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00:00So, a movie sequel can be a double-edged sword.
00:03On the one hand, a good sequel can give you more of what you loved from the first film.
00:07However, a bad sequel can sometimes backtrack, souring the original film or films and making
00:12them worse in retrospect.
00:14The sequels on this list aren't necessarily bad, but they aren't kind to some of the
00:18characters from the original who definitely deserved better.
00:21Let's take a look at them as arm jewels.
00:23This is WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 Movie Sequels That Totally Insulted Great
00:27Characters
00:2910.
00:30The Warriors 3
00:31Thor Ragnarok
00:32In the first two Thor films, The Warriors 3 played a pivotal role in helping the titular
00:36hero save the day.
00:38The Asgardian team saved Thor's life while also providing comic relief and also kicked
00:42some serious butt.
00:44However, when Thor Ragnarok came along, director Taika Waititi wanted to overhaul the franchise's
00:49supporting cast.
00:50As such, The Warriors 3 fell pretty early on in the film.
00:54When the villainess first arrives in Asgard, she kills them with a wave of her hand.
00:58Hogan at least gets to spar verbally with the Goddess of Death, but she impales him.
01:03For a group called The Warriors 3, they die very unwarrior-like deaths.
01:07Leaving the characters out of the film altogether would've probably been more dignified, and
01:11letting them die heroic deaths would've been much more in character.
01:15Though Taika Waititi definitely saved the Thor franchise, The Warriors 3 ultimately
01:19paid the price.
01:209.
01:21Count Dooku
01:22Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
01:25While Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones leaves a lot to be desired, main antagonist
01:30Count Dooku is the closest thing that film had to a redeeming quality.
01:34Played by legendary actor Christopher Lee, the Sith Lord is a powerful opponent to Anakin
01:38and Obi-Wan, defeating them both easily.
01:40He even matches Yoda in combat.
01:42However, in Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the character has only four lines
01:47before quickly losing a lightsaber battle to Anakin and Obi-Wan.
01:51At the behest of Palpatine, Anakin slices Dooku to bits, first taking off his hands,
01:55and then his head.
01:56Given how commanding he was in Attack of the Clones, he seems an almost different character
02:01here.
02:02He's significantly less imposing, and it's hard to believe that he ever stood a chance
02:05against the Jedi Knights.
02:068.
02:07Everyone Except Woody – Toy Story 4
02:10The quirky ensemble cast of the first three Toy Story films fill out the experience.
02:15Rex and Ham have great repartee, Mr. Potato Head is just downright hilarious, and Slinky's
02:20all-night friendship with Woody is endearing.
02:22The Toy Story 2 additions, Jessie and Bullseye, are far from typical shark-jumping sequel
02:26characters, as they're great additions to the Toy Story ensemble.
02:29However, Toy Story 4 sidelines all of these characters in favour of Woody, Bo Peep, new
02:34character Forky, and a little bit of Buzz Lightyear.
02:37The other toys act effectively as one entity, and appear in only a handful of scenes.
02:42The characters are so interchangeable that they could swap dialogue and nothing would
02:45change at all.
02:47Despite being a re-introduction to the Toy Story universe, Toy Story 4 barely lets the
02:51audience say hello to the supporting cast.
02:53The film feels like a Woody solo film, which downplays all of his friends.
02:57While Woody definitely dominates the early Toy Story films, the fourth film presents
03:01him as the only character who really matters, and that's just not the case.
03:057.
03:06Vanessa – Austin Powers – The Spy Who Shagged Me
03:08At the end of Austin Powers' International Man of Mystery, it seems that Austin and his
03:13new girlfriend Vanessa have found their happily ever after.
03:16They spent the film working together, slowly growing to respect one another, and finally
03:20falling in love, famously honeymooning in the final scene.
03:23However, less than ten minutes into the sequel, we learn that it was all a crock.
03:27The Austin Powers team wanted to follow the James Bond tradition of a different love interest
03:31in every movie, so they had to find some way of getting rid of Vanessa to make way for
03:34Heather Graham's new character, Felicity Shagwell.
03:37As such, in her one scene in the sequel, Vanessa reveals that she'd been a robot in disguise
03:41throughout the entire first film.
03:43She never loved Austin, and was just posing as a human woman so that she could kill him.
03:47The revelation not only undermines her arc in the original, but it was a lazy and rather
03:51uncreative way to ditch her.
03:536.
03:54Vanessa – Deadpool 2 Vanessa Carlyle of Deadpool fame is the second
03:58Vanessa in a row on this list to be fridged before the opening credits of a parody sequel.
04:03Maybe the name is actually cursed.
04:04In her first scene, Vanessa proposes having a child with Wade, and since I Want to Start
04:09a Family is superhero girlfriend for Please Kill Me Now, apparently, she doesn't make
04:13it out of that scene alive.
04:14However, getting rid of Vanessa so easily and so early is unfair to the character from
04:18the last film, whose chemistry with Deadpool made the dark comedy surprisingly sweet.
04:23Plus, the first Deadpool ends with Wade saving Vanessa's life, so killing her so quickly
04:27in the second undermines that climax.
