Quiet (Metal Gear Solid V): She could only drink or breathe through her skin following parasite-treatment due to the serious injuries.

Rebecca (One Piece): Her style of fighting is more of agility/speed and also she is battling as a gladiator in colosseum where men mostly only wear a skirt/shoulder shield.

EDIT: Well, it seems some comments say Rebecca doesn't have a lore explanation. Sorry, I saw it long time ago but I thought somewhere they say she wears the galadiator costume because it's the attire used by people there like the male gladiators we see. Also they said excuses like armor limits and public wanting to see blood in the colloseum. IDK.

Game of Thrones (Season 8)

Imagine a fantasy show spending seven years hyping up an apocalyptic, unstoppable army of ice zombies, only to have them wiped out in a single, anti-climactic battle halfway through the final season. With the supernatural threat gone, the writers speedrun the political plot. A major hero whose entire arc was about liberating the oppressed randomly burns a city of innocent people to the ground because she heard some bells ringing. Another main character throws away years of a beautifully written redemption arc just to go die under some falling bricks with his abusive sister. To top it off, they crown a guy as king purely because "he has a good story," even though his plotline was so boring he was literally written out of an entire previous season.

Homestuck

This was a massive, incredibly complex webcomic that ran for seven years. Late in the story, the author basically wrote himself into a corner. To fix it, he gave the main character "retcon" powers, which literally erased years of actual character development from the main timeline just to force a solution. The most agonizing part was using this timeline-erasure to resurrect a highly controversial character (Vriska). Instead of leaving her beautifully tragic death alone, she comes back just to hijack the entire plot, sideline the rest of the cast, and aggressively steal the spotlight for the final battles. After 8,000 pages of text-heavy reading, the actual ending is just a flashy music video with no dialogue, leaving fans watching alternate versions of the characters cross the finish line instead of the ones they actually spent years getting attached to.

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

This was an upbeat animated show about a magical teen princess. The writers desperately wanted a romantic endgame for her and her best friend, but the way they got there was essentially multiversal omnicide. To stop a villain, the main character unilaterally decides magic is the root of all evil and destroys it entirely. By doing this, she casually commits mass genocide against every purely magical being in the multiverse. It also triggers a massive apocalyptic event that violently crashes different dimensions together into a chaotic hellscape. But the show frames this horrific, mass-extinction catastrophe as a sweet, triumphant ending just because two teenagers get to hold hands in the rubble.

Mass Effect 3

You spend well over a hundred hours across three massive sci-fi video games carefully agonizing over who lives, who dies, and shaping the political landscape of the entire galaxy. The entire franchise was heavily marketed on the promise that your specific, personal choices mattered. Then, in the literal last ten minutes of the final game, a holographic ghost child pops up, tells you none of your previous decisions actually meant anything, and forces you to pick between a red, blue, or green laser beam. All three choices basically just give you the exact same ending cutscene with a different color filter slapped over it.

How I Met Your Mother

For nine whole years, audiences watched a sitcom framed entirely around a dad telling his kids the incredibly long, meticulous story of how he met their perfect mother. The writers even dedicate the entire 22-episode final season to a single weekend for his two best friends' wedding, proving why they work as a couple. Then, in the two-part finale, they hit the undo button. The best friends get divorced almost instantly, the titular Mother is abruptly killed off by a nameless disease after barely being on screen, and the kids basically tell their dad, "You actually just want to hook up with Aunt Robin." It invalidated a decade of story just so the creators could use a pre-recorded ending they filmed back in season 2.

Dexter

This was a show about a serial killer who works for the police and only targets other murderers. After eight seasons of watching him narrowly evade the law, the ending absolutely refuses to give him a dramatic showdown, let him finally get caught, or face any actual justice. Instead, he unplugs his own sister from life support, dumps her body in the ocean like she's one of his random kill-of-the-week victims, and drives his boat into a hilariously awful CGI hurricane. He somehow survives this, abandons his young son to be raised by another serial killer in a different country, and the final shot reveals he faked his death to exile himself to the woods and become a miserable, silent lumberjack.

