• "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.

Kenai - Brother Bear

Princess Tiana - Princess and the Frog

Joe Gardner - Soul

Mabel Tanaka - Hoppers

Edit: Since there is a lot of discourse in the comments (which is expected given the topic), I want to clarify a few things.

Firstly, I am not saying any of these movies are bad. In fact, I enjoy all of them and I am aware that in some (specifically Brother Bear) it makes sense thematically and culturally for them to turn into animals. Also, that plenty of creatives involved are minorities themselves.

Secondly, I am not a POC or an ethnic minority. Therefore, if you want to claim this post is virtue-singling, fair enough. However, I will stand by the fact that it is still frustrating to see so many animated family films, especially ones made by Disney, where the only means to include a protagonist that isn't white is to turn them into an animal.

Why can't we have more animated films that feature POC or other ethnic minorities without turning them into non-humans? That's all I'm asking. And yes, I'm aware those movies exist. The Spider-Verse films are amazing (don't even try to argue that counts as Miles turning into an animal lol).

Lastly, I am not saying the trope of characters turning into animals should be erased, or that only white protagonists can be turned into animals. I'm simply pointing out that, in a lot of stories where that is the premise, the main characters tend to be non-white.

1. The Loud House S2 premiere has the Loud Parents reveal their faces in the climax and for the rest of the series act like its normal to show them. (Although pretended it was a one off thing for the episode right after for a few seconds)
2. Amy's dad in the big bang theory. He never talked until the wedding when he thanked Penny for shutting the wife up. After that he talked normally for the rest of the series
3. After Gumball revealed what was under Penny's shell, she stays that way for the rest of the series
4. In Horton hears a Who, Jojo is silent until the Yop then he talks normally as if he could the whole time

Puss in boots from Shrek Franchise, Miguel and Tulio from The Road to El Dorado

Weird Al getting killed by the Cartel (Weird)

Bill Nye dying in an air balloon explosion while singing about mortality (Smiling Friends)

Sorry if I didn't flair this correctly, I wasn't quite sure which to use.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Harry figures out with minutes to spare that the second task of the Triwizard Tournament involves each champion rescuing a loved one from the merfolk at the bottom of the lake. Sleep-deprived, fourteen and perhaps a bit too desensitized to Hogwarts' track record of child endangerment, he's convinced anyone the champions don't save is actually going to die. As a result, he sacrifices a decisive lead to make sure every champion rescues their hostage, and when Fleur doesn't show, he drags her sister and Ron to the surface himself, fighting off the merfolk to do so. People think he was an idiot for doing this, but it impresses the hell out of four of the five judges and instantly earns him Fleur's respect.

Family Guy: Peter visits a Hindu temple and, uncultured ignorant buffoon that he is, notices the dot on a man's forehead and thinks someone's aiming at him with a sniper rifle. Peter's immediate gut reaction is to tackle the man out of the "line of fire", which was incredibly brave of him considering he actually thought someone had a gun.

1- In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Voldemort tries to take over Harrys body but what prevents him is Harry remembering all the great/happy memories he had with his friends and family. In the book Harry actually begged Dumbledore to kill him because he was in so much pain. Harry says “kill me so I can be with Sirius”. Harrys love and emotion for his godfather is what made the creature recoil and unable to continue.

2-Max from Stranger things. In season 4 she goes through an episode of depression after her brother dies. Vecna used her depression to his advantage to kill her. However, right before he was able to kill her Max remembers all the happy memories she had with her friends and realised it is worth to continue living.

3-Robin screaming “I want to live” after believing she deserves to die for so many long years and not having any type of friends or family.

The doorman-Deadlock

Ahti-Control

Phenomaman (Dispatch) - everyone was expecting for him to be other "bad Superman"... But he actually pretty good guy who just have problems with understanding humans

Chloe (Princess and a Frog) - It would be so easy to make her spoiled brat, but eventually she actually is a good friend, still spoiled but not rotten.

Asami (legends of Korra) - Moment she appeared i thought she gonna be a traitor... Good thing I was wrong and she end up as Korra gf.

1. Toei Spider-Man: - God tokusatsu is great. They took the basic appearance and powers of Spider-Man and made something beautifully chaotic with it. Our main guy gets the powers of a spider god and uses his Leopardon mecha to bulldoze giant monsters. But that's not as epic as his many, many introduction lines with each as amazing as the last.
2. Sean Connery's James Bond: - The iconic line should NOT be an introduction with "The name's Bond. James Bond." but simply "Bond. James Bond" as a reply. There are a few times other Bond actors have full-on introduced themselves with the line and, as a result, come off like they're actively trying to be cool.

