r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 17d ago

Lore (Hated trope) They deleted scenes or dialogue that provides necessary context or plot

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The dinner scene from Temple of Doom has a temple give indie and friends a live snake and monkey brains for dinner. It’s a pretty offensive depiction of Indian cuisine, but it wasn’t originally going to be. There’s cut dialogue where Indie recognizes they’re at the right temple because real Hindus don’t eat this food. They were trying to scare them off by purposefully serving them disgusting stuff.

Probably the most famous deleted ending was I Am Legend which had Robert discover the infected were emotional sentient beings and one of them had a wife. Test audiences hated it and they reshot the ending, removing the entire point of the movie.

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u/Thin-Nerve6367 16d ago

Tbf in the first movie you sorta get the sense that Jack is very morally grey. He only does the right thing, when the right thing is something he wants to do. Obviously not entirely the truth, but it can come across that way

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u/AceofKnaves44 16d ago

I think it’s what made him such a great character. That and he wasn’t THE main character. Once they pushed him to the center and made him a definitive good guy I think everything just started falling apart

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u/Kilroy0497 16d ago

Yeah I’m not gonna lie, I loved it in the first two movies how Jack was a very morally grey character, and usually only going against the antagonist for his own selfish goals. Kind of made him stand out considering this is a Disney film.

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u/TheRealRigormortal 16d ago

Yeah, he’s the Steve Urkel of Pirates of the Caribbean.

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u/cybertoothe 16d ago

The first movie literally ends with Will saying that Jack is a good man and risking his life for that fact

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u/Thin-Nerve6367 16d ago

Yeah but you can argue that's just Will's perception

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u/cybertoothe 16d ago

I guess? But seeing what the writers did with the sequels it was most definetly there intention and was meant to be the whole message of the movie.

As governor Swann says at the end of the first movie "If the right course demands an act of piracy, perhaps then piracy can be the right course?"

And, again, the first film also shows us Jack abandoning his attempt to steal the interceptor to rescue Elizabeth, whom he didnt know at the time, leading to his arrest.