Why wasn’t Rocky in Donnie’s corner in the match against Damian?
Is it too unreasonable to go into a movie and expect a tight narrative with absolutely no plot holes, loose ends, or general story problems that don’t make sense? Yes. Yes it is. There will always be flaws in any film, and this is where the audience’s disbelief needs to be appropriately suspended.
That can be difficult, however, when a character that viewers have spent hours, sometimes even years, getting attached to simply vanishes without a trace. It happens more often than you think.
Whether there simply isn’t room for a character throughout the story, it honestly seems like they’ve been forgotten by the writers, or if off-screen issues prevent certain actors from reprising beloved roles, it can be incredibly disappointing to see these guys essentially cease to exist in the screen.
This has always been the case throughout film history, but what about the last five years? Recent cinema apparently hasn’t learned that if a character deserves to be on screen, they deserve to have their story told properly. Instead, these eight characters simply disappeared.
8. The Underminer – Incredibles 2
There have been a handful of franchises in the Pixar realm that have seen something of a revival after many, many years. Toy Story 3 was released 11 years after Toy Story 2, there were 12 and 13 years between Monsters Inc. and Monsters U, and Finding Nemo and Finding Dory respectively, and this list includes The Incredibles.
14 years after the original film left off with the honorable family’s battle with the Underminer, Incredibles 2 picked up right where the narrative left off. Tony Rydinger was in custody of Rick Dicker and told of the fight that ensued.
In 2003, the Underminer only appeared at the end of The Incredibles since it had nothing to do with the overall story. He was there as something of a tease for the family fighting together as a proper superhero team, and similarly, he was only involved in the sequel at the beginning, again having nothing to do with the overall main story.
The villain escaped the Incredibles at the beginning of the sequel, making off with countless amounts of money, but due to collateral damage and supers in general, no one seemed to care. He was forgotten and no one was particularly interested in tracking him down or bringing him to justice.
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