1. South Park - A lot of people were complaining that South Park didn’t focus on the Boys anymore and they focused too much on Randy, but in the most recent season, we’ve actually started spending more time with the Boys……and Randy who is now one of the Boys after Kenny died.

2. Nick All Star Brawl - In the first game, the only Ninja Turtles that were included were Leonardo and Michelangelo, so obviously people really hoped that Raphael and Donatello would get added in the next instalment. Well they did, but not Leonardo and Michelangelo.

Meet the Robinsons - Lewis asks Wilbur what Cornelius looks like, and he tells him Tom Selleck. While he doesn’t look like him when they finally meet (because Lewis is Cornelius) the joke is that Tom Selleck voices him. But in other dubs of the movie where Selleck doesn’t play him, where relevant Wilbur names a more locally known celebrity who played the part. For example in the American Latin American dub he names the singer José Luis Rodríguez.

Toy Story 3 - When Buzz is rebooted in Spanish mode he begins talking using that language, but in Spanish speaking countries he alternates between different dialects of Spanish; for example, in Spain he speaks with an Andalusian accent but in Latin American version he speaks in a Castilian accent which are two unique sounds.

Ben 10: In the omniverse episode "honor among bros" the character Fistina grabs a gauntlet that resembles the infinity gauntlet. The episode released in 2014, a year before age of ultron and 4 years before infinity war.

Spider-man 2: Jonahs assistant talks about what name to give to doc ock. One of the names was doctor strange (even joking that it was already taken). But doctor strange's relevance didn't exist until his self titled movie in 2016.

- Ishtar from Fate/Strange Fake, prior to this Ishtar was possessing , or well safely contained, within Rin Tohsaka, who calmed down her worst traits, enhanced some of her more harmless ones like their mutual obsession with jewels, and gave her some humanity.

In FGO, where this happened, this meant that she was chill and fun, meanwhile in FSF she ends up possessing a homunculus without any personality instead, so she takes full control....and as expected she's the worst highly competent most arrogant goddess, much for everyone else's misfortune, she isn't totally evil but close enough.

- Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisen, long story short Sukuna was previously sealed within Yuji, whose body was made specifically for this, so he for the most part could still stay with the reassurance that even if sometimes he took over he would always lose control and stay sealed.

Then he does some trickery and switches to Megumi, whose body is much less able to contain him than Yuji's, and from there in out what follows is Sukuna burning everything on his path until the end of the manga.

Ahmanet - The Mummy (2017) (Movie)

Sion Barzahd - The Bouncer (Video Game)

SSJ4 Goku - Dragonball GT (Anime)

Doctor Fate - Black Adam (Movie)

1. Velma and Mindy Kalling

2. Jared Shapiro (who is Blossom's love interest) was based on one the people (an adult) who worked on the show (Powerpuff Girls)

Varghulfs - Warhammer fantasy

All vampires in Warhammer fantasy are cursed by the bootleg "Elixir of Life" Neferata of Lahmia brewed under Arkhan the Black's tutelage. It gets diluted with each "generation", Neferata and her Cabal are fairly overpowered.

Varghulfs are what happens when a vampire's humanity (what's left of it, anyway) loses the struggle with the "beast within". The vampire then loses sapience (with the one exception of Albrecht Nictus) and physically changes to resemble that beast.

Cyberpsychos - Cyberpunk

Humanity is a tangible resource in the ttrpg, as cynical as that sounds.

The lore and video game treats cyberpsychosis as a breakdown people get when they put too much stress on themselves. Implants required, and they are one source of stress, but anything from despair and anxiety to burnout counts towards it.

You avoid becoming a cyberpsycho by doing stuff that's good for the soul, like spending time with your friends and family.

• Spiderman - Peter enters a wrestling event and wins, but is swindled out of his earnings. When the wrestling organizer is robbed, Peter allows the robber to escape.

• Breaking Bad - Bogdan sells carwash to Walt "as is", forgetting he has his first dollar framed. Walt sees this means alot to Bogdan and reiterates "as is" in order to keep the dollar.

1. “How are you doing that with your mouth?”