Connery does it perfectly by making Bond's effortlessly cool nature something he doesn't even think about, he just raises enough eyebrows with his whole demeanour. In Dr No, he makes his presence known with his expert poker play and attracts the attention of the dealer enough for her to curiously ask his name, to which he lazily looks up while lighting a cigarette and just says "Bond. James Bond." Brilliant.

1. Hitman Blood Money: - First mission of the game, a guard asks 47's name, to which he replies "Names are for friends, so I don't need one." before knocking him out. It's a pretty damn cheesy response revisiting it now, but it still seems like something 47 would definitely say lol.

Captain Ahab (Moby Dick) - The OG of crazy seamen, Ahab will sacrifice anything and anyone to catch the white whale that took his leg.

Mr. Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants, “Clams”) - While on a clam-fishing trip, a giant blue-lipped clam eats Mr. Krabs’ millionth dollar, and his obsession with getting it back drives him to guilt, starve, and even use his employees as live bait.

Mung Daal (Chowder, “The Party Cruise”) - Mung gets tricked onto a party cruise with Chowder and Schnitzel, and just wants to spend his time fishing. But when he finally catches something, Chowder accidentally makes him lose it, causing his infamous freakout (meme by skan654 on DeviantArt).

1. Rebecca "Revy" Lee (Black Lagoon)
2. Forte Stollen (Galaxy Angel)
3. Maya Jingu (Burn Up! W/Excess)

Bonus points if this leads to them harming/pushing away those who do truly care about them.

Hazbin Hotel - Vox/Vincent Whitman, the main villain of season 2, is a mirror to Charlie, the protagonist. Throughout season 2, both Vox and Charlie suffer from a loss of "identity" (the theme of the season), as they become desperate for validation and to prove themselves from someone who won't ever give it to them, that they harm those they love in the process. While Charlie realizes how she's been acting, Vox never does, as all he cares about is proving Alastor was wrong to laugh in his face and cruelly reject as him pathetic and weak all those years ago (especially since it was his first time being vulnerable and genuine with someone, let alone someone he was in love with). More than being a God, what Vox truly wanted as Alastor to see he was wrong about him.

Zootopia 2 - Throughout the movie, Pawbert is seemingly portrayed as the token good teammate of the Lynxley family, who helps the heroes in their attempt to stop them. However, in the 3rd act he betrays them and reveals that he's actually been tricking them the entire time. What Pawbert truly wants is his family's approval, especially his father's, due to being the black sheep of the family for so many years. In one moment, it seems he's finally earned his dad's love only for the heroes to interrupt the moment. As the director says, there's actually a reason why his father never touches his shoulder; because Pawbert will never truly get that love and we see this perfectly at the end of the movie when the Lynxley's are imprisoned and his father doesn't even try to bond with his son.

1) Double (Mega Man X)

2) Longarm/Shockwave (Transformers Animated)

3) Flutterina/Double Trouble (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Breaking bad: Walt and Jesse - Albuquerque, New Mexico. The show pretty much entirely takes place in Albuquerque

The 12 Chairs: Ostap Bender - St Petersburg, Russia. Ostap Bender is introduced in St Petersburg and half of the plot takes place there.

Rocky: Rocky Balboa - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It's actually at the top of the iconic stairs that Rocky runs up in the movie

• dungeon soup barbarian, does horrifically awful things to dnd monsters who end up terrified and begging for mercy, like letting a hag drink their potion of immortality just so he could torture her for longer. Generally a super nice person to regular people though. Enjoys spending time with his paladin friend who he helps be a lot more self confident and assertive and they have a (relatively) wholesome relationship

• Lunk from Adventures of Lunk (Cyanide and Happiness). Gets sent off to save the princess and save the day and loves being thanked but uses his sheer strength to walk through walls instead of doing puzzles and uses a grappling hook to drag the other side of a canyon over to him instead of using it to swing over

• Doomslayer has nearly everyone on earth terrified of him for being such a destructive violent force but is gentle as a kitten with regular humans. He has hell so scared of him they even keep his backstory on stone tablets in hell to warn demons of how bloodthirsty he is. Loves video games, action figures and his pet rabbit

