1. Gene Deitch's era of Tom and Jerry is one of the worst in the cartoon's history. Gene had expressed disdain for the series and Clint Clobber is one of the universally most hated characters that ever aired anywhere, almost ever.

2. Godzilla (1998)- Drastic Godzilla design change and the director and producer said they weren't fans of the original franchise

JUST TO BE CLEAR: Protagonist does not mean the character's a hero, it just means we're following the story through their eyes; In other words, they can be villains too. Same thing with the antagonist, who can also be a hero.

1. Data: Data gives up his memories to Lore, causing the brothers to fuse as one: Lore inherits Data's kindness, and Data inherits all of Lore's emotions, including his anger and sarcasm.

2. Hulk: Banner lets Absorbing Man take all his gamma radiation, even throwing a tantrum in the process to help speed things up, unfortunately, Hulk has way too much power even for HIM, so he gradually expands while begging him to "take it back", before being struck by a missile, causing him to explode like a nuke.

These are the only examples I can think of. You have the floor.

1. Gandhi. Civilization. Meant to be the most pacifistic of Civilization leaders. Infamous for his use of nuclear. Probably just comes from the fact, that his civilization is often just first to discover nukes.

2. Fwiffo. Star Control 2. A member of the most cowardly races in the galaxy. His pathetic cowardice is seen in all his dialogues. His ship is also designed to emphasize this trait — with a cannon that can be used when escaping. The problem — this cannon is very effective and the strategy to use it — relatively easy to master. The effect — in many playthroughts Fwiffo becomes the MVP soloing multiple Ur-Quan ships.

3. Alduin. Skyrim (but a thing that happens many open world games, that have no time limit, but urgency implied in the narrative) — meant to be an urgent threat, that has to be defeated ASAP. But the player character can go on as many minor side quests ash the want and explore as much as possible, without any consequences (for a nice parody of this trope https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Is9NwVTbeEM)

Every fandom, at some point, is going to start making shitposts out of characters from their favorite piece of media. Most of the time (actually the vast majority of the tine) these stay on the fringes of the fandom and are rarely, if ever, acknowledged by the creator. But sometimes, a character gets memed so hard that they transcend the media they're in to be re-immortalized in an entirely different title in the same franchise, whether it's the doing of the fans themselves, or, in the truly rare cases, the creators canonize the meme.

1. Brainrotted Dagoth Ur - The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind/Skyrim

Original Characterization: Immortal near-demigod and fanatic attempting to quite literally create another Divine using the Heart of Lorkhan. Capable of explaining his actual motives and driven to this goal and almost nothing else.

Meme Characterization: A brainrotted, terminally online companion who mostly follows the Dragonborn around reciting various memes or doing bits. Takes absolutely nothing too seriously, except for rare moments when he says something oddly touching right before forcibly crashing your game by spawning in 10,000 Nazeems. Incredibly racist to Argonians and is largely played for laughs, still thinks the player is Nerevar.

Ascension: As described above, Dagoth, who was largely out of the popular culture particularly among those whose first foray into the Elder Scrolls was Skyrim by the 2020s, was made into a follower mod in 2025. While Skyrim has no shortage of well written and lore accurate follower mods, Dagoth, despite being an on-the-nose shitpost, was one of the most popular follower mods during its brief run and is, it's probably fair to say, the main way any Scrolls fan who hasn't touched anything prior to Oblivion knows of his character. While he was the main antagonist of Morrowind and certainly memorable in his own right, he exists in most Zillenials' minds as the funny shirtless guy with the weird mask who refers to Argonians as farm equipment. Sadly, it appears the original mod was taken out back behind the shed by the powers that be and shot, because his dialogue was so vulgar at times it was somehow too much to have hosted on the Creation Club, despite the fact that Skyrim's main other mod genre it's known for is ones that give every woman (and sometimes just everyone in general) huge bazongas and also lifelong back problems.

2. Vergil's Throne - Devil May Cry V & Devil May Cry Netflix adaptation

Original Characterization: The Alpha and the Omega. Brother and oftentimes rival to Dante, the player character for DMC. A calculating and ruthless schemer entirely dedicated to seizing power at all costs and an exceptionally skilled combatant.

