In Dandadan, Momo Ayase regularly switches outfits between chapters/episodes. You see a similar thing in The Weekenders (with Tino as an example) and Totally Spies. I think it's a nice bit of realism that's often overlooked.

1. Sniper from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

2. Lower Ranks Demon Slayers from Demon Slayer

Media where a terrible situation could be avoided just by having the Duolingo app.

• The Thing: They cannot understand the Norwegian warning.
• Saving Private Ryan: They mistake Czech soldiers for Germans.
• Babel: Language barriers turn several crises into disasters.
• Lost in Translation: English-only communication creates constant confusion.

The Skull Merchant (Dead By Daylight): The skull merchant was first teased with images of some cool looking cybernetic skulls, leading people to believe the killer would be some sort of terminator inspired cyborg killer? Sounds cool right? Unfortunately that was not the reality. Skull Merchant was then revealed and basically everything about her sucked. Her design felt lackluster and she looked like a mess, her lore was laughably bad, to the point she felt like a Mary sue. But the worst part was her power. To summarize DBD’s gameplay loop, survivor need to finish 5 generators to unlock the gates to escape. Merchant has drones which she could place and they would alert her of when anyone entered the premises, along with other debuffs. This, combined with perks that allowed the killer to improve their generator regression, made the infamous 3 gen strategy the worst it ever was (which was already started last update due to the previous killer also being great at it). It got so bad that a player with this strategy almost beat the #1 survivor team in the world just by doing this strategy. Not by killing them, but just by waiting for the game to time out after 1 hour. People would instantly disconnect if they were facing skull merchant. BHVR tried to rework her, but all they did was make her problematic in a different way. The final nail in the coffin was her most recent rework, which basically butchered her gameplay and she is now arguably the worst killer in the game. To just put into perspective how horrible Skull Merchant was for the game, the devs implemented a whole new mechanic just to prevent cases like the skull merchant ever happening in the future. Her promised rework has also been on a hiatus for years now, meaning she’s still dead in a ditch, and even today people will still disconnect if they face her, even though she a joke now.

Brigitte (Overwatch): Brigitte was introduced as a support hero with great defense capabilities, basically being a tank who could also heal. Before this, Overwatch did not have a role lock, so the new strategy to win games was pick 3 tanks and 3 healers, one being Brig. This strategy dominated the Overwatch competitive scene, making all matches annoying, boring, and basically the same. People would boo whenever players used the “GOATS” strategy. It did not help that Brig was also pretty strong on her own and had a shield bash which would stun you, a very annoying mechanic removed in the sequel. Just like the last example, this kind of forced Blizzard to implement role lock to kill this strategy. While Brigitte is definitely nowhere near as strong nor as annoying as she was back in her launch, she is still despised by many due to the trauma she caused the community.

Where & Wear (Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream): Kind of cheating since it’s not really a character and it’s more humorous than anything, but it’s funny nonetheless. In the demo for tomodachi life the cutoff was when you bought an item in Where & Wear, giving your Mii’s “Lobotomii” and making them forcibly convince you to buy the full game. People delayed entering the building for as long as they could to keep the Mii’s as their unaltered selves. In the main game the building does completely nothing, but many joke about being traumatized of the building.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Somehow Palpatine Returned

Batman V Superman - Save Martha. Its not the worst in idea... but the execution was so akward that it just looked ridiculous.

The Boys - It's what clara would've wanted... not exact line but close enough. Pretty much explains how they wasted final season for spinoff teasing.

I HATE HATE HATE the false information that gets spread because of scenes in film where they show people fainting, or criticizing corsets.

Yes. There was such a thing as tight lacing. But it was not the standard practice!!!!

If your corset hurts its because it was poorly fitted or too tight. Corsets were not just for making your waist small. They were for support. (Though i wont deny the flattering shape is a perk.) They were basically ye olde bra. If it was fitted properly a corset could be perfectly comfortable.

Source: SOMEONE WHO HAS WORN CORSETS.

