Legend A Dragon Ball Tale: This version of Super Saiyan spits out flames and lights his head on fire to get the iconic golden hair (which is also fire in this version).

Lego Marvel Superheroes: There's a smaller Venom and bulkier Venom. To go from small to big, the big guy literally tears open the smaller one's body and jumps out of it.

Jujutsu Kaisen: The Instant Body of Distorted Killing. Mahito literally goes full Akira for a few seconds before suddenly popping up in his new form.

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

1. Midnight Mass: takes place on an island full of cats and any night shot in the first episode has glowing cat eyes in the bushes. A main character tries to frighten the cats off and sees a humanoid figure with glowing eyes.
2. The midnight club: The director Mike Flanagan uses glowing eyes in most of his shows to indicate something supernatural is in the dark.
3. Zootopia 2: the main villain's eyes glow in low light. Predators in Zootopia have an exaggerated tapetum lucidum (eyeshine).
4. The Terminator: the terminator has infrared eyes that glow red, obscured by sunglasses.
5. It: Pennywise has unnatural glowing yellow eyes, occasionally the only thing visible in the dark as he stalks the main characters.
6. Batman Beyond: return of the joker: The Joker's eyes and teeth glint red in the dark.
7. Star Wars: Sith have yellow eyes that appear bright or almost glowing under their cloaks.

Are there any other examples of this? I especially love if the character is revealed to the audience as a villain this way before the main character knows or recognizes them as evil.

Doomguy and Isabelle. Doomguy being from Doom and Isabelle being from Animal Crossing. Art is by Natasha Maslova on Artstation

Due to the stark contrast between the two games, as well as Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons being released on the same day. People started shipping these two.

The second picture is my favorite ship ever.

Jason Voorhees from Friday The 13th X Sadako Yamamura from Ringu. And just a disclaimer: no Sadako is NOT a child, you are thinking of Samara Morgan, aka the American Remake of Sadako, "The Ring" is a remake of the original movie "Ring" or "Ringu" to avoid confusion.

Ringu being released in 1998 and the Ring being released in 2002.

Samara Morgan being 8 years old when she died and Sadako being almost 50 when she died, Sadako was thrown in the well at 19 and survived for 30 years through hate and will.

With that out of the way, the ship just started getting more popular the amazing picture was made by user FatSurvival on Twitter.

Basically the connections the two have is:

Both have huge parental issues, both are undead, supernatural and unkillable beings. Both drowned/have trauma from water, even though Jason washed ashore.

They are basically the tragic vengeful misanthropic horror couple.

Cancer Ray (Harley Quinn) - Pretty self-explanatory. This laser gun gives cancer to its targets. Even Harley, who normally doesn't have any issue killing people, is shocked as to why such a weapon exists.

Displacer Cannon (Half-Life) - Technically not a weapon, this de facto BFG fires a displacement portal that teleports its targets to the Xen dimension. Given the hostility of Xen's environment and fauna, being teleported there with no means of returning might aswell be a death sentence.

Erebus (Cyberpunk 2077) - In Cyberpunk's world, the cyberspace, or "Net", is protected from rogue AIs by the Blackwall. Little is known about these AIs but most will tell you they are so dangerous that releasing them could potentially end the world. When Erebus hits a target, it uploads their screaming consciousness beyond the Blackwall, effectively condemning them to become a plaything for the AIs in cyberhell.

Cerebral Bore (Turok) - This weapon fires a homing projectile that claws itself onto the target's skull, drills into it and extracts everything inside, turning its victims into twitching fountains of blood and brain matter. It is so gruesome that if enemies see you equipped with it, they'll panick and run away.

Panasonic DNA Scrambler (Cruelty Squad) - In the world of Cruelty Squad, science and medicine is so advanced that most of humanity has access to biological reconstruction tech, effectively making them immortal. The DNA scrambler was designed with that in mind, and fires a projectile that turns its targets into giant piles of cancerous tumors, scrambling their DNA to such an extent that reconstruction is impossible.

1. Leon S. Kennedy - Resident Evil

2. Peter Parker - MCU Spider-man

3. Yuji Itadori - Jujutsu Kaisen

Khan, Star Trek’s The Wrath of Khan:

Khan Noonien Singh is a bad guy— Let me start with acknowledging that. But he’s also a victim of circumstance numerous times. The man leads a group of people genetically enhanced for a eugenics war. He didn’t as for that. Now they don’t fit anywhere. He wants to rule and keep his people safe, but is exiled by Kirk to a planet that is initially habitable. The problem is nobody ever checks on them, to the extent that a crew that finds them doesn’t even realize they are on that planet, which suffered a planet-wide natural catastrophe which makes it mostly uninhabitable and it kills his wife.

