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Win Back the Crowd	comment	Ah my, was it glorious. X was a superhero/science-fiction/romance/vampire/police-procedural... pick any franchise unlike any other. The fans loved it. It caused fangirls to squee with delight. Even those who weren't fans grudgingly respected its brilliance. There were books, TV shows, movies, video games, comics, lunchboxes, T-shirts, and a thousand fan-fics. It was magnificent. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })But then, something went wrong. Author fatigue set in. Or maybe the author failed to exist. Or perhaps their ego overshadowed the work. Maybe the executives meddled too much. Or maybe the original stars wanted too much money and left. Or the work tried to grow the beard by trying to be Darker and Edgier, and instead ended up jumping the shark. Might have been merely as simple as They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. Whatever the cause, the result was the same. The show's ratings slipped, the movie gave way to cornier sequels, and folks stopped buying the T-shirts. The franchise lost the crowd it worked so hard to win. And it almost died. So sad. But is there a way to restore the massive franchise we all know and love? Sometimes, the crowd can be won again! Even though the fanbase has revolted against a franchise and declared it "played out", the creator (or maybe even a new one) can actually make the franchise fresh and new and relevant (and profitable) again. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The creators realize that the franchise simply has to be adjusted for new changes in society. Or they remake it with new actors, who are [gasp!] as good as the originals. Maybe they cut out the Narmtastic parts of the original. Or fix the visual effects. Or maybe the franchise just needed to rest for a little while. Maybe they changed it back now that it sucked. Perhaps a newly Promoted Fanboy is now Running the Asylum. Heck, maybe the execs were right after seeing a couple of outings where the old team gets their restraints taken off and decide to put the meddling back in. Whatever it is, the result is the same. The fangirls are squeeing again, folks are buying T-shirts again, and Fan Fics are back. It's magnificent (again). Compare And the Fandom Rejoiced (when a preview reassures fans by showing the producers are being faithful to the source material), Win the Crowd. See also Career Resurrection. If a company is trying to invoke this, it's a case of We Don't Suck Anymore. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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Win Back the Crowd / int_110dcdca	comment	A Link Between Worlds did this for the handheld installments in the series, after the more divisive Nintendo DS games (Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks). The title ditched the experimental stylus controls to return to traditional button controls and presented a more open-ended campaign that harkened back to the earliest games in the franchise.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_11b7db91	comment	The success of shows like Adventure Time and Regular Show reignited Cartoon Network's popularity among older audiences after losing its classic cartoons to Boomerang and the utter failure that is CN Real, with others such as Steven Universe, The Amazing World of Gumball, etc. showing viewers that the network is dead serious about abandoning its live-action experiments and returning to its animation rootsnote though many fans of Cartoon Network in its classic animation and Creator/Cartoon Cartoons era still don't like the network as all of the shows they remember watching back then have been relegated to Boomerang, which isn't available on most cable and satellite packages. And the less said about the angry anime fans who want Toonami to go back to being a daytime block, the better.... Parallel to this, [adult swim] followed suit after their resurrection of Toonami, while The Eric Andre Show has redeemed its live-action programming among some of its fanbase due to being one of the few unambiguously live action shows produced by the network, and its strange, absurdist tone fitting the rest of the network's output. The eventual status of the controversial Teen Titans Go! as Adored by the Network has been seen as a damping force against the process of recovery (especially after it started taking almost half of the daily schedule for itself). 2018 may be marking another turnaround for Cartoon Network, by cutting down on Teen Titans Go! marathons note It's still Adored by the Network, but has not taken up over half the schedule as it had from 2015-17., and giving more reruns to beloved originals like We Bare Bears, Steven Universe and even Adventure Time, complete with lots of advertising, especially with the latter's. While there are still some problems, most would consider the current state an improvement compared to the last couple of years.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_13600c0c	comment	The GONE series dipped a little in the third book, which didn't seem to be going in any particular direction, made formerly beloved characters (like Astrid) unlikable and annoying and the Big Lipped Alligator Character that was Nerezza confused and infuriated fans. Many fans lost respect for heroic characters, and a lot of things weren't explained, to the point were a few scenes made little sense and more were monotonous and out of character. The lack of action and mystique that was all part of the appeal was lacking somewhat too. Thankfully, this was just a temporary low, and the next book PLAGUE heavily won over critics and fans alike, and was even claimed by many to be when the series Grew the beard. It kept the quality at a steady high with FEAR and the last book LIGHT has gripped universal acclaim, and is regarded by many to be the best Michael Grant book ever written.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_14d341dc	comment	Star Trek Online hit a major snag during 2014, when then-EP Stephen D'Angelo allowed a number of changes to hit the game, increasing the grind exponentially, leading to the infamous Tau Dewa incident Explanation In which players found a way to get to Level 60 and gather up specialization points much quicker than the game designers wanted them to, leading to all of those points being stripped away and D'Angelo himself labeling many of those players "cheaters" before a backlash forced them to backtrack on it. Come 2015, D'Angelo stepped down and Stephen "SalamiInferno" Ricossa, a former dev, took over, quickly winning over many players with his quick and prompt responses over incidents and getting them hyped for what was coming next.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_164f12e6	comment	Following the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2 in 2010, Super Mario Bros. gradually became increasingly accused of stagnating creatively. While Super Mario 3D Land was well-received, critics and fans generally felt that it was underwhelming after the Galaxy games and the release of two new 2D installments in the same year gave further credence to this. Super Mario 3D World seemed to be heading towards this as well, but its second trailer revealed a large amount of unique content and well-designed levels that piqued interest, and the game met near-universal acclaim and large sales a month later.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_1852cbb9	comment	Starbound proved to be extremely popular around the time of its release, but fervor for the game died down not long after due to stagnating updates. The massive update released for the game in January 2015, however, managed to win back some of that popularity by adding many promised features, including the new Novakid race, ship customization, customizable UI windows, and oodles of new items to collect and planets to explore.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_187d5707	comment	The first game was universally hailed and anticipation was high for the second one. However, what fans got was a lackluster sequel that was laughably easy and stripped Dante of his rogue charm. Understandably, many were wary come news of the third game, which was developed by the same team behind DMC2. However, Capcom rectified all the problems of the second game, ratcheting up the difficulty, reverting Dante back to his old self, and even giving him some new toys to play with. Then came the announcement of Special Edition, which offered an Easy Mode and allowed players to play as Vergil.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_18f928f0	comment	Super Mario Bros. won back popularity of console Video Games in North America, after The Great Video Game Crash of 1983.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_1c296808	comment	Rise of the Planet of the Apes brought hope back to the seemingly dead franchise. While not a masterpiece, it was still a surprisingly enjoyable film. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes cemented it, as it was considered a masterpiece, having almost everyone anticipating the next one in the series.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_2192aeb3	comment	Due to declining sales from Fire Emblem titles, Fire Emblem Awakening was originally going to be the final game in the series if the game didn't reach 250,000 sales. Fortunately, Awakening managed to save the series from cancellation with 242,600 units sold during its opening week alone. And after a decade of the franchise failing to gain significant traction outside of Japan, the title greatly expanded the fandom, with the game going on to sell almost two million copies worldwide over the next two years. A figure that the following installment, Fire Emblem Fates managed to surpass in less than a year.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_22843f45	comment	New York DJ duo The Chainsmokers pulled this off. After being seen as a quintessential 2010s One-Hit Wonder for "#Selfie", which became a hit through sheer Memetic Mutation. Given that song was wildly reviled, and it was too much of a left-field novelty to be taken seriously, it was thought they would fade into complete obscurity afterwards. This was not the case. The next year they release "Roses" (featuring vocals from Rozes), a kind of dirty song that was still surprisingly well-received. It quickly climbed up the charts and reached the Top 40, ending their one-hit wonder status, and became a massive EDM crossover that far eclipsed "#Selfie" in the public's eye. The top 5 follow-up "Don't Let Me Down" and #1 smash "Closer" proved that the success of "Roses" wasn't a fluke and that the Chainsmokers were finally able to be taken seriously.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons experienced a massive boost in popularity in 2007, thanks to the acclaimed smash hit The Simpsons Movie.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_26674ed5	comment	While Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty didn't turn everyone away from the series, it did cause a serious Broken Base with many worried as to what the next game would bring. Cue Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater which had a much more straightforward and powerful character-driven plot, a main character who looked and sounded exactly like Snake, solid gameplay that expanded on the Metal Gear Solid 2's gameplay, new outdoor jungle environments (which hadn't really been done before in the series since the original 2D games), spectacular boss fights, and a memorable ending. While debate still goes on as to the overall quality of Metal Gear Solid 2 in relation to the rest of the series, Metal Gear Solid 3, along with the original Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, are considered to be the franchise's crowning achievements.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_278df229	comment	Superjail! season 3 went over much easier with fans than season 2 had, perhaps due to the writers deciding that they'd try to combine the original "psychedelic bloodbath" formula from season 1 with season 2's character-centric stories and development. The wild scene transitions and camera angles were also reinstated, while season 2 had mostly used traditional cuts and fades between scenes. Acclaim-wise, it managed to win over at least a bigger number of fans, but when it came to the ratings this trope was inverted (season 2 aired in the summer and had managed to get consistently high ratings, while season 3's ratings dipped much lower).
