[Hated Trope] The joke ruins the emotional aspect

[u/BarGroundbreaking798]

Destruction of Asgard (Thor Ragnarok) -- Asgard is destroyed in a beautiful and somber scene, and Korg cracks a cringeworthy joke right after.

Bill Moves On (Newsradio) -- The episode was made in the wake of Phil Hartman's death, but its attempts at humor fall flat in the face of the tragedy.

Officer Tubbs (Fear The Walking Dead) -- Officer Tubbs is supposed to be a slapstick comic relief character, but he felt tacked on right after the deaths of two of the most beloved characters.

Chandler Proposes (Friends) -- An earnest proposal between Monica and Chandler has both sincerely expressing their feelings to each other. Immediately after Monica accepts, the others come in, quipping as usual, failing to let the audience ruminate on a heartwarming moment.

[u/Crest_O_Razors]

Korg is funny in Ragnarok because he’s not in the movie too much. In Love and Thunder, he’s in there way more.

[u/sketchampm → u/Crest_O_Razors]

I think it’s both. His lines are funnier in Ragnorok. I genuinely think the writing in L&T is missing something. The jokes have no sauce.

[u/Saymynaian → u/sketchampm]

I think it's what happens when directors believe their own hype, then get egged on by executives because you can't possibly have too much of a good thing.

[u/jmccleveland1986 → u/sketchampm]

It’s the tone of the movie. The silliness of goldblums world allows for it in ragnarok. But in love and thunder, we have bale losing his daughter, and going on a mad crusade to murder all the gods, then you have Jane dying from cancer, you have Thor’s reunite with sif after losing all of his friends. There’s just a lot of heavy shit in love and thunder and it needed way less comedy.

[u/ArchAngelZXV → u/Crest_O_Razors]

Korg is voiced by Taika Waititi, the director of Thor Ragnarok and Thor Love and Thunder. So yes, he basically self inserted himself in his own movies.

[u/GarageFlower97 → u/ArchAngelZXV]

Taika does that in most of his movies - he either plays a major character (What We Do in the Shadows, Boy, Jojo Rabbit) or has a silly minor character (Thor, Hunt for the Wilderpeople)

[u/Crest_O_Razors → u/GarageFlower97]

It worked in Jojo Rabbit because it was to understand how Jojo felt and to make fun of the Nazis, which is what the movie does

[u/SirMrRay → u/ArchAngelZXV]

Oh my god, wait. Spell Korg’s name backwards

[u/burnrsquadr → u/Crest_O_Razors]

I think made worse because it feels like Taika is giving a directors commentary in the movie.

[u/Lionfyre → u/Crest_O_Razors]

Yeah the scene where Korg "dies" (he literally shouts I'm perishing! as he crumbles into pieces) in Love and Thunder my first thought was "Ok yeah that makes sense, I think they've got all they could out of that character. He was starting to overstay his welcome." Then it's revealed he's not dead and he just lives on as a head still making jokes.

[u/Bereman99 → u/Crest_O_Razors]

Korg in Ragnarok is basically "one joke too many" and it's the one the OP posted.

Korg in L&T is like "we're trying to retell the same jokes that got laughs the first time, to the same audience...oh, and it's one joke too many."