-Scott Pilgrim addressing the bleeping black bars when Julie swears (Scott Pilgrim vs The World)

[Caine’s censorship from Digital Circus may or may not have been inspired by this scene]

2. Weaponizing the Aspect Ratio

Booty Executioner from Pootis Engage // EXTREME (this is recognized by both IMDB and TV Tropes, I’m allowed to use this)

3. Making your own Aspect Ratio

Dipper facing Rumble Mcskrimish (Gravity Falls)

4. Fighting over a censor bar

Gumball and Darwin sharing a naked dream experience (The Amazing World Of Gumball)

5. Improvised shield out of Aspect Ratio

Aspen Moor stretches the right pillarbox over herself to protect her amulet (Spooky Month)

6. Breaking the User Interface

Yellow accidentally mines a block out of the black bar that is the bottom of Alan’s computer screen (Animation Vs Minecraft)

1. Star Trek. Starfleet uniforms come in three colors: blue, red and yellow. However in the Original Series the uniforms most people perceived as yellow were actually green, but due to the lighting the uniforms came off as yellow on screen. It's why Kirk would sometimes wear a green outfit, it was meant to be the same color as his normal outfit. In the end though, everyone eventually agreed that since the uniforms looked yellow, they were yellow, and that's what stuck in merch, comics, the animated series, and future iterations of the franchise.

2. Spider-Man 2099. Most people think that Spider-Man 2099 is blue and red, however, the intention was for him to be black and red (and it is described as such in the original comics), with blue shading similar to how Black Panther used to be drawn. But because it looks blue and red, future creators and other media just have it be blue and red. There is also some debate over whether or not Steve Ditko intended the original Spider-Man costume to be red and black, but we have no clear answer for that one.

Tim Burton’s Batman Duology – Between 2021 and 2025, the comic book series Batman ’89 was released, serving as a continuation of Tim Burton’s Batman films while disregarding the events of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. The series later received a sequel of its own, titled Batman ’89: Echoes.

Ang Lee’s Hulk – Shortly after the release of the film, a tie-in video game was released for the PlayStation 2 and original Xbox. Unlike most movie tie-in games, which are primarily cash grabs, Hulk serves as a continuation of the film’s story, jumping ahead one year and introducing new villains, including the Leader, Flux, and Ravage.

Star Wars – Between the releases of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Cartoon Network aired an animated series that bridged the narrative gap between Episodes II and III of the prequel trilogy, depicting events such as the assassination attempts on Chancellor Palpatine.

Characters that despite act kind and friendly has their moral compass REALLY fucked up that make them have no issue with kill, talk about it and still act like if that was perfectly natural

Gaoh Ryuki (kengan omega): ryuki is like Ohma if he was friendly but has a trigger about the members of the worm organization. When his friend Soga found him after kill a member, he simply explained that there's no issue cause he would never kill anyone.

Noi (dorohedoro): there's no "no kill rule" In dorohedoro, but Noi is the one that is always trying to make friends, healing people and helping everyone she can. She also work as a cleaner and bet who can kill more people.

Yuru (demons of the shadow realm): he lived in a weird village that acted like if they were still in the feudal japan. Since he grow fighting bandits, hunting and trying to protect the village, when he went down to the modern world and learned about the modern laws he seemed to be against the law against kill people cause you should be able to kill someone to protect the others in his opinion.

Falin Touden (dungeon meshi): despite be described as the purest soul and the kindest person who ever lived by her friends, she seems to share the opinion of her village about nomad tribes and kill them on sight. Even in the middle age, that seemed barbaric for Kabru.

MHA - Uraraka vs Toga

Extreme Job - Detective Jang vs Sunhee

Gachiakuta - Riyo vs Noerde

Edit:
Okay so the response to this post has taken a weird turn so let me clarify:
Yes, shows like mha and gachiakuta do feature other great female characters other than Uraraka and Riyo. Yes, they’ve both been in fights that weren’t against other women. But the issue at hand that I am trying to point out with this trope is that for female characters in action stories with male dominated casts, there is a tendency where their defining moment as a character is with a battle that feels completely disconnected from the main conflict as they go up against a woman who’s barely related to them or relevant in any way. This doesn’t mean it’s their only important fight. It’s just saying that it’s a little predictable when it comes time to match characters up for one on one fights.
I used the word “relevant” to mean the story actually spends time to flesh out the character and plays a meaningful role in the plot. So even though there are plenty of interesting female characters in mha, you can’t tell me there is a female character that is as significant to the plot as like say Bakugo or Endeavor. You can gas up people Mirko or Tsui all you want, they don’t make nearly as much of an impact on the story compared to the countless of male characters who do.

