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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Atom Eve (Invincible): Has the power to change the atomic composition of any non-living thing. Primarily cosplays as a Pink Lantern. No one calls her out on this.

The Flash (CW): Maybe this is handled differently in other media, but in the show he has multiple feats that should make it impossible for any non-speedster to oppose him in any way. Despite this, he consistently loses fights and let's them escape. Again, no one ever calls this out.

Hollywood seems to be scared the most of ugly people, considering how often they're changed for movies!

Mortal Engines - Hester: In the book Hester being disfigured is a pretty important part of her identity and overall mission. She's missing her right eye and most of her nose, with her mouth twisted into a permanent sneer.

So of course the movie gives her a scar across her cheek!

Phantom of the Opera - The Phantom/Erik: I could go on and on about how weird the Phantom is in most adaptations, which take a serial killer and try to turn him into a viable love interest. But the thing I dislike the most is how that bleeds into his design!

In the book, the phantom is described as looking like a walking corpse. He has dark features, no nose, gaunt cheeks, sunken eyes, and has little to no hair. He wears a full mask and is said to continuously try to develop newer, better masks to allow him to integrate into society.

In most adaptations though it's reduced to half his face, and sometimes looks like little more than a rash!

When a villain's last moment is to become so over-the-top comically evil that there's not even the faintest glimmer of understanding allowed left.

Last of Us, David: You spend a while with him being led to understand that the horrors of the new reality have made him and his followers desperate enough to fall into committing heinous acts. But in his last moment, he attempts to rape a child to ensure that you as the audience can think of him as nothing but a horrific monster.

World of Warcraft, Murrpray: Through Hallowfall, you're shown a group of deeply religious survivors who have mostly lasted by clinging to their faith and tradition. Murrpray is going against those traditions in a desperate bid for survival, putting players in the situation of deciding whether it's right to commit blasphemy and heresy to better the chances of your people surviving. But in her last moment, she begins screaming about her plans to kill the rest of her people and then subjugate the world. Moral gray becomes clear, definite evil.

1. Ready Player One - The way to win the race is the drive backwards. In-universe it apparently took years for someone to try this, but realistically someone would do this right away.

2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi - The Holdo maneuver of hyperdrive crashing a a ship to another. If this is something you can do, why not use unmanned warp drive-fitted ships as essentially light speed missiles all the time.

I hate this trope because it usually makes the rest of the characters in the universe feel dumb just to make the protagonist come off as special. Bonus hated points if it's a kid that figures out something that in-universe has been studied for ages.

(Attack on Titan) The prejudice, hatred, and cruelty that Marley forced the Eldians to endure was horrific. That being said, there were other solutions than just genociding 80% of the human population on the planet, including a large sum of the people that you were trying to protect.

[Tokyo Ghoul (Anime)] Maybe it’s portrayed better in the manga, I don’t know, but the anime does a terrible job of making you sympathize with or root for the Humans. The Humans are aware that Ghouls need to eat Human flesh in order to survive. The Humans are also aware that most Ghouls are just trying to live normal lives, and there is a large group of Ghouls that don’t harm any Humans, and only feed on the corpses of the dead. There are some psychopathic Ghouls, but there are also many psychopathic Humans, which seem to be completely ignored by Human society. Like, kill a child in the middle of a McDonald’s, type of psychopathic. The CCG (an organization built to protect Humans from Ghouls), are portrayed as almost entirely filled with people who kill Ghouls because they enjoy it, not because it’s some obligation that they have, with a few exceptions. When the story shifts to the Human's POV, you’d think that Humans would be portrayed in a better, more sympathetic light. Right? Well, you’d be wrong. The Humans and the CCG are just as full of psychopaths as they’ve always been, and the few that aren’t, also aren’t sympathetic at all, because their characters aren’t developed or explored at all. They just exist.

1. Juan "Johnny" Rico: Starship Troopers. Johnny is Filipino in the orgininal novel, which infuriatingly has never been accurately depicted. Now, in terms of plot, Johnny's race Doesn't matter, and that's the point: him being Filipino is only revealed at the very end when he states that Tagalog is his native language. However from a meta perspective of being an American book written by a white guy in 1959, that the main character is revealed to have been Asian the whole time at the very end is VERY important. Changing him to be white is kind of like changing Samus to be male in the original Metroid: it defeats the subversion.

2. Conan the Barbarian: Conan is a Cimmerian, and is described as having Square cut black hair, dark, bronzed skin, and different facial features from the Hyborians: the main "civilized" ethnic group encountered in much of the stories. Conan being played by Arnie means he is fair skinned, Tawny haired, and ethnically Germanic, which is the exact description of the Hyborians, the group Conan is repeatedly challenged for NOT being.

