1. PragerU's version of Christopher Columbus has him be a slavery defender and have him say "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem.”

2. In The Greatest Showman, P.T Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is portrayed as a charismatic visionary who cares about outcasts and celebrate diversity, when in reality, he’s a cruel businessman who is also a racist and an ableist.

I understand that these scenes must happen in order for the plot to continue but they still make me angry till today whenever I think about them because of how easy it could've been avoided. I doesn't mean these scenes are necessarily bad written, just hella hard to watch.

The Jerusalem Wall / The Singing Crowd (World War Z): Israel literally anticipated the zombie apocalypse and built a flawless, massive wall that kept everyone 100% safe. It was the ultimate safe haven. But then people inside started celebrating and singing on a microphone so loudly that it triggered a zombie pyramid, they didn't even stop until the first zombies started coming through. They have less survival instinct than an amoeba.

Ephialtes (300): The Spartans had the perfect phalanx formation at the Hot Gates. They were slaughtering the Persian army with minimal casualties and could have held them off for so much longer. Then this guy gets his feelings hurt because he can't lift a shield, throws a tantrum, and tells Xerxes about the secret goat path.

Grandma Jong-gil (Train to Busan): The survivors fought through hell and literal waves of infected to secure a safe train car. Sure, the crowd inside was selfish for locking them out at first, but everyone was finally safe inside. Then this grandma, fueled by grief and spite over her sister, decides to open the door and let the infected flood the entire car, killing everyone.

Now to be clear,i am not one of these "anti-woke" losers that complain some people exist,and i am also not the type to complain about changing somenthing in a new version or adaptation,however there are cases where it did ended up being a bad idea.

-In the anime of Cowboy Bebop there is the character Gren,despite being short lived the character is very memorable specially thanks to his tragic story.Basically his story was that he was a soldier from the titan war who was a great friend with Vicious(the main bad guy)after the war he was emprisioned thanks to Vicious who testified against him and he was forced to take a experimental drug that caused him hormonal problems,giving him a feminine appearence and even breasts.

In the Netflix live action,for some reasons they decided Gren was going to be non-binary,which wouldn't be a problem(some people believe he was gay in the anime)if it wasn't for the fact that they also removed all the nuances and complexities that made the character memorable and interesting,instead of a tragic war veteran that was betrayed and had his body changed against his will,Gren is just kinda there.

-The original Rugrats cartoon had the couple Betty and Howard,Betty was a big and masculine woman while Howard was a smaller and nervous man,it was a genuine interesting relationship that stood out from the other couples who were the standard straight couple.

In the new series however they replaced Howard with a woman named Trish,two things,first off why?What was the problem with having a woman being the stronger in a straight relationship?Second why does Hollywood seem to think that every tomboy or masculine woman is a lesbian?

Overall not the worst thing but it is jarring that they had a gender reverse roled that was progressive and decided that wasn't enough.

-Oh man,this one pisses me off the most so i am gonna have to break it down

So back in the late 80s and 90s there was this anime called Saint Seiya also knows as Knights of the zodiac,it tells the story of knights who fight for the Goddess Athena to protect earth,being divided in the golden,silver and bronze knights,the anime was a huge hit in latin america and Europe and while it floped in the US it still has a loyal fanbase.

Being a fan myself i can't recommend it enough,now granted the story does have a fair share of flaws,and that's because the author was honestly just making stuff up as he went along(also a lot of side characters are poorly used or even forgotten about)still it is a great story you should check out

But then a couple of years back Netflix got the rights and decided to a 3D reboot,in this reboot they decided to make the story more "american" to try to bring more american viewers,now i could go on and on a big rant about how that was a bad idea and the execution was so terrible that it made me want to strangle someone but this post is about one specific change.

So Saint Seiya has five main characters,those are Pegasus Seiya,Dragon Shiryu,Cygnus Hyoga,Phoenix Ikki and finally Andromeda Shun.

While the other four characters were the standard masculine and brute male characters who were always ready to throw punches,Shun was smaller,more sensitive and even feminine looking,a pacifist who didn't liked fighting,but don't mistake that for weakness because Shun was loyal to his friends and was extremely powerful.

Then Netflix decided to change Shun into a girl named Shaun.

So wait,you have a male character who goes against every male stereotype and you turn him into just another generic female character?

When asked about it,the showrunner Eugene Son said he made that change because there was no girl in the group and having a all boys group wouldn't be acceptable nowadays

First off that's not true because Athena was also part of the main cast,yeah she wasn't the fighting type but she still helped quite a lot in the story even saving the knights on several occasions,second if you wanted to add a girl to the main group why not use Marin or Shaina?Hell,if you were going to change the story anyway why not turn Seiya sister into a knight?