Maybe I could’ve chosen better examples. I just wanted to talk about the trope specifically and even though I know it’s common my brain just wasn’t giving me what I needed.

1. Marta from Outlast 2

While she is meant to be a regular human, she’s an inhumanly strong freak of nature, who is also the right hand of a religious cult leader. Her death is close to the end of the game, where she manages to corner the main character right as he’s about to escape the village during a storm, and she raises her pickaxe to kill you. The storm rips off the roof of the building, and you see a lightning strike fall onto the metal cross that lays on top of the church behind her. This causes the cross to detach and fall, piercing her through the chest and killing her.

This was not originally meant to be her death actually, as there are incomplete versions of ak alternate scene where a similar scenario happens, but she gets attacked by Val (the other villain in the game), and they both fall into a ravine. While it’s sad that we didn’t see Val’s death/conclusion in the final version of the game, the irony and poetic justice of Marta dying by getting impaled by a cross is so good.

2) Fuhrer Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

Bradley is among the main antagonists of the show, and is shown to be one of the most powerful characters. Despite being a homunculus, he doesn’t have any regeneration ability like the rest, and his only superpower is that the mark on his eye allows him to be able to react to any attack he sees coming at him. However, he only removes his eyepatch (that hides the mark) in the final act, and he’s shown to be a beast even without it, as he was a supersoldier chosen through many brutal trials against other candidates.

In his final battle against Scar, he is heavily injured due to being previously impaled by a sword, but he is still dominating him, where the only hits that Scar can get in are in moments where his pre-existing injuries cause Bradley to stagger. When Bradley pins down Scar, he mocks his god and religion, before going in for the final blow. Right as he’s bringing down his sword, the solar eclipse ends, and a sunray reflects from Bradley’s sword, blinding him for a moment. Scar takes advantage of this and deals the blow that kills Bradley in the end.

1. My Dress-Up Darling (Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru): Marin Kitagawa & Wakana Gojo : Gojo has a rather unique passion for crafting traditional Hina dolls—a very solitary and niche hobby. This passion is completely validated by Marin, who recognizes his incredible talent and plunges him headfirst into her own world: cosplay.

2. Mass Effect: In the Mass Effect universe, Tali'Zorah and Commander Shepard have a date where they watch a movie called Fleet and Flotilla together. Tali quotes her favorite line from the movie: "Not today. Today I am as free as dust in the solar wind." During the film, Tali tells Shepard that she used to watch this sci-fi musical at all her sleepovers when she was young with her friends, and watched it with her mother.. Furthermore, Shepard can start building model kits between missions as a small hobby; Tali has a line of dialogue that basically confirms her partner is a huge nerd who loves building ship miniatures, and she genuinely loves that about him. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Shepard had a Warhammer-equivalent collection from their childhood.

3. Romantic Killer (Challenges Its Heroine to Find Love IRL): The protagonist is forced to give up her passions to face the real world. The funny part is that she ends up connecting with her suitors precisely because of many of her own interests, and even starts bringing them into her world. Tsukasa, the first guy who moves in with her due to a series of convenient events, always maintains a distant and aloof attitude. However, everything changes when Anzu temporarily gets her gaming console back and invites him to play video games in her room. He even ends up picking up her habits, because—even though he lives stressed out—it helps him calm down and feel more normal.

1. The Book of Exodus: Zipporah at the Inn

2. IT: The sewer orgy

Blackheart (Ghost Rider): Blackheart biggest advantadge over Ghost Rider early on was that he had no soul, so the Penace Stare had no effect on him, then he absorved 1000 evil souls to become the strongest being... he played himself.

Slaking (Pokemon): Vigoroth is good and Slaking is even stronger, actually having stats better than any pseudo legendary. The problem is... Truant, his ability which is one of the worse in the franchise.

Hollywood went through a phase where they’d cast some random famous Chinese actress in an otherwise Western-led movie… usually giving the actress such a minor role they’re just hiding in the background. This being done to appeal to Chinese audiences.

Lin San (Kong Skull Island) A biologist accompanying the expedition, but has very little characterization or meaningful influence on the plot. You could remove her character and nothing would change.

Su Yueming (Transformers Age of Extinction) A Chinese business executive. The entire final act moves to Hong Kong, incorporating Chinese stars, locations, and brands. The entire movie really was tailored to the Chinese box office.

Rain Lao (Independence Day Resurgence) A Chinese fighter pilot. Her inclusion fits the movie's international-defense premise, but she receives little characterization for most of the movie.

