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The Artifact
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Sometimes, a character or gimmick seems to no longer fit with the mood or design of a story according to a writer, but is kept because there seems to be no way for the writer to get rid of them without causing some serious disruption (unrelated to Retcons). Sometimes it's due to being tied in closely to the mythos or that The Artifact has just been around so long that removing it seems like overstepping bounds. And if it's due to pure fan popularity, the producers probably aren't going to push it out in any case for no reason. The general way to solve this problem is to avoid it, or rather, them. You can bet anyone considered The Artifact is going to be politely skipped over by the writer whenever they can, although this can get shaky if the audience is seasoned to expect them around. A common example of this trope is when a story has a point of view character who's "the new kid in town" and learns about the setting along with the audience. It's inevitable that they'll get used to things before long, and if they don't settle into a new role or have something unique about them, they risk being outshone by the ensemble cast. Very common in webcomics and print comics with a rotating circle of writers. Less common on television given the emphasis on demographics and ratings, although Filler occasionally trots out old premises. Compare Grandfather Clause, where something cliché or inappropriate is retained because of tradition. Contrast Canon Immigrant, Pinball Protagonist, Breakout Character, Creator's Pet. See also Artifact Title and Artifact Name. See Network Decay when this happens to an entire channel. On occasion The Artifact (or something the writers think is only an artifact) will be done away with but then missed and brought back in a different form as a Replacement Artifact; if The Artifact is restructured to fit in with current sensibilities, it's Reimagining the Artifact. When changes to a story or franchise ARE made after some early ideas don't quite fit development of the concept, that's Early-Installment Weirdness. Artifacts in long-running adaptations are sometimes due to Early Adaptation Weirdness. This trope has nothing to do with magical items or similar ancient objects of power; for that, see Artifact of Power. Has no relation to the videogame of the same name. |
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the House Cup championship was such Serious Business that Harry, Hermione and Neville became the most unpopular kids in school after losing Gryffindor a hundred and fifty points and the awarding of the Cup was important enough to almost be a second climax. Later in the series the House Cup is barely mentioned, especially from the fourth book on, when School Tropes are dropped in favour of the high-stakes war against Voldemort. Yet points are still regularly given and taken throughout the later books, long past the point when the Cup they matter for is given any significance, and our heroes are still bothered by things like Snape unfairly taking points from Gryffindor. | |
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On a similar note, the fact that A Bug's Life did well enough to warrant an entire land devoted to it was a surprise to many Disney fans. When it opened in 2002, California Adventure needed as many good attractions as possible to justify its existence, and A Bug's Land did the trick, with 4-D film It's Tough To Be a Bug! being the land's headline attraction for guests. Shortly before the land's closure in 2018 however, between Mission: Breakout! and the entirety of Cars Land, A Bug's Land had fallen to the wayside for people who weren't families with small children (who most of the land's rides were aimed at anyway) or people looking for the Radiator Springs Racers Fastpass that was located there. | |
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The good-kind-of-bad jingle singer (Dave Bickler of Survivor) in Bud Light's Real Men of Genius campaign made for a better gag when the ads started out and he was singing about Real American Heroes. The latter concept was phased out after 9/11, when making light of "American heroes" started to seem a bit more questionable in taste. It's still a good gag, just minus a little... significance. | |
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Does double-duty in the Heralds of Valdemar series — in-universe 'Herald' became the name of the Monarch's special agents because one of the first to be Chosen was the royal herald. But later books in the series have been set outside Valdemar, featured non-Herald protagonists, or both. | |
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When one looks at the broader mythology, hobbits themselves can feel rather out-of-place. They don't have any kind of real origin, even in The Silmarillion, their general rural England-esque aesthetic and lifestyle is very off from the Dark Ages feel of the rest of Middle-Earth, and even their names tend to sound rather more folksy and familiar, which Tolkien had to explain as a Translation Convention. But of course, since hobbits had been how the world was introduced to Middle-Earth, he couldn't simply drop them. One particular bit of early weirdness that has drawn a lot of attention from fans is the Arkenstone. From its description to its role as an object that everyone covets, the Arkenstone appears to be a dead ringer for a lost Silmaril, but due to The Hobbit not being written as part of the Legendarium from the start, it has too many discrepancies from the Silmarils as described in The Silmarillion to be one of them. When Tolkien initially wrote The Hobbit, he intended the whole idea to be a way to finally use some of his notes, as the Arkenstone's subplot borrows a number of aspects from "Of the Ruin of Doriath", a story that focused on elves and dwarves fighting over a Silmaril. With the publication of The Silmarillion, however, the two items now coexist despite having no apparent connection. |
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The profile picture for TheRealJims, a channel known for making various videos analyzing The Simpsons and to a lesser extent, other animated works, is a picture of Yoshi taken from Super Smash Bros. Brawl for some reason. Though looking far back on the channel's video lists will shows it was mostly used for posting video game clips, before its focused shifted and it became known for videos about The Simpsons. Meaning the odd choice in profile picture was likely a hold over from before then. Lampshaded in 2022, when The Real Jims finally updated the picture... to a higher quality version of the same image of Yoshi. | |
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In the Redwall series, the Abbey of Redwall itself became an artifact. Author Brian Jacques made a decision to deliberately remove as many religious elements of the series as he could. However, in the original Redwall novel, the Abbey had explicitly been a monastic order of mice who normally lived in isolation - one of the plot points of the story was that the Abbey, being the only defensible building in the area, allowed all the residents of the area refuge due to an invading army. Redwall Abbey was reworked into a commune where all were welcome, but many of the inhabitants continued wearing robes and referring to each other as Brother or Sister, and the leader of the Abbey continued to be called an Abbot (or Abbotess). | |
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Fantasyland and Tomorrowland have largely escaped this because the tropes they're based on, Disney's animated films and sci-fi, are still popular. However, Tomorrowland has had a few brushes with this too, mostly regarding Technology Marches On. | |
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Lamput's eponymous character being orange is an artifact of how the series was intended to be pitched to Nickelodeon India, Nickelodeon having a large orange motif. They shifted gears to Cartoon Network India when they saw they didn't have many shows to work with, without changing Lamput's color likewise. | |
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Spark from Dominic Deegan dates back to the strip's early Gag Per Day days. He has adapted better than most artifacts do, but he still feels out of place in the post-Cerebus Syndrome Deeganverse. And he can completely vanish from stories entirely without warning for nearly years at a time, only to occasionally make appearances to reference an old running gag. | |
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The Magic Flyer kiddie coaster at Magic Mountain is probably one of the oldest coasters in the park (It first moved to the park in 1971, but was first built for Bevely Park in 1946) and been numerous rethemeings. During the 2007-2008 off-season, it was given a Thomas & Friends theme and named Percy's Railway. To fit this, the first car was made to resemble Percy. In 2010, Six Flags lost the Thomas license and the ride was given a generic train theme. As a result, the Percy car was kept, with largly the same paint applications, though the face has been removed. | |
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Nuzlocke Comics has undergone an unbelievable amount of Art Evolution from its early days, but Ruby, the main character, is still drawn in a fairly cartoony style. It's a bit jarring to look at the fairly realistic but stylized cast, then see Ruby's almost Gonk-like proportions; one comic even features a Fandom Nod cameo from Hale, who was also based on RSE's male character and gets a more in-line look. The comic largely skirts around this by playing up Ruby's Idiot Hero tendencies. | |
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Frontierland and westerns, which are much less common since the mid-1950s. | |
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Initially, Cardfight!! Vanguard allowed any number of different clans in a deck. At the same time, they wanted to encourage your deck sticking to a single theme, so many skills had riders that allowed them to only work with specific clans. One of these skills was the keyword Forerunner, which appeared on every Grade 0 intended to be a starting Vanguard. Eventually Clan Fight was instigated as the standard format, officially limiting you to only one clan per deck. At that point, they stopped restricting skills by clan (since there was no point), but the reminder text for Forerunner still said that it only works when another unit of the same clan Rides it, years after it stopped mattering. | |
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Smogon's older tiers frequently fall into this, due to the fact that it's site policy to "freeze" a tier once the generation that spawned it has ended, meaning that barring specific effort, Pokémon can no longer rise into or fall out of their tiers. This is a measure that comes into play, since Smogon's tiering system is usage-based, and as users drop off, tiering by usage becomes less reliable. While this does broadly work, it can often result in a Pokémon being ranked in a tier because it was popular at the end of its generation, but has since lost steam, whether due to metagame developments or community bans. A good example of this is Dugtrio in Pokémon Black and White and Pokémon X and Y: it was considered an OU Pokémon because of one of its abilities, Arena Trap, which blocks most Pokémon from switching (letting Dugtrio switch in on certain opponents and pick them off with them being unable to escape it). Some years down the line, the community decided to ban Arena Trap due to it being unpleasant to play against. Without Arena Trap, Dugtrio has basically nothing going for it (it's a Fragile Speedster with mostly-low stats and offense that is barely okay), but as nobody's willing to go through the messy process of finding a "proper" tier for it (whch would likely entail testing it in every single lower tier and clearing it with each tier's userbase before shrugging and kicking it down to Untiered), it's stuck in OU for the forseeable future. Even the teambuilder describes it and a number of similar Pokémon as "OU by technicality", essentially serving as a warning to new players that it's not worth it. | |
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A lot of player races that were converted from old editions suffer from this. Thri-Kreen make a good example. Originally from the much-loved Dark Sun campaign setting of second edition, third edition's Psionics Handbook tried to convert them to the then-current ruleset. The end result had a level adjustment of +2 (meaning Thri-Kreen characters are 2 levels lower than other characters, at all times) and 2 racial hit dice (their first 2 levels have no class features), Psionic power points (with a penalty to the stats Psionic casting uses, and a Thri-Kreen's 4 dead levels make them useless as a Psionic caster), and five natural attacks (which, due to the aforementioned 4 dead levels and the penalty required to attack with all of them, means it will just flail ineffectually with all four limbs and bite). The end result was a race that pulled in too many different directions to be good at any one thing (in comparison to other races that occasionally stray into Crippling Overspecialization territory), and was largely ignored. A non-psionic variant was released which dropped the power points in exchange for dropping its level adjustment, which at least helped this a little. | |
