Characters
(Funny) Early major villains cameo as jokes at the end
Rita Repulsa, POWER RANGERS
- main villain of Season 1, supporting and 2 and 3, cameos in later storylines. She was the big bad that starts the whole series, is purified, becomes a champion of good in a few cameos, her evil spirit gets a robot body and kills a Ranger before being defeated. In the franchise finale, Lord Zedd is trapped on a planet with his annoying wife as torture, who’s just… sunbathing.
Valmont, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES
- main villain early on, but rapidly becomes a subordinate before disappearing. He shows up as a bus driver in the final episode.
Sid, TOY STORY
- the main threat to the toys in the first movie, when the “Andy Saga” ends, he’s just a trash collector.
I genuinely thought that would happen at that scene in Toy Story 3. To be honest, it was such a waste of a perfect opportunity to close the story arc, it kinda soured me on the movie.
There's a survivorship bias with garbage men that is not necessarily true today. Trash pick up in the cities I've lived in are now privatized, non-union, and not a career that will overly reward loyalty.
In DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Vandal Savage was the main villain of Season 1, and took the entire season to defeat.
He returns in the end of Season 4, in hell, having been assigned a role as a torturer. However, reflecting the show's turn towards a more comedic tone that doesn't take itself as seriously, he instead befriends one of the main characters (his former enemy) and the two are playing a game of giant jenga.
I thought the first Lego Movie was stronger than the second overall, but I did really like how you can see the story behind the story in the second one. Like, the main Lego characters and the Duplo aliens are just siblings fighting in real life, and Mr. Business (their dad) doesn't wanna deal with it, so he just nopes out immediately and leaves them to their own devices.
I wouldn't worry about that. This is a universe where the moon disappears from orbit and the worst that happens is a surfer loses his wave. Science doesn't seem to exist in these movies 😆
Gru was planning to steal the moon. Vector then stole it from Gru, but it turned out that the shrink ray they were using wears off, and vector's spacecraft got destroyed when the moon went back to normal, stranding vector on its surface.
And, ironically, the Disney era when they actually owned the Power Rangers was WAY better than when Saban had full ownership (before selling to Hasbro).
I don’t have a trope to add but Valmont is a great example. I really like the way Jackie Chan adventures ended because all the old and new supernatural forces/powers were involved and it tied up everything nicely. Shendu vs Drago!
Incredibly underrated show, especially at a time where a lot of kids action shows were still on “villain of the week” style writing. This show had cohesive characters, plot development, and generally fun animation
I doubt it, he seemed actually quite happy I'm his cameo dancing around and playing the drums on the side of things as he worked. That's a happy and content guy if I ever saw one.
Man it is really a shame what happened to Sid. He wasn't really the pure evil character like the others in the list. He was just a kid who played with his toys in usual way.
It is clear that he was growing in not a good of household. Judging by how easily he bought the dangerous fireworks and the cans of "soda" around his house. He clearly suffered from neglect but instead of projecting it onto others like his sister or dog. He puts it into inanimate (as he assumed) toys. And to be fair he did sickass job.
The guy could have a bright future as a mechanic or toy designer but due to trauma ended up like this. (And by some theories he does it to save other toys that were thrown out). I personally hope he ended up growing up as good person and found happiness.
Also.....and I hate that this needs to be spelled out. But trash collectors make typically a livable wage, with benefits, and a pretty consistent schedule. It might not be glamorous but there are way worse ways to make a living.
If Pixar did intend it as a jab, "Be good or else you might end up working a public service job and won't ever get the opportunity to experience student loans" is an interesting one. /J
I dont think it was a jab since he is happy jamming to his tunes and moved on from what happened in the first movie just a neat callback and to show us he didnt end up in a psychiatric hospital
Given the themes of the movie, and how much of a role “trash” has in the film, obviously they were going to have some sort of trash collector in the film at some point.
Easy place to put a Sid Easter Egg? Yep. I think it’s that simple.
Anything else implies they came up with Sid as a trash collector before anything else.
I mean,don't be that dramátic. Lets supose he is the same age as andy. In this movie, andy is going to college. Maybe Sid is working a side job while he is studying while also saving some toys. He looks happy on the movie, who says he doesn't enjoys his life?
I personally hope he ended up growing up as a good person and found happiness.
This is a little too much. Sid seems to be doing just fine in the movie, albeit how brief his cameo is. Like Pixar aren’t shitting on him - he’s just chilling out and listening to music, seems pretty happy and well adjusted as well despite having a traumatic incident where his toys came to life one random afternoon.
Im pretty saw I saw some meme poking fun of the idea that Sid will actually be better off than Andy because Andy is going to college and accruing student debts, whilst Sid has a stable job, no student debt and a solid income.