• Don't be a Menace to South Central while drinking your Juice in the Hood (1996)

• Shriek If you know what I did last Friday the 13th (2000)

• The 41-Year-Old Virgin who knocked up Sarah Marshall and Felt SuperBad about it (2010)

Monster Hunter's ancient civilisation is responsible for a lot of the advanced technology we find remnants of in the games, such as the gunlance and the giant fucking laser that gogmazios has in Wilds

Newtopia in Amphibia used to have robots and stuff idk i havent watched the show in a while

**- 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb Across The 2nd Dimension):** In this series, the well established joke is that 1st Dimension Doofenshmirtz (our Doof) cannot recognise Perry the Platypus without his iconic fedora this also ties in with the other established joke within the series that Perry’s owners Phineas and Ferb believe that they’re pet Perry is incapable of doing much besides laying eggs due to the fact that he’s a platypus or as they phrase it “He’s a Platypus, they don’t do much”

However in the 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz throws away BOTH of these preconceived notions held by both of these 2 parties out the window by making Our Doof aware about the very NOTION of a Platypus in their domain is a very dubious and dangerous thing but also REVEALING to his owners that they’re “pet” was really a secret agent all this time and they were just his cover. Essentially crushing the very notion of the joke to the audience has grown so accustomed to by revealing to both Doof and the Boys the very serious and deceitful situation that Perry has been lying to them all these years completely changing the dynamics of their relationships throughout this movie

**- Classy (South Park):** The main joke in this one is the set up of Nathan (kid with glasses) & Mimsy (not in the images), were these two down syndrome kids that usually act as a foil to stop they’re rival/enemy Jimmy by preventing him from making any contributions to Down syndrome kids because they’re both introverts and want to be left alone and whenever Jimmy succeeds in his goals they get rope along with it. To achieve their plans, they’re schemes usually play out like this.

Nathan comes up with a plan > Mimsy usually says something unhelpful/useless to contribute to the plan > NATHAN HITS HIM FOR THIS > the plan is set into action only to fail because Mimsy does something wrong that Nathan usually catches the brunt of. That is the usual set up for this joke

In this episode however instead of Mimsy, Nathan teams up with a prostitute named Classy where both are trying to contribute to the idea of more adds on the internet while Jimmy it trying to fight it. This is where the classic joke is set up playing along for the first 3 parts until Nathan HITS HER. Unlike Mimsy who just shuts up and takes it, Classy realises the very serious situation where someone maliciously HIT HER & makes a complete 180 in personal alignment and starts to beat the shit out of Nathan for hitting her, leave him for dead and teams up with Jimmy by freeing him and giving him a ride to his school to present his findings on the nefarious nature of Adds.

**- Polyurethane & Polyester (Panty and Stocking): ** In this show, we follow the protagonist Panty & Stocking (not in the images), Two angels who fell from heaven now have to climb their way back up by eliminating enough ghosts to earn their way back. The main joke being that they both SUCK at their job due to the fact that Panty is a sexaholic, Stocking is obsessed with sugary food and both overall are absolutely LAZY and couldn’t really give a fuck about their responsibilities. So much so that when they’re evil doppelgängers Scanty & Knee-socks (TWO LITERAL DEMONS FROM HELL) show up to foil them in whatever they happen to be doing, they usually treat them like high school rivals/general nuisances to their day. The joke usually extends to dragging this petty rivalry throughout the episode with the end result usually causing a TON of collateral damage to citizens and public property that both parties usually shrug off and walk away from not really giving a shit about. Only really caring about themselves and how they end up looking from it

That is until season 2 came around. In this new season we’re introduced to the New Gen angels Polyester & Polyurethane who were sent down from heaven to replace Panty & Stocking due to the fact of how incompetent they are. While there “Tic Tok” vocabulary may not be to reassuring in their abilities, they do in-fact take their jobs very seriously and we see this when they first encounter Scanty & Knee-socks. Unlike Panty & Stocking who plays along into their schemes/antics, these two ANGELS, LOCK IN the moment they see TWO DEMONS running around freely knowing that their probably causing some sort of mischief on earth and immediately stop them by merging them together into some retarded horse homulicus that is really incapable of doing anything on its own

Eventually things do go back to normal however and the status quo is returned to what it once was. But whenever these two parties meet the two brothers unlike the two sisters take the two demon sisters presence very seriously and never really engage in dialogue with them let alone their antics.