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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland is an odd choice for one of just five dark rides in Fantasyland, considering that the other four are based on Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, all of which have remained staples of the Disney Animation Canon. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, meanwhile, is a largely unknown package of two short films that only semi-serious Disney buffs will remember. Nonetheless, fans were upset when it was replaced in Walt Disney World with the more popular Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. | |
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Since The Heroic Review is made up of cast members and creatures who work on the audio play The Heroic Tale of Heroically Heroic Heroes, the first few episodes had each cast member mentioning the role they play in their introduction. This was phased out pretty quickly in favor of just a general greeting from each panelist at the start of the episode. | |
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The Dragon from the Shrek series quickly became an issue for the writers. She was an iconic part of the original movie and Donkey's wife so she had to be in the sequels, but at the same time she also plays a important but small role in the original movie and is such a powerful ally that the plot of any of the movies would be quickly solved if she was around all the time. As such all of the sequels acknowledge her but quickly write her out of the story. The second movie has her entirely absent until The Stinger out of wanting some space to have her babies. She's the first to be captured by the Poison Apple villains in the third movie (at least until the climax where all the fairy tale characters are freed to help Shrek) and Forever After uses the Alternate Universe setting as a opportunity to have her as an antagonist again for the climax. | |
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After a controversy with the comics adaptation which IDW handled incredibly poorly, the site created the "IDW advertisement" tag which was to be added to any official artwork of the comics and hidden by the default filter. This, in effect, lumped their official artwork in with poorly-made troll uploads and pornographic content, as the site owner stated his site wasn't going to advertise their work for free if that is how they were going to act toward their fans and customers. Years later, the tag has largely been forgotten, and was eventually removed from the default filter as the entire controversy eventually died down, but all the original pictures tagged with it still exist. | |
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Party Crashers: In 2024, the Ace Attorney Author Avatars on Nick's channel were replaced by animations of the group's Mario Party Superstars mains imitating the original sprites, with Daisy as Phoenix Wright for Nick, Luigi as Luke Atmey for Brent, Wario as Damon Gant for Sophist, and Birdo as Larry Butz for Vernias. This made sense in "Mario Party but chat sabotages us...", as they were all playing as those respective characters. But then cut to "We uncovered a BROKEN Mario Party loophole..." 1 month later, where Brent, Sophist, and Vernias decide to play as Dry Bones, Goomba, and Shy Guy respectively, yet the character avatars representing them are kept the same. | |
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The dad in Curtis still hates rap and hip-hop music and pines for old R&B and soul; in the modern times a man of his age would have grown up with N.W.A and Snoop Dogg. | |
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Harry Potter In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the House Cup championship was such Serious Business that Harry, Hermione and Neville became the most unpopular kids in school after losing Gryffindor a hundred and fifty points and the awarding of the Cup was important enough to almost be a second climax. Later in the series the House Cup is barely mentioned, especially from the fourth book on, when School Tropes are dropped in favour of the high-stakes war against Voldemort. Yet points are still regularly given and taken throughout the later books, long past the point when the Cup they matter for is given any significance, and our heroes are still bothered by things like Snape unfairly taking points from Gryffindor. Quidditch also stopped being important after the third book. The next three books kept creating reasons for Harry to no longer play (having matches cancelled for the Triwizard Tournament in Book 4, having Umbridge temporarily ban Harry from the team in Book 5, and having Harry on the sidelines due to injuries in Book 6) since it could not be outright ignored. Rowling admitted as much in an interview conducted around the time of the sixth book's release, noting that, "To be honest with you, Quidditch matches have been the bane of my life in the Harry Potter books. They are necessary in that people expect Harry to play Quidditch, but there is a limit to how many ways you can have them play Quidditch together and for something new to happen." Privet Drive's primary role in the story was being the place Harry lived during the summer, and the Dursleys were to act as his guardians and provide conflict through their intolerance and abusiveness. This was because of a protective spell that made Privet Drive the only place he could never be attacked by Voldemort's servants. When the Burrow was introduced in the second book and Number 12 Grimmauld Place was introduced in the fifth, there were now two other locations to fill the role, full of interesting setpieces and plot-relevant characters who actually liked Harry, in comparison to the rather dull, irrelevant, and unlikeable Dursleys. The protection charm didn't really work as a reason when both the Burrow and Grimmauld Place had their own defenses, not to mention actual wizards (and the protection was effectively nullified by Voldemort in the fourth book anyway). Despite this, every book still ends with Harry going home to the Dursleys... and then the next begins by contriving a new reason for Harry to go to the Burrow or Grimmauld Place or some other magical location within the first three chapters. In the sixth book, exactly one chapter is spent at the Dursleys, and it's even mentioned that Harry has spent less than a month there since the last book ended. At the start of the series, Hagrid is something of a mentor for Harry. As Harry grows up, however, Hagrid becomes too childish to be a suitable mentor, at which point Harry acquires more mature mentors like Lupin and Sirius. Moreover, Hagrid is deeply relevant to the main story of the first couple books, but in the later books, he tends to be kept busy with largely self-contained subplots. Rowling claims to have considered killing him off, but was too attached to the scene of him carrying Harry's body out of the forest as a means of mirroring his introduction of carrying baby Harry to his new family. |
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The full version of the song "Great Big World" from Hoodwinked! contains the phrase "goodies make the woods go 'round", which was clearly meant to be Arc Words: an earlier draft of the film used a song named "Woods Go Round" instead, the whole line gets a Call-Back in the Villain Song, and before that, Red points out the importance of her delivery job by saying "Woods don't go 'round by themselves." But that entire verse of the song (along with parts of three others) was cut by the producers for alleged pacing reasons, turning the aforementioned comment into a complete non sequitur. | |
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Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: Originally started out as Take Barney Google for Instance in 1919, renamed Barney Google and Spark Plug in 1922, and in 1934, Barney met Snuffy Smith, and from that point onwards, the strip was renamed "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith". The strip's focus eventually shifted to Snuffy and his family and neighbors in Hootin' Holler. Nevertheless, even though the strip is titled "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith", Mr. Google was absent from the strip from 1954 to 1997, and started re-appearing more frequently in 2012. | |
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The series started out as Machinimas of Super Mario 64 starring Mario and other characters from the Super Mario series, but then as the series progressed, more non-Mario and Original Characters were added to the cast, Garry's Mod is used more prominently than SM64, and the majority of Mario characters have either been Demoted to Extra, Put on a Bus, disappeared or even been Killed Off for Real. By The New '20s, this took another step by redesigning multiple OCs (one of them being the titular SMG4) so that they no longer resemble Mario characters, and Peach's Castle, the show's main setting, was swallowed by a black hole and disappeared from the show altogether, all to avoid being Screwed by the Lawyers. But despite all these changes, Mario has remained as the only relevant Mario/Nintendo element in the series since he is The Protagonist, and a possible removal or redesign could cause huge backlash among fans, even though his mere existence clashes with the entire series and he's been omitted or hidden from merchandise and related SMG4 media such as Sunset Paradise | |
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SMG4: The series started out as Machinimas of Super Mario 64 starring Mario and other characters from the Super Mario series, but then as the series progressed, more non-Mario and Original Characters were added to the cast, Garry's Mod is used more prominently than SM64, and the majority of Mario characters have either been Demoted to Extra, Put on a Bus, disappeared or even been Killed Off for Real. By The New '20s, this took another step by redesigning multiple OCs (one of them being the titular SMG4) so that they no longer resemble Mario characters, and Peach's Castle, the show's main setting, was swallowed by a black hole and disappeared from the show altogether, all to avoid being Screwed by the Lawyers. But despite all these changes, Mario has remained as the only relevant Mario/Nintendo element in the series since he is The Protagonist, and a possible removal or redesign could cause huge backlash among fans, even though his mere existence clashes with the entire series and he's been omitted or hidden from merchandise and related SMG4 media such as Sunset Paradise Originally, a trend in the series was that every Mario character had a trait that would be Played for Laughs and make them stand out from their canon counterparts: Mario is dumb, Bowser is a ridiculous villain, etc. In the case of Luigi, his main trait was that he was a gay person (a reference to an infamous Mondegreen line in Hotel Mario) and Mario and other characters would mock him for that. As The New '10s went by, gay people moved to the formerly acceptable target territory as LGTB people representation in media became more acceptable, meaning that Luigi's homosexuality Played for Laughs could be of bad taste for some people, and thus, Luigi lost his main trait and starting putting focus on his cowardice and Butt-Monkey traits, essentially making him a copy of his canon counterpart. As Mario characters and elements lost focus in favor of original ones, Luigi's case became unique, as he is the only Mario character after Mario himself that is still considered a main character, even though just like Mario, his mere existence clashes with the entire series, and even more so because it seems that they put the real Luigi in the series. Subtitles are nowadays a relic of SMG4's Humble Beginnings. When the show began, characters did not have speaking voices as in most Super Mario 64 Machinimas at the time, and would communicate through subtitles. They were a few characters who spoke full sentences back then like the guards, but they were a minority compared to everyone else. By the The New '20s, SMG4 has enough budget to hire voice actors, with many of later character additions being fully voiced and older characters like the titular SMG4 becoming Suddenly Voiced. Regardless of this, subtitles are still heavily used on the series even though they're redundant most of the time. This in addition to the fact that many characters that used subtitles are long gone or been Demoted to Extra, and only a handful of characters that use them as intended remain, one of them being The Protagonist, Mario, and even that, he's been Suddenly Voiced in many instances in modern episodes. |
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Dilbert: Lampshaded repeatedly: if Bob the Dinosaur ever shows up, it's pretty much just to point out that he no longer has a purpose, after the comic's shift to office humor. But then, this applies to just about all its non-work characters, including Phil (who only makes an appearance once in a blue moon anyway), Ratbert, and even Dogbert. Dogbert still appears frequently, having made the transition to office humor quite well because he is the personification of how Scott Adams would like to act if he could get away with it. However, the fact that he is a dog and Dilbert's pet is almost entirely inconsequential. In a broader sense, as the focus of the strip moved from puns, outlandish stories and character-based humor and more toward office observational comedy, removing characters was probably necessary to simplify things to the "incompetent boss/long-suffering, snarky employees" formula. Adams has been filling the void partially with one-off gag characters for some time now, however. Also, some new regular characters were created after the switch to office humor, including Asok, Carol, and Tina. Bob had a place in the office during the runup to Y2K: he was a COBOL programmer brought back from retirement to upgrade older computer systems in the company from two- to four-digit year fields so that all hell wouldn't break loose when they went from "99" to "00". |
