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What are you talking about? There were only 5 seasons of Game of Thrones.
There were three “fan made” seasons that came later, but they weren’t canon or any good.
The Night King doesn’t exist in the books. (Unless you mean Night's King, the legendary Lord Commander during the Age of Heroes. But that is a diffrent character.)
Don't forget the golden company. They were supposed to be the most feared army or something like that, and when we actually saw them, there were like 100 people, and they got obliterated in 5 seconds
If im remembering The Golden Company correctly, it’s even worse than that.
They were supposed to be an **elite army** comprised of some of the strongest, truly battle hardened, skilled warriors from around the world, brought together united under one banner with the common interests of combat and gold, serving no King, selling their skills to whoever could “afford their services”.
Put like that, when you see “only a hundred men” it could be a sign of an inconvenience incoming, but from the Golden Company’s reputation, seeing *those* hundred men heading your way should’ve resulted in countless soldiers outright dropping their weapons and fleeing, risking being caught and charged with treason rather than even face them because a death at their hands would be more likely, and far worse.
To say all that, only for the Golden Company to show up and basically do fuck all but end up they themselves dying the awful bloody deaths damn near instantaneously with basically zero impact on anyone or anything in the story, to the extent you could cut them completely and probably not miss much.
> Put like that, when you see “only a hundred men” it could be a sign of an inconvenience incoming, but from the Golden Company’s reputation
A hail of arrows doesn't care how good at using a sword or spear you are.
Well, if we look at real battles between the Persians (who won their empire with the bow) and their early encounters with the Greeks, a hail of arrows did absolutely nothing against the heavily armored Greeks. Armor was very OP during the late bronze age.
In military terms a company should be 100-200 soldiers. Company sized elements in the past have become legendary and feared. Plus how many super elite privateering troops at the top of their game can you put together? At some point a large number requires territory to sustain itself and just becomes a kingdom with an army.
How they wasted them was a narrative tragedy.
This is why I quit enjoying marvel movies. Aside from infinity war, the bag guy is always going to lose but it's gonna be oh no he's so strong there's no way! Then they find a way... It got so formulaic and boring
That's just how the Superhero movie goes. Every genre has a formula that they follow. And honestly, it's not just superhero movies, but action movies as a whole. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Sometimes the bad guy wins in part 1 then loses in part 2, but the bad guy always loses.
That's like saying a comedy movie is too funny, it's the whole point of the genre
Average Downer Ending fan: Oh my science, the villains win and everyone else dies 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Average good Ending enjoyer: The Hero defeated the Dark Lord and hooked up with the female lead, peak fiction 😎😎😎😎
I’m pretty sure a famous comic writer, whether it be Stan Lee or Jack Kirby, said that anyone can make a comic story but the bad guy has to lose in the end or something like that. Like it’s part of the comic rules bad guys lose in the end
The deviation from that generally involves winning with a cost. Whether that's learning about and accepting uncomfortable truths, crossing lines you didn't think you'd cross, or realising the villain's motivations are valid and you're opposition to them isn't a moral one but a personal one.
Made me remember of that friend I've went see the warcraft movie woth saying he didn't like it because there were too many battles. Like it's called warcraft for a reason.
I get your point but the same could be said about rom coma and then getting back together.
The biggest issue is HOW it’s resolved and how the rest of the movie is usually not great
I can’t believe you did that. Acts irrationally and doesn’t give time for an explanation. Exits scene.
Main character sits there and doesn’t follow. Oh man what should I do? I guess it’s over.
Sorry but I don't really get your point!😅 Are you saying that saving the day should be more difficult or that there should be more tragic endings, like Infinity War?
Not the other person, but it's hard to get invested in the importance / difficulty in defeating the villain when you **know** it'll all get wrapped up cleanly. Infinity war bucked that trend, enough that you could feel some doubt about the outcome of Endgame
I like action movies, especially the John Wick series, I don't like overly formulaic movies like the later Marvel pics
The first few times I saw the first Avengers movie, I very much enjoyed it. It felt refreshing and different. I don't get that same sense from current marvel movies anymore, and I haven't for quite some time
I that, but I don't really mind a happy ending as long as there is some kind of lasting consequences to the villains actions or a sacrifice the heroes had to make!
