1. Sekhmet reclaims her power from drolta who was once a priestess in the former's temple while making it very clear that she does appreciate drolta's attempts to bring her back. (Castlevania nocturne)

2. Blue fangs. A night creature who specifically calls out the bishop for his role in bringing down Dracula's wrath. The priest claims his work was in God's name but blue fangs retorts that "your life's work makes him puke" (Netflix Castlevania)

A shot is set up in such a way where it looks fine from one angle, then they reveal another that makes it look way worse

Infinity War - Thanos reveals Nebula hanging up imprisoned, then when the camera follows Gamora going to her we see that mechanical components are stretched out and her head and body are in pieces.

Breaking Bad - Hector sets off a bomb in a murder suicide against Gus but he seems to walk out fine impossibly, then the camera moves to in front of him and you see half of his face is just not there anymore.

King Shark - The Suicide Squad (2021): King Shark by all rights should be a menacing, terrifying beast and in most media he is. His redesign in The Suicide Squad and to an extent the Harley Quinn Show feel like much better fits. He makes a lot more sense as a benevolent, kind, or even dumb character that is protective and can rage out. Like Majiin Buu

Lego Batman - The Lego Batman Movie (2017): I was one of the batman fans that was really frustrated by his portrayal in The Lego Movie. I never liked a silly Batman, but my mind was changed with The Lego Batman Movie. I think in such a silly, slapstick world I really like a pathetic, loner who is roasted by Alfred lmao. Especially because Legacy of the Dark Knight brought back the serious Lego Batman and it was a reminder he can work either way

Van Pelt (Jumanji) - This man-hunting murderer makes it clear that he could easily slay anyone who stands in his way, but the rules of the game forbid him from fatally wounding anyone but the specific player who summoned him.

Killers (Dead By Daylight) - Pawns in the Entity's twisted bloodsport are (usually) forbidden from outright killing their targets. Only after correctly performing enough ritual sacrifices are they permitted to satisfy their own bloodlust.

The Counter of the Mountertain (Squidbillies) - A flesh-eating monster that stalks the Appalachian wilderness in search of vulnerable prey. His obsessive compulsion forces him to extend and retract his claws exactly 36 times before he can attack, which commonly grants his would-be victim ample time to escape.

The Voice (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) - This unseen power (Satan himself?) wants nothing more than to warp you into a pocket dimension where his axe-wielding minion, Dennis, waits to chop you into pieces. He can't do this on a whim, though - consuming the entirety of the Broodwich is a prerequisite to him claiming your soul. Picking off even a single sun-dried tomato will prevent his powers from taking full effect over you.

When it comes to level of dumbness in a character, I'm not talking like the Too Stupid to Live trope. More akin to The Ditz or Cloudcuckoolander, where they won't press the red button because they're too distracted by the blinking lights on the console. There can be well written airheads that don't dip into absurdity.

1. Zoey (K-Pop Demon Hunters): Zoey has shades of this, as she initally thought the Saja Boys were magicians and was naive enough to believe Dr. Han's scam. But, she is also responsible for writing the group's songs and can come up with at least 57 solutions upon hearing Rumi's vocal issue. She's also emotionally intelligent enough to be in-tune with her friends' true feelings.
2. Lindsay (Total Drama): Lindsay has a big heart and pure intentions, but other contestants are frequently annoyed by her lack of smarts, however she also has gone beyond expectations to solve problems in a Columbo-style manner.
3. Rowley Jefferson (Diary of a Wimpy Kid): Rowley is not very bright and often does silly things that end up getting Greg and himself in trouble, but he has is very caring and always wishes the best for everyone despite his parents' over-protectiveness preventing him from experiencing new things.
4. Kronk (Emperor's New Groove): Kronk is oblivious, devoid of common sense, and not very intelligent but he is also a genuinely kind person, and enjoys helping those around him. Despite not being as smart as Yzma, he does point out many flaws in her plan and is better at remembering her plans than her.