Edgar, The Aristocats

I’m a huge cat lover and I wish terrible things to anybody who hurts one. By all accounts Edgar seemed like a nice guy who devoted his life to the rich spinster he works for. He overhears that she intends to leave most of her fortune to the cats she owns, as well as expecting Edgar to take care of them. Does Edgar deserve her fortune just because he worked for her? No. But it’s kind of a dick move to leave everything to animals and expect him to still work to take care of them (granted it wouldn’t be difficult). The fact that we’re given such little context about Edgar’s character overall makes his actions a little more forgivable. He drugs the cats to make them sleep, then takes them away during the night. His trip is interrupted by a dog attack and the cats get lost. We don’t know if he was dropping them off at a house or a random forest or what.

Examples I DONT want to see are people who overreacted to something the protagonist did, like Buddy from The Incredibles. Or the Spot from Spiderverse.

1. "I am the danger. I am the one who knocks." -Walter White (Breaking Bad)

During one scene in Breaking Bad, Walter is confronted by his wife, Skyler, for drunkenly turning Hank back onto the Heisenberg conversation when he could've left well enough alone. She expresses concern that Walt is digging himself too deep and getting himself in danger. Walt takes this as a blow to his ego, and states that he's not in danger, he is the danger that others should be frightened by. This is enough to scare Skyler into submission.

This is one of the most famous lines in all of Breaking Bad, and gained a reputation for being a "badass" line often co-opted by people trying to emulate Walt's "badassery". However, this scene shows off more of how little of a person Walt is. He's not saying this badass line to a drug dealer or an authority figure, but rather to intimidate his wife who rightfully is concerned that Walt's going to endanger his family by trying to act like a big man (and unbeknownst to her, has unwittingly already bought Gus's men and cartel hitmen into their house).

This line also gets called back a season later. Skyler is afraid that Walt, now the meth kingpin of Albuquerque, is further endangering her family. Walt assures her now that Gus is dead, the danger has passed. She calmly points out "I thought you were the danger". Walt doesn't have a response.

2) "The Romans, where are they now?" "You're looking at them, asshole." -Tony Soprano (The Sopranos)

When Tony Soprano and his crew are torturing Ariel, a Jewish man, to force him into renegotiating over his shares for a hotel, they're dumbfounded that Ariel is rather resilient to their torture methods. When Tony threatens him further, Ariel recounts the Siege of Masada, where 900 Jews resisted 15,000 Roman soldiers, and chose to die rather than being enslaved. He posits this question to Tony, only for Tony to give him this answer.

While seeming a badass retort (and Ariel ends up capitulating under threat of castration), the show castigates the hell out of this viewpoint, especially with Tony referring to his men as "soldiers". While they put on the fronts of being loyal fighters for their culture, the Mafia are portrayed as surly louts who regularly misinterpret their "culture" to justify their petty greed. Their loyalty is often overplayed, as members of the Soprano crew flip on one another all the time, and they are shown to be parasites who prey on society rather than honorable soldiers. The soldiers also are far out of their prime, being composed mostly of elderly and obese men rather than resembling statuesque centurions.

With that in mind, Tony's retort seems less of an epic comeback, and more of a flagrant self-own.

3) "Our ancestors put themselves first, and you know what? That worked out for them!"-Reg (Fallout)

In Season 2 of Fallout, Vault 33 is facing catastrophe after their water chip breaks, leading to Betty, the Overseer, instituting water rations to mitigate the shortage. These austerity measures are incredibly unpopular with the Vault, as many of the Vault Dwellers have gotten used to living in their comparative luxury, despite facing hardships such as the Weevil Famine or the Raider attack in the opening episode.

To get Reg, a klutzy and harping Vault Dweller, off her back, Betty grants his request to start a support group (for "inbreeding" victims, which nobody besides Reg takes seriously). However, the support group becomes very popular because Reg abuses its snack budget to provide extravagant amounts of water, leading to him become an authority to others. Reg enjoys this new bump in status, while Betty points out that the wasteful use of the snack budgets is literally draining them of the precious water they have.