Noticed this about entertainment in my late teens. The Marvel movies made it fun again for a little bit, but... in the end it's the same dumb thing. Very annoying. You don't even need a downer ending to avoid this stupid cycle.
Yep. It's called the [Hero's Cycle/Journey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey). The base for almost every movie, story, myth, religion, with a protagonist(s). It's been around since the dawn of man.
Infinity war was the exact same thing. They just drug it out into two movies to see how much they could milk their audience for.
Honestly the new Spiderman movies are complete garbage and all feel like the same movie and I couldn't tell you what made them different. Hell they had to bring in the OG Spideys to make the last one any good.
All marvel movies are the same thing with some character changes.
Meanwhile invincible is the exact opposite, you got the lizard league which sounds like a joke just getting bodied and manhandled by the heros like episode 1 season 1. But they make a comeback and strike again, heros respond even cracking jokes about them and how they were supposed to be push overs but it's their b-team and they just get absolutely fucked up, with like a pyrrich victory cause the last man 'standing' had his hand bitten off, got his intestines and back slashed to shit and finally was shot through the head execution style.
Not a brilliant example since they send their 3 worst heroes and still win a 3v4 with all of them surviving, including the piss easy defeat of king lizard who fumbled the easiest victory of all time by losing a fight to a near-dead one handed unarmed guy who already got shot in the head, while he had a gun. If they actually permanently took some heroes out I’d agree with you, but they ended up being just as much a flop as their reputation indicated
Right they pulled their punches at the end with the reveal and whatnot but in that moment you don't know that and it's fucking brutal cause you think all of them are rightfully dead as shit.
It was so brutal I actually felt uncomfortable while it was happening, and Rex slowly comprehending what was happening was great too, so much fucking tension. Then next episode, BAM, fake-out
As much as I like their characters, I was pretty disappointed that they were alive.
The only acceptable one for me is Dupli-Cate, because it makes sense she would do that.
Rex still being alive after getting *a hole in the head was brutal at first. But then you're just if a guy had to survive that shit, it's him.
Exited: added a missing word
Not exactly the same, but my favorite example of this was the Chinese triplets in Pacific Rim. Their Thundercloud Formation got talked up and you hear they defended Hong Kong all those times and think "Damn, these guys are badass," but then they get *instantaneously* buttfucked by the first kaiju who shows up.
As a kid I remember watching a show with my dad where the bad guy's won in the end. I was shocked, i'd never seen that yet in my life. It's pretty rare even till this day in tv and movies.. but in real life we see it everyday..
That was one of my biggest issues with the show.
They spent the entire series talking about how unstoppable the CRM is and how Rick gave up trying to get home after realizing he can't escape them. Then, they kept talking about how massive the CRM is and how big the army was that would fight.
Then the final episode comes around, and suddenly only like 300 of the CRM soldiers are actually bad, and coincidentally they're all currently grouped in the same area right next to a massive explosives stockpile.
Years of building that up to end it like that...
Game of Thrones 100%.
Night King and the undead army get hyped up since literally the very first episode, only to be ended in one episode with a move they took from the video game Far Cry 3.
Maybe not piss easy but definitely one episode wasn't enough.
The meme is about the villains being defeated too quickly compared to how long they were built up
Considering Marvel (and superhero movies in general) tend to have long final battles, on top of the villain's buildup not taking up the entire movie (due to building up the hero, side characters, secret agencies, etc.), it doesn't really apply
1 out of 33 movies, so pretty much every single movie.
That's also not counting all the TV shows or the fact that Infinity War is part 1 of a 2 part movie.
Jessica Jones' Purple Man was a sizeable threat, but with some debate I could still concur with your argument. Bushmaster got Luke Cage's ass handed 3-4 times. This one is undeniable.
These are the only examples that come to mind. I'm trying to remember how Fisk fared, but do much as the actor was amazing, I can't for the life of me remember enough of the plot to make an argument. For the rest I can only agree with you.
