Just Here for Godzilla: Difference between revisions

Often, however, creators of works may put obstacles in your way to force you to go through all of their new quirks before getting a chance to see the action (like you being in a theater, sitting through hours and hours until you get to that glorious part) or play the same mode over and over. Sometimes they make it [[Fake Difficulty|even harder]] for you to get to your true goal.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight'' isn't generally regarded as a good film, but it may be of interest to fans of the band [[Loudness]] whose music is featured in the film.

** Similarly ''[[Geneshaft]]'', which includes music by the guitarist from Loudness.

* Any show with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] will have a Fandom affected by this.

* ''[[Happiness]]'' is an anime that was originally a [[Visual Novel]]. Most agree it's a fairly mediocre high school drama with a really generic magic system attached. It doesn't matter though, because nearly everyone watches it to see [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Jun]], who steals [[Ensemble Darkhorse|every]] single scene he's in.

* Lesser example; ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'': Just here for the [[Ax Crazy]] [[Yandere]] [[Pantheon|Goddess]].

* Some people watch ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' simply for the unique giant robot battles.

** Other people watch it just for [[Emotionless Girl|Rei]] and [[Tsundere|Asuka]].

*** Don't forget [[Hot Shonen Mom|Misato.]]

** And, on the other end [[Broken Base|of the spectrum]], there are some people who really connected to the [[Dysfunction Junction|characters' psychological and emotional problems]] and could give a rat's [[Unusual Euphemism|sweet bippie]] about the Evas and [[Faux Symbolism|symbolism]].

** That describes any Ecchi, especially [[Panty Fighter|Panty Fighters]], that have a little more substance, either in story complexity, character depth or animation quality. Any given viewer may have a different Godzilla.

** And a lot of others came for the apparent [[Ho Yay]] that fans always boast about.

* The film adaptation of "Buddha" by [[Osamu Tezuka]] seems to be shaping up to be this, due to the soundtrack including "Scarlet Love Song" by [[X Japan]].

** Other fans watch it for the history, though. Though they still probably haven't read the majority of the comic and are really just looking for [[Fanfic Fuel]].

* A lot of ''[[Wandering Son]]'' fans who began with the anime came for either the [[Scenery Porn]] or the realistic representation of [[Transsexual|transsexuality]].

== Comics ==

*** The same thing can be said about non-martial arts action stars as well -- [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], [[Sylvester Stallone]], [[Charles Bronson]], [[Clint Eastwood]] and others.

* No matter [[Sequelitis|how bad you think the sequels are]], the one thing every fan can look forward to in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' is Captain Jack Sparrow.

** Averted in the first ''Halloween''. It features no gore and actually focuses on the characters.

** In fact, "Halloween III" was a huge flop because the star of the series, Mickey Myers, wasn't in it. Today the film is re-evaluated for it's original story and atmosphere, but back in 1982 audiences simply wanted Myers to kill people and nothing more complicated or original than that.

* A major complaint about ''[[Cloverfield]]'' was "I came to see a giant monster trash New York, not [[Developing Doomed Characters|watch these annoying jerks]] through [[Jittercam|shakycam]] for 2 hours."

* In the Japanese film [[Always Zoku San Choume No Yuuhi]] (Always Sunset on Third Street 2) Godzilla himself makes a brief cameo appearance in the first 2 minutes of the film in a dream sequence and in CGI form, Many Godzilla fans don't know what this film is about or even care, all they want to see is Godzilla as this is his most recent appearance as of 2010.

** This could apply to [[Spider-Man]] himself. Since the first movie, the biggest complaint is that there is too much of Peter Parker and his moping and talky-talky, and not enough of Spider-Man beating up bad guys and making quips.

** The fact that Bruce had major "daddy issues" was canon from the comics, though exactly ''which'' issues those were mutated unrecognizably 'twixt comic and screen (along with most other elements other than anger = big green monster).

** The issues presented weren't the problem, it was that Lee tried to make them the whole movie and not just a small part of ''Hulk''. Like ''Spider-Man'' above, less whine more hero.

** Ironically, this can (and does) happen with quite a lot of highbrow films that feature nudity. Many, especially in the 50s and 60s when nudity in mainstream film was illegal, patiently sat through [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|incomprehensible art films]] they wouldn't have otherwise.

** Same issue comes up with nudist resorts in [[Real Life]]. People are so stigmatized to nudity only being in late-night movies and pornography that they don't realize that there are family-friendly nudist resorts out there which are not only intended to be non-sexual but go out of their way to keep the wrong element out. (For instance wearing underwear around is frowned upon at nudist resorts. It may ''seem'' odd to the non-nudist, but it makes sense when you realize lingerie is underwear, and a short look at porn shows half-dressed people are considered sexier than simply naked people)

** Milla Jovovich is a compelling reason to watch many things - ''[[Zoolander]]'' (as [[Dark Action Girl|Katinka]]) and ''The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' to name two.

