Please Save Hollywood From The Victim X Bully Trope

You know, I've seen plenty of comments about "Descendants should have been a young adult TV series!" and... I dunno how I feel about that.

Are there concepts that could use exploring much better geared towards an older audience? Sure.

But would it be the same without silly costumes, brightly-colored hair, stupid (affectionate) songs and teenage drama? All of which I doubt would be allowed in a grimdark teenage action/fantasy series like a bunch of us keep wanting? I doubt that.

I think it being a DCOM is a genuine part of its charm, and if it had become something like Shadowhunters, Once Upon a Time or Fate or even just something that would run on Freeform, all the fun would have been drained out of it.

Sakamoto's Store Trio ☆

Wonder Woman in Absolute Power (2024) #1, by Dan Mora & Alejandro Sánchez

not even joking, if the fifth movie comes out and a random white boy is introduced, I’m barging into the directors office with a bomb strapped to my chest

a scooby doo series set in community college where the gang is in a criminology class and end up in a huge debate on the first day of class that leads to them starting a podcast talking about local urban legends, only to realize things aren’t quite adding up and they go to investigate for ~journalistic authenticity~ and end up solving a real-life crime disguised as supernatural occurrences. this happens every week and they’re frequently featured on the school newspaper. they only have twenty listeners

Descendants really stood on business when it came to Ben’s Burger King plastic crown. They could’ve changed the prop between movies and nobody would’ve batted an eye. But they really said this is OUR prop deal with it.

Alex, Sam, and Clover from Totally Spies - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

of course, the essentials: power, skill, strategy, and Canadians

To the people saying "Jason wouldn't have jumped into tartarus for Piper, like Percy did for Annabeth" as a way to demean him. Jason, plunged into the sky from the grand canyon to catch Piper in the first few pages of the lost hero without even knowing who she was, and without the knowledge that he could fly. so he basically jumped to his death attempting to catch her. In the first few pages of his journey, he didn't mind dying to save Piper, and ironically, that's also what he did in the last few pages of his journey. Y'all just be making the most out of pocket claims abt jason fr