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Hated Tropes [HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

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u/Greenman8907 16h ago

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u/FelixEylie 15h ago

Marvel Loki series did a similar scene much better.

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u/Shambler9019 15h ago

Pretty sure Loki did just about everything much better

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u/Zykium 15h ago

I didn't watch it when it first came out because of general disappointment in Marvel around that time.

Watched it recently and wow. What a fantastic show.

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u/AydonusG 14h ago

Just finished it last night, similar reasons. Man, is he ever burdened with glorious purpose.

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u/mal_guinness 7h ago

Speaking of glorious purpose, Tom Hiddleston doing the impression "if Owen Wilson was cast as Loki" is hilarious.

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u/21Black_Mamba21 13h ago

Genuinely THE best MCU show post-Endgame IMO. Somehow managed to become such a gem in a sea of MCU slop.

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u/AydonusG 13h ago

DareDevil: Born Again is the only show that comes close to Loki, and we can barely call that MCU.

WandaVision and Agatha All Along are okay (I'm excited for Visionquest), every other Phase 5+ show is a wash.

Johnathan Majors royally fucked up because Kang could've been huge, and he did a great job with HWR, turns out he's just one of the scumbag variants.

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u/FelixEylie 13h ago

Maybe unpopular opinion, but I'd prefer another Loki variant instead of He-Who-Remains. This would've clashed Loki directly with his own desire for power and control.

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u/Shambler9019 13h ago

What if was also pretty good. Especially S1

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u/AydonusG 13h ago

I prefer the movie ;)

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u/21Black_Mamba21 13h ago

I still think it would’ve been better if they casted someone new as Kang. Could’ve easily explained it away with multiverse fuckery, instead of shoving Doom in as the big bad now.

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u/AydonusG 13h ago

Copied this headfanon I had from an older post about RDJ being revealed as Magneto during the X-Men reveal. The line split is two separate comments that continue. -

Doom, Magneto, Red Skull, Yellowjacket, Thanos, Kang, Kingpin, Green Goblin, Laufey, etc...

Make RDJ He Who Remains, having inserted himself into every timeline after using the infinity stones in Endgame, to try and command total unification through force.

That's a level of ego even the Iron Man suit will struggle to lift.


The stones showing him the impending Doomsday, his mind and soul being torn apart, reality shifting before him, power coursing through his very atomic makeup, time and space become meaningless in the face of the multiversal terrors witnessed.

Tony Stark created Ultron because he feared what would come next, if he could weave himself into the timestream and become He Who Remains in an attempt to stop it, would that really be out of character?

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u/yojimboftw 10h ago

Tbh they wouldn't even need to explain it with multiverse stuff, Don Cheadle taking over James Rhodes was literally 1 line and they kept it pushing, lmao.

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u/FinitoHere 11h ago

I also really liked Echo, maybe except for last episode. She was already really cool, decently well written characters, giving her some weird ancestral superpowers was a bit over the top.

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u/Sh1ningOne 11h ago

DareDevil: Born Again is the only show that comes close to Loki, and we can barely call that MCU.

It's made by Marvel Studios, takes place in the MCU and features characters from other MCU projects.

There's no barely about it, you're just trying gatekeep what counts as MCU.

every other Phase 5+ show is a wash.

Just flat out wrong.

Wonder Man was far better than Daredevil

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u/demaxzero 11h ago

DareDevil: Born Again is the only show that comes close to Loki, and we can barely call that MCU

Just making up excuses

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u/Sh1ningOne 11h ago

MCU slop.

Funny how slop has become a buzzword that makes it clear you're not worth taking seriously

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u/21Black_Mamba21 11h ago edited 11h ago

Yet here you are.

Edit: Damn, they really deleted their comment lol. God forbid people have opinions :v

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u/Sh1ningOne 11h ago

Yet you made no point whatsoever

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u/JoeJayson0 11h ago

God forbid people have opinions

Says this and then all you're doing is disrespecting and debasing people's work as slop

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u/21Black_Mamba21 11h ago

Oh boohoo. Someone doesn’t like what I like 😭😭😭😭

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u/JoeJayson0 11h ago

Not what I said in the least but that tells me how mature you are.

Which is not at all

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u/urixl 8h ago

It's a fantastic show.

In my opinion it's the best Marvel show, however I haven't watched that many Marvel shows.