Superhero movies in general minus a few. That's just how the Superhero movie goes. Every genre has a formula that they follow. And honestly, it's not just superhero movies, but action movies as a whole. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Sometimes the bad guy wins in part 1 then loses in part 2, but the bad guy always loses
The Bowery in John Wicke is shown as an inpenetrable fortress that doesn't need Wicke's help. Then the whole fortress and army gets taken down offscreen.
Or it turns out that the villain was simply preparing for some even greater villain, without ever mentioning that until they are about to die.
Fucking Jailer in WoW, dude wants to turn everyone into mawsworn (undead) that serve him and then as he dies, he finally explains he was doing it to prepare the universe for some great evil...
Yeah I think with the whole "excusing genocide because she was really sorry" thing on our minds we kind of ignored how ridiculously easy it was to convince them to turn good!
White diamond was never sorry, and their actions were never forgiven by the crystal gems. The only reason why she stopped was because Stevens existence completely shattered her world view and everything she knew. And the ending was less about the diamonds but was for Steven it feels too. For the entirety of the show it has us and Steven questioning his existence unsure if he is himself or rose. We are finally given a answer when him and his gem half are ripped apart and fuse back together.
They would have given us a more satisfying ending but Rebecca Sugar had to make the decision of a extra season or two or producing the marriage episode and getting the show stopped due to political reasons at the time.
I will not excuse that the ending was rather disappointing but for the reason that it was cut short and for the message the Rebecca wanted to send to Cartoon network I believe it's wonderful.
The mighty galaxy wide Pyke syndicate. They really showed boba fett what’s business by sending 6 guys in a car and two robots that can’t aim to take him down.
The CRM in The Walking Dead. Played a very tiny role in the main show, played a bigger role in FTWD and were the main villains in World Beyond. Aaand then they get beaten in a matter of episodes in The Ones Who Live spinoff.
Well to mean itself is about golden company in Game of Thrones! These dudes were built up as the biggest motherfuckers around only to get dragoned like everything and everyone else!😒
But what inspired me to make it was Doom Patrol! I'm currently almost at the end of season 1 and throughout the entire middle chunk of the season they were building up "heavy-handed homophobia metaphor organization" as the super powerful group that has a complete grip on the superhero community!
...Only for the episode that focuses on them to portray the leadership as a fucking dumbasses who get fooled by the most predictable Heist in history, who then get eaten by walking butts...
Or the hero gets a power too great at the start of the show, never use it. when he need it for real, he use it and it’s a pale comparison to what it was
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Sounds like 7 season of Game of Thrones and the Night King
That wasn't 5 episodes of build up, that was 5 seasons!!!
More like 7 1/2 seasons
What are you talking about? There were only 5 seasons of Game of Thrones. There were three “fan made” seasons that came later, but they weren’t canon or any good.
TBF Season 6 was at least very watchable The downfall started when each season became less than 10 episodes each
Season 6 was entertaining, but in retrospect things really started to unravel there.
Literally the first scene of the entire series is a guy saying he saw them and they are coming
Bada bing bada boom one thing leads to another and they forgot the entire plot.
Don't forget the book readers
The Night King doesn’t exist in the books. (Unless you mean Night's King, the legendary Lord Commander during the Age of Heroes. But that is a diffrent character.)
Damn I took a gamble and it didn't pay off, my b
Don't forget the golden company. They were supposed to be the most feared army or something like that, and when we actually saw them, there were like 100 people, and they got obliterated in 5 seconds
If im remembering The Golden Company correctly, it’s even worse than that. They were supposed to be an **elite army** comprised of some of the strongest, truly battle hardened, skilled warriors from around the world, brought together united under one banner with the common interests of combat and gold, serving no King, selling their skills to whoever could “afford their services”. Put like that, when you see “only a hundred men” it could be a sign of an inconvenience incoming, but from the Golden Company’s reputation, seeing *those* hundred men heading your way should’ve resulted in countless soldiers outright dropping their weapons and fleeing, risking being caught and charged with treason rather than even face them because a death at their hands would be more likely, and far worse. To say all that, only for the Golden Company to show up and basically do fuck all but end up they themselves dying the awful bloody deaths damn near instantaneously with basically zero impact on anyone or anything in the story, to the extent you could cut them completely and probably not miss much.
