History Main / DancingBear

* The usual selling point when viewers suggest the animated superhero show ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible}}'' to newcomers is to wait for the FirstEpisodeTwist, which [[EstablishingSeriesMoment pretty much sets up what the show is ACTUALLY going to be like]]; a ComingOfAge story with [[{{Gorn}} extremely gory]], emotion-wrecking fight scenes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'' got a pretty mixed reception, but many people showed interest in it just because of its release strategy: to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, it was one of the first animated features to be released for streaming services on the same day as its theatrical release, possibly setting a precedent for other movies struggling to find an audience with theaters closed around the world.

* ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'' is generally regarded as, at best, an average and unimaginative film. But if nothing else, many folks who've seen it or at least know of it appreciate the fact that it was animated entirely by one man.

* Both Creator/{{Disney}} and Pixar apparently considered the original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' an example of this. Promotion centered on the fact that it was the first entirely CGI feature-length film. Some of the original trailers featured only the darkest sequences and an "adult" score different from the movie's, and practically forgot to tell the viewer that it was a family film about two toys wanting to return to their owner.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' is mostly remembered for its ''[[DevelopmentHell extremely]]'' [[DevelopmentHell long]] and TroubledProduction.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' was promoted for being the first ever R-rated CGI feature film. Its quality is debatable, some thinking that it's a funny and thought-provoking parody of Creator/{{Pixar}} films, others arguing that it's trying too hard to be edgy.
* The "unholy trinity," ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown,'' ''Literature/ThePlagueDogs,'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}.'' Three animated films known almost solely for masquerading as kid's films[[note]]''Watership Down'' actually ''is'' supposedly [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids a kid's film]][[/note]] before surprising you with copious amounts of death, blood and gore, disturbing imagery, and in the latter, a graphic sex scene with ''cats.''
* While ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' is considered a good movie in its own right, it is mainly known for being Disney's last hand-drawn film before the company gutted its 2D department [[ShiftedToCGI in favor of CGI films]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'' got a pretty mixed reception, but many people showed interest in it just because of its release strategy: to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, it was one of the first animated features to be released for streaming services on the same day as its theatrical release, possibly setting a precedent for other movies struggling to find an audience with theaters closed around the world.
* ''WesternAnimation/SirBilli'' is notable for two things: first, it is the first CGI animated film to be made entirely in Scotland, and second, Creator/SeanConnery came out of retirement to voice the main character (reportedly, both because it was Scottish film and SoMyKidsCanWatch), which ended up being his final acting role. Other than that, it's considered pretty bad.
* ''WesternAnimation/SitaSingsTheBlues'', like ''Sealed With a Kiss'', is notable among animation fans for being animated entirely by one woman - and even more impressively, uses different animation styles.

* ''WesternAnimation/KillerBeanForever'', an AllCGICartoon action movie starring talking coffee beans, animated solely by one person. Said person also happens to be [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506703/ a professional visual effects artist]], and despite the laughable premise, the film has some genuinely good fight choreography.

* ''WesternAnimation/LovingVincent'' is mostly known for the fact that its every frame is an oil painting, painted by a total of 125 painters.

* Creator/CharlieKaufman's ''WesternAnimation/{{Anomalisa}}'' is a melancholy, downbeat drama for adults, acted out entirely by stop-motion puppets. And it's best known for...being a melancholy, downbeat drama for adults, acted out entirely by stop-motion puppets.
* The 1987 anime film ''Anime/TheFlyingLunaClipper'' is known for being animated entirely on 8-bit computers and having an animation style resembling an old video game cutscene.

* ''WebAnimation/FantasyKaleidoscope'' is largely known for ''looking'' like a professional big-budget adaptation of the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series, despite being entirely fanmade. The animation in its own right is rather good, but it's the fact that it's ''not'' an official installment of the series that tends to draw people to it.

* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' features an actual dancing bear at the climax, who meets an unfortunately violent end at the hands of some drunk gunslingers. However, the bear also stands a metaphor used by [[AmbiguouslyHuman Judge]] [[BigBad Holden]], who sees it as exemplifying the way that average people go through the motions of life as opposed to [[TheUnfettered truly "liberated"]] individuals such as himself. [[VillainProtagonist The Kid/Man]] [[ShutUpHannibal calls Holden on this]], however, pointing out that Holden is [[NotSoDifferentRemark is in his own way]] also a Dancing Bear.

* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' features an actual dancing bear at the climax, who meets an unfortunately violent end at the hands of some drunk gunslingers. However, the bear also stands a metaphor used by [[AmbiguouslyHuman Judge]] [[BigBad Holden]], who sees it as exemplifying the way that average people go through the motions of life as opposed to [[TheUnfettered truly "liberated"]] individuals such as himself. [[VillainProtagonist The Kid/Man]] [[ShutUpHannibal calls Holden on this]], however, pointing out that Holden is NotSoDifferent and is in his own way also a Dancing Bear.

* [[DancingBear/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]

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* A lot of promotion for ''Literature/HowOpalMehtaGotKissedGotWildAndGotALife'' centered around it having been written by a 19 year-old Harvard student and starring an Indian-American protagonist (which was rare - if not unheard of - in YA literature at the time). Several early reviews pointed out that, [[SoOkayItsAverage while not terribly-written]], there wasn't much else to make it stand out plot-wise. It then quickly [[OvershadowedByControversy became better known for]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} stealing content]] from other books; it even turned out that some parts were plagiarized from ''Born Confused'', a 2003 novel about an Indian-American girl torn between these two cultures that was also marketed as one of the first YA American novels with a South Asian protagonist.

* It really didn't matter how good ''Literature/GoSetAWatchman'' actually was; it was guaranteed to be a smash success purely out of the fact that it was only Harper Lee's second published book a full ''[[SequelGap fifty-five years]]'' after she wowed the literary world with ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''. You're rather more likely to find someone who knows that part, but not that ''Watchman'' was actually written first, and then Lee's agent suggested she do a book with the characters as kids instead.
** [[OvershadowedByControversy Controversy also played a part]]: some have claimed that the quite-elderly Lee, who had chosen not to publish the book for decades, was not of sound mind and was being taken advantage of. The book also {{Ret Con}}s the much-beloved Atticus Finch into a racist, which left a bad taste in many fans' mouths.

* ''Sexy Times with Wangxian'', not so much for its 1 million or so words of written smut, but for its sheer amount of tags before it was removed from Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn ([[https://www.vox.com/culture/22299017/sexy-times-with-wangxian-ao3-archive-of-our-own-tagging-censorship-abuse it reportedly had over 1,700 tags]]). The tags took up so much space on people's screens that they made the work an accessibility hazard, and eventually led to [=Ao3=] implementing a 70-tag limit for newer works.

* The 1987 anime film ''Anime/TheFlyingLunaClipper'' known for being animated entirely on 8-bit computers and having an animation style resembling an old video game cutscene.

* ''WebAnimation/FantasyKaleidoscope'' is largely known for ''looking'' like a professional big-budget adaptation of the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series, despite being entirely fanmade. The animation in its own right is rather good, but it's the fact that it's ''not'' an official installment of the series that tends to draw people to it.

* ''Literature/MollFlanders'' is best known for the extremely LongTitle, with the full title being: ''The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums.''

* The Bloody Board was a Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer forum infamous for one thing: its 39,000 posts were posted by a single person, who happened to be the forum's owner themself. It stayed under the radar for 6 years [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18792_the-7-most-unintentionally-creepy-places-internet.html before its very existence was unearthed by]] Website/{{Cracked}}[[note]]And yes, we admit that the forum's kinda creepy.[[/note]]. This prompted [[Website/FourChan /b/]], ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast eBaum's World]]'' [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast and Encyclopedia Dramatica]] to [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/6/6b/Bloody_Board_newfag.png have some "fun"]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/b/b5/Bloody_Board_rules_1_%26_2.png on the]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/5/50/Bloody_Board_b-tards.png forum]], which ultimately led to the forum's closure.

