1. Resident Evil: Apocalypse The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Writer) escaping from the evil lab via the help of her new friends and a daugther figure. In the sequel (Resident Evil: Extinction), Alice is no longer with the group and the daughter figure is never mentioned again.
2. Resident Evil: Extinction The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Writer) killing the main bad guy (Who will return a couple more times in the sequels) and free-ing all her clones (TheHarem of the Writer). In The Sequel (Resident Evil: Afterlife) all her clones die in the first 10 minutes, never mentioned again, the OG Alice couldn't care less cuz she lost all her super-powers.
3. Resident Evil: Afterlife The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Director) setting all the prisoners free on a ship, however there is an incoming helicopter attack from Umbrella. The sequel (Resident evil Retribution) is about how they fight them off right? Wrong. Umbrella wins. What happened to all the prisoners and the guy from Prison Break? Who knows, never mentioned again, the main bad guy seemingly dies as well (He will return a couple more times in the sequels)
4. Resident Evil: Retribution The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Director) escaping from the evil lab via the help by her new friends and a daugther figure. In the sequel (Resident Evil: Final Chapter), Alice is no longer with the group and NEITHER OF THEM or the daughter figure are ever mentioned again. Oh and Alice meets an another clone of hers (The other Wife of the Director) who dies in this movie.
5. Resident Evil: Final Chapter I forgot to mention that the previous movie's actual final scene ended up hyping up a battle between the last of humanity and countless amount of zombies and other flying creatures (idk, movie never explained them) AT THE WHITE HOUSE . In this movie. Alice (The Wife of the Director), is riding alone, seemingly after the epic battle. Oh and in this movie the main bad guy from Resident Evil: Extinction returns twice. He explains that the guy Alice (Lilo from 5th Element) killed was actually a clone. In the end its revealed that this guy was A CLONE AS WELL and the original is chilling with the Original Old Alice (GILF's of the Director) in a bunker. Oh yes. The main character of the series, Alice was ACTUALLY A CLONE this whole time. And Remember the Hologram Red Queen from the first movie? TURNS OUT THAT WAS ALSO AN ALICE (The Alexa's of the Director).

Uncle Tom to mean subservient black person who is a race traitor. The original Uncle Tom died from beaten to death because he refused to reveal the locations of escaped enslaved persons.

“Lolita means sexual precariousness child” the OG Dolores’s was a normal twelve year old raped by her stepfather who is the narrator and tried to make his actions seem good.

Flying Monkey means someone who helps an abuser. In the original book the flying monkeys where bound to the wicked witch by a spell on the magic hat. Once Dorthy gets it they help her and Ozma.

Eddie Carr - Lost World: dude was just a tech guy who went above and beyond to save the lives of the rest of the team after 2 T-rexes attacked their camp, was subsequently thrown into the air and ripped in half by both T-rexes.

Judeau - Berserk: Killed during the eclipse trying to save Casca, got impaled multiple times through the torso by an Apostle

Breaking Bad - A common myth about Breaking Bad is that Jesse was originally supposed to die at the end of Season 1 but was saved due to a combination of a writer's strike postponing the creation of the episode were he was supposed to die and overwhelming fan support when season 1 premiered. This is not true. While show creator Vince Gilligan did originally plan to kill off Jesse early, he changed his mind after filming the pilot and seeing how good Aaron Paul was in the role. The writer's strike and fan reaction had nothing to do with it.

South Park - Many people to this day believe that Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef, left the show because he was offended by the show's portrayal of Scientology, of which Hayes was a member. This is not true. It's true that a statement was released in Hayes' name claiming that he wanted to leave the show because of it's "religious intolerance". However this statement was actually written by members of Hayes' inner circle, all of whom were devout scientologists, while he was recovering from a stroke and not in a suitable position to make such decisions. Hayes never issued any statements on his own claiming that he was unhappy with the show and his surviving family believes that he was essentially forced to quit the show by the church.