Well, most of them got barbecued by a dragon. There's not much they could do against Drogon.
I mean, they get taken down by a big crossbow or an icicle pretty easy enough.
Unfortunately for the Golden Company and King's Landing, Drogon had enough plot armor to rival Batman in the finale.
Ice is super effective against Dragon so that’s to be expected.
The Night King had magic and all that shit involved, so I don't really mind that, but fucking Euron straight up went full blown aimbot mode.
> Put like that, when you see “only a hundred men” it could be a sign of an inconvenience incoming, but from the Golden Company’s reputation A hail of arrows doesn't care how good at using a sword or spear you are.
Well, if we look at real battles between the Persians (who won their empire with the bow) and their early encounters with the Greeks, a hail of arrows did absolutely nothing against the heavily armored Greeks. Armor was very OP during the late bronze age.
As evidenced by the Long Dark Night battle in S8, Dumbass & Dipshit chose to stay completely ignorant about all historical warfare.
Where elephants?
The Ballad of Harry Strickland
In military terms a company should be 100-200 soldiers. Company sized elements in the past have become legendary and feared. Plus how many super elite privateering troops at the top of their game can you put together? At some point a large number requires territory to sustain itself and just becomes a kingdom with an army. How they wasted them was a narrative tragedy.
Night King episode, at least it was too dark to see the disappointment.
WIENER! WIENER WIENER!
This is why I quit enjoying marvel movies. Aside from infinity war, the bag guy is always going to lose but it's gonna be oh no he's so strong there's no way! Then they find a way... It got so formulaic and boring
That's just how the Superhero movie goes. Every genre has a formula that they follow. And honestly, it's not just superhero movies, but action movies as a whole. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Sometimes the bad guy wins in part 1 then loses in part 2, but the bad guy always loses. That's like saying a comedy movie is too funny, it's the whole point of the genre
Average Downer Ending fan: Oh my science, the villains win and everyone else dies 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 Average good Ending enjoyer: The Hero defeated the Dark Lord and hooked up with the female lead, peak fiction 😎😎😎😎
I like to see good guy winning. because i am good guy also i want hook up with female lead.
I’m pretty sure a famous comic writer, whether it be Stan Lee or Jack Kirby, said that anyone can make a comic story but the bad guy has to lose in the end or something like that. Like it’s part of the comic rules bad guys lose in the end
The deviation from that generally involves winning with a cost. Whether that's learning about and accepting uncomfortable truths, crossing lines you didn't think you'd cross, or realising the villain's motivations are valid and you're opposition to them isn't a moral one but a personal one.
Made me remember of that friend I've went see the warcraft movie woth saying he didn't like it because there were too many battles. Like it's called warcraft for a reason.
Woah... The **War**craft movie has too many battles??? Ridiculous, I can't believe they would do that
I get your point but the same could be said about rom coma and then getting back together. The biggest issue is HOW it’s resolved and how the rest of the movie is usually not great
I can’t believe you did that. Acts irrationally and doesn’t give time for an explanation. Exits scene. Main character sits there and doesn’t follow. Oh man what should I do? I guess it’s over.
Remember it's a Rom-Coma so one of them must fall into a coma by the end. It's the rule
Or start that way, in a "cute" story about stalking and identity theft
Sorry but I don't really get your point!😅 Are you saying that saving the day should be more difficult or that there should be more tragic endings, like Infinity War?
Not the other person, but it's hard to get invested in the importance / difficulty in defeating the villain when you **know** it'll all get wrapped up cleanly. Infinity war bucked that trend, enough that you could feel some doubt about the outcome of Endgame
So you just don't like action movies then
I like action movies, especially the John Wick series, I don't like overly formulaic movies like the later Marvel pics The first few times I saw the first Avengers movie, I very much enjoyed it. It felt refreshing and different. I don't get that same sense from current marvel movies anymore, and I haven't for quite some time
I that, but I don't really mind a happy ending as long as there is some kind of lasting consequences to the villains actions or a sacrifice the heroes had to make!