They also werent wearing them against bare skin like so many of the bloody bodice ripper films show (a corset against bare skin would not be super comfy). They would have a chemise on first.

Please Hollywood stop claiming these were evil devices of the patriarchy meant to oppress women and that they were horribly uncomfortable. They could be in the wrong circumstances but not a NORMAL corset.

Examples are the Emily Dickinson Show with Hailee Steinfeld and Pirates of the Carribean Curse of the Black Pearl

Bonus points if the media isn’t focused around horror either

1. Star Wars Blackwing Virus

From the Comicbook “Star Wars Death Troopers” by Joel Schreiber

An ancient sith bioweapon virus infecting a whole Stardestroyer, until it became a ghost ship with zombies on it sailing in the galaxy

1. Transformers Prime, Episode “Thirst”

While experimenting on their dead comrade Breakdown with dark Energon, Knockout and Starscreamaccidentally create a zombie outbreak on their ship

Sugar — (OFF) A character who seems not to be connected with the mechanics of the world. When you defeat her, she doesn't disappear like all other enemies; her dead body just lies there, and every time you come back, it's just her rotting, bleeding corpse lying
on the hard floor.

Ozma — (Final Fantasy IX) an enormous, swirling sphere hidden inside an “eidolon cave” in Chocobo’s Air Garden. It has no dialogue, personality, demonstrated origin, or narrative role. Even its exact nature remains unknown—the ancient-eidolon explanation is only an implication.

1. Weekend at Bernie’s. This was my impetus for making this post. I saw it for the first time recently with my wife. When we told friends about it, they said “you’ve never seen that before!?” But actually, nobody in the conversation had seen it before. It’s everywhere on the internet as a reference when a politician is nearing the end. But nobody watches the movie. PS, it was fun! Check it out.

2. Gaslight. The viral therapy-speak phrase was Merriam-Webster’s “Word of the Year” in 2022. Virtually none of the people who added it to their vocabulary watched the 1944 movie, where a literal gaslight is a major plot point.

3. Snakes on a Plane. When I was a kid online, I thought this was like the biggest movie ever. Like LOTR or Star Wars-caliber big. But it is a mostly unwatched little action movie, famous mainly for one ridiculous Sam Jackson line.

4. The Human Centipede. I have not seen this one, and I will not see it. The disgusting premise is provocative and got the people talking. But nobody wants to buy a ticket. It made less than $1 million at the box office, and less than $4 million in DVD sales.

This has never made much sense to me. If you write a book/movie/TV show/whatever, you're ultimately writing it for the rest of the world. If you're gonna get mad that they're not enjoying it the specific way you want them to, why bother?

1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ultimately did not like writing so many Sherlock Holmes stories, hated how popular it was, mocked fans for writing fan letters, and tried to kill off the character to end the series, but reluctantly walked it back at the insistence of his publisher.

2. Anne Rice went so far as to attempt to sue fanfic writers who wrote fanfic about her Vampire Chronicles characters despite fanfic being free and making no money off her work. She also savagely replied to reviewers, even positive reviewers, online if she disagreed with their ultimately interpretative views.

3. Annie Proulx, who wrote the short story Brokeback Mountain, was so bothered by people writing letters expressing sadness that Jack and Ennis didn't get a happy ending, despite them saying they enjoyed the book and the story intentionally going for tragic emotions, which is what they were expressing, that she said she wished she never wrote it in the first place!

WARNING: THIS POST MAY BE FULL OF SPOILERS.

This is when a character's true history/background is first revealed through seemingly innocuous details very early in the series so when the twist had been laid out, you can actually map out the entire thing beforehand.

I love it when creators take worldbuilding really seriously and not just spring a plot twist out of nowhere.

