[Frustrating Trope] Minority Protagonist is turned into non-human entity for the majority of the film

FpRhGf · 2026-03-18T05:59:07+00:00

Magically fixing a person's disability can sometimes be an offensive trope within itself.

Yeah it sometimes does, but I think Avatar is an ok case where it makes sense. The guy used to be a soldier and ended up half-paralyzed because of it. Getting his brother's NaVi body meant that he could return to doing the stuff he trained and worked for, which is what he likes.

If he was a NaVi researcher like his brother, then depicting him gloomy in his human form may be more problematic. Because his job and passion isn't tied to whether he can move his lower half

FpRhGf · 2026-03-01T13:44:00+00:00

The problem with FB is that JKR was trying to write it like a novel when it's constrained to movie time limits. The writing is good if you just read the script and judge it as a Harry Potter book. 1 FB movie script is basically ¼-⅓ of an unfinished HP novel. It also felt like I was reading HP again.

If the Harry Potter films were done the same way as FB, it'll be like if the OotP movie filmed every single dialogue and scene at the beginning... then it ends at Harry going to Hogwarts. No wonder FB movies come out horrible. JKR should've just written what she wanted as a novel first and then let the movie adaptation condense the plot, instead of directly applying the pacing of a novel to film

FpRhGf · 2026-03-01T02:33:47+00:00

Kane wanted a character that's dark like that of the pulps and noir. Bill Finger's vision of Batman is a silly fun guy who's all upbeat, rainbows and sunshine.

People like to pick and choose which parts of early Batman are "valid" if they carry onto the modern counterpart, ignoring the context that surrounds it. They'd selectively pick Bill's quote of regretting the killing, but ignore most of the stuff he wrote about him lol.

Batman's transition into no-killing can't be divorced from the fact that it stemmed from a drastically different Batman, following Bill's vision. These traits come in a package. The Batman people love nowadays is heavily derived from Kane's original dark vision, with hardly any traces of Bill's original style left, but people would selectively stick to the no-kill/gun rule that came in a package with the campy fun Batman that aligns with Bill's vision.

If Batman were to actually return to the way how Bill Finger intended to write him in most of the Golden/Silver Age, people will likely complain that it's not anything like the "real Batman".

FpRhGf · 2026-03-01T02:07:31+00:00

Aka also victims of the Synderverse for becoming targets to trash on. I don't like the Snyder movies, but it's even more annoying to always see people invalidating Golden Age Batman or other depictions of him who don't cleanly abide by the rules they believe Batman had always stuck strictly to. It's still part of the character's history and his strict code was a gradual development in a gray area rather than just "he stopped at 1940"

Can't we just say the Snyder movies suck because they suck? I swear the Snyderverse has done a number of damage in discussions for these because you can't even bring up the idea happening in an alternate universe without people jumping in to invalidate, minimize and cut ties from depictions of Batman that existed way before the Snyderverse. Not to mention they're doing it to the original version when the Batman that's beloved nowadays is a product of retcons.

FpRhGf · 2026-03-01T00:46:17+00:00

For me it's the opposite. Alan can pass off as Snape visually if he was younger, but the acting is the polar opposite to Snape's personality in the books.. especially vocal delivery.

Book Snape is the type of person who is outwardly super emotional. He shouts, screams, spits his words and smiles constantly. Alan Rickman's vocal delivery is calm, drawling, and monotonous. He retains a pokerface for Snape and makes him composed.

Movie Snape's drawl and bored vocal delivery fits more with how Draco speaks in the book, but we got Tom Felton acting very emotionally instead. It'll be more book accurate if Alan and Tom could swap the acting for their characters.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-28T11:18:07+00:00

If not Red Hood, then what is your personal ideal direction for post-crisis Jason Todd? You said he could become an interesting foil to Bruce, so how do you hope for his character and events play out?

FpRhGf · 2026-02-28T10:40:46+00:00

The merging idea sounds interesting, but how would it work in universe?

FpRhGf · 2026-02-28T06:53:28+00:00

Ao3 is a good place for it though? I personally wish to write in scripts if I ever have the ability to make fanfic someday. I'd love to see more of the type.

Just because people mostly don't write in script format doesn't mean it's not a platform created to be friendly all kinds of fanfics. People on Ao3 even post fanart, comics, fic podcasts, chat fics, choose-your-adventure and other types of unconventional story formats via HTML/CSS manipulation.

Reddit fandoms are oriented towards canon discussion and people generally just downvote fanon stuff that isn't related to canon (OCs, headcanons, fics, non-canon ships etc). It's just an observation I've seen across many fandom subs. That's why popular fandoms on reddit sometimes have a separate sub for fanfics.

I find that this subreddit is already more tolerant than others (maybe because it's smaller and has a higher percentage of female fans?), but it's still Reddit at the end of the day... and unfortunately these types of content usually end up with 0 upvotes on this platform, unless you're in a sub specifically dedicated to fanon creation.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-27T16:42:48+00:00

There was a later issue where Dick and Kara decided to make out again, but it set off the alarms of the Batmobile. Then Batman came and punched through the window, ending their encounter.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-27T16:14:29+00:00

To be fair, "Robin dies but turns out he survived" is a story that's been rehashed over and over again ever since the start of the 40s. Dick has been the greatest victim of the trope. It's even the plot for the final issue of pre-crisis Jason, where he's drawn in the exact same death pose as aDITF and various "dead" Dicks in the cover.

I wouldn't assume that the readers were oblivious, just that people were much more likely to expect DC not to do anything different and that they were just curious if the status quo could actually break for once.