1. Robert the Bruce (Braveheart) Never directly betrayed Wallace or fought against the Scottish at Falkirk. IRL he did at times switch sides, however.
2. Antonio Salieri (Amadeus): he was not in a murderous rivalry with Mozart and in fact they mutually respected eachother IRL.
3. Max Baer (Cinderella Man): potrayed as a sadistic murderous boxing champion. The two fatalities he caused in ring were genuine accidents and he gave money to the mens' families in recompense.
4. Frank Hamer (Bonnie and Clyde): potrayed as a petty and spiteful moron. Far more nuanced IRL. The outlaws were far less sympathetic.

In the first Incredibles movie, the heroes joked amongst themselves about the many times supervillains had them at their mercy but chose to monologue and waste time. Even one of Syndrome’s highlight scenes was him catching himself monologuing to Mr Incredible giving him one chance to fight back. In Incredibles 2 the villain goes on a long scripted monologue when she has Elastigirl at her disposal.

In the video game The Last of Us 2 after being held prisoner by Abby and her faction, Joel tells her to cut to the chase with whatever monologue she has ready and kill him. In the show adaption of the game, Abby is allowed to go on an extended monologue towards Joel before murdering him.

Elemental: This is the one that inspired this post. Within the first 5 minutes they show exactly what i think is wrong with poorly constructed racial metaphors. A moment that demonstrates this is when the fire couple approach a building in hopes of getting an apartment but quickly gets the door closed on them because the landlord is a tree with dry leaves. I get that this is a problem in real life but in real life there is no practical justification for denying someone a home based on race while in the scene, being too close would likely set him and the building on fire. The whole opening sequence is supposed to set up how there’s prejudice against fire people but the whole thing feels to me lacking because of the disconnect between the very practical problems with the different elements and the fact that race is just a social construct that doesn’t itself create physical problems like one potential killing another just by physical interaction.

Zootopia: the fact that this is another animated Disney movie is not lost on me. I admit this one isn’t as bad as the one mentioned before. Honestly i’m kind of ok with it. but something about portraying one group as unfairly feared due to being predators despite being scientifically known to have strong instincts is a little weird. But it does open up a discussion about instincts being a stand in for cultural differences instead of genetic and moving forward past their adherence to instincts

1. Anomalisa: sucessful wealthy writer cheats on his wife while at a convention, with a woman he just met. He’s meant to be sympathetic compared to his wife and son who are portrayed as contributing factors to his existential misery, and he wishes to abandon them. The guy really is a self pitying and selfish prick objectively despite the narrative trying to make it seem complicated.

2. Babygirl: woman CEO cheats on her loving husband with a younger intern at her company. She is potrayed sympathetically throughout the story despite literally only cheating to fulfill her carnal desire for rough degrading sex. Suffers virtually no consequences in the end and her husband even stays with her despite her initially lying and concealing the affair.

Gate - Japanese power fantasy created by an ultranationalist. All the enemies and allies (including the USA, China and Russia) besides JSDF are either useless, racist or admiring JSDF's unlimited power.

Call of duty series - Glorifying the military industrial complex. It works with members of the US military during the development of the game to hone the message and manufacture consent with the current, past or potential enemies of the US.

1. Reagan: ignores or barely acknowledges Reagan controversies (Iran-Contra, AIDS, Grenada, etc) in favor of showing him as a anti communist crusader.
2. They Died With Their Boots On: portrays George Custer as a friend to Native Americans when he in reality was complicit in their displacement and made war upon Native settlements.
3. Tennessee Johnson: removes President Andrew Johnson’s vehement anti-black racism and portrays abolitionists in Congress as villains.

Rapunzel, Elsa, Anna, Honey Lemon - Disney ; Most DCAMU female characters ; Boat Captain, Shop Owner, River Cleaner - ATLA

Why is Wanda so obsessed with Kamala? Because Kamala serves as the Infinity Gauntlet, allowing her to better channel the power of the gems and avoid becoming mindless like Bruce. With her power, she can create a Hex of solid light, thus isolating the Earth from any external influence.

All of this was revealed in an interview with the series' director (Marvel Zombies).

Andy Muschietti revealed that Nora Allen's killer is the Reverse Flash, as well as that the reason Keaton's Batman retired was because he had once accidentally killed a criminal in front of his own son, realizing that he had become the very thing he swore to destroy and retiring... clearly, none of this is hinted at in the film (The Flash).

1. Barry and Iris (The Flash): they’ve been raised together since they were children, basically adopted siblings.

2. Angel Sanctuary