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Win Back the Crowd / int_289f3039	comment	And then came Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which brought back every single character that has ever been playable in the franchise (and yes, this includes Pichu, shown alongside Jigglypuff after Snake's return), along with newcomers like the highly requested Ridley and King K. Rool (whose inclusions were confirmed due to their high standing on the Smash Ballot from 3DS/Wii U), and many others such as Inkling, Daisy, Simon Belmont, Chrom and Isabelle, to name a few. Also, the gameplay has been improved compared to that of 3DS/Wii U, and it featured a new story mode. Then, after the unexpected addition of Piranha Plant as DLC, along came the Fighters Pass with its first fighter, Joker, the return of Stage Builder and a new area to view online content by the players, and the E3 2019 reveals of the hugely-influential Dragon Quest Heroes and the grand return of Banjo & Kazooie to a Nintendo platform. It says something when, as of April 2019, it became the best-selling fighting game of all time, let alone the best-selling Super Smash Bros. game.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_2b82b95f	comment	When the iCarly special iStart a Fan War was announced, Seddie shippers got excited that after Season 4's lackluster quality, it would give them some Seddie moments and reboot the show's glory. Unfortunately, when it turned out to be an Author Tract against the shipping concept, shippers were not pleased, and when they took it to Dan Schneider's blog, they claimed he crossed the Moral Event Horizon when their comments were being erased and that the show was dead. That is until his next blog explained his true intention, and that he only meant that to the obsessed shippers. He also promised them something that would make them quite pleased, which left most fans forgiving him. And that something came in the form of iOMG, which was seen as a Moment of Awesome by many fans.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_2d9b271	comment	DC Rebirth was another attempt by DC to win back fans as Convergence was a mixed bag that did win fans over some with its tie-ins, the storylines that followed afterwards, such as Superman: Truth and Batman: Superheavy, did nothing to help the company and sales dipped back down to where they were before The New 52 hit. Rebirth's main draw was refocusing on "legacy", trying to repair holes that were yanked out when the titles rebooted.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	The series won back the My Little Pony franchise, after it had been a joke for years. Moreover, it gave rise to the brony movement, appealing to adults as well as children.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_2fc1b0a1	comment	A meta example. Many people who weren't into anime (or had since grown out of it) have checked out the show thanks to its growing popularity, and it's caused the anime fandom as a whole to be back in the game on social media sites like Tumblr.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_2fc7f6b9	comment	Donkey Kong Country Returns was this for the Donkey Kong series in general. It was riding high in the Donkey Kong Country days, and Donkey Kong 64 did well too. But once Rare was bought out by Microsoft, the series was basically orphaned for a few generations, with nothing but spinoff games to show for it. But when Retro Studios revived it, Donkey Kong was back. Donkey Kong Country was back. The game sold a ton, was well received and ended up introducing a whole new generation to the series, eventually getting an enhanced remake on the 3DS, as well as a sequel on the Wii U in 2014 in the form of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, which in turn got an enhanced remake on the Nintendo Switch.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_304cf2c	comment	Happened at WWE's Survivor Series 2008, namely during Vladimir Kozlov and Triple H's match for the WWE Championship. Originally the match was supposed to include Jeff Hardy as a third man, but he was reportedly found unconscious earlier that day and thus taken out of the match. HHH and Kozlov did not work particularly well together, becoming so maligned as to earn chants of "boring" and "TNA". Then Vickie Guerrero came out and announced that "He's here!", getting the crowd to finally show some life as they believed Hardy would be appearing. Then... "You think you know me." And the crowd was off their feet, as EDGE returned with his comeback beard and wrestling gear on and speed-walked his way into the ring. Then, before he could capitalize on the situation... Jeff Hardy indeed came rushing out with a steel chair, wildly swinging at Edge (presuming that Edge was physically responsible for his earlier condition). Some swings and Spears later, Kozlov, Hardy, and HHH all sprawled out on the ground, and Edge became WWE Champion to a hero's welcome.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_33f14086	comment	After the mixed reception of The Amazing Spider-Man Series, Sony decided to share the rights with Marvel Studios and reboot the character again. Many fans were unsure whether Spidey still had a future in movies even with the MCU getting involved. Then when Captain America: Civil War came out, he was cited as one of the film's highlights, with many calling Tom Holland's performance of the character the best so far, and his solo outing, Spider Man Home Coming, being rated as one of the best in the MCU and matching and arguably out-matching the classic Spider-Man 2.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3544ad11	comment	After a weak third season that focused on personal drama, House of Cards (US) came back strong in Season 4 with a re-focus on Frank Underwood's administration, political scheming, and the follow-up of plots from the first two seasons.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: Creator Dan Harmon left the show after season 3, and the next season was roundly criticized for being far weaker than the rest of the series. Harmon returned for season 5 and made a major course correction, going so far as having the characters themselves note how weird everything had become of late.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_369e7a11	comment	The first four Rocky movies range from genuine classics to cult classics remembered for their absurdity, but in general they're well-liked. Rocky V alienated fans, disgusted critics, and catastrophically failed at the box office, putting the series into a coma. Sixteen years later, Rocky Balboa won the fans and critics back with its return to what made the early films work, and nine years after that, the spinoff Creed got an even better reception, earning Sylvester Stallone his first Oscar nomination since the original Rocky and landing on many "Best Movies of the Year" lists.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3be31c4	comment	After the dedicated server fiasco in the PC version of Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops was advertised to have dedicated servers. And its sequel, Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Near future setting, missions with multiple paths, Strike Force missions that can alter the story based on success or failure (and the player can even play these missions like an RTS if they want), and a story written by the writer of The Dark Knight Saga, even those who hated Modern Warfare 3 for being "too much of the same thing" felt that Black Ops II was truly the change of pace the series needed.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3c69e536	comment	To say that the Sonic The Hedgehog movie was hated when it was first unveiled would be one of the greatest understatements of the decade. When the first trailer hit, a combination of unfunny jokes, the hilariously bizarre choice of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" as it's song, and one of the most horrendous versions of the Blue Blur ever conceptualized made the film one of the most hated things ever to come from the Sonic franchise (and considering the Sonic fandom is one of the most infamous examples of an Broken Base, that is quite an achievement). The film would be delayed after massive outcry convinced the studio to take Sonic's design back to the drawing board. When a new trailer unveiled Sonic's new design (by Tyson Hesse, no less!), it was received much more warmly, with praise being heaped upon the studio for not only listening to the criticism surrounding Sonic's appearance, but creating a new design that was recognizably Sonic.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3e3f6aa6	comment	Many fans became hyped up for the second movie, due to Stephen Hillenburg returning to the series after his departure since season four. What's more, the movie was more-or-less an apology letter to the fans, being on-par with Seasons 1-3 in terms of quality and undoing all of the Character Derailment and Flanderization that plagued the post-Hillenburg era. The following season 10 continued to appease these fans.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs had jumped the shark roughly since Season 6, with continuing Flanderization of the protagonist's girliness, and plot-lines that many people didn't like (such the relationships with Kim and Keith). When the show switched from NBC to ABC for Season 8, however, the show successfully managed to grow its beard back (doubling since JD literally grew a beard). Not only did JD dial down his girliness and regain some of his early charms, but it also featured fresh plotlines and episodes that were both hilarious and emotionally stimulating, as well as a spectacular series finale.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: A meta example. Many people who weren't into anime (or had since grown out of it) have checked out the show thanks to its growing popularity, and it's caused the anime fandom as a whole to be back in the game on social media sites like Tumblr. Complaints that the story moves too slowly seems to have been answered by everything after Chapter 50, with most of the proceeding chapters being a Wham Episode of sorts.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3f01b5a4	comment	The rights then reverted back to Saban, resulting in Power Rangers Samurai and Power Rangers Megaforce. Both of them were major disappointments for fans for various reasons, though Samurai has been given some minor leeway because it was eventually revealed to have been a very rushed series, and basically translating Sentai plots directly. Megaforce lost even more fans because it lacked interesting characters, relied heavily on action scenes, and was an incredibly disappointing 20th Anniversary series. note Including the fact that, due to Nickelodeon's rules, Super Megaforce, which covered the Anniversary Gokaiger Sentai didn't even air until the 21st Anniversary year Then came Power Rangers Dino Charge and took all the lacking parts from Megaforce, making those things great. It won the crowd back with its first episode (entirely lacking Sentai footage) and gave the characters personalities and depth.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_3f231b84	comment	Jurassic World revived the Jurassic Park franchise 14 years after the poorly received Franchise Killer, Jurassic Park III, was released. It broke box office records, became the third highest grossing movie of all time (behind Avatar and Titanic). On July 23rd, it was announced a sequel will be released on June 22nd, 2018.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_4139b0e7	comment	Unforgiven won back Westerns... and, cued a massive career resurgence for Clint Eastwood that let up only when Eastwood finally entered retirement after the incredibly high note of Gran Torino. Funny thing about the Western - that genre has been declared dead so many times that there are several movies, including Stagecoach (1939) and A Fistful of Dollars (1964), credited with reviving it.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_42c17ca1	comment	Power Rangers in Space won back old fans of Power Rangers lost after Power Rangers Turbo, as well as new ones.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_437c83b7	comment	After the lackluster reception to Tirek and the Sirens, Nightmare Moon's issue of My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic got a bit of a warmer reception, and then Chrysalis' issue ended the miniseries on a high note, most consider it as good as Sombra's if not better. Goes doubles for writer Katie Cook; after "Reflections" "The Good, The Bad and the Ponies", and "The Root of the Problem" in the main series received mixed to poor reception, her return with Chrysalis' issue proved she's not washed up.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Power Rangers in Space won back old fans of Power Rangers lost after Power Rangers Turbo, as well as new ones. Many years later, Power Rangers RPM won back fans that had been dissatisfied with the previous succession of mediocre to bad seasons, as well as being Darker and Edgier, making it enjoyable for the intended, younger audience and older viewers. The rights then reverted back to Saban, resulting in Power Rangers Samurai and Power Rangers Megaforce. Both of them were major disappointments for fans for various reasons, though Samurai has been given some minor leeway because it was eventually revealed to have been a very rushed series, and basically translating Sentai plots directly. Megaforce lost even more fans because it lacked interesting characters, relied heavily on action scenes, and was an incredibly disappointing 20th Anniversary series. note Including the fact that, due to Nickelodeon's rules, Super Megaforce, which covered the Anniversary Gokaiger Sentai didn't even air until the 21st Anniversary year Then came Power Rangers Dino Charge and took all the lacking parts from Megaforce, making those things great. It won the crowd back with its first episode (entirely lacking Sentai footage) and gave the characters personalities and depth.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_457b671e	comment	The sixth season of 24 was heavily panned, making many, even hardcore fans, think maybe the show ran its course. The seventh season, beginning with 24:Redemption has won back the old fans and even a fair share of new ones along with the highest ratings ever for the series.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: The series' popularity was revitalized by Revenge of the Island after the much reviled Action and polarizing World Tour by bringing in a new set of characters while having appearances by the original ones. All-Stars seems to be even more hated than Action, but its follow-up, Pahkitew Island, managed to revive the franchise again with another new set of characters. Its spinoff The Ridonculous Race proved to be extremely popular with fans, and has been compared favorably to Island and World Tour while also introducing a new competition with an almost entirely new cast.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_49a88442	comment	The original release of Final Fantasy XIV back in 2010 was seen by many as the nadir of the entire MMORPG genre and the Final Fantasy franchise, to the point where a major investor sold every last share of his Square Enix stock in protest. Three years later, the game was rebooted as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, having undergone enough changes to make Cataclysm look like a minor patch. This time, the game was a critical and financial success far beyond anything Square Enix expected. (How successful? It is now the second most profitable game in the franchise, next to Final Fantasy XI, and got that way in a fraction of the time.) The game and its expansions have become such a major hit that in PAX West 2019, the main scenario writer for the Shadowbringers expansion was given a standing ovation by the fans, causing her to happily cry in response. That's how you know you won the fans back.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_4a781bdb	comment	Jay Lethal's second run with the Ring of Honor Television Title won back the crowd who had been disinterested in the belt ever since Matt Taven, who was viewed as a Creator's Pet and a Replacement Scrappy in the House Of Truth to Roderick Strong, had won it off the ever popular Adam Cole.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_4c213722	comment	The Perfectionist difficulty in Splinter Cell Blacklist seems to be this as it is a return to classic stealth play, removing melees from the front and Mark & Execute, features from Conviction that may have deterred hardcore fans of the earlier games.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_513f5832	comment	While Star Trek IV was winning the box office, Star Trek: The Next Generation almost permanently won back the Trekkie crowd, for good. Its success triggered an almost continuous 20-year run of Trek series being produced.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_526d4c5c	comment	Bioware, however, pulled this trope with 2003's Knights of the Old Republic, which became not just a breakout property for the company, but for Star Wars Legends, which was, at that point, mired in controversy over Attack of the Clones.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_52fca0e9	comment	After Star Trek: Insurrection was deemed more-or-less an "extended, boring TNG episode", many had high hopes for Star Trek: Nemesis. However, Nemesis turned out to be the worst-performing Trek film in more than 13 years as it was a critical and commercial bomb. It broke the Star Trek Movie Curse in the worst way possible by being an awful even-numbered Trek film.note Unless one counts the Affectionate Parody Galaxy Quest as an honorary ''Trek'' film. The announcement that the franchise would be rebooted was met with much discontent from long-time fans ... until it was also announced that J. J. Abrams would be directing it (along with Michael Giacchino composing), and focused on an alternate-universe plot that would bring back the spirit of the original series. The resulting film is currently the most critically acclaimed Trek film of all time (even more so than Wrath of Khan) and was a massive hit with both hardcore fans (apart from a few holdouts) and general audiences.