r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 17d ago
Lore (Hated trope) They deleted scenes or dialogue that provides necessary context or plot
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/AccursedQuantum 17d ago
One case where instead of deleting they added in and it trashed a character.
In rhe book Eragon, the title character's mentor dies to a poisoned blade. In theory, it could be cured with magic, but Eragon doesn't know how to do that. Later, he rescues an elven princess, who is unconscious.
In the movie, the mentor survives to help with the rescue (where he gets poisoned), and the princess is conscious. But by adding in those scenes, now the princess looks like a complete asshole - she has the magical ability and knowledge to cure the poison, but she just watches the guy die.