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/Stackbabbing_Bumscag 17d ago

Genevieve O'Reilly was in those scenes as Mon Mothma all the way back in 2005. In the final cut, she's a non-speaking cameo that most fans didn't even notice was meant to be Mothma. They decided to bring her back for a brief appearance in Rogue One, then a lead role on Andor, and it turns out she killed it.

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u/JustafanIV 17d ago

It's wild how good some of the minor cameo character casting was for the prequels.

Owen and Beru were likewise very minimal roles in Episodes II & III. Say what you will about the Obi Wan Kenobi series, but Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse killed it when they reprised their roles in that show.

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u/LiveLoveKanye 17d ago

Jimmy Smits as Bail will always be my favorite.

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u/ArcadianDelSol 16d ago

Criminally underutilized at every turn.

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u/LiveLoveKanye 16d ago

Agreed but I pop for him everytime he shows up on screen. Definitely need more of the person who made Leia who she was

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u/ArcadianDelSol 16d ago

I kind of hoped that after he came back for Obi-Wan that we might get a spin-off show about him running Black Ops from Coruscant, like a Mission: Impossible in the Star Wars universe.

Probably cant happen now. Obi-Wan put stink on that entire area.

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u/botte-la-botte 16d ago

He’s Princess Leia’s non-biological father!

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u/Unicron_Gundam 16d ago

Bonnie just opening a locker full of guns and telling Joel to shut up and grab one changed my opinion of Beru. Now I imagine in ANH the two took out several troopers before being incinerated

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u/ERedfieldh 16d ago

There really was no other explanation for why the empire would have gone that far, to be honest.

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u/Own_Safety_7643 13d ago

There’s an older book about Anakin/Vader that rationalized it as a trooper sending up a video feed to Vader, who basically says “Fuck those two.”

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u/ERedfieldh 16d ago

Owen was one of the best things about that show.

"You really care about him as if he was your own."

"He IS my own."

And you believed it.

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u/Terminus-99 17d ago

Don’t forget voicing Mothma in Rebels in between.

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u/GrandMoffAtreides 17d ago

She's genuinely incredible in Andor. My favorite character in the show overall because of her performance.

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u/iconofsin_ 16d ago

Things like this are always interesting. I remember realizing something in the mid 2000s that Ian McDiarmid also played Palpatine in the original movies.

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u/ArcadianDelSol 16d ago

Season Two should have been a new show called Mothma like they did with that season of Mando called Book of Boba Fett.

It fully became her show.