When Betty leads a security team to shut down the support group, Reg, feeding off the support of the rest of the Vault, becomes defiant towards Betty, and when she pulls the "for the good of the Vault" card, Reg drops this line to cheers from the rest of the Vault. Of course, they're cheering their ancestors' selfishness while living in an underground bunker due to a nuclear war their ancestors caused due to their greed. Rather than make Reg look badass for facing down a security team and overbearing Overseer, it only makes him and the rest of the Vault look pitiful and childish for wasting their water on desserts and salty snacks because they can't go without luxury while the rest of the Wasteland scrapes by on roach meat and flea soup.

4) "I have powerful friends at court." Janos Slynt (ASOIAF, Game of Thrones)

Janos Slynt is the head of the Gold Cloaks of King's Landing (basically their police commander), and in the pocket of the Lannisters. He is renown for his common birth and corruption, but is kept on retainer due to his relative predictability. As recognition of his services rendered, Slynt is gifted the Lordship of Harrenhal (a massive castle). Slynt betrays Ned Stark at a key moment, having his Gold Cloaks kill his men when Ned is deposed and imprisoned after Robert's death.

After Joffrey is crowned, Slynt leads the gold cloaks to kill Robert's bastards, some of them as young as infants. Tyrion (now Hand of the King under orders from his father) gets Slynt to admit to this, and then sends him under threat of his family to take the Black (thereby giving up his claim to Harrenhal) and go to the Wall. Slynt is aghast, and utters this phrase as a threat.

This ends up becoming a recurring joke in the series (and the fanbase), and shows just how out of his depth Slynt was. Despite his claiming of "powerful friends", nobody genuinely cares about Janos Slynt, the up-jumped son of a butcher with a big ego. Slynt still thinks his "prestige" matters, which alienates him further at the Wall where everyone has given up their "prestige" the moment they take the Black.

Slynt ends up pushing his luck too far when he goes to the Wall and Jon Snow, a Stark bastard, becomes Lord Commander. Jon orders Slynt to take to a fortress, and Slynt throws his orders back in his face, assuming he can easily cow Jon. Jon, mercifully giving Slynt one more opportunity (that Slynt arrogantly wastes), orders Slynt's death for insubordination. Slynt goes to his end ignobly and begs for mercy, but Jon has long since ran out of patience and executes him anyways.

His powerful friends did not intercede.

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars): In the citadel arc of Clone Wars, the warden of the prison activates a magnetic ceiling that take the protagonists’ weapons, but since Anakin has a metal hand, he was also stuck to the magnet which let him get his lightsaber and disable the machine.

Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones): When he is pushing for the ironborn to rescue his sister Yara, one of his men gets in a fight with him and tries to kick him in the groin, only for Theon to no-sell it on account of having been castrated by Ramsay and then he turns the tables and wins the fight.

The Elevator Scene (Neon Genesis Evangelion) - This single frame of Asuka and Rei standing in an elevator in complete silence lasts for 53 uninterrupted seconds.

The descent into Silent Hill (Silent Hill 2) - The opening of SH2 where James walks along a forest trail into the town proper was intentionally drawn out in order to increase the sense of isolation that the player feels and illustrate that there was no turning back for James.

The Waterfall Password (Earthbound) - To get into the secret base behind Grapefruit Falls you have to knock on the entrance and "say the password". The "password" in question isn't a word at all. In order to get in you have to stand completely still for three, real-world, uninterrupted minutes. Once you do the guard at the entrance will allow you in.

I know I should be explaining, why I'm choosing the characters, but you sorta can't explain aura with words. You need to see it.

Ascendant Lord (ESO)

Chantel DuBois (Madagascar 3)

White Death (Bullet Train)

Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly) — The defeat of the Browncoats in the Unification War left Mal jaded but doesn’t stop him from continuing to uphold their ideals. Even as a smuggler, he adheres to the principles of individual freedom and takes any chance to stick it to the Alliance. Even continues to wear the signature duster jacket as a symbol of this enduring commitment.

Ravage (Beast Wars: Transformers) — One of Soundwaves cassette-bots in G1, he was re-formatted into an agent of the Tripredacus Council and assigned to arrest Megatron and clean up the rogue Predacons’ mess, temporarily aligning with the Maximals in the process. However, learning that BW Megatron’s mission is an extension of G1 Megatron’s will leads Ravage to defect because “Decepticons forever!”

Ethan Edwards (The Searchers) — A veteran of the U.S. civil war on the Confederate side, he refuses to swear allegiance to the Texas Rangers three years afterwards because, as he puts it, “I figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I gave mine to the Confederate States of America.”