** The fact that Ms. Jovovich appears in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' wearing nothing but a little packing tape certainly doesn't hurt that film's appeal, either.

* It's rare to find anyone who watches the original ''[[Pink Panther]]'' movies for anything besides [[Peter Sellers]] and, to a lesser extent, the animated title sequences. In fact, the series has been outright criticized by critics such as James Berardinelli as having little merit beyond those two things. The possible proof in the pudding came when Blake Edwards continued the series after Sellers' death - aside from the [[Replacement Scrappy]] lead characters, he had just about all the other cast members, all the slapstick, and all the glamorous settings the prior entries had. Viewers didn't care. Later the success of the 2006 Steve Martin reboot was arguably a case of Just Here For Steve Martin, considering the sequel's disappointing performance.

** Fans of [[Yoshiki Hayashi]] did the same. Their mileage varies widely: some are devoted fans of the film, others... not so much.

* The films starring [[Sonja Henie]] were to watch her skate.

* There is only one scene anybody cares about in ''[[Basic Instinct]]''. [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|And you know which one it is.]]

* ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' owes most of its popularity to Jango Fett.

** Some people went for the massive hellstorm of special effects that is the last quarter of the movie.

* The three ''[[Cruel Intentions]]'' movies, are this to MANY many people. Say it with me now... [[Memetic Mutation|Up and down, back and forth, faster, faster...]]

* The ''[[Home Alone]]'' movies usually have a story about a child learning to act on his own and getting into trouble, but really the only reason people went to see those movies was for the [[Death Trap]] houses.

** At least one person appears to have been interested in the film only because of [[Megan Fox]].

** This is something the ''[[Transformers]]'' producers have long failed to grasp. Fans are just here for the robots, and it's an ''extremely'' rare human who catches on with viewers of ''any'' age. The adults who were annoyed by [[Transformers Generation 1|Spike and Daniel]] were kids when they ''first'' watched, and with the newer series, for every [[Transformers Animated|Sari]], there's three [[Transformers Film Series|Sams]] or [[Transformers Energon|Kickers]] whose not-remotely-interesting home lives are only unwanted interruptions to the giant-robot-armies-at-war thing everyone ''really'' came for, and any scene with them will be considered [[Developing Doomed Characters]]. The humans who ''do'' get popular are never the [[Tagalong Kid|Tagalong Kids]] who get all the screentime.

* A large percentage of the ''[[Tekken]]'' film's sparse audience likely went just to see Lateef Crowder playing Eddy Gordo. The smart ones just settled for watching his scenes on [[YouTube]].

* You may like the [[Melodrama]] of [[Tyler Perry]]'s movies and plays, but you are more likely there to watch Madea's shenanigans.

* The sole reason to watch ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'' (1974) is the [[Chase Scene]] that makes up the second half of the movie.

* German Neo-Nazis often bought tickets for ''[[American History X]]'' just to see the violence scenes during the first ten minutes. After that, they left the cinema again.

* There is only [[Stuff Blowing Up|one thing]] that many people find any [[Michael Bay]] film worth watching for.

* In ''[[Monsters Ball]]'', Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton do [[This and That]]. You'll be hard pressed to find out what else happened second hand.

** And quite a few more are Just There for [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|the Mila/Natalie sex scene.]]

* Many people watched ''[[The Machinist]]'' for the shock of seeing Christian Bale's [[Dyeing for Your Art|Nightmare Fuel Thiness.]]

* Some people watched [[James Cameron]]'s ''[[Titanic]]'' only because of ship's sinking scenes.

** Many people have seen it multiple times, and still have not seen the beginning. The "Making of" documentary created a lot of interest in the special effects in people who had originally chosen not to sit through the four-hour film.

*** It's pretty common knowledge that the crow's nest scene (when the look-outs spot the iceberg) occurs just about five minutes into the third hour, when it plays on TV, so when it's on, you can tune in exactly halfway through for the special effects, and skip the romance entirely.

** Many people also watched it for [[Zachary Quinto]], widely regarded as the best thing in ''[[Heroes]]'' even at its best, as the new Spock. Other people watched for the [[Stuff Blowing Up|space battles]].

** As a sidenote, a lot of people who knows Romulans was involved in the story also expected for their ship to "disappear" (due for the fact that Romulans possess the best cloaking device) sooner or later during the chase scene. Too bad that the ship in question was not a military vessel.

* Many people went to see ''[[The Rite]]'' for one thing: Anthony Hopkins possessed.

