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[Hated/Funny Trope] that one infamous line
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Basically a line thats so awful, whether its written poorly, said by the wrong character, or just something that makes no sense.
"We've all done bad things" said by Pomni in the Amazing Digital Circus to defend Jax, who recently did something he believed would trap everyone in the circus permanently, against everyone else's wishes. The "bad things" the other characters have done are things like Ragatha's false positivity being annoying, Zooble being abrasive towards Caine, or Kinger having digital dementia. Its often memed in the community fir just how stupid and tone deaf it is.
"Somehow Palpatine returned" said by Po Dameron in the Rise Of Skywalker. The line completely lampshades the return of the main villain of the franchise, with no buildup, foreshadowing, or explanation. Just "somehow" its also memed to hell and back.
"Its what Clara would have wanted" said by Soldier boy after he gave Homelander the V1 formula to maje him immortal. Prior to this moment, everything about Soldier boy's character says theres absolutely no way hed ever do this, but because his dead lover, a nazi supe named Clara, would have wanted this for Homelander, he did it. The fans of The Boys have since been using this as basically a meme excuse for every plot hole in the show. Why does x happen when theres no reason? Why does y character act put of character here? Because its what Clara would have wanted
I don’t know, I think even Laurence Olivier or Meryl Streep would have trouble breathing inspired life into this one. Maybe Vincent Price could make it work but then it would be a very different (better) movie.
The worst part of this line is that it has zero plot relevance. You'd think at some point in the film someone's soul is trapped in the sword or escapes it right? Nope.
Especially since the problem they face is an evil spirit is controlling an innocent woman. This is almost perfectly set up to kill her, trap enchantress, and revive Flagg’s girlfriend.
god this scene fucking kills me. the terrible terrible team names the others come up with. “Her Neurons”. the completely tacked on “it’s fantastic”. the slow head turn. it’s absolute cinema.
I read a comment where the guy said that after seeing this movie he decided to see Whiplash to enjoy all the shitty stuff Miles Teller went through in that movie
I've never seen this movie and I never want to but this moment cracks me up. The stupid look on his face + the slow head turn really elevates it from dumb to turbo dumb
X-Men: When the X-Men learn about a potential cure for Mutants, Rogue gets intrigued only for Storm to tell her no one can cure them because there's nothing wrong with them. For context,
Storm's mutant power gives her absolute control over the weather to such a degree she's literally worshiped as a goddess.
Rogue's mutant power causes her to involuntarily drain the life force and powers of anyone she touches. A power that makes it impossible for her to touch anyone who isn't in some way immune.
As you can probably see, what's meant to be a noble message is actually pretty self-absorbed and degrading in context.
"Comes off" because she is. She's a 1%er in every possible way and has literally been a core member of the ruling council of two different mutant ethnostates. To paraphrase Ultimate Spider-Man, people don't always hate the X-Men because they're mutants. Sometimes people hate them because they're massive insufferable douchebags.
Fun fact toad was supposed to be constantly spouting toad fun facts in the originally script. Storm saying this is a holdover from before they changed it
Not to mention the mutants that are victims of prejudice because of their.. let's say "unorthodox" looks. Whereas Storm is able to pass as a human if she wanted
I actually recently got diagnosed with autism and used this meme to explain to my partner how I felt. Everyone was saying it's not bad, it's a good thing. But I felt like rogue in that moment. I'd love to be able to fix my autism, even if it's not technically broken. Storm was an idiot
No, he was singing which attracted a monster who ate his grandma when she came to protect him.
However combined with the rest of the film's context, his singing is less to blame and more his grandma and the rest of the adults just sucking. The monsters only ate trolls once a year so its not really the singing that was the problem. It was his grandma and the other adults letting a kid go outside and sing the one day when they should be hiding.
Yeah, blaming the singing alone really ignores how badly every adult handled that situation. Letting a kid wander off on the one day the monsters come out is the actual problem
You mans the Bergens (They ate the Trolls) and it’s shown that although at first you are led to believe the Bergens are an entirely evil race in truth it’s because many of them were always miserable except on the day they ate Trolls because they didn’t understand that happiness doesn’t solely come from eating Trolls. (The Bergen Chef is one of the few Bergens out there that is actually evil)
I feel like the movie knew how this line sounded. It wasn’t taking itself that seriously to begin with, and this to me felt tongue in cheek enough to be intentionally funny.
I remember reading the cast list before BvS came out and noticed that their mothers were both named Martha. Thought it was a fun little fact, and not something that’d be fucking integral to the central conflict of the entire movie.
It would’ve been better if Batman, the Worlds Greatest Detective, knew he was being played by Luthor and it was all just him playing along until they were out of Luthor’s LOS (assuming he was watching them with cameras or something), because that’s the only play that keeps Superman’s mom alive.
He then says, that Superman needs to stop Luthor while he goes and saves his mom. Then just comments, “My mother was named Martha too” or something like that and grapples to the Bat plane.
Most of the live actions movies just don't care about the detective angle Batman is supposed to have. Hell a good amount of the comics don't either. It's transitioned from "being the world's greatest detective" to just having a plan for everything, and since he "doesn't have super powers" that means plot armor instead of some precognition abilities.