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An attempted aversion exists in The Family Circus. Jeff Keane took over after his father's death, and seems to recycle a lot of the older strips from the 80s, removing outdated stuff via (apparently) photoshop. However, it leads to some oddness, such as the kids watching a modern flat screen TV sitting on the floor or Ma Keane having odd blank spots around her head (where her 50s era hair curls are whited out). | |
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The SCP Foundation has old articles (some of which are about literal artifacts) which are kept and/or not rewritten because they're old, popular, and not influential — sometimes to the chagrin of users, who lament that "we're stuck with X forever". Also, the Laser-Guided Amnesia drugs were first written "amnesiacs", despite the term referring to amnesia victims, not inducers. Most didn't correct to the proper word, "Amnestics". | |
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Originally in Garfield, many of the strips featured interplay between Jon and his housemate Lyman, who owned Odie. But as the dynamic between Garfield and Jon grew stronger, and as other people such as Jon's family and Dr. Liz entered the strip, Lyman's role in the strip became superfluous and he was gradually phased out entirely. | |
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Tower of God has this regarding a few character designs. Early on, SIU was a lot more creative when it came to designing the characters for the series where it seemed like people could appear as anything from basic humans, to monsterous humanoids and animals, or even giant blobs. As the series went on however, that creativity was dropped, and newly introduced characters end up only with designs that are really human-like. This makes characters with animal features, such as the alligator humanoid, Rak, and the lizard humanoid, Anak, start to look really out-of-place in later chapters as they're usually completely surrounded by humans as that's all SIU mostly tends to design nowadays. Basically, the designs of Rak and Anak are leftover from a time where SIU was a lot more creative when it came to designing his characters. | |
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The famous morse code message in Spy vs. Spy's title panel, which spells out "BY PROHÃ�AS", was iconic enough that it was kept after the strip's original creator, Antonio ProhÃas, retired in 1987 and passed it on to other contributors. The strip's fifth artist, Peter Kuper, has kept it since taking over in 1997. | |
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Nintendo Power: For a long time, the mail section listed what state a reader sent their letter from, or read "via the Internet" if they sent it through email. Eventually the letters all redundantly read "via the Internet", but this tidbit was never taken out until the eventual US takeover. | |
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This is why all of the characters in Disney's Robin Hood (1973) are portrayed in the movie as anthropomorphic animals. Originally, Disney was not planning on making an animated Robin Hood movie, but rather an animated film adaptation of Reynard the Fox. However, Disney realized that Reynard the Fox would not make a good plot for an animated movie, and as a result, the idea of making all of the characters in their version of the Robin Hood story animals was in fact, a leftover trace from their original intended plan for this movie. | |
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During 2016, Amber moved on to Pokémon GO, with asides in the Alt Text expressing anxiety about the game's continued viability by the time of publication, given the six months' lead Willis gives himself on the strip. Lampshaded here. | |
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Before the concept of 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields came into place, Stephin Merritt just knew he wanted to write a long album of songs about love, and at one point had the idea that it would be a double album with 26 songs, one for every letter of the alphabet. "Xylophone Track" and "Zebra" were specifically written with this idea in mind, since "X" and "Z" otherwise don't start a lot of other words in the English language, and were kept as the last two songs on the album. "Absolutely Cuckoo" being the first song on the first disc might also have something to do with the original alphabetical concept. | |
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Homestuck has a lot of these, mainly due to how quickly the narrative evolves: Sylladices once played a major role in the story (the first third or so of Act One consisted entirely of John messing around with his sylladex), but are now rarely ever given much thought, the exception being the late-Act Five subplot with Liv Tyler and the Courtyard Droll handling John's Wallet Modus and its contents. A similar fate has befallen punch card alchemy; the process became significantly more streamlined when Dave figured out how to upgrade the equipment, so much of the messing-around John needed to do with it early on promptly became irrelevant. Act 6 brought those things back into play for a short time before putting them on the sidelines again around Act 6 Act 5. Viz Media's rebranding MS Paint Adventures to Homestuck.com still keeps around references to the old website name. The "comics" section lists the preceding comics as "Other MS Paint Adventures", which itself is an Artifact from the time before Problem Sleuth and Homestuck made it big when Hussie concepted it as a site to host his various adventure stories. The name "MS Paint Adventures" was itself an artifact by day 2 of its run; only the very first page of the very first adventure was drawn in MS Paint, with all subsequent art done in Photoshop. |
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Clue: It's a game about logic and deduction with very little reason for having a die-roll to move around the board - in fact, different editions of the game change the numbers of squares between various rooms for no apparent reason. The game plays more smoothly and less frustratingly when you allow players to automatically move to a neighbouring room, but it has a die-roll to move because it was a standard element of board games at the time. The characters' famous color-themed names ("Mr. Green", "Miss Scarlet", "Professor Plum", "Colonel Mustard", etc.) began as a cheeky nod to the fact that the game pieces were originally just color-coded plastic chess pawns. But as the game has become more popular and widely played, many modern editions have featured individually designed mini-figurines or stand-up cards for the characters, rendering the color-themed names less meaningful—but they're far too iconic to cut out. |
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Occasionally mentioned by the Penny Arcade creators who, while enjoying the character DIV, admit that the DIVX format's failure condemns the character's basis to increasing obscurity. | |
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The Slender Man and his facelessness. He actually wasn't initially conceptualized that way — he did have a face in the early days of the mythos, but it was impossible to describe because everyone who looked at it saw something different. The reason his photographs involved him being minus a face was because this effect didn't work on cameras. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Once the central premise of the comic, the constant parodies of the Dungeons & Dragons rules have essentially vanished, only being occasionally dragged back in to keep longtime fans happy. The author has stated in his commentaries to one of his books that he basically has nothing else to say about the rules and is concentrating on telling a good story now. Not really a surprise, given that 3.5 Edition Dungeons & Dragons ended in 2008 while the comic is still going in the 2020s, so continuing to make jokes about the rules of a long-defunct game would just serve to make it less and less accessable to new readers. The peculiar way that the Demon Roaches speak (text without a bubble, just a connector) was also used for when characters would make side comments. However, this was phased out with Book 3, and the Demon Roaches were the only ones who spoke that way until #1260, where this was phased out entirely. |
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Joueur du Grenier: The intro sequence was shot in Fred's old room, back when the show was just getting started. Both the quality of the image and the special effect of the show are now much better than they where back then since they have more experience and better equipment, and the intro doesn't include the many elements that where introduced over the years. Even Joueur du Grenier doesn't look like he does in the opening since Fred have lost a lot of Weight a few years ago. Lampshaded in a 2015 video, when the New year resolution of getting a new opening sequence is met with a HA HA HA—No reaction. | |
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Exalted was originally written as a pre-history for the Old World of Darkness; strong hints of this remained all throughout 1st edition, until that train of thought was pretty much abandoned for 2nd edition. This is why the 1st edition Lunars took more than a few elements from the Garou (much to the displeasure of fans), Sidereals occasionally had to deal with Paradox, and the Underworld was ruled by Deathlords and the Neverborn, who were paradoxically called "Malfeans" as well when Malfeas was a Yozi instead. | |
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Jose's character in Fifty Shades of Grey. Jose was Jacob Black in the original fanfiction, serving as the heroine's years' long friend who has an unrequited crush on her. Unlike Jacob though, Jose doesn't go on to become a major romantic rival to Christian for Ana's affections and barely has any relevance to the plot after the first book (all he does in the second is invite Ana to his photo unveiling where she meets up with Christian again). He could be cut from the story altogether and it wouldn't make much difference to the plot and characters, but he's presumably kept around because it would be weird for Ana to stop talking to one of her closest friends. | |
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91:an Karlsson is about an army private going through basic training. Having started in 1932, all soldier characters originally wore the traditional blue uniform with gold buttons. As uniform standards changed over the decades, several characters were changed... but not Karlsson, who wears a now anachronistic blue uniform. The rest of the cast also wears 40's era gray uniforms even though real-life Swedish soldiers have switched to wearing green camo since. | |
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xkcd: The webcomic's tagline self-describes it as about romance, sarcasm, math, and language. This is true of early xkcd; however, the comic's sense of humor has shifted since then, and romance (as well as related concepts like sex, relationships, and breakups) faded out as a major theme roughly around the 1000th comic. | |
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Back in the 1950's, MAD had actual "departments" for comics and other stuff. Nowadays, "such-and-such department" might as well just be "such-and-such", given that each article just has its own snarky intro line. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic originally used this title because he reviewed things that, well, are nostalgic. Specifically, he was originally reluctant to review anything past 2000, and often made excuses for it like being pressured into reviewing Battlefield Earth for his 100th episode or having his future self take him in a DeLorean to a time period where The Room (2003) was old enough to be nostalgic. He's long since gone on to review newer content, and even regularly reviews brand new films, but has kept the name. | |
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The first few CinemaSins videos had time limits (some as short as two minutes), but after their first year, the videos ran for as long as deemed necessary to nitpick every problem with the film. Nonetheless, every video is still introduced with "Everything Wrong With (Film Name) in X Minutes or Less". | |
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History Matters started out as Ten Minute History, with the aim of explaining historical periods in ten minute videos. After a few years the format got a Retool to the current channel, which answers historical questions in short three to four minute videos. Despite no longer sticking to a specific time limit for each video, the channel's logo is still a sand timer as a nod to the original concept. | |
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Once the central premise of the comic, the constant parodies of the Dungeons & Dragons rules have essentially vanished, only being occasionally dragged back in to keep longtime fans happy. The author has stated in his commentaries to one of his books that he basically has nothing else to say about the rules and is concentrating on telling a good story now. Not really a surprise, given that 3.5 Edition Dungeons & Dragons ended in 2008 while the comic is still going in the 2020s, so continuing to make jokes about the rules of a long-defunct game would just serve to make it less and less accessable to new readers. | |