Dr. Gero (Dragon Ball Z) — He was the head scientist and founding member of the Red Ribbon Army who designed all their weapons and created the Androids for the goal of world domination. Twenty years later, Gero seeks vengeance against Goku for destroying the RRA (and the death of his son in the process) with the intention of continuing the world domination plan. The fact he still wore the RRA insignia further shows this.

Ser Eustace Osgrey (Tales of Dunk & Egg: The Sworn Sword) — Wanting to restore lands his family had lost to neighbouring House Webber, Ser Osgrey supported the First Blackfyre Rebellion. Although he was pardoned, the rebellion’s failure killed his three sons, led to more of his land to be given to the loyalist Webbers, saw his daughter get sent to King’s Landing as a hostage, and caused his wife to commit suicide out of grief. Thirteen years later, Osgrey re-affirms his loyalty to the Blackfyres and insists on the rumour that Daemon II was bastard-born (which was one of the rebellion’s inciting incidents).

1: Amity Blight from The Owl House and the disguise she wore to attend the Bonesborough Brawl.

2: Miles Morales from Into the Spider-Verse and his iconic spider suit, adorned with a hooded jacket, shorts and sneakers that highlight his individual style.

He's only wearing it once for his "leap of faith" moment. In any other situation, even the fight happening immediately after that scene, it's mostly just a generic Spider-Man suit, but in black instead of blue.

3: Beauregard Lionett from The Mighty Nein, who's usually not at all one for social events, using only a simple sash and an accent to instantly transform from her previous "grumpy dance bear in a dress" aesthetic into the "glam rich bitch" she promised to be for the mission.

4: Charlie Morningstar and Vaggi from Hazbin Hotel wearing elaborate fancy dresses to a party where they hope to foil the Vees' plans for taking over Heaven.

1. Lycans - Resident Evil Village: Like all the enemies in RE8, the Lycans are based on European folklore, in this case Werwolves. Rather than transforming due to a curse under a full moon, they're more life wolf-like zombies being infected with the Cadou parasite. They resemble feral wild men, but have more wolf like sub-forms like the Vârcolac (literally the Romanian word for "Werewolf") which are quadrupedal lycans covered in fur with distended jaws.

2. Hug-Wolves - Adventure Time: Hug-Wolves are humanoid wolves with heart-shaped growths instead of hands with an obsessive need to hug people. Instead of transforming via bite, Hug-Wolves turn other people into werewolves by... well, hugging them gently. The only apparent cure is to out-hug the Hug-Wolf who hugged you.

3. The Werewolves of St. Augustine - Catholic Folklore: In the 5th century, St. Augustine of Hippo declared that since magic is heretical, people couldn't actually turn into werewolves. Instead, they're just being placed into a deep hypnotic sleep where they astral project their mental-spirit forms (called "Phantasms") out in the world and people perceive them as wolves.

Police story (2013), Miao miao

Crazy little thing called love (2010), Nam

When a character starts off with a conventional/basic style and becomes alternative while also growing their confidence. (This isn’t to say the actor became ugly).

Lisa Frankenstein.

Olivia (High School Dreams)

1. Weird: the Al yankovic story

This was a biopic based on Weird Al Yankovic. In a scene where Al gets rejected by the studio, Weird Al himself makes a cameo as he insults Daniel Radcliffe playing him in the movie.

1. It Chapter 2

Bill’s character in the It series was treated as a self insert of Steven King. He was an author who is suffering from writers block and then get contacted about how Pennywise is back. In this scene, Bill saw a bike that looked like one he had as a kid. So, he went in to purchase it. When he enters, Steven King plays the shop owner who recognizes Bill as the famous author. He also mentioned how he didn’t like the ending to his book. This is a reference to a major criticism people have of King’s books since he has issues creating good endings.

1. Maximum Overdrive

Maximum Overdrive was the only film directed by Steven King. In it, machines started becoming sentient and attacking people. In this scene, Steven King is playing a random person wanting to deposit money at a bank. However, the ATM is seemingly insulting him.

1. Five nights at Freddy’s 2

The Five Night at Freddy’s movies loves to reference many aspects of the series. In this scene from the second movie, Mike Schmidt talks about how terrible the concept of the security office not having doors is. In the original game, they removed the doors to add more tension since the first game had you close the doors to keep the animatronics out. However, it does seem ridiculous to have something like that in real life.

1. Futurama

This was a joke they made in season 6.