So basically the Dragonball Z formula distilled into movie length
What did the bag guy did to them?
Noticed this about entertainment in my late teens. The Marvel movies made it fun again for a little bit, but... in the end it's the same dumb thing. Very annoying. You don't even need a downer ending to avoid this stupid cycle.
Yea, sure good guys win 99% of the time in all media, but that doesn't mean there's no way to write cleverly.
Achilles: what a heel. Sampson: good head on his shoulders.
Hairy situation for Sampson
Yep. It's called the [Hero's Cycle/Journey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey). The base for almost every movie, story, myth, religion, with a protagonist(s). It's been around since the dawn of man.
At least the bad guys won temporarily and did some real damage in infinity war
One single movie out of dozens. Meh. Boring. Besides iron man I've never rewatched a single Marvel movie
This is how most stories are structured though. The important part is how you reach the end and if the end makes sense with the lead up to it.
Infinity war was the exact same thing. They just drug it out into two movies to see how much they could milk their audience for. Honestly the new Spiderman movies are complete garbage and all feel like the same movie and I couldn't tell you what made them different. Hell they had to bring in the OG Spideys to make the last one any good. All marvel movies are the same thing with some character changes.
It's the charisma is Tom Holland and Zendaya. I've thought a lot about that.
The problem with Infinity War is 5 seconds after the ending wore off you knew part 2 would just fix it. Made it pointless.
It’s not about *that* the good guys win—it’s about *how* the good guys win that’s interesting.
My boy you just described every plot ever.
Meanwhile invincible is the exact opposite, you got the lizard league which sounds like a joke just getting bodied and manhandled by the heros like episode 1 season 1. But they make a comeback and strike again, heros respond even cracking jokes about them and how they were supposed to be push overs but it's their b-team and they just get absolutely fucked up, with like a pyrrich victory cause the last man 'standing' had his hand bitten off, got his intestines and back slashed to shit and finally was shot through the head execution style.
Not a brilliant example since they send their 3 worst heroes and still win a 3v4 with all of them surviving, including the piss easy defeat of king lizard who fumbled the easiest victory of all time by losing a fight to a near-dead one handed unarmed guy who already got shot in the head, while he had a gun. If they actually permanently took some heroes out I’d agree with you, but they ended up being just as much a flop as their reputation indicated
Right they pulled their punches at the end with the reveal and whatnot but in that moment you don't know that and it's fucking brutal cause you think all of them are rightfully dead as shit.
Shrinking lady's pretend death was so gruesome. It being pretend cheapened the scene
It was so brutal I actually felt uncomfortable while it was happening, and Rex slowly comprehending what was happening was great too, so much fucking tension. Then next episode, BAM, fake-out As much as I like their characters, I was pretty disappointed that they were alive. The only acceptable one for me is Dupli-Cate, because it makes sense she would do that.
Rex still being alive after getting *a hole in the head was brutal at first. But then you're just if a guy had to survive that shit, it's him. Exited: added a missing word
I’m not 100% sure, but I think he actually dies in the original comics (shrinking ray is a dude in the comics)
Second half of season 2*
Not exactly the same, but my favorite example of this was the Chinese triplets in Pacific Rim. Their Thundercloud Formation got talked up and you hear they defended Hong Kong all those times and think "Damn, these guys are badass," but then they get *instantaneously* buttfucked by the first kaiju who shows up.
"There is something strange about that SOP sign"
look, we can’t keep stopping at every sop, yeld, and one vay sign
Rick and morty. The evil rick
Evil Rick was supposed to be anticlimactic to match the episode with Rick's feelings and the way it affected his character arc
Also if Evil Morty wasn't there Rick would have died in that fight.
Yeah, they even put it mid season to make it even more anticlimactic
I'm thinking Mob Paycho 100, but to be fair that's because Mob is unbeatably strong.
