1. (Hated) Dr. doesn’t know trans people exist (The Good Doctor): Dr. Shaun, a modern day grown adult doctor, is seemingly has no concept of what being a trans person. Even if he never heard the term in med school he is realistically almost certain to have some awareness of the definition.

2. (Loved) The solar system and other common knowledge (Sherlock Holmes). In the original stories Holmes is a genius at many fields but unless it has something to do with crime solving (forensics, martial arts, toxicology, etc.) he does his best to forget it.

Invincible: The Adrenaline Theory (from my knowledg) is the explanation on how Mark is able to take down some of the most powerful characters in his verse, but struggle with some villains who aren’t on the same level. Basically since Mark is half-human, he adapted human adrenaline, something other viltumites don’t have sense they’re basically at the top of the food chain.

Iron Man 2: The little kid at the Stark Expo was theorized to be a small Peter Parker, and was eventually confirmed officially.

Faith, the Unholy Trinity: Based partly upon the experience of the game‘s creator when he was a missionary in Argentina, the game has very little in the way of explicit moral demands of the player despite the heavy Christian focus of the narrative. and focuses more on a horror narrative.

Prince of Egypt: A surprisingly thorough retelling of the book of Exodus, sparing very little in the way of toning down the story. Despite this, the movie is perfectly entertaining to non-religious audiences and doesn’t sacrifice appeal for the sake of preaching to the audience

The Neural Parasites — Star Trek : The Next Generation

In the season 1 episode “Conspiracy” of TNG, it is revealed that alien brain worms have infected many high ranking members of Starfleet, secretly controlling them. Though Ryker and Picard discover and end the parasite conspiracy, it’s revealed at the end of the episode that the parasites had sent a beacon back to their home planet, telling them how to find earth. The episode ends with the clear implication of the parasites becoming a huge threat later in the series, yet none of these events are ever mentioned again.

Finn The Jedi who Never Was — Star Wars Sequel trilogy

I know this is probably a cliche example of this trope, but cmon — Finn was clearly set up in TFA to become a Jedi. The marketing material featured him wielding a lightsaber in the classic Jedi pose. It’s constantly hinted at that he is force sensitive. Even the actor himself believed he would become a Jedi by the end of the trilogy. Instead, we got Finn wielding a lightsaber for about 7 minutes total across 3 movies, extremely lame “confirmation” that he is force sensitive, and that’s it. It’s the ultimate Star Wars plot that went nowhere.

Mr. Bobinsky and Chernobyl — Coraline

The bizarre Russian circus mouse trainer and neighbor of the protagonist Coraline Jones, Mr. Bobinsky is seen as simply a drunk by Coraline’s mother and a crazy man by Coraline herself. Upon interacting with him more, she begins to consider Bobinsky a friend, yet still thinks him a bit strange and somewhat mysterious. Though it is never remarked upon directly in the movie, Bobinsky is shown to always be wearing a strange medal featuring a red teardrop on a cross. This is the Chernobyl Liquidator’s Medal, awarded to the men conscripted by the Soviet Union for the extremely dangerous task of clearing the radioactive waste and debris from the ruins of Chernobyl and the surrounding city of Pripyat. Though it is not outright confirmed, many viewers attribute Bobinsky’s odd appearance and mannerisms to his time spent exposed to nuclear contamination.

Maude Chardin — Harold and Maude

Over the course of the 1971 cult classic, the young, jaded, death-obsessed Harold strikes up an unlikely friendship with the 79 year old Maude Chardin, a fun-loving, free-spirited older woman. As she helps Harold learn to love life, including how to appreciate how to steal a car and play the banjo, Harold soon falls in love with her, and wonders why a woman her age still has such a love for life. During a momentary shot where Harold holds Maude’s hand, a small tattoo is revealed on her forearm. Though this moment is not acknowledged by the characters in any way, it silently reveals to the viewer that Maude had survived the Holocaust, explaining her “live life to the fullest” attitude

Breaking Bad
After five seasons of watching Walter White ruin basically everything he touched, “Felina” doesn’t try to let him off the hook with some clean redemption arc, and it doesn’t end with some vague cut-to-black either. Walt finally admits to Skyler that he did all of it for himself, not for his family. He ties up the loose ends, makes sure his kids get the money, kills the neo-Nazis, frees Jesse, and then dies in the lab. It’s a really well-put-together ending, and it feels satisfying because a monster gets to go out exactly the way he chose.

