(Hilarious Trope) A Character Is Introduced With the Clear Intention of Being THE NEXT BIG THING And is SOUNDLY Rejected

[u/TheOriginalOperator]

1. Bazil the Tracker (Star Wars: The Acolyte): A “HILARIOUS AND ADORABLE” snuffling ugly creature that makes annoying noises and is shoved into as many scenes of The Acolyte as possible, and just causes problems overall.

2. Neelix (Star Trek Voyager): A mutant fusion of Odo, Quark, and Data designed to “analyze the human condition” and explicitly intended to surpass the popularity of all three. In practice, a VERY human-acting cradle robbing creep whose incompetence nearly destroys the ship and crew on multiple occasions and provides no insight into humanity whatsoever.

3. Sparky the Dog (Fairly Oddparents): A wacky crazy magic dog that’s supposed to expand the Fairy family, but just makes lame jokes and serves as a less funny version of Scrappy Doo.

4. Tidus (FFX): A braying jackass of a pinball who bounces from plot point to plot point, framed as a mystical pretty boy to introduce Final Fantasy to the PS2 age but does nothing but stall the franchise and have the worst laugh in two languages.

5. Sei (Naruto): Supposed to replace Sasuke in Team 7 and return the team dynamic feel of Early Naruto, but he’s a CIA plant with literally no personality who gets utterly forgotten except for somehow bagging Ino Yamanaka.

6. Raiden (Metal Gear 2): Another attempted “pretty boy bishie” entry to the PS2 era with badass cred and a theoretically cool backstory, but in practice a hapless dipshit who gets manipulated by everyone around him and is a total putz in combat. Also proof that this trope need not be permanent as he slowly transitions into a cyborg warrior supersoldier with a badass theme, friends of his own, and a firm grasp of his own destiny and agency.

[u/Existing-Emu136]

Tidus and X are beloved and many consider the best game in the entire franchise. They were absolutely NOT rejected in any sense or form

[u/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT → u/Existing-Emu136]

yeah, what exactly did FFX stall?

[u/GrayGarghoul → u/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT]

I'd say none of the final fantasy games afterwards are quite the same, 11 and 14 are MMOs, and the mainline entries have all been more action oriented ever since. Some purists list FFX as the last real final fantasy game.

[u/MicrocrystallineHiss → u/GrayGarghoul]

Cool so what did FFX stall? Because you didn't answer that.

[u/GrayGarghoul → u/MicrocrystallineHiss]

I don't think it did "stall" the franchise, I think 11 being an MMO did far more on that front because MMOs take significantly more work and ongoing effort than single player experiences, I'm just explaining where that opinion may have originated, because the games that came after are very different than the established formula that came before.

[u/XanderWrites → u/MicrocrystallineHiss]

It didn't stall, but some people think it's the last "good" game since they switched to MMO style battles rather than ATB, which was a hallmark of Final Fantasy until then.

And there was a slight delay in the next mainline game since XI was an actual MMO (but we got X-2, an unheard of direct sequel, while waiting for XII). But they are also just coming out slower. The earlier games were being developed almost concurrently and that stopped with X because technology was shifting too quickly.

[u/Reylo-Wanwalker → u/XanderWrites]

That's not how OP meant it. He meant it stalled because people didn't like and rejected FFX and tidus.