r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MeepMan324 • 3d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) False advertising

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  1. The marketing makes it seem like the movie is about Austin (the unbreakable boy) who is autistic, but rather it's about his prick of a father who caused a drunk driving accident
  2. The talking kangaroo was included in all of the trailers and the main poster but was only a hallucination and was seen for like 30 seconds (Kangaroo Jack)
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u/Fish_N_Chipp 3d ago

The famous Dead Island trailer that showed a family on holiday being torn apart by zombies with the whole trailer being in reverse which set the tone for the game being a very gritty and serious story. And then what actually came out was a lot more lighthearted and jokey (this was apparently because they’d hired a separate company to make the trailer without giving them too much detail on the game’s actual tone)

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u/Randy_Magnums 3d ago

Thing is, you absolutely find traces of tragedies around the game. Story-corpses and notes and letters tell grim stories on the island and I loved that. But also the protagonists were goofballs. Both aspects worked for me really well together and I loved the game back in the day. I had a lot of fun with the sequel too (not riptide, the real one).

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u/Spectre1442 3d ago

One thing that stuck with me is an early game encounter with a survivor in a pool, filled with blood, talking about how he had to kill his family because they would not stop trying to attack him. Guy is devastated

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u/Bamzooki1 3d ago

He’s screaming at you about how you’d have done it too, trying to rationalise a situation he had no control over as a mental defense mechanism that clearly isn’t working. To make matters worse, you can’t help him. He’s got to get through it on his own.