Ruined from the start?

Speaking of which, half of the reason to watch DuckTales was, of course, Donald Duck. Only one of the most iconic characters in animation history. So with such a pedigree, it's only natural that they completely got rid of him later in the show's run. Thankfully, they recognized their mistake by the time the reboot came out, and kept him in for the long run.

Edited by JankyKong on Feb 18th 2022 at 11:30:28 AM

Serina was ruined when they added the canaries into it.

Redwall could have been a great slice of life series set in a Catholic monastery populated by furries, but then they had to add that whole "Martin the Warrior" backstory and a series of unexplained wars with vermin.

And don't get me started on Watership Down — they just had to add the doomsday prophecy and the gore into the perfectly good book about two brother bunnies running around their warren and having fun.

Edited by DongwaChan on Mar 19th 2022 at 2:21:54 PM

The Muppet Show seemed promising when it focused on the Muppets staging their own theatrical productions. I don't get it why they had to add celebrity guests, Kermit should have been the central character!

Pokémon Legends: Arceus was going to be a cool game about a kid chatting with God in the middle of nothing, but then they're sent to the past and you have to catch all those thingies to see God again.

Half-life could have been a cool lab sim and showing the danger that sciences have to deal with, but nooooooo they just had to add in aliens when the Black Mesa Incident happens and now nothing is normal anymore because of the adding in of the aliens!

TaleSpin was ruined forever when they added the businesswoman into the perfectly good show about Baloo flying planes like crazy.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a fine show about a underpaid intern doing his duties, but then they had to add the mad scientists, the robots and the experiments with B-movies into the show for some ungodly reason.

Land of the Lustrous, what could be an interesting and relaxing take on living crystals is suddenly upended by these Moon People, why???? Their world is interesting enough as it is! And don’t get me started with the Prayer Arc!

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Breaking Bad could have been so good if it was about a high-school chemistry teacher coping with the fact that he has cancer, but it just had to devolve into yet another crime drama along with that dumbass meth addict really dragging the show down.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid was a promising book about the trials and tribulations of a dysfunctional family, but they had to insert that goofy friend of the main character and even give him his own spin-off book.

Ever After High would've been a fine series if it weren't for the fact that it was about the children of fairy tale characters!

Inuyasha was a fine slice-of-life manga about a Japanese school girl working her way through life and interacting with her family, but then they decided to add that dimensional portal well, the half-demon man with cat-like ears, and the strange fox thing for some reason. And don't get me started on the half-demon man's brother chasing him around because he didn't get the sword he wanted.

Edited by DongwaChan on Jul 13th 2022 at 12:20:03 PM

Berserk seemed promising when it was about a funny little elf. Then not only did that sword guy come in, the elf became the comic relief? Disgraceful.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 could have been great if it just focused on the whole Child Soldier angle and how it can be a powerful allegory to how awful war can be, especially for said child soldiers. And then they had to soil it by making these soldiers fuse together and make said fusions look like a second-rate Evangelion. What really killed it for me is when they just bumped off that Vandham guy. He's the best character in the game and they just killed him!? Yeah, no thanks. Go back to flute class, you brats.

Attack on Titan had an awesome premise where a young boy trains to slay a species of monstrous giants after his mother's death. And then he gets eaten by a giant. Ruined Forever.

Thomas & Friends was ruined forever because they added in a teeny tiny blue train.

Super Smash Bros. could have been a fun Nintendo crossover, but did they really need to add all the fighting?

Bratz could have been a fun slice-of-life cartoon about a group of friends running a school magazine, but they had to add the rival magazine run by some lady voiced in the first season by that one lady from Hot in Cleveland and two twins for some reason. And don't get me started on those direct-to-video movies where they become rock stars and encounter a genie!

Inspector Gadget could have been a fine show about a young prodigy detective and her dog solving crimes, but they had to add in her bumbling idiot cyborg detective uncle and make the show all about him!

Silverwing could have been a fine book about a bunch of bats challenging each other to stare into the sun, but they just had to add the whole Myth Arc and the evil vampire bats and take away attention from Shade's friends!

@Luna Thomas was only added in the second book of The Railway Series and became a Breakout Character, so there are some fans who legit believe that.

I liked TV Tropes when it was just about documenting media in the most objective way possible. But then they started listing these “trope” things, really just clichés under a different name, and it all went down the shitter.

TV Tropes lost pretty much all sense that it cared about covering all of media once it became clear that the site was exclusively obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While, of course, great for Buffy fans, it's horrible for the rest of us, who now have to put up with it.

Edited by JankyKong on Oct 17th 2022 at 9:39:58 AM

Sting was ruined when he decided to abandon his surfer gimmick in favor of cosplaying as that guy from The Crow.