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Choo-Choo Bear has faded into the shadows of Something*Positive; right now almost all of his appearances are as the snooty Q&A cat. (Randy Milholland was always determined to limit his appearances for fear overusing him, though.) He did become more active for a time as a result of an extended crossover with Girls with Slingshots. | |
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In the Forgotten Realms setting, the drow city of Menzoberranzan uses a giant rock called Narbondel to measure time by heating it and letting it cool; this was added to the story when the drow saw via infravision, allowing them to see heat signatures. However, infravision was removed from the game years ago, and replaced with darkvision, that allowed people to see in perfect darkness, only in greyscale. Narbondel remains and continues to function as a clock tower, even though it's not exactly clear how the drow see it heat and cool. | |
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Second Prize's presence at the climatic drug deal in Trainspotting is this in later books, due to the Big Four (Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie) receiving the most limelight, and Second Prize's absence from the film adaptation. In both Porno and Dead Men's Trousers he is little more than an afterthought or mild obstacle for Renton, only interacting with him once in each book and barely figuring into the plot otherwise. | |
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Blondie (1930): It has been fairly good in modern times about updating the characters, home appliances and situations; however, Dagwood's iconic bathtub remains a 1930/40s style standalone non-drain basin (sans shower head), which would look odd in any modern house. note To be fair, retro-looking, freestanding clawfoot bathtubs have made something of a comeback in recent years. Postmodern, if you will. And original mid-20th-century tubs command a good price in decent condition. The family's hairstyles are all ridiculously out of fashion, staying the same since they were created. Dagwood's strange hairdo reflects the early 30s male trend when it was fashionable to have the hair as flattened as possible against the head with brilliantine or pomade. The unruly streaks of hair were meant to show how when Dagwood was stressed, some locks of hair around his temples would become loose but still kept stiff. When his son Alex was born, he just "inherited" his father's hair. Blondie herself is still using her old flapper hair style, although it's not as confusing for people who didn't read the strip from the very beginning. Dagwood's single button appears to actually have been a shirt stud, worn in the early 20th century by upper class men at dinner occasions. This reflected Dagwood's former social status. |
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Bloom County was originally about the travails of Major Bloom, his grandson Milo, and the other residences of the Bloom Boarding House. The aspect of the Blooms owning the house was dropped after a while, standout ensemble characters like Binkley and Opus started to take prominence, and the elder Blooms and earlier boarding house residents were dropped after a year or two. By the end of the original strip in 1989, Milo was the only character that remained from the beginning of the strip, and we never did get a good idea of who owned the house. | |
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Much of Frozen was rewritten to turn Elsa from the villain into a deutragonist after it was realized that her Villain Song was entirely too sympathetic. As a result, some pre-rewrite aspects seem out of place or confusing - in particular, the lyrics to Let it Go, while emotionally resonant with her arc, do not factually match it save as a form of lying to herself, and Beware the Frozen Heart now foreshadows an entirely different movie, as it hews much closer to the Hans Christen Andersen story in its foreshadowing than the rest of the movie. | |
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The Lord of the Rings The story was originally intended to be a fairly close sequel to The Hobbit in terms of its tone and storytelling, but as Tolkien got more into it, he started giving it its own voice. Nonetheless, elements from early drafts of the book that feel very Hobbit-y but not so much Lord of the Rings-y stuck around in the final version, especially in the first half of Fellowship. Tom Bombadil is only the most famous of these; one scene involves a fox that has an extended internal monologue and never appears again. In-universe, the role of the Thain of the Shire is considered this. Historically, the Thains were the commanders of the Shire's military musterings, and the closest thing the hobbits had to a king (the name means "chief" in their language). However, after the destruction of Angmar, threats to the Shire became rarer and rarer, and by the time of the books, the last real military threat was soundly defeated over 270 years ago. The position kept being passed down the male line of the Took family, and as it didn't have any other responsibilities and the Shire's government is fairly loose, it became nothing more than a source of trivia about the Tooks. However, this is ultimately challenged during the Scouring of the Shire, where Pippin's father being the Thain gives him the pull he needs to resist Saruman's attempted takeover. |
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Ice Age Scrat was originally written to die in his first and only scene in the prologue, mostly acting as an Establishing Series Moment and little else. However, the positive reception to the character led the filmmakers to add more scenes with him and turned him into a recurring presence in all of the sequels (and even becoming a mascot for Blue Sky Studios itself, with their later non-Ice Age movies having him appear in the company's Vanity Plate). This, however, leads to a very obvious issue where all of the movies have a subplot that goes nowhere, has a different tone than the rest of the movie, and never connects with the main plot. There were some attempts to make Scrat fit with the main plot like when he accidentally drained the flood that almost killed the Herd after causing the glaciers holding the water back to start melting to begin with in the second movie or having him cause the titular Continental Drift in the fourth movie, but it's still rather obvious the only reason he continues to be in the movies is that audiences can't get enough of the little guy rather that for narrative reasons. The franchise is a bit infamous for extending the cast movie after movie, which leads to many characters becoming rather pointless in movies after their introduction. Diego pretty much serves no purpose in the plot of the movies after the first one (he too was originally meant to be killed off, only returning at the end because test audiences were too upset with his death), Crash and Eddie don't add anything after The Meltdown. Collison Course is by far the worst example of this, as it contains 12 main characters, but only five (Manny, Ellie, Peaches, Julian, and Buck) are of any relevance in the main plot. The titular Ice Age can be seen as an Artifact of the Darker and Edgier roots of the franchise. In the first two movies, the events happening during the Ice Age are heavily relevant to the plot, with the first movie focusing on the Herd trying to return baby Roshan to the humans while trying to survive a forthcoming big freeze (with Manny in particular, who originally tried to move toward the ice, having to undergo character development to change his mind), and The Meltdown focuses on the animals evacuating their valley because of an ice wall about to melt, which would cause the whole valley to flood. Also, the characters' threats are natural elements that animals would have logically faced in that period (whether predators like Soto's pack of saber-toothed cats, any of the natural disasters they find in the way or the flood itself). But, starting from the third movienote Or even as early as The Meltdown itself, which, despite having a plot focused on the natural struggles with the flood, featured the Prehistoric Monsters Cretaceous and Maelstrom thawing from the ice and encountering the main characters, the franchise became a Fantasy Kitchen Sink involving dinosaurs, pirates, the Continental Drift, Atlantis, sirens, immortality crystals, meteors, spaceships, Christmas, and Easter, none of which had anything to do with the Ice Age. Buck's Running Gag of treating inanimate objects as people was in Dawn Of The Dinosaurs a way to establish how he has been going insane out of being the only sentient animal in the Lost World. But Collision Course established there were some sentient dinosaurs in the Lost World, some of which are friendly and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild went further by showing there are tons of sentient mammals and dinosaurs to the point Buck was actually in a team of heroes to rise against a common antagonist. With this in mind, Buck's insanity makes less sense given he had a lot of animals to keep him company. Nevertheless, given his insanity is an iconic part of the character, there was no way the writers could handwave it as Characterization Marches On, and both movies keep the Running Gag (most notably through the "baby" pumpkin he adopted in Collision Course). |
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Peter Pan has the Native American characters...or, as the book almost always calls them, "redskins." Everything about them is problematic to a modern reader. Plenty of other old-timey characters get reimagined into something less racist, but that's hard with Peter Pan—Neverland is supposed to be like a child's imagination come to life, so having a realistic American Indian tribe alongside the fairies and foppish pirates would feel out of place. Which Real Life culture would you base them on, anyway? Most adaptations will include Tiger Lily, since she's iconic, but making her work is a tough balancing act. | |
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Henry and June in The Pokémon Squad. Among the many characters that were written out of the series during its long run, the two remain as prominent as ever, even after the mass exodus of most of the non-Pokémon characters. In a similar vein, the members of the Yaoi House (most of whom aren't from Pokémon either, save for Harley and Drew) also avoided being written out of the series. | |
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The so-called Rules of the Internet are barely acknowledged by the modern Internet. However, Rule 34 and Rule 63 are still popular terms for describing pornographic and gender-swapped art, respectively. | |
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Applies to Zaphod Beeblebrox after he fulfills his self imposed mission. He makes a fairly small appearance in Life, the Universe and Everything and was then completely absent, with only one or two mentions, until And Another Thing.... The radio version of Mostly Harmless (made after Douglas Adams' death) felt compelled to bring him back anyway. | |
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Quidditch also stopped being important after the third book. The next three books kept creating reasons for Harry to no longer play (having matches cancelled for the Triwizard Tournament in Book 4, having Umbridge temporarily ban Harry from the team in Book 5, and having Harry on the sidelines due to injuries in Book 6) since it could not be outright ignored. Rowling admitted as much in an interview conducted around the time of the sixth book's release, noting that, "To be honest with you, Quidditch matches have been the bane of my life in the Harry Potter books. They are necessary in that people expect Harry to play Quidditch, but there is a limit to how many ways you can have them play Quidditch together and for something new to happen." | |
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The YouTube review series Spectrum Pulse maintained the line "We talk about music, movies, art and culture", despite having essentially given up on discussing anything but music, for several years. Lampshaded in Mark Grondin's crossover with The Double Agent, where Ethan tells him to stop lying to himself; Mark responded by saying that it wasn't a lie any more, and showed off the YouTube thumbnail for his review of Deadpool (2016). | |
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Similarly, the Medusa coaster at Great Adventure was given a retheme in 2009 based around the Superman villain Bizarro (making it the park's second Superman-themed roller coaster after Superman: Ultimate Flight). Among the elements of the retheme were rings in the shape of Superman's S shield that the train passes through. The ride was reverted back to Medusa in 2022, but the S shield rings are still on the track. | |
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Over the years, the H.I.V.E. Series has gotten much darker, but Block and Tackle continue to appear. When there is a genuine need for some generic mooks, it's always those two, but otherwise they tend to have simple cameos in every volume. | |
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This Is Not Fiction: The original premise of the comic was Julian trying to find his Celebrity Crush Sidney Morgan accompanied by Landon and Isaiah. Particularly, after Landon and Julian get arrested, the series goes into Cerebus Syndrome and the main focus of the plot becomes Julian and Landon's Will They or Won't They?. Eventually, Isaiah recognizes that Julian is not really all that interested in Sidney Morgan anymore and that their latest adventures were pretty much using Sidney Morgan as an excuse to hang around with his friends. | |