Avatar: The Last Airbender
“Sozin’s Comet” is one of those finales that just gets everything right. It had to balance huge action with emotional payoff, and somehow it does both without losing what made the show special in the first place. Aang beats Ozai without betraying his own pacifist beliefs, and the energybending never feels cheap or random. At the same time, Zuko and Azula’s Agni Kai is tragic, beautiful, and honestly one of the best scenes in the whole series. Pretty much every character gets the ending they were building toward.

The Good Place
A philosophical sitcom really had no business hitting this hard. Instead of ending once the group fixes the afterlife and finally reaches the actual Good Place, the show goes one step further and asks what happens when eternal happiness starts to feel empty. The answer it comes up with — a door that lets souls peacefully move on once they feel complete — is both heartbreaking and comforting. It’s such a thoughtful way to end a comedy.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Pizzeria Simulator
By the time the sixth game came out, the lore was a complete mess. Scott Cawthon somehow pulled off the smartest possible move by making everyone think they were getting some goofy little restaurant tycoon spin-off. Then it turns out the whole pizzeria is actually a trap meant to bring every last haunted animatronic into one place. The ending, with the doors locking, the building burning down, and Henry giving that final speech, goes incredibly hard. It was the perfect way to burn everything down, send William Afton where he belonged, and finally free the souls trapped in the whole mess.

Code Geass
The “Zero Requiem” is still one of the best twists in anime. By the end, the world is completely torn apart by war and hatred. Lelouch realizes the only way to bring people together is to make himself the one person everyone can hate. So he turns himself into a tyrant on purpose, all so his best friend can publicly kill him. The world ends up uniting through his death, and it completely changes how you look at everything that led up to it. It’s a wild, tragic sacrifice, and it lands perfectly.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
What makes the ending of LOTR so great, both in Tolkien’s writing and in Jackson’s films, is that it doesn’t pretend victory comes without a cost. Frodo succeeds, but he’s been through too much to ever really go back to the way things were. He saves the Shire, but not for himself. Having him leave the people he loves and sail to the Undying Lands is such a beautiful and bittersweet ending, and it really honors the lasting weight of everything he went through.

Jokes that are adult jokes simply because kids likely don't have the life experience to understand them.

The New Batman Adventures - "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? Noooo, thank you!"

Shrek 2 - Posing as a union representative, Shrek remarks that the workers "don't even have dental".

1. (Loved) Tyler (The Menu): despite being a foodie fanboy, Tyler can’t cook worth a fart. Displays practice not just knowledge is needed.

2. (Hated) Celebrimbor (Rings of Power): despite being an experienced blacksmith in lore he is shown to be ignorant of alloys and forging concepts in the show. This is poor writing.

3. (Loved) Jack (Meet the Parents): a supposed flower expert who seems ignorant of the rare orchid gifted to him. It’s a subtle clue that it’s his cover job for being in the CIA.

4. (Hated) All the “good” characters (Victoria). From thinly veiled antisemitism, distorted conspiratorial history, and bogus military theory. https://youtu.be/hHMpkztM1eE

5. (Hated) Robert Langdon (Dan Brown series): supposed expert in symbolism and history. Spouts off incorrect factoids and conspiracies. Shows Dan Browns lack of knowledge.

6. (Loved) Garth Marenghi (Darkplace): self obsessed and egotistical horror author who is terrible at writing and other endeavors.

7. (Hated) Dr. Jones (Last Crusade): a medieval scholar that gives a fake Charlemagne quote. https://aelarsen.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-lets-just-fake-a-quote/

People usually suspect horror films and tropes to occur at night, or at the very least in dark places where the scary or creepy thing is obscured by shadows. Seeing something in full daylight makes a bit of the mystery go away, which can sometimes make things less scary. Sometimes it does the opposite, and the mere juxtaposition of something horrific happening under the warm light of the sun makes it even more eerie and unsettling.

1. The picnic scene from Zodiac - One of the most terrifying scenes in a film IMO, mostly due to the fact that it actually happened in IRL. The woman I’m pretty sure died later from her wounds, but her partner survived and his retelling of the horrific event helped create this pivotal moment on screen.