Nico Robin (One Piece) She starts off very calm and reserved, with a weird morbid sense of humor but over the course of the show she starts becoming more expressive and goofy like all the other members of the Strawhats

Nebula (Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy) Throughout the first and second film along with the Avengers movies, she is very stoic and serious and will probably hurt you if you look at her the wrong way. But in GOTG three she is noticeably a lot more expressive, smiling more and making jokes and she has funny moments like the rest of her group

My Hero Academia: All Might the former user of One for all is still an active hero at the beginning of the series using the remnant of OFA after passing it down, he acts as a mentor to Izuku and even after retirement is a teacher at UA.

Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja: The mantle of the ninja is supposed to be passed down, after a certain amount of time. With each ninja getting their minds wiped of memories of being the ninja and their knowledge added to the ninjanomicon before being passed down to the next chosen one. However at least one former Ninja Mac Antfee kept their memories and still tries to get his powers back.

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: Juniper's Grandma is the former Te Xuan Ze, guardian of balance between the magic world and the human world. The title is passed down her lineage, and while it skipped her son it went to their grandchildren. While retired after spending an unnaturally long time as the te xuan ze, she occasionally joins the fights and acts as a mentor.

Pheobe (Pokemon) Wears a blue beach outfit with floral patterns and flowers on her head, surely she’s a water type Pokemon Trainer, right? No she’s actually a ghost type trainer

Hinako (King of Fighters) Small cute looking girl in a dress, you’d think she’s one of the obligatory “cute girl” fighting game characters, she’s actually a sumo wrestler and heavy grappler

Bob (Tekken) Due to his weight you would think he’s a slow, big body grappler style character, but he’s actually super fast all rounder with heavy mobility

What If - In one of the comics Miles becomes Thor, and it's full of stereotypes about black people such as the Mjolnir having graffiti on it and the infamous "by Odin's fade"

Emilia Perez - Everything about the movie

Edgar the bug (men in black): giant cockroach monster using the skin of a dead man to try to look like a human, but is obvious that doesn't know how to do it and doesn't care to even put his neck right.

The pale visitor (no, I'm not human): All the visitors in the game are trying to look like humans, this one is described as a man that his skin doesn't fit with his body, a face that is always stretched and a chest and arms of completely different proportions. The game doesn't even try to hide that there's no way this one could be a person.

Kai (dorohedoro): wants to make dure that everyone knows that he's beyond sorcerers, but doesn't want to reveal what he actually is, so he just flashes people with some inhuman detail like eat like an animal, throw black and sludgy blood or ignore how mirror works.

The G-man (half-life): not as physical as the other examples, but still counts. The G-man not only his behaviour and totally Supernatural abilities, but also the way he speaks full of pauses and tone shifts that shouldn't be there.

1. The Self Referential Six (Rick and Morty): excluding and Imprisoning Rhett from the group for supposedly being very dangerous.

2. Uno, Dos and Cuatro (Ferdinand): they don't want to talk about Tres.

Deep-State Corporate Cover-Ups (K-Pop: Demon Hunters)

During a subway train fight, Huntrix failed their mission and let the swarm of demons suck the souls out of an entire train car full of commuters, vaporizing their physical bodies instantly and leaving nothing behind but piles of clothes. Because background news reports explicitly show that "missing persons cases have tripled" across Seoul, we know the victims aren't magically erased from history by their families cause their loved ones are still actively grieving them. This means the girls' management agency operates a deep-state shadow government that sits entirely above national law; to protect the group's brand image, the corporate executives must actively bribe thousands of grieving families, weaponize the mainstream media to gaslight the country into normalizing mass disappearances, and completely confiscate or erase government CCTV surveillance footage before the police can even arrive. If it's only a few individuals then it can be filed as normal missing person reports, but a whole train of passengers vanishing would definitely make into global news outside of South Korea yet the general public is still not aware of demons.