1. Attack on Titan, Eren was a Titan Shifter - It's known that Titans get steamy/release smoke when they are injured. This scene was during the bootcamp where Eren got injured during training and there is subtle smoke coming out of his head. Before the reveal, this was thought of as a visual gag but it's actually a subtle foreshadowing of his Titan Shifter nature.
2. Gravity Falls, Stan Pines has a twin brother - In this episode, Dipper and Mabel (twin siblings) got into time travel shenanigans and this scene is part of like a "montage" of places they breeze through. So this is was the Mystery Shack set in the past and we see the twins' grand uncle, Stan Pines, just for a moment. Only for it to not be the Stan that we know of but his mystery twin, which was revealed in the S2 E11. The biggest differences between the Grunkle Stan we know and the man in this scene are the glasses and the chin. There are a lot more background details but I don't want to spoil it for you .
3. Steven Universe, Garnet is actually two lesbians in a trenchcoat - In early episodes, Garnet is the only Crystal Gem we see that has two gemstones. That is until the episode where Pearl and Amethyst formed a Fusion named Opal and this fusion had 2 gemstones so it was speculated that maybe Garnet is also a fusion. Some people dismissed it because Pearl and Amethyst could barely hold it together as Opal so it's thought that fusion is temporary and a permanent fusion is impossible. It's not until the S1 finale that it was confirmed that Garnet is a "permanent" fusion of Sapphire and Ruby .

Disco Elysium: In the world of Elysium, guns have been restricted to nearly all be semi-automatic with low capacity or needing to reload between shots. Even then, every moment with a gun is a hugely tense part of the game because of how deadly they are. You only find your gun in the last third of the game, and only get to fire it a maximum of 2 times as you only get 2 bullets in the whole game.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: Even though the guns in the game are handgonnes, essentially inaccurate, slow to load, prone to explode, short ranged muskets, they can take down nearly anyone in full plate in a single shot. Making them some of the games best weapons when it comes to starting a fight.

1. X-Men - Emma Frost

2. Dragon Ball - Frieza

3. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Frieren

4. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Vanilla Ice (also the rapper)

Any extraterrestrials that have no good intentions but to destroy, kill, or experiment with Earth.

The Zetans (Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta): They are portrayed having experimented on multiple test subjects from Earth and having made literal abominations from their abducted captives.

Martians (Mars Attacks!): They "come in peace" is merely a mistranslated way of saying they are going to kill everybody on Earth for their own will to conquer.

Martians (War of the Worlds): No matter which version of the story and alien, the Martians have the same mission to conquer the Earth and make it their next home (without regarding the consequences of the environment).

Infinity gun(invincible) this weapon can basically destroy anything (viltrimites, planets, etc) however, once fired, the beam never stops it will continue to destroy anything in its path for eternity. Which is why space racer has to choose his shots wisely.

The concept of wishes (Ladybug and Cat Noir) in the show when someone makes a wish, they have to pay a price which varies. In order for Natalie to survive, Gabriel sacrifices his life for hers creating a new timeline.

Weapons that would actually be highly impractical or functionally confusing in real life but are designed just to look and be cool.

1. The Lancer (Gears of War) - An assault rifle with a chainsaw bayonet would be impractical and also hostile to the user, but it’s just awesome.

2. Gunblade (Final Fantasy) - This wouldn’t be useful as a firearm or a melee weapon as there’s really no barrel to let the bullet travel and the handle is at an awkward angle for sword fights, but a sword and a gun together is a cool idea anyway.

3. Ash’s Chainsaw Hand (Evil Dead) - Having a chainsaw as a hand would have a number of unspoken problems like being too heavy or maintenance, but again, seeing that is just cool.

4. Rebellion (Devil May Cry) - Rebellion’s design doesn’t really make much sense for a sword with spikes aiming down at the wielder’s hand, a very sharp and prominent pommel, and would be weighted weirdly, but overall is just a stylish weapon.

Alastor, Hazbin Hotel: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it frame of the wheeze meme when Alastor is talking to Vox.

Unnamed Marine, One Piece: A random marine makes the Willem Dafoe looking up face meme when faced by the overwhelming power of Bartholomew Kuma.

Emiki, The Crushing Weight Of This Universe: Emiki, the demiurge of the series, turns a rampaging stallion into that horse meme.

