History Main / Theyjustdidntcare

* The Atlanta Spirit Group wanted to sell the Atlanta Thrashers (now the second generation [[InNameOnly Winnipeg Jets]]) since ''day one'' of owning the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] franchise; however, legal in-fighting amongst the partners prevented the group from being able to sell the team until December 2010 at the earliest. The group was only interested in the NBA's Hawks and the operating rights to Philips Arena. The aforementioned legal battles as well as the group spending the ''bare minimum'' to operate the team caused the Thrashers to slip to the bottom of the league in average attendance and team valuation. Atlanta Spirit even considers the Thrashers an OldShame, [[{{Unperson}} erasing any and all reminders of the team]].
** The league also didn't seem to care about keeping the Thrashers in Atlanta, as they would have not collected a [[MoneyDearBoy $60 million relocation fee]] if they found a buyer willing to keep the team in Atlanta. This is particularly {{egregious}} considering the league made significant efforts in recent seasons to keep the Pittsburgh Penguins, Nashville Predators, and ''especially'' the Phoenix Coyotes in their respective markets after their own turbulent ownership experiences and threats of relocation.

* After the 1994 season, the fire sale of several star players along with several other front office factors spelled the end of the former Montreal Expos. For the last years of their existence in Montreal, fan support dwindled after the team could not secure English language TV and radio broadcast rights and negotiations to build a new baseball-specific stadium fell through. After Jeffrey Loria's mismanagement of the team, the Expos were sold to the other clubs of Major League Baseball, with the intention of disbanding the team along with the Minnesota Twins after the 2001 season; however, legal action by the Minnesota state government forced the Twins to play out their lease at the Metrodome, delaying their possible contraction or relocation until the end of the 2006 season. Since Major League Baseball couldn't disband the Expos ''and'' maintain a 162 game schedule with 29 teams, the Expos remained in Montreal until the end of 2004 season, after of which the club was relocated to Washington, DC and rebranded as the Nationals.

* After the 1994 season, the fire sale of several star players along with several other front office factors spelled the doom of the former Montreal Expos. For the last years of their existence in Montreal, fan support dwindled after the team could not secure English language TV and radio broadcast rights and negotiations to build a new baseball-specific stadium fell through. After Jeffrey Loria's mismanagement of the team, the Expos were sold to the other clubs of Major League Baseball, with the intention of disbanding the team along with the Minnesota Twins after the 2001 season; however, legal action by various parties delayed this until 2006 at the earliest. Ultimately, the Expos were moved to Washington, DC to become the Nationals in 2005.

* ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer'' for the NES. On one hand, it ''does'' have great graphics (for the NES era), music, and play control. But on the other hand, the difficulty is way, well, [[NintendoHard difficult]]: Most of the game is the title hero shooting up enemies like [[MadeOfIron rubber ducks]] and [[MadeOfAir ghosts]] ([[NighInvulnerable who take many, many hits to kill]]), and if Silver Surfer touches ''anything'', [[OneHitPointWonder he dies and weeps like a crybaby]]. It's obvious the developers had the talent and potential, [[WhatTheHellHero but they didn't give two bleeps about it]].
** None of that is direct evidence that the developers didn't care: NintendoHard is a trope for a reason, and the Silver Surfer was somewhat well known for weeping like a crybaby during the 80's. No, the real smoking gun is that after fighting the likes of [[TheEmperor Dorrek VII]], [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Firelord]], and freaking [[{{Satan}} Mephisto]], the final boss of the game is [[MadScientist Mr. Sinister]], an ''X-Men'' villain who's never met the Surfer in 30 years of comics history. Except the enemy sprite is some purple alien that looks nothing like Sinister, or Galactus, who would at least make ''some'' sense.

The TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' Episode 418 - ''AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' (sic) (as seen in the the Trope Image), where Joel and the Bots give [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFpe7sYgIU a point-by-point presentation]] to prove that the makers of the movie had little concern for the quality of the film. This includes forgetting to adjust the camera to properly shoot day for night, giant zippers running up the back of the costumes for the PeopleInRubberSuits, and after running out of monster suits and monster boots, using the excess actors stomping around in their monster masks, black wool sweaters, and sneakers. And the fact that it's [[TyopOnTheCover called Attack of The The Eye Creatures]].