Thankfully this monstrosity was cancelled(so much for trying to bring more fans)

When a crossover basically does the exact opposite of what the source material clearly lays out because the creators clearly just don’t care about the source material at all.

Emil - Dead by Daylight

The one that inspired this post. Emil as a character is the most hopeful, optimistic, and kind character in the entire NieR series, maybe in all of Yoko Taro’s games (maybe aside from Yonah). His goal is to help as many people as he possibly can and even when he goes through immense suffering he always comes out the other side ready to keep on helping people.

Then Dead by Daylight adds him as a killer skin, because “he looks creepy.” You know, the aspect of the character that’s his biggest struggle, that causes him to be scared of how people will judge him, and that makes him hate himself. That’s what we’ll base our entire concept on. Genius idea.

Iron Giant - Ready Player One

Technically you could argue that it’s not an example because it’s just a part of the game and Wade is the one misunderstanding the source material. To that I raise you that this is actually an in universe example of the trope, with the game including the Iron Giant as a crossover where you can use him as a weapon, thereby misunderstanding the source material.

Also it’s probably the filmmakers completely misunderstanding the source material/not caring as well.

[Liked Example]: Kano (Mortal Kombat). In the original Mortal Kombat game, Kano was depicted as a bald Japanese-American, lacking most of his well known personality. In the movie, actor Trevor Goodard instead portrayed Kano as a scruffy haired English guy with a cockney accent. After the movie became popular and wildly successful, this version of Kano was put into the game as a scruffy haired Australian with an Australian accent.

[Disliked Example]: Ms. Marvel, the new Mutant.

So back in 2014 when Ms. Marvel was created, the mutants were on a decline. Marvel was trying to use them less, owing to Fox having the movie rights for x-men. In the x-men's place, Marvel made the Inhumans the discount mutant, having their terragenesis mist give people powers, like Moon Girl and Kamala Khan.

The TV show adaptation, owing to neither of these groups having been put into the main mcu, went ahead and made her a mutant. Marvel then wanted to put that into the main MCU, while also keeping the characters history.

In 2022's Amazing Spiderman run (written by Zeb Wells), Kamala Khan is violently murdered, reveals her secret identity to Spider-Man, and dies surrounded by basically strangers. A few months later she's resurrected, where it's revealed that she's been an inhuman mutant hybrid the whole time, leading her to join mutant teams and hang out with mutants.

I dislike this change, because it reduces Kamala's unique identity, and traps her in the background cast of the x-men, where 99% of mutant characters are stuck.

They fake being kind and generous in order to take advantage of people. But in the process, they find themselves genuinely invested in their mark's well-being. And ends up becoming a genuinely better in the process.

1). Klaus:
Jesper is sent by his rich father to a far-north island. And told he will be disowned if he does not get the townsfolk there to adopt the postal service. Feigning charity, Jesper gets a local man to donate his toys to any kid that writes a letter asking for one. That way, it seems like the whole town has started using the postal service his father runs.
Jesper makes an offhand comment about only "good children" getting toys. So, the kids start doing good deeds and set off a series of events squashing the town's long-held blood feud. And Jesper ends up genuinely invested in making everyone happy.

2). Mob Psycho 100:
Reigen is a fake psychic. Soon after starting his business, he comes across a kid with genuine psychic powers. Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama is terrified of his own abilities so he leaps at the opportunity to be "mentored." Reigen calls Mob if his clients turn out to be actually haunted. He is paid sub-minimum wage for his time.
But Reigen gives Mob genuinely good advice that keeps the (potentially city-destroying) esper humble and well-adjusted. Unlike of the villains, who try to use their psychic powers to take over the world. He even admits his lies to Mob at the end of the series.

3). All Dogs Go to Heaven:
Charlie takes advantage of an orphan who can talk to different animal species. Mostly to cheat at gambling. But he ends up selflessly sacrificing himself for her.

- In the early 2000s Scooby-Doo movies, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played Daphne, and as such is made to be a lot more of a fighter part as a subversion of Daphne's role as a damsel in distress but also as a nod to Buffy.

- In Fate/Grand Order, the character of Kriemhild is played by Aoi Koga, who lately had played Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and as such during the Valentine's Day event, where the Servants give something for the protagonist, Kriemhild's segment is instead a Kaguya-sama skit with her panicking wanting to make something for Siegfried while the protagonist plays the role of Hayasaka.

