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* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RebelMoon: Part One - A Child of Fire'' laments that Creator/AnthonyHopkins' robot character JC almost disappears from the movie after the first act when he was the most interesting character in the story.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/RebelMoon: Part One - A Child of Fire'' laments that Creator/AnthonyHopkins' robot character JC almost disappears from the movie after the first act when he was the most interesting character in the story.
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* The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' expresses some disappointment that a movie featuring so many other alternate versions of Franchise/SpiderMan doesn't include [[InNameOnly the bizarro]] [[Series/SpiderManJapan Japanese version]].
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* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Solo}}'' starts describing Val (played by Creator/ThandieNewton) as one of the coolest new ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters in years - and then stops when [[spoiler:she is killed off early in the movie]].
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* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Solo}}'' starts describing Val (played by Creator/ThandieNewton) Creator/ThandiweNewton) as one of the coolest new ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters in years - and then stops when [[spoiler:she is killed off early in the movie]].
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* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', the narrator doesn't like that [[spoiler:the Skrulls turn out to be good guys since it means their potential as good future villains is lost and that Marvel won't be able to adapt ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'']].[[note]] Ironically, in 2020, Disney made an [[https://tvline.com/2020/12/10/secret-invasion-samuel-l-jackson-marvel-disney-plus-series/ announcement]] that they were adapting Secret Invasion into a Creator/DisneyPlus [[Series/SecretInvasion2023 series]]. This series ''did'' feature villainous Skrulls, but its Honest Trailer didn't feel they handled the storyline well.[[/note]]
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* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', the narrator doesn't like that [[spoiler:the Skrulls turn out to be good guys since it means their potential as good future villains is lost and that Marvel won't be able to adapt ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'']].[[note]] Ironically, in 2020, Disney made an [[https://tvline.com/2020/12/10/secret-invasion-samuel-l-jackson-marvel-disney-plus-series/ announcement]] that they were adapting Secret Invasion into a Creator/DisneyPlus [[Series/SecretInvasion2023 series]]. This series ''did'' feature villainous Skrulls, but its Its own Honest Trailer didn't feel they handled the storyline well.was a complete pan.[[/note]]
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* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/FastX'' laments on how underused Han is after all the hype of him being brought back to life:
-->'''Narrator:''' Yep, we've gone from "justice for Han" to "''just this'' for Han".
-->'''Narrator:''' Yep, we've gone from "justice for Han" to "''just this'' for Han".
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* The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'' argues that it has a talented, diverse cast, but it's wasted on the show's terrible material.
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* More like "wasted a perfectly good actress", the Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' laments that the movie wastes Creator/MichaelaCoel in a role with very little screen time, much like how ''Film/TheLastJedi'' cast her as an unnamed rebel officer.
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* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' expresses bafflement that nobody in the movie ever mentions Shazam even though [[Film/Shazam2019 a movie about him exists]], he and Black Adam are closely connected and the wizard from that movie makes a cameo.
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* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' has this to say about Gambit.
--->'''Narrator''': Get excited when they introduce fan-favorite Gambit! Then get immediately disappointed when you realize he's only in the film for 5 minutes!
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/IronMan3'' is pretty positive about the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]'s version of the Mandarin, describing it as a good, timely updated version of the character. That is, until [[spoiler:that guy turns out to have been a goofy actor named Trevor Slattery and the real villain, Aldrich Killian, was less cool]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' considers the villains to be this; Oberhauser/[[spoiler:Blofeld]] for being wasted on a [[TheUntwist reveal viewers either saw coming a mile away]] or were too young to get, and [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]] and Creator/AndrewScott's characters for not being used enough.
* The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' is surprised that the bartender from ''VideoGame/{{Tapper}}'' and VideoGame/QBert get significant screentime even though the makers obviously bought the rights to Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, but only gave him a few brief appearances.
* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', both narrators agree that Creator/GwendolineChristie was pretty wasted as Captain Phasma since she only had 91 seconds of screentime.
* In the Honest Trailer for the ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', the narrator is disappointed that Johnny Cage is [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome suddenly killed off in the second movie]] because he was the only one with any charisma.
