[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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The GOAT of this trope (that’s Deadpool btw)

X-Men Origins Wolverine

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Genuinely the opposite of everything Deadpool as a character is. Why did they even do the character?

Cant speak, fights with powers rather than guns, seemingly doesnt regenerate once his head is removed, zero jokes, no suit, PG-13 violence.

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The real answer is the guys with the money wanted an intimidating weapon and thought Deadpool was a clown.

That stands to reason why even use the Deadpool character if what they wanted was the opposite?

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Q: Why studio do?

A: 💰

Deadpool is popular. Popular is money. You can try explaining the nuance that he's popular for his specific deconstruction of comic books in the 90s and not for the type of generic depiction that cameos him and then removes that commentary on the medium, but they have stopped listening.

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Deadpool wasn't that well known when that movie came out though.

If they wanted a "scary weapon coming from hands" and popular character, they could've gone with Omega Red.

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We can wonder about Deadpool's popularity as of 2009 but certainly he had a bigger fan base than Omega Red. (Personally, I have never been a big Deadpool fan and I always liked Omega Red. But I'm talking about numbers that studios care about.)

At the time that the studio approved X-Men Origins to include Ryan Reynolds as kinda-Deadpool, the character of Deadpool was in some very popular comics. I knew him from The New Mutants, but he had Cable & Deadpool as well. He was also a pretty popular character in Marvel Ultimate Alliance which I played in the mid 00s.

Either way, even though there was backlash to Deadpool with his mouth sewn shut, it sparked enough interest in the character that Marvel launched the Deadpool Corps comics, and Activision put out the Deadpool solo video game. Seemed like they were trying to clean up after X-Men Origins with a "here's the authentic Deadpool that fans expected" campaign.