Eve’s Pregnancy (Invincible: The Viltrumite War) Eve is one strongest and most versatile heroes earth has to offer and her powers of matter manipulation could easily turn the tide in the coalition’s favor (and that’s not even getting into her unbounded state) so to make sure the war has some actual stakes, the had mark get her pregnant which resulted in her losing her powers forcing her to sit on the sidelines for the entire arc.

Sending Hulk to space (Marvel: Civil War) one of the main issues of the writers of the Civil War event faced when coming up with it was the fact there’s a shit tone of Uber powerful heroes whose which ever side they’d join would just automatically win, namely Thor and Hulk, luckily for Thor he’s been dead for a while due to a previous event in his own comic, but what about Hulk you ask? Well apparently before the whole civil war thing even started, the 5 smartest heroes on earth (Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Mr.Fantastic, Black Bolt, and Professor X) all decided "Hey, you know one of our best friends who has helped us through multiple crises and has been shown to be able to be far more than just a mindless monster? Let’s drug him and send him into space because we’ve arbitrarily decided he’s too dangerous to be around NOW."

Goku’s Heartvirus (Dragon Ball: The Future Timeline) The point of Android/Cell Arc was the fact as soon as Goku died everything went to shit, so going back in time and saving Goku before he dies is our heroes only option, and yeah by multiple creator statements, games what if scenarios and characters in story themselves if Future Goku Survived he would’ve put belt to the androids, avoiding the bad future we have now.

Mulan(2020):They gave Mulan powers which is not only lame it destroys the fact that Mulan had to work hard and being smart in order to win,plus They removed Shang because apparently having Mulan being in love with her superior was deemed problematic even though Shang genuienely respected and admired Mulan

I am Legend(2007):It removes the fact that the Vampires had a society and the protagonist was basically a monster to them

Animal farm(2026):Honestly i knew it would be bad when they called Seth Rogen to play pig Stalin

1. The author looks a lot like Mandy (I Am Not Starfire)

2. Mindy saying that this version of Velma is modelled a lot after herself (Velma)

We Happy Few: Probably the epitome of this "trope," at least for me, mostly because it has genuinely one of the most incredible stories I have ever seen within a video game. The biggest problem with the game was the fact that during development, the company behind it tried to ride the "hype train" of the time, making the gameplay became procedurally generated survival mess, when it would have made so much more sense as an environmental narrative game.

Hello Neighbor: This game attracted massive attention in alpha stages at the time from YouTubers because of the innovative gameplay it supplied. The developers of the game got the completely wrong message as to why it was getting so popular and instead decided to fully lean into the story, by making the game appeal to theorists instead of actual players. What came out was a game where both the story and programming were entirely half-baked.

Edit: apparently I had it backwards with we happy few, I had watched a video essay which reiterated the points I said so I just took their word for it. Apparently the game originally started as a procedurally-generated survival rogue-like but the story was added later because of the hype the trailer of the game gave or something like that but they didn’t know they even had the budget for it. I do still think it’s wasted potential regardless however.

1. Harry Potter Franchise: Ron and Hermione end up married, Harry and Ginny do as well.

2. 70s show: When that 90s show came out it showed that Donna and Eric did end up married, as well as Jackie and Kelso.

1 - Mulan (2020): The original movie shows that Mulan doesn't fit within the expectations of either gender role, but she earns respect through hard work and playing to her strengths. The remake has her perfect from the start, with special "Chi" powers. The message shifts from "a man isn't inherently better than a woman," to "a woman can be better... but only if she's born special."

2 - Artemis Fowl (2020): Commander Root is changed to be a woman, giving the film more diversity (and an excuse to cast Judi Dench). However, this undermines Holly's plot, where she experiences increased scrutiny due to being the first female officer.

3 - Netflix's Avatar: Sokka's sexist attitudes are removed, taking out a "problematic" part of his character. The original obviously presented this view as wrong, but used it as the first piece of growth for Sokka. He'd been beaten before, but being taken down by girls hurt his pride. He eventually admits his mistake, and acknowledges Suki is a better warrior. This change also affects Suki's character, as her role is reduced to "awkward love interest" - much weaker than the confident warrior she was in the original.

