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* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' has a particularly aggravating one with {{spoiler|Doreah. In the book, she dies crossing the desert, loyal to Daenerys to the end. In the show, she survives the desert, only to happily betray Daenerys, with the line "He said you would never leave the city alive" being our only hint to her motivation.}} The sheer pointlessness of it (she ends up just as dead, with no other impact on the story) is really galling. |
* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' has a particularly aggravating one with {{spoiler|Doreah. In the book, she dies crossing the desert, loyal to Daenerys to the end. In the show, she survives the desert, only to happily betray Daenerys, with the line "He said you would never leave the city alive" being our only hint to her motivation.}} The sheer pointlessness of it (she ends up just as dead, with no other impact on the story) is really galling. |
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** Joffery technically counts. He was, indeed, one of the most sadistic monsters on the show, but in this version, it was Littlefinger, not Joffery, who planned and engineered the attack on Bran. |
** Joffery technically counts. He was, indeed, one of the most sadistic monsters on the show, but in this version, it was Littlefinger, not Joffery, who planned and engineered the attack on Bran. |
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* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' combined this Trope with [[Weaponized Landmark]] in the Series 7 episode "The Angels Take Manhattan", where the Statue of Liberty (usually seen as a benign symbol) becomes one of the dreaded Weeping Angels in an [[Alternate Timeline]]. |
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== Mythology == |
== Mythology == |
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