1. Chinatown (1974)

Main character and PI Jake Gittes risks literally everything to help Evelyn escape her abusive father, Noah Cross. Instead, the police shoot Evelyn dead just as she tries to flee, leaving Cross to walk away completley unpunished. Gittes is pulled away, completley defeated "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

1. The great silence (1968)

A western where there's no happy ending. The silence, who's been proven time and time again in the movie to be a total badass, fights to protect a group of desperate outlaws and a grieving widow from a ruthless band of bounty hunters led by Loco. But silence is ambushed, shot through the hands, with his literal dying breath he chooses to still try and save the people instead of running away. Loco stares into his eyes and brutally executes him. His gang to massacre the remaining townspeople and ride away. STILL MY FAVORITE WESTERN.

I wouldn't want every movie to end like this. In fact, these kinds of endings leave me devestated for a time. But when a director has the BALLS to pull these kinds of endings, especially in genres that don't have them (westerns for example) they usually kick ass

Most of the time there’s a magical deal maker in fiction they make it so it fucks the person up in some way or form, either slightly like asking for money but it’s in a different currency, or massively like the classic bringing someone back from the dead.

Through there are times where the one doing the deal is surprisingly fair and honest about it, possibly even including how to sidestep the negative aspects of the deal.

Death/Dream of the Endless (Sandman): In Sandman the main character is the personification of dreams, Dream, while he finds himself after being imprisoned for decades. One of the stories we see is a flashback in the late 1300s, where Dream and his sister Death are in a random English pub because Death wants Dream to take a break from work. While there they overhear a guy called Hob Gattling who says that death happens because people just follow everyone else and how he’ll live forever, hearing this Dream and Death decide to make it true by giving him immortality for a bit of a laugh. After a hundred years Dream and Hob meet again where he explains that as long as he wants to live Hob will be immortal, but if he wants Death can take him at, so unlike most immortality if he was trapped in an inescapable space Death will come for him.

Patrick (Supernatural) Patrick is a near millennia old witch who plays games and bets on people’s lifespans to stay young, with him using winning as shown in the opening of the episode where a guy died of rapid aging. But he’s surprisingly honest about it, he explains the rules to anyone that wants to play and if they win they do de-age, we saw this when an 80 something won and he was about 20 again, he’ll even let you win if he thinks the reason you want more time is nice, such as an old Jewish man wanting to see his granddaughters wedding. He also doesn’t cheat at the game it’s just that he’s been playing games for so long he’s just really good at it.

Cooties (2014): The way the zombie virus is spread is through contaminates chicken nuggets. In the scene where a kid bites the nugget, green ooze can be seen coming from the nugget. When I saw this, it made me so violently ill. It was so bad I couldnt eat chicken for months because I would think of this scene and throw up.

Borrasca (2015): The ending of the story involves an incestual prison encampment of female slaves from a town in the middle of nowhere. During the ending, the story describes how the funny best friend of the main character gets brutually paralysed by the father of the main character. The description was excruciantingly haunting that I totaled 9 1/4 hrs of sleep for a whole week because of how graphic the ending was.

Just characters with unique reloads. That's it.

Equilibrium: Clerics wrist mags

Various games - Iraqi Reload: A few games have this reload, including Call of Duty and The Finals. I would've put The Finals version here but I couldn't find a gif of it.

Battlefield Hardline - Various reloads: Various guns have a chance for a unique reload, these are two of my favorites.

Battlefield 1 - Double Barrel: The sawed off has a chance to mimic the reload from the Classic Doom double barel reload

In a world where us trans girls are made out to be disgusting predators and often represented by the caricature “man in a dress stereotype” in media or played for shock value or gross out value, it’s really nice when we get media where the trans girl is just a normal girl and is actually cute and friendly and someone you would actually feel safe around.

Madeline - Celeste

Bridget - Guilty Gear

1 doctor who

2 superman

Kisaragi is a clumsy secretary who's clutzy and always knocking things over, but she wants nothing more than to help her Boss (who she totally has a crush on) and become the best secretary in all of Japan. She thinks she's in a cute romcom manga.

Unfortunately, Kisaragi is from Elfen Lied. She ends up getting lost and stumbling into Lucy during an escape, who takes her hostage, kills her, and uses her body as a shield to escape. She didn't even know what her place of work did.

(The part that keeps it funny at least in the manga is she NEVER breaks from romcom character. When she hears gunfire in the hallway she clutzly investigates unaware what the funny noises are, when she bumps into Lucy she's just concerned about her head injury and then slips on a puddle of blood from one of her victims, when she's held hostage she just asks her boss to help her, when she's being told they're going to have to kill her to stop Lucy she just says she wants to be useful to her boss)

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Frank Grimes is a man who has lived a life of tragedy and hardship, abandoned by his family, crippled by injuries for years, he had to work hard to get an education and earn a living. Grimes seems to think he exists in a realistic drama setting where he's been through his initiating event and his hard work will gradually get him a better life in a calm setting. He even gets a TV spotlight of his hard life.