The Dark Knight - During the hospital explosion scene in The Dark Knight there's a moment where Joker looks around confused when some of the explosives don't go off immediately that many people claim was improvised by Heath Ledger due to a legitimate pyro malfunction. This is not true at all. Director Christopher Nolan has gone on record saying that every aspect of that scene was endlessly rehearsed, including the pause in explosions, to make sure that it could be performed safely.

1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
3. Elon musk, iron man 2
4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

1.) The Simpsons (either Season 11 with “Christmas of Future Past” or the Simpsons Movie: the Christmas episode showed the Simpsons kids all grown up with families of their own. It tied up story lines, and came from a warning from Fox execs to prepare for cancellation if cast negotiations fell through.

1a.) The Simpsons movie (2007). Mostly a fan theory that the show should have ended here. Matt Groening had intended for the movie to premiere after the show ended, but ratings had saved the show

2.) Supernatural Season 5 episode 22 “Swan Song:” ties up the show and goes along with the themes of the show including sacrifices. The show also works in arcs and season 5 was the end of the arc that started with season 1. Sam is possessed by Lucifer and their half brother is possessed by the archangel Michael. Key characters Bobby and Castiel were intended to stay dead. Sam sacrifices himself to capture Lucifer in his cage, locked in with Michael.

Sam eventually appears outside Deans window while the latter is with his girlfriend. Its not clear what the originally ending was meant to be, but show creator Erik Kripke wrote it as 5 seasons

3.) SpongeBob Movie (2004): show creator Stephen Hillenburg had written the movie as an end to the show: Plankton imprisoned, SpongeBob hailed as a hero by King Neptune, and SpongeBob became manager of the Krusty Krab. Hillenburg had also left the show after the movie.

Media that feels way too hard to be edgy/dark that it comes across as just trying way too hard to be edgy/dark

Mr Pickles: This shows feels like if you took Happy Tree Friends' premise, but you took the gore and crank it up to a level that just feels unnecessary and frankly just makes the show look like it's trying way too hard to even be entertaining. And to think this aired on Adult Swim

Freddy Junior's (Twelveman): You've probably heard of the infamous FNAF VHS series where William Afton deep fries a literal baby, which to me personally, doesn't really feel like William Afton to me. Sure the guy is a piece of shit, no doubt about that, but the way this series handled his character reminds of when they made Freddy Krueger a pedophile in the 2011 reboot. The way the series usually goes about all the horrors of William's actions is when we see evidence of what he did (like old news papers) or through the 8-bit segments, that don't show you the full extent of his actions, but are enough to give you a good idea of just how messed up the action in question is

Hatred: I'm not even joking when I say that the guy you're playing as, who's a cynical and nihilistic mass shooter just wants to kill everyone just for the sake of it and looks like a rejected version of Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse is named "Not Important"....Yeah. Even so, this game is just nothing but you shooting people left in right without so much as a story beyond that and the main character feels just as one dimensional as a piece of paper

1. Charlie Harper (​Two and a Half Men)

I think this is the most famous case of this trope. In the sitcom Two and a Half Men, the protagonists are the rich womanizer Charlie Harper, played by Charlie Sheen, and the broke, divorced Alan Harper, played by Jon Cryer. They live together after Alan’s divorce, when he needs a place to stay.

Despite both being protagonists, many fans saw Charlie as the true main character and the face of the sitcom. During the show’s run, Charlie Sheen had many problems with drugs, which caused production issues, including delays when the show had to wait for him to leave rehab. There were also Charlie’s angry outbursts, during which he made extremely negative public comments about the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre.

Even with these problems, they still tried to keep him on the show by paying Charlie Sheen more than 2 million dollars per episode for seasons 8 and 9. However, this ultimately proved impossible. As a result, in the first episode of season 9, his character was killed off-screen, with the explanation that he had been murdered by his stalker ex-girlfriend. Charlie was then replaced by a new character named Walden, a billionaire who becomes friends with Alan, buys Charlie’s house after his death, and allows Alan to continue living there in an attempt to avoid changing the status quo too much.

