In a World… where a lot of characters don't get used to their full potential...
- The Honest Trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine 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 Iron Man 3 is pretty positive about the MCU's version of the Mandarin, describing it as a good, timely updated version of the character. That is, until 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 Spectre considers the villains to be this; Oberhauser/Blofeld for being wasted on a reveal viewers either saw coming a mile away or were too young to get, and Dave Bautista and Andrew Scott's characters for not being used enough.
- The Honest Trailer for Wreck-It Ralph is surprised that the bartender from Tapper and Q*bert get significant screentime even though the makers obviously bought the rights to Sonic the Hedgehog, but only gave him a few brief appearances.
- In the Honest Trailer for The Force Awakens, both narrators agree that Gwendoline Christie was pretty wasted as Captain Phasma since she only had 91 seconds of screentime.
- In the Honest Trailer for the Mortal Kombat: The Movie and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the narrator is disappointed that Johnny Cage is suddenly killed off in the second movie because he was the only one with any charisma.
- The non-CinemaSins Honest Trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 notes how one of the ways it misprioritized its screentime was to include Black Cat and Alistair Smythe, a.k.a. Ultimate Spider-Slayer, and relegate them to cameos while devoting too much time to Aunt May's job as a nurse.
- The Honest Trailer for The Mummy (2017) credits Colonel Gideon Foster as "A Waste of a Perfectly Good Courtney B. Vance''.
- The Honest Trailer for Justice League considers Batman to be this, especially considering the fact he was one of the highlights in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
- 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 Justice League, 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 Avengers: Infinity War suggests that Thanos was underused in the entries in the franchise post-Avengers: Age of Ultron, where he was seen deciding to get the Infinity Stones himself in The Stinger, but then wasn't ever seen in person until Infinity War despite the fact that two of the previous movies were set in space.
- The Honest Trailer for Solo starts describing Val (played by Thandiwe Newton) as one of the coolest new Star Wars characters in years - and then stops when she is killed off early in the movie.
- In the Honest Trailer for Captain Marvel (2019), the narrator doesn't like that 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 Secret Invasion.note
- A few instances in the Honest Trailer for Avengers: Endgame:
- The narrator laments that Black Widow finally getting a primary storyline in one of the MCU movies just amounts to her 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 Marvel Cinematic Universe'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 the Loki show?
- In the credits for Spider-Man: Far From Home, the Narrator challenges the writers to finally let Ned Leeds become the Hobgoblin.
- In the Honest Trailer for The Rise of Skywalker, the Narrator complains that the much-hyped Knights of Ren do nothing of importance in the entire movie and are easily defeated by Kylo.
- The Honest Trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) 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:
- The Honest Trailer for Mulan (2020) laments that Xian Liang, a.k.a. the "awesome bird lady", with her nuanced perspective on power and womanhood, gets killed off sacrificing herself to save Mulan.
- The Honest Trailer for Black Widow (2021) suggests that the title character has spent most of her time in the many movies of 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 helped Tony get his mojo back, helped Bruce reconnect with his humanity, helped Cap find his true purpose, and helped Hawkeye uhhh... keep being Hawkeye. But now, Natasha finally gets to tell her own story... about the time she helped her own replacement join the MCU.
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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 G.I. Joe: Retaliation and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra complains that one of the movies had Brendan Fraser in a role, but only used him in a single scene.
- The Honest Trailer for Iron Fist (2017) 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 Halloween Kills 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 the first movie.
- The Honest Trailer for Morbius (2022) is disappointed that Jared Harris' character is killed off because his good acting brought some dignity to the movie.
- The Honest Trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder laments on how wasted the villain, Gorr the God Butcher, was:Narrator: Thrill at whatever different, more interesting movie Christian Bale 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 and "villains who were right, but Marvel heroes only fight to protect the status quo".note
- The Honest Trailer for Black Adam expresses bafflement that nobody in the movie ever mentions Shazam even though a movie about him exists, he and Black Adam are closely connected and the wizard from that movie makes a cameo.
- More like "wasted a perfectly good actress", the Honest Trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever laments that the movie wastes Michaela Coel in a role with very little screen time, much like how The Last Jedi cast her as an unnamed rebel officer.
- The Honest Trailer for Velma argues that it has a talented, diverse cast, but it's wasted on the show's terrible material.
- The Honest Trailer for Fast X 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".
- The Honest Trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse expresses some disappointment that a movie featuring so many other alternate versions of Spider-Man doesn't include the bizarro Japanese version.
- The Honest Trailer for Blue Beetle (2023) jokes that the movie could have been so much more interesting had they made George Lopez's Cesar Reyes the Blue Beetle.
- The Honest Trailer for Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire laments that Anthony Hopkins' robot character JC almost disappears from the movie after the first act when he was the most interesting character in the story.