Unfortunately, Frank Grimes is from The Simpsons. Rather than get promoted when his spotlight gets the attention of the local nuclear power plant owner, Grimes arrives to find to his alarm a dog has gotten the job instead and he'll have to start from the grunt work.

Then, instead of finding realistic atomic employees, he finds Homer Simpson, a bumbling idiot who constantly nearly kills himself and yet fails upward constantly. Not only does Homer not leave him alone, but Frank eventually discovers Homer lives in a massive house and has done a ton of impressive things like meeting the president or going to space despite his lack of IQ or work ethic. This eventually prompts Frank into a psychotic break when his attempt to humiliate Homer is laughed off in cartoonish fashion.

He does not get the genres immunity to harm, however, ultimately dying via electrocution.

This one is played moreso to darkly answer "What would happen if a realistic, jaded person, ended up in Springfield USA?"

Aptronyms are characters whose name is heavily symbolic or represent them as a character. Sometimes it is a subtle play on words, sometimes it’s just a clunky transliteration. Either way, it can help characterize a character and provide more allegorical depth. Authors must be careful not to delve into the realm of cliche, though.

1. Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter series) His name means Evil Dragon, and he tries really hard to live up to his name.

[Many commenters have pointed out that Darth Vader is not a true aptronym. I stand corrected .]

1. Darth Vader (Star Wars series) His name means Dark Father, which cleverly conceals one of the biggest reveals in cinema history.

2. Cthulhu (Lovecraft mythos) Cthulhu may just sound like a nonsense syllable, unpronounceable by a human mouth. The name is derived from the word “cthonic” which means a being that lives under the earth or in the underworld, so an ancient and terrible god that lies dreaming in death at the bottom of the ocean would definitely fit the description.

1. In Zoolander when Hansel and Derek are in disguise, they are played by other actors. Derek removes his face makeup off screen so Ben Stiller is never seen in blackface except for his neck and ears

2. In The Neighbors the Weaver family is picking a Halloween costume. During the montage of them trying on options the parents and both daughters are wearing semi formal clothing (business suit, pantsuits etc) looking in the mirror looking disappointed, while Max is dressed as a dog. After a beat one of them says “No one is going to be able to tell we’re the Obamas”. The youngest daughter innocently suggests painting their faces and the parents immediately tell her no. (I hate that I couldn’t find a clip or a picture of this)

3. One episode of Ellsbeth included a plot point about a model being blackmailed with the negatives from a “cultures around the world” photoshoot where she was in makeup to portray multiple races. The photos are discussed but never seen.

4. In an episode of the Dick Van Dyke show, Rob and Laura accidentally dye their hands black the morning before attending a gala for “The Committee for Interracial Understanding”. They wear fancy gloves to hide it but then reveal their predicament when Rob is giving a speech.

5. Similar to Zoolander, in Master of Disguise when Fabbrizzio is disguised as Michael Johnson, he is played by Michael Johnson & his exit from the disguise is covered in a camera flash as he holds up the constitution he just stole.

Darker hypersexual society. Free love world that dont feel free. From media that point ISN'T fetish

1) Brave new world -world state. World build on pleasure. People have orgies in almost religious way. If you have sex with only one person for long time you'll be seen as not normal. Even being introvert is strange here. All movies are erotic. And children must have "erotic plays".

2) Malice@doll -place ,where story happens. Our characters are sex bots (MC is " Giving kiss") . After something happens there is now no humans around, yet sex bot still keep their old empty routine. It even in their design. Then creature attack MC.. And things get even more wierd.

A terrifying alien, monster, etc. is adopted by humans. Despite their incredible destructive power or explicitly violent nature, love conquers all.

1). Superman:
In at least two versions (the 2025 Superman movie and My Adventures with Superman), Kryptonians are conquerors. And even if they weren't, Clark develops near-unstoppable powers. Part of it is his inherent nature, but the values instilled in him by his parents (the Kents) are one of the main reasons he's an incorruptible beacon of good.

2). Dragon Ball:
The Saiyan Kakarot was sent to Earth as a baby to wipe out its dominant life. But thanks to the intervention of Son Gohan (and some handy brain damage), Kakarot was raised as "Son Goku." A slightly-feral but otherwise good natured kid.

3). Lilo & Stitch:
Experiment 626 was designed to be destructive. But thanks to his human family, he learns he can be more.

