Injue Joe (Looney Tunes)- in this episode how America came to be, 90% of the country belonged to this mf. He broke trees with his chest, scared off bears with his roar, sended bear traps running and crying with his bite, passed rivers like a hippo, shot tree sized arrows casually and eated bullet to form canon balls that he shooted out of his mouth.

Snowflame (DC comics): Snowflame is a villain that gains more power the more he takes cocaine. He can control white flames, have super strenght, super resistance, ability to makes others feel drugged aswell and endless stamina. He should be a PTA about drugs being bad, but the writers forgot the most important things when making a anti-drug characters, THEY FORGOT TO GIVE HIM CONSEQUENCES FOR USING HIS POWER. Mf is able to duke it out with a entire hero team at the price of nothing.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - The spray on shoes are an establishing character for moment for Flint, which shows that he's very creative and imaginative with his inventions but not always effective, as he created shoes he can't take off. But if you stop to think about it, he somehow managed to create something that is light, can be sprayed on, is indestructible and grew with his feet at just 8 years old. Flint really was a misunderstood genius

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - Imaginary friends come to life simply by being imagined by a kid. Here's the thing, kids imaginations are wild and they can also be pretty scared. Who knows what kind of horrifying thing a child might imagine by being scared of the dark or in a nightmare

Cars - Quite a few things. One of them being the fact that in the second movie they are shown taking off their tires in the airport, which leads us to believe that 9/11 has happened in this universe. The thing is, planes are also living beings, so how were they hijacked?

There's also that one car that has an inside with seats and a steering wheel

Chill Guy (My New Character) - Phillip Banks

Chill Guy was used as a meme coin in 2024, resulting in Banks having to copyright the character, but this resulting in him getting doxxed by Crypto-Bros

Silly Cat (Later known as Boykisser) - Mauzymice

Silly Cat was only used for silly gifs, but later on someone else made a caption that would later be known as the Boykisser, what made it worse is that the boykisser gif was later used for predatory purposes. Resulting in Mauzymice to get harrassed off the internet. (wait what do you mean it got worse recently?)

The 100: the show starts as a somewhat grounded post apocalypse where humans who have taken refuge in a space station return to earth after it has become inhabitable again and resources on the space station run out. At first the show is about survival in a hostile environment. It slowly introduces more and more sci fi elements. At first, it's an Aİ that wants control over humanity. Towards the end of the show, the main characters have traveled throughout the galaxy, met humans from other planets, some of which have settled among ruins of ancient alien species, where they try to contact more advanced alien species in order to achieve "transcendence": rid humans of their physical bodies and become a more advanced lifeform.

AOT: this one is less gradual than the 100 and the change comes after a massive plot twist. The first 3 seasons of the show are about a relatively primitive society of humans who live inside humongous walls. Outside the walls are titans: giant monstrous creatures which hunt and devour humans. After a big plot twist and reveal, the society finds out that there is a whole bigger world out there, and the rest of the world is plotting to genocide them. They quickly industrialize after this discovery and wage war against other countries.

Regular Show - Anti Pops erased a guy down to the storyboard level, stripping away his existence layer by layer and we can see the terror in his eyes.

Dragon Balls Super - Goku Black killed Future Bulma, all we see was her body getting slowly covered by a black silhouette and turned to smoke

Avatar The legend of Korra - Zaheer showed us how dangerous a non pacifist Airbender could be by sucking the air out of earth queen lung, suffocating her slowly

TASM 2 - Peter failed to save Gwen from falling and we saw how her back bent + a loud snap that killed her instantly

1) Hoopy the Hoop, Portal (2007) When you defeat GLaDOS and her room is destroyed at the end of the game, debris rains down in the final cutscene, including a big metal hoop that bounces around a bit. Developer Erik Wolpaw said the team dubbed it "Hoopy the Hoop" and expected it to become the big meme of Portal. Of course, none of the fans paid much attention to the hoop since "The Cake is a Lie" became the biggest meme of the game, and overall one of the biggest video game memes of all time.

2) Burgh, Pokemon Black and White (2010) When designing Burgh, developer Yusuke Ohmura said Gamefreak had many of their female employees give input on his design to create their ideal handsome man. However, as someone who's been in the Pokemon fandom for almost 3 decades, in the 15+ years since Pokemon Black and White released, I have personally never seen any fans swoon over Burgh, or even mention him in general. If anything, characters like N and Colress are far more well-known within the fandom as the most handsome and beloved male characters of Pokemon Gen 5.

Tunak Tunak Tun (Daler Mehndi) Critics claimed his music videos were only popular because they featured attractive women dancing. Mehndi responded by making a music video featuring nobody except multiple green-screen versions of himself. It became a massive hit and his most famous song.

