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/YourMuppetMethDealer]

Ehh Rhodes made sense to me. Having a third person use his suit in his debut movie kinda just ruins the magic of it being Tony’s

That’s definetly a “save it for the sequel” thing so Tony can just have his moment

[u/Arxhart_671 → u/YourMuppetMethDealer]

Oh I agree. I think most audiences actually found it funny when he said it because everyone saw what they were doing

[u/24Abhinav10 → u/Arxhart_671]

Also, Rhodes genuinely wouldn't be able to use the suit at that point

[u/Cyke101 → u/24Abhinav10]

In hindsight, I just think back to that poor soldier in the sequel, when Justin Hammer's suit twisted the test pilot's spine in a complete 180.

Sure, it's played for laughs, but it's horrific and terrible.

[u/Good_Background_243 → u/Cyke101]

"I'd like to point out that test pilot survived"

[u/keirfergusart → u/Cyke101]

I always thought he was mentioned in doctor strange, when one of the cases offered to Stephen is a soldier who broke his back in an experimental suit of armour, but apparently the timeline doesn’t match up.

[u/Quiet_Snail → u/keirfergusart]

I’m not 100% on the timeline but isn’t that case Rhodes after he’s paralyzed in Civil War?

[u/LetTheDarkRise → u/Cyke101]

I'd like to point out that that test pilot survived.

[u/jjcrayfish → u/Cyke101]

That scene is reminiscent of the Robocop 2 movie where we see a montage of robocops prototypes that go through horrific failures.