* The non-WebVideo/CinemaSins Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' notes how one of the ways it misprioritized its screentime was to include ComicBook/BlackCat and Alistair Smythe, a.k.a. Ultimate Spider-Slayer, and relegate them to [[TheCameo cameos]] while devoting too much time to Aunt May's job as a nurse.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheMummy2017'' credits Colonel Gideon Foster as "A Waste of a Perfectly Good Creator/CourtneyBVance''.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' considers Batman to be this, especially considering the fact he was one of the highlights in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
--->'''Narrator:''' He may not be that tough, or that smart, or that careful with his secret identity, but... ''[{{beat}}]'' Wait, there's no "but"? That's a shame. He was the best part of the last one.
* Also in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'', the nicest thing they have to say about Cyborg is that he's "there", referring to how little the character was used in the movie.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' suggests that Thanos was underused in the entries in [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse the franchise]] post-''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', where he was seen deciding to get the Infinity Stones himself in TheStinger, but then wasn't ever seen in person until ''Infinity War'' despite the fact that [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 two of the]] [[Film/ThorRagnarok previous movies]] were set in space.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Solo}}'' starts describing Val (played by Creator/ThandieNewton) as one of the coolest new ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters in years - and then stops when [[spoiler:she is killed off early in the movie]].
* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', the narrator doesn't like that [[spoiler:the Skrulls turn out to be good guys since it means their potential as good future villains is lost and that Marvel won't be able to adapt ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'']].[[note]] Ironically, in 2020, Disney made an [[https://tvline.com/2020/12/10/secret-invasion-samuel-l-jackson-marvel-disney-plus-series/ announcement]] that they were adapting Secret Invasion into a Creator/DisneyPlus [[Series/SecretInvasion2023 series]] [[/note]]
* A few instances in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'':
** The narrator laments that [[Characters/MCUBlackWidow Black Widow]] finally getting a primary storyline in one of the MCU movies just amounts to her [[spoiler:sacrificing herself to motivate the other Avengers, almost all of whom were male at the time in the story]].
** The death of the original Thanos early in the movie is described as this because of his status as one of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's most interesting villains and the fact that he's replaced by his less interesting older version.
** The narrator is also disappointed that the all-female Avenger teamup during the final battle is only used as a group in a single shot and there doesn't seem to be any plans to use the team in future projects:
--->'''Narrator:''' Okay, maybe they can all pose again in the background of [[Series/Loki2021 the Loki show]]?
* In the credits for ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', the Narrator challenges the writers to finally let Ned Leeds become the Hobgoblin.
* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', the Narrator complains that the much-hyped Knights of Ren [[spoiler:do nothing of importance in the entire movie and are easily defeated by Kylo]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' points out how wasteful it is to take a character whose defining trait is his superspeed and have him spend the movie on a 20-hour car road trip:
-->'''Sonic:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} Gotta go fast!]]\\
'''Narrator:''' Gotta go fffff... [[invoked]][[{{Padding}} for 90 minutes, or we don't have a movie]]!
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Mulan2020'' laments that Xian Liang, a.k.a. the "awesome bird lady", with her nuanced perspective on power and womanhood, [[spoiler:gets killed off sacrificing herself to save Mulan]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' suggests that [[Characters/MCUBlackWidow the title character]] has spent most of her time in the many movies of [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse the franchise]] just supporting other characters with a bigger role in the story, and that even her own movie didn't give her much of importance to do for her own character development:
-->'''Narrator:''' She [[Film/IronMan2 helped Tony get his mojo back]], [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron helped Bruce reconnect with his humanity]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar helped Cap find his true purpose]], and [[Film/AvengersEndgame helped Hawkeye uhhh... keep being Hawkeye]]. But now, Natasha finally gets to tell her own story... [[BaitAndSwitch about the time she helped her own replacement join the MCU]].\\
''[...]''\\
'''Narrator:''' ...then strap in for a movie that's good at being pretty much everything... ''except'' a Black Widow solo film.