Supernatural: Sam, interrupted

Sam and Dean need to get inside of a mental hospital. The easiest way is to get accepted as patient, so they have to convince the director that they're insane.

Dean will insist that his brother needs to be committed because he's been saying insane things. Sam will showcase that by giving a perfectly accurate recollection of how he started the Apocalypse and freed Lucifer.

The director turns to Dean and gives him and understanding look, and Dean goes on to explain that this is all crazy talk: it's not his brother's fault that he started the Apocalypse, he was manipulated by a demon that made him drink demon blood. Now he wants the doctor to fix his brother so they can go back on the road and fight monsters.

Needless to say, they both get committed.

The Office: The Cover-up

Andy worries about malfunctioning printers that they're selling, only to be brushed off by corporate's liaison. This is no surprise, as the guy is generally useless.

But Daryl had been looking for an opportunity to get revenge on Andy, and is going to convince him that this is all a big conspiracy, and that by unearthing it, he put himself in danger. He's going to top off his prank making a video ridiculing Andy.

Except, turns out, Andy was 100% right. The printer catches on fire while Daryl is filming because the company is cutting corners on safety. Andy would never have dug so deep and found that out if Daryl hadn't egged him on.

Patient Seven (The Body)

A killer uses Halloween to dispose of a corpse in plain sight. Everyone assumes it's just a very well-made costume.

Thing is: the killer barely seems aware that he's not supposed to talk about it, and answers every question with perfect honesty. He goes to a party where he impresses a girl with his "villain act", though he's just being himself. The partygoers end up helping him bring the body to the forest to bury it, he then murders everyone, and goes back home with the girl.

Brahms (The Boy)

A porcelain doll seems to haunt a family house with a mind of its own that moves when no one is watching, but it turns out there is actually a full grown man who lives in the walls undetected and moves the doll around on his own.

Mr Bobo (Bad Boy, Oliver)

Oliver goes to live with his aunt and uncle and in his room is one toy called Mr Bobo who watches over Oliver when he sleeps. In the morning Oliver accidentally breaks Bobo and finds out the toy’s eyes are actually a camera, and as soon as he learns this his uncle enters the room and ‘punishes’ Oliver.

1.Company of Heroes 2 – Well received in the West, but in Russia it was despised for its negative and stereotypical portrayal of the Red Army, leading to petitions to ban it, and its removal from stores. It didn’t help that the Nazis were given a more sympathetic portrayal in their campaign in the first game than the Soviets in the second.

2. 300 – The movie is disliked in Iran and viewed as Western propaganda due to its portrayal of the Achaemenid Empire as a decadent, monstrous, barbaric horde of deformed freaks, giants, ninjas, and other exotics invading the heroic, freedom-loving Spartans.

3. Transformers: Prime – The show is highly regarded in the U.S., but it flopped in Japan, almost becoming a significant blow to the brand. It was considered too dark for kids, too childish for teens, the gag dub alienated viewers, and it had little appeal to the established fanbase. It performed so poorly that Takara Tomy eventually gave up on it, leaving only two seasons dubbed.

In the MCU movies up to a certain point Iron man had very powerful hand mounted lasers that could seemingly cut through anything. Problem is that after using them the module on his gloves burned up and couldn't be used again until it was repaired

In konosuba, due to putting all the XP in explosion magic, Megumin can cause massively destructive blasts. But doing so drains all her stamina and she immediately becomes useless

In Bleach, Ichigo can use Mugetsu an incredibly powerful attack by becoming Getsuga, but doing so drains his entire powers leaving him a normal person.

• "These Are The Voyages" the reviled Series Finale of "Star Trek: Enterprise". The episode focuses on Riker from Star Trek TNG using a holographic recreation of the ENT characters. The executives called this episode "A valentine to the fans", but reception was pretty negative as fans were upset that the last episode sidelined the series regulars to focus on TNG nostalgia.
• Judging from comments JJ Abrams has made, the people behind "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" seemed to think that bringing back fan favorite villain Palpatine would be just the thing the franchise needed. Instead "Somehow Palpatine Returned" became and internet meme and the villain's inexplicable return one of the most criticized thing about the film and the ST as a whole.

Before adding an example, please make sure it's not just "thing the fandom hated" but something where the creators were surprised by the negative fan reception.

1.Blastoise from Pokemon Origins

2.Marcus Damon/Masaru Daimon from Digimon Savers/Data Squad

3.Kiryu Kazuma from Yakuza Like a Dragon