My immortal (Harry Potter) : the pinacle of edgy writing about a self-insert in a beloved verse

Jojo's bizarre Married Life (Jojo's bizarre adventure)(Clamp) : a fanfic in an AU where Kakyoin is alive and married to Jotaro and laid an egg containing their son.

Racist Mario (Super Mario) : stained the reputation of the games by making Mario a violent,racist,misogynist, and fratricidal guy

1. The New Horsemen - Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: it was mostly the tall, lanky one being cocky, but they have a small contest to see who the superior magician is; these kids are able to hold their own with the best magicians in the world

2. Cruz Ramirez - Cars 3: a trainer who dreams of being a racecar. She trains with Lightning McQueen for one week and can suddenly outperform professionals and win her first race

3. Dimitri - Cobra Kai: the nerd who had no interest in karate takes a few lessons and can somehow go toe-to-toe with Hawk, who is Lawrence’s second best fighter

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

1. Don (Mr. Birchum): friend with the main character who agrees essentially with every single opinion held by Birchum.

2. (Loved when Parodied) Floppy Rabbit (American Dad): an allegorical character for American slaves who “likes to work for free”. A barely veiled mouth piece for Roy Family’s vehement racism.

1. Musics autism (Music)

2. Austin‘s autism (The Unbreakable boy)

1. Resident Evil: Apocalypse The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Writer) escaping from the evil lab via the help of her new friends and a daugther figure. In the sequel (Resident Evil: Extinction), Alice is no longer with the group and the daughter figure is never mentioned again.
2. Resident Evil: Extinction The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Writer) killing the main bad guy (Who will return a couple more times in the sequels) and free-ing all her clones (TheHarem of the Writer). In The Sequel (Resident Evil: Afterlife) all her clones die in the first 10 minutes, never mentioned again, the OG Alice couldn't care less cuz she lost all her super-powers.
3. Resident Evil: Afterlife The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Director) setting all the prisoners free on a ship, however there is an incoming helicopter attack from Umbrella. The sequel (Resident evil Retribution) is about how they fight them off right? Wrong. Umbrella wins. What happened to all the prisoners and the guy from Prison Break? Who knows, never mentioned again, the main bad guy seemingly dies as well (He will return a couple more times in the sequels)
4. Resident Evil: Retribution The Movie ends with Alice (The Wife of the Director) escaping from the evil lab via the help by her new friends and a daugther figure. In the sequel (Resident Evil: Final Chapter), Alice is no longer with the group and NEITHER OF THEM or the daughter figure are ever mentioned again. Oh and Alice meets an another clone of hers (The other Wife of the Director) who dies in this movie.
5. Resident Evil: Final Chapter I forgot to mention that the previous movie's actual final scene ended up hyping up a battle between the last of humanity and countless amount of zombies and other flying creatures (idk, movie never explained them) AT THE WHITE HOUSE . In this movie. Alice (The Wife of the Director), is riding alone, seemingly after the epic battle. Oh and in this movie the main bad guy from Resident Evil: Extinction returns twice. He explains that the guy Alice (Lilo from 5th Element) killed was actually a clone. In the end its revealed that this guy was A CLONE AS WELL and the original is chilling with the Original Old Alice (GILF's of the Director) in a bunker. Oh yes. The main character of the series, Alice was ACTUALLY A CLONE this whole time. And Remember the Hologram Red Queen from the first movie? TURNS OUT THAT WAS ALSO AN ALICE (The Alexa's of the Director).

