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1. Spiderus (Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends).

2. Humpty Dumpty (1983 Kinder commercial).

3. Crazy Cravers (Honeycomb cereal commercials).

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Miles, in an attempt to flunk out of Visions Academy, purposely gets all the answers wrong on a quiz, but his teacher notices and points out that random guessing would average around 50%, meaning the only realistic way to score a perfect zero is to know all the correct answers and intentionally pick the wrong ones, so she changes his grade to 100%.

2. Ted 1 – Ted intentionally bombs his job interview at the grocery store by being extremely crude and insulting to the manager, expecting to be rejected, but the manager is impressed with him and hires him on the spot. Later, when he is caught having sex with his coworker on top of the produce, he admits that he previously used a parsnip in the act and then sold that same parsnip to a family with small children, menager said that they need guts and gets promoted. In the epilogue, it’s noted that Ted, is promoted to store manager after being caught eating potato salad off a coworker’s backside.

1. Baloo (The Jungle Book) and Little John (Robin Hood, 1973). This is especially noticeable in scenes where the animation is reused, and both characters are voiced by the same actor.

2. Tsukutsun Tsun and Yamcha (Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball).

1. The Cat (The Cat in the Hat, 2003).

2. The first live-action Sonic design (Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020).

3. All the planes (Jay Jay the Jet Plane).

 

A character that is visibly unattractive or weird-looking but still comes across as adorable and endearing.

1. Pingling (Subnautica).

2. Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

3. Headcrab (Half-Life).

4. Manatea (Real Life).

1. Rogue One – 46 shots and lines of dialogue used in trailers, teasers, and promotional material do not appear in the final movie. Some examples: Jyn confronting a TIE Fighter, Krennic walking through the water, Vader looking at the giant viewscreen of the Death Star.

2. Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) – In the end of the teaser trailer, Mario says, "Mushroom Kingdom, here we come!", but this line does not appear anywhere in the actual movie.

3. Spider-Man (2002) – The scene of Spider-Man chasing a bank robber in a helicopter and trapping it in a giant web between the Twin Towers, shown in the teaser trailer, does not appear in the movie.

1. Mikey Simon (Kappa Mikey) – He is drawn in a blocky 2D style, while the other characters are drawn in a more animesque style.

2. The Lich (Adventure Time) – While most of the cast has simple, cartoony designs with bright colors and little detail, the Lich has a much more complex design that makes him look more human, with a darker, more unsettling color palette, a highly detailed face, and exposed tendons and flaps of skin hanging from his body.

3. The Blue Fairy (Pinocchio) – While everyone else is drawn in a stylized, cartoonish style, she has a much more realistic appearance and was rotoscoped to emphasize her divine, otherworldly nature.

1. The Emperor's New Groove – While Kuzco and Pacha travel to the palace, a red line indicates their progress, and when Yzma and Kronk chase them, they notice the line, look behind themselves to see a blue dotted line forming behind them, shrug it off, and continue the chase.

2. Steven Universe – In the comic "Camp Pining Play", when Peridot gets an idea for how to get some props, an Idea Bulb appears next to her head, only for the next panel to reveal that it is an actual light bulb being dangled above her by Sour Cream.

3. K-Pop Demon Hunters – During the Saja Boys' performance, they throw hearts at the audience, which initially seems like a cartoony way of flirting with them, until Huntrix notices them and realizes that the Saja Boys are actually demons.

When an unstoppable force attacks and kills the player if they try to leave the map, providing an in-universe reason why they can't go out of bounds instead of relying on invisible walls.

1. Spore – During the Creature Stage, if you try to swim or fly too far away from land, you will be swallowed by a giant sea monster.

2. Half-Life 2 – In coastal areas, if you try to swim too far away from shore, alien leeches will start attacking you, and if you keep swimming, they will eventually kill you.

3. Far Cry – If you try to leave the island, you will be confronted by an indestructible helicopter that quickly shoots you down.

1. Ro-Man (Robot Monster, 1953) – It's just a guy wearing a gorilla suit and a diving helmet.

2. Vampiric Bird-Man (Blood Freak, 1972) – It's just a guy wearing a cheap turkey mask.

When a character insults someone without realizing that the insult also applies to their friend.

1. SpongeBob SquarePants – When Patrick and SpongeBob see Doodlebob, Patrick openly expresses his disdain for Doodlebob's appearance without realizing that the same description fits SpongeBob.

2. Into the Spider-Verse – Gwen, who is listening to Kingpin's fake eulogy for the man he murdered, calls him a pig. Spider-Ham, looking offended, says that he's right here.

1. Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons) – In his first appearance, Smithers was animated as a Black character with blue hair. According to the creators, this was an animation error. Although they initially considered keeping the design, they ultimately decided to change it because it could have had the unintended racist implication of making Smithers, Mr. Burns's subservient assistant, one of the show's few Black characters.

2. Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars) – When Palpatine first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, he was not played by Ian McDiarmid but was instead portrayed by Marjorie Eaton, with the voice provided by Clive Revill. The overall template is the same, but Eaton's prosthetic makeup gave the Emperor a much more deformed appearance than the later makeup worn by McDiarmid, and his yellow Sith eyes were created by superimposing chimpanzee eyes over the actress's.

3. Garfiled (Garfield)- In the first comic strip, Jon, Garfield had no tabby stripes except for a few on his tail and had a much uglier face with heavy, drooping jowls. He also looked more cat-like and was always depicted on all fours. His design was later refined, giving him his signature stripes and a more polished appearance, and by 1980, he had become much more streamlined and humanoid.