**** [[IWasJustJoking Scully was joking when he said that]], and the idea that the series' touching moments as a whole "going downhill" is pretty relative, no matter how much [[UnpleasableFanbase it's been said]]. A Simpsons-style BrokenBase is [[BeCarefulWhatYouSay not something you want to mess with]].

-->'''Roger''': I can't tell… is this {{Ziggy}} or a comma?

** Even better, due to a glitch in the game programming, Nidoqueens are the only third-stage pokemon that can't breed (even genderless pokemon like Magnezone and Metagross can breed with Ditto. If you want a baby Nidoran, either leave the Nidoran male or its evolved forms Nidorino and Nidoking with Ditto to hatch a Nidoran male only, or leave a Nidoran female with any compatible male from the monster or field egg groups and the result will be either a Nidoran male or a Nidoran female. So far the Nidoran female line and Nidoran male line are the only pokemon whose gender differences are so extreme that they are classified as 2 separate species. They even have a move pool that varies slightly, similar to how Plusle and Minun have a few differences. The no eggs from Nidorina and Nidoqueen glitch may ALSO be a result of They Just Didn't Care for the games, or it could be The Artifact if the programmers didn't want to change the code for nostalgic reasons.)

** Even better, due to a glitch in the game programming, Nidoqueens are the only third-stage pokemon that can't breed (even genderless pokemon like Magnezone and Metagross can breed with Ditto. If you want a baby Nidoran, either leave the Nidoran male or its evolved forms Nidorino and Nidoking with Ditto, or leave a Nidoran female with any compatible male and the result will be either a Nidoran male or a Nidoran female. So far Nidoran female and Nidoran male are the only pokemon whose gender differences are so extreme that they are classified as 2 separate species. They even have a move pool that varies slightly, similar to how Plusle and Minun have a few differences. The no eggs from Nidorina and Nidoqueen glitch may ALSO be a result of They Just Didn't Care for the games, or it could be The Artifact if the programmers didn't want to change the code for nostalgic reasons.

** Even better, due to a glitch in the game programming, Nidoqueens are the only third-stage pokemon that can't breed (even genderless pokemon like Magnezone and Metagross can breed with Ditto. If you want a baby Nidoran, either leave the Nidoran male or its evolved forms Nidorino and Nidoking with Ditto, or leave a Nidoran female with any compatible male and the result will be either a Nidoran male or a Nidoran female. So far Nidoran female and Nidoran male are the only pokemon whose gender differences are so extreme that they are classified as 2 seperate species. They even have a move pool that varies slightly, similar to how Plusle and Minun have a few differences. The no eggs from Nidorina and Nidoqueen glitch may ALSO be a result of They Just Didn't Care for the games, or it could be The Artifact if the programmers didn't want to change the code for nostalgic reasons.

** ''SonicTheHedgehog Genesis'' was Sega's attempt to port over a Sega game to the GameBoyAdvance to [[MilestoneCelebration celebrate the hedgehog's 15th anniversary]]. The port retains all the levels exactly as they were... and that's it. The sound and music are completely butchered, the physics were altered to the point where controlling Sonic off ramps or springs can be a nightmare, and the game suffers constantly from massive slowdown for no reason (in fact, it can get so bad that short music clips like the drowning theme can actually finish ''before'' the action on the screen is finished, making it out of sync) on a system that is technically more powerful than the SegaGenesis. It's as if Sega wanted to cash in on the milestone and bug testing be damned. The saddest part? A romhacker fan later ported the game accurately and released it as a ROM on the internet.

* The US arcade version of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution X'' came with a truly awful new arcade cabinet that eventually ended up being recalled. The construction of the pressure panels and sensors within the dance stage was so bad that sensors would start sticking within hours, the HDTV display had a considerable amount of lag, the cabinet was covered with very gaudy strips of [=LEDs=], and the computing hardware for this entire setup was a Dell Optiplex PC. Japanese arcade operators were provided with much better quality new-style cabinets, and they also had the option of purchasing upgrade kits for existing arcade cabinets instead, [[BadExportForYou neither of which, of course, ever made it Stateside]].

* Blatantly obvious with the cover of the ''first'' issue of The Ravagers from the New 52 reboot. Why? Because two of the characters' names are ''switched on the cover''. That should tell you how little the editors cared about this series.