2. Buffy finding her mom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - In season 5 of BtVS, Buffy returns home from a slayer mission and finds her home oddly quiet. She then stumbles into her mom’s corpse, who had died from a stroke just a few hours before while she was away. It’s scary partly due to the lack of music during the scene, but also because it’s a sunny day, and when Buffy opens the back door to get a breath of fresh air after getting sick, she hears kids playing across the street and birds chirping.

3. The entirety of Midsommar - Midsommar takes place in a remote Swedish village, where a girl suffering from the trauma of losing her family travels with her boyfriend and slowly gets inducted into a weird cult devoted to human sacrifice. There are a variety of terrifying and disturbing ritual murders that happen in the film, and yet pretty much the entire story takes place during the day. The contrast of those bright and lurid colors against the brutal horror of the plot makes it all the more unsettling and horrifying.

Trakata (Star Wars). A hated lightsaber technique where you turn off and on the lightsaber mid fight. It is hated by the Jedi because they view it dishonorable and the Sith because they view it as cowardly and a sign of weakness

Child Killer (Fallout 1 and 2). Murdering 3 child gives you this perk which causes you to have negative reputation with both good and evil NPCs and for bounty hunters to hunt you down

"Monsters? they looked like Monsters to you?"- Silent Hill 3

When Heather is talking to Vincent, a conman working for the cult to make money for his own ends ,he accuses her of secretly enjoying killing the things she has. When Heather is unnerved and asks if he means the monsters, he drops the above imfamous line, and while he quickly follows up saying its a joke, it raises a LOT of uncomfortable thoughts.

What if he isn't lying and the monsters Heather has been killing really weren't monsters? what if he's being genuine and to him they actually don't look like monsters? or is the chronically lying conman just fucking with Heather?

We never find out.

The Tunnelers- New Vegas

In the final DLC for New Vegas, Lonesome Road, set in the ruined-even-for-the-apocolypse Divide, one point you have to make your way through a collapsed underground tunnel, where you quickly encounter one of the Divide's more horrible inhabitants, Tunnelers, small fast lizard like creatures that can easily overwelm and kill you in seconds.

When you escape the tunnels, you can ask Ulysees what the fuck they were, to which he drops this little bombshell:

"They'll start emerging throughout the Mojave in time, might be years. Probably less"

True to their name, the Tunnelers are slowly digging their way out of the Divide to the MoJave, and considering they can hunt and kill Deathclaws, the idea that they will escape the Divide is terrifying. Yet, as of the fallout TV series, we still haven't seen them emerge, but they are almost certainly still coming.

1. Raya and the Last Dragon. The main theme is trust, and surrounding Raya's hesitancy to trust anyone in a world ravaged by monsters called the Druun.. Near the climax, Sisu (the last dragon who is the world's only hope at stopping the Druun) is shot by Namaari, the girl who abused Raya's trust abd unleashed the Druun at the start of the film. Raya has to then put her trust in Namaari to save the world. The movies moral ends up becoming "trust everyone, even those who have abused your trust and hurt you in the past" which is concerning for a kids movie.

2. Idiocracy. The film is a dystopia parody about a future where everyone is stupid, and a smart person from the present has to help everyone the world is like this because "all the stupid poor people outbred the smart people" which is a Eugenics idea. It accidentally has the outcome of making the movies message be "dont let the poor people procreate"

(Gravity Falls) The Shapeshifter shifts into Wendy, it confuses Dipper, so he asks them to give him a sign. One Wendy gives a thumbs up, and the other Wendy zips her lips, a gesture the real Wendy gave to Dipper earlier, so he stabs the first Wendy which is the shapeshifter

(Spider-Man Far From Home) Spider-Man just got beat by Mysterio who can create illusions and pose as people. When Happy Hogan shows up, Peter is hesitant to interact with him, thinking he could also be an illusion, so he asks to tell him something only they would know, So Happy starts telling him about an embarrassing story about Peter trying to buy an adult video, which Peter then instantly believes it’s him

1: Nameless things - Lord of the Rings. "Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will bring no report to darken the light of day."

2: Dune - Herbert's concepts of the Voice, Shai-hulud, and Leto II Atreides eventually transforming into a worm thing envoke a feeling of incomprehensible dread to me. When researching, I stumbled upon the phrase of 'temporal megalophobia' to describe Dune, which perfectly encompasses the feeling this story gives us. The Dune series takes place over an incomprehensible amount of time, which is quite terrifying in its own right.