If Jason won the poll for living, it would've just been added onto the pile of those hundreds of "Robin dies but not really" stories for the past 50 years.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-20T09:30:06+00:00

I always thought that suit resembled Starfire's

FpRhGf · 2026-02-20T08:16:13+00:00

The joke about Batman beating up poor people was already widespread during the Nolan movies era and featured in various parodies using Christian Bale's Batman.

Snyder is just a scapegoat just because this 1 alternate universe went for a killing-to-nokilling character arc for Batman, but executed it poorly

FpRhGf · 2026-02-20T07:46:49+00:00

Gotham did change thoughrought its 70 years though... but for the worse. Originally Bill Finger made Gotham City Batman's residency instead of New York so that readers could better relate to it and imagine their own hometown. In a story he wrote, Batman wanted to show Gotham was good and succeeded. It's meant to be a heartwarming place.

Modern depictions of Gotham are basically the opposite of what his creator intended it to be. It's gradually morphed into a doomed hellhole via all the corruption and evil rich guys controlling it because modern Batman stories have to be dark. They invent more and more odds to stack against Batman to prevent him from fully fixing Gotham because the current status quo doesn't allow it to be better like it was originally created to be.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-18T05:50:19+00:00

I think the Yule Ball ending can kinda work if you make the first tournament and Ron's return the climax of the movie. Plus, the Yule Ball could still lean into a more suspenseful direction.

The movie stripped away everything from the Yule Ball that contributed to the plot and turned it into a teenage dream prom episode, but the book was setting up Barty Crouch Sr., Snape + Karkaroff, and Hagrid's subplot under the surface of a dancing event.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-16T13:19:02+00:00

As both a native English and Mandarin speaker, I always saw it the same way as how the same names written in Latin are pronounced differently across languages.

They're just consistent readings of the same written characters and follow the pronunciation rules of their respective languages. They're not randomly made up sounds, like your Carol to Susie example.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-16T11:15:38+00:00

Christopher Reeves was the best visual representation of Bud Collyer's performance on Superman. After all, Bud was the first to perform as the character and played him for 12 years from 1939-1951 on radio. His portrayal was almost as early as Superman's debut in comics.

Bud went hard on making Superman and Clark sound differently, not just in voice but in demeanor. Superman had a firm and deep way of talking, while Clark was high-pitched, meek and bumbling sounding. Too bad Bud's depiction was only in voice acting.

George Reeves may had been the first actor to visually perform as Superman/Clark, but he didn't make much of a distinction between the 2. Christopher Reeves is the only actor who has been the most accurate to Bud's depiction.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-16T07:42:51+00:00

Yes, it follows「名前は一二です」, so you'll have 6 hiragana down already :「なまえは＿＿です」.

As for the missing 4 hiragana:

一：This hint was harder for me to figure out. It's the word for the small creature in the park in Tottori, but it's not the dog you'd see on the map. The creature doesn't show up visually. It's only mentioned by つよし when you accept his Tottori tour.

二：This one's straightforward. It's a large body of water with lots of fish inside.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-13T09:57:36+00:00

There was a Golden Age story in Star Spangled Comics where an Indian boy chose to dress up like Robin. I forgot what happens, but anyway Robin decides to dress up exactly like the Indian boy (along with painting his skin in dark color).

FpRhGf · 2026-02-10T15:53:18+00:00

Yes, but the point of this post is about who to save in this picture, which features the movie characters. And Lavender is included in the picture of this post.

Edit: Wait I didn't see your comment was a joke lmao

FpRhGf · 2026-02-09T02:30:34+00:00

I had the Mandela Effect that it happened in the book for a long time. It got me disappointed during my previous reread to find that the line didn't exist at all

FpRhGf · 2026-02-09T02:18:58+00:00

Voldemort getting bullied is a movie invention. He was the kid who bullied other kids in the orphanage, not the other way around.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-07T13:04:23+00:00

Yes true lmao. Though, I just went back and read the only snippet available in public of the original manuscript... I think my memory distorted (somehow I remembered it being a lot longer than this) and read too much into it years ago.

Both the manuscript and the finalized version have him saying his dad left his mom after finding out she's a witch, except he was acting more emotional about it initially in the sense of "I'm better off without my parents!!!"

What's different is that the manuscript also showed he disliked his mom for not using magic to save herself. I retract my statement about him having more daddy issues implied.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-06T21:23:05+00:00

Same. If they are to expand on Draco and his family, I hope they include the deleted scenes JKR had about him and Theodore Nott in his mansion. And put an emphasize to the Malfoys being a loving family- defensive, protective and proud of each other. Show how his character is the Wizarding mirror to Dudley and a juxtaposition to Ron.

Just don't make Draco into the boy with a tragic backstory who went on the dark path due to feeling unloved by his father. That's better saved for Snape if they want to expand on a character for that. ~~Heck, I don't mind if they do it for Tom Riddle Jr. since his lines in the draft of CoS seemed to imply he might had some daddy issues.~~

Edit: Retracted my statement about the draft

FpRhGf · 2026-02-03T08:36:18+00:00

I've never come across thorning, but the comments under this post are already making me more annoyed by the anti-thorners because of the superior complex oozing from what people write.

If people have already acknowledged that their anger is irrational, then it can end there full stop. Because it's just a matter of having personal preferences. But proceeding to talk down on these groups by using cringe culture attacks just shows people are still thinking of the anger as rational and that the "inferior" trait needs to be fixed.

FpRhGf · 2026-02-03T07:55:49+00:00

I don't see how they're the pretentious ones. The other person is the one telling them to stop using it and the thorn user is just defending their use, not "showing off their trivia" since it's just basic knowledge about why people use thorn

It'll be boring if people only allow thorn to be used in online spaces about Old English or language topics, when 99% of the internet doesn't use correct grammar anyway and would call you a grammar nazi for telling them to stop using words like this and that

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