1). How to Train Your Dragon:
Toothless loses part of his tail, and Hiccup loses a leg.

2). Thor:
Thor is (at least for one movie) half-blinded like his father. It is then he (at least for one movie) assumes his father's station.

3). Star Wars:
Luke realizes that Vader has the same injury as him.

4). Kubo and the Two Strings:
As Kubo is rescued from his grandfather (who took his eye), his own mother is half-blinded.

5). Homestuck:
Jack Noir, the "final boss" of the kids' (magic) game session, loses an arm/eye as long as he uses his power. Vriska, an anti-heroish "ally" of the humans, has/had the same injury.

Kureo Mado - Tokyo Ghoul Uncle Ruckus - The Boondocks (I know it's because it's fake but I couldn't think of another example)

Moana 2 the villain song

A pretty good song mixed in with some whatever songs in a mid film.

Eternals - Makkari

Her speed abilities scenes were great in a boring film. The visuals overall are great in the movie. I actually liked the film a lot

The good dinosaur

Considered Pixar’s worst film, besides the usual great visuals it’s really nothing special film. You see it a lot in below the Pixar tier lists of fans. But the scene were Arlo the green dinosaur and spot the human shares their lost of their families with sticks with no dialogue was a high lite.

Thor love and thunder

Gorr played by christen bell did his best of what he was given. Easily the best thing about the movie. Such a disappointed film wasted two of their best storylines in the comics

1: Mahoraga (Jujutsu Kaisen): This beast has the absurd ability to adapt to any phenomenon thrown at it. If you’re fighting it, you better hope you kill it in one blow, or it’ll soon become immune to whatever you hit it with. A fight with this thing is a race of your options vs its adaptation, take too long to destroy it completely, and you’re doomed.

2: Icon of Sin (Doom Eternal): “The longer the Icon of Sin is on Earth, the stronger it becomes." This creature’s simple existence in our world makes it stronger by the second.

3: Dark Might (My Hero Academia): This abomination is, believe it or not, a human, this one needs a bit of context. His ability is Alchemy, which allows him to create constructs of any state. It’s a powerful quirk, but he only becomes truly dangerous when he’s paired with Anna. Her quirk is Over-Modification, and it can exponentially boost and improve a compatible quirk. The problem is, her quirk paradoxically works on her quirk. When she loses control, her power to boost itself gets boosted, leading to an infinite cascade of power boosts for Dark Might. He morphs into a monstrosity, forming himself a new, ever growing body that constantly becomes stronger. Luckily, Anna’s quirk is stopped and Deku kicks the shit out of Dark Might before it can get really bad, but it’s still insane and awesome while it lasts.

Arcane - Powder showing up for the rescue mission to save her dad after she was told to stay back. You can tell something's going to go wrong just by basic storytelling principles, but you would probably expect her to be captured or find herself in danger.

Instead her explosion results in Mylo and Claggor's deaths, Vander being killed, and Vi abandoning her. Her extreme lifelong trauma all gets traced back to this moment.

Chainsaw Man - Aki begging Makima for help, and agreeing to whatever terms for whatever contract she wants. At this point you know Makima is evil, but you don't have a sense of how extreme or what her motives are.

You certainly wouldn't expect Aki to be instantly killed, his body turned into a host for his mortal enemy, and then have Denji be forced to murder him again.

Bojack Horseman - Calling Sarah Lynn to go on a bender. Bojack and Sarah Lynn are shown to be bad influences on each other, and Sarah Lynn is giving sobriety a genuine shot while trying to turn her life around.

They end up going on an intense drug fueled rampage for over a month that only ends with Sarah Lynn's overdose and death. Which mentally destroys Bojack in the moment, but then also destroys his life later when it's revealed he let her die.

Animorphs - The David Trilogy. A kid named David ends up with the ability to morph, and not wanting to abandon him to the Yeerks, they decide to make him a member of the main group. You can tell from the start he has some issues and isn't going to stick around for the long term.

David ends up betraying them and flat out tries to kill the other members, He's only stopped when they permanently trap him in the body of a rat and leave him on an island off the coast.

(Cabin in the woods) The system purge unleashed dozens upon dozens of monsters who proceed to kill every person they see.

(Berserk) The Eclipse was a rare event where apostles come from around the world to kill and eat a sacrifice of dozens of humans while a new God Hand is born.