Five Nights at Freddy’s - Scott Cawthon previously made a family-friendly game called Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. Critics complained that the characters looked like creepy animatronics. Rather than abandon that visual style, Cawthon decided to turn them into an actual horror game using scary animatronics.

Superman Kingdom Come - Mark Waid and Alex Ross were reacting to the 1990s trend of increasingly violent, cynical superheroes.

Their story deliberately challenged the belief that traditional superheroes like Superman were outdated. It portrayed the consequences of abandoning heroic ideals and argued that compassion, restraint, and morality were still essential to superheroes.

Squid Game — Gong Yoo has an asymmetrical face, and he incorporated that in his performance as the Recruiter by expressing 2 emotions at the same time (right side is confident, left side is scared)

It (2017) — Bill Skarsgård has the ability to move his eyes independently. As a result, Pennywise is cross eyed, with the right eye looking at the characters and the left eye staring at the camera

Stranger Things — Gaten Matarazzo has cleidocranial dysplasia, so Dustin also has it and it is brought up often in the first seasons

Mean Girls — Tim Meadows broke his wrist before filmings began, so in the movie, principal Duvall's cast is justified as being carpal tunnel syndrome

Arcane:

The beginning of this show is mostly about stealing valuable items from an oppressive city to help their family survive in the undercity. This escalates in two seasons to a multinational conflict that involves a man (Viktor) with god-like abilities, and the struggle to stop him from reshaping humanity.

Dark:

In the first few episodes, the story mostly follows Mikkel, a kid who disappears under mysterious conditions. Over the course of three seasons, time travel and parallel realities are revealed, and the characters need to find a way to get themselves out of a paradoxical loop that involves sacrificing the world they know.

Mr. Robot:
In the first episode, Elliot is mostly a lone hacker acting as a cyber-vigilante. Over the course of the show, the story evolves into an insurrectionary anarchist team of hacktivists trying to stop a world conspiracy involving one of the largest corporations in the world.

IT 2 - Grandma walking in the back later turning into monster

Welcome to Derry - IT creeping on the girl in a store

Obsession - Nikki won't stop looking at Bear for the entirety of this whole dialogue.

Yes of course I know many of these examples were already evil/controversial before losing weight, but I think there is a pattern of controversial behavior or scandal becoming more public after going through a major body transformation into something considered more conventionally attractive

Ethan Klein/h3h3– has gone through several weight fluctuations throughout his life but has been on the thinner side for the last several years, and has also become more ingrained in controversy online

David Harbour— Cheating scandal and harassment allegations coming to light after significant weight loss

Chris Pratt— was at one point a widely loved celebrity but has fallen into many controversies and weird political/religious associations.

Schmidt (New Girl)— needed a fictional example lol, I’ve never seen this show but apparently this character got arrogant and selfish after losing weight

The Persistent Suitor: A guy who is after the girl and just wont take no for an answer. Nowadays we just call stalking and harassment, but it used to be romantic. Example: The Notebook (2004), Noah asks Allie out while she's on a date with another man. She refuses, but he threatens to let go and fall unless she agrees to go out with him.

Comedic Woman On Man Violence: Mostly seen in anime, recently it has decreased a lot but years back every show had a woman hitting a guy and showed it as funny. Example: Toradora!, where the quintessential tsundere, Taiga, beats up the MC regularly.

Kid Bags Adult Baddie: I remember a few of these, sometimes it was to show how cool and awesome a kid was because an adult woman fell for him, now it's just seen as problematic shit. Example: Blank Check, the woman likes the kid and kisses him telling him to look for her in 10 years.

1. Fury (2014) Shia LaBeouf pulled his own tooth out with a pair of pliers after failing to find a dentist that would do it, thinking it would give his character texture.

2. Chapter 27 (2007) Jared Leto gained 67 pounds to play Mark David Chapman by drinking microwaved pints of Häagen-Dazs ice cream mixed with olive oil and soy sauce. The rapid weight gain gave him gout and forced him to use a wheelchair due to the pain.

3. All Things Fall (2011) - 50 Cent lost over 50 pounds for his role as a college football player diagnosed with cancer through a liquid diet and running on a treadmill for three hours a day over nine weeks.

A story where the main characters are put through a particularly perilous, violent or scary series of events in a matter of late hours. Bonus points if the amount of awful things that happen get to a comical level, and if the main characters are VERY unprepared.

Resident Evil (2026)

Sinners (2025)

Abbadon (Haunted Hotel)

The “I didn’t do that” monster (Hotel Translyvania)

It doesn’t have to be examples of someone eating something whole, that just happened to be my two examples

Jasminka’s chips (Little Witch Academia)

The Wolf opening doors (Northwest Hounded)

The Jester’s outfit (Legend of Oz)

Carol at The End Of The World: One of employees at the fake company Carol works at is given an two week mandatory paid vacation by HR. This wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that the world is going to end in two weeks and this company is the employees only way of coping with it.

