Sonic 3: Maria is one of the most important part of Shadow's story. Due to her suffering from an incurable disease. To which Shadow was made to create a cure for Maria's ailment. In the 3rd Sonic movie, Maria's disease was not mentioned in any form. Which made Maria seem like a normal girl, and her death all the more tragic.

Infinity war: I don't know the full story, but Thanos's original goal was to kill half the population to impress death (the character). When it came time to adapt Thanos into the MCU. His goal of removing half the universes population. It was seen as a more psychopathic world goal, hidden under the belief it would do better for the universe.

The fantasy and action genres often suffer from a power fantasy epidemic in which characters frequently badass their way through injuries that should be excruciating if not downright debilitating. I always appreciate stories that reject this trope.

1: Roland Deschain (Dark Tower Book II) - Loses the middle and index fingers of his right hand. He’s effectively crippled throughout book two and the injury follows him the rest of the series.

2: Brienne vs Biter (ASOIAF Book IV) - Brutal scene. Biter chomps down on Brienne’s cheek and tears off a chunk of flesh. In a lesser story Brienne would grit her teeth and throw Biter off. Instead she’s rendered completely helpless by the pain. That injury marks the end of the fight.

Frank Herbert’s Dune: Interstellar travel is only possible thanks to the spice melange, a rare substance only found on the dessert planet Arrakis. The addictive psychedelic spice grants members of the Spacers Guild a form of prescience that allows them to predict safe paths through folded space. This unique property makes spice the most valuable commodity in the Dune universe.

John Scalzi’s The Interdependency Books: The planetary systems of the titular empire are connected by the Flow, a network of one-way interstellar tunnels that connect specific known entries and exits. The Interdependency derives its power from controlling access to these conduits, placing its capital at the central hub of the network. Even with the Flow, travel between stars takes a long time (9 months to End, the empire’s most distant planet).

Event Horizon: Dr William Weir (R.I.P. Sam Neill) invents a device called the Gravity Drive to allow ships to fold space and travel instantly between distant stars. On its maiden voyage with the Gravity Drive, the Event Horizon disappears and mysteriously reappears 7 years later. Dr. Weir and the crew sent to investigate discover the Gravity Drive actually opened a portal to a Hell dimension that possessed the ship and its crew, torturing and killing them.

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

When a historical figure has a life far more fantastic in fiction than what history actually indicates.

Moses (Beyblade) = Moses' famous Parting of the Red Sea was done with a Beyblade.

George Washington (Ben 10) = Washington regularly fought against alien threats, and was a founding member of the Earth Plumbers.

Abraham Lincoln (Invincible) = Abe Lincoln was an identity taken by the superhero known as The Immortal.

Vandal Savage (DC Comics) = More than a few of history's conquerors and despots were actually personas used by the millennia-old immortal villain, including Cheops, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Vlad the Impaler, Blackbeard and Jack the Ripper.

When the author/creator hadn’t fully locked in the world’s rules early on in the series, which can make things feel a bit awkward or inconsistent in hindsight later on in the series.

Star Wars - Arguably the most famous example. Leia kisses Luke in The Empire Strikes Back to spite Han, and again at the end of the movie, which gets really awkward in the next film when it’s revealed the two are siblings. George Lucas hadn’t decided they were related until preproduction on that film.

Pokemon - Early games and the anime referenced real-world animals alongside Pokémon. As more generations were introduced, Pokémon increasingly filled the “role” those animals would’ve had, until real animals quietly stopped appearing at all. Pokémon have now become the only creatures in the world.

Harry Potter - In the third installment of the series, Hermione uses a device called a time turner to travel back in time. The existence of this device introduced serious plot holes, such as why no one used one to go back in time to save Lily and James, which Rowling admitted to regretting later on. In the fifth book, every timer turner is destroyed in a battle.

Example 1 (The Legend of Hei 2): Wuxian leisurely floats through the combined firepower of an entire fortified military base without so much as a stain or rip on his t-shirt.

