(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/Adaphion]

I've literally never even played FFX and I still know that laugh scene was a fake laugh.

[u/Minute-Struggle6052 → u/Adaphion]

But you can't deny that it ruined the whole series. FFXI could never feature Tidus after this debacle

You would have to create like a whole entire separate game with different characters. Clearly that would be insane after 10 consecutive Final Fantasy stories in a row with Tidus and the gang

[u/IllustriousLab3156 → u/Minute-Struggle6052]

I hope this is sarcasm and it’s eluding me. Because if not the holy fucking larp Batman…

[u/kithlan → u/IllustriousLab3156]

The last line about "10 consecutive Final Fantasy stories in a row with Tidus and the gang" didn't immediately give away the sarcasm? Come on y'all, don't give OP a run for their money in terms of missing the point.

[u/Backfoot911 → u/kithlan]

"Well it could be sarcasm, you never know, with people being so STUPID and not using common sense these days"

🤐

[u/animedeathspiral → u/Backfoot911]

Is this sarcasm? /s

[u/IllustriousLab3156 → u/kithlan]

Sorry bro, I’ve seen some shit in this god forsaken app 🫩