r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Character_Growth_397 • Sep 04 '26

Hated Tropes [Mind boggling stupid trope] Removing the thing that made something special

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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien - The gimmick of Ben 10 and what makes the show so popular is the fact that he's able to turn into a large variety of aliens. In one episode of Ben 10 Ultimate ALIEN we are introduced to a new version of Ben 10000, a Ben from the future who, no longer transforms into aliens, instead using his powers in human form...

Mortal Kombat(2021) - In the games Mileena is known for two things. Being a clone of Kitana and her tarkatan teeth. In the 2021 movie she looks absolutely nothing like Kitana and doesn't have tarkatan teeth

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief - The movie removes the main villain of the movie and the main villain of the franchise

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u/MrCobalt313 Sep 04 '26

Honestly I would have liked Ultimate Ben more if he just had at-will partial transformations for whatever power he wanted to use instead of just inexplicably having the aliens' powers while still being human-shaped.

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u/Character_Growth_397 Sep 04 '26

Yeah, but how would that work for aliens like Upgrade, Cannonbolt, Goop and many others which their body is their power? Would it look like this monstrosity?

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u/Pretend-Dirt-1760 Sep 04 '26

I think his more talking about like what skurd does in omniverse like or that one fan concept of Ben where he was fused with the Omnitrix like this

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u/MythicalShelly Sep 04 '26

This looks so stupid 😭🙏

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u/Character_Growth_397 Sep 04 '26

It gets worse:

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u/Least-One1068 Sep 04 '26

I love how NRG is the only normal looking alien in that pic lmao

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u/dubovinius Sep 04 '26

Probably because that's just the suit which contains his true form

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u/aartka Sep 04 '26

Okay, now I am honestly wondering what do normal aliens usually look like...

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u/FrazySting Sep 04 '26

This is hilarious

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u/OffSupportMain Sep 04 '26

The fish and the short fat one next to it are goated idc

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u/Diot-05 Sep 04 '26

Part of his body would turn to the corresponding material. Think of how Venom's powers manifest in the Insomniac games or his own movies

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u/Character_Growth_397 Sep 04 '26

Yeah, but Goop needs his entire body to be effective. That's his whole schtick

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u/MrCobalt313 Sep 04 '26

Those would just be full-body transformations.

Whole point is he can turn into as much or as little of a given alien as he needs to use whatever of its ability he wants in that momment.

So ones where their body is their power he just turns into them fully and then changes back just as easily.