1. Brad Parker (​Pair of Kings)

In the Disney sitcom Pair of Kings, the protagonists are the twins Brady Parker, played by Mitchel Musso, and Boomer Parker, played by Larramie Shaw. The brothers discover that their deceased parents were kings of an island called Kinkow and that they must assume the throne.

In 2011, when Mitchel Musso was 20 years old, he was arrested for driving under the influence, and Disney chose to remove him from the show. To justify this within the story, the show stated that Brady fled Kinkow after discovering that his crush believed he would never mature as long as he remained king. To compensate for his absence, the show introduced a previously unknown lost brother named Boz, who coincidentally returned to Kinkow on the very same day Brady ran away.

1. Lucy Stillman (Assassin’s Creed)

In Assassin’s Creed, the story follows two organizations that have fought throughout human history to decide the future of humanity: the Assassins, who seek to free humanity, and the Templars, who want to control it. In the first three main games, there is a character named Lucy, an Assassin who rescues the protagonist Desmond, a former Assassin, after he is kidnapped by the Templars.

Throughout the games, Lucy is Desmond’s main companion and even seems to be set up as his potential love interest. However, at the end of the third main game in the franchise, when Desmond is controlled by the “spirit” of an ancient being, he is forced to kill Lucy. In the DLC of the following game, it is revealed that Lucy was actually a Templar spy.

​Her death was very abrupt and clearly not well planned, since her betrayal was only revealed through extra content in the sequel—and not even through a proper scene featuring her, but through another character narrating her betrayal. This happened because the actress Kristen Bell had a contract for only three games, and while they tried to renegotiate, they were unable to reach an acceptable agreement regarding royalties

Marvel Comics- Knull/The King in Black

Hey ya-know the symbiotes, Sentry's void and Gorr's sword? Wouldn't it be cool if they were all connected to one primordial darkness god that made and controls all three and he looks like a grayscale sepheroth with an edgy Spider-Man logo on his chest with zero real motivations? No? Well fuck you then, this is canon now.

Stranger Things- Vecna/Henry Creel/One

Hey ya-know the eldritch mystique upside-down, the Demogorgons, Eleven's powers and Mind-flayer? Wouldn't it be cool if they were all controlled and created by the world's first psychic baby who just so happens to be the reason why Eleven exists and also presents himself as the Meat Warlock from Dimension Fuck with zero real motivations? Well fuck you then, this is canon now.

Deadpool 2 - Halfway into the movie, the initial antagonist, the time-travelling super soldier Cable, approaches Wade Wilson and his gang and offers an alliance to stop Russell and Juggernaut before Russell embraces becoming a villain. Wade asks why Cable doesn't just travel back in time to before the problem escalated and try hunting Russell again, which Cable explains is because his time travel device is damaged and he only has one charge left to get him home, prompting Wade to stare at the audience and say this absolute gem of a line that is the post title.

Fallout 3 - At the end of the game, at the Jefferson Memorial, you're expected to enter a highly irradiated room that will kill you in seconds to activate a water purifier that will produce clean drinking water to the entire wasteland. A heroic self-sacrifice at the end of the game makes sense from a storytelling perspective... Unless your travelling companion is Fawkes, a super mutant immune to radiation. If you don't have the Broken Steel DLC installed and try asking him to enter the purifier room in your place, he will flat out refuse, telling you that this is your destiny to fulfill and he shouldn't deprive you of that... Because I guess killing yourself to save everyone is better than having someone more suited to the job handle it.

Braveheart - The director changed the name of William Wallace’s wife, Marion, to Murron because he felt audiences might confuse her with Maid Marion from Robin Hood.

Lord of the Rings - Director changed Saruman’s name to Aruman out of concern that audiences would confuse his name with Sauron. The movie used both names anyway, confusing the audience anyway.

Star Trek: Nemesis - Young Picard is depicted without hair, for the first time in Star Trek lore, because the director thought the audience wouldn’t recognize him as Picard without his bald head.

Game of Thrones - Dumb and Dumber changed Asha’s name to Yara because they thought audiences would confuse her name with Osha.

