Media Made to Prove the Haters Wrong

[u/Ultrimus-Prime]

Tunak Tunak Tun (Daler Mehndi) Critics claimed his music videos were only popular because they featured attractive women dancing. Mehndi responded by making a music video featuring nobody except multiple green-screen versions of himself. It became a massive hit and his most famous song.

Five Nights at Freddy’s - Scott Cawthon previously made a family-friendly game called Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. Critics complained that the characters looked like creepy animatronics. Rather than abandon that visual style, Cawthon decided to turn them into an actual horror game using scary animatronics.

Superman Kingdom Come - Mark Waid and Alex Ross were reacting to the 1990s trend of increasingly violent, cynical superheroes.

Their story deliberately challenged the belief that traditional superheroes like Superman were outdated. It portrayed the consequences of abandoning heroic ideals and argued that compassion, restraint, and morality were still essential to superheroes.

[u/iamamotherclucker]

"The Boys" comics must be up there for "most larped pieces of media", because I keep seeing people talk about how it's so much better than the show and posting edits (that consist of the same five pages) only to never talk about anything actually in the comics

[u/ThisIsFrigglish → u/iamamotherclucker]

I once described it to a friend as

Look, it's Martian Manhunter - but he's a pervert! Look it's the X-Men - but it's a groomer cult! Look, it's a crude pastiche of Teen Titans/Young Justice/New Warriors - but they're r----ds who just rescue cats from trees and have ice cream parties! Look, it's Thor - but he's an alcoholic groper! Look, it's all the 'my superpower is money' heroes - but he's a degenerate rapist! All so Ennis' quartet of the most agonizingly late-90s Donut Steel edgelord OCs plus Simon Pegg have someone to gruesomely disassemble in full color with super-strength. Essential plot lines include a Superman expie going from "that varsity kid who used to shove Ennis into lockers, but with powers" to homicidal god-complex by mistake, a central protagonist killing a superpowered baby (this is presented positively), and a drooling sub-70 IQ crude parody of Cheney knocking the President unconscious in the secure White House bunker during 9/11. It's just a subway wizard shoving his grubby finger in your mouth because he saw you reading a comic book.

[u/Michelanvalo → u/ThisIsFrigglish]

Don't forget about the dog that rapes on command.

[u/ThisIsFrigglish → u/Michelanvalo]

There are a lot of small things I could have brought up - the Captain America knock-off bottoming for a place on the team, the rape dog, the zombie kept in a room full of his own shit - but I thought leaning into three of the things Ennis felt should drive the plot was enough.

[u/jackofslayers → u/iamamotherclucker]

"OH you like Aquaman? Well MY Aquaman is a piece of shit that does drugs. and also he gets killed by My edgy OC characters. OH you like the Flash? Well MY flash rapes people and also he gets killed by my edgy OC characters."

Literally just that on repeat.

[u/Nyx87 → u/jackofslayers]

The show had a lot of problems, but i like how they handled both A-train and Deeps redemption (or lack thereof) arcs.

[u/DaemonG → u/Nyx87]

most of the supes, at least among those that were in the show from early on, got handled pretty damn well. Starlight being an unfortunate exception.

[u/Dropbeatdad → u/iamamotherclucker]

A good internet meme can do that