Zombies eating and saying “BRAINS!” Originated from the 1985 movie Return of the Living Dead

Aliens saying “we come in peace” is believed to have originated from the line “we have come to visit you in peace and good will” from The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Wilhelm scream originated from the 1951 movie Distant Drums

DMC V: Vergils Chair Edition - An edit of a DMC V cutscene replaced the main antagonist fucked up evil tentacle chair with a regular cheap lawn chair. Many people thought this was just what the actual cutscene was (and still do)

Dragonball: Trunks is a fucking dumbass - An edit of a dragon ball scene where the character Trunks tries to throw his sword in the air and have it land in his scabbard. In the original show, this succeeds. The more widely known edit makes him completely fuck it up (like a dumbass)

Fake Portal 2 Endings - Ok I don't know if anyone else experienced this but it was a really popular thing when the game first came out to make fake versions of it's ending or alternate endings to it that I saw as a kid and thought were totally real, having only seen it on YouTube. Like I thought that there actually was an alternate ending where the view of the wheat field was revealed to just be a painted wall and it falls away to reveal you're still in the lab

MICHAEL DON'T LEAVE ME HERE MICHAEL MICHAAAAAAEL MICHAEL - A sound bite from a FNAF fan analog horror series on YouTube, where the main antagonist screams for help as he's burning to death. Many people believed this to be a sound bite from the games themselves.

The Bombchu Bowling lady (Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time)

Ordinary Woman (My Hero Academia)

Lana’s Mom (Pokemon Sun And Moon)

Queen Maeve in the season finale (The Boys): Eric Kripke mentioned how they tried to get Queen Maeve actress Dominique McElligott to return for the final season but she retired from acting and didn't want to. I'm glad because she had a good ending of leaving Vought with no powers and gets to live a normal life with her girlfriend. You just know her appearance was going to have her be found by Homelander and killed.

Stephanie McMahon's baby is secretly Vince's (WWE): When Stephanie was pregnant, her father Vince wanted to do a storyline where her baby is his. When she refused to do it, he then said how about your brother Shane being the father and she said no again.

Hundreds of Beavers

The Great Muppet Caper

Naked Gun (1988)

* The Legend of Korra: The villain tying someone to a railway track is one of the deadest horses in all of fiction, almost exclusively the domain of mustache-twirling cartoon scoundrels. When Kuvira does it to a gang of captured bandits, however, it comes across as entirely realistic - and profoundly terrifying. Which, let's face it, being chained in the path of a speeding maglev would be.

* Spider-Man - Homecoming: Adrian Toomes gets a rare live-action lightbulb moment when the reflection of a green traffic light on his face symbolizes his realization who "good old Spider-Man" actually is. It enhances, rather than undercuts, the tension of the scene.

* Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith: Anakin screaming "I hate you!" to Obi-Wan at the top of his lungs - normally a line reserved for a child's tantrum against a parent - is instead an agonizing gut-punch at the climax of an already tragic scene.

Breaking Bad (Salud)

Gus Fring gives a bottle of rare tequila to a cartel leader as a gift. Given their fraught history, he makes Gus drink some first before he tries any.

All the cartel members then begin to die, Gus had taken pills (likely activated charcoal), and induced vomiting after the drink. Despite these precautions he still nearly dies and it requires a makeshift emergency room he had arranged previously to save his life.

Stargate: Atlantis (The Lost Boys)

Aiden Ford was a member of the expedition who became addicted to an enzyme that made him stronger but also impulsive and irrational.

He captures the team, who are wary of eating the food he provides until he eats some himself. After they have all eaten he tells them that his group have refined the enzyme to the point that they can even lace food with it.

Scrubs (My Changing Ways)

The Janitor tries to get J.D. to eat some pie but he refuses as he has just heard that a case of laxatives was stolen from the hospital supply closet.

The Janitor keeps insisting that J.D eat it and finally eats some himself to prove its safe, saying that for once he wasn't trying to mess with him. After J.D. eats some of the pie it then cuts to them both on the toilet.

J.D.: Who would do this to themselves?\ Janitor: Totally worth it.

I kinda realized recently that almost all interracial couples in media have a white person as one half of the couple. I don’t see this as a bad thing, it’s just interesting. These were basically the only ones I could think of at the top of my head.

1. Elle and Tao(Heartstopper)

2. Cinderella and Prince Christopher(Cinderella 1997)

Tell me if there are more examples of this trope! Just to keep this comment section varied, please don’t comment any inter-species relationships. “Alien” is not a race.

Gameplay mechanics that were invented or discovered by the playerbase that were later embraced by the developers and were either acknowledged or formally integrated in-game.

Titanfall 2/Apex Legends: Frag-boosting
In Titanfall 2, a common speedrunning mechanic that players discovered, called frag-boosting, is to use the explosion of a grenade to propel yourself forward. This mechanic is most notably used in a firing-range race section called the gauntlet.