Crazy Carl, Sonic Movie: In Sonic The Hedgehog (2009), Crazy Carl, the first person on Earth to notice Sonic, references the infamous Sanic meme when describing "the Blue Devil".

1. Nier Replicant: the Protagonist believes he is doing humanity a favor by hunting and eliminating Shades, and eventually the Shadowlord, only to find out that the Shades were humanity and he and his compatriots are synthetic beings. The Protagonist cannot understand shades and thinks they are purely evil beings bent on destruction, and makes his life goal to annihilate them and their leader. Later in Route B you discover that Kaine can understand them and then you as the player find out the shades are basically begging for their lives as the Protagonist kills them in cold blood.

2. Stellar Blade: Eve is sent to earth to eradicate the Naytiba threat and save humanity. However, you find out later that Eve and her fellow “humans” aren’t human at all, and actually were the ones who originally wiped out humanity. The remnants then became Naytibas as an act of desperation to try and take the androids with them. Mother Sphere then wipes the collective android memory banks and convinces them they are the humans and Naytibas are mindless monsters.

One of the most effective ways to reveal a character’s personality is to give them a favorite type of game they enjoy playing or a favorite gaming strategy they like to use.

Knives Out: Marta is one of the few people who has ever beaten Harlan at Go. She claims that instead of trying to win against him, she only cares about creating a beautiful pattern with the game pieces, reflecting her moral purity and steadfastness.

The Queen’s Gambit: Beth Harmon is quite impulsive and has a playing style to match. It usually works out for her if she can intimidate her opponent quickly, but she is also easily frustrated and prone to slip-ups when she faces players with above-average defensive strategies.

Andromeda by Gene Roddenberry: In Episode 5 of Season 1 of *Double Helix*, Dylan plays Go with Gaheris in a series of flashbacks. During these games, we learn that Dylan has never once managed to beat Gaheris at Go; at the same time, they philosophize about the differences between humans and the Nietzscheans (Gaheris’s race). During another game, Dylan realizes that he couldn’t beat Gaheris all this time because Gaheris was cheating by stealing chips from the table, which gives us a better understanding of the Nietzscheans’ worldview as a people —and also that they’re assholes.

The villain has committed a crime, and the hero doesn't quite have enough evidence to expose them directly. It seems like they'd get away with it...if their ego doesn't get in the way first.

The easiest way to reveal the truth would be to get the villain themselves to confess, and that can be done with some individuals by simply driving them up the wall with insults to their intelligence--of course they could never think up such a brilliant plan, after all. Eventually the villain would get so upset that they blurt out their involvement in a fit of passion, because they're proud of what they did and they want people to know it.

Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons

During the episode Sideshow Bob Roberts, Bob runs for and is elected Mayor of Springfield, using the position to cause misery for the Simpson family, especially Lisa, but especially Bart. The kids wind up discovering that his votes were heavily stuffed with the names of the deceased and take him to court, where he denies everything. Then they try a new tact: claiming he was just a patsy and that conservative radio host Birch Barlow, the one who petitioned for Bob's release from prison, was the real mastermind. His ego thoroughly attacked, Bob then gleefully admits to voter fraud in open court and even hands the jury stapled copies of his plan for good measure.

Flintheart Glomgold, Ducktales (2017)

During the episode "The 87 Cent Solution!", Scrooge is sick and becomes increasingly unhinged in his behavior, which the triplets diagnose as "gold fever". Eventually it appears that Scrooge passes away from his illness, and a funeral is held. Then Glomgold, Scrooge's rival, bursts in for a blatant (and hilarious) showing of last disrespects: dancing gleefully, throwing money like he's in a strip club, twerking in front of the casket, and asking to be lifted onto the casket so he can dance on that, all to the tune of "All I Do Is Win".

During the eulogy, Huey explains that they considered Scrooge's theory, but it would have been impossible for this to have been anything else except gold fever, and that they'd have to be a criminal mastermind to pull it off. Glomgold, already shown to have possessed zero impulse control, immediately admits to the assembled mourners that it was all him, that he gaslit Scrooge with the use of a time-stopping device, and that he made up "gold fever" in the first place. His deception revealed, Scrooge socks Glomgold in the face, having not actually been dead, and the entire funeral was a ploy solely to expose Glomgold's lies.