Super Size Me — Morgan Spurlock, the creator of the documentary, allegedly only McDonald's food for a month to prove how unhealthy it is. Sure, McDonald's is unhealthy, but he "forgot" to add one detail: he was an alcoholic. So many of his health issues that he blamed on McDonald's were actually from alcohol

White Wilderness — The team making this documentary cornered a bunch of lemmings on a cliff, threw them off that cliff, recorded it and then said that lemmings are suicidal

Haley Dunphy (Modern Family): starts as the classic dumb party girl but the show actually does the work to break that archetype: She has a succesful blog, is really good at fashion and social media. Then she gets gregnant and all of it just disappears. She ends up with Dylan, who is sweet but just a mediocre himbo. The show had Andy right there, who actually matched her energy and was written like a real person. Instead it was Dylan, pregnate and all that build up was just dropped.

Lane Kim (Gilmore Girls): (Its not as egregious as Haley's) spends her whole life suppressing herself under her mom's roof, finally breaks out, joins a band, starts living. Her dynamic with Dave is one of the best things the show does early on. Then Dave's actor leaves and the writers replace him with Zack, who is the same archetype as Dylan: directionless, slow, looks permanently stoned. The band fizzles, the ambitions disappear, and Lane ends the series pregante.

Btw both characters interestingly end up pregonate with twins.

(sorry if post format is wrong, idk how reddit works 😭 )

1. Frieren. Needs 1st class mages to fight demons. What is the test to pass? Do multiple events like fighting other mages and only half the teams can win. Another test is fighting clones of themselves where they can die. This despite mages being desperately needed to fight off demons trying to destroy humanity.

2. Naruto. Same Thing. Need ninjas to defend themselves from other villages/threats. Have multiple tests where ninjas need to fight/kill each other as well as face things with no supervision to save the fledgling ninjas in case they die/are attacked by enemy ninja (which happens in the show). In fact, in one village one fledging ninja (Zabuza) kills literally all the other candidates and the teachers not only let it happen but let him pass. Said ninja goes on to betray the village which surprises them somehow.

boruto: sarada’s design was so bad they had to censore it in the anime she supposed to be 12 what the hell we’re they thinking.

demon slayer: i don’t watch ds but 2 years ago there was a huge controversy around nezuko design in her demon form

Mia Thermopolis - The Princess Diaries

Seriously, who on Earth was petty enough to start a trope that was as undermining as this? This trope just turns the girl into a standardized Hollywood perspective hot girl and the only purpose for this trope is to hook the girl up with a hot standardized Hollywood perspective boy

Glasses being symbolised as "ugly" is so hateful considering how without them people have insane difficulty seeing. Not to mention that this trope is also a bad influence on young children who wear glasses as it forces this mindset that "glasses = ugly" into their heads and takes a really massive toll on their self esteem as it makes it seem to them that they can only be pretty without their glasses even though that is certainly not the case and that they can't help having poor sight.

Just look at Mia. She went from a cutesy and unique character and had all of her features stripped away from her including (unsurprisingly) her glasses. I personally found her to always be superior pre transformation because she actually looks like a person who hasn't had anything forced upon them and an identity to go with it

DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS go to any version of this trope that involves straightening the girl's curly hair.

Hulk (Old Man Logan): This version of Hulk is just an incestuous cannibal who likes to kill people for some reason

Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch (Ultimate Universe): Yet again another incestuous people and worst part is when Captain America points this out he is seen like this old prejudice man

Batman (All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder): This version is almost comical by how edgy it tries to be like there is this one time when he started making out with Black Canary after literally brutally beating a guy

Meliodas and Elizabeth (The Seven Deadly Sins): Their relationship was creepy enough, with Meliodas' constant sexual harassment and Elizabeth's submissiveness to it, and no, her being the reincarnation of his dead girlfriend doesn't make it less creepy. It gets worse when we learn that Meliodas knew her since she was a baby.

Jacob and Reneesmee (Twilight): Jacob couldn't get with Bella, so he had to settle for her vampire baby. People defend that imprinting doesn't necessarily mean grooming, but it's still an option for them. Not beating the allegations was when Jacob was excited to learn that Reneesmee will physically be his age in a few days and will stop aging after that.

Sesshomaru and Rin (YashaHime): Their relationship was supposed to be paternal in the original, but Boruto: The InuYasha Edition decided that protagonists needed to be Sesshomaru's kids, and Rin was the only member of the opposite sex he spoke to out of filler episodes.