Season 3 wasn’t quite like this tbf
My thoughts exactly, claw was a joke
to be fair, anything is a joke to someone who has near infinite psychic energy. Except maybe the boss of claw, he was pretty badass
I had a stroke reading this
keep your personal life personal
Please fuck me
This is getting personal
The Lizard League came through in the end.
As a kid I remember watching a show with my dad where the bad guy's won in the end. I was shocked, i'd never seen that yet in my life. It's pretty rare even till this day in tv and movies.. but in real life we see it everyday..
Can you give even one example? Because I can't think of one...
Sounds exactly like The Walking Dead The Ones Who Live. Even the episode count matches perfectly.
That was one of my biggest issues with the show. They spent the entire series talking about how unstoppable the CRM is and how Rick gave up trying to get home after realizing he can't escape them. Then, they kept talking about how massive the CRM is and how big the army was that would fight. Then the final episode comes around, and suddenly only like 300 of the CRM soldiers are actually bad, and coincidentally they're all currently grouped in the same area right next to a massive explosives stockpile. Years of building that up to end it like that...
The CRM from The Walking Dead franchise instantly came to my mind, when I saw this meme.
Game of Thrones 100%. Night King and the undead army get hyped up since literally the very first episode, only to be ended in one episode with a move they took from the video game Far Cry 3. Maybe not piss easy but definitely one episode wasn't enough.
Every marvel movie
A villain being built up and defeated in the same film isn't what this meme is saying at all
The meme is about the villains being defeated too quickly compared to how long they were built up Considering Marvel (and superhero movies in general) tend to have long final battles, on top of the villain's buildup not taking up the entire movie (due to building up the hero, side characters, secret agencies, etc.), it doesn't really apply
Well, they lost in Infinity War. So, not every Marvel movie.
1 out of 33 movies, so pretty much every single movie. That's also not counting all the TV shows or the fact that Infinity War is part 1 of a 2 part movie.
Jessica Jones' Purple Man was a sizeable threat, but with some debate I could still concur with your argument. Bushmaster got Luke Cage's ass handed 3-4 times. This one is undeniable. These are the only examples that come to mind. I'm trying to remember how Fisk fared, but do much as the actor was amazing, I can't for the life of me remember enough of the plot to make an argument. For the rest I can only agree with you.
And then Endgame happened
Superhero movies in general minus a few. That's just how the Superhero movie goes. Every genre has a formula that they follow. And honestly, it's not just superhero movies, but action movies as a whole. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Sometimes the bad guy wins in part 1 then loses in part 2, but the bad guy always loses
I kinda felt this way about this week's final episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch
I was about to say. That was the series finale and it was honestly a huge let down to me
Steven Universe
The Bowery in John Wicke is shown as an inpenetrable fortress that doesn't need Wicke's help. Then the whole fortress and army gets taken down offscreen.
And that's when you find out they are just a small part of a very big underworld cartel which runs the world.
Or it turns out that the villain was simply preparing for some even greater villain, without ever mentioning that until they are about to die. Fucking Jailer in WoW, dude wants to turn everyone into mawsworn (undead) that serve him and then as he dies, he finally explains he was doing it to prepare the universe for some great evil...
How to be a DM is also poignant
Or like Spectre in James Bond: No Time To Die. One scene early in the movie. Bye.
Well, they kinda spent the entire previous movie dismantling SPECTRE
White Diamond in Steven Universe, such a letdown
Yeah I think with the whole "excusing genocide because she was really sorry" thing on our minds we kind of ignored how ridiculously easy it was to convince them to turn good!
White diamond was never sorry, and their actions were never forgiven by the crystal gems. The only reason why she stopped was because Stevens existence completely shattered her world view and everything she knew. And the ending was less about the diamonds but was for Steven it feels too. For the entirety of the show it has us and Steven questioning his existence unsure if he is himself or rose. We are finally given a answer when him and his gem half are ripped apart and fuse back together. They would have given us a more satisfying ending but Rebecca Sugar had to make the decision of a extra season or two or producing the marriage episode and getting the show stopped due to political reasons at the time. I will not excuse that the ending was rather disappointing but for the reason that it was cut short and for the message the Rebecca wanted to send to Cartoon network I believe it's wonderful.