Meme Characterization: A larper who resides upon an alabaster throne, by which I mean a white plastic lawn chair. Several spinoff characterizations include him being a weeb, refusing to pay his taxes/child support, or just somehow out-bumming Dante, which is an achievement on its own.

Ascension: While no doubt his meme persona was borne out of two separate in-jokes, those being a mod that converted the actual throne you find him sitting in at the climax of Devil May Cry 5 into a white plastic lawn chair, and then subsequent riffs on this joke including making the reason he wields his signature katana Yamato being that he's a total weeb, to a Libertarian who refuses to pay his taxes or child support. But the chair was by far the most memorable aspect, and it was this that, inexplicably, was actually added into Season 2 of the Netflix adaptation of the series, wherein during a scene featuring Vergil, there is an unmistakable white plastic lawn chair in the foreground, a direct nod by the showrunner to a joke mod for a game the series is hardly based off of at all.

3. The Lore Reason Why r/BatmanArkham's Jonkler Became a Real Thing (Are They Stupid?) - Batman: Arkham Asylum & LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Original Characterization: The Clown Prince of Crime, the clinically insane archnemesis of the Dark Knight, everything is a joke, but the greatest jokes are cruel.

Meme Characterization: A brainrotted (so arguably still clinically insane) walking shitpost, still thinks everything is hilarious but especially making fun of a corrupt cop named Officer Boles, who he calls Officer Balls (is he stupid?),

Ascension: To say that LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight was a love letter to the fans is perhaps understating it, given just how much they added tongue in cheek references to fandom memes, among which includes the infamous Officer Balls, and even having an NPC "accidentally" refer to the Joker as the Jonkler (is there a lore reason for this?) By far the most notable on this list for how obscure the jokes were vs how many fandom jokes were given canon features in the game.

Bruce and Lloyd from get smart (2008), two side characters who have a comedic duo vibe going on and where featured in a lot of advertisements, even having their own direct to video spin off movie that came out the same year, despite this these two aren’t really remembered or talked about, not even amongst people who remember the 2008 get smart film.

Mr hanky from South Park: apparently Matt and Trey thought he’d be the big breakout character, featuring him in a ton of merchandise and having him appear a lot, however while the character has his fans, he isn’t really that popular amongst the South Park community and has basically been written off the show.

Clod from elemental: featured in a bunch of ads and was pushed as the popular character despite his low screen time, while elemental isn’t seen as a Pixar classic, it does have its fans, however almost none of them bring up Clod when talking about why they like it.

Darnell Turner/Harry Monroe- My Name is Earl

Darnell "Crabman" Turner is a below minumum wage restraunt worker and former Marijuana enthusiast. He lives in a trailer park with his wife Joy, his son Earl jr, and step son Dodge. He loves his family, crabs, his pet turtle, and playing the straight man with the other character's anctics. Later in the show it is revealed that he is in Witness Protection and his name is not Darnell.

Harry Monroe was a secret agent and assassin, trained from birth by his father for an unnamed US government organization acting independent of international law. He was good, with potential to be one of the agency's best. Harry has a heart of gold, and couldn't stomach his orders to murder a child warlord. So he betrayed his father and his agency, testifying against them before Congress. He was sent into Witness Protection and what was originally a temporary placement turned into his life. He loves his family, Mr. Turtle, and his simple life in a trailer park.

William James Sidis- Real Life

William James Sidis was a child prodigy. He attended Harvard at 11 and it was claimed by his family he had an IQ over 250, and although these claims are dubious it is impossible to deny his status as a super genius. He was a professor at age 17 and was active in academic work in his early life, but was kicked out of his position due to him clashing with students older than himself. He was an activist for extremist ideologies and arrested for attending an extremist riot, and avoided prison by being sent to his parents sanatorium.

After 1921 he withdrew from acedemics and public life and persued simpler jobs that had nothing to do with mathematics, holding a resentment for the field. Allegedly his employer once gave him blueprints and technical documents in hopes he could assist him, only for Sidis to break out into tears.