04:30Though Wade eventually reverses Vanessa's death via time travel, it's in a post-credits
04:34scene, so all of the non-Die Hard Marvel fans had no idea it happened.
04:38To quote the Merc with a Mouth himself, that's just lazy writing.
04:415.
04:42Cyclops – X-Men The Last Stand
04:44Cyclops was the closest thing the early X-Men comics had to a main character, and was a
04:49staple in the first two films of the X-Men franchise.
04:52Played by James Marsden, he was a fun foil to Wolverine, and seeing his optic blasts
04:56on screen was a treat for long-time X-Fans.
04:59However, in the third film of the franchise, X-Men The Last Stand, the writers had too
05:03many characters to juggle, and needed to write some out rather quickly.
05:07Unfortunately, Cyclops didn't make the cut due to Marsden's scheduling conflicts with
05:10Superman Returns, so Jean Grey's Phoenix persona dispatches him quite early on in the
05:15film.
05:16Cyclops led the team for many years in the comics, and he was an important part of the
05:19first two films.
05:21Writing him out so early, and so pathetically, makes him feel like just another background
05:25character in the franchise, rather than one of its leads.
05:284.
05:29Bilbo Baggins – The Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies
05:32It's sometimes hard to see how Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy is based on J.R.R.
05:37Tolkien's The Hobbit.
05:38The book did not feature characters like Toriel and Legolas, was only one volume, not three,
05:42and was actually about a bloody Hobbit.
05:44Bilbo Baggins is the central character of that book, acting as the outsider and point-of-view
05:49character throughout the adventure.
05:51In the third Hobbit film, however, it seems as though Bilbo has used his magic ring to
05:55disappear from the movie entirely.
05:57It becomes less his story and more Thorin's.
05:59Bilbo has much less stake in the titular battle than any of the dwarves, and by this point
06:03he's already burgled Smaug, which is his main contribution to the quest.
06:07The Battle of the Five Armies doesn't feel like Bilbo's story at all anymore, and the
06:11main character of the book is insultingly just forgotten about.
06:14The title The Dwarves – The Battle of the Five Armies would have actually made more
06:17sense since this movie is not about a Hobbit, and this is why you shouldn't make an entire
06:21movie from about ten pages of a children's book.
06:243.
06:25Albus Dumbledore – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
06:28This is the thing, Michael Gambon is an incredible actor.
06:31However, a lot of people were totally put on edge when they saw the changes made to
06:34Dumbledore's character following the death of Richard Harris, who played him in the original
06:38films.
06:39Now, Harris leaned into the level-headed aspect of the character much more than Gambon, and
06:43was actually a lot more fun, being more light-hearted.
06:46On the other hand, Michael Gambon's performance has its virtues, but the Dumbledore that he
06:49gives us lacks the wisdom of the Dumbledore Harry first met, especially in Goblet of Fire.
06:55Because we could just look to that much-memed moment of the, did you put your name into
06:58the Goblet of Fire, Harry?
07:00Dumbledore asked calmly, being shown in this case to be him screaming in his face.
07:04Those performances are technically excellent, let's be honest, but the change here was
07:07jarring to say the least.
07:082.
07:09Rose – Star Wars Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
07:13Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi introduced audiences to Rose, a fun and fighty new hero,
07:19who paired up with Finn for an adventure set on a casino planet.
07:22However, Rose's character, played here by Kelly Marie Tran, received severe backlash
07:26from fans who just didn't like The Last Jedi.
07:29Some even turned toxic and bullied Tran off social media.
07:32It seems particularly unfair, then, that Disney caved to these fans' hatred of the character
07:37by cutting her out of most of Star Wars Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.
07:41She contributes next to nothing to the plot, actively turning down the call to adventure
07:45early on in the film, and her screen time is only about 76 seconds.
07:49Both Rose and Tran deserved better from The Rise of Skywalker.
07:52She would have been a welcome companion on the Resistance's journey, and it's rather
07:55insulting that she had nothing to do with the franchise capper.
07:591.
08:00Saruman – Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King
08:03In Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King, Saruman has one final stand against
08:06our heroes.
08:07He taunts them from atop his tower after his defeat at Isengard.
08:11However, Wormtongue, his former subordinate, betrays him at the last minute, stabbing him
08:15in the back and letting him fall to his death, where he's impaled by the spoke of a giant
08:19wheel.
08:20What a way to go, right?
08:21Well, wrong, because Saruman doesn't even appear in the theatrical release of the film.
08:25Director Peter Jackson reserved his death scene for the four-hour extended cut, so only
08:30hardcore fans with hardcore bladders actually saw it.
08:32This doesn't seem fair to the character at all, who acted as the secondary antagonist
08:36throughout the first two films.
08:38Or indeed to activist Christopher Lee, who makes his second appearance on this list.
08:41If Jackson didn't want to film the sacking of the Shire, Saruman's death scene in the
08:45book, then he should have at least let everyone see the character's final moments in the
08:49theatrical cut.
08:50And there we go, my friends.
08:51Those were 10 Movie Sequels That Totally Insulted Great Characters.
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