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_551e7422	comment	The Yogscast Minecraft Series appears to have won many fans back with the new "Cornerstone" series. It's generally agreed by many that series, which introduces mass collaboration and everyone working together and tasks being delegated out, is a good series, partly due to it stirring up old memories of the Tekkit series, where collabs were frequent enough. The effects have been fairly positive for individual members, too- Strippin has gotten a fair amount of love for his good chemistry with Hat Films.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_5540bb6c	comment	Machine Head faced a nasty Dork Age with their turn-of-the-millennium releases The Burning Red and Supercharger. Through the Ashes of Empires re-introduced elements of their classic thrash sound with a warm welcome, and The Blackening went even further, going in a Progressive Metal direction. The band/Rob Flynn still has a mountain to climb, though, as they/he still have both the shadow of Nu Metal and the high standards set by Burn My Eyes to live up to.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_559a3947	comment	New Super Mario Bros. repopularized the 2D Platform Game, after most studios had either gone 3D or abandoned the genre altogether.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_56069dc5	comment	Celtic Frost and Monotheist. Despite it being their final album, they manage to win back after the release of Cold Lake. Given that there were already two albums between those two that excised Cold Lake's sound, it must have been quite a dark cloud to emerge from.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil fans were heavily disgruntled by Capcom management with some of the later games in the series, with the fifth game being considered a poor man's the fourth game and 6 being absolutely hated by many fans because it was too much of an action game compared to the franchise's roots in Survival Horror. However, both games in the Revelations series were seen as a solid approach to the franchise's origins, an announcement to the widely requested remake of Resident Evil 2 in a similar style to the REMake had the fandom rejoicing and the reveal of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard was one of the highlights of the PlayStation conference at E3 2016.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_58602f09	comment	After the promising debut of Point Break (1991) and Near Dark, it seemed that Kathryn Bigelow was the IT girl; a woman director who was married to IT director James Cameron. But then, her big-budget, Cameron-produced Strange Days tanked. Badly. It was nearly a decade before she directed another big movie: The Hurt Locker.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_59769f6	comment	DmC: Devil May Cry was a ham-fistedly gritty reboot (sort of) that many DMC fans found unnecessary due to a myriad of plot points still unaddressed and DmC's largely lackluster and uninspired gameplay (particularly by DMC standards), resulting in the game flopping and the future of the series being uncertain. Capcom would eventually do damage control by releasing a Special Edition of the far more favorable Devil May Cry 4. While it didn't fix all of DMC4's problems, particularly the excessive backtracking that bogged down the second half of the game, it did expand on the story to a degree and included Vergil, Trish, and Lady as playable characters alongside Dante and Nero, each with their own quirks and unique moves. Hope was born anew that a true sequel would be made in the wake; hope that was realized at E3 2018 with the reveal of Devil May Cry 5.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_59b7f1d5	comment	After it was revealed in May 2015 that KLab had fuddled with the English localization of Love Live! School Idol Festival to strip out references to same-sex relationships and change the Featureless Protagonist's implied gender from female to male, fans were very angry at the whitewashing of the characters' sexualities, with many refusing to buy any more Love Gems (if they were buying them) or outright uninstalling the game. One month later, KLab apologized and put out a patch that retranslated the Bowdlerised lines; many fans were elated to see the revised script and came back to the game.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_5ae078da	comment	Invoked at ECW Hardcore Heaven 95. There was a tag team match with Chad Austin and The Broadstreet Bully (Tony Stetson) vs. Donn E. Allen and Dino Sendoff that featured blown spots, with the crowd turning on it and Joey Styles even saying, "This match isn't very good," and, figuring that the match probably wouldn't make TV, using it to take a shot at WCW Slamboree, a PPV which, from 1993-1995, would feature Ring Oldies along with wrestlers from the regular roster. Then "Frankenstein" by The Edgar Winter Group hit, bringing out Paul E. Dangerously and 911. 911 chokeslammed all four guys to the cheers of the crowd.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_5ae0bec6	comment	The WWF became the undisputed top promotion of the wrestling world in the 1980s, but by the time the '90s rolled around, their top name (Hulk Hogan) was gone, nobody else was grabbing the audience's interest, and the booking had become ridiculous, predictable, and lame. The WWF found themselves trailing behind WCW and staring down the barrel of bankruptcy. Then came the Attitude Era, a Darker and Edgier reinvention focused around "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and the rest is history.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_5e5a828d	comment	After a series of divisive albums, Dismember turns it around with their 2006 release The God That Never Was, their most acclaimed album since Indecent and Obscene.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_5ed0217f	comment	Paper Mario: Color Splash is an interesting case. The game was despised by everyone when it was first announced because it used the hated gameplay of Sticker Star (not helped by the game being considered the worst Paper Mario game ever). It also suffered from a marketing campaign that seemed insistent on not showing the improvements the game had made. As the marketing wised up to this, reception got better until it eventually gained as many fans as it did haters; those who played it also appreciated the humour and dialogue. So while it still breaks the base the game is considered an improvement on Sticker Star and, for some, a return to form for the Paper Mario games.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_5ff059fa	comment	The Wolverine discarded the previous Wolverine film and basically started from spin-off scratch, adapting one of the most famous comic arcs for the character and going for a smaller and more personal scale for the character. The result was far more well-received than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, enough for Fox to kick the tires on a follow-up with Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold returning. The resulting Logan was universally acclaimed not only as one of the best films in the X-Men series but as one of the finest superhero films made.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_605dd875	comment	The first post-SG-1 Stargate-verse movie The Ark of Truth was considered by some to be blah at best. However, it seems everyone loved Stargate Continuum.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_6321a082	comment	After the poor reception of Jewelpet Kira Deco!, the fifth season was made more similar to the general feel of the third season in order to win back the Periphery Demographic.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_664b5d51	comment	Star Trek III, while not "terrible" was generally seen as mediocre at best and was met with a collective "...meh". Star Trek IV, however, won over audiences being the funniest of the Trek movies and was the highest-grossing Star Trek film at the time (until 2009). Its success propelled the creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_68ab8d50	comment	Howard Mackie, one of the seminal Spider-Man writers back in the '90s, was originally ostracized not only for his participation in the heavily controversial Clone Saga storylines, but also the mishandled Spider-Relaunch which followed it. Mackie was even for a time considered poison for any project and was even called "The Worst Spider-Man Writer Ever" by many. Currently, he's managed a small comeback with the moderately liked "The Ravagers" book over at DC while, for fairly-or-unfairly, the title of "Worst Spider-Man Writer" has been given by some to current Spider-Writer Dan Slott for his controversial run.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Marvel had some critical bombs in theatres with movies like Ang Lee's Hulk, which was mostly reviled - and let's not get started on Ghost Rider. Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 did well, with the latter long being considered one of the best superhero films of all time, but Spider-Man 3 was poorly received, and combined with the X-Men movies of the timenote The Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine, it seems like the Marvel license was tainted with bad luck. Marvel eventually decided they could do better, and opened their own movie studio to try to cash in on the characters they still had. Iron Man was then released to stunning critical and commercial success, and while The Incredible Hulk didn't do quite as well, but the relative success of both movies pushed Marvel into creating the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to consistent and growing critical acclaim from all corners, going from nought to by far the highest grossing film franchise of all-time on $15 billion and counting, with second place, Star Wars, on $8 billion, in barely 10 years. After the mixed reception of The Amazing Spider-Man Series, Sony decided to share the rights with Marvel Studios and reboot the character again. Many fans were unsure whether Spidey still had a future in movies even with the MCU getting involved. Then when Captain America: Civil War came out, he was cited as one of the film's highlights, with many calling Tom Holland's performance of the character the best so far, and his solo outing, Spider Man Home Coming, being rated as one of the best in the MCU and matching and arguably out-matching the classic Spider-Man 2.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_6bf2d08	comment	When Super Mario Maker was announced, it seemed to have a lukewarm (at best) reception, leaving a few people to mostly shrug it off. However, when it appeared in the Nintendo World Championships 2015, the reception was greeted with more enthusiasm due to the insane things you can create being shown off almost going into Kaizo Trap levels.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 was a very popular game overall, but it was controversial among the original fans of the first two games. Fallout: New Vegas, done by a descendant studio of the original Black Isle, was well-received by both sides and generally seen as a sign that Fallout hasn't quite lost its magic.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series After the bashing that X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine received, X-Men: First Class was met with a much warmer reception. The Wolverine discarded the previous Wolverine film and basically started from spin-off scratch, adapting one of the most famous comic arcs for the character and going for a smaller and more personal scale for the character. The result was far more well-received than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, enough for Fox to kick the tires on a follow-up with Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold returning. The resulting Logan was universally acclaimed not only as one of the best films in the X-Men series but as one of the finest superhero films made. X-Men: Days of Future Past. With the success of The Avengers (2012), fans began clamoring for the X-Men characters to return to Marvel Studios; aside from the obvious crossover potential, fans thought that Fox wouldn't be able to do the series as much justice as Marvel would. It was then up to Fox to prove that they could. Word of God from the creators was that the film was specifically conceived as an "apology" to everyone who was disappointed with X-Men: The Last Stand. The Deadpool (2016) movie was essentially made as an apology for Fox's last attempt at bringing the character into a movie. It's also seen as an attempt to redeem Fox's Marvel movies in general that aren't X-Men, after the critical failure of Fantastic Four (2015). Given the glowing reception and commercial success for Deadpool, along with a well-received sequel, it worked!
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Win Back the Crowd / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Mortal Kombat 9. The series had fallen back into a Dork Age right after Deadly Alliance had so narrowly pulled it out of one. The 2011 game sees to it that your fond memories of the series aren't exclusive to just the 90s. Netherrealm Studios would continue the trend with Mortal Kombat X, which was just as critically and commercially successful as its predecessor, if not more so.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda The huge success of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time made it an incredibly Tough Act to Follow. It overshadowed the next two series installments, Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker, and many fans of the series wished Nintendo would just make another game like Ocarina of Time again. note Both Majora's Mask and Wind Waker would later be Vindicated by History however, with it being pretty easy to find someone within the fanbase that has both of them in their Top 5 if not one of them as their favourite installment. The release of Twilight Princess was considered to be more true-to-form for the series, with its announcement still considered one of the best crowd reaction to happen at E3. While the game has come under its fair share of criticism in the years since, at the time, it won back a lot of series fans by featuring an "adult" Link and a darker story, as well as introducing new items and characters (including one of the franchise's most well-loved partner characters, Midna). A Link Between Worlds did this for the handheld installments in the series, after the more divisive Nintendo DS games (Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks). The title ditched the experimental stylus controls to return to traditional button controls and presented a more open-ended campaign that harkened back to the earliest games in the franchise. In response to criticisms surrounding the linear nature of Skyward Sword, as well as the series' overall progression from open-ended exploration to linear gameplay, Nintendo produced Breath of the Wild. Not only did the game bring the series back-to-basics by emulating the open-world setting of the NES original, but it also became the first Zelda game to rival Ocarina of Time in success, outselling both the original release and the 3DS remake combined within two years to become the most successful installment in the franchise.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_762df2bc	comment	Kung Fu Panda: The sequence of Master Oogway's death up till Po's despairing confession to Master Shifu about his deep self-loathing that the old red panda feels helpless to counter. In that sequence, DreamWorks Animation showed that it had recovered from its post-Shrek 2 creative nadir that drove away its partner, Aardman Animations, and learned how to make stories with profound emotional depth with a skill rivaling Pixar. That, in turn, made the blistering wuxia action to follow all the more powerful now that you have grown to care about these characters.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_7668653b	comment	The Citadel DLC seems to be doing this for Mass Effect 3. While the overall game was generally seen as very good, its ending was almost universally despised. While there will always be some who will never forgive for it, the kudos for Citadel seem about as widespread as the furor was over the original ending. Crossing over with Author's Saving Throw, there was also the Extended Cut, a free release that attempted to make the ending actually make sense and provide closure; approval rose to around 50%, which is fairly impressive given that the original ending had an estimated approval rating of 8%.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_76d45579	comment	Sonic Mania turned out to be a special case of this. While winning over fans of the original Genesis games as a genuine return to Sonic's roots (after the previous game that was supposed to do that was widely declared as a giant misstep), it also attracted widespread acclaim from the general press and gaming community as the first brilliant Sonic game in years; attested to by the game collecting several awards and nominations at its E3 showcase (unheard of for a Sonic title) and ultimately becoming the highest-reviewed Sonic game in over a decade. Mania has also been proclaimed by many as a desperately-needed return to quality after the series stumbled yet again with the average Sonic Lost World and the widely-panned Sonic Boom spinoff games (not helped by the subsequent release of Sonic Forces, which received split reactions up until release, upon which it was largely declared as yet another middling product).