The ones who live?
Star wars the bad batch
It was a disappointing ending. They didn’t even show the necromancer.
I think we saw the fruition and continuation of project necromancer in episode 9 and the mandalorian.
Makes you appreciate the ginyu force more
Have to have the leader of the villain organization give a monologue when arrested that mirrors "if it wasn't for you meddling kids".
The mighty galaxy wide Pyke syndicate. They really showed boba fett what’s business by sending 6 guys in a car and two robots that can’t aim to take him down.
Sounds like the Phyrexians' amazing build up and wack ass demise.
The only thing that Vorinclex did was getting his horn ripped off by Elesh Norn lol
And some how he was the only one to live
Or Nicol bolas
All of the phyrexian leaders were done so dirtt
The Walking Dead hyping up the CRM for years and then The Ones Who Live finale drops...
Spell. Better!
At least doctor who never does this
...I know you're being sarcastic, but hey! Maybe season 1 will break the cycle!
CRM in TWD
“It would take a war to compromise this facility’s safety.” It did not Maybe not built up over 5 episodes, but still. Certainly hyped up
Dune 2
Z Nation. After 3 seasons of buildup and tension, ZonA ends up destroying themselves due to incompetence in the first episode of season 4.
Thats how I felt about Sir Pentious' (Excuse my bad spelling) death. So underwelming
Any Examples?
Scar King
*The JDF fought there!*
Is this a gate reference?
Yeah. Maybe a loose bit, but that whole flip from victims of aggressors to committing ~~war crimes~~ proactive defense.
The White Walkers & The CRM. I don’t think too many other shows could have made the same mistake, right?
It's okay if the person who takes them down become the new big bad
The CRM in The Walking Dead. Played a very tiny role in the main show, played a bigger role in FTWD and were the main villains in World Beyond. Aaand then they get beaten in a matter of episodes in The Ones Who Live spinoff.
Whole ass trailer just to get offscreened 😭
Reminds me of "you stabbed me!"
Ill do you one better, the trailers build them up to be the main villain, but they get off screened and vaguely mentioned half way into the story
>!Fallout!<
Thats why i love attack of Titan so much. The first story where i lost track of good and bad and was just left with “ I am sad” .
> Multiple games end with "It's time to take down umbrella" >RE4 opens up with a text explaining how Umbrella got bankrupt
The villains went bankrupt off screen! That sounds hilarious!🤣
Was there a show you watched that inspired this meme?
Well to mean itself is about golden company in Game of Thrones! These dudes were built up as the biggest motherfuckers around only to get dragoned like everything and everyone else!😒 But what inspired me to make it was Doom Patrol! I'm currently almost at the end of season 1 and throughout the entire middle chunk of the season they were building up "heavy-handed homophobia metaphor organization" as the super powerful group that has a complete grip on the superhero community! ...Only for the episode that focuses on them to portray the leadership as a fucking dumbasses who get fooled by the most predictable Heist in history, who then get eaten by walking butts...
Oh wow, that sounds really dumb.
The Diamonds in Steven Universe
SHOOT THEM WITH THE DEHYDRATION GUN!!!!!
I don't think anyone believed at any point that the Doom Syndicate was a threat!🤣
That group in season 1 alias stark was originally part of.
*ahem* *ahemhem* league of villains 👀👀
Mahoako
It's always when it feels like they're about to do something crazy too...
Yellowstone.
Reacher season 2
They're unsopable, not unstoppable
Every season of Precure ever
Mob psycho?
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience."
gun devil, csm
Mr Robot; Falcon & the Winter Soldier
The fist in the deardevil and the defenders
The CRM The walking dead
The latest TWD show with Rick and Michonne
Literally the entire show of avatar
Or the hero gets a power too great at the start of the show, never use it. when he need it for real, he use it and it’s a pale comparison to what it was
What is this “show” or am i just out of touch now?
Literally any organisation in Overlord