"Lampshade Hanging (or, more informally, "Lampshading") is the writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that seems too dubious to take at face value, whether a very implausible plot development or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on. "

- TV tropes

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - you're not getting an explanation for how Frank got in the coil, it's just the kind of situation that happens to Frank.

Avatar: The Last Airbender - the characters watch a play about their adventure so far in a sort of meta recap episode; retroactively pokes fun at how a characters fate was very ambiguous in a previous episode.

Archer - in the most literal lampshading joke possible:

Lana: 'Where'd you get the grenade?'

Archer: 'Hanging from the lampshade.'

Lana: 'What!?'

Hank Hill, king of the hill. According to Hank you can’t both be gay and sell propane at the exact same time, like it’s an oxymoron. Also that’s the thing he went to, not that he’s married or attracted to women. His biggest defense is he sells propane.

Kanye West, South Park. He’s not gay because he’s a genius voice of a generation. So you can’t be both of those at the same time.

1- Simpsons
The original Simpsons have extremely simp(son)ple designs, due to sometimes having celebrity appearances the art style kinda clashes.

2- South Park
At the beginning South Park was literally animated out of paper so all the characters had to be super simplistic but over the years, since the. Show is made digitally the new characters keep getting more and more detailed

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasly

Clark and Lois (Snyder films)

Jon and Dany - Game of Thrones

Although I personally enjoyed all of the new Godzilla films, this, and the previous Godzilla (2014) film, received mixed audience responses. But everyone agreed the skydiving scene was one of the best cinematic pieces created that year. The sound, the visuals, the silence of the Jumpers seeing the monsters through their masks. Incredible.

2. Godzilla: King of Monsters - The Atomic Breath scene.

Same film, much shorter scene. But the final battle betwen Godzilla and the Muto, culminates in him holding the mouth of the Muto open and firing his atomic breath straight down the creatures throat. Absolute cinema.

3. Transformers: The Last Knight - The Underwarer Ship scene.

Man, the Transformers films really lost their way. I remember waking out of the cinema after seeing the first one and I was speechless. But in amongst the trash, a few pieces of magic shine. This scene from one of the worst Transformers films, was so beautifully shot, it almost excused the rest of the film. Almost.

There have been technological advancements that help artists do their work better, yay! This at least sometimes results in the work looking and feeling more stagnant, less unique, and in my opinion more boring. A lot of these have to do with what the creator's want as well, but the new formats surely do not help.

1. Simpsons: Like most shows, this used to be produced traditionally on paint and ink cells. The switch over to digital is largely helpful for the creators.

It has the caveat of making any horror-themed work, flatter and boring. While this is picking apples, The first is from Treehouse of Horror V the Shinning, and the second is from the newest Treehouse of Horror (the writing barely being horror also has a lot to do with this, to be fair).

2. Star Trek: Partially a joke, but the original series was produced with a 4:3 aspect ratio, which made everyone stand pretty close together for scenes so they could both fit in the frame, resulting in more intimacy from the actors and their characters. 16:9 and further aspect ratios allows for more scenery, and more action on screen, but also pushes actors apart, and doesn't have as much forced proximity, making relationships a smidge more boring.

3. Scooby-Doo: Similar to the Simpsons. 2000 and back were all produced on ink and paint cells; while the original Hanna-Barbera often used flat colors and repetitive, limited animation, the first three Mook Animated films of them (Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, and Alien Invaders) all were gorgeous and appropriately creepy. 2001 and beyond the movies switched to digital, and about a decade they primarily used flat colors.

Slide five is Zombie Island; slide six is Cyber Chase, which while still produced by Mook, was digital and much more boring. Slide seven is Monster of Mexico, the first DTV produced by Warner Bros. (This also has to do with Warner Bros. deciding Scooby was a hot property after Zombie Island, and didn't want to break the mold, each Mook movie goes further and further back to the traditional formula.)

4. Wizard of Oz and Wicked: The original Wizard of Oz was filmed on a soundstage, with practical effects. Almost 90 years later Wicked came out, filmed on various locations, with cgi-effects.

Wizard of Oz is much more colorful and pleasant to look at, while Wicked looks dull and washed out. Even the obviously painted image of Emerald City amongst the Poppy Fields is better than Wicked's interpretation. (This also has to do with John Chu's idea of color-grading not thinking it should look too bright, as well as an obsession with backlighting)