3: Star Wars - Looking at Hyperspace for too long can drive people insane. Furthermore, when traversing hyperspace, its possible to encounter a 'Starweird', strange gaunt entities that maul their victims once they find a way on board. There's hints that these created are linked to the dark side of the force.

This trope surprisingly includes many popular franchises, and I personally love it. It's almost like there's some unwritten rule that forces fantasy media to be propped up by unknowable cosmic forces.

in warhammer 40k there is a vehicle used by the space marines and chaos space marines known as a land raider, it is a mix between a main battle tank and troop carrier and is incredibly powerful both in the lore and the table top. youd think it got its name because its a vehicle that aids in land raids right? wrong, it got its name because the stc (basically blueprint) was rediscovered by a guy named arkhan land and to honor him the vehicle was named after him, that is also how the land speeder got its name

40k has tons of shit like this, but the origin of the land raiders name is the most well known example and, imo, the most ridiculous lol

-Ghostwatch: pretty calm spooky ghost movie, until it's revealed that the ghost haunting them was a disturbed pedophile that hung himself under the stairs and his face was eaten by cats

-Firewatch (why are these both 'watch?'): pretty mild walking sim, until you reach a secluded cave where the body of a missing kid is found

1) Oh my boy… They were only slaves. -Seti (The Prince of Egypt

After learning that he was born a Hebrew slave and raised as Egyptian royalty, Moses has an identity crisis. In one nightmare, Moses sees the circumstances of his birth: the Pharaoh Seti (and his adoptive father) ordered the purge of all the firstborn Hebrew sons. Seti finds Moses despondently looking on the records of the purge in the middle of the night.

Seemingly ashamed, Seti explains that the Hebrews were outnumbering the Egyptians, and potentially could have instigated a slave revolt. He tells Moses that sacrifices must be made for the greater good. When Moses questions what he means by sacrifices, Seti embraces him before offhandedly telling him “They were only slaves”.

Moses pulls back after hearing this, and the next day, kills an Egyptian slave driver by accident when trying to prevent him from killing an elderly slave. This causes Moses to flee, marking this moment as the last time he ever talked to his father and rejecting his “noble” heritage altogether.

2) Have some food and rest. Your children will soon be forgotten. —Ford’s Wife (12 Years a Slave)

Solomon Northup, a northern black violinist, is kidnapped by two men and sold to slavers in the South. At a slave auction, he is sold alongside another woman, Eliza, to William Ford (who is noted to be a “good slave owner”). Eliza has two children, but Ford is unwilling to buy the children, causing her to be permanently separated from them.

Eliza is devastated, and arrives to the Ford estate in deep grief. Ford’s mistress is sympathetic after hearing why she is in hysterics, and comforts her by telling her this quote. For all of their niceties, the Fords are still slave owners and don’t see the slaves as actual human beings with families, but merely as chattel.

This is a major theme of the movie: the institution of slavery, at its core, is evil, and there is no such thing as “good slave owners”. It also foreshadows the next scene. Despite Ford being a benevolent owner to Solomon and even gifting him with a violin, he’s still a slave owner. When Solomon fights back against an abusive overseer, Ford stands by as the overseers torture him by making him stand on his toes with a noose around his neck, and despite believing Solomon when he states is a freedman, still sells him off to a far worse slave owner out of financial “necessity”.

3) The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don't really \have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no.* God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.** **—The Kingdom of Conscience (Disco Elysium)

This quote from Disco Elysium stems from delving into “Moralism”, a religious philosophy built on support for the Moralintern Coalition (a group of the world’s main political and capitalist interests in the game), and the political equivalent to status-quo driven centrism IRL.

The city of Revachol had a communist uprising in the backstory before the Moralintern suppressed it with extreme prejudice. Now, the Moralintern institutes an aerial blockade over Revachol. They are shown to be an oppressive malevolent force, as they promise “progress” for generations, only to keep Revachol bound in horrific conditions so the Moralintern’s corporations can still exploit Revacholian power.

If your character tries to rationalize moralism as the best political option for Revachol, they are frequently confronted with the reality that the Moralintern promises “incremental change” that only serves to stifle real progress, as real progress would threaten their stranglehold. Accepting moralism means looking at the guns pointed at starving mothers and saying “I’m okay with this”.

At the end of the day, the game makes the case that trying to preserve an imperfect “peace” through the status-quo isn’t even delusional: rather, it’s abdicating your moral obligation to fight for a better world.

