Quotes / Doomed by Canon

This is a tale of hope that ends in despair.

—Tagline for the Despair Arc of Danganronpa 3

Chris: Michael Rosenbaum was great as Lex Luthor, the best and most likeable character...Which is completely insane that this is a show that wanted to have Lex Luthor be the cool dude who lets you party at his mansion and gets your friends summer jobs, while also wanting him to turn into the Most Evil Man In The World by, like, Season 4.
David: Once again, all this show makes me think of is how rad it’d be if Clark hadn’t been the worst friend ever and let this multimillionaire with nearly infinite resources in on his secret. Like, a Clark/Lex bro team would be unstoppable. But it doesn’t feel tragic at all, it just feels like Clark is an emotionally distant dunce.

—Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on Smallville ("Craving")

B.J. Blazkowicz, a man the size of a fridge who so embodies bullet-headed American military strength he might as well have George C. Scott's face tattooed on both his nipples, is on an undercover operation, possibly as a prank. His job is to find some documents that will lead to the mission in the prologue of New Order, which we already know he will fuck up like ceiling-mounted Fleshlight. On the way he must foil a Nazi operation to exploit a supernatural power dug up from ancient times, which presumably will also fuck up because there is no mention of it in New Order. So what we have here is a bunch of predestined failures competing to see who can fail first, sort of like the British general election.

— Yahtzee in his Zero Punctuation review of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Screenwriter Guy: Yeah see, we're gonna have constant flashbacks to horrifying experiments being done to baby Rocket and his little friends!
Producer Guy: But wait, present-day Rocket doesn't have cute little animal friends..
Screenwriter Guy: H'yeah... So you can see where these flashbacks are headed.
Producer Guy: Oh, NO!

— Screen Rant Pitch Meetings, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Pitch Meeting

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