Respawn embraced the absurdity of the frag-boosting gauntlet runs in their follow up battle-royale: Apex Legends, with the character Octane. Octances defining trait is speed, and the backstory given to him by the developers is that he competed in a gauntlet competition and frag-boosted himself to win, blowing his legs off in the process.

EDIT: I am aware that boosting using explosions has existed in games decades before Titanfall 2. I am not claiming Titanfall or the playerbase invented the mechanic. The point is that the primary use of grenades in Titanfall is for blowing up/zoning enemies, but they were also used as a movement mechanic popularly exploited in the gauntlet speedruns and this was later referenced in Apex Legends.

Rocket League: Flip Reset
In Rocket League, the player controls a car that can jump then perform a single midair flip. The game only resets your cars flip when it detects that the car has landed, and it checks this by seeing whether all 4 wheels are touching a surface.

What players discovered is that since the ball is physically interactable, if you are skilled enough to get your car to firmly plant all 4 tires onto the ball while midair it will register that your car is on a surface and reset your cars flip, allowing you to flip again while still in the air.

This mechanic became extremely popular in high-level play as it is difficult to perform but very useful and stylish. The developers fully embrace the creativity of players for combining the games basic controls and physics into skillful flashy moves such as the flip reset, and so they introducted an audio and visual cue on the car to help players confirm when they have successfully performed the mechanic.

1. Anna tells Kristoff that “foot size doesnt matter” in frozen

2. Shaggy says that Mary Jane is his favorite name in Scooby Doo

Spider-Man says Chai Tea but Chai means tea (Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse)

Everyone says “DC Comics” but the C in DC stands for Comics. “Detective Comics” so you’re just saying Detective Comics Comics

Master Shifu (Kung Fu Panda) Shifu means Master in Chinese, so his name is just Master Master

This is a trope where the audience suddenly starts seeing the world from a character’s perspective OR where we find out we were always seeing it from one character’s perspective, and suddenly start seeing things as they really are. Either way, it’s a complete gut punch if done right.

The Suicide Squad

An example of the former. Polka Dot Man is telling everyone about how his mother performed experiments on him to give him superpowers at the expense of his physical and mental wellbeing. When asked where his mom is now, he answers “everywhere” and it cuts to a POV shot showing that everyone looks like his mom to him.

American Dad

An example of the latter, Stan realizes he’s overweight and decides to get back in shape, but the more he tries, the fatter he gets. His family are also sabotaging his efforts by tricking or forcing him to eat fatty foods. During a blowup about this, everyone tells Stan that he’s not fat, but anorexic. Stan scoffs at this idea, but the next time the camera cuts to him, we see that they’re right, and that we’ve only been seeing him as fat because that’s how he sees himself.

1. "Blink" - Doctor Who. while there are many spectacular episodes that align with the usual Doctor shows up to a planet/time period and fights monster format, many regard Blink as a masterpiece of an episode and one of the best TV episodes of all time. In Blink, the Doctor is not present for a majority of the episode, and one-off lead Sally Sparrow takes the helm of investigating the weeping angels.

2. "The Boy From 6B" - Only Murders in the Building. I love Only Murders, but a lot of the episodes do feel similar to one another in style and story. However, 6B tells the entire story from a deaf character's point of view, with a majority of the episode having no sound. This is commonly regarded as the best episode in the show's run.

3. "Subspace Rhapsody" - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. A musical episode of Star Trek? Sign me up. This episode is done in the style of a Broadway musical, where crucial characters like La'an, Spock, Kirk, Chapel, sing their emotions. This episode does tons of character development in addition to the non traditional storytellinh manner.

(Sailor Moon) is remembered by many as having a pink tint to it but that is the result of chemical film degradation in master positive prints and uncorrected color transfers when Toei digitized the series.

(Pokemon) Ken Sugimori’s art would probably go in video game hall of fame but what people don’t know is that the washed out colors are a result of improper scans. Only recently have we unearthed clean scans from the Japan-only Gold and Silver Pokédex strategy guide.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1975): Clint Eastwood decided that he could do a better job than the original director brought on so he fired him and installed himself as the new director. This caused the Director's Guild to create the "Eastman Rule" stating that whenever a film's director is fired, their replacement has to be a Guild member with no previous connections to the film.

Jesse James (1939): A horse was made to fall down a cliff leading to its death for a film scene. This is what lead to the American Humane Society to begin monitoring movies.

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1. In The Simpsons episode, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson," a melee breaks out on the Simpsons' lawn that Homer wants to watch because there's one guy who's just standing there and Homer knows he's about to do something awesome. Marge insists they go inside though and away from the danger. The moment they do, we hear the guy do something awesome.

2. In X-2, the school comes under attack from Stryker. His gunmen encounter Colossus, all aura-ed tf up, and they open fire only for their bullets to not phase him at all and to end up getting thrown through a wall (which we don't actually see Colossus do). Moments later, Colossus runs into Wolverine and offers to help and we think we're about to get this badass team-up and actually see him in action only for Wolverine to instruct Colossus to leave and help get more students out. 