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World Showcase Adventure's third (and as of this writing, current) theme, based off DuckTales (2017), had the misfortune of becoming this shortly before and shortly after opening. Replacing the previous Phineas and Ferb themeing, the DuckTales overlay was delayed from its 2020 opening date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It took two years before the redone attraction would open. In that time, DuckTales would be cancelled, air its final episode and end production in 2021. A month after DuckTales WSA's opening in December 2022, Disney revived Phineas and Ferb for a two season order. This led to WSA's current theme becoming less relevant than its previous theme, rendering the entire overlay more or less pointless. | |
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Initially, Bum Reviews served as a way for Doug to review movies that had recently come out in theaters without having to rely on clips. As time went on, he eventually started doing vlogs where he gave his honest opinions on recent films he just saw, sometimes without making an accompanying Bum Review. By the time Doug started doing clipless reviews of films still in theaters as the Nostalgia Critic, Chester's role was now completely superfluous and he was relegated to a minor bit character in the Critic's videos. | |
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Suicide Boy: One of the things that drived Hooni to his suicidal tendencies was having left a debt of â‚©50,000,000 (about $42,000 USD) which he has to pay on his own. After the first bunch of chapters, this is never treated as an issue but given it would be odd to have Hooni suddenly having enough money to pay all of that, is still mentioned every once in a while but is never treated as an problem anymore. | |
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Much of The Emperor's New Groove was decided upon when the film was going to be a more dramatic story, called Kingdom of the Sun, with significant ties to mythology and a traditionally-Disney tone. Later in its development, it was converted and rewritten into a wacky buddy comedy, which led to a few elements now being out-of-place or feeling a bit odd, such as the rather melodramatic Award-Bait Song. The pre-Colombian Inca setting in particular is a Purely Aesthetic Era, with its only relevance being that Kuzco turns into a llama. | |
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The franchise is a bit infamous for extending the cast movie after movie, which leads to many characters becoming rather pointless in movies after their introduction. Diego pretty much serves no purpose in the plot of the movies after the first one (he too was originally meant to be killed off, only returning at the end because test audiences were too upset with his death), Crash and Eddie don't add anything after The Meltdown. Collison Course is by far the worst example of this, as it contains 12 main characters, but only five (Manny, Ellie, Peaches, Julian, and Buck) are of any relevance in the main plot. | |
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The earliest books of The Bible have some oddities. There are some verses which make it sound like multiple gods exist, and indeed the ancient Hebrew word translated as "gods" is "elohim", which is plural. This is because the ancient Hebrews started out as henotheistic (believing in multiple gods but only worshipping one) before becoming fully monotheistic. There are also some verses that make it sound like God isn't The Omnipotent, such as Him unsuccessfully trying to kill Moses at one point, or God seemingly worrying that if the humans complete the Tower Of Babel they will become too powerful for Him to control. Again, this is because the ancient Hebrews didn't think God was omnipotent, just superhumanly powerful like the Greek or Norse gods. | |
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The Qur'an contains several verses that are seemingly contradicted by others. This is because the book was written throughout a period of 23 years, to adapt with the changing political and social climate of the era. Generally, the verses written later supersede the older ones, although since the Qur'an is ordered anachronistically, it can be hard to tell which verse came out first. The Arabic designation for this is naskh (abrogation). By far the most controversial of this is the so-called "sword verse" (QS 9:5), which justifies the killing of mushrikun (Arab polytheists) if they refuse to convert as a worship to God, a statement that is diametrically opposed to a hundred other verses elsewhere, as they preach tolerance, forgiveness, and patience towards the mushrikun. This verse was written when the Caliphate had become the most powerful state in Arabia, so the Muslims had more leeway in enforcing state policy compared to the time when they were a persecuted minority in Mecca. Both medieval and modern religious scholars have no problem accepting the fact that the verse abrogates the others, as the issue is no longer applicable today (the Arab polytheists having been extinct for more than a thousand years), so they regard the law as an Artifact by itself. The real controversy is that certain... people believe that the law is not an Artifact, and the mushrikun don't just refer to Arab polytheists but to non-Muslims in general, which means that there are still targets available. Abstinence from intoxicants (i.e., alcohol) is a law that is chronologically introduced very late to the book. Heaven is said to contain a wine river (52:23), which is rather weird if Muslims are always prohibited from drinking it. 2:219 merely discourages Muslims from drinking intoxicants, while 4:43 forbids being intoxicated during prayer. It isn't until 5:90 that intoxicants are forbidden from being drunk in any capacity. |
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Magic: The Gathering: The back of the cards. The "Deckmaster" on the back of the cards was originally used to denote that Magic was the first of a series of games with that title (two others carried the "Deckmaster" theme: Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and Netrunner); it no longer has any real relevance, but is kept to prevent people from being able to easily tell information about the card from just the back. Likewise, the word "Magic" remains blue on the card back despite it having been changed to yellow, and later replaced by an entirely different logo, everywhere else. Protection and regeneration. The rules for both mechanics are far messier than anything that would be approved today and there are small nuances that can trip up even experienced players (such as a creature leaving combat when it regenerates). However, both have a very strong flavor behind them as well as two decades of history keeping them in the game. The upkeep step. There are still plenty of cards that use it, as it's useful to have a time for things to trigger at the beginning of the turn, but it's long since lost its original purpose note many early cards had an upkeep cost that had to be paid each turn, leaving it with a name that doesn't make any sense. |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Hobbit was not intended to be a part of the same continuity as Tolkien's larger works, creating a lot of Early-Installment Weirdness. Much of this was changed in rewrites, such as mentions of China or trains or Gollum giving Bilbo the Ring, but a few aspects were too important to be changed in such fashion. When one looks at the broader mythology, hobbits themselves can feel rather out-of-place. They don't have any kind of real origin, even in The Silmarillion, their general rural England-esque aesthetic and lifestyle is very off from the Dark Ages feel of the rest of Middle-Earth, and even their names tend to sound rather more folksy and familiar, which Tolkien had to explain as a Translation Convention. But of course, since hobbits had been how the world was introduced to Middle-Earth, he couldn't simply drop them. One particular bit of early weirdness that has drawn a lot of attention from fans is the Arkenstone. From its description to its role as an object that everyone covets, the Arkenstone appears to be a dead ringer for a lost Silmaril, but due to The Hobbit not being written as part of the Legendarium from the start, it has too many discrepancies from the Silmarils as described in The Silmarillion to be one of them. When Tolkien initially wrote The Hobbit, he intended the whole idea to be a way to finally use some of his notes, as the Arkenstone's subplot borrows a number of aspects from "Of the Ruin of Doriath", a story that focused on elves and dwarves fighting over a Silmaril. With the publication of The Silmarillion, however, the two items now coexist despite having no apparent connection. The Lord of the Rings The story was originally intended to be a fairly close sequel to The Hobbit in terms of its tone and storytelling, but as Tolkien got more into it, he started giving it its own voice. Nonetheless, elements from early drafts of the book that feel very Hobbit-y but not so much Lord of the Rings-y stuck around in the final version, especially in the first half of Fellowship. Tom Bombadil is only the most famous of these; one scene involves a fox that has an extended internal monologue and never appears again. In-universe, the role of the Thain of the Shire is considered this. Historically, the Thains were the commanders of the Shire's military musterings, and the closest thing the hobbits had to a king (the name means "chief" in their language). However, after the destruction of Angmar, threats to the Shire became rarer and rarer, and by the time of the books, the last real military threat was soundly defeated over 270 years ago. The position kept being passed down the male line of the Took family, and as it didn't have any other responsibilities and the Shire's government is fairly loose, it became nothing more than a source of trivia about the Tooks. However, this is ultimately challenged during the Scouring of the Shire, where Pippin's father being the Thain gives him the pull he needs to resist Saruman's attempted takeover. |
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Peanuts: Shermy, Patty and Violet. Schulz intended for them all to have been foils for Charlie Brown in different ways, but as other characters developed and Lucy became his primary foil they became increasingly unnecessary. Shermy, who spoke the first line in the strip, was the first to suffer. His original role was to be better than Charlie Brown at everything Charlie Brown loved to do; as early as the late 1950s his appearances become rare and he has only one line in A Charlie Brown Christmas (which was kind of Lampshade Hanging; he laments that in every Christmas play, he's always cast as a boring shepherd). He last appeared in 1969 and was last mentioned in 1977. Schulz didn't mind getting rid of him as he said he was basically down to using Shermy when he needed a character with almost no personality. And he didn't like Shermy's haircut, either. Patty (not to be confused with Peppermint Patty), originally the mother hen and Alpha Bitch, diminished as Lucy took over most of her role. She last appeared in a speaking part in 1976, with occasional cameos thereafter. When You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown was revived on Broadway in late 1990s, her role was rewritten to be Sally instead, as most modern audiences would not have been familiar with the character. On that note, Peppermint Patty's name was to avoid One-Steve Limit-style confusion with the original Patty. When she was phased out, the much more popular Peppermint Patty became Only Known by Their Nickname for no real reason. Violet managed to remain a semi-used character until around 1984. By that time not only had Lucy become the strip's dominant female character, Peppermint Patty and Marcie had also arrived and established themselves. Still, her and Patty managed to remain background characters until the almost the end, with their final appearances being together in a 1997 strip about two years before it ended. Linus never completely gave up his Security Blanket, but by the end of the strip Schulz only drew him carrying it if it was setup for a specific joke. |
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The Magician's Nephew was originally planned to be a direct prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe but ended up being the second-to-last The Chronicles of Narnia novel instead. As such, certain elements can feel out of place with the four novels between The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew. Despite being a prequel to the entire series, it only shows Narnia's creation, with the other nations prominent in the sequels like Calormen, Archenland or Telmar never being acknowledged, not even in the epilogue. The novel also contains an explanation on why the Wardrobe has a magical link to Narnia while Prince Caspian established that portals to Narnia can appear anywhere without a connection being necessary, making the explanation rather pointless. | |
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hololive was introduced as a Virtual Youtuber Idol Singer group who also occasionally streamed video games. As their gaming streams gained popularity, however, parent company Cover decided to introduce a group called "hololive GAMERS" who would primarily stream games (with 1st generation member Fubuki Shirakami being brought on as a member of GAMERS due to her particular knack for gaming). Since then, however, hololive's game streams have easily equaled, if not eclipsed, the idol singer angle in international popularity, such that the "GAMERS" label has become redundant, remaining largely to differentiate Fubuki, Korone Inugami, Okayu Nekomata, and Mio Ookami's group from the other generations. | |