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Win Back the Crowd / int_77582c7b	comment	X-Men: Days of Future Past. With the success of The Avengers (2012), fans began clamoring for the X-Men characters to return to Marvel Studios; aside from the obvious crossover potential, fans thought that Fox wouldn't be able to do the series as much justice as Marvel would. It was then up to Fox to prove that they could. Word of God from the creators was that the film was specifically conceived as an "apology" to everyone who was disappointed with X-Men: The Last Stand.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_7832b74c	comment	The first half of the fifth season of Steven Universe, after the plot-heavy "Wanted" event, is largely complained about by fans due to immediately following a nearly seven month hiatus, a few too many episodes being focused on the recurring human characters, and having no relevance to the more compelling overarching story. However, after "Lars of the Stars" and "Jungle Moon", the plot threads abandoned after "Wanted" were picked up again, culminating in the biggest reveal of the series, that Rose Quartz didn't shatter Pink Diamond, but rather was her. That episode was followed by a well-received "StevenBomb" (five new episodes in five nights) that included the return of Bismuth and Lapis and ended with the critically-acclaimed "Reunited". Though that episode was followed by another lengthy hiatus, the following string of episodes, entitled "Diamond Days", was a much more rewarding payoff for the wait, including Steven and the Crystal Gems visiting Homeworld, Blue and Yellow Diamond receiving more attention as antagonists, and the long-awaited debut of the mysterious White Diamond, who up until that point had never even been directly mentioned, only alluded to.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_7ab10627	comment	Star Trek: The Motion Picture left a lot of folks thinking Trek was only for the geek crowd and would never be a big Space Opera franchise (like Star Wars). Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan proved otherwise as it's almost universally deemed the absolute best of the Star Trek movies mainly from fans.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_7e793c21	comment	And then there was Watchmen, with great praise for his great work as everybody's favorite antihero Rorschach.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8125b468	comment	Grant Morrison's Batman was seen as this too, as an overdose of crossovers, questionable storylines (Hush, War Games, and War Crimes) and fans getting sick of the modern "Bat-God" take on the character had soured fans on Batman. Enter Morrison, who rejected the Bat-God formula he created in favor of a run built around the much-reviled 1950s era Batman, introduced a fresh new element into the book in the form of Damian Wayne and giving fans stories such as "The Club of Heroes" and "Batman RIP".
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Win Back the Crowd / int_81692f99	comment	If there's one thing the Star Trek franchise is known for, it's the ability to rise anew like a phoenix and win back movie-going audiences (multiple times over) after underperforming or dismal films: Star Trek: The Motion Picture left a lot of folks thinking Trek was only for the geek crowd and would never be a big Space Opera franchise (like Star Wars). Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan proved otherwise as it's almost universally deemed the absolute best of the Star Trek movies mainly from fans. Star Trek III, while not "terrible" was generally seen as mediocre at best and was met with a collective "...meh". Star Trek IV, however, won over audiences being the funniest of the Trek movies and was the highest-grossing Star Trek film at the time (until 2009). Its success propelled the creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After the dismal showing of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (which was, at the time, the lowest box-office earning entry of the franchise and a critical disappointment), Paramount Pictures made a point to bring back fan-favorite director Nicholas Meyer (who had helmed The Wrath of Khan) to helm Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Star Trek VI was seen as a valid return to form and a good sendoff for the TOS crew. Star Trek: Generations was hyped as it brought together Kirk and Picard for the first time, but left audiences sort-of disappointed, but then Star Trek: First Contact amped up the action and showed audiences that the TNG crew could carry the torch for the film series. After Star Trek: Insurrection was deemed more-or-less an "extended, boring TNG episode", many had high hopes for Star Trek: Nemesis. However, Nemesis turned out to be the worst-performing Trek film in more than 13 years as it was a critical and commercial bomb. It broke the Star Trek Movie Curse in the worst way possible by being an awful even-numbered Trek film.note Unless one counts the Affectionate Parody Galaxy Quest as an honorary ''Trek'' film. The announcement that the franchise would be rebooted was met with much discontent from long-time fans ... until it was also announced that J. J. Abrams would be directing it (along with Michael Giacchino composing), and focused on an alternate-universe plot that would bring back the spirit of the original series. The resulting film is currently the most critically acclaimed Trek film of all time (even more so than Wrath of Khan) and was a massive hit with both hardcore fans (apart from a few holdouts) and general audiences. Star Trek Into Darkness, while entertaining, didn't feel as "fresh" as its predecessor to many and the plot seemed somewhat muddled, but the series rebounded greatly with Star Trek Beyond who many consider being the best of the "Kelvin timeline" movies.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_81f5d35d	comment	Quite a few fans were redrawn to Kamen Rider by Kamen Rider Double following the debacle of Kamen Rider Decade, though this likely applies more to the non-Japanese Periphery Demographic.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Bros. won back popularity of console Video Games in North America, after The Great Video Game Crash of 1983. New Super Mario Bros. repopularized the 2D Platform Game, after most studios had either gone 3D or abandoned the genre altogether. Following the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2 in 2010, Super Mario Bros. gradually became increasingly accused of stagnating creatively. While Super Mario 3D Land was well-received, critics and fans generally felt that it was underwhelming after the Galaxy games and the release of two new 2D installments in the same year gave further credence to this. Super Mario 3D World seemed to be heading towards this as well, but its second trailer revealed a large amount of unique content and well-designed levels that piqued interest, and the game met near-universal acclaim and large sales a month later. When Super Mario Maker was announced, it seemed to have a lukewarm (at best) reception, leaving a few people to mostly shrug it off. However, when it appeared in the Nintendo World Championships 2015, the reception was greeted with more enthusiasm due to the insane things you can create being shown off almost going into Kaizo Trap levels. Paper Mario: Color Splash is an interesting case. The game was despised by everyone when it was first announced because it used the hated gameplay of Sticker Star (not helped by the game being considered the worst Paper Mario game ever). It also suffered from a marketing campaign that seemed insistent on not showing the improvements the game had made. As the marketing wised up to this, reception got better until it eventually gained as many fans as it did haters; those who played it also appreciated the humour and dialogue. So while it still breaks the base the game is considered an improvement on Sticker Star and, for some, a return to form for the Paper Mario games. Super Mario Odyssey won back the crowd on several different levels. First off, it brought back the open-ended and environment based gameplay of 64 and Sunshine that had been previously replaced with more linear gameplay starting from Super Mario 3D Land, winning back many fans of the older 3D Mario games. This came at the cost of alienating those who preferred the linear gameplay; they were won over by the innovation and new gameplay mechanics. Finally, the game brought creativity to the Mario series many people had accused it of lacking throughout the 3DS / Wii U era and revitalised the series in general.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_84cc7490	comment	Florida Georgia Line, with their breakthrough smash "Cruise", became the Trope Makers and Trope Codifier of the "bro country" subgenre of Country Music in The New '10s. Defined by songs about hot girls, drinking beer, trucks, partying, and the like, the genre is widely derided for its sheer lack of substance. However, their second album showed signs of moving away from this with more substantial singles such as "Dirt" and "Confession", while the third album moved even further away in favor of impassioned ballads such as "H.O.L.Y." and "May We All".
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Win Back the Crowd / int_84f3f987	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. The previous series of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL was derided for being more childish than other series, neglecting older summoning methods and having annoying characters. ARC-V addresses these points by having a darker, complex plot that incorporates all summoning methods, and making the characters unique, but retaining a lot of the humor and quirks that fans loved about ZEXAL. Adding to that, the season also made efforts to avert the long-running tendency of the franchise to use Faux Action Girl and make otherwise strong female duelists into not really all that. Yuzu and Serena have much more battles, on-screen victories and active roles than the previous female leads. When they were Demoted to Extra a variety of female villains and other characters took their place.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8525bf6a	comment	DokiDoki! PreCure was an attempt by Toei to win back the fanbase of Pretty Cure. This one has quite a story behind it. Three years before Doki Doki, the precure of the year was Heartcatch Pretty Cure, which was almost completely different from its predecessors. It was both Darker and Edgier, and at the same time Denser and Wackier, and the main characters are just plain badass. The change enticed a lot of people, mostly from the Periphery Demographic. The next two precures after that adhered to the older formula (read: made for little girls), and this put off the new fans. Doki Doki is an attempt to create something that replicates the success of HCPC while still keeping the primary audience. The result is something that can be described as either Made of Win or complete Sue-fest. Because of that, Happiness Charge Pretty Cure is attempting to try again, this time mixing elements of the older ways and the ways pioneered by HCPC while adding some new ideas of its own (like deliberately trying to make the blue Pretty Cure be the main character instead of the pink one)... at least, at first, because it ended up crashing and burning in its second half even worse than Doki Doki did. This has since lead to a major change in the higher-ups that produce the series, leading then current producer Hiroaki Shibata to be Kicked Upstairs to Toei's Tokusatsu department. This has ironically made Go! Princess Pretty Cure take this mantle instead, to a much more degree of success than the past two seasons.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Transformers: Prime, following the success of Transformers: War for Cybertron (and being in that same universe), has won over basically all fans of the franchise - including many geewunners - and is marked as being the best Transformers show since Beast Wars, if not even better. Part of this is the serious tone of the show, the return of the original voice actors for Optimus and Megatron, and the ubiquity of pieces of the Transformers Mythos from every major installation of the Transformers Franchise. The third season won a bigger crowd after the Sophomore Slump of the second.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_86814ea1	comment	However, things started to turn around in late 2016, with Final Fantasy XV leading the charge at the end of November and shipping over 5 million copies on release day. The momentum continued into 2017: in a span of less than 6 months, Japanese developers enjoyed a rapid-fire release of games that achieved massive critical & commercial success in the West like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Tales of Berseria, Yakuza 0, NieR: Automata, Nioh, Persona 5, and most significantly of all, the smashing success of the Nintendo Switch and its launch title The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with Splatoon 2, Super Mario Odyssey, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 continuing to bolster the massive success of the Switch later on throughout the year. Also in 2017, Japanese mobile games managed to break into the Western market with two megahits in the form of Fire Emblem Heroes and Fate/Grand Order. This momentum would continue on in 2018, with such acclaimed hits such as Monster Hunter: World, Octopath Traveler, Soul Calibur VI, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Mega Man 11, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and would grow in 2019, with titles like Resident Evil 2 (Remake), Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Astral Chain, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, and Death Stranding all being hits. The incredible turnaround of the Japanese gaming industry in Western popular opinion is discussed in this video which features interviews with developers from major Japanese studios like Atlus, Square Enix, and Sony Computer Entertainment.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: After the near Franchise Killer that was Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Gundam Build Fighters has revived faith in Gundam as a whole and proved that a series like Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G can work as an actual series. A good chunk of the fandom considered the Build Fighter shows to be side-stories due to their Lighter and Softer nature and for being based on just the model kits, while the franchise "proper" (i.e. the shows where mobile suits are actual giant robots) continued to flounder by following AGE with the pretty but ultimately confusing and disappointing Reconguista in G, leaving the Build Fighter series as more of a "hold the line" effort. Luckily Iron-Blooded Orphans seems to be bringing back a lot of the enthusiasm dampened by AGE and G-Reco. Gundam Build Divers was widely panned by many fans, especially by Western fans, who were utterly turned off by numerous things, key complaints being The Hero Riku Mikami, a Stock Shōnen Hero, and Sarah, a Mysterious Waif Deus ex Machina, who take up about 80% of the screentime. Many fans were wary of Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE because of this. However, it seems that Sunrise listened as there are numerous changes including: The story being written by Yasuyuki Muto, who wrote the scripts for Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn; The animation done by XEBEC, now rebranded as Sunrise Beyond; More obscure series being touched on such as ∀ Gundam and Gundlander, a character who is of the same race as Sarah but a bonafied Action Girl and a Wham Episode that punts the series out of the Lighter and Softer angle.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8c264362	comment	Skyfall did this for the Craig-Bond after the rather mixed reception to Quantum of Solace.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8c87469c	comment	In response to criticisms surrounding the linear nature of Skyward Sword, as well as the series' overall progression from open-ended exploration to linear gameplay, Nintendo produced Breath of the Wild. Not only did the game bring the series back-to-basics by emulating the open-world setting of the NES original, but it also became the first Zelda game to rival Ocarina of Time in success, outselling both the original release and the 3DS remake combined within two years to become the most successful installment in the franchise.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8cea2648	comment	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was this for Sony Pictures Animation after the highly negative reception of The Emoji Movie and the lukewarm reception of The Star and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation which followed. The movie also won back fans of Spiderman's cartoons given that, of the three cartoons that aired before the movie, the first had to be cancelled for legal reasons despite critical acclaim, and the latter, while they have many fans, fall hard into the Tough Act to Follow territory.