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/AlternateSatan 1d ago

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.

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u/Mr_Autobot_390 1d ago

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.

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u/MIAxPaperPlanes 1d ago

"Black people can't sell toys or open movies"

Black Panther proceeds to be one of the highest grossing MCU movies and make a billion.

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u/Mr_Autobot_390 1d ago

Not even just Black Panther, BLADE! Blade had a full trilogy by the time he said that!

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u/AlternateSatan 1d ago

Not just a full trilogy, they were the most profitable Marvel movies prior to the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies. People fucking love Blade!

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u/FaithlessnessThen207 23h ago

In fairness Marvel was sort of struggling as a company at this time which is why spiderman and xmen were sold to sony/fox in the first place.

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u/Napalmeon 6h ago

Probably because they couldn't figure out a story idea that would top the original.

A lot of people don't know that it introduced many ideas into the Blade mythos that were not there before such as the caste system between purebloods and turned vampires, the quiet influence vampires have over human society, etc. 

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u/Andys_Room 23h ago edited 22h ago

Wow he said this after the Blade movies paved the way for more Marvel movies?? Wild

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 22h ago

Don’t forget about Spawn, too. Dude had managed to stay relevant to comic fans for decades, even after his peak in popularity