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== Comic Books ==

* Bane decayed into this after breaking Batman's back and ultimately having served his purpose, which is why he got thrashed by Azrael in what almost seemed like a bit of an afterthought. Eventually the writers fixed Bane by giving him an identity beyond being "the guy who broke Batman's back once", as well as a surprisingly sympathetic backstory. Not to mention distancing him from Batman. Unfortunately, there is also a tendency for some of his portrayals to focus entirely on the steroidal "Venom" aspect of his character and nothing else [[Badass Decay|meaning that once someone cuts his tubes, he goes down quick.]]

* Onslaught was more powerful than anything the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] had ever faced, took nearly all the Marvel heroes to beat, had no overarching plan other than "blow shit up" and existed solely to set up "Heroes Reborn", which was later retconned back anyway. Onslaught did have a back story as a psychic entity born from the combined mentality of Professor X (mutants and humans should co-exist) and Magneto ([[Humans Are the Real Monsters|humans will never accept mutants]]). So he wanted to turn everyone in the world (and later the universe) into a hive mind with himself in control. However, many of the details behind his character were scattered among various Marvel comics titles (requiring someone to read all the comics tied into the Onslaught saga for all the details), or [[All There in the Manual|crammed into a book released solely as a summary for the Onslaught saga]], [[Word of God|complete with notes and information on what was planned for the saga from the writers themselves]]. For some, Onslaught's Generic Doomsday Villain nature made the writers' attempts to focus on Onslaught's plan changing from "kill all the humans so mutants can prosper" to "kill everyone in the world for no reason" much less dramatic that it was intended to be.

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* This was the main problem with [[WCW]]'s [[New World Order]] angle (in all its incarnations): the fact that this faction of bad guys was so elite that they ''never lost''. Even the nine-month buildup leading to the defeat of [[Big Bad]] [[Hulk Hogan|Hollywood Hogan]] by [[Dark Messiah]] [[Sting (wrestling)|Sting]] was tarnished by the fact that Sting ''was pinned and lost'' before the match was restarted (because evil referee Nick Patrick had supposedly done a fast count that, in reality, was closer to a slow count).

** Indeed. The original outcome was for Sting to be pinned by fast count thanks to Nick Patrick's interference, therefore creating a valid reason for the match to be restarted by [[Bret Hart]], who was one of the hottest commodities in wrestling at the time and was making his big debut in WCW at the time. It is rumored that [[Hulk Hogan]] bribed Patrick, a notoriously corrupt ref, to intentionally slow down his count so that the main reason for restarting the match and giving the victory to Sting would be null and void. This created a great backstage controversy that basically killed all of the momentum [[Bret Hart]] had in his entrance to WCW, which was supposed to be the last major blow against the then-WWF to kill WCW's chief rival for good. However, thanks to the bullshit pulled backstage by Hogan and his little clique, among other things, the WWF was able to rally itself going into 1998 and ultimately crush WCW at the end of the Monday Night Wars.