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8da0ea80	comment	Most if not all fans shared at least one gripe with the release-version's final roster, including Dr. Mario of all characters being brought back from Melee and there not being quite enough star power. It seems like Sakurai took this as a challenge, as almost every piece of character DLC was designed to, if not make you cheer for the character, marvel at what on Earth Sakurai can pull off next. Mewtwo, Roy, and Lucas all returning as fan favorite veterans (who could actually return). Ryu adding another crossover to his list. Cloud Strife being added because Sakurai knew it has been a long-running joke with the fanbase for characters like Goku or Cloud to be in Smash. Finally, the eponymous protagonist of Bayonetta being added (allegedly) by fan demand through the Smash Fighter Ballotnote Timing and evidence from data mining suggest that she was planned before the ballot even started., plus Corrin to promote his/her then-upcoming game.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8f36f969	comment	Things continued improving for Nick in 2016 with the near-unanimous praise of The Loud House, greenlighting a one hour special for storytelling of Rocko's Modern Life and shelving Breadwinners to Nicktoons without renewing it for a third season. These improvements especially stick out against main rival Cartoon Network, which in 2015 fell into what some viewers consider to be a new Dork Age and began making some of the same mistakes Nickelodeon was making during 2009 to 2014.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_93f31be7	comment	When X Rebirth launched to almost universal poor reviews due to the Obvious Beta state and a plethora of bizarre design decisions, the development team, EGOSOFT, admitted that they goofed up, and spent the next year refining the game to be playable and indeed fun; first with the massive "2.0" update and again with "3.0", which coincided with the release of the game's Expansion Pack, The Teladi Outpost, which was free for every owner to pre-order until the day of release as an apology. Critics and fans praised the decision and were more in favor of the game after all the changes. EGOSOFT has a history of this, with their games being released as buggy, often unplayable messes which are rectified about a year after release and with features expanded via free Downloadable Content, but winning back the crowd after the Rebirth fiasco — whose level of bugginess was an order of magnitude worse than previous games — was make-or-break for the company.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_961b37e0	comment	The DC Extended Universe was on shaky ground after the mixed reception of Man of Steel in 2013 together with the poor reception of both Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad in 2016, with a number of accusations of Warner Bros. and DC trying too hard to be Darker and Edgier at the expense of good storytelling. Then Wonder Woman proved to be a critical and commercial smash, offering a serious but still uplifting Coming-of-Age Story for the titular heroine, breathing new life and interest into DC's films. Following the Justice League hiccup, the largely positive reception of both Aquaman and SHAZAM! has further improved this.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_998cbda3	comment	When it was announced Daredevil (2015) would be adapted as a Netflix TV series, many people who only knew the character for the mediocre 2003 film were cautiously skeptical, to say the least. When it came out, it received almost universal acclaim for its clever and tight plotting, well-choreographed and brutal fight scenes, and in-depth character development and acting, and is regarded by many as the single best TV series entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This had the effect of almost completely redeeming the character in the mainstream public's eye.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_9c657880	comment	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol became the best-reviewed film of the series, even going as far as to do a lot to redeem both the Mission: Impossible film series and Tom Cruise in the eyes of the public.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_9da6f861	comment	While The Abyss didn't exactly tank at the box office, it wasn't the success it had been expected to be, and it hadn't been a particularly good experience for James Cameron (it suffered much Executive Meddling). Cameron's next movie: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Later, Cameron also helped Arnold Schwarzenegger to have success again with True Lies, after the misstep that was Last Action Hero.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_9dab421d	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl helped to revive the long since dead high seas adventure (and pirates to boot) that was killed unceremoniously by Cutthroat Island. Notable in that it wasn't a perfect genre comeback, as although pirate elements have become far more common now, there still aren't too many other high seas pirate-y films outside of that series.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: The first game was universally hailed and anticipation was high for the second one. However, what fans got was a lackluster sequel that was laughably easy and stripped Dante of his rogue charm. Understandably, many were wary come news of the third game, which was developed by the same team behind DMC2. However, Capcom rectified all the problems of the second game, ratcheting up the difficulty, reverting Dante back to his old self, and even giving him some new toys to play with. Then came the announcement of Special Edition, which offered an Easy Mode and allowed players to play as Vergil. DmC: Devil May Cry was a ham-fistedly gritty reboot (sort of) that many DMC fans found unnecessary due to a myriad of plot points still unaddressed and DmC's largely lackluster and uninspired gameplay (particularly by DMC standards), resulting in the game flopping and the future of the series being uncertain. Capcom would eventually do damage control by releasing a Special Edition of the far more favorable Devil May Cry 4. While it didn't fix all of DMC4's problems, particularly the excessive backtracking that bogged down the second half of the game, it did expand on the story to a degree and included Vergil, Trish, and Lady as playable characters alongside Dante and Nero, each with their own quirks and unique moves. Hope was born anew that a true sequel would be made in the wake; hope that was realized at E3 2018 with the reveal of Devil May Cry 5.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_9dfa8216	comment	Law & Order wins back its fans at regular intervals. But then, after nearly 20 years on the air, that should be expected.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Some Pokémon fans felt turned off by Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire due to a large number of changes from previous installments, including unavailability of Generation I and II Pokémon. But when Generation IV came out, especially Platinum and the long-awaited remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver, it brought back many old fans, along with some new ones. All subsequent generations have done something to put this trope in effect as well.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_9f8a2211	comment	The title hit this again in the mid-'00s after the disaster of his unmasking in Civil War and the universally-reviled One More Day storyline as new writers were brought in who kept trying to replace Spidey's supporting cast and rogues gallery by creating their own set of third-string villains and characters. It hit its own nadir when they had the Lizard cross the Moral Event Horizon and later undid the Sacred Cow that was "Kraven's Last Hunt". Enter Dan Slott, who took over the title as the sole writer and generally made the series enjoyable again, though the run has not been without its detractors, and his Superior Spider-Man story was fairly controversial, though it enjoyed the best sales for the series in quite some time. After several years of being consigned to just the newspaper comic strip, Peter and MJ's marriage was brought back to the forefront for the summer of 2015 during the Secret Wars event, with Dan Slott penning a five-issue story called Renew Your Vows, focusing on an alternate version of Peter and MJ raising a young daughter called Annie and taking on a dictator called The Regent. The series proved very popular and a year later it was given its own ongoing title where the Parker family all fight crime together as a superhero unit, not unlike The Incredibles. Following the events of Superior Spider-Man, Black Cat underwent a shock heel turn, turning violent against Spider-Man, almost killing Aunt May, and set her sights on becoming a ruthless crime Queenpin. Fans of Felicia were understandably livid at this. Writer Robbie Thompson attempted to give Felicia a sympathetic motivation for her turn in the pages of Silk and developed a frenemy relationship between her and Cindy Moon, but that only lasted until Felicia found out Cindy was spying on her. Finally, after three years of dissatisfied fans crying foul, Felicia was quickly set on the path to redemption in both Venom Inc and the pages of Defenders, where she lost her crime empire and was given a motivational speech (by Venom, the creature that once shattered her nose) to be a force for good again.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_a7bb24f5	comment	Mega Man 11's announcement and subsequent release was this to longtime Mega Man fans who had turned on Capcom after seeing no official releases (barring compilations and rereleases) since Keiji Inafune left the company nearly a decade prior, leading many to write the franchise off as dead. The fact that the game has a modern graphical style and a higher budget as opposed to being an NES-style retro throwback like Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 also did a lot to get people excited.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_aa8a643c	comment	2014 saw WWE pull this off on more than one level. First, in the Royal Rumble, the crowd waited anxiously during the entire Rumble for Daniel Bryan to make his appearance. When number 30 was revealed to be Rey Mysterio, once the crowd realized that Bryan wasn't in the Rumble at all, the boos could be heard loud and clear - Mysterio's elimination was actually cheered. The world title match at Wrestlemania XXX was quickly made a triple threat match by including Bryan and having him win the title to the massive approval of the crowd... which earlier that night had been practically deflated when The Streak came to an end.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ab9ec4d0	comment	Orphan Black also seems to have rebounded from a controversial season with season 4, which has renewed its focus on the show's central mysteries and, unlike previous seasons which frequently seemed to introduce more new questions than they answered, has actually answered many of them (including one that has existed since the very first season of the show, namely why Beth committed suicide). The show seems to have returned to its roots while introducing a number of memorable new characters (particularly M.K., the Hidden Villain Evie Cho, and Ira, who finally gives Ari Millen a chance to portray a character who is radically different from any of the other Castor clones). Thus far, a common opinion seems to be that it's the best season since the first.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ae050a9f	comment	The huge success of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time made it an incredibly Tough Act to Follow. It overshadowed the next two series installments, Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker, and many fans of the series wished Nintendo would just make another game like Ocarina of Time again. note Both Majora's Mask and Wind Waker would later be Vindicated by History however, with it being pretty easy to find someone within the fanbase that has both of them in their Top 5 if not one of them as their favourite installment. The release of Twilight Princess was considered to be more true-to-form for the series, with its announcement still considered one of the best crowd reaction to happen at E3. While the game has come under its fair share of criticism in the years since, at the time, it won back a lot of series fans by featuring an "adult" Link and a darker story, as well as introducing new items and characters (including one of the franchise's most well-loved partner characters, Midna).
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ae259c31	comment	The Spy Who Loved Me was considered a tremendous return to form after ten years of rather tepid installments, and even today, it's considered one of the finest films in the franchise.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_afa87e53	comment	Atari was very clearly attempting this with Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers and Rookie Rush, which featured no licensing from any major sports brands and tried to be more than just another year of the same game. Unfortunately, it didn't pull the series out of its Dork Age very well (as a matter of fact, it only solidified the issues most longtime fans took), and it flopped to the point that no new games in the series, one that's been milked to death with two to three games every year for a decade, have since been announced.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_afb7052	comment	After the dismal failure of Batman & Robin, The Dark Knight Trilogy by Christopher Nolan rebooted the film franchise in order to win back Batman fans. All three films have been resounding commercial successes and the second an unprecedented critical success, raising the prestige of comic book movies as gripping drama films. After The Dark Knight came out, it became the highest-grossing comic book movie ever. It also became the first comic book film to ever win an acting Academy Award with Heath Ledger posthumously winning Best Supporting Actor for his highly regarded performance as The Joker.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_afeeacf6	comment	While its sequels were divisive, the critical and fan response success of The Force Awakens brought Star Wars back from the national time-out corner following the polarizing reactions to the prequels.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b0fc9724	comment	Similarly, Saturday Night Live has had several periods where everyone hated it, until new talent (most notably Eddie Murphy in the early '80s and Will Ferrell in the mid '90s) brings it back into the public's good graces.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones rebounded from a highly divisive season 5 with season 6, which has been one of the most acclaimed seasons of the show to date. It probably helps the creators that fans no longer have source material to compare the show with, but it also helps that the creators seem to have learned from their mistakes by improving the characterization of the female characters (in particular, using them more as fully realized human beings rather than plot devices) and reducing focus on the parts of the plot that weren't working (Dorne in particular). Several of the most acclaimed episodes of the show to date have been from season 6. That its final two episodes were among those episodes only cemented its return to form.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b3690647	comment	After the bashing that X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine received, X-Men: First Class was met with a much warmer reception.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b48b954b	comment	Additionally, Puss in Boots, while not anywhere near as ground-breaking as the original two Shrek films, succeeded in winning back fans of the franchise after the last two Shrek films that could charitably be described as disappointing, with a surprisingly good (and considering the rating, surprisingly dark) prequel starring Puss, the series' Ensemble Dark Horse, which was successful enough to give the latter his own animated series.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b4967d43	comment	Most Sonic fans will tell you that the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise finally achieved this in the years since the near-universally reviled Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). The game which achieved that, however, is yet another (intensely heated) point of contention between Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors, or Sonic Generations. Sonic Mania turned out to be a special case of this. While winning over fans of the original Genesis games as a genuine return to Sonic's roots (after the previous game that was supposed to do that was widely declared as a giant misstep), it also attracted widespread acclaim from the general press and gaming community as the first brilliant Sonic game in years; attested to by the game collecting several awards and nominations at its E3 showcase (unheard of for a Sonic title) and ultimately becoming the highest-reviewed Sonic game in over a decade. Mania has also been proclaimed by many as a desperately-needed return to quality after the series stumbled yet again with the average Sonic Lost World and the widely-panned Sonic Boom spinoff games (not helped by the subsequent release of Sonic Forces, which received split reactions up until release, upon which it was largely declared as yet another middling product).