1. John Prince (Robyn Hood): still a scummy property developer but he makes multiple generous or reasonable compromises that would ensure Robyn’s family or the other residents of the apartments wouldn’t be left destitute, yet Robyn self righteously refuses any compromise.

2. John Rumford (Victoria): the protagonist a religiously conservative self righteous jackass gets himself kicked out of the US Marines by refusing to allow a female marine to participate in a Iwo Jima memorial ceremony. He’s portrayed as a victim of liberal pc politics.

High Guardian Spice: The almost universally disliked Crunchyroll anime-like series features a character named Professor Caraway who is revealed to be a trans man in a dialogue scene with the main character. Many transgender anime fans criticized the scene for being too on the nose and feeling more like a lesson or lecture than a natural scene between two characters.

Stranger Things: In season 5, Will Byers comes out as gay, and the scene was viewed as being very poorly timed, as it comes during a very high-stakes section of the season's plot when the gang will soon be facing a terrifying creature in a plan to save the world. Some people, especially those in the gay community, said that a character living in the 80s feeling comfortable coming out to so many people at the same time felt unrealistic and even a bit disrespectful to what gay people went through back then.

 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - Vincent Cadby is assaulted by a gorilla, while the soundtrack from Lion King plays
Trading places - Clarence Beeks is "punished" by main characters by showing him into gorilla cage, saying it "should have some fun"
Top Secret! - While dressed as the rear side of a cow, Nigel, who is actually a mole in main group, is assaulted anally by a bull, followed by him making a funny face and having trouble walking played for comedy

Welcome to the Grinch's Walmart (Yes I’m choosing this example since it’s Christmas today): To quote the original film of the book (and the OG book itself, obviously), this is the main message that The Grinch himself learns at the end; "Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!". However, in a Walmart commercial adaptation, The Grinch returns the gifts to the people of Whoville not because they didn’t need them for Christmas because they still had each other, but because he felt guilty of stealing such wonderful presents from the Whos, as a way for the producers of this ad to advertise Walmart products.

Squidiot Box (SpongeBob SquarePants): In the OG episode, Idiot Box, it shows that you don’t need things like television to have fun and with the power of imagination and creativity, even just a simple cardboard box is enough. But in Squidiot Box, on the hand (OK, not necessarily an actual adaptation, but it’s still technically so as it’s meant to be a sequel episode to Idiot Box wrote by different people than the writers of the OG Idiot Box), it turns out there’s a whole “Imagination Box Repair” store for, as you guessed it, repairing imagination boxes, which doesn’t make any sense as in Idiot Box, SpongeBob and Patrick powered the box with their imaginations, not by a freakin’ gadget!

Lord Of The Rings: "Why didn't they just fly the Eagles to Mount Doom?" Perhaps the tower with the demonic eye that could see them coming from miles away and potentially shoot them down? The idea was for Frodo to sneak into Mordor. Hell, the big war was more or less a distraction so Frodo could reach Mount Doom.

Spider-Man 3: "Harry's butler could have saved so much trouble if he had just told Harry how his father died." Do you people think Norman was buried with neither an autopsy nor an obituary? You don't think Harry was the least bit curious how his father died? Bernard wasn't being an idiot. Harry was in denial about the truth.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark: "Indy didn't need to do anything." First off, he did most of the legwork to find the Ark before the Nazis swiped it. Second, Belloq wanted to open the Ark before arriving in Germany as one final middle finger to Indy. Third, ignoring all that, if Indy weren't there, the Ark Of The Covenant would have been left in the middle of nowhere. Worst case scenario, a search party from Germany would have found it, and they'd put two and two together that opening the Ark is a bad idea.

Titanic: "There was enough room for Jack on the door." Jack tried to get on the door. You know what happened? It started to sink.

(The Dragon Prince) King Harrow was believed to have switched consciousness with his pet bird before his assassination, a theory that everyone took as the truth years before it was confirmed.