Furio Tigre, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations

An aggressive loan shark and violent man otherwise, he's forced onto the stand during the case "Recipe for Turnabout" to discuss the murder of Glen Elg. Yet the evidence Phoenix has is circumstantial at best; even the fake attorney's badge Tigre used to pretend to be Phoenix and intentionally bomb the defendant's case isn't permissible, and nothing concrete is proven. Then when Gumshoe provides a green plastic bottle of medicine with Tigre's fingerprints on it, Phoenix stages a quick plan of his own: claiming that the bottle contained poison. Tigre, however, laughs off the bluff and derides Phoenix as an idiot, claiming that the real poison bottle was brown and made of glass...something that was revealed in court, but Tigre had made a point of not attending the trial prior, or so he claimed. The only way he could have known this information was if he was the true killer, conclusively putting him away.

Most apocalyptic stories tend to fall back on genre staples like asteroids, pandemics, nuclear war or the biblical end times. Some stories however feature end of the world scenarios that are unique or just flat out bizarre.

Daybreakers: In 2019, a mutated strain of rabies turns 95% of the population into vampires. Several years later, the remaining humans are being hunted down for food as blood shortages are causing vampires to devolve into mindless cannibals.

Seveneves: Sometime in the near future, Earth's moon is shattered by a collision with a micro-blackhole. Over the next several hundred years, the resulting debris field falls to earth as a never-ending barrage of meteorites.

Werewolf the Apocalypse: The world once maintained through the a triat of great spirits called the Wyld (spirit of Chaos and Creation), Weaver (spirit of order and technology) and the Wyrm (spirit of entropy and destruction). By the time most chronicles take place, the Wyld is effectively dead while the Weaver and Wyrm have both gone insane and are slowly destroying the very fabric of reality.

The Conversion Bureau: Earth is invaded by extradimensional aliens that aggressively terraform the Earth, with humanity either being wiped out or forcibly transformed into the same species. The aliens also look and act exactly like characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

SCP-1689: 1689 is a supernatural sack with a seemingly infinite amount of potatoes contained within. Exploration Log 1689-I heavily implies that 1689 is actually a portal to an alternate Earth where all life has been wiped out by an endless tide of self-replicating potatoes.

Lynels (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild): Lynels are technically normal enemies, but sweet mother of Hylia, these things are hard to kill. They're fast and terrifyingly strong. Not to mention, they can teleport to you if you try to run away.

Tonberry (Final Fantasy): "Aww! Look at this little guy! With his lantern and dinky little knife! What could he hurt? Whoa, look out, little buddy, there's a Zenobia behind you- *STAB* *Unholy roars of abject agony* What just happened? W-what are you- No, don't come at me!! Leave me alone! AAUUGGGHHH!"

In case you couldn't tell, Tonberrys are terrifying! They can use instant death skills with Chef's Knife and use karma to counter any attack you throw at them!

The Collector (Darkest Dungeon): This guy will summon flunkies to whittle down your party. Even if this guy can't attack to save his life, he can still heal and support the enemies he spawns. What makes this guy so annoying is that he's a wandering boss. Other wandering bosses in Darkest Dungeon have gimmicks that can influence when you encounter them. Not this guy.

1. Malcolm in the Middle (2000 - 2006): Fairly popular in the US but nothing compared to its Russian fanbase.

2. Ben 10 (2005 - 2008): Very successful in the US, but its following in China, India and Saudi Arabia are through the roof. In China there was even a convention entirely dedicated to Gwen. And the same in Saudi Arabia but for Ben.

3. The Jungle Book (1967): One of Disney's most beloved classics in the US, but in Germany it was a generational cultural event. Even today it's practically a German child's rite of passage to watch it at least once.

4. Everybody Hates Chris (2005 - 2006): It's largely forgotten today in the US but in Brazil it's incredibly popular.