He died in 1944 at age 46 without any further public contributions to academia aside from some books written under psuedonyms.

Escape from Tarkov: The Raid - Hallway Shootout: While attempting to find their missing men, Skif and his squad find themselves caught in a nasty CQB battle with both rival USEC contractors and local scavengers wondering what all the noise was, resulting in squad members dropping like flies from enemies we barely even see.

Ready or Not: The game in general does a very good job of showing why getting into a firefight is usually considered a last resort with guns being thunderously loud and capable of blowing large chunks off your enemies and even whole limbs depending on the caliber. Those hit by gunfire don't tend to die immediately either, often screaming in pain or choking on their own blood as they expire.

Heat - Final Shootout: One of the most famous gunfights in cinema history is also one of its most terrifying with cops and robbers letting bullets fly in the middle of a busy city street leading to mounting bloody injuries, deaths, and a child being taken hostage at one point.

1. [Just... the internet]: Sadly I had to recreate both memes for this. Man... what a LOSS.

2. [Phineas and Ferb]: Teal and orange? BROWN AND TEAL AND ORANGE?

(You read that in his voice don't lie)

Tropes where a historical figure says a dramatic line that, to the viewers who know the history, comes off as ironic. Little wink wink moments from the show writers.

1. The Last Kingdom- "It will not be recorded that King Alfred was a weak, frail man; in mind, body and soul, unfit to be called King"

In The Last Kingdom, a character called Alfred is speaking to his wife before setting off to battle against a Viking army. He says this line, determined to either win or go down fighting, not wanting to be remembered as a weak King who lost his kingdom.

Alfred is, of course, Alfred the Great, one of the most famous monarchs in English history and the only one to have earned the epithet "the Great".

Edit: this scene happens in the first season, when Alfred is a relatively new king of a minor kingdom. He doesn't know if he'll be remembered at all at this point, and the line can be read as "I don't know if I'll be remembered, but if I am it will be as a good king."

2. Real life example- "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

This line was spoken after a battle by the little known US president Abraham Lincoln, as part of his Gettysburg Address, arguably the most famous speech in American history.

A series will change up dates or not alter character ages despite pre established timelines or mentions of time passing

1. The Simpsons - the most infamous example of a floating timeline. Characters never age, and timelines change as the show continues. In one later episode, Homer and Marge are unmarried with no kids in the 90s, despite all the Simpsons children being born by the 90s in previous episodes and Homer and Marge being a couple in the 70s-80s.

2. Pokemon- Ash Ketchum was 10 years old in the first episode. Despite numerous adventures over countless years (with in universe confirmation), Ash is still 10 years old.

3. Fairly Odd Parents - Timmy Turner has remained 10 for the entire show’s run. Though, to be fair, they did brilliantly mock this in an episode where Timmy secretly wished to never age 50 years ago.

Therians - AT-43: The Therians are essentially a race of transhumans addicted to the Internet. They are the "true" humans, having reached the Singularity over half a million years ago. One of their primary objectives is to seize control of the universe to avert their own extinction, which they foresee occurring in about 25 billion years. To achieve this, they colonize worlds, establishing a presence among the inhabitants—whom we would consider "normal" humans, but whom they view merely as primitive humans. They provide these populations with databases of information to accelerate their development, then wait for the planet’s resources to be exhausted. Once that happens, the Therians intervene and destroy the world, harvesting what remains to construct a Dyson Sphere, which they then transport to other worlds. As for their own bodies and physical forms, they are nothing more than biomechanical monsters.

All Tomorrows : after reaching a population of twelve billion, humanity terraformed and colonized Mars.This marked the beginning of a golden age where humans expanded through space, colonizing planets across the galaxy; however, upon encountering another intelligent species that considered humans blasphemous, a war began—one that the humans lost. After crushing all resistance from the Star Men, the Qu punished them and genetically transformed them into dozens of aberrant subspecies. These creatures were left scattered across desolate worlds following the departure of the Qu.

So basically media that subverted established genres but launched at a time when audiences weren't ready.