* The Starring part of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' and ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' complains that one of the movies had Creator/BrendanFraser in a role, but only used him in a single scene.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Series/IronFist2017'' thinks that its portrayal of the Hand is more boring than you'd expect "a ruthless global ninja mystic mafia" to be.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HalloweenKills'' laments how neither Laurie, Allyson nor Karen really get to shine and take on Michael Myers, and the movie instead focuses on new, minor characters and older versions of minor characters from [[Film/Halloween1978 the first movie]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Morbius2022'' is disappointed that Creator/JaredHarris' character [[spoiler:is killed off]] because his good acting brought some dignity to the movie.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' laments on how wasted the villain, Gorr the God Butcher, was:
-->'''Narrator:''' Thrill at whatever different, more interesting movie Creator/ChristianBale is in, as he brings a menace to Gorr, the God Butcher, which comes from spending four hours in makeup while your co-stars waltz on the set in their [=PJs=]. He's on a quest to kill the gods themselves, and he'll kill exactly one of them on camera in self-defense, placing him in the Marvel Hall of Fame of "great actors wasted in disposable villain roles"[[note]]Creator/MadsMikkelsen as Kaecilius in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Creator/RebeccaHall as Dr. Maya Hansen in ''Film/IronMan3'', Creator/WaltonGoggins as Sonny Burch in Film/AntManAndTheWasp and Creator/JudeLaw as Yon-Rogg in ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019''[[/note]] and "villains who were right, but Marvel heroes only fight to protect the status quo".[[note]]Creator/CateBlanchett as Hela in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Creator/MichaelKeaton as Vulture in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Creator/MichaelBJordan as Killmonger in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' and Creator/HannahJohnKamen as Ghost in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''[[/note]]
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' expresses bafflement that nobody in the movie ever mentions Shazam even though [[Film/Shazam2019 a movie about him exists]], he and Black Adam are closely connected and the wizard from that movie makes a cameo.
--->'''Narrator''': Get excited when they introduce fan-favorite Gambit! Then get immediately disappointed when you realize he's only in the film for 5 minutes!
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/IronMan3'' is pretty positive about the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]'s version of the Mandarin, describing it as a good, timely updated version of the character. That is, until [[spoiler:that guy turns out to have been a goofy actor named Trevor Slattery and the real villain, Aldrich Killian, was less cool]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' considers the villains to be this; Oberhauser/[[spoiler:Blofeld]] for being wasted on a [[TheUntwist reveal viewers either saw coming a mile away]] or were too young to get, and [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]] and Creator/AndrewScott's characters for not being used enough.
* The Honest Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' is surprised that the bartender from ''VideoGame/{{Tapper}}'' and VideoGame/QBert get significant screentime even though the makers obviously bought the rights to Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, but only gave him a few brief appearances.
* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', both narrators agree that Creator/GwendolineChristie was pretty wasted as Captain Phasma since she only had 91 seconds of screentime.
* In the Honest Trailer for the ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', the narrator is disappointed that Johnny Cage is [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome suddenly killed off in the second movie]] because he was the only one with any charisma.
* The non-WebVideo/CinemaSins Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' notes how one of the ways it misprioritized its screentime was to include ComicBook/BlackCat and Alistair Smythe, a.k.a. Ultimate Spider-Slayer, and relegate them to [[TheCameo cameos]] while devoting too much time to Aunt May's job as a nurse.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheMummy2017'' credits Colonel Gideon Foster as "A Waste of a Perfectly Good Creator/CourtneyBVance''.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' considers Batman to be this, especially considering the fact he was one of the highlights in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
--->'''Narrator:''' He may not be that tough, or that smart, or that careful with his secret identity, but... ''[{{beat}}]'' Wait, there's no "but"? That's a shame. He was the best part of the last one.
* Also in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'', the nicest thing they have to say about Cyborg is that he's "there", referring to how little the character was used in the movie.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' suggests that Thanos was underused in the entries in [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse the franchise]] post-''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', where he was seen deciding to get the Infinity Stones himself in TheStinger, but then wasn't ever seen in person until ''Infinity War'' despite the fact that [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 two of the]] [[Film/ThorRagnarok previous movies]] were set in space.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Solo}}'' starts describing Val (played by Creator/ThandieNewton) as one of the coolest new ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters in years - and then stops when [[spoiler:she is killed off early in the movie]].
* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', the narrator doesn't like that [[spoiler:the Skrulls turn out to be good guys since it means their potential as good future villains is lost and that Marvel won't be able to adapt ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'']].[[note]] Ironically, in 2020, Disney made an [[https://tvline.com/2020/12/10/secret-invasion-samuel-l-jackson-marvel-disney-plus-series/ announcement]] that they were adapting Secret Invasion into a Creator/DisneyPlus [[Series/SecretInvasion2023 series]] [[/note]]
* A few instances in the Honest Trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'':
** The narrator laments that [[Characters/MCUBlackWidow Black Widow]] finally getting a primary storyline in one of the MCU movies just amounts to her [[spoiler:sacrificing herself to motivate the other Avengers, almost all of whom were male at the time in the story]].