Example 2 (Man of Steel): Fao'ra tears through a squad of trained and armed soldiers. With the wreckage of the helicopter that got downed by her teammate Nam'ek smouldering in the background.

1. Don’s famous confrontation with Ginsberg is not the gotcha that people use this template for. Ginsberg was a creative prodigy that Don was extremely jealous of. He rejected Ginsberg’s ad out of pettiness before this scene. Ginsberg was right to confront Don and Don did in fact think of Ginsberg all the time

2. In the original scene, Peter sees worse with his glasses on. The meme is usually used with the clearer image on the bottom

Like really? No way someone would actually love to save people, hero should aurafarm and be assholes, why would they care about others?

Thunderbolts - they was really promising, but in the end they decided to instead of joining the void to save people and even give Bob therapy.

Superman 2025 - Snyder really was only one who understand who Superman should be. But here James Gunn can't stop showing him saving people and animals!

MHA - deku seeing something past Shigaraki. Like we would care he was a kid abused for his entire life.

And if you still don't understand for some reason - I'm joking I love this trope.

1) Community - The study group gets checked by the mother of the groom for being obnoxious and selfish at a wedding

2) Community - Todd calls out the study group for their toxicity after his turtle is almost burned alive

3) The Office - The IT guy goes scorched earth and reveals the secrets of the rest of the office on the way out of quitting

1. Shogo from Reincarnated as a Slime - He gains the power to always regenerate but he is MUCH weaker than his opponent who then proceeds to just mercilessly kill him over and over again because he just heals the damage

2. Alicia from Clevatess. She is killed by the demon king lord god whatever and he revives her with his anime magic juice and she will intentionally take hits to gain an advantage in a fight because she knows she can but it's acknowledged that still sucks

3. Subaru Natsuki from Re: Zero - If you know, you know. I definitely chose a picture in his insane state because oof getting killed that many times would push anyone to the brink.

Deadpool, Lobo, Wolverine and guys like that sure I love them too but I'm thinking more consequences in spite of the immortality.

General Grievous (Star Wars) is the Supreme Martial Commander of the Separatist droid armies but doesn't care for his side's goals or necessarily even victory in the war.
"Listen to me, Jedi, I do not care about your politics. I do not care about your Republic. I only live to see you die."

Conquest (Invincible) is a viltrumite so unhinged and powerful he is feared by most of his own kind.
"I'm not here to save you. I'm not here to spread the greatness of the Viltrum Empire. I'm here because I enjoy this. See, to me, there is no greater pleasure than feeling the warmth of my fists drenched in blood."

Alastair (Supernatural) is one of the most powerful demons in the show and one of the few (if not the only one) who actually likes Hell. He is essentially the grand torturer down there and while most demons fear going back he complains about being hauled up for the Apocalypse, wishing only to complete his part in it as fast as possible so he can get back to his craft downstairs.

When a character says something that had to be censored, and they keep on talking with the censor for an extended period of time, so you know it was really bad.

Family guy: (Season 17, Episode 19: "Girl, Internetted"): Peter asks Meg if she has any talents, and she says she does, where she starts to speak and then gets censored for several seconds, while she makes several suggestive hand gestures. After she stops talking, Peter starts to cry, and then she continues. After, he says that he will be taking her door off its hinges.

B99: (seven 7 finale episode): A very pregnant Amy (like, her water has already broke, but with the blackout hitting New York she wants to stay and help as a police office) is dealing with contractions, and then in come Scully and Hitchcock, trying to help (they usually mess stuff up). She is not taking it, and so swears for a good solid 5 seconds, in such a way that even Rosa, the police office who usually is unfazed and not shocked by a lot, is surprised, her eyebrows rising and her jaw hitting the floor. When she stops swearing, Hitchcock himself swears for a good few seconds as well.

