Media Made to Prove the Haters Wrong

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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Their story deliberately challenged the belief that traditional superheroes like Superman were outdated.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.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer has an episode “Hush” where monsters steal everyone’s ability to speak.

This episode was written in response to the claim that witty dialogue is the only thing the show has going for it.

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They still managed to get in some quippy dialogue type stuff even in mute

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Buffy miming staking and it looks like something else is perfection in acting.

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That whole scene was great. Anya eating popcorn, Giles’ increasingly dramatic overhead projector demonstration. I also loved Spike’s deadpan “you idiot” glare in an earlier scene at Xander when he tries to call Buffy with no voice

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That whole presentation is one of my fav. moments from the show.

[u/Chaetomius → u/Digit00l]

*accidental jerk-off motion*

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Why did they even think of something like that despite Buffy stabbing most of the monsters since the beginning? Even Willow 😭

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The best to me was Xander's 'sorry not sorry' shrug to Spike out of beating the crap out of him.