The Baby Corp Supply Chain (The Boss Baby)

Because all babies are manufactured on a giant conveyor belt at Baby Corp and sorted into "Management" or "Family Material," traditional human biology is completely irrelevant. Adult humans in this universe possess no biological reproductive capabilities, meaning humanity has completely broken off from Earth's natural evolutionary tree to become a species of corporate-manufactured clones. To make it even darker, official timelines reveal Baby Corp has existed since around 100,000 B.C., meaning that while prehistoric humans were discovering fire and painting on cave walls, a celestial corporate board of directors was already sitting in a high-tech skyscraper, drinking anti-aging formula, and managing the planet's population. Who even built Baby corp and do they just skip basic biology class at schools ?

Basically everything about this franchise (Cars 1/2/3 )

In Cars 2, they go through intense airport security checkpoints where they have to take off their tires like shoes, and in Planes, the Twin Towers are visibly missing from the NYC skyline meaning a Car 9/11 is absolute canon. Because planes are sentient living beings, it means aircraft were either radicalized into willingly committing acts of mass terror or were violently hijacked and forced to use their own screaming, living bodies as weapons. By extension, this means Car World Wars, a Car Hitler, and probably a Car Jesus too due to the existence of the Catholic Church via the Pope. On top of that, their society is built on a brutal caste system where your shape determines your freedom; if you are born a Ferrari, you are a wealthy celebrity, but if you are born a commercial jet/train/cargo ship, your anatomy dictates you are a literal slave-class, destined to spend your life parked in isolation and can't have social life because of your size, opening up your torso to let other cars sit inside your internal organs. Not to mention there are vehicles that get treated as animals ( the cows, insects and birds )

=> These are like details that were never really specified during the show or magically handwaved away but audiences can deduct by themselves from watching, a rabbit hole you may say.

1. Walkers (The Walking Dead) : While technically viral in the tv series, if any character dies with their brain intact, they become walkers, bitten or not. When a recently corpse turns into a walker with no bite, it's theorized EVERYONE'S already a carrier.
2. Zombies (Dead Island 2) : The Autophage (zombiefication) is something built into the human DNA. It was just triggered several generations earlier than expected by SOMETHING ELSE.
3. The Undead Curse (Dark Souls) : To immortalize his Age of Fire and Gods. Gwyn screwed with the cosmic order of the world, Fire, and Dark (which are tangible and cosmic elements in the setting). One of its byproducts was the Undead Curse, a point in time where everyone possessing a shard of the Dark Soul (all of humanity) turn Undead, the flow of time gets fucky, and Dark starts overflowing and mutating everything else.

Dark Souls 2 reveals that the Age of Fire WILL be replaced by an Age of Dark, only for the process to have been repeated and will repeat ad nauseum.

Dark Souls 3 reveals what happens when even this cycle reaches its end, after it burns the whole world.

Stratogale - The Incredibles

Ghost girls/boys - Pokémon games

Ash - Pokémon anime

Morro (potentially) - Ninjago

The Stone Family - Black Myth: Wukong ( in the image it's the father )

The Mother of Stones is literally a stationary rock that doesn't fight back in Chapter 2, the Father is a minor boss at the beginning of chapter 5 and the Son of Stones is a random optional boss clapping at grasshoppers in Chapter 6. The journal reveals a devastating family tragedy. The Father of Stones abandoned his family to elope with a human girl. When the girl died falling off a cliff, the father went insane and spent decades guarding her skeleton. Back home, the Mother sacrificed all her life essence to empower her Son so he could go find his dad. Because of this, the Mother became paralyzed, and the Son's brain was underdeveloped which is why he got completely lost and ended up wandering Huagou Mountain like a helpless toddler.

(Honestly, half the Yaoguais in this game fit this trope perfectly, but i picked the Stone family for having the most connected storylines)

Rika Orimoto ( The original human ) - Jujutsu Kaisen

She only appears briefly in Yuta’s childhood flashbacks as a sweet girl who gives him a ring, dies in a tragic car accident, and becomes the "Queen of Curses" who basically just Yuta's shikigami nowadays. According to the official fanbook, her mother died mysteriously when she was 5, her father vanished on a mountain trip while she was rescued alone, and her grandma hated her because she believed Rika caused their deaths. Rika also actively used her extreme cuteness to manipulate adults. She was a deeply troubled, codependent child way before she became a curse.