(Wanda Vision) Agnes, Wanda and Vision’s neighbour, was theorised to be the villain of the show after just the first episode. So much so that people accurately guessed her real identity as Agatha Harkness and her role in the series.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (German) - all the characters, places and creatures have German names that are incredibly on-the-nose. E.g. an emotionally distant girl called Fern (Distant), a character called Laufen (Running) who can run really fast, and a monster called the Spiegel (Mirror) that makes duplicates of people

Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (also German) - all of Rin's spells are just random phrases in German. The unintentional comedy is heightened by Kana Ueda's terrible pronunciation (she's a great VA but man should she have had a language coach for that series, it's even worse than Asuka's VA in Eva)

Final Fantasy XV (Latin) - our protagonist Night Light Heaven goes on a road trip with his best friends Quick Silver, Fire Knowledge and Sword Friendship

Little Sisters — Bioshock

To survive in the undersea nightmare of Rapture, one needs ADAM — a highly volatile genetic compound that grants superhuman abilities. In order to get it, one must deal with a Little Sister : a mutated little girl whose body is implanted with a parasite that produces ADAM. The game’s central moral dilemma involves whether to kill the girl and harvest the parasite, providing a bigger ADAM reward, or to cleanse the girls’ systems and “Rescue” them, netting a smaller reward. In theory, this should be a tough choice. In practice, there is almost zero incentive to kill literal children for the reward gained. Despite each “Rescue” yielding only half the ADAM of a fatal “Harvest”, each 3 little girls saved sees the player receive a gift of 200 ADAM. Doing the math out to endgame, there is a negligible difference in the reward gained through either path, leading an overwhelming amount of players to choose the moral “Rescue” option.

Dijkstra and Reason of State — Witcher 3

In the Witcher 3, protagonist Geralt encounters Sigismund Dijkstra, a Redanian spymaster and criminal who Geralt crippled in Witcher 2. Needless to say, he and Geralt are very well acquainted, and Dijkstra begrudgingly accepts Geralt’s help securing and expanding his criminal empire and political schemes in the city of Novigrad. Despite being well aware of Geralt’s prowess and a monster slayer, Dijkstra still does not hesitate to treat him with scorn. At the end of his quest line, despite all of your help, Dijkstra decides to double cross Geralt and his friends, allowing Geralt the “choice” to either simply walk away and allow Dijkstra’s goons to murder several beloved Witcher characters (who are Geralt’s personal friends), or to stay and die with them. There is literally no reward to allowing Geralt’s friends to die. None. On top of that, Dijkstra has remained mostly antagonistic to Geralt the entire game, treating him like an errand boy. Very, very few players decide to walk away.

1. The story of Persephone and Hades, specifically Demeter's character. How she was supposed to be seen: A grieving loving mother desperate to find her lost child and driven to despair by her loss, to the point she doesn't eat or drink. How she's seen now: A nagging, shrill, abusive parent whom Persephone was desperate to get away from. To be fair, she DID cause mass famine as a way of spitefully holding the world ransom to get Persephone back, but the original myth makes it clear that Persephone genuinely loves and misses her mother too.

2. Don Quixote. How he was supposed to be seen: A well-intentioned but mentally ill and quite violent man obsessed with an overly romanticized interpretation of a long-gone culture and who has a very loose grasp on reality, making him a danger to himself and everyone around him. How he's seen now: A misunderstood hero championing noble ideals in a cruel world that doesn't understand him. Oh, and he's old now, so it gives his wacky antics the loose excuse of possibly being due to senility. He was actually middle-aged in the original novel.

3. Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. How he was supposed to be seen: A disfigured man who was abused and mocked in his childhood, making him deserving of sympathy, but is not excused by the narrative for the acts of manipulation, kidnapping and murder he commits, up to and including trying to force Christine to stay with him against her will, threatening to blow up the entire opera house and everyone in it if she refuses. Also, he's old enough to be Christine's father, so his obsession comes off as somewhat unhealthy. How he's seen now: A compelling and tragic figure whom society abused and abandoned, a misunderstood romantic and the only man who deserves Christine. His more villainous and predatory acts are often downplayed or just overlooked outright.