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The comic hit a massive creative nadir with the anti-climatic conclusion to the four year long Hobgoblin Saga, which was blotched by behind the scenes drama and the decision to kill off Hobgoblin in his civilian identity in an unrelated story, denying fans a final confrontation and sticking a third-string villain in the costume to keep the character around. But Marvel managed to pull their asses out of the fire with the decision to FINALLY marry Peter and Mary Jane off, which resurrected interest in the character, along with the introduction of Venom, the hiring of Todd McFarlane as artist for Amazing Spider-Man, and Kraven's Last Hunt. The Reveal by Hobgoblin creator Roger Stern that the man who had been killed off was NOT, in fact, the real Hobgoblin, but rather his brainwashed stand-in, allowed the final confrontation between him and Spidey that the fans were initially denied. The title hit this again in the mid-'00s after the disaster of his unmasking in Civil War and the universally-reviled One More Day storyline as new writers were brought in who kept trying to replace Spidey's supporting cast and rogues gallery by creating their own set of third-string villains and characters. It hit its own nadir when they had the Lizard cross the Moral Event Horizon and later undid the Sacred Cow that was "Kraven's Last Hunt". Enter Dan Slott, who took over the title as the sole writer and generally made the series enjoyable again, though the run has not been without its detractors, and his Superior Spider-Man story was fairly controversial, though it enjoyed the best sales for the series in quite some time. After several years of being consigned to just the newspaper comic strip, Peter and MJ's marriage was brought back to the forefront for the summer of 2015 during the Secret Wars event, with Dan Slott penning a five-issue story called Renew Your Vows, focusing on an alternate version of Peter and MJ raising a young daughter called Annie and taking on a dictator called The Regent. The series proved very popular and a year later it was given its own ongoing title where the Parker family all fight crime together as a superhero unit, not unlike The Incredibles. Following the events of Superior Spider-Man, Black Cat underwent a shock heel turn, turning violent against Spider-Man, almost killing Aunt May, and set her sights on becoming a ruthless crime Queenpin. Fans of Felicia were understandably livid at this. Writer Robbie Thompson attempted to give Felicia a sympathetic motivation for her turn in the pages of Silk and developed a frenemy relationship between her and Cindy Moon, but that only lasted until Felicia found out Cindy was spying on her. Finally, after three years of dissatisfied fans crying foul, Felicia was quickly set on the path to redemption in both Venom Inc and the pages of Defenders, where she lost her crime empire and was given a motivational speech (by Venom, the creature that once shattered her nose) to be a force for good again. In mid-2018, Nick Spencer took over as head writer of the Spider-Man title. His writing is often cited as a much-needed return to form for Spider-Man, with many fans who abandoned the series years ago returning. Early issues are quick to address the most frequent criticisms of Slott's writing, and one decision in particular that received praise is the reunion of Peter and Mary Jane, who resumed their relationship for the first time since One More Day ten years ago.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In 2017, Nickelodeon announced that Invader Zim is getting a TV movie'.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b6886bfd	comment	Star Trek Into Darkness, while entertaining, didn't feel as "fresh" as its predecessor to many and the plot seemed somewhat muddled, but the series rebounded greatly with Star Trek Beyond who many consider being the best of the "Kelvin timeline" movies.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b9419bd1	comment	Deus Ex: Human Revolution struggled to win any fans from its conception — a fanbase already disillusioned by Invisible War was less than thrilled when they discovered that the third game in the series would include Regenerating Health and cover-based combat. However, when a disgruntled ex-employee leaked the press demo, previously unenthusiastic Deus Ex fans were pleasantly surprised by what they found - so much so that even the notoriously pessimistic /v/ was genuinely impressed and looked forward to the game's release with far more excitement than before.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_b9aed0de	comment	The successes of Blade and X-Men managed to breathe new life into the Comic Book and Superhero Genre, after Batman & Robin killed it.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ba9a9454	comment	After being one of the most respected actors of the '90s, thanks to his prominent lead roles in Se7en, American Beauty and The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey's career slowly declined through the 2000s, with many of his roles relegated to supporting parts in small TV miniseries and underwhelming films. Even 2006's Superman Returns — his highest-profile movie in years, where he scored the lead role of Lex Luthor — turned out to be a huge box-office disappointment, and it failed to spawn a new Superman franchise. That all changed in 2013, when his acclaimed performance as Frank Underwood in House of Cards (US) suddenly made him a household name again, leading to Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. No longer applies now that allegations of sexual misconduct with teenaged boys came to light in 2017; such allegations usually are permanent career killers for good reason.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: The eighth and ninth seasons. Plankton is more threatening than he was before the movie, using deadly weapons and slave labor, Mr. Krabs has a nice side, characters who plagued the past three seasons have been dropped, there's a bit more drama, the epic horrors of Whelk Attack and "A Pal For Gary" (though SpongeBob's characterization in that episode hasn't allowed it to resonate well with several fans), Sandy may be getting back in the spotlight soon, genuinely good specials, the Black Comedy being handled better, the best SpongeBob game since Battle For Bikini Bottom, the brief Story Arc, SpongeBob getting less stupid, Patrick becoming a lovable oaf again after a brief jerkass stint , etc. Although they aren't without their stinkers (i.e. "Squid Baby" and "Are You Happy Now?"). Many fans became hyped up for the second movie, due to Stephen Hillenburg returning to the series after his departure since season four. What's more, the movie was more-or-less an apology letter to the fans, being on-par with Seasons 1-3 in terms of quality and undoing all of the Character Derailment and Flanderization that plagued the post-Hillenburg era. The following season 10 continued to appease these fans.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers Animated has proved to be an excellent show, especially after the years of spottily-dubbed Japanese-produced for American consumption (Or not) series, attracting many old and even new fans.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_bd91db47	comment	Pokémon: Many fans dropped out partway during the Johto arc due to it being packed with filler, as well as potentially interesting storylines being scrapped, most infamously the GS Ball. note The device was supposed to build up Celebi's debut, until it was decided to give it a starring role in Pokémon 4Ever instead, so the storyline was quietly dropped as soon as Ash gave the GS Ball away to a Poké Ball expert for study However, Hoenn won many fans back, due to better animation, characterization, and pacing. After Sinnoh, many dropped out during the Unova arc, due to what was perceived as bad characterizations for the main characters. But the Kalos arc, with Ash's Character Rerailment, a new director, and certain announcements exciting the fanbase, a lot of people came back. The Alola arc had a hard time gaining fans due to its Denser and Wackier nature (the fact that the games it was based on were actually Darker and Edgier compared to their predecessors didn't help), the redesigns of the characters, and the school setting. But then came the announcement that Misty and Brock would be making a guest reappearance for the show's 1000th episode, and interest was regained with the lost crowd.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_be0d8ec6	comment	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water managed to win back SpongeBob fans, thanks to having Stephen Hillenburg back on board (as well as the news that he's returning to the show itself), featuring humor on par with that of the first 3 seasons and de-flanderizing the characters. Being a box office hit also helps. Then, C.H. Greenblatt's Harvey Beaks was praised for being more down to earth, having more wholesome humor, and not rehashing the same "bromance" theme of other Nicktoons. And finally, the network announced they were working to reboot some of their old series. This includes recruiting Craig Bartlett to finally produce something classic Nick fans have been wanting for over a decade: Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_be68ee29	comment	Hardcore fans generally took a "once bitten, twice shy" approach to Wii U/3DS after Brawl, and the early build displayed at E3 2014 and subsequent promotional events that suffered many of the same problems as Brawl didn't help matters. Then, the finished game was released, which altered the mechanics from the demo build completely, along with doing things like adding onscreen tips that explained details and tactics previously hidden to most players, fans started to warm up to the games. And since the game's release, there have been updates and patches to fix balancing issues and improve the speed.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c1bf1af4	comment	While the seasons of Two and a Half Men without Charlie Sheen still get criticized, many fans of the show feel like Season 11 seems to have won everyone back for real, with the introduction of Charlie's daughter Jenny, who has received a considerable amount of praise, due to her personality being almost exactly like Charlie's.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c24091cf	comment	Two years later, and How to Train Your Dragon would help to more or less finish the rise that Kung Fu Panda started, proving that even if it couldn't quite beat out Pixar for the awards, it certainly had finally gotten a strong roll going. HTTYD would become their best-reviewed film up to that point, being a massive critical success, and managed to pull one of the best Sleeper Hit runs in animation. Additionally, Puss in Boots, while not anywhere near as ground-breaking as the original two Shrek films, succeeded in winning back fans of the franchise after the last two Shrek films that could charitably be described as disappointing, with a surprisingly good (and considering the rating, surprisingly dark) prequel starring Puss, the series' Ensemble Dark Horse, which was successful enough to give the latter his own animated series.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c35ec21c	comment	Super Mario Odyssey won back the crowd on several different levels. First off, it brought back the open-ended and environment based gameplay of 64 and Sunshine that had been previously replaced with more linear gameplay starting from Super Mario 3D Land, winning back many fans of the older 3D Mario games. This came at the cost of alienating those who preferred the linear gameplay; they were won over by the innovation and new gameplay mechanics. Finally, the game brought creativity to the Mario series many people had accused it of lacking throughout the 3DS / Wii U era and revitalised the series in general.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The series won back the My Little Pony franchise, after it had been a joke for years. Moreover, it gave rise to the brony movement, appealing to adults as well as children. In a smaller case, writer Merriwether Williams' four episodes in season 2 were among the most disliked of the show (with the exception of Hearth's Warming Eve), most notably in how their stories relied on everyone acting like jerks. Her next episode in the following season, Wonderbolts Academy was far better received. The 3rd season is considered a case of minor Seasonal Rot in quality due to a shorter life-span, a lackluster Arc Villain, premise-altering story turns including Discord's Heel–Face Turn and Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn princess, and fan favorite character Derpy Hooves being a no-show due to the "controversy" surrounding her first speaking appearance. The 4th season is considered a point where the show greyed the beard as the plot developments that were feared to be the show's downfall wound up refreshing it. Twilight and her friends' struggles with her new royal duties are presented in a surprisingly mature light while Discord takes on the role of Token Evil Trickster Mentor while going through some Character Development to make his reform easier to swallow. It returns to a 26-episode format while setting up a Half-Arc Season that gives a hearty taste of Equestria's history with the finale featuring long-lost G1 antagonist turned Breakout Villain Tirek. As a cherry on top, Derpy makes a grand return in "Rainbow Falls" (S4E10). While Season 5 was, for quite some time, considered one of, if not the best season, Season 6 went the opposite way. For starters, Season 6 saw the introduction of previous Arc Villain Starlight Glimmer as a main character, getting off relatively scot-free from her previous actions back in Season 5, and her focus episodes were lackluster. It also didn't help that several episodes from Season 6 were very hit-or-miss in terms of quality, and unlike previous seasons, there wasn't a continuing narrative, even just in the background like in S5. However, come Season 7, the narrative returns with the "Pillars of Equestria," Starlight's character-centric episodes turned out to be some of the best ones in the series and helped her become a fan favorite, and even some of the Mane 6-centric ones were incredibly well-received, such as "The Perfect Pear," which is widely considered to be the best episode thus far.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The 2005 reboot was a resounding triumph for Britain's biggest sci-fi hero following the series' ignominious death back in 1989 and the failed pilot on Fox. Following "Kill the Moon" proving to be incredibly polarising, Base Breaking and poorly received with a large portion of the audience. "Mummy on the Orient Express" has been received with near universal admiration. To the point, multiple fans have outright referenced this trope when talking about it. For many actual Doctor Who fans, as opposed to media commentators, "Remembrance of the Daleks" was where 1980s Doctor Who started getting good again. Unfortunately the BBC didn't agree.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c4df4e18	comment	The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater franchise had grappled with Sequelitis for years, eventually hitting a nadir with Tony Hawk's RIDE and SHRED, two games built around an atrocious skateboard peripheral. Activision, finally seeing where this was going, released Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, a revamped collection of levels from the well-reviewed first and second titles. However, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 came out, looking to maintain the upswing... But it was less than what the fans were hoping for, being a bland, bug-riddled product.