Dean Thomas - Harry Potter He's just Harry’s chill Gryffindor roommate who likes Muggle football, dates Ginny for a bit, and fights in the background. J.K. Rowling revealed that Dean grew up believing his father abandoned him and his Muggle mother. In reality, his dad was a wizard who refused to join the Death Eaters. He left the family to protect them from Voldemort and was murdered shortly after, choosing to die with his family believing he was a deadbeat rather than risking their lives. (This plotline was cut from Book 2 due to length constraints).

- Paul Bunyan from Fate/Grand Order, when she was a kid she could grow as far as you could see and become gigantic, once she becomes a teenager she defaults to an "average" height.

This is implied to be because the change in size is tied to her emotions and she's now insecure about others around her not liking her that much, she now only grows after getting a bunch of likes online.

- Gohan from Dragon Ball, when he was a kid struggling he was a prodigy, strong enough to knock down enemies way older than him and defeat threats not even his dad could.

But as he moved on to an era of peace and dedicated himself to his studies, work and family he continuously slacked off in training and nearly every project he's in he's having to catch back up with a quick training or power up to hold his own in the field, hopefully this stops after his recent movie but who knows.

Luz and Camila - The Owl House, starting from season 3

Libby - Jimmy Neutron, starting from the episode "Beach Party Mummy"

1. In JoJo's bizarre Adventures Part 3, Kujo Jotaro is voiced in the English dub by Matt Mercer. When Jotaro mentions "If this were the wild west, the hero would say 'It's high noon' <...>" - a direct reference to Cassidy's Special move in Overwatch, Cassidy also being voiced by Matt Mercer.

2. In Spongebob, at one point Mr. Krabs is giving up his soul to the Flying Dutchman, but he tries to convince him, that actually he's not Mr. Krabs, he's Harold. Harold Flower. While just a random name in the original, referencing only the flowers next to his bed, the German dub actually changes the name "I am Benjamin, Benjamin Blümchen" (Blümchen being a dimunitive of flower) - a famous kid's TV character, who happens to be voiced by the same voice actor.

Mitsuri Kanroji from Demon Slayer....drawn the typical large-boobed thin-framed manner typical of a lot of female characters in shounen anime, the writers try to claim that her body contains "extremely dense musculature" ....and then does everything in the show to deny that.

Saber from Fate Stay Night....tries to act as if she is overly muscular when her body resembles that of a young teenage girl, not an adult with muscle.

Spider-Ham (Spiderverse): During the final sequence of the first movie, Spider-Ham says the famous phrase ''that's all folks'' which is a callback to another famous pig (Porky Pig from Looney Tunes). One of the producers said that they pondered alot about if it was ok or not to use it, but ultimately having no issues having it on the film.

Dawn Greenwood (Marvel): The Silver Surfer and his companion Dawn Greenwood face off against a bizarre villain powered by pure imagination who summons a massive wave of fictional heroes and main characters to attack them. Dawn gets very close to recognizing them before she pulls back. The whole arc is also full of Doctor Who inspirations, said by the writer Dan Slott himself.

The Incredibles:

In the glory days,bright oranges and blues are everywhere,but when we cut to the office,the colors have disappeared in favor of drab grays. At the end,the 2 merge!

Encanto: The madrigals are all decked out in reds,yellows,and blues,to show their bond. But Bruno wears green,breaking the bond and purposely isolating him from the others. Mirabel wears a combination of blue and green,showing how she is an outcast as well.

Kung Fu Panda 2 — The massacre of the pandas.

The Lion King — The Death of Mufasa

Avatar: The Last Airbender — The genocide of the air nomads.

Sesame Street — The death of Mr. Hooper.