"You know that quirky side character that’s really interesting and entertaining but ultimately overshadowed by the boring lead that’s got no real personality or motives? Digger’s like a comic that’s all about that quirky side character."
"Movie earns an extra 10 sins for the colossal waste of talent in hiring the two guys from The Raid 2 only to hire then say only a few lines and get eaten by the Spaghetti Monster and promptly wastes them."
— Jeremy Scott of CinemaSins on the Kanjiklub members, Everything Wrong With Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
"Well, thank you, movie! Thank you for ruining the only possibly cool character in this entire film!"
— The Nostalgia Critic, 3 Ninjas review
"In a timely update of the character, Osama Bin Kingsley plays the brilliant terrorist who manipulates the entire country into doing his bidding. (plays a clip of him saying " My name is Trevor. Trevor Slattery.") Wait, what? ("I'm an actor. The Mandarin. See? He's not real.") No. You can't do that. They were doing such a good job, and they turned him into a punchline? This is Iron Man's arch-fucking-nemesis! This isn't just ignoring the comics, this is dropping their pants and wiping their butt with them!"
— Honest Trailers, on The Mandarin in Iron Man 3
Craig: Just use my analogy. They're like, in a boy band and this is the crazy one.
Bryan: Yeah, they all have to have a character, a wacky character.
Vinny: No! They don't have characters, they have a tag line.
Craig: Right.
Vinny: Where Charlotte is Ric Flair's daughter, full stop. Paige is English, full stop. Becky has red hair, full stop. And I thought about this and I said 'You know what this is off the top of my head. We know Becky had to go through growing up in Ireland just to train anywhere, talked about this in NXT. Had to travel the world to train, she had an injury, almost quit, had to be talked to coming back, that's a great fucking story. Charlotte grew up the daughter of the of the best of all time. There's a tremendous burden on her and she's delivering, that's great fucking story.' Well okay, she was delivering on NXT.
Bryan: I was gonna say, let's not go crazy here.
Vinny: Paige grew up in a wrestling family. Father's a wrestler mother's a wrestler brother's a wrestler and they've all been in England and her brother wanted to come to come to the US so badly but he couldn't make it! She's living out the dream for her whole fucking family, that's a great fucking story! And then I thought about the girls who are already on the roster. Hey, you know what? The Bellas have been around forever and there's a lot of people who think they only get opportunities because of who they're dating and now they have to prove that they deserve their spots. That's a great fucking story, these are all great fucking stories! None of them are being used, because the people making this TV show are so fucking stupid! I don't want to give them anymore of my money! It's why I want to quit the network!
Bryan: Yeah, they all have to have a character, a wacky character.
Vinny: No! They don't have characters, they have a tag line.
Craig: Right.
Vinny: Where Charlotte is Ric Flair's daughter, full stop. Paige is English, full stop. Becky has red hair, full stop. And I thought about this and I said 'You know what this is off the top of my head. We know Becky had to go through growing up in Ireland just to train anywhere, talked about this in NXT. Had to travel the world to train, she had an injury, almost quit, had to be talked to coming back, that's a great fucking story. Charlotte grew up the daughter of the of the best of all time. There's a tremendous burden on her and she's delivering, that's great fucking story.' Well okay, she was delivering on NXT.
Bryan: I was gonna say, let's not go crazy here.
Vinny: Paige grew up in a wrestling family. Father's a wrestler mother's a wrestler brother's a wrestler and they've all been in England and her brother wanted to come to come to the US so badly but he couldn't make it! She's living out the dream for her whole fucking family, that's a great fucking story! And then I thought about the girls who are already on the roster. Hey, you know what? The Bellas have been around forever and there's a lot of people who think they only get opportunities because of who they're dating and now they have to prove that they deserve their spots. That's a great fucking story, these are all great fucking stories! None of them are being used, because the people making this TV show are so fucking stupid! I don't want to give them anymore of my money! It's why I want to quit the network!
"Hook's introduction makes you think he's going to progress and get more and more specific and rich, but he never does. There is no chemistry between him and Pan. Their ancient rivalry is told to us in exposition, but it never comes to life on the screen. They don't seem to connect, even when they fight. They just perform what the story tells them to perform and get it over with."
"Guys who can essentially be in three places at the same time? Nope, no stories about them. More Bumblebee!"
— TFWiki.net caption for Ultra Pretender
"Now, the thing about Bumblebee... I love the concept of what they were going for with this character. He's an unaffiliated drifter. When we open up the show, he doesn't even have the Autobot logo on his chest. Excellent. And I was thinking that throughout the course of the show, Bumblebee would find it within himself to join the Autobot cause because he sees that the Decepticons are much worse. Respecting his individuality, respecting his choices as a soldier, I wanted to see that personal growth. (beat) But no! Magical space ghost. So essentially, Bumblebee was forced into the Autobot cause. Lame."
Joanna: You've fancied her ever since we saw her in Spectre. You were incandescent with rage. "How could they sign her up for a Bond film and then only use her for about thirty seconds?"
Roger: I still feel the same.
Roger: I still feel the same.
"Star Trek: Picard has one of the weirdest flaws I've ever seen in a show. It's amazing at character, but it doesn't seem to know that it is. It insists on drowning out its characters with buckets and buckets of plot. There's such a maddening amount of wasted potential. Laris, Raffi, Elnor, and Rios, etc., were characters who completely captivated me within moments of their introduction. There's such a natural aptitude for character design in this show. But then the show just does everything it can to avoid taking advantage of this. It's bizarre. The show seems almost ashamed of these other characters. Like it thinks you're only here for Picard and Seven and it's worried it's wasting your time whenever the others are on screen. But the others are the best bit, FFS."
— Daniel Orett on Star Trek: Picard's second season, here
"The GM here is setting up all this back story so that Darth Maul can be an ongoing thorn in the sides of the PCs. He's a carefully crafted character who will no doubt return many times over the course of years of campaigning to come. With such a great character, who would want to not see him return?"
"The most well-developed NPC the GM has, with an extensive back-story, detailed motivations, a deep and flavourful character portrayal, and also just inherently cool, and the PCs go and do this to him in their first real encounter. Typical."
"Mario horror game? Sounds interesting! Luigi's Mansion proved it could work! So where the hell is King Boo, then? I mean, the setting is a ghost-infested mansion and the plot is dead serious! King Boo would've fitted in perfectly as the main antagonist, and he's completely absent in favor of an OC."
— itch.io user 4MyHonestOpinions on (Mario) The Music Box
"So you're his brother, huh? Wow, that must mean you'll be involved in a lot of future events, right?"
— Krillin to Raditz, Dragon Ball Z Abridged