1. Aliens (Signs) – The buildup in the first half of the movie is done quite effectively, but once we finally see the aliens in action, they don't end up looking very threatening. When they show up, the main characters simply board up their house with wooden planks, and the aliens can't get through a blocked door. So they can build spaceships capable of traveling between the stars and cloaking themselves, but they can't break through wood?

It gets even worse later when one of the aliens is confronted. It gets beaten with a baseball bat, and then a glass of water is spilled on it, revealing that water burns it like acid. These beings traveled across the stars to conquer a planet where water covers 70% of the surface, falls freely from the sky as rain, is present in the atmosphere (which should logically melt them, yet somehow it doesn't), and they do all of that completely naked, with no weapons or protective equipment. That completely destroys the sense of threat the movie built up earlier, making the aliens look stupid and ridiculous.

2. The entire movie (The Happening) – I'd say the idea of plants emitting toxins that cause people to suddenly decide to kill themselves is genuinely frightening, but the movie executes the concept in such a bizarre way that it ends up looking goofy instead. The awkward acting, ridiculous dialogue, deaths that are more laughable than scary, and the poorly handled revelation that the plants are responsible turn what should have been a thriller-horror movie into an unintentionally funny comedy.

1. Phineas and Ferb – Perry the Platypus is teal-green rather than brown because the designers thought it looked cool, but it was later discovered that real platypuses are biofluorescent and glow a teal-green color under UV light.

2. God of War – The creators chose the name Kratos for the main character because it is the Greek word for “strength,” and at the time they were not aware that, in Greek mythology, there is a deity named Kratos, the personification of strength, who appears in Prometheus Bound as an enforcer of Zeus (similar to what the games' Kratos does for much of the original series); they only learned this later.

3. Berserk – Kentaro Miura gave Guts a prosthetic arm because he thought it looked cool, but the idea of a prosthetic arm was not as far-fetched in the late medieval and early Renaissance period as it might seem, since there was a real 16th-century German mercenary named Götz von Berlichingen who had a prosthetic arm of his own. While it did not have a cannon built into it, the fingers were highly articulated, and a sophisticated system of springs and levers allowed the hand to hold weapons and perform other tasks. Despite this shared trait between both people and their similar-sounding names, Miura confirmed that he was unaware of the Götz when he created Guts.

1. Hypnotoad's Sound (Futurama) – The creators originally used a recording of an analog signal generator hooked up to a bass amp recorded in a water treatment plant as a temporary sound effect while developing the character. However, they liked how bizarre and unsettling it sounded so much that they decided to keep it as the permanent sound effect.

2. Edna Mode's Voice Actor (The Incredibles) – Edna was not originally planned to be voiced by Brad Bird, the film's director. He recorded a sample voice to give potential actresses an idea of how she should sound, and when Lily Tomlin was interviewed for the role, she stated that they did not need her because they already had the perfect voice for the character.

3. "Well, Nobody's Perfect" (Some Like It Hot) – This line was initially intended as a "dummy line" that would later be replaced with something funnier, but the filmmakers could not come up with a better alternative, so it was kept, and thanks to Joe E. Brown's delivery, the "dummy line" became the most iconic line in the movie.

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When a character complains about the poor quality of the script, usually in their own show.

1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie – In the Mario Bros. Plumbing commercial, a woman appearing in the ad gets confused by the script she is reading:

"Thank you, Super Mario Bros.! It seems like the only thing you haven't drained... is my... bank account?"

2. The Simpsons – When Krusty introduces himself alongside Brooke Shields at the Cartoon Awards, he becomes annoyed by a joke in his opening line:

"Well, here we are. The star of The Blue Lagoon and me: the blue-haired goon. [Realizes what he just said.] What the...? That's terrible. [...] First of all, my hair is green, not blue! I've got nothing to work with here! Nothing!"

3. Deadpool 2 – When Cable explains the limits of his time-travel abilities, Deadpool remarks that it is lazy writing and looks directly at the camera.

Designs that unintentionally ended up looking dirty, offensive or just impossible to take seriously.

1. The phallic-looking hairstyle of Yue in The Last Airbender.

2. Crane Robo from Machine Robo.

3. A titular character from Bing: an anthropomorphic rabbit whose design somewhat resembles a blackface caricature with a cleft lip.

Note: I regret using Bing as an example for this trope. Yeah, it was a stretch, there’s nothing offensive about him, just a poor choice on my part.

1. Green Goblin vs. Spider-Man (Spider-Man, 2002).

2. Tengu Shredder vs. Silver Sentry (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 2003).

3. Thragg vs. Oliver (Invincible, 2021).

Forced perspective is normally just an illusion, but this trope is when a character can actually affect objects based on how they appear from their point of view.

1. The Owl House – Collector moving moon like if they touching touchscreen.

2. Super Paper Mario – It uses as central mechanic where Mario can change between the default 2D and a 3D version of the setting. In 2D things are blocking your way, but if you flip into 3D you can go around. Some objects in 3D are flat and against the "wall," but in 2D they become walkable platforms.

3. Paper Mario: Color Splash — At certain points in the game, Mario can use a magnifying glass on a shrunken Toad and a shrunken Warp Pipe, which enlarges them from its perspective and causes them to become physically larger once it is removed.