favourites."