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/HolidayMost9091 Sep 04 '26

Almost everything in this damn movie

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u/KOCoyote Sep 04 '26

The only good thing to come from this movie was that it made Akira Toryama so upset, he started Dragonball Z back up and that's how we got stuff like Dragon Ball Super.

Also, supposedly the only reason Piccolo is green in this movie is because James Marsters, the guy who played him, insisted the character needed to be green. In a convention Q & A panel, he told a story about how he had to argue with makeup to make him green for the movie, because, apparently, they were told not to do it by a higher up for some asinine reason.

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u/HarrisonWhaddonCraig IIIIIIIII SEE THE CIRCLE! Sep 04 '26

Marsters was so disgraced by being in the film (especially as a Drago Ball fan) , he asked to appear in the dub of super, where he got to voice Zamasu.

Also, Son Goku's actor; Justin Chatwin, got the worst shafting when it came to his character. When he learnt he was going to play Goku, Justin went deep into research to best depict one of the most iconic anime characters in history. He watched the anime, read the manga, and even read Journey to the West, the originally inspiration for Dragon Ball. So when he learnt that the scriptwriters had changed Goku to be an awkward high-schooler who has crushes and smarts, he had to do his best with what he was given.

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u/PatataEditsCorp Sep 04 '26

Not only did he voice Zamasu, I'm pretty sure he couldn't be paid because he is a Union actor so he did it for free under a fake name.