Severance: whenever a innie acts up they get sent to the break room. Instead of being a place for them to cool down however its acts as more of a interrogation room / psychological torture chamber as their forced to recite a scripted apology over and over again for hours or even days on end with no real breaks.

Smile 2 - In the third act, Skye Riley believes she’s about to defeat the smiling entity by temporarily killing herself. In actuality, the entire third act of the film was a hallucination created by the monster, and Skye Riley was nowhere near as close to winning as she thought she was.

Avenger’s Infinity War - After Thor impales Thanos with his hammer, he assumes victory. However, Thanos is still able to snap his fingers, carrying out his wish to erase half the universe, and ultimately survives the hammer injury too.

I get a bit miffed whenever I look at hard modes and see that the only differences are: enemies hit harder and have more health. That's why I find it so refreshing when a game's "hard mode" switches up how you play the game in general.

1. Cursed Mode [Look Outside]: The hardest difficulty of this game essentially takes everything in the base game and shuffles them around, mixing in new things throughout. A door that's usually open now requires you to beat an "optional" boss. The tutorial enemy now can kill you if you're not careful. Existing bosses have new phases. There are brand new bosses just... hanging out. I think you get it.
2. Lethal Mode [Ghost of Tsushima]: This difficulty setting is very simple and very fun. The enemies deal a shit-ton of damage, enough to kill you in couple swings, but you also deal absurd damage. It forces you to play carefully and near flawlessly if you want to win.
3. Survival [Fallout 4]: F4 is better in survival mode, full stop, and that's dimply because it adds in survival mechanics to your post-apocalyptic survival game. Hunger, thirst, fatigue. You actually have to engage with the world around you.
4. Nightmare Mode [Dying Light - The Beast]: At a baseline, this difficulty does some fun stuff that we've seen before; specifically, it is permadeath and adds in a hunger mechanic. What really sets this mode apart for me, however, is the fact that (unlike other difficulties) every single zombie you kill, stays dead. It's such a cool concept, and you could - theoretically - clear out the entire map given enough time.

1. "Fridging" - a love interest female character is killed off (aka "fridged") to serve as motivation to the male main character. Named after a 1994 DC comic where the villain, Major Force, kills Kyle Rayner's girlfriend and stuffs her into a refrigerator.

2. "Flanderization" - A personality trait of a character is emphasized more and more as the series goes on, leading to them becoming what feels like a caricature of their past selves. Named after Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, whose religious observance became more and more emphasized until it turned into extreme dogmatism.

Any example of the general public's perception of a work/character that the actual media itself has long since moved past.

1. Spiderman and Mary Jane. The general public image of Spiderman still remains with his true love being Mary Jane. Virtually every adaptation features Mary Jane as the final relationship, and numerous fan works also prominently feature said relationship. In modern Spiderman comics Mary Jane and Peter divorced each other and haven't been in a relationship for almost a decade now.

2. RWBY and Beacon academy. Originally RWBY was about the characters attending essentially a magical school so they could learn to become monster hunters. Virtually any fan made material, or the vast majority of extended media/reboots is set during this time period. In the main show however Beacon Academy, and even the country it was in, have been long since destroyed with all the protagonists having left it many seasons ago. In Volume 7 they even briefly served a stint attending Atlas' academy instead on a part time basis until also leaving there.

3. Batman works alone. Virtually every adaptation of Batman puts an emphasis on him being a complete loner, and most fan works treat Batman as working as a lone individual in Gotham. In the main comics Batman has a long list of sidekicks who have now become adults and heroes in their own right alongside him, often referred to as the "Bat Family" now. There is virtually always a team of fellow heroes in Gotham he can call upon if needed.

Malenia's second phase transformation (Elden Ring)

The Angela twist reveal (Sleepaway Camp)

Eren's titan form and titans in general (Attack On Titan)

Lucy breaking out of the research facility (Elfen Lied)

1. The Naked Gun (2025) had a scene where Frank, Ed and everyone in Police Squad cried over their Fathers, mocking the whole “Passing the Torch” trope. But when it got to Nordberg who was previously played by OJ Simpson, Nordberg looked to the camera and shook his head.

2. One of the Guest Stars on Clone High S1 was musician Marylin Manson, but by the time Clone High S2 came around (which sucks, don’t watch it) Marylin had some pretty serious allegations against him, so the crew behind Clone High S2 put him in the Cancelled Corner with John Wayne and the Sheep Teacher.

The Jungle is known for its sickening description of slaughterhouses. But the actual graphic description make up under half the boom the rest is devoted to stuff like housing failures and drowning.

The Karma Sutrra the sexual practices make up one seventh the rest is devoted to things like home organizing and hobbies and even how to operate as a successful courtesan