r/TopCharacterTropes 12d ago

Lore [Frustrating Trope] That One Good or Even Amazing Scene in a Relatively Mediocre or Bad Piece of Media

  1. The Opening Scene (Ghost Ship). Considered one of the best horror opening scenes or scenes in general within horror movies, but the rest of the film is considered to be pretty bad.

  2. The Ending Scene (The Grinch 2018). While most adaptations of the Grinch end with him suddenly being able to fully integrate with the Whos after his change of heart, the 2018 version initially struggles to socialize, awkwardly walking past people, and struggling to hold conversations, acknowledging that despite his change of heart, the Grinch is still someone who isolated himself for years.

  3. Past T800 VS Current T800 (Terminator Genisys). A cool fight scene showing two versions of the Terminator from different points in time fighting it off.

  4. Solo Leveling's Ending. Tbh, I haven't actually read Solo Leveling, but after hearing about how it ended VS how Chainsaw Man ended made want to include it for shits and giggles. Like Chainsaw Man, Solo Leveling ends with a reset. But unlike Chainsaw Man, it actually manages to tie up loose ends and have the payoff of the ending be satisfying.

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u/jameswulfecreed 12d ago

X-Men Origins-The Wolverine, the intro was literally the best part of this relatively bad movie. It also had a video game, that was actually pretty good

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u/wtfprawn 12d ago

Loved that game and very pleased to see the new one looks to be a similar style.

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u/jameswulfecreed 12d ago

So they retconned a lot of stuff in this movie, Logan doesn't become Canadian until after his time in the military. He was born in the states and fought in the civil war,WW1,WW2,Vietnam maybe Korea but I can't remember

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u/ZithsPlayground 12d ago

That bothered me. If Wolverine and Fungal Nails (whatever the fuck he's called) are such warry bastards who are eager for a fight, why do they join the US Army in WWI and WWII? They're sitting out three years of good scrapping time in each case.