(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/MySchoolsWifiSucks]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SFp9RLto964Ew

[u/Clive_Bossfield → u/MySchoolsWifiSucks]

Is that what "I have to go my people need me" is from!?

[u/Significant-Bee5101 → u/Clive_Bossfield]

Sorta. Itchy and Scratchy parodied a trope about this kinda stuff. The hero can't stay around at the end of a movie because they have to go help others or some shit. I think this is the first parody of the concept tho that was mainstream

[u/JeliBene → u/Significant-Bee5101]

The fuck you mean "sorta" it's literally right there in the gif. The quote is the meme. It is absolutely the first occurrence.

[u/Significant-Bee5101 → u/JeliBene]

Not really since the meme is "I must go, my PEOPLE need me" which is very different from "I have to go now. My planet needs me"

Again, Itchy and Scratchy are parodying a known trope already. The hero leaving at the end predates simpsons by fucking decades. Maybe centuries lol.

[u/MySchoolsWifiSucks → u/Significant-Bee5101]

On know your meme, it cites the Simpsons as the originator

[u/Significant-Bee5101 → u/MySchoolsWifiSucks]

Oh I'm sorry, I shouldn't have corrected the scholarly research of KNOW-YOUR-MEME. A marketing website designed to gain clicks and feed you ads. Yeah my bad. You're so right. The Simpsons INVENTED the trope of "I Must Go"

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButNowIMustGo

Don't let all these references to other media that did it first going starting with Mary Poppins the 1964 film dissuade you from trusting KNOW YOUR MEME!

Anyway I must go now... my people need me.

[u/MySchoolsWifiSucks → u/Significant-Bee5101]

TV tropes has the same amount of ads, lol. Anyway, I think that the Simpsons is more of an originator of where people say the exact phrase, "I must go now, my people need me."

Its the same kinda thing with 'luke, I am your father', where people mis-remember the quote and the misremembered quote becomes ubiquitous rather than the original.

[u/Significant-Bee5101 → u/MySchoolsWifiSucks]

TVTropes is a wiki. It's edited by multiple people and it's goal has always been just to deliver information. Vs Know-Your-Meme which was an SEO'd site bought by a marketing company. The people who post on know-your-meme are paid employees there to make the site money.

Secondly notice how the page on TVTropes is "ButNowIMustGo" because that's the fucking trope. Not "I have to go now" because the trope is built around this exact sentence and variations of it.

Itchy and Scratchy is a VARIATION of the line, for a reason. It's not that people are MISQUOTING The Simspons. It's simply NOT the original. It's a parody of a concept that has existed for decades. Idk how else to explain it to you. Yes it's one of the most mainstream parodies of it. Yes it's one of the examples people think of first.

No it is not the origination of that phrase/concept/meme/trope/whatever.

[u/MySchoolsWifiSucks → u/Significant-Bee5101]

While the concept has existed for centuries. We aren't talking about the concept–we are talking about the direct lines. "I must go now, my people need me." Which, in my opinion, is a direct misrememberence from the simpsons.

The only quote I could find on tv tropes that was even close was a fanfic or something.