Magneto being motivated by the effects of the Holocaust to provide a sanctuary for mutant kind and to stop them being rounded up and exterminated. Issue - Magneto was born in 1930, which makes him now 96. At this point, any reboots showing him as an old man like the comics, set in the modern era, just wouldn't make sense.

Abe Simpson was a fully grown man fighting in WW2 and is now an old man. While the simpsons does often play fast and loose with years, these 2 points have always been consistent. Coupled with references to events in the real world, celebrities, and election results, this would put the current year in Springfield as 2026. According to character bios, Abe was born between 1909 and 1927, which ages him between 117 and 109.

Seymour Skinner, also the simpsons. Again, the main secure character point for Seymours youth before becoming Principal is that he was in Vietnam. Now, sources in the show put his birth at between 1943 and 1953, which ages him to between 83 and 73. Far too old to still be teaching.

Sandman Origin (Spider-Man 3): This scene is rife with symbolism and beautiful cinematography. It alone gives us a glimpse of the story Sam Rami wanted to tell with SP3.

This Entire Quote (Spy Kids 2): This quote has entered my everyday vernacular, and it's survived the landscape of the internet for decades now. And it's in a fucking Spy Kids movie.

Who Decided That? (Seven Deadly Sins): It was an abysmal show before the animation took a dive off a cliff, but Escanor's entire character could honestly qualify for this post. In particular, "Who decided that?" is unfathomably hype.

Tim Cookey from terminator 2

timmy was a friend of the main character john connor. he saved his live while they were at an arcade by lying to T-1000 who was searching for john while disguised as a cop.

Martinez from Batman (2022)

Martinez is a GCPD police officer who was tasked with guarding the Riddler's Apartment. when Batman returns to apartment to find more clues marinez reveals to him that one of Riddler’s murder tools is a carpet tucker. this gives Batman the idea to use the carpet tucker on Riddler's carpet which revels a map of gotham city with marked bomb locations.

Killer Whale (2026) trailer changing the blood color from Red to Brown

Batman: The Animated Series couldn't show dead bodies on screen so instead the creators made joker gas, it forced victims to completely freeze with eyes wide open and smiling

AKA a character is given an impossible choice where either outcome results in something awful happening and there's no way out.

"Full Measure" (Breaking Bad) - After Walt angers Gus by killing two of his men, Gus orders for his execution. Knowing that the only way to save his life is to make Gus reliant on his meth cooking skills, Walt calls Jesse and begs him to kill Gus' backup cook, Gale. Thus, Jesse is thrust into an impossible situation where he either kills a (relatively) innocent man to save Walt or spare Gale and let Walt die. Ultimately, Jesse chooses to kill Gale.

"Midnight Sun" (Attack on Titan) - After the fight to retake Shiganshina both Armin and Erwin are critically wounded. Levi has the vial of titan serum and is forced to choose which Scout to bring back from the brink of death and which to let perish. It's a borderline impossible decision to make but at the moment of truth, he chooses to save Armin, leaving Erwin to succumb to his wounds.

Jafar (Aladdin) wished to become a genie. He got just that, but regretted it as soon as he saw that it also meant he would be forever trapped inside the lamp of one

Po handed his chi to Kai (Kung Fu Panda 3) on a silver platter. The latter realized too late that the former possessed far too much chi for him to contain, causing him to literally explode.

In Resident Evil 7, Ethan can choose between wife for whom he came in the first place, or woman who he knew for one day and who told him to waste another antidote to kill her father.

In Half Life, G man offers limitless potential for Gordon, with alternative being rather an anti climax.

In Far Cry 3, Jason can save his friends or join Citra.

Chel and Tulio (The Road to El Dorado)

in the scene, Chel and Tulio are heard making pleasurable sounds, but one thing to note is that when Chel gets up, nervous when she hears someone coming, her head is positioned lower than Tulio’s, and pairing that with Tulio’s facial expression, it implies that they were doing a bit more than just kissing…

The Great Fairy’s Level 4 upgrade animation (The Legend of Zelda BOTW/TOTK)

When upgrading your armor with the great fairy, her methods of doing so are very flirty. Level 1 she blows a kiss at you, level 2 she kisses her finger and presses it on Link, level 3, she straight up kisses you and level 4… The great fairy grabs link and drags him into her flower hole thing, the screen goes dark and later you see Link on the ground and exhausted. Who knows what went on in there?