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Foxtrot usually is very good at keeping its pop culture references current; although one that stands out is the family's iFruit computer, based on the original 1998 iteration of the iMac. The family kept this version long after that style had become archaic by home computing standards. It was phased out eventually, though — a November 2011 strip lampshaded that it had been gone for a while when Jason pulled it out for old times' sake while mourning Steve Jobs. | |
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TV Tropes: Many pages end with some odd-looking markup <<|ThatLooksLikeThis|>>. This is the old index markup, which has been unneeded for several years now. There's also usually a line ruler (----) separating the examples from the indices — this was never strictly necessary, but under the old indexing system was generally considered good practice. The "deadpan" in Deadpan Snarker. Due to Trope Decay, a deadpan delivery is no longer part of the trope. The wiki has generally tried to move away from Trope Names that reference a specific character, but some have stuck around due to the simple fact that a lot of sub-tropes have been named in reference to them. For instance, The Scrappy, The Starscream, The Neidermeyer, Xanatos Gambit, and Cerebus Syndrome: the first three are meaningless if you aren't overly familiar with Scooby-Doo, Transformers, and Animal House, and the latter two are rather confusing references to a pair of relatively obscure series (Gargoyles and Cerebus the Aardvark), but they've stuck around nonetheless, and aren't likely to get renamed any time soon. Conversely, Awesome Moment of Crowning references a trope name that did get changed, "Crowning Moment of Awesome", which got renamed to just Moment of Awesome due to Trope Decay. Thanks to people forgetting that Examples Are Not Recent, there's an awful lot of examples on the website about decade-old events that are written as if they just happened. The page for MacGuffin was redefined to be in line with Alfred Hitchcock's original definition of the term: that is to say, an interchangeable plot device that has no important properties beyond being desirable. Despite this, various pages (Clingy MacGuffin, Living MacGuffin, Dismantled MacGuffin) were created back when the definition was simply "plot device that people want," and the tropes themselves often break the definition (for instance, representing entire characters who have active roles in the plot). They keep their names mostly because the broader definition is sufficient to get across the idea of what they are. The Trope Repair Shop was once simply called "Rename a Trope." This is why the link to the forum says "topic=rename" even though the TRS is used for actions besides renaming. A long time ago there was a tendency to make trope names humorous, usually at the expense of clarity. For example, Selective Enforcement used to be called Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar after a gag on The Simpsons. Most of the goofily named tropes were renamed, but a couple of them, e.g. Stupid Jetpack Hitler, were clear enough and are still kicking around. The Self Demonstrating Character Pages are written in the first person as if by the character they describe. The reason they are in the SelfDemonstrating namespace was because one of the first was for Deadpool, who is known for breaking the fourth wall, and thus the page is a demonstration of that. As of a result, the namespace is used for other first person character pages even if the character is not known for breaking the fourth wall, so there's no demonstration. |
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Willow in My Immortal is originally introduced as Ebony's best friend. After a gothicized Hermione ("B'loody Mary Smith") is introduced, she takes over this role and Willow becomes increasingly Out of Focus. Depending on how one interprets My Immortal, Willow's role is even odder. According to Tara in the author's notes, Willow is based on the story's real-life editor and beta reader, Raven. Much of the early chapters involve the interplay between the two, culminating in them having a falling-out over a poster. Under the interpretation that the story is a Troll Fic, one could assume that the writer realized that few people were following the story for the drama between Raven and Tara, and so downplayed her role to focus more on the Canon Defilement and Rouge Angles of Satin for which the story is known. |
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark went through heavy revisions, especially after the original creator, Julie Taymor, was fired. One of the main changes was the character of Arachne, who was a focal character of the initial version to the point of bordering on being a Villain Protagonist; she proved very unpopular and was widely seen as a Creator's Pet. Because of this, the "2.0" version of the play did its best to reduce her influence, cutting multiple songs and heavily rewriting the play to remove scenes of her and refocus the plot around the Green Goblin. However, actually removing Arachne wasn't something that could be done, because Arachne not only had the most expensive and elaborate costume in the whole production (meaning cutting her would have left all that money on the table), but she sings the title song. In 2.0, she shows up for only three scenes. | |
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Zits: Similarly to the above, the parents are still portrayed as Baby Boomers. It's becoming increasingly unlikely people of their age would have biological teenage sons, if not impossible. Jeremy still rocks grunge-era clothes from his introduction in the '90s. |
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Doctrine and Covenants 132 still allows for "plural marriage", even though current LDS policy, since the 1890 and 1904 Manifestos (indeed, the former is included as Official Declaration 1), is to ban the celebration of new such unions and to excommunicate those engaging in such unions or merely advocate for such. Even before 1890, D&C 132 was thought to conflict with 101 of 1835 edition, which contains anti-polygamy statements. Section 101 ended up being removed on 1876. |
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Warhammer 40,000 started life as a simple, tongue-in-cheek conversion of "Warhammer Fantasy IN SPACE!", and as such, featured a lot of counterparts to ideas and factions that are prominent in Fantasy. While the main groups (the Empire becoming the Imperium, the Warriors of Chaos becoming the Chaos Space Marines, the High and Dark Elves becoming the Craftworld and Dark Eldar, the Orcs becoming the Orks, etc) stayed pretty ironclad, a number of factions ported from Fantasy failed to ever really break out and have mostly languished in the back of the setting since. Groups like Ogryns, Beastmen, and Ratlings are essentially just a handful of troops usable by Imperial Guard players, and as the Imperium's extreme xenophobia has become more prevalent, it's harder to imagine them sticking around. Squats were a particularly notorious case, in that Games Workshop decided to avert this trope by simply ceasing publication of them and removing them from the model range, but this created such a significant backlash (and Squats would go on to creep back into canon anyway) that it's unlikely they'll ever try something on that scale again. The greatest example of The Artifact is the very name of the game: In Warhammer Fantasy, the game is named after THE titular Warhammer, Ghal Maraz, which is the weapon of the Emperor. In Warhammer 40000 there was no such weapon, The Emperor even used a sword as his main weapon, although later supplementary material eventually created Forgebreaker, the signature weapon of the Primarch of the Iron Hands, Ferrus Manus. While the hammer does lend it's likeness to series, it's nowhere near as important or iconic to the universe as Ghal Maraz. Actually, the original warhammer that gave name to the game was the weapon of a champion of Chaos Undivided, named Harry the Hammer. He was was one of the first named characters and the original mascot of the setting. In broader sense "warhammer" also symbolised the Chaos forces in general. Meanwhile, the Empire did not even exist at the start. Sigmar was originally created for the spinoff RPG game - and only retconned into a divine figure (stealing some of Aenarion feats in process) by around 5th edition, while the Empire only became THE Warhammer faction in 6th. Early editions actually had Chaos as the faction with most spotlight, High Elves as THE good guys (in 3rd edition them being the only good guys was actually directly written) and (proto-)Brettonia as the default human faction. |
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In El Goonish Shive, the author has been quoted to no longer enjoy several of the earlier gags, especially the hammers. Hammers were sacrificed for good, in exchange for a handful of Character Development, setting development and plot points. The level of fanservice has also dropped off significantly since the author started expressing guilt over objectifying women in the earlier strips. Tedd and Ellen still have their transformation rays, but they almost never see use. Now averted in the cases of fanservice and transformation; see Elliot's date with Ashley and subsequent scenes in the car park and woods. See also Goonmanji in EGS:NP, which is out of continuity but it's rather interesting to see the characters themselves getting comfortable with transformations and skimpy clothes. |
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Welcome to Night Vale: The narrator, who originally had No Name Given, has been canonically named "Cecil" since "The Phone Call" midway through the first season, but the credits still only call him "The Voice of Night Vale". His Desert Bluffs counterpart is also called "The Voice of Desert Bluffs" in the credits, despite having been canonically named "Kevin" since his first appearance. Cecil's name, and the names of Kevin, Lauren, and Maureen, are an artifact of a New York theater group, the Neo-Futurists, whose performers tend to work exclusively under their real names. Many members of Night Vale's cast and crew originated from that scene, and few stopped to double-guess the wisdom of making everyone The Danza until it started causing confusion in fandom. (Cecil the character was given the full name "Cecil Gershwin Palmer" to alleviate the stress the conflation of character and self was creating for Cecil Baldwin.) Characters who had previously only been mentioned suddenly getting voice actors, most of whom didn't share the names of their pre-existing characters, also made the ones that did stand out more. |
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Beetle Bailey has often updated with the times, starting in the '70s by slowly adding diversity to the cast that was previously all white and male, adding a tech character in, and even calling out General Halftrack's lecherous ways following the Tailhook Scandal and Clarence Thomas hearings. However, the uniforms are woefully out of date (still sporting solid olive drab that went away in the early '70s in favor of camo patterns) as well as old-style open Jeeps, '50s era rifles, and tanks more resembling those from the '50s than modern ones. | |
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The back of the cards. The "Deckmaster" on the back of the cards was originally used to denote that Magic was the first of a series of games with that title (two others carried the "Deckmaster" theme: Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and Netrunner); it no longer has any real relevance, but is kept to prevent people from being able to easily tell information about the card from just the back. Likewise, the word "Magic" remains blue on the card back despite it having been changed to yellow, and later replaced by an entirely different logo, everywhere else. | |
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Popular YouTube comedian Richard "The Dick" Coughlan has continued to end his videos with the catch phrase "May God be less," even though his videos haven't focused on atheism vs. religion for the better part of a decade, and much of the hard-core YouTube atheist community despises him for his general belief that people can be irrational and hateful with or without religion. | |
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Youtube: As of January 2019, the site removed annotations. Many old videos that require annotations tend to be formatted with stuff like "click here" in their videos, usually as boxes, which are practically unclickable and empty now. The "dislike comment" button has no functionality whatsoever. It did back in the day, and comments could even gain visibly negative likes, but nowadays, it doesn't even have any code behind it. Most large websites avoid anything that allows a person to show non-positive engagement with another person's posts or comments—Youtube predates that era, but hasn't gotten rid of disliking comments, perhaps because people still dislike comments as a way to pointlessly vent. |
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Dick Tracy: The comic had an Audience-Alienating Era in the 1960s involving space travel, wherein Junior married Moon Maid and they had a daughter, Honey Moon. Moon Maid later got Killed Off for Real, but Honey is still around. It's simply never mentioned anymore that her cute little pigtails are there to hide the antennae she inherited from Mom. Dick Tracy's signature two-way wrist radio, which would have been a technological marvel in its day, would now get nothing more than a shrug in the modern day era of cell phones. It still exists due to being such an integral iconic item to the character. |