** The death of the original Thanos early in the movie is described as this because of his status as one of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's most interesting villains and the fact that he's replaced by his less interesting older version.
** The narrator is also disappointed that the all-female Avenger teamup during the final battle is only used as a group in a single shot and there doesn't seem to be any plans to use the team in future projects:
--->'''Narrator:''' Okay, maybe they can all pose again in the background of [[Series/Loki2021 the Loki show]]?
* In the credits for ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', the Narrator challenges the writers to finally let Ned Leeds become the Hobgoblin.
* In the Honest Trailer for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', the Narrator complains that the much-hyped Knights of Ren [[spoiler:do nothing of importance in the entire movie and are easily defeated by Kylo]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' points out how wasteful it is to take a character whose defining trait is his superspeed and have him spend the movie on a 20-hour car road trip:
-->'''Sonic:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} Gotta go fast!]]\\
'''Narrator:''' Gotta go fffff... [[invoked]][[{{Padding}} for 90 minutes, or we don't have a movie]]!
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Mulan2020'' laments that Xian Liang, a.k.a. the "awesome bird lady", with her nuanced perspective on power and womanhood, [[spoiler:gets killed off sacrificing herself to save Mulan]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' suggests that [[Characters/MCUBlackWidow the title character]] has spent most of her time in the many movies of [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse the franchise]] just supporting other characters with a bigger role in the story, and that even her own movie didn't give her much of importance to do for her own character development:
-->'''Narrator:''' She [[Film/IronMan2 helped Tony get his mojo back]], [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron helped Bruce reconnect with his humanity]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar helped Cap find his true purpose]], and [[Film/AvengersEndgame helped Hawkeye uhhh... keep being Hawkeye]]. But now, Natasha finally gets to tell her own story... [[BaitAndSwitch about the time she helped her own replacement join the MCU]].\\
''[...]''\\
'''Narrator:''' ...then strap in for a movie that's good at being pretty much everything... ''except'' a Black Widow solo film.
* The Starring part of the Honest Trailer for ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' and ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' complains that one of the movies had Creator/BrendanFraser in a role, but only used him in a single scene.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Series/IronFist2017'' thinks that its portrayal of the Hand is more boring than you'd expect "a ruthless global ninja mystic mafia" to be.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/HalloweenKills'' laments how neither Laurie, Allyson nor Karen really get to shine and take on Michael Myers, and the movie instead focuses on new, minor characters and older versions of minor characters from [[Film/Halloween1978 the first movie]].
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/Morbius2022'' is disappointed that Creator/JaredHarris' character [[spoiler:is killed off]] because his good acting brought some dignity to the movie.
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' laments on how wasted the villain, Gorr the God Butcher, was:
-->'''Narrator:''' Thrill at whatever different, more interesting movie Creator/ChristianBale is in, as he brings a menace to Gorr, the God Butcher, which comes from spending four hours in makeup while your co-stars waltz on the set in their [=PJs=]. He's on a quest to kill the gods themselves, and he'll kill exactly one of them on camera in self-defense, placing him in the Marvel Hall of Fame of "great actors wasted in disposable villain roles"[[note]]Creator/MadsMikkelsen as Kaecilius in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Creator/RebeccaHall as Dr. Maya Hansen in ''Film/IronMan3'', Creator/WaltonGoggins as Sonny Burch in Film/AntManAndTheWasp and Creator/JudeLaw as Yon-Rogg in ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019''[[/note]] and "villains who were right, but Marvel heroes only fight to protect the status quo".[[note]]Creator/CateBlanchett as Hela in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Creator/MichaelKeaton as Vulture in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Creator/MichaelBJordan as Killmonger in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' and Creator/HannahJohnKamen as Ghost in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''[[/note]]
* The Honest Trailer for ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' expresses bafflement that nobody in the movie ever mentions Shazam even though [[Film/Shazam2019 a movie about him exists]], he and Black Adam are closely connected and the wizard from that movie makes a cameo.