Despite all of that, this trope is generally a mindset, and not one [[TropesAreNotBad that is universally bad]]. If someone didn't care about one aspect of the production, the reasons may be that they were more worried about [[BellisariosMaxim something more important]]. Nearly every fan of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original]] ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' knows of the continuity flub of [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]] recognizing Chekhov when the Ensign didn't appear in the show until the following season. Obviously it isn't a horrendous mistake to begin with, and Nicolas Meyer admitted to not caring about that mistake. (A light dose of {{Fanon}} fixes it anyway.)

** And for the Western version of the Digimon movie, the producers just grabbed the three existing movies, crammed them all into a single film regardless of whether it made sense or not (it didn't), and replaced all of the music with SmashMouth songs.

* The LoudnessWar is based around trying to get all parts of music to the same volume, thus effectively exposing the brain to a solid tone. This is not only fatiguing, but can also lead to people trying to listen to brickwalled music and not understanding why they're not getting any enjoyment out of it. The reason is that the differences in volume and sections in a song are what makes music exciting for people. In other words, brickwalled music is literally noise.

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* ''Manga/DragonBall Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi'' reuses a lot of voice clips from ''Manga/DragonBall: Raging Blast'', which is fine and dandy in the Japanese version considering that each DBZ game tends to tell the same story over and over anyway, but in English half the characters had been recast for ''DragonBallZKai'' since then, leading to characters like Freeza and Gohan having their voice actors change constantly mid-game.

* The ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime is infamous for instances where the writers and dubbers clearly did not pay attention, such as a scene where a trainer orders his Pokemon to "Finish it off with False Swipe!" (a move that can never defeat, [[LastChanceHitPoint only reduce to 1 HP]].) However, the biggest one has to be from ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'', where [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction a father Rhyhorn and mother Nidoqueen]] are seen with their children of both species, Rhyhorns and Nidoqueens. ''Baby Nidoqueens''. Not baby Nidorans, ''Nidoqueens''. As in '''a third-stage Pokemon. A third-stage final form baby.'''

* The ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime is infamous for instances where the writers and dubbers clearly did not pay attention, such as a scene where a trainer yells orders his Pokemon to "Finish it off with False Swipe!" (a move that can never defeat, [[LastChanceHitPoint only reduce to 1 HP]].) However, the biggest one has to be from ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'', where [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction a father Rhyhorn and mother Nidoqueen]] are seen with their children of both species, Rhyhorns and Nidoqueens. ''Baby Nidoqueens''. Not baby Nidorans, ''Nidoqueens''. As in '''a third-stage Pokemon. A third-stage final form baby.'''

* You often have to wonder if Creator/StudioPierrot actually read ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' when they adapted it. The fillers show they've only read the first few chapters, considering Naruto [[TookALevelInDumbAss became]] TooDumbToLive and Sakura [[TookALevelInJerkAss turned into a sadistic bully]]. A pure example of {{Flanderization}} at its worst.
** You could argue it's this way with {{Filler}} in general, though its existence is usually justified as trying to avoid [[OvertookTheManga Overtaking The Manga]].
** In a recent filler arc for the War, Hayate Gekko had been Edo Tensei'd. [[spoiler:The main plot is that Yugao, his ActionGirlfriend, stopped being an ANBU after the Invasion of Sand and Sound. However... she was one of Tsunade's primary bodyguards during Invasion of Pain. And no, this isn't ever referenced,]] so yeah, whoever created that Arc just didn't care.

* "My city screams"? In the original WillEisner comics, TheSpirit's city doesn't "scream". It kind of chuckles, with a slow, sad smile. On a more serious note, [[Film/TheSpirit the movie]] gives Denny Wolverine-style [[HealingFactor healing abilities]] that kind of [[BadassAbnormal take away from the whole idea]] of the Spirit as a relatively down-to-earth (though with occasional flights of fancy) mystery/adventure series starring a likable everyman. Also, they changed the Octopus's gimmick from being a criminal mastermind who has never shown his true face to wearing a series of bizarre costumes, having eight of everything (even though he doesn't) and throwing bad egg puns who make Batman and Robin's Mr Freeze blush.
** What makes the film's end result more inexplicable is that the comics work of its director FrankMiller was heavily influenced by Eisner (most obvious in ''{{Daredevil}}''), and the two were good friends. ([[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eisner-Miller-Will/dp/1569717559 A book was published]] transcribing some of their conversations). On that basis, we might have expected Miller to care ''a lot''...
** After seeing [[http://twitter.com/#!/FrankMillerInk his Twitter feed]], it seems he enjoyed the movie and considers it a good tribute to Eisner because ''he'' thinks it was good. So it's not so much he didn't care about the character, just that he didn't care about what anyone else would have thought.
** "My city screams" is actually a quote from Miller's own ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'' (where it is said by Superman) which sort of tips off that the movie has more to do with Miller than Eisner.
* After the obligatory crushed [[ButterflyOfDoom butterfly]], the film version of ''Literature/ASoundOfThunder'' drops all pretense of following Creator/RayBradbury's original plot and instead turns into an action-thriller about people fighting off monkey-lizard creatures. The video game adaptation of the movie goes a step further, giving the hero time-controlling weaponry that isn't mentioned in either the movie or the original story. ''Thunder'' was made in 2005, yet the SpecialEffectFailure makes it unbelievable that ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' could have been made 12 years earlier. Oh, and Baboon Lizards?
** That was because during filming, flooding in Prague severely set back production and caused the film to go over budget, and by the time post-production came along, there was pretty much ''no'' money left for special effects, so there was little to choice but to do them as cheaply as possible.

* ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'' is of course, your standard case of an unfaithful adaptation, but what's interesting is, the author of the novelization hated the script so much, he almost completely rewrote, drawing more from the comics, and making the tone more horrific. The producers were truly consistent with their just-didn't-care, as they were fine with the book.
* There's not really any need to throw in any examples, as [[Film/AloneInTheDark2005 every]] [[Film/FarCry video]] [[Film/{{Bloodrayne}} game]] [[Film/HouseOfTheDead adaptation]] that Uwe Boll has ever made have thrown out almost everything to do with the source material and replaced it with gratuitous sex, bad fight scenes, [[SpecialEffectFailure horrible special effects]], and a general lack of caring over whether or not the story follows the game's. His excuse for not caring about the source is just ''baffling''.
--> '''Uwe Boll''': You go for it, to please the game fans, but on the other hand if you have the hard core gamers, [[BoomerangBigot they live in their own world]]. And you cannot fulfill their ideas from a video game based movie, it's impossible. And to be honest, the real gamers are the typical download guys, right? They don't pay anything for movies, because they illegally download the movies. So why I should please these guys? I need the normal audience."
** Which is why Creator/BlizzardEntertainment's response to Boll's request for the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' film rights should be exceptionally pleasing to ... just about everyone:
--> "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you ... ''especially'' not to you."

* Despite Creator/MNightShyamalan's avowed fandom of the series ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', [[Film/TheLastAirbender his film]] adaptation of the series' first season might as well be called ''TheyJustDidntCare: The Movie''.
** So M Night really, really pisses fans off by referring to himself as a huge fan of the series... despite changing everything to be "more realistic", including the name pronunciations to sound pretentiously Asian and the bending choreography to make the actions look more like spell-casting than martial arts. After that, he does not get to be OneOfUs.

* ''Journey 2'' has about as much to do with ''TheMysteriousIsland'' and ''TreasureIsland'' as ''[[Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked]]'' does, in that they're on an island and there's a volcano. It's clear that the writers at least skimmed the books, but decided to disregard them completely.

* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. No, the author himself put his all into his series. In this case it was the ''editor'' who was lazy. Aside from making sure that nothing was mispelled there are tons of minor and major continuity mistakes, PurpleProse abound, and somehow didn't notice that a sentence containing the words "descended upwards" doesn't make any sense.

* ''FelixTheCatTheMovie'' has almost nothing to do with the original ''FelixTheCat'' shorts, either from the 1920s or the 1960s, aside from a couple of references. The plot [[RandomEventsPlot makes]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment absolutely]] [[AssPull no]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs sense]], the final battle with the Master Cylinder is one gigantic AntiClimax, characters appear and disappear at random, and there's a ton of [[AsYouKnow blatant exposition]]. Couple all that with a bunch of really bad jokes from Felix (who [[MotorMouth never shuts up]]), sound issues that make the music drown out what the characters are saying, and just plain lazy animation, and the whole movie comes across as a giant train wreck. The movie was apparently made to be the pilot for another Felix TV show, but it was so bad that the show never came to be. And if this movie is any indication of what was to come, animation fans can be thankful the series never saw the light of day. You can watch an Animated Anarchy review of the movie [[http://www.starfieldcreations.com/?p=653 here]].
** Not to mention the noticeable banking. Clearly they thought that they could get away with recycling pieces of animation since it's a kiddie movie. Not the case.