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/_potatofromChaldea45 3d ago

Positive Example: Marvel

In the movie, he has more Infinity Stones than this trailer shot.

This specific instance is a good bit of false advertising. But I think Marvel's also guilty of screwing with audiences. For example, the trailers for Iron Man 3 and Avengers 2 were much more mature/darker than what we got. Iron Man 3 also hyped up the Ben Kingsley Mandarin, and we all know what happened next.

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u/SlouchyGuy 3d ago

Iron Man 3 also hyped up the Ben Kingsley Mandarin

That part wasn't a false advertising, he was treated as a Mandarin in the movie itself until the reveal. It's a twist within a movie and the trailer not spoiling it

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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 3d ago

Marvel fans talking about trailers should never use the term "false advertising"