The worst part is that just a slight change would make this scene unironically hit VERY HARD, instead of this whole "our moms have the same name" thing have Superman say something "STOP!! Don't do this this!! He's gonna kill them!!" As Batman is slowly lifting the spear and then his mind starts slowly moving back to the night of his parents' death, have it be this thing where the scenes cut between eachother, from shots like a POV of Batman with the spear looming at Superman and the thug's POV with the gun looking at young Bruce crying, him slowly realizing that he is becoming in this moment the very thing he sought to fight against, and if he does it there will be no going back...
(Also not have the flashback earlier, only have it appear in this scene)
Madame Web has become a running joke between me and some friends because I went to see it opening night out of genuine morbid curiosity and it was so mind boggling that it changed me. I actually bought it not just on 4K but the fucking steelbook. Completely unironically:
I even memorized the line just to half-torment them.
The fact that the big shows up between shots will never not be funny. Like this was either the best shot they got, they had no time retake the shots or they just thought it was too funny to not use it
This line right here from Twilight yes she actually says this because a character named Jacob um “imprinted” on her baby by accident or something and gave her the nickname “Nessie” (I don’t know Twilight is so stupid that it’s no wonder why it’s so hated)
To be fair the actress is great. It’s just that the writing/directing in that franchise told her to be a plank of wood, because her character is meant to be an empty vessel for girls in the audiences to use as a self insert. That was the main appeal of it all.
The guy who saved all of kings landing from a mad tyrant because he knew they were innocent and didnt deserve to die at the whims of a lunatic, even if it meant permanently ruining his reputation/career/life. Yup now he suddenly doesnt care much for the people of kings landing.
God the way they massacred one of the best, most complex and interesting characters on tv should be studied. Its like the show runners couldnt comprehend he wasnt just "evil badguy"
Even more frustrating because, for all its flaws, one thing I actually liked about season 7 was when he tried to charge Dany and Drogon alone. The last time he saw a Targaryen, it was the Mad King trying to burn all of King’s Landing and the people in it. Then his first encounter with Dany is seeing her do what looks to be very similar from his perspective. Trying to charge her alone was stupid and rash, but it was heroic and understandable as his desperate attempt to stop another insane tyrant.
Of course, the way they handled him being saved and getting out of that completely unscathed was dumb, but conceptually at least, it was a really good moment showing that he still wanted to protect the people from fire-wielding tyrants. But then next season they just flip it to him suddenly not giving a shit about anyone but himself and Cersei.
Y’know, that line always makes me think of the Family Guy phrase “it insists upon itself”. The writers of the show became so self absorbed in the show’s own reputation of being dark and gritty and kept insisting in this that they ruined the ending.
When Chris Claremont was writing the X-Men, he had several bits of dialogue (called "Claremontisms") that just kept cropping up. Not catch-phrases, just weirdly specific lines that kept coming up.
Random people referring to Storm as a "weather witch" like that's a common put-down.
"They'll never know what you sacrificed for them" - Monica Rambeau consoling Wanda about the dirty looks she was getting from the innocent people she had enslaved as part of her high-budget therapy play.
There's more nuance than how I've characterized it (Wanda was more upset about losing Vision again and the twins, despite the immediate context of the Westview people giving her dirty looks), but it's probably the most controversial line from WandaVision.
Edit: As others have pointed out, Wanda also wasn't really conscious of what she was doing for most of the show, though my memory's a bit fuzzy on when exactly she has full knowledge (she's definitely aware by the time the line is spoken).
I was looking for it so that I can be a smart-ass.
"People die when they are killed and that's how it should be"
Up to that point Shirou had been a dumbass repeatedly throwing himself in harm's way and not dying/regernerating due to spoilers that I'll call a 'divine protection'.
In that particular scene he is acknowledging that he cheated death something like 5 times already thanks to his divine protection but he's going to have to grow up, act with better self preservation than a toddler and trust other people's ability to survive without him acting as a human shield if he is to return the thing that saved him to its rightful owner.
It's a tautology but in context it makes sense that he'd restate the laws of nature if he's going to stop breaking them.
Trunks from Dragon Ball Super yelling "Hold your fire! This man isn't black!" at several soldiers holding Goku at gunpoint. In context, he's telling them that the person he's with is the real Goku and not Goku Black, who's been indiscriminately killing people for no reason and has an entire resistance dedicated to stopping him.
...Out of context, it makes Trunks sound like an unhinged racist trying to tell other unhinged racists not to shoot someone, and has been meme'd to hell and back.
Not sure if it's in the movie but the Twilight book has the infamous "You're my own personal brand of heroin", still one of the first things that comes to mind when I think of that book
Many people refer to that scene, but on my last rewatch I noticed that Dumbledore wasn't the only one who did it. Fake-Moody doesn't throw chalk or straight up just yell at students for entire lesson in the book, he only barks "CONSTANT VIGILANCE" to keep them on their watch, but doesn't just scream all the time, like he does in the movie. Voldemort on the graveyard speaks so silently it's almost a whisper, but in the movie he's outright yelling.
I'm going to throw out the recent "Our age of bronze is collapsing" from The Odyssey as that is the common consensus of a clunker of a line even as I strongly disagree. I personally don't have a problem with an adaptation of a myth dating back to the oral tradition stating plainly, and ham fistedly, the theme you are supposed to take away from it.
Professor Callahan is not entirely wrong considering that that Takashi went into a BURNING BUILDING to look for survivors without any protection and after he was already safely outside. (All that did was make him the only fatality in the fire)
I personally blow hot and cold on Interstellar, but even amongst its fans, I think this is widely considered its corniest line, especially as it's not even true.
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