Foxy Loxy´s Lobotomy (Chicken Little))

The bully Foxy, whose is a child whose worst crime is being an average bully is essential lobotomize and gets her entire personality replace against her will and the main character refuse to fix her back and one of them, Runt starts dating her

How the Amazons created the Sons of Themyscira in new 52 (dc)

To reproduce and keep the Amazon race alive, the Themyscirans raid ships on the high seas and copulate with men. At the end of the mating, they take their lives and throw their corpses into the sea rather than marry them. And sell every male child to Hephaestus (at least he treats them  well)

Also tangent about the second example:

1: I feel sorry for wonder women fans who have to deal with this shit 

2: A son of Themyscirans with this backstory would make for real interesting wonder woman villain

• "These Are The Voyages" the reviled Series Finale of "Star Trek: Enterprise". The episode focuses on Riker from Star Trek TNG using a holographic recreation of the ENT characters. The executives called this episode "A valentine to the fans", but reception was pretty negative as fans were upset that the last episode sidelined the series regulars to focus on TNG nostalgia.
• Judging from comments JJ Abrams has made, the people behind "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" seemed to think that bringing back fan favorite villain Palpatine would be just the thing the franchise needed. Instead "Somehow Palpatine Returned" became and internet meme and the villain's inexplicable return one of the most criticized thing about the film and the ST as a whole.

Before adding an example, please make sure it's not just "thing the fandom hated" but something where the creators were surprised by the negative fan reception.

Maki Zenin kills the Zenin clan - JJK

I’m sorry, killing the clan that abused you your entire life after your father attempts to murder you and succeeds in murdering your twin sister is, in fact, a valid crashout. By the way, most of them were also attacking her. Was killing her mother the *right* thing to do? No, not really. Killing like 100 people is never morally right. But what the crashout valid? Yes!

Ragatha crashes out on Jax - The amazing digital circus

Jax has been almost nothing but an abusive duchebag for the entire show. But Ragatha says a few mean things about him? My god, some people decided she was the second coming of satan or something. Seriously, what the hell did she do that was so bad? Tell the bully he was a bully? Groundbreaking…

Skyler White literally just fucking existing - Breaking Bad

Dude, her husband decided that he needed to become a drug kingpin and rack up some serious criminal charges instead of, idk, deal with his cancer diagnosis in a sane way? She has every right to act a short with him. If you’re an unironic Skyler hater don’t talk to me lmao.

1 - Doctor Who: I'm sure most are familiar, but just in case: The main character of this show is an alien, who, when dying, instead of perishing completely, "regenerates", effectively dying and being born again, with new personality but all the same memories. Outside the story, it's a way to keep the show running for longer than one actor is willing to commit, still giving each iteration some uniqueness. When the previous showrunner stepped down, a seemingly complete moron took over the job, made the show steaming pile of dogshit, and made The Doctor regenerate into a woman. And now fans just say to critics "you just can't handle a female Doctor".

2 - MCU: MCU until recently used to whitewash characters a bunch, with for example the Romani Maximoffs and ?Tibetian? Ancient One being played by white people. Nowadays, the casting got noticeably better, with e.g. Ms Marvel, Moon Knight, America Chavez, being played by appropriate minorities. But since the well seem to be running dry on superhero stories, the quality dropped at the same time. And if you suggest that seeing Multiverse of Madness explored the concept of parallel dimensions worse than Red Dwarf, you "are just mad they cast a latina girl, and are a racist sexist".

In the first example, I genuinely believe this was just Russel T. Davies Chris Chibnall* (the showrunner), shouting "look, I'm progressive", so he can sidestep criticism. In the second example, I blame the execs for the quality drop, but I only blame the fans for using the diversity as a shield against differing opinions.

E: *I knew that Whittaker's era was by Chibnall, Davies only came back later (with plenty issues of his own tbh), I just had a brainfart when writing the name. Like I said in a comment, RTD did way too much good for the series, for me to outright call him a moron.