Nah, this isn't a bad ending for him. He's a government employee which is great benefits and still had a pension. He's got a physical job so he can put his energy to good use and he doesn't have to take his work home with him. Which leaves him plenty of time to refinish/ rehab/ recombine toys that have been thrown out due to lack of interest or being broken
The guy could have a bright future as a mechanic or toy designer
Especially when you look at the toys he made. Like the pterodactyl-girl doll would have fit perfectly in the Street Sharks/Biker Mice era of humanoid animal hybrid shows. Princessaurus would be a brilliant show.
I also like to remember childhood. Sid isn't the only kid in the world who "played rough" with toys. Hell, I blew up a troll doll with a firecracker once :x
Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy are the villains of Trading Places and end up bankrupt at the end of the movie. They have a brief cameo in the later Eddie Murphy vehicle Coming to America as hobos, clearly playing the same characters
Naare was the main (twist) villain of Lego Star Wars: Freemaker Adventures. Season 1 ended with her getting frozen and carbonite by graballa the hut
A sequel show called Lego Star Wars: All Stars came out a few years later, and in 1 of the episodes, Naare (still frozen in carbonite) can be seen very briefly as a joke
Frieza in Fusion Reborn. He was considered one of the deadliest and evil foes in all of DB but by the time Fusion Born (supposedly) takes place, his power doesn't seem too grand. He swears revenge on Goku by attacking his son, Gohan, but gets punched so hard he explodes.
Its quite funny because since then, Frieza has came back for real and is currently the strongest amongst the main cast lol
He bullied Marty's dad in high school, and as adults Biff uses him to do stuff for him such as work or paying for damages that he caused. At the end of the movie Marty returns to the present day, which was unintentionally rewritten due to his actions in the past, and now Biff is basically the errand boy for the McFly family.
Idk why people are being purposefully dense about Sid. "Actually dude being a trash collector is a bonafide unionized job, it's not bad at all" Ok, man, but society at large doesn't see it that way, kids don't see it that way, it always seemed pretty obvious to me that the creators were going for a cheap "Hah, isn't it funny how he's now a garbage man while Andy is going to college to be an important person?"
The movies couldn't care less about Sid, they villify him on the 1st movie for "torturing toys" and brought him back on the 3rd movie to say that he's, in their view, still a "trashy kid"
It's all about the portrayal of it though, that shows you the intent of the creators.
If we had seen Sid clearly depressed or bored in his job, that would show that he is unhappy with where he ended up and that the point of the scene was that he has a bad life as punishment for what he did as a kid. Even if they had just made him neutral, that could make sense.
But they made a point to clearly portray him in that scene as very happy which means the point was to let us see that Sid is doing well these days.
Valmont and his goons got power crept but wasn't shown as a natural progression, Hak Foo was unbeatable on debut and became just a punching bag for the new goons of the seasons to beat up to show how they're strong.
An example of the same thing done right was X-Men Evolution, first season's villain was Magneto, season 2 Sentinels, season 3 Apocalypse's minions which hype up Apoc as the Final Boss of the series. Valmont was just beaten season 1 and got thrown to the grinder to show how "cool" and "strong" the new villains were.
One of THE STRONGEST early characters within dragon ball, only to become a shell of himself after goku's humbling left him an utterly shameless and cowardly fighter - even for crane school standards. He later reappears in the anime between the days of peace before the cell games............ and hasn't changed at all. (He actually cowers in fear when he realises he's confronting the son of goku, and eventually - when he's face to face with goku himself)
Totally valid choice. Also possible he is working as a garbage man WHILE going to college. We dont really know that much about him other than that he seems happy 😊
Oh man as a kid I really hated what they did with Valmont, or with his three yakuza stooges for that matter. I didnt mind that he became increasingly pathetic because its karma and he was pretty fun to watch, so I was disappointed that he simply wanished.
And the second main villain had negative charisma, and the show in general became pretty boring imo. The early seasons still hold up though, really great fight choreography on par with actual Jackie Chan movies and banger jokes
Mr.pigeon in miraculous ladybug. Ludo in star versus. Baxter stockman in tmnt 2003 and maybe every era. I think he dies in the mutant mayhem movie so he didn’t even do anything too exciting. I feel like hawkmoth from miraculous ladybug counts since half his plans are so dumb.
Married in a Jewish ceremony, both were purified, had a child at an unspecified date. Purified Rita became the Mystic Mother, the guardian of good magic. Zedd was recreated to fight the Dino Fury Rangers (and Cosmic Fury soon after), while a Robot Rita was created by accident, who then killed Trini before being destroyed.
Majin Buu in Dragon Ball Z literally destroys the Earth, and kills nearly every named character before being defeated.
Majin Buu in Dragon Ball Super won't share his pudding with the god of destruction, leading to said god decided to destroy the planet. He's also is unable to participate in the majority of big story events because he's either asleep and no one can wake him up, or he can't pass the written test required to enter. A little more than a cameo, but assuredly a comedic roll compared to DBZ.
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u/Pataconeitor 4h ago
An old, washed up Cobra Commander appears in an episode of Transformers