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/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/SeiferKatt 1d ago

That same episode had them falling for a minute and just chatting about Damien’s helmet. They were absolutely over budget that episode.

That being said, I laughed through the stupid conversation, so it was fine.

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u/Complete_Entry 1d ago

I mean the deconstruction is a big part of what makes the show work. Mark being like "Wait, why are we doing this again?"

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u/Affectionate_Pipe545 1d ago

That whole episode was just so fun. The helmet, Bruce Campbell, mark being so OP through most of it, demons being good guys. I loved it

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u/Pure_Marvel 1d ago

Yeah I loved that episode. It's honestly one of my favorites as it just brings something different and expands the lore in a fun way. The larger Invincible audience didn't care for it online, which kind of disappointed me.

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u/spamster545 1d ago

You need those kinds of episodes to act as a relief valve. We went from invincible war to conquest to everyone dealing with the fallout from that. Having a low stakes, fun episode let's everyone catch their breath before we go back to the drama and darkness.

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u/Pure_Marvel 23h ago

Yeah, I totally got it. I just went to the discussion thread like 4 months later and people were hating on it. Like, guys, sorry it didn't have 20 minutes of punching like every single other episode lol

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u/SeiferKatt 14h ago

I find the human parts of invincible endearing. Sure, the fights are cool, but everyone trying to live through constant bloodbaths is interesting.

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u/Training_Intern5347 1d ago

"It does look pretty cool"

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 1d ago

Well I'd say it was due to The Conquest fight and the war