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When the first Avengers movie came out in 2012, the toy line from Hasbro included a Skrull soldier despite no Skrulls appearing in the first movie. It turns out that the Skrull was from a loosely-connected Avengers video game that THQ was producing that ended up being cancelled. | |
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Black Sabbath intended to title their second album War Pigs, but it got changed to Paranoid instead due to the popularity of the song with the same title. The rest of the artwork remained unchanged, though, and so the war pig on the album cover makes very little sense. This led to Creator Backlash from the band, who were displeased with the cover art from the beginning. | |
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Since the days of Beast Wars, it's utilized the "size class" system by which toys are designed to fit into certain price points depending on size. One of the oddities of the size class, however, is the term "Deluxe" - it refers to the six-inch scale, and it's by far the most common one, with the majority of figures in nearly any modern line being Deluxes. This might seem a little odd, since "deluxe" usually means something particularly good, rather than the baseline, as Deluxe figures seem to be. This is because in the Beast Wars days, the Deluxe size was the second smallest size, beat out by the 4-inch Basic size, which was intended as the baseline. However, the Deluxe class turned out to be the more popular size, and the Basic class, by 2006, was phased out in favor of the pocket-size Legends or gimmick designs like Real Gear Robots or Activators, leaving Deluxe to be the "standard" size. When the four-inch scale returned in 2009, it was in the form of the fairly uncommon Scouts, even in name reinforcing the Deluxe's dominance. | |
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A constant fear for the creator of Dumbing of Age. Due to the sliding timescale that will keep the characters in their freshman year forever but always in modern times, any specific reference to technology or pop culture has the ability to become this. Amber and Danny playing Mario Kart on DS/3DS/2DS will seem quaint in 10 years (although Mario Kart will most likely still exist in some form). An early strip had many students list their favorite movies (in the collection commentary, Willis points out that it will seem strange years from now that all these 18-year-olds love classic movies), something he tries to avoid when at all possible (Amber's World of Warcraft-esque MMORPG is never named, conversations about Transformers are kept as generic as possible, citing names like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee). During 2016, Amber moved on to Pokémon GO, with asides in the Alt Text expressing anxiety about the game's continued viability by the time of publication, given the six months' lead Willis gives himself on the strip. Lampshaded here. |
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Thankfully Noel hasn't really ever suffered from Replacement Scrappy Syndrome, in that he's notably different from Jon - Jon is the Only Sane Man who may or may not suffer ulcers from dealing with Rayne; Noel is a Deadpan Snarker who's more than happy to accompany Rayne on his adventures, and only stops Rayne before he's going to do something TOO stupid. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Applies to Zaphod Beeblebrox after he fulfills his self imposed mission. He makes a fairly small appearance in Life, the Universe and Everything and was then completely absent, with only one or two mentions, until And Another Thing.... The radio version of Mostly Harmless (made after Douglas Adams' death) felt compelled to bring him back anyway. Ford Prefect's name. The joke is not only lost entirely on American audiences, but modern British audiences as well, as the Ford Prefect car that was once so popular in Britain had been out of production for some time even before the radio show debuted and is now long-forgotten by anyone except classic car aficionados. (The joke was that Ford, when coming to Earth, had mistaken cars for Earth's dominant life form due to insufficient research.) The German version fixes this by calling the character "Ford Escort", while all other versions keep his name the same. The US film got around the problem by showing Ford and Arthur's first meeting (Ford steps into the street to greet an oncoming car — which is indeed a Ford Prefect—and Arthur tackles him just in time) and having Ford tell Arthur what he was doing and why, specifically pointing out his unusual name. |
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Until Genesis had enough hits to throw away a lot of their earlier epics, progressive pieces such as "Supper's Ready", "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight", "Squonk", "Dance On A Volcano" and "The Cinema Show", which were still played even as late as 1986, often clashed considerably with the new sound, style and line-up changes of the band in The '80s, to the point where they could be seen as artifacts in the set list. A similar effect happened with the Trevor Rabin-era line-up of Yes, who had to share catchy, post-modern, commercial, MTV-approved '80s pop hits like "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" in their set lists with early progressive epics like "Heart Of The Sunrise" and "Your Move/All Good People" from The '70s. |
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As the years kept going, Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons became more of a vehicle for any CGI-animated movies crossover combination that a Fan Verse focused solely on "the big four". As such, while Hiccup, Jack, Rapunzel and Merida remain popular characters, they are no longer seen as the protagonists by default. A quick peak into the fan wiki would make you realize a major portion of what is considered part of the fanbase no longer has anything to do with the main four movies. | |
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The site has a "fan-creations" category for tags regarding fan-made original content such as Horse Wife or Moonstuck, which is color-coded magenta. It used to be you actually had to ask the moderators to manually change the category of a tag to get that color-code, but the site was eventually altered to automatically add the color if you put "series:", "comic:", "oc:", or "fanfic:" in front of it. However, any tags that were color-coded manually before this implementation were never retro-actively given a prefix and instead still stand on their own. | |
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Even though Fred finds ways to keep him important to the plot, pretty much anything involving Largo from MegaTokyo has felt like this ever since Rodney Caston was forced out of the creative partnership. | |
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Roran in Inheritance Cycle. In the second book he takes the role of Deuteragonist, having an action-adventure plot thread when The Empire attacks his village, a much needed constrast to Eragons rather slow paced learning focused plot. Roran rallies the villagers to fight back, and the entire village goes off on a quest to join La Résistance in a story arc that is commonly considered one of the best parts of the entire series, if not outright the best. However after joining the resitance and rescuing Katrina early in Brisingr, Roran was left with his character arc basically finished and essential nothing to do in the greater arc of the story, being just a Badass Normal. Roran chapters in the final two books consisted solely of occasional relationship development and assorted rebellion missions that help cement his reputation as a stone-cold badass but are completely irrelevant Filler to the overaching plot. | |
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Collector-aimed toylines based on originally kiddie properties often have vestiges of their original gimmicks and play patterns, even though they're aimed at an audience that generally abhors them. A good example is Masters of the Universe Classics Hurricane Hordak, an updated version of a figure that had a gear-driven spinning gimmick. The modern toy lacks this spinning gimmick entirely (as it would compromise the arm and chest poseability), but still has a big red immobile gear molded into the figure's back, even though the gear no longer does anything. | |
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Homestar Runner: Pom Pom was meant to be Homestar's sidekick when the cartoon was still primarily sports-based, easily the number two character in early cartoons, behind Homestar himself. As the cartoon shifted away from sports and more toward Strong Bad and pop culture, Pom Pom became more and more superfluous, now being one of the rarest of the twelve central characters. Probably doesn't help that he's the straight man with few quirks or flaws in a cartoon where much quirkier characters Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Marzipan, Bubs, and occasionally even Homestar himself can all play the straight man role as necessary, nor that he can't talk in anything besides bubble sounds. Most of his recent appearances make his lack of comedic traits or flaws the joke. Coach Z has also gone through this a little bit; as his name implies, he was intended to be a coach for Homestar and the rest. Unlike Pom Pom, Coach Z quickly diversified his output, with him moving from a coach to a creepy, depressing, poorly-rapping, and dubiously sane loser who coincidentally lives in the gym locker rooms. That said, he's still called Coach Z, and is implied to still do coaching; we just almost never see him doing it. Senor Cardgage's design originates from his first appearance, which was about Strong Bad imagining what he would be like if he wasn't "cool", and therefore he looks like Strong Bad as a lanky middle-aged creep - only for the ending to reveal that Strong Bad was describing a real person whom Strong Bad inexplicably admires. Even that video only confirms that Senor Cardgage really does look like that in an Easter Egg. Aside from that relationship, the two have nothing in common, so there's really no reason for Cardgage to look like Strong Bad other than the premise of the video in which he was introduced. |
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In Least I Could Do, the character Jon originally served as Rayne's foil, being the Only Sane Man who reined in Rayne's zanier impulses. The character fell out of use as the author Ryan Sohmer found himself growing distant from Jon's inspiration, and a new character based on another friend of Sohmer's (Noel) took over the role of Rayne's wingman. Eventually Sohmer acknowledged this by writing a story arc where Rayne and Jon patch up their friendship, and with Noel's marriage and child Jon has started coming back into the forefront. Thankfully Noel hasn't really ever suffered from Replacement Scrappy Syndrome, in that he's notably different from Jon - Jon is the Only Sane Man who may or may not suffer ulcers from dealing with Rayne; Noel is a Deadpan Snarker who's more than happy to accompany Rayne on his adventures, and only stops Rayne before he's going to do something TOO stupid. |
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The three main lemurs, King Julien, Maurice, and Mort, in the Madagascar franchise outside of the first movie, Merry Madagascar (which is also set on the island), and All Hail King Julien (the origin story of Julien which is a prequel to the first film). Unlike all the other recurring characters, they had no reason for wanting to go to New York (being originally from Madagascar itself), they have no particular abilities that make them useful for the group, they rarely are of any help in the story (a lot of times they make things harder), and the fact that King Julien and Maurice are rulers of their colony makes it nonsensical they would leave the other lemurs behind with the hope that they would be lucky enough to avoid the fossas. Yet, they appear in every movie, special, and show simply because they're too iconic to drop from the story (one Hand Wave being mentioned, according to the second video game, is that Julien claims it was selfish to only stay in the kingdom). Special mention goes to The Penguins of Madagascar where they are suddenly without explanation, living in the Central Park Zoo in New York, and Julien still refers to himself as King, despite them being the only three (or four whenever Clemson is around) lemurs in total in the zoo (granted, this being King Julien who we are talking about, it wouldn't be out of character that he wouldn't understand the title well). | |
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Rolo in Code Prime. In his home series, Rolo was Lelouch's false younger brother after everyone was given Fake Memories, including the Ashford Academy cast to which he belongs. In reality, he's an assassin from Britannia tasked with monitoring a mindwiped Lelouch from regaining his memories as leader of the Black Knights. He grows into a loving, steadfast character who maintains his loyalty to Lelouch even after he's betrayed by the Black Knights. Come the fanfic's chain of events, and it's shockingly clear as to why he has such a reduced role in R2: the Ashford Academy cast now work with the Autobots and Black Knights full-time, the aforementioned academy gets trashed in the Black Rebellion, the Decepticons destroy all of Britannia, Lelouch escapes safely back to the Autobots and Black Knights (though not without a taste of Megatron's Dark Geass), and his role as a surrogate family member is taken by Optimus Prime. All of this leads to a character that the story acknowledges is a major character in the original series, but doesn't know where to place in the new canon...other than dying to display how strong Grimlock is. | |
