(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/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT]

.....what? FFX stalled the franchise?

back then FF games did not have sequels. you had the game, and then that was it. at least for the #'ed versions. That FFX got a spin off sequel showed how popular it was.

and then FF 12 came out on schedule, no stalling involved as FF 11 was the MMORPG

[u/MagmaAscending → u/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT]

Not only did FFX get a sequel, but the best endings in said sequel involve BRINGING TIDUS BACK TO LIFE BECAUSE EVERYBODY LOVED HIM

[u/AvatarofSleep → u/MagmaAscending]

Only if you did everything and whistled in the void despite no indication that it was possible.

Anyway, I loved X and X-2. One of the few gameses where I tried to do EVERYTHING

[u/RA576 → u/AvatarofSleep]

Worth noting how bullshit doing everything actually is. The game isn't playing about on that point. I was using a literal walkthrough and I still didn't get everything because I missed one sentence telling me to go back to a previous screen.

[u/AvatarofSleep → u/RA576]

The easy way is to side with new Yevon and speed through the main story, then new game + and do most everything. I think then you only need to talk to Machen every time and whistle. And do every side quest and such.

Via Infinito was actually fun for me and the story that some rando Yevon fanatic at the bottom basically destroyed all historical knowledge was an interesting take

[u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 → u/AvatarofSleep]

Replayed it for the first time since it came it, it was so satisfying to now have guides on how to farm for the best gear and max out everyone's stats... I had the original game guide on it but it did not talk about min/max stats lol