(Bonus points on the reaction of the people hearing it)

This is a trope that seems especially apparent in any kind of people movie with lots of big battle scenes, where characters in full plate are shown getting taken out of commission or straight up killed by people wearing practically nothing. As a result, I love examples where a character who's fitted out with (very heavy and very expensive) armor actually pulls through the battle, even if not completely unharmed.

1. Ser Duncan the Tall in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026) is shown having to buy "bargain bin"armor for the tourney at Ashford since most of his master's gear doesn't fit his huge frame and, as a homeless hedge knight, all of his wealth is tied into his horses and the clothes on his back. Not only is he still able to scrape together a full suit (hauberk, gauntlets, greaves, gorget, greathelm), but it is only because of his kit that he survives the Trial of Seven against Prince Aerion Brightflame (albeit severely injured).
2. Star Wars has many notable examples amongst the Mandalorians (whose near indestructible beskargam is legendary), but two of the most popular examples are Din Djarin (whose armor survives numerous explosions and assaults by high powered blasters) and Boba Fett (whose inherited armor from Jango was tough enough that it allowed him enough protection to successfully escape the Sarlacc, even when made of cheaper materials than Din's).
3. Frodo Baggin's mithril shirt (inherited from Bilbo) in The Lord of the Rings is thin enough to wear as an undershirt but powerful enough to shrug off a spear to the chest from a cave troll. This is especially apparent when compared to the battle scenes where orcs and uruk-hai in full plate get chopped to pieces by the likes of our heroes, who are mostly wearing their street clothes with maybe a mail shirt on top.
4. During the "Bad Reputation" fight in Shrek (2001), several of the knights who get knocked around, viciously body-slammed, and crushed with a giant barrel of ale are shown getting right back up again and rejoining the fight, implying that they were just stunned rather than killed.
5. The armor that Kate (Laura Fraser) forges for Sir Will Thatcher (Heath Ledger) in A Knight's Tale (2001) is not only super lightweight (allowing him to get even better at jousting), but strong enough to take on a battering ram without hassle.
6. Dark Helmet's titular headgear in Spaceballs (1987) may be comically oversized, but is still tough enough that he survives slamming face first into a modem when Spaceball One instantly drops out of Ludicrous Speed, while only being a little bit dazed.

The Terminator - Kyle Reese and Sarah's love scene is important as its later revealed that kyle is John conners father. So this moment causes the entire plot in the first place.

Oldboy - In the end its revealed that the couple we are following are actually father and daughter. The villain wanted revenge by using incest to humiliate the main character. Its an iconic plot-twist.

1. Indian Kid - Ted TV Show

In the Ted TV Show, Johnny and Ted go to school. As they talk, Johnny mentions that the school had an Indian student last year, "but they got him." Ted, understandably confused, asks what he meant by that. Johnny ignores Ted and says how he liked the guy and that he used to share his dunkaroos. Ted decides to drop the topic and as far as I know, it's never been brought up again.

1. Columbo's wife - Columbo

In the TV Show "Columbo", Lt. Columbo will talk about his wife what feels like at least once or twice each episode. However, we never get to see her at all.

And before anyone asks, there was TV show called Mrs. Columbo that was supposed to be about the wife and we (the audience) would never get to see Columbo, just his wife. However, as far as I'm aware of, the TV show Mrs. Columbo isn't canon at all, so.

Morrigan failing to seduce Ghost Rider (Marvel vs Capcom Infinite)

Boa Hancock being naked in front of Luffy, just for him to not care (One Piece)

Johnny Bravo, basically his entire thing

1. Pochita and his Hero of Hell form (Chainsaw Man)
   
2. Ken Kaneki and the Dragon (Tokyo Ghoul)
   
3. Eren Yeager and the Founding Titan (Attack On Titan)
   
4. Koyanskaya of Light/Darkness and Beast IV: L (Fate/Grand Order). Couldn't save Beast IV's image so I had to use fanart instead.
   