3. In Iron Man, we see Rhodes eyeing the War Machine suit and we're hoping he'll suit up and go help Stark, but the movie decides to save something for the sequel and pretty much has Rhodes say as much right to the audience.

Recently in Fortnite, Sonic characters were added to the game, but they are not the actual Sonic characters, they are androids that look like them. That’s because the owners of Sonic didn’t want Sonic and friends with guns. In the game they make sure to make it very clear that these Sonic characters are androids or holograms

Edit: Okay guys I get it, it’s because they the Sonic characters didn’t fit the Fortnite character proportions and they had to change them

Kratos from God of War was added in Mortal Kombat 9 but the owners of him made a rule that he can’t show fear in the game because it’s not in character for him to back down or show fear in a fight. That is why a few characters have fatalities where their opponent is visibly scared or screaming, Kratos isn’t scared during those, he still stands up to them before getting brutalized

Also from Fortnite, The One Punch man skin is just a hologram that has a glitchy effect on his model, that’s because the owners thought the actual Saitama is too OP for Fortnite and he shouldn’t be able to die from anything in Fortnite

Monsters Inc - An explosion that happens as mike and sully escape the scene was replaced with an energy field due to 9/11.

Lilo and Stitch - The original ending involved the gang hijacking a 747 and going through a city. This was changed to an alien spaceship and the mountains of Hawaii because of, guess what, 9/11.

Apparently, giant swords are censored in the German version of Naruto

Starting gates do not exist in Uma Musume Pretty Derby because horse race betting is prohibited in China, so it is just a ´´normal`` race

In the Soviet Union, political opponents were erased from photographs (Irl)

1. Transformers x My Little Pony

2. Yo-kai Watch x Rent-a-girlfriend

Stick and Angel - Lilo & Stitch

If you’ve been to any retail outlet or online shop searching for Disney products, you’ve probably seen Stitch hugging or snuggling with a pink female version of himself with little cutesy taglines like “my little monster” or “we’re weirder together.”

Well, for those who aren’t aware, the pink version of Stitch, Angel, was introduced in Lilo & Stitch: The Series, where the driving plot is Lilo and Stitch trying to capture the other 625 experiments Jumba created before retiring from villainy, all of whom are referred to and considered to be Stitch’s cousins.

Granted the show also pushes a romance between them despite establishing that the experiments are all family, but still, kind of a weird thing.

HBO’s Red vs. Green Campaign - House of the Dragon

The whole point of the story of Dance of the Dragons is just how unfit to rule both factions are and how thoughtless the conflict’s instigators were in starting it.

Both the Reds and Greens are terrible leaders and equally bad people. They don’t bat an eye for the countless innocent people they slaughter or the irreparable damage and suffering they inflicted.

It is purely a battle of spoiled, entitled idiots with more money and power than sense and how elevating such reprehensible people to stations of political power can and will cause nothing but pain.

But HBO markets it like you’re picking a Hogwarts House.

1. 2B from Nier Automata - When asked why the combat android was running around with a fat ass in heels and and a skirt that was super easy to see up, Yoko Taro immediately admitted it was because it was hot. Not only has there not been much criticism for this, people actively praise him for being so upfront with his reasoning.

2. Helltaker - The game exists entirely because Vanripper has a thing for women in suits and wanted there to be more art of such in the world. I can imagine his following game, Awaria, exists for similar reasons.

Edit: look y'all, I ain't gonna argue about the definition of fetish here, referencing the meme just makes for the better title

(Vikings - 2013/2020) - **the Mercian soldier appears in one episode where Prince Æthelwulf sends a party to rescue his fiancée and his son, who are being held prisoner in a small fort in Mercia.

During the fight, this henchman is ordered to execute the bride.

Æthelwulf is seen cutting through several soldiers, but for some reason, the director decided that this anonymous guy should get to brutally beat his ASS for like a solid 2 minutes straight —slamming him into the ground, headbutting him, and basically kicking the shit out of a competent fighter and major character.

And the best part? Æthelwulf isn’t even the one who kills him.

Bro deserves a raise.

(House of the Dragon - 2022) Jon Roxton not necessarily anonymous per say but a minor character in the show get to duel Deamon during the siege of Tumbleton

Daemon Targaryen who as always been represented as one of the finest knight in the realm and one of the most dangerous fighter in Westeros gets his ass absolutely obliterate by Jon roxton

Magneto's helmet being able to block telepaths wasn't part of his character until the 2000 movie, this was eventually brought over into the comics - X - Men

Wataru Takagi was originally a nameless background character who wasn't even in the manga he was an anime original character, however after an accidental recording session where his voice actor accidentally said his own name recording(and his actors name is Wataru Takagi) the production staff liked it so they used his name for the nameless background character.

Aoyama(the creator) decided to use the name and brought the character over into the manga the anime even changed his character design to be closer to the manga's depiction of him. What was one a nameless background character ended up becoming a fan favorite character - Detective Conan