*New Nightmare is widely considered one of the stronger entries in the Elm Street series, a course-correction after the cartoonish Freddy's Dead. Wes Craven took his first stab at meta-commentary to great effect, but sadly audiences were still burnt to a crisp after a series of increasingly outlandish slasher sequels, with the genre having crashed and burned by '89. Although a modest success, its box office take was nearly half of Freddy's Dead. It would take a cast of sexy young Gen Xers and a more in-your-face approach with Scream before Wes could execute this new formula to mainstream success, reviving slashers in the process

*Last Action Hero was a brilliant send up of action films but audiences couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be due to a confusing marketing campaign. Whereas contemporaries like Loaded Weapon 1, Hot Shots and Hot Shots: Part Deux were very clear in that they were pure spoof comedies, Last Action Hero served as both spoof and example of the blockbuster action films of the day; a film like Last Action Hero might've found more success in the 2010s in a time when meta commentary in films was more mainstream. It didn't help that a certain film 65 million years in the making happened to launch the same summer

*The Cable Guy. In '96, audiences wanted "talk out your ass" Jim Carrey. This dark send up of buddy films was Jim's first box office stumble as theatergoers wanted more of the same and weren't ready for a darker take on Jim's manic comedy. Its found its audience over the years and has retroactively been appraised as one of Carrey's strongest films. Had it been released after the late '90s-2000s run of edgier comedies such as Dogma, Old School, Office Space and Bad Santa, it might've been more widely accepted

*Mystery Men. A spoof of and love letter to comic book films at a time when comic book films were at a nadir of popularity with the failures of Batman & Robin, Spawn and others, and before X-Men and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films brought the genre back to life, Mystery Men bombed on arrival. Had Mystery Men been produced at the height of CBM's in the late 2010s, it would likely have had a far stronger chance at success

*Police Squad was one of Leslie Nielsen's first comedy roles after his career boost from Airplane a few years prior. It was sharply written, but perhaps a bit too cerebral of comedy in a time when cheery surface level sitcoms like Cheers and Three's Company ruled the day. It was canceled after only 6 episodes. In a rare example, it would be successfully re-adapted 6 years later with the smash hit Naked Gun, which would launch a successful trilogy and lead to a decade of mostly successful comedies from Leslie Nielsen

*Days Gone launched just a few years after the zombie revival slowed to a shuffle. The Walking Dead was cratering in ratings and audiences had moved on to 'elevated' horror with the likes of Midsommar. Still, Days Gone had a lot of heart - a solid story with brilliant voice acting. Its open world setting was a nice change from the normal "do crime, make money" or "take over this tower" formula of the day. It handily combined crafting and survival mechanics while incorporating RPG elements and did so in a beautifully rendered post-apocalyptic Oregon. The story was surprisingly wholesome and positive given the subject matter, and it seems like a less cynical take on an open world action game. Sadly, Days Gone may have arrived too late to be the hit it should've been - had it been completed/released just 4-5 years prior it would likely have sold multitudes more.

(Serial killing) The most famous recorded serial killer is Jack the ripper but the first recorded serial killer in history is someone from more than 500 hundred years before Jack the ripper's time. His name was Gilles De Rais, he was a French man who killed and tortured more than 140 children.

(Vtubing) The most famous vtuber is Gawr Gura who debuted in 2020. The one who actually started the whole vtuber gimmick is Kizuna Ai in 2016.

(Discovering the Americas) The most famous explorer who is commonly associated with discovering The Americas is Christopher Columbus, but in reality the oldest recorded explorer to touch that land in history is Leif Erikson, a Norse sailor who landed in the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

(The flying Raijin) [Naruto] Minato is typically associated with the use of the jutsu called flying Raijin but a lot of people forget that Tobirama is the one who created that jutsu. Minato just perfected it.