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The dinosaurs in Dinosaur Comics are far too big compared to the house, car, and woman, and not much less out of scale compared to one another. Ryan North has admitted that this is because when he started the comic, he didn't know how big dinosaurs were. But because the comic's central gimmick is that the art never changes, he can never fix it. (One fan has attempted to explain away the problem by suggesting that some objects are merely closer to the camera than others.◊) | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Spell cards made a lot more sense back when it was focused mostly on fantasy elements with a pinch of science fiction instead of the other way around. Likewise the term "Tribute" would seem extremely out of place nowadays. This is averted in the OCG, where it is called advance summon instead. The term "monster" can still describe a lot of cards, but even before the game was properly a game, there were plenty of cards that looked basically human or humanoid, along with cards that were downright cute (and not in an Ugly Cute way; straight-up puppies). In the very early days, the cards had a very grotesque bent to them, which made the term fitting, but now, even inhuman cards tend towards a far sleeker appearance that hardly calls to mind a monster. This affects certain playstyles and gimmicks, which fall Out of Focus due to the design and marketing team losing interest in them. Up until the release of the actually-decent Gishkis, sets were still seeing fairly occasional releases of Ritual Monsters even though there had only ever been one meta Ritual deck and the mechanic itself was badly outdated, simply because they were a unique card type and they therefore deserved a little extra support. This also afflicted the Synchro type during the ZEXAL era and Pendulums during the VRAINS era. A number of cards to debut in the anime had fully generic or nearly-generic effects, but were shifted to only work with a single monster or group of monsters when they were turned into real cards (typically the card their user played with them in the anime). This can result in oddities where a card is stated to work for only one monster, but its name and artwork either don't involve that monster (Multiply, Elegant Egotist, Byroad Sacrifice, Natural Disaster) or, in the case of Fake Explosion, depict an entirely different monster with no connection to the card. Toons originated from a period when the game was still in a very experimental phase and was uncertain for how to handle certain subcategories of cards that are designed to be used together. Consequently, on top of giving all Toons the term "Toon" in the name (i.e. Toon Mermaid, Toon Summoned Skull), they also made Toon a special classification of monster listed in the rulebook, with the term being listed in the same line as their typing (previously, this was reserved to Flip monsters, which are truly universal and generic in how they function). Later on in the game's history with Gravekeepers, the designers decided that simply sharing a part of their names was enough to designate an archetype, and every archetype since has followed suit, with those special classifications only being handed out for generic mechanics spread out across many archetypes (i.e. Geminis, Unions, Tuners). This leaves Toon in a weird place of being both an archetype and a special category of monster, even though this has very little effect on how they actually function and almost nothing would change if they ditched the special category and made Toons a regular archetype. This is also worth noting in that Toons do not actually have a universal function that can be defined in a rulebook—while all Flip Monsters truly function the same, newer Toons have noticeably different and more powerful effects than older ones. Certain cards got a Dub Name Change that led to problems with later archetypes, forcing the name to be changed back. For instance, "Oscillo Hero #2" had to be renamed back to "Wattkid", because its Japanese name put it in the Watt archetype. However, some cards have ended up keeping their changed names regardless. Most notably, Summoned Skull's Japanese name (Summoned Demon) puts it in the Archfiend (Demon) archetype, but it hasn't had its name changed into "Summoned Archfiend" or "Skull Archfiend" (like its upgraded versions) because it's an iconic card, showing up frequently in the anime and the real game, and therefore people would be annoyed if it got changed. Modern reprints of Summoned Skull give it a special line of text explaining that it counts as an Archfiend, even though it's a Normal Monster and shouldn't have any special text to begin with. New types are added to the game with some frequency, which can be rather strange in the case of older cards that really seem like they should be in that type but aren't. Jinzo, for instance, is clearly meant to be a monster based on Psychic Powers (down to its Japanese name, which translates to "Artificial Human Psycho Shocker"), but because it predates Psychic as a type, it's stuck being a Machine. Even future Jinzo support, despite still being clearly psychic-based, still end up being Machines to match the original. A particularly funny case of this is the Relinquished family of cards, whose manga appearances inspired the creation of the Illusion type—however, since they've all been Spellcasters for twenty-odd years, they can't be a part of the type that was based on them. |
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Overhaul in Transformers: Cybertron was originally going to be named "Trailbreaker", but this didn't go through because the name couldn't be trademarked. However, his upgraded form still ended up being named "Leobreaker", despite the name now being totally incongruous. Reportedly, the designers decided to just roll with Leobreaker as a name because they couldn't think of a better alternative ("Leohaul" just sounds weird). | |
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Shermy, who spoke the first line in the strip, was the first to suffer. His original role was to be better than Charlie Brown at everything Charlie Brown loved to do; as early as the late 1950s his appearances become rare and he has only one line in A Charlie Brown Christmas (which was kind of Lampshade Hanging; he laments that in every Christmas play, he's always cast as a boring shepherd). He last appeared in 1969 and was last mentioned in 1977. Schulz didn't mind getting rid of him as he said he was basically down to using Shermy when he needed a character with almost no personality. And he didn't like Shermy's haircut, either. | |
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The logo for Dan Olson's Folding Ideas is still an image of Dan's rectangle-headed puppet alter ego "Foldy", who hasn't hosted the show in years. | |
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The Phantom of the Opera's iconic logo was actually designed (and copyrighted) before the play itself was completed—which is why the logo shows a full-sized domino mask rather than the famous vertically spit "half mask" that Erik actually wears. The costume designers came up with the "half mask" during pre-production when they realized that it made it easier for the actor to fit his microphone on his face, but it was too late to revise the logo by that point. | |
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Transformers: Since the days of Beast Wars, it's utilized the "size class" system by which toys are designed to fit into certain price points depending on size. One of the oddities of the size class, however, is the term "Deluxe" - it refers to the six-inch scale, and it's by far the most common one, with the majority of figures in nearly any modern line being Deluxes. This might seem a little odd, since "deluxe" usually means something particularly good, rather than the baseline, as Deluxe figures seem to be. This is because in the Beast Wars days, the Deluxe size was the second smallest size, beat out by the 4-inch Basic size, which was intended as the baseline. However, the Deluxe class turned out to be the more popular size, and the Basic class, by 2006, was phased out in favor of the pocket-size Legends or gimmick designs like Real Gear Robots or Activators, leaving Deluxe to be the "standard" size. When the four-inch scale returned in 2009, it was in the form of the fairly uncommon Scouts, even in name reinforcing the Deluxe's dominance. The phenomena of "fake kibble" is a pretty consistent one in modern days. Whenever a character gets a redesign, it'll usually have the same vehicle kibble (the parts of the alt-mode that don't wind up tucked away into the robot) as their original design. This even happens when the character's vehicle mode doesn't have the parts necessary to recreate the original kibble. For instance, Optimus Prime's original design had the front of a flat-faced cabover truck becoming his chest, so he wound up with a truck grille for the abs and the windshield going on his pecs. Modern-day Optimuses usually transform into either a more conventional long-nosed or occasionally a more aerodynamically shaped cabover that can't really do this, but instead pull a random truck grille and windshield from inside them to duplicate the original design. Megatron is the king of this phenomenon. His original toy turned into a pistol, and most of his design is steeped in that altmode: his silver color scheme is the gun's metal, his black, curved, prominent shins are the grip, his Arm Cannon is the scope, his wide chestplate is part of the slide, his shoulders have protrusions that become the hammer, and even his signature helmet was originally the gun's tang. But for a variety of reasons—Megatron being able to shrink to handheld size raises questions, the main villain turning into a gun for someone else to use is silly, and it puts him at the mercy of safety laws that are very opposed to any toy that can be mistaken for a real firearm—very few Megatron toys turn into pistols, and only two since the original were meant for mass-market. But since Transformers: Animated, nearly every new Megatron design features some or all of these elements, even if he turns into something that shouldn't warrant most or any of them. Early toys in the line were repurposed from Japanese toylines that often left them with oddly vestigial features. The Autobot cars and Decepticon jets were designed as piloted mechs rather than sentient robots and therefore had opening cockpits meant to seat drivers, despite no drivers coming with the toys. There was also a large number of toys that used to have firing missiles or projectiles, but the springs in their mechanisms were removed due to them being overpowered and firing tiny fast-moving missiles, making them an active safety hazard. You therefore had a lot of figures that had a weapon, a missile that fits into that weapon, and a switch on the weapon that... does nothing. Optimus's trailer has largely become this—it's an iconic part of his vehicle mode design, but it's also a gray box larger than Optimus himself with very little actual play value aside from folding out a rather dinky turret or containing the equally irrelevant Roller. The animators famously had so much trouble with it that they just had it vanish offscreen whenever he wasn't in truck mode. Later designs tend to struggle with the challenge of whether to try to make the trailer exciting or just leave it out altogether, and high-grade Masterpieces or Masterpiece-alikes pretty much resign themselves to doubling their prices to budget the thing in. There was still considerable rejoicing by fans when it was announced that the War For Cybertron: Earthrise Optimus Prime toy would include his trailer for the first time for a mainstream G1 Optimus Prime toy in decades, even though reviews generally described the trailer as the weakest part of the package. Overhaul in Transformers: Cybertron was originally going to be named "Trailbreaker", but this didn't go through because the name couldn't be trademarked. However, his upgraded form still ended up being named "Leobreaker", despite the name now being totally incongruous. Reportedly, the designers decided to just roll with Leobreaker as a name because they couldn't think of a better alternative ("Leohaul" just sounds weird). |
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For the first two seasons of Mission to Zyxx Pleck has a title (Ambassador, then Emissary) and a job. In the third season he has a mission to fulfill a Zima prophecy. For the fourth season he is without official duties or a life purpose; he's just along for the ride. | |
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The Hobbit was not intended to be a part of the same continuity as Tolkien's larger works, creating a lot of Early-Installment Weirdness. Much of this was changed in rewrites, such as mentions of China or trains or Gollum giving Bilbo the Ring, but a few aspects were too important to be changed in such fashion. | |
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Stop Skeletons From Fighting: Inverted. As part of being the inverse of The Angry Video Game Nerd, he drank wine instead of beer. When he stopped drinking wine and realized that almost nobody realized this, he decided to retire the title of Happy Video Game Nerd. | |
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Sofie Liv and the formerly-eponymous Red Suitcase of the Red Suitcase Adventures, so much so she re-branded the show as Movie Dorkness. | |
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