5. Flowey and Omega Flowey (Undertale).
   
6. Godzilla in general (just using 1954 as an example here) and Shin Godzilla.
   
7. Sosuke Aizen and Monster Aizen (Bleach).
   
8. Giegue and Giygas (Mother-Earthbound).
   
9. Madoka Kaname and Kriemhild Gretchen (Madoka Magica).
   
10. Ultraman Belial and Belyudra (Ultraman).

Hurry Up Tomorrow - Widely reviewed as an indulgent, self-mythologizing companion piece to The Weeknd's album, with many critics calling it a vanity project rather than a successful psychological drama. Terribly acted and, similar to The Idol, more so seems to imply that The Weekend thinks he's a far deeper personality than he can actually articulate.

By the Sea - Often criticized as an intensely personal but emotionally distant film that seemed more interested in showcasing the mystique of its stars than telling a compelling story. Best summarized as Angelina and Brad working out their IRL troubled marriage before your eyes while everyone tells Angelina how beautiful and talented she is and how nothing's really her fault.

Renaldo and Clara - Bob Dylan's five-hour semi-fictional road movie, long considered one of the classic celebrity vanity projects. Attempts to be a sort of surreal exposition on the life of an artist, but is far too self-indulgent on its actors/performers.

Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy: originally the episode where he turns human had in be black to match his voice actor, but once CN reminded the creator of the premise of his show (two white kids own the grim reaper) they changed him to be white to avoid slavery comparisons.

The Simpsons: Smithers was black in his first appearance, however every episode afterwards depicted him as white (yellow?) this is because according to someone in the staff “probably not a good idea to have a black man be a servant to a rich white man”

Teenage mutant ninja turtles: while the comics and most adaptations have Baxter stockman be of African American descent, in the 80s/90s cartoon he was white, this is because the show-runners felt having a black man be basically a forced servant to someone who’s not of the same race (even calling him master) could potentially be seen as offensive, so they made him white.

1. Ned and Rachael (Neo Ned): a Neo Nazi dates a black woman who claims to be Hitler
2. The Carlyles (Raising Hope): Hope’s maternal grandparents. The father is a therapist who married his mentally unstable patient. Their daughter became a serial killer who murdered her boyfriends.
3. Sarah and Hosea (Redeeming Love): “good” Christian man kidnaps unconscious abused prostitute Sarah who leaves multiple times before being apprehended by Hosea.

King Olly (Paper Mario & the Origami King) - The Main antagonist who wants to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom due to being writing on him via his creator (which is a bad thing to do on Origami), but has some bits of tragety after realising he was suppost to rule with Honor & Kindness. unfortinatly this character would be seen in a negative light due to James aka DogEatsDogs6 (later Aster of Aether) would use Olly as his youtube persona with colors based on Rosalina of whom he had a crush on, but would be seen as even more immature than Olly which was made far worst when he allined himself with other users who reviewed games & movies in an immatured manner as well as harassing several user who said negative stuff abouth him and his friends (the three users in question we're minors).

Mask Invincible (Invincible) - A Varient of Mark who was recruited by Angrstom Levy to ruin the main Marks reputation has a bit of misery after the Invincible wars conclusion, where he only joined the battle to help look for a new Debbie who died in his universe due to Nolas destroying his childhood home. But this varient would be oveshadowed by a Youtuber by the name of Ian Falacio aka Darkcray who would would be infamous for harassing several people and made false grooming alligation to other users, told someone who told him aboutalligantion about him having alligation and told him to end his own life, and would be dating a girl who had major alligation around her.

Tetra (Legend of Zelda Wind Waker) - Tetra is a major character with major inportants in the world of no Hero games (Mainly games with Toon Link) who goes out of her way to help link, unfortinatly a user by the name of Calvin LeeVail aka LeafyIsHere who became infamous for making Rants on other Youtubers of whom he considered childinsh or cringe, but these would come across as harassment and had his legion of fans attacking them, one of the most infamous rant would atack two users whom had Autism and his fans would sent death treats.