Wendy vs cartman drom south park. The entire episode was building upon this fight. Mostly because cartman is an asshole who does the most evil thing in the show and get away from it. However this is the last straw, she challenged him in a because he made fun of breast cancer patients, so for the entire episode, he was dreading it and doing everything to avoid it. Even telling her parent on her because of it. Which seemed to work and he get away with it and make fun of her more. However thanks to the principal advice. She went back and challenged him to tbe fight. And safe to say. It was a brutal beat down,sure cartman landed a few on her in the fight. But at the end of the day, it wasn’t a match,she beater the crap out of him and left him
In brutal condition. And so this was claim as the best beating Eric ever got.

Millie vs cass from helluva boss. In the recent season. We were introduced to cass. Millie’s “friend” who is actually a massive dick, she a jealous, victim blaming bitch. This girl has been a hole
To Millie’s her entire life. So when we see her. She run her mouth to her. Of course she ignore her. Which caused her to challenge her to a duel to the death. Unfortunately, she facing an assassin who has fought multiple battles. So she is f ed.so as you expect. It wasn’t a battle at all. Cass only landed two hits in the entire fight and was getting her ass beating by Millie’s. Millie’s basically won the fight but chose to not kill her because she is not worth fighting. Of course cass run her mouth off and get kicked by sally Mae at the end. Finishing one chapter of Millie arc.

I learned about this one through Dankbidoof’s newest YTP(Link to that is here its very funny:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u1s7MatLKI ) In the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure SBR episode Gyro Zeppeli's Destiny, Gyro and Johnny fight Fritz von Stroheim, a man with a cybernetic hand and wacky hair. In the Spanish Dub Gyro comments that he has “Street Fighter Hair” obviously referencing Guile's hairstyle from the street fighter video game series. This is also fun because Guile’s hair was based off the hair of jojo part 3 character Jean Pierre Polnareff so it really goes full circle. But the funnier thing about this scene is that it unintentionally implies that in the universe of SBR, the Street Fighter video games canonically came out during the wild west era.

This is a famous one. Tumblr user guava-jarritos noticed that when Sharpay brags about her wealth in the movie High School Musical 2, she says they have "Turkey Imported from Maine” Because you can only import something from another country and Maine is part of the US and so is New Mexico, the state where high school musical takes place, this implies that HSM takes place in an alternate universe due to the Second Civil War New Mexico is no longer part of the US therefore being separate from Maine. It also tracks because we never see anyone celebrate the 4th of July. (Link to guava-jarritos’ original post https://www.tumblr.com/guava-jarritos/174153890690/in-high-school-musical-2-sharpay-very-clearly?source=share )

1. In a crossover comic of Wonder Woman and Captain America Diana stops Steve from killing Hitler believing that justice comes from law and order instead of simply killing out of revenge

2. Skylar White working against Walter after learning he’s a drug peddling kingpin

Creators of all kinds putting in their works how much they love their wives, through character or traits. I just love how all these characters have a special treatment just because they're based on their love.

- Frankie (Foster Home)

Based on Craig McCracken's wife, Lauren Faust btw, and Mac based on himself. The drawing says it all

- Lúthien (Lord of the Rings)

"Look at this character? A half angel, incredibly beautiful, in love with a mortal man and dancing so majestic that can even distract the Dark Lord? Well, it is based on my wife"

Tolkien (probably)

- Alice (Resident Evil movie)

Really bad movies, but I won't get mad at a man who made his wife the most badass and powerful character

- Atom Eve (Invincible)

I'm not sure about this one, but I remember reading that the reason she got a bit chubby was because the creator's wife gained weight too, and he wanted to show her that she still was beautiful

1. Baelor (ASOIAF): seems to have gotten a mere concussion during the trial of 7 once his helmet is removed part of his brain falls out.

2. Pawnee atrocities (Parks and Rec): the blue is where atrocities against native Americans occurred.

It's funny to watch an annoying powerscaler talk to the creator and get smacked with a downscale, it's even funnier to watch the creator actually try to battleboard and say something that contradicts their feats.

