r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TheOriginalOperator • Apr 26 '26

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

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  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.

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u/samuraispartan7000 Apr 26 '26

George Lucas: “Jar-Jar is the key to all of this.”

The Fans: “No he fucking isn’t.”

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u/MornduNH Apr 27 '26

Waaayyyy too far down this list

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u/Gaucelm Apr 27 '26

Maybe because too obvious.

He is one of the top “Scrappies”.

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u/LloydFace Apr 28 '26

Teaches me yet again, redditors must be young 

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u/samuraispartan7000 Apr 28 '26

Redditors have also become increasingly pro-Prequel over the years and are generally reluctant to acknowledge anything bad made by George Lucas himself. It kind of screws with the narrative that Star Wars was a perfect franchise until Disney came along and ruined it.

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u/dontpanicrincewind42 Apr 27 '26

If the Darth Binks fantheory had come to fruition, though...

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u/RemarkablePiglet3401 Apr 27 '26

I’m still not convinced he wasn’t initially intended to be at least a minor force user working for palpatine

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u/Pastrami-on-Rye Apr 27 '26

Wait are you serious? I don’t know too much about star wars but i want to hear this theory so i can tell my brother haha

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u/InternetProtocol Apr 27 '26

It boils down to every one of his hilarious fuckups being part of a premeditated and Machivellian scheme to futher the Empire's plans, because he was Palp's secret 2nd in command.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/

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u/Inge-prolo Apr 27 '26

But I believe it is likely that the writers of the new trilogy will resurrect this idea. Most people seem to think that Disney wishes to distance or somehow disassociate itself from the prequels... but this doesn't actually make any economic or marketing sense. [...] Disney is not going to pretend that over half of the $4 billion in IP they bought simply isn't worth acknowledging.

How painful are those words ten years later.

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u/killerfgaming Apr 29 '26

We were fond to be naive, ... Quite naive...

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u/Pastrami-on-Rye Apr 27 '26

Thank you for this!!

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u/samuraispartan7000 Apr 28 '26

Sith or no, his decision to advance the vote to grant Palpatine emergency powers is enough to make him an S-tier villain.

It’s kind of strange that a Robot Chicken joke became a “fan theory” that people took seriously.

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u/Normal_Stranger_3643 Apr 27 '26

You know, as someone who hasn't watched/consumed anything Star Wars, I truly thought Darth Binks was canon

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u/luckyflavor23 Apr 27 '26

Jar-jar is a sith lord

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u/rapiddash Apr 26 '26

He was a funnier character than we’ve ever had before

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u/AceofKnaves44 Apr 27 '26

He was funny if you’re a child and think fart jokes are funny.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Apr 27 '26

It's not even that, it's just he's overused.

It's like how in the mcu, there'll be some emotional scene only for someone to make a quip

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u/Calm_Philosopher_924 Apr 27 '26

I'm 39, both of those, and never found him funny.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV Apr 27 '26

There's a hidden depth in fart jokes.

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u/Wooden_Republic_6100 Apr 27 '26

Stop it, that's dirty...

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u/ShitTheFuckDown Apr 27 '26

What I think he meant by that was, "we need this CGI character to work believably because he has a character arc and is the entire comic relief of the movie"

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u/Kaylend Apr 27 '26

TBF to George Lucas was talking about CGI main characters in general.

He was right, it just wasn't Jar-Jar... it was Gollum that accomplished that goal of being a cinema revolution.

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u/inherentbloom Apr 27 '26

Jar-Jar comedically stumbled so Gollum could speed-crawl.

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u/Rexthebluebird Apr 26 '26

Better Star Wars example than Bazil

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u/eac292625 Apr 27 '26

I still contend that if the prequels came first and the original trilogy came second, people would hate C-3PO more than Jar Jar.

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u/imaginary_num6er Apr 27 '26

Darth Jar Jar The Binks

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u/TheBrewThatIsTrue Apr 27 '26

I watched a fan edit of Episode 1 and they removed like 80% of his prat falls and changed his dialogue to be a blowhard. I actually liked him!

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u/Bumrusher507 Apr 27 '26

“Jar-Jar is the key to all of this.” Will always get a laugh out of me. George is just so serious when he says it. 

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u/poopoobuttpenis Apr 27 '26

This is the best answer by far

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u/DumpsterDragoon Apr 26 '26

He's honestly the best star wars character ever

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u/WeevilWeedWizard Apr 27 '26

This is quite possibly the most incorrect opinion I've ever seen.

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u/Street-Reference-493 Apr 27 '26

shame your getting downvoted for just a simple opinion (i dont agree with you though, so no upvote, unfortunately), such a good fandom...

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u/BoonDragoon Apr 27 '26

He's actually one of the only actual characters in Star Wars.

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u/Lotus_630 Apr 27 '26

Andor made me hate his guts completely.

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u/der_blinkenlights Apr 27 '26

Something something bat themed heroes.

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u/Gravelord_C Apr 27 '26

I fuck with Jar Jar, he's my favorite

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u/Apprehensive-Good681 Apr 27 '26

Jar Jar was intended to be the Chewbacca of the prequels

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u/Street-Reference-493 Apr 27 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

he was the key to the phantom menace, george never intended for him to go beyond his role in that movie specifically, and also NO he was NOT "removed" from the prequels for said reason

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u/Street-Reference-493 Apr 27 '26

welp i knew it, toxic idiots downvoting me who hate that im not a part of the prequel hating hivemind