4). Hellboy:
Hellboy is supposed to be the harbinger of an apocalypse. But he was raised by a professor of the occult and turned out fine.

5). Black Clover:
An unnamed, low-tier devil ended up in the human world. He is briefly adopted by a human woman and showered with love. This motivates Liebe to help the protagonist stop the other devils.

6). Fullmetal Alchemist:
"Pride" was created from the original homunculus, the Dwarf in the Flask. He represents his father's arrogance and does not value human life in the slightest.
After having his foundational bank of human souls depleted, Pride is reduced to a small child. He is raised by a human mother without any of his memories, and by all accounts is an empathetic child.

Basically, really intimidating nicknames used instead of birthnames, the likes of which aren't intimidating at all.

Title taken from this video (timestamped).

• LORD VOLDEMORT (Harry Potter): otherwise known as Tom.
• MISTER INCREDIBLE (The Incredibles): otherwise known as Bob. My man was genuinely named Robert Regular lmao
• THE SON OF GOD (New Testament): otherwise known as Yeshua, an extremely common name back then.

Hal Jordan (Green Lantern): Civilian life in shambles, overworked superhero life, spiralling mental health for years and unable to cope with the fact that he was'nt able to save his city because he was on another mission, Hal loses his mind, literally trying to bring back the dead, killing the entire corp and later literally erasing space and time to rewrite the universe

Zero (To Be Hero X): Being the first hero of the world and being worshipped for being so since he was 10, Zero achieved Godhood as a 15 year old but ultimately the pressure got to him and he went mad at 17 and nearly caused the end of humanity.

1. Agent Hitler (Danger 5)

2. New Jersey Resident (SNL)

3. Jackie Daytona (What We do in the Shadows)

Odin ( MCU ) In his first appareance he very conveniently falls into the Odinsleep, which allows Loki to rule Asgard at his place and all the events that we see in the first Thor movie happen. In TDW he arrived again very conveniently after the dark elves had already invaded Asgard and killed the queen. In the same movie he gets put under a potent enchantment by Loki that wiped out his memories and sent him to earth. And in Thor Ragnarok he dies of old age, which allows Hela to escape her imprisonment and eventually led to the destruction of Asgard.

Captain Marvel ( MCU ) In Avengers Infinity War when Thanos was planning to wipe out half the population of the Universe where was she? Exactly. And in Avengers Endgame she appears at the very end of the final battle, very convenient if you ask me?.

Proximity to humanity makes a non-human a better person.

1). Invincible:
Omni-Man finds himself too changed by his time on Earth to continue its conquest.

2). Dragon Ball:
Vegeta goes from someone who wipes out entire civilizations to a dad hanging out with his half-human children.

3). The Good Place:
A demon whose whole purpose is to torture human souls ends up being a good person.

4). Resident Alien:
An alien kills "Harry" and assumes his identity. By the end of the series, he is willing to admit he is fond of the species and a better person.

5). Kubo and the Two Strings:
Humanity is described as having an unstoppable warmth that entices the otherwise emotionless immortals.

6). Homestuck:
Trolls are from an extremely violent planet. A hours of contact with the human protagonists makes them question their own civilization's sense of morality.

7). Ben 10:
In Alien Force, an invading "Highbreed" alien is trapped on a desert planet with Ben. By the end of their trek, he no longer hates Ben.

Cripple wolf- a crippled Vietnam veteran who is unaware he's a werewolf goes on a massive passenger plane dedicated to fetishes. He accidentally turns into a feral werewolf that slaughters hundreds of people and fights a superhero with the punching force of a panzer lll and turns multiple people including a baby into werewolf's, he runs people over and other shenanigans. It's a hilarious short story that's worth checking out.

Ass goblins of Auschwitz- ass goblins invade kidland a relatively peaceful planet full of kids. The MCs are conjoined twins who along with other kids are turned into slaves to make food, bicycles, cider and alot more out of dead kids. The conjoined twins are experimented on to become more monstrous in appearance. IMO this book sucks but has a bat shit insane story with the ass goblins wanting to gain childhood since they're all born adults and are jealous of the kids innocents and happiness.

SpongeBob SquarePants-Pickles:If a customer is unsatisfied with their order (such as claiming a Krabby Patty is missing its pickles), they are entitled to a $2.00 full refund. Bubble Bass uses this guarantee by falsely claiming SpongeBob forgot the pickles on his complex order.

The Middle-Heck on a Hard Body:Sue Heck enters an endurance contest at Ehlert Motors where contestants must keep their hand on a car to win it, only to learn after winning that the prize was actually a trip to Disney World.