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c5ad6f3c	comment	The concept for the original Justice League International was a "Win Back The Crowd" moment after the disastrous Detroit era of the franchise. Similarly, in the post JLI era when the League books seemed directionless, Grant Morrison was brought back and was allowed to do what many thought was impossible: bring back the Big Seven JLA line-up.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c635e8e	comment	Dr. Dre's Chronic 2001, which featured then-rising Aftermath artists like Eminem and Xzibit, also revived interest in his career after several years out of the limelight.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c6af550d	comment	Due to Andrew Brenner becoming head writer of Thomas the Tank Engine in Season 17, there are references to older episodes and fan favourites like Bill, Ben and Duck are brought back. The writing style is also more mature than the other CGI seasons and there has been a lot of Character Rerailment, undoing the Flanderization of the later seasons. Thomas, while still appearing frequently, is regulated to supporting roles and the same moderated number of lead roles as other engines instead of being a Spotlight-Stealing Squad.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_c9c1bb50	comment	After the player base's decline Evolve switched to a free-to-play business model on the PC, as well as making plans to do the same on consoles. The player base exploded, as a result, reaching numbers higher than even its initial launch.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ccabd314	comment	Digimon Adventure tri.'s announcement to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the franchise excited numerous longtime Digimon fans. The release of the first movie (or first four episodes) not only earned a lot of money, but it was favorably received by the fandom. Many fans are looking forward to future movies.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d007d5ba	comment	The music company Jamster started gaining a lot of flack with people in the mid-2000s due to the animated character Crazy Frog gaining too much attention with the public mainly due to his songs. As a result, Jamster ended up retiring the character in early 2007 and created a new character named Schnuffel (Snuggle Bunny) who debuted in the song "Snuggle Song" which became a big hit in Germany and Europe. Unlike Crazy Frog, Schnuffel actually gained a lot more positive feedback with the public which resulted in Jamster creating a few music albums starring the character and a few music videos featuring him. The popularity of Schnuffel resulted in Jamster gaining back more fans in Europe and English speaking countries. Jamster later created a second rabbit character named Snuggelina in 2010 who is Snuggle's girlfriend and has also had songs of her own. This caused Jamster to create a few albums called "Schnuffel und Schnuffelienchen" which stars the duo going on various adventures and their daily lives.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d0c31ab	comment	Star Trek: Generations was hyped as it brought together Kirk and Picard for the first time, but left audiences sort-of disappointed, but then Star Trek: First Contact amped up the action and showed audiences that the TNG crew could carry the torch for the film series.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d1515d27	comment	One of the most famous examples in musical history is Aerosmith. They were among the defining hard rock bands of the 1970s and had a massive influence on the then-fledgling heavy metal scene. However, the early '80s were anything but kind to the band, as nasty drug addictions and a string of mediocre albums temporarily doomed them to "has-been" status. But, in 1986, the tides turned. They collaborated with Run–D.M.C. for a re-recording of "Walk This Way" (one of the first notable fusions of rock and hip hop), and 1987's Permanent Vacation further paved the way for a comeback. It finally happened with 1989's Pump. Widely considered to be both their big comeback album and one of the greatest hard rock albums of the late '80s.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d154285c	comment	After the Hogan/Bischoff era, TNA's resurgence came with Bobby Lashley's return to the company in 2014, which was both this and Win the Crowd for Lashley himself, as his earlier run had not been too well received. This time, however, the crowd really got into his matches as MVP talked them to the television sets, and even when MVP was putting over Lashley he had Kenny King to interact with. Post-Spike TV, the TNA brand's absolute last grasp was yet another feud between Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy in 2016, for the same reason they almost always feud: Matt being envious of Jeff. Fans were not at all that excited for this, especially since it took a lot more effort to find TNA programming without Spike TV, or even regular pay per view. Then Matt went crazy, he became "Broken", and everyone wanted to know exactly what they missed. Though it's not without its detractors, the "Broken Saga" was undeniably the most interesting thing to happen to the product in years. Even after its acquisition by the Canadian-based Anthem, and a complete re-brand that retired the TNA name, the newly-christened Impact Wrestling, under a returning Jeff Jarrett, was unwatchable in 2017, culminating in a near-universally panned Bound for Glory PPV that October. Fast forward to 2018, with the return of Don Callis and Scott D'Amore severing as Executive Vice Presidents. In the years since, Impact has been collaborating with both small independent promotions and even major competitors (such as MLW and Ring of Honor), they've expanded their streaming reach with their Twitch partnership (which also kept their weekly show afloat after Pop TV dropped them in January 2019, note Allowing cord cutters a chance to watch the show without subscribing to an obscure cable network.), and even managed to mend fences with Ohio Valley Wrestling for the latter to become their developmental territory again. Reception to the product has greatly improved, with Slammiversary 2018 receiving critical acclaim, and the inter-gender feud between Sami Callihan and Tessa Blanchard in 2019 even gaining positive comparisons to WWE's Attitude Era.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d22a9a66	comment	Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: After years of quieting down and declining in popularity, the show became famous again with the season Mighty Little Defenders. Many people who had stopped watching the show came back to watch the season Mighty Little Defenders because it was the most exciting and unique season in years.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d38fe19f	comment	Star Wars: Clone Wars is this for fans who were disappointed by both The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones because it goes directly into a key event in the Star Wars franchise and it shows a more drawn-out backstory for characters such as Anakin and more importantly, General Grievous.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d43be22a	comment	After many years worth of sequels and a remake that tried too hard to explain the evil behind the killer, thus demystifying the original origins of pure evil, Halloween (2018) won many fans of John Carpenter’s immortal classic back by retroactively retconning all the past sequels and making it a much closer followup to the original. Having key players John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis along with Nick Castle returning as The Shape back helped too.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d53f06fc	comment	Glitch Techs: While Eric Robles' previous series, Fanboy and Chum Chum, was incredibly divisive due to its dimwitted characters and zany humour, Glitch Techs has been much more positively received as a fun (if a bit cheesy) action-adventure show about video games that actually did the research in regards to the subject matter.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d56cafaf	comment	Many years later, Power Rangers RPM won back fans that had been dissatisfied with the previous succession of mediocre to bad seasons, as well as being Darker and Edgier, making it enjoyable for the intended, younger audience and older viewers.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d578ee98	comment	After the dismal showing of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (which was, at the time, the lowest box-office earning entry of the franchise and a critical disappointment), Paramount Pictures made a point to bring back fan-favorite director Nicholas Meyer (who had helmed The Wrath of Khan) to helm Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Star Trek VI was seen as a valid return to form and a good sendoff for the TOS crew.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d66a3a5f	comment	After the unpopular and poorly received mess that was Call of Juarez: The Cartel, Ubisoft realized that they were losing fans of the series at an abysmal rate. It seems they got the message why fans didn't like The Cartel and went on to release Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, a game that plays like an Affectionate Parody of the whole Spaghetti Western concept, gently poking fun at the cliches and storytelling conventions of the genre while providing blazing-fun action and an engrossing story at the same time. It didn't hurt that it was also less expensive than The Cartel and that its characters ended up more well-liked by the Call of Juarez fans.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d6a73a06	comment	A possibly-accidental one for Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog. By the mid-00s, the comic was knee-deep in its Dork Age, bleeding readers as they got tired of the Romantic Plot Tumor that Karl Bollers tacked on and the Creator's Pet that was Ken Penders' Echidna society. After the two writers left due to them headbutting over directions, Ian Flynn, originally a simple starting back-up writer, was asked to take over. He spent his first year or so cleaning up the messes the two made, fixing up all of the plot threads left behind, making bland characters more interesting (such as turning Evil Counterpart Evil Sonic into Scourge the Hedgehog), introducing characters who should have been in the series much sooner (like Bean and Bark) and generally making it a fun series again.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d7626bdd	comment	The Deadpool (2016) movie was essentially made as an apology for Fox's last attempt at bringing the character into a movie. It's also seen as an attempt to redeem Fox's Marvel movies in general that aren't X-Men, after the critical failure of Fantastic Four (2015). Given the glowing reception and commercial success for Deadpool, along with a well-received sequel, it worked!
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Win Back the Crowd / int_d9c602eb	comment	Interest in South Park was waning by the time the third season arrived in 1999. Luckily, the feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was critically acclaimed for its risk-taking satire and wonderful score and songs (including the Oscar-nominated "Blame Canada") and it made a decent amount of money, thus giving the show more fans and helping it live on to this day.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_da1208fe	comment	Moulin Rouge! and Chicago can both be credited with reviving interest in movie musicals after the genre died a slow death over the late 1960s-early 1980s.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_db30cf92	comment	Many Warrior Cats fans grew tired of the series after The New Prophecy, due to the increased focus on the supernatural elements of the series, the disappearance of the Anyone Can Die factor of the series, the increasing number of continuity errors, the increased focus on characterization over plot, and a perceived Romantic Plot Tumor. Then came Dawn of the Clans, which is not only a perfect starting point for new readers, but also contained fresh themes, a faster pace, witty dialogue, plenty of death, a whole new crew of likable characters, tighter continuity, a protagonist vastly different from Firestar, an antagonist who wasn't a rehash of Tigerstar, Brokenstar, or Scourge, and a perfect combination of lighthearted scenes and darker scenes. The reception has been almost entirely positive.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra's first two seasons were seen as weaker compared to the original series with a rushed Myth Arc that took a back seat to a widely disliked Love Triangle and an un-charismatic villain in the second season. The third and fourth seasons dialed back the romance, fixed the pacing, provided two very complex and human villains, and ended the series on a high note with fans. Several fans have even stated that the third and fourth books of Korra were also better than the original series.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II completely splintered the entire fanbase for a number of reasons, due to its limited world, players' lack of effect with their choices, glitches, Cut-and-Paste Environments, and overall rushed feel. There are many who consider it a decent game for elements such as its excellent companions, but a significant step back from its predecessor Dragon Age: Origins. Its follow-up, Dragon Age: Inquisition, despite complaints about problems with different versions, has been far better received for its much more epic story that successfully took many seemingly unimportant elements from Dragon Age II and incorporated them in big ways, highly varied wide-open worlds and the choices having a far greater effect on the story and characters. By extension, quite a few see Inquisition as a return to form for BioWare after the widespread disappointment with Dragon Age II and the ending of Mass Effect 3.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_e26d37ec	comment	After Ubisoft's Tetris exclusivity contract coupled with their disastrous Tetris Ultimate damaged the reputation of the Tetris name ("How were they able to mess up TETRIS of all things?!"), the Western release of Puyo Puyo Tetris and Tetris 99 seem to have renewed people's faith in modern Tetris games, the former featuring a colorful cast of characters including Tetris-representative characters and the butter-smooth gameplay that comes with a lot of Sega Tetris games and the latter being a unique Battle Royale-style 99-player twist on the multiplayer formula.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_e392e047	comment	Gundam Build Divers was widely panned by many fans, especially by Western fans, who were utterly turned off by numerous things, key complaints being The Hero Riku Mikami, a Stock Shōnen Hero, and Sarah, a Mysterious Waif Deus ex Machina, who take up about 80% of the screentime. Many fans were wary of Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE because of this. However, it seems that Sunrise listened as there are numerous changes including: The story being written by Yasuyuki Muto, who wrote the scripts for Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn; The animation done by XEBEC, now rebranded as Sunrise Beyond; More obscure series being touched on such as ∀ Gundam and Gundlander, a character who is of the same race as Sarah but a bonafied Action Girl and a Wham Episode that punts the series out of the Lighter and Softer angle.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_e50b4b7c	comment	Street Fighter Alpha 3 had helped win back gamers that had been turned off by Street Fighter III. While III was heavily criticized for getting rid of the entire cast of II except for Ryu and Ken, Alpha 3 brought back all 18 characters from the first two Alpha games and added in an additional four veterans from Street Fighter II. The fact that Alpha 3 ran on the CPS-2 hardware rather than the CPS-3 like III also meant it could be more easily ported to consoles (where it included even more characters from II), and the game consequently sold a million copies on the PlayStation. For comparison, III was notable for being the first Street Fighter entry since the original to not be able to sell at least a million copies.