* The Bloody Board was a Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer forum infamous for one thing: its 39,000 posts were posted by a single person, who happened to be the forum's owner themself. It stayed under the radar for 6 years [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18792_the-7-most-unintentionally-creepy-places-internet.html before its very existence was unearthed by]] Website/{{Cracked}}. This prompted [[Website/FourChan /b/]], ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast eBaum's World]]'' [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast and Encyclopedia Dramatica]] to [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/6/6b/Bloody_Board_newfag.png have some "fun"]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/b/b5/Bloody_Board_rules_1_%26_2.png on the]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/5/50/Bloody_Board_b-tards.png forum]], which ultimately led to the forum's closure.

* The Bloody Board was a Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer forum infamous for one thing: its 39,000 posts were posted by a single person, who happened to be the forum's owner themself. It stayed under the radar for 6 years [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18792_the-7-most-unintentionally-creepy-places-internet.html before its very existence was unearthed by]] Website/{{Cracked}}. This prompted [[Website/FourChan /b/]], [[Website/EBaumsWorld eBaum's World]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast and Encyclopedia Dramatica]] to [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/6/6b/Bloody_Board_newfag.png have some "fun"]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/b/b5/Bloody_Board_rules_1_%26_2.png on the]] [[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/images/5/50/Bloody_Board_b-tards.png forum]], which ultimately led to the forum's closure.

* ''WebVideo/UnusAnnus'' was a [=YouTube=] channel that uploaded weird videos each day, with the gimmick that after one year, the channel and all its content would be deleted. Didn't watch it while it was active? Sorry, but you'll never get to see those videos (unless you disobey the creators' wishes and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes find some archive copies]]).

* The ''[[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Pokemon]]'' episode Recap/PokemonS1E38ElectricSoldierPorygon would have been regarded as a standard filler episode had a scene with a flashing strobe effect not resulted in EpilepticFlashingLights causing nearly 700 seizures in Japan... then even more seizures when [[IfItBleedsItLeads Japanese news media reported on the incident using clips from the episode]]. This led to the episode being banned, and Porygon (and its evolutions) effectively being exiled from the anime outside of cameos.

* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh'' is an entertainmentingly nonsensical fanfiction of Harry Potter, written entirely by AI. Language model technology would later improve to the point of being able to write much more comprehensible and logically connected stories-- which were also [[SoOkayItsAverage much less entertaining]] than the early versions.

* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortaitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh'' is a largely nonsensical (if funny) fanfiction of Harry Potter, written entirely by AI. Language model technology would later improve to the point of being able to write much more comprehensible and logically connected stories-- which were also [[SoOkayItsAverage much less entertaining]] than the early versions.

* The ''[[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Pokemon]]'' episode Recap/PokemonS1E38ElectricSoldierPorygon would have been regarded as a standard filler episode had a scene with a flashing strobe effect not resulted in EpilepticFlashingLights causing nearly 700 seizures in Japan... then even more seizures when [[IfItBleedsItLeads Japanese news media reported on the incident]]. This led to the episode being banned, and Porygon (and its evolutions) effectively being exiled from the anime outside of cameos.

* The ''[[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Pokemon]] episode Recap/PokemonS1E38ElectricSoldierPorygon would have been regarded as a standard filler episode had a scene with a flashing strobe effect not resulted in EpilepticFlashingLights causing nearly 700 seizures in Japan... then even more seizures when [[IfItBleedsItLeads Japanese news media reported on the incident]]. This led to the episode being banned, and Porygon (and its evolutions) effectively being exiled from the anime outside of cameos.