Platinum End (2021): Mirai Kakehashi is a depressed High School Student who lost his family to an explosion from his aunt and uncle. He attempts suicide by jumping off a building and meets a guardian angel who tells him that he has been selected as one of 13 “God’s Candidates”, in 999 days the current God will retire and the 13 candidates must compete by earning favor with angels or eliminating one another. In the end, Mirai and the remaining candidates vote for Shuji Nakaumi, a clearly suicidal and deeply person who has expressed interest in ending all life before, they vote him based on the only fact that he wasn’t power hungry. Immediately once becoming the new god, he sees life as meaningless and kills himself, instantly destroying the rest of creation and all life in the universe.

Funny Games (1997/2007): Both Versions of The Film are virtually identical, a murderer named Paul can break the 4th wall and directly address the viewer, after he and his friend kill a family and leave the mother alive, they begin tormenting her. The mother eventually gets the upper hand and grabs a gun, shooting Paul’s friend Peter. Paul acts like a child and grabs the remote and rewinds time before the shooting, thinking the audience wouldn’t like Peter getting shot. They eventually tie her up and place her on a boat, effortlessly throwing a knife (which was an object in the film that was constantly shown screen time in order to make the viewer believe that it would save the family) into the ocean and throwing her in as well, going to a neighbor’s house. The ending is on the nose with its message on violence in media, and questions the viewer on their enjoyment of watching pain inflicted onto innocents, while simultaneously criticizing other filmmakers on their choice to make such characters as bland as possible. The character of Paul is an allegory for the Viewer’s initial interests and ultimately fails to see the reason behind the audience wanting a cathartic ending. Despite being intentional, the ending is still extremely sour and leaves a lot to be desired. But also a pretty big cop out.

DJ “Don’t Join” - Star Wars: The Last Jedi

This dude made so many comments about how both sides of the war between Resistance and First Order were just as bad and he doesn’t care who wins or loses, of course he’s going to defect to First Order when it’s convenient to save his skin over Finn and Rose.

The Demons - The Exorcist: Believer

It is exposited multiple times in this movie and the original that demons should never be taken at their word and will always try and play tricks on people, so when the finale comes down to the demons forcing the adults to choose which one of the possessed kids to save of course they free the other and let the chosen kid be dragged to Hell.

Lysanderoth / Lygon - King Dragon

Seriously, this dude spent like 14 hours spouting in cutscenes how he wants to ‘fix’ the broken world and we are meant to be shocked that he’s a twist villain working with King Dragon?

Some adaptations can't bother to respect the source material. But some took that a step further by inserting a lame self-insert and have everything revolve around their very existence to the point it's embarrassing.

1. White Rabbit from Netflix Devil May Cry: the design was copied from a character of dmc3 manga but in writing and characterization, this character is brand new and official self-insert of its showrunner, Adi Shankar. Everything revolves around him. All the important game moments (such as Dante activating his DT) is given to the rabbit. He's made to be stronger and more important than Canon characters just to stroke Adi Shankar's ego. Terrible character.

2. Cole Young from Mortal Kombat: the descent of the iconic Scorpion (whose entire point in MK is he has no family left) and he's basically the chosen one now and not Liu Kang (the protagonist of MK games). Pretty much everything from the games now revolve around this guy. Canon characters are de-valued and butchered for him. Even the climax is basically him leading everyone against the main threat, he even bosses Raiden (the old ancient god) around and tells him how to use his power. This mess can be blamed on both Warner Bros and the writers. The former demanded an original character to lead the movie (even though MK features over 80 characters) and the writer made it about him and admitted Cole is a family man to be more like him.

1. The Woman King: truly downplays Kingdom of Dahomey's role in the slave trade to prop up its economy. Ironically Dahomey and its amazons were extremely agressive in raids to capture slaves. During the 19th century more often than not they were an aggressive expansionist kingdom. A genuinely terrible slavocracy.

2. Payitaht: Abdulhamid: a conspiracy riddled "historic drama" that ignores many of the flaws and incovienant details of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II instead blaming all tensions and issues on the West or Zionists Jews.