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_e5ce55d5	comment	Convergence was DC's attempt to win back fans who are upset at losing their favorite status quos due to the Flashpoint reboot. The wave of books after the events continued this, bringing back certain parts of the old continuity (Cassandra Cain, the original Teen Titans, a book featuring Superman and Lois together again, etc.) that fans had been clamoring for.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy, for a time, after the much reviled Season 7: Peter's Jerkassery was toned down, Brian is no longer the Author Avatar everybody was sick of, Meg and Chris are getting more screentime, and the Meg bashing is much, much less blatant, Stewie starts to show glimpses of his old characterization, the newer chapters have better storylines and fewer flashbacks and pop culture references (which, by the way, are more recent and easier to get than the obscure '70-'80s references that nobody recognized), the Black Comedy is less prominent, etc. There are even a few dramatic and serious moments once in a while. Later seasons eventually managed to lose this goodwill, though, for a variety of reasons best listed on other pages.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ea6f0a22	comment	Shadowverse: The Starforged Legends expansion is seen as this. After three months of the dominance of Neutral-oriented decks in Wonderland Dreams, the cards introduced in Starforged Legends expansion is seen as an expansion of re-establishing unique class and traits identities that have long been forgotten (particularly for Swordcraft's Commander/Officer synergy and Forestcraft's identity as a combo class), on top of legendary cards that are not as blatantly overpowered as those in the past couple sets. Combined with the nerf to Alice's buffs to the Neutral package on September 2017, the Starforged Legends expansion was seen as a way to opening up different and diverging playstyles for each class. The introduction to Rotation format in the Chronogenesis expansion is this, mainly because the Rotation format only allows players to use cards from the latest five expansions, thus allowing a more dynamic and diverse meta as well as reinforcing class strengths and new mechanics for existing classes. The Rotation format is seen as a welcoming edition for control players as well, mainly because two combo decks that prey on control decks, Dimension Shift and OTK Roach, will be rotated out in Rotation, along with many aggro cards from Standard and Darkness Evolved expansions that will not be available in Rotation. A portion of the playerbase first learned about Cygames and Shadowverse thanks to the global Steam release. Upon knowing of a highly-popular JRPG called Granblue Fantasy, these players migrated their playtime from Shadowverse into Granblue and might have spent a good amount of time and money in that game (given that Granblue Fantasy never runs out of events) that they might've also taken a break from Shadowverse. During those times, there were a lot of "Returning Player" posts where a former Shadowverse player returns into the game, eager to know the changes to the meta. When the Brigade of the Sky event hit, many of those who migrated into Granblue returned to the card game, thanks to the shared characters featured by the expansion. It goes to the point where some players admit that they play both games at manageable times.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ed422854	comment	No Man's Sky was the subject of serious backlash around the time of its release, with critical reception being overall low, stemming largely from disappointment over the lack of features discussed during the game's hype cycle and overall lackluster gameplay. Since its launch in 2016, however, Hello Games continued to work on the game and released updates that improved its quality of life, such as the "Foundation" update, which added base building, a creative sandbox mode and freighters that eased inventory restrictions; the "Pathfinder" update, which introduced terrestrial vehicles for planetside exploration; and the "Atlas Rises" update, which improved the story questline and procedurally-generated side quests that added more variety to the gameplay. The July 2018 update, "NEXT", gave the game a much-needed shot in the arm with one very important addition: multiplayer. Other additions and improvements included the ability to create and remake the player's avatar freely, an expanded base building that lets players set up shop anywhere they wish, streamlining resources to make grinding less tedious, and a graphical overhaul that improved the overall look of the game. Many who dismissed the original release of the game were convinced to return with the release of "NEXT", with the update pushing the Steam version to the top of the sales charts.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_edac271f	comment	At the end of the 2003-2004 TV season, ABC had been floundering for a few years, even becoming the first of the original Big Three networks to fall to fourth place in overall network ratings (falling behind FOX, who was surging behind American Idol). Their programming schedule had glaring holes left from the flame-out of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and a lack of hit dramatic fare and reality shows. Under new management for the 04-05 season, ABC debuted two fall series that would instantly become smash hits: LOST and Desperate Housewives, followed by three more hits with mid-season addition Grey's Anatomy and reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Dancing with the Stars. ABC rode that wave of success back into second place while NBC tumbled all the way to fourth.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ef661e97	comment	Street Fighter: The series was seen as being repetitive and boring after Capcom went to the well one too many times with their update editions of Street Fighter II. And then lost the mainstream gamers completely with Street Fighter III and its update editions. Thanks to the Fighting Game Community, they were able to bring attention to how great a game Street Fighter III: Third Strike really was, and eventually brought enough attention to the game for Capcom to make Street Fighter IV. The game was a huge success, and not only did it help revive the fighting game genre as a whole, it made the FGC popular as well, especially when it came to EVO, the biggest event for the pro community. Not to mention that some fans no longer mind Capcom's update edition concept with the Street Fighter series anymore, as evidenced by the latest version, Ultra Street Fighter IV. Street Fighter Alpha 3 had helped win back gamers that had been turned off by Street Fighter III. While III was heavily criticized for getting rid of the entire cast of II except for Ryu and Ken, Alpha 3 brought back all 18 characters from the first two Alpha games and added in an additional four veterans from Street Fighter II. The fact that Alpha 3 ran on the CPS-2 hardware rather than the CPS-3 like III also meant it could be more easily ported to consoles (where it included even more characters from II), and the game consequently sold a million copies on the PlayStation. For comparison, III was notable for being the first Street Fighter entry since the original to not be able to sell at least a million copies.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ef7b3325	comment	At one point Fantastic Four and The Avengers were dwindling properties at Marvel Comics despite the fact that they were the company's flagship super-teams and in the case of the "FF", the oldest series. With not particularly stellar talent working on each book, The Dark Age of Comic Books seemed to be making idealistic super-hero teams irrelevant. After the mixed-reception Onslaught Crossover, the two teams were thrown into an alternate reality, leading to the reviled Heroes Reborn. This ended up being setup for a little Status Quo Is God, returning the titles back to their former glory with very popular creative teams.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_f04b4111	comment	The entire Metroid franchise was in a very precarious position for several years, largely due to an extended dry spell broken up only by the contentiously received (to say the least) Metroid Prime: Federation Force. Fans of the franchise were left largely unsatisfied, a situation not helped by Nintendo completely ignoring the series' 30th anniversary and their DMCA takedown of Another Metroid 2 Remake. Things seemed bleak for fans of the franchise and for the franchise itself. However, at E3 2017, Metroid came back with a vengeance, with not one, but two games in the franchise announced. The long-requested Metroid Prime 4 was confirmed to be in development for the Nintendo Switch, as well as an official remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus, entitled Metroid: Samus Returns, for the Nintendo 3DS; the latter was released later that year to critical praise. Fandom elation has been at the highest level it's been in years over these announcements.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_f233603d	comment	About a year and a half after the broken mess that was Aliens: Colonial Marines, Alien: Isolation restored many peoples' faith in the idea of Alien video games. As opposed to taking inspiration from the second movie like almost every other game did, it went back to the first movie, where the main character is being stalked by an unstoppable force that they have no adequate defense against. Despite a good deal of padding, the Alien's remarkable A.I., and its expertise in building palm-sweating tension and just being legitimately terrifying, made it worthy of the Alien name. Some even consider it the best Alien product to be made since Aliens nearly three decades before.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_f4090d8d	comment	In mid-2018, Nick Spencer took over as head writer of the Spider-Man title. His writing is often cited as a much-needed return to form for Spider-Man, with many fans who abandoned the series years ago returning. Early issues are quick to address the most frequent criticisms of Slott's writing, and one decision in particular that received praise is the reunion of Peter and Mary Jane, who resumed their relationship for the first time since One More Day ten years ago.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_fdbace96	comment	While Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb, and Tangled: The Series got Disney Channel's animation department back in shape, the network's live-action department had been struggling, as many of their shows since the debut of Hannah Montana in 2006 were seen as mediocre at best, mainly abiding to the Girl-Show Ghetto, with the few exceptions being Good Luck Charlie, Lab Rats, and Girl Meets World. Many of their least-liked series, like Crash & Bernstein and Best Friends Whenever (both of which starred Landry Bender), were cancelled very quickly. In 2017, the network released Andi Mack, a show with Darker and Edgier themes and no laugh track, which won over many fans. They also announced a new spinoff for That's So Raven, a Big Hero 6 series, a Bug Juice reboot, and a DuckTales reboot. These improvements, along with Nickelodeon's, stick out against Cartoon Network's, which some believe has entered another Dork Age.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Hardcore fans generally took a "once bitten, twice shy" approach to Wii U/3DS after Brawl, and the early build displayed at E3 2014 and subsequent promotional events that suffered many of the same problems as Brawl didn't help matters. Then, the finished game was released, which altered the mechanics from the demo build completely, along with doing things like adding onscreen tips that explained details and tactics previously hidden to most players, fans started to warm up to the games. And since the game's release, there have been updates and patches to fix balancing issues and improve the speed. Most if not all fans shared at least one gripe with the release-version's final roster, including Dr. Mario of all characters being brought back from Melee and there not being quite enough star power. It seems like Sakurai took this as a challenge, as almost every piece of character DLC was designed to, if not make you cheer for the character, marvel at what on Earth Sakurai can pull off next. Mewtwo, Roy, and Lucas all returning as fan favorite veterans (who could actually return). Ryu adding another crossover to his list. Cloud Strife being added because Sakurai knew it has been a long-running joke with the fanbase for characters like Goku or Cloud to be in Smash. Finally, the eponymous protagonist of Bayonetta being added (allegedly) by fan demand through the Smash Fighter Ballotnote Timing and evidence from data mining suggest that she was planned before the ballot even started., plus Corrin to promote his/her then-upcoming game. And then came Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which brought back every single character that has ever been playable in the franchise (and yes, this includes Pichu, shown alongside Jigglypuff after Snake's return), along with newcomers like the highly requested Ridley and King K. Rool (whose inclusions were confirmed due to their high standing on the Smash Ballot from 3DS/Wii U), and many others such as Inkling, Daisy, Simon Belmont, Chrom and Isabelle, to name a few. Also, the gameplay has been improved compared to that of 3DS/Wii U, and it featured a new story mode. Then, after the unexpected addition of Piranha Plant as DLC, along came the Fighters Pass with its first fighter, Joker, the return of Stage Builder and a new area to view online content by the players, and the E3 2019 reveals of the hugely-influential Dragon Quest Heroes and the grand return of Banjo & Kazooie to a Nintendo platform. It says something when, as of April 2019, it became the best-selling fighting game of all time, let alone the best-selling Super Smash Bros. game.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ff66c30e	comment	The Muppets reached a nadir with Muppets from Space, which failed both critically and financially. After a few years of disliked TV specials, and modestly popular commercials and viral videos, 2011 brought a new big-screen movie, The Muppets, with a script and sense of humor recalling Jim Henson's Muppet movies. The script also counts as an in-universe example of this trope, as the Muppets try to win back an audience that has grown to favor cynicism in the years since they last performed together. This became one of the most critically-acclaimed movies of the year, and the Muppets' highest-grossing movie ever (not adjusting for inflation).
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ff8fe34b	comment	Sips came under fire for making content that appeared to be solely Garry's Mod-based, with fans starting to angrily spam comments on YouTube. Sips' starting a playthrough of Fallout and Evolve has since won over many of his detractors, who like the shift away from Gmod and back to the older style content.
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Win Back the Crowd / int_ffbcb90e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom divided a lot of fans and caused Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to take a lot of flak for ruining the Indiana Jones saga. The two of them hit back with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade which won over everyone, and among some fans is considered better than even Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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