r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ultrimus-Prime • 1d ago

miscellaneous 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Their story deliberately challenged the belief that traditional superheroes like Superman were outdated.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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u/Yoshichu25 1d ago

“[T]rend of increasingly violent, cynical superheroes”

You’re telling me we’ve been here before?

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u/jbwarner86 1d ago

You should've seen the '90s. It was a rough scene - Superman died, Batman got replaced with a murderous maniac, Spider-Man's symbiote suit came to life and started eating people, and Rob Liefeld was actually considered talented.

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u/LemoLuke 1d ago edited 1d ago

'90s comics summed up in one cover

  • Excessive number of pouches ✅
  • Huge sci-fi guns ✅
  • Boob windows ✅
  • 'Cool' jackets ✅
  • Holographic cover ✅

Only thing missing is introducing a brand new character with a name like 'Bloodmeat Deathfist'

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u/MrKimimaru 1d ago

Can’t forget the

SHOULDER PADS

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u/broanoah 1d ago

i dont think your link works

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u/hirmuolio 1d ago

Try this: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/e/e4/Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_375.jpg

Almost always when hotlinking to wiki images you must remove the /revision/latest?cb=20180106035932 part from the url.

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u/LemoLuke 1d ago

Thanks! I've edited the link.

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u/wankster9000 1d ago

Don't forget tiny feet

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u/HailMadScience 1d ago

"Fantastic Four"

looks inside

six heroes

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u/csolisr 1d ago

The Thing, a being covered from head to toe with hard rocks, using a helmet? Why?

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u/LemoLuke 20h ago

IIRC, in a previous story, his rocky face had been slashed by Wolverine, leaving him with a horrible fleshy wound

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u/the_ghost_of_bob_ros 1d ago

human torch have you been hitting the steroids again?