Horikoshi claiming All Might peaks at Mach 10 Running speed

Ian Flynn claiming Archie Sonic loses to Saiyan Saga Goku on a podcast

Bruno Velazquez getting into a conversation on Twitter with a dumbass GOW powerscaler

Daivd Jaffe saying Kratos would get his ass kicked by Spider-Man

1. Dory’s nose bleeding and Bruce sniffs the blood. (Finding Nemo)

2. Goliath stooping an enemy’s sword with his bare hands and blood coming out of his hand. (Gargoyles)

3. The Joker getting punched in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

4. Dell Clawthorne being accidentally getting clawed by Efa in her owl form (The Owl House)

Sometimes it's probably best to not "peep the horror". Which for these guys is absolutely recommended because their method of attack ENTIRELY REVOLVES around eye-contact.

Image 1: SCP-096 (The SCP Foundation)

The Shy Guy is one of the more well-known creatures held in the SCP facilities, thanks to its characteristic of absolutely losing its mind and brutalising anyone who dares to look at its face, in any form. Via a photograph, via a video recording, in person, even FOUR FUCKING PIXELS of a mountain picture can cause it to get set off and chase after you.

Image 2: Memetic Kill-Agents (The SCP Foundation)

But I'm not done yet with the Foundation. Some of the documents have certain images attached to them, as a last-ditch effort to prevent anyone unauthorised from seeing extra-classified information. Unless you're immunised to the specific memetic effects of the images, seeing them will cause immediate cardiac arrest, followed by death very shortly afterwards.

Image 3: The Hooked Doll (Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion, Spooky's Dollhouse DLC)

The Hooked Doll is, well, a doll hooked to a wall, down in the root cellar of The Dollhouse. While it isn't active the first time you visit, going back down there will cause it to get loose and start to attack. Looking in the general direction of where it is will make it charge directly at you while causing your vision to be obscured with static. Which is bad enough on its own, but it can also appear in the Endless Mode where it can be paired up with any of the other entities. Imagine it alongside any of the "Look at it or you take damage" entities, like Ben the Merchant

Image 4: Yenndo (Five Night's At Frickbears: 4 Layers Down)

This game's the reason I put "mostly" Horror in the title.

Yenndo is one of the animatronics introduced in the 4 Layers Down update of Frickbears 3. It's an "Office" based animatronic that has a chance to appear when you turn around or lower the cameras. When it's visible, you're meant to turn back around to get it out of your sight and make it disappear again, because failing to do so quickly enough will cause it to jumpscare you, ending the round in failure and with a life lost.

-Twilight vs Tirek (My Little Pony)

On the surface my little pony seems like a very basic show, a unicorn, later revealed to be an alicorn, travels to Ponyville to learn about friendship and the wacky shenanigans that follow. However after Lord Tirek begins stealing the magic of others to grow stronger, with a goal to gain as much alicorn magic as possible, Celestia, Luna, and Cadance entrust Twilight with their magic to prevent him from taking theirs, as he is presumed to not know of a fourth alicorn princess. Later on Tirek betrays discord, an all powerful chaos spirit, and steals his magic as well and due to the other five elements of harmony being captured along with the impending doom Tirek would bring if he takes control Twilight is forced to fight him. While she loses the battle and he is instead beaten by something more in line with the theme of the show it's still an important enough moment to note.

-Juggernaut drive (High School dxd)

On the complete other end of things High school dxd is an ecchi anime about a perverted boy named Issei Hyoudou growing his harem after being turned into a demon and being shown his sacred gear, the boosted gear. Later on in the show a woman named Asia Argento who he was in love with is sent to the dimensional gap by a man named Shalba Beelzebub Issei completely snaps, losing all control he allows the Red Dragon Emporer Ddraig take over his body entirely and the sacred gear grows in size entirely and everyone is just watching on as he loses control and not only destroy Shalba but everything in the area, their only hope being to ask for an enemy's help to subdue him.

-Goku's sacrifice (Dragon Ball Z Abridged)

DBZA is a parody of dragon ball that dubs over most scenes to make them funnier all the way to the cell saga. Towards the end though things got more serious and when Cell threatens to blow up the planet the comedy is mostly cut as Goku apologizes to Gohan. Just a genuine emotional monologue. Despite everything in Abridged changing they still manage to keep the core of these characters well enough to have scenes that are able to highlight non-comedic parts of them.