* Some people probably watched ''[[Way of the Dragon]]'' just to watch the [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] between [[Bruce Lee]] and [[Chuck Norris]]. {{spoiler|Which is won by Lee.}}

* Even since his cult following formed in the late 1990's, does anyone watch the [[TV Movie]] ''[[Sarah Plain And Tall]]'' for anything other than the fact that it has [[Christopher Walken]] in a romantic role?

* The ''[[House of Wax]]'' remake promising [[Paris Hilton]] at her most [[The Scrappy|scrappiest]] to die, which she ''does,'' but [[Eight Deadly Words|there's still about a half hour or so left of teenyboppers running around in the eponymous house.]]

* Many ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans went to see the reboot of ''[[Fright Night]]'' with the sole intention of seeing David Tennant shirtless.

* A lot of people have watched ''Zabriskie Point'' solely because of its [[Pink Floyd]] connection. <ref> As for ''More'' and ''La Vallée'', the main reason that anyone even hears about these films today is that Pink Floyd is still selling the albums (''More'' and ''Obscured by Clouds'') of the music that they wrote for the soundtracks.</ref>

== Live-Action Television ==

* Many sitcoms rely heavily on a [[Breakout Character]], a [[Catch Phrase]] or a [[Running Gag]]. The audience enjoys these predictable elements so much that they want to see it happen at least once in every episode.

** A classic example is ''[[Family Matters]]'', many of whose viewers were less interested in the Winslows than they were in whatever it was Steve Urkel was up to this week. They could have easily redubbed it ''The Urkel Show'' and the ratings probably wouldn't have been affected very much.

** There's also the camp of those who watch it just for ''[[Ninja Warrior]]'' and its kin.

* The largest demographic of people now checking out the ''[[Green Hornet]]'' TV show are those interested in [[Bruce Lee]]'s early career.

* [[Jewel Staite]] coming on as Dr. Jennifer Keller became a compelling reason to start watching ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''.

** This happens a lot with [[Joss Whedon|Whedonverse]] actors - ''[[Castle]]'' was basically marketed as "[[Nathan Fillion]] is on TV again!" and ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' were similarly marketed as "[[Summer Glau]] is a killer robot!"

* Many people have said that the only reason to watch ''[[Flash Forward 2009|FlashForward]]'' is John Cho.

* It is very hard to get non-nerds to watch any part of a space mission except launch and touchdown.

* BBC America will readily admit that most of the people who subscribe to their channel are only in it for ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

* More than one person who is less than totally invested in the art of dance has watched ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]'' religiously to see incredibly fit, attractive, young people twist and display their bodies in next to no clothing. For that matter, people who ''are'' totally invested in the art of dance merely tolerate the extensive air time devoted to the judges' input, contestant background clips and rehearsal footage, not to mention the musical guests and virtually content-free padding during the results shows.

* Whenever a starring actor from a well known TV show stars in a new show, fans of that actor's previous show will probably tune in to the new show for the star. For example:

* [[Fu Manchu]] novels back in the day. No one cared about the heroes, they were just there to see Fu Manchu kick ass.

* Some people only subscribe to certain gaming magazines just for the freebies that they provide every so often, such as game demos.

* There's people who won't read a review to see what the reviewer said, but to just look at the score they gave it.

** [[Amiga Power]] knew this well, and in their final issue gave ''Alien Breed 3D 2: The Killing Grounds'' a score of 98% (one of their highest scores in the entire run of the magazine), adding in the review itself that they'd always wanted to give a fake score and that it was actually only worth 59%.

* Let's face it: You've probably bought a periodical that you wouldn't normally care about because a character from some work you're interested in was on the cover. Bonus points if it was an import. Even more bonus points if it's in some foreign language you can't read.

* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] does this. Even if it's about someone unique to the EU, you'll see cameos by your favorite characters [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Jar Jar]].

** Though the eleven-year-old [[Anti Christ|Antichrist]] and the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Horse-persons of the Apocalypse]] do have some fans.

== Newspaper Comics ==

** The falling chandelier in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''

** The helicopter in ''[[Miss Saigon]]''

** The incredibly detailed costumes in ''[[Cats]]''

== Stand Up Comedy ==

** id Software made the decision with the ''[[Quake]]'' series to move towards competitive multiplayer-only gaming. They eventually abandoned single-player entirely with ''Quake 3''. When they tried to return with ''[[Doom]] 3'', [[Broken Base|half the fandom]] [[Fan Dumb|hated it]].

*** It's worth noting that [[Doom]] already implemented a deathmatch mode, but it was also strongly designed with co-op in mind, making deathmatch only an extra. Quake fans disliked Doom 3 for it's focus on singleplayer. Doom fans disliked Doom 3 for not making it co-op.

** Valve had made its impression with a story-rich single-player game, but with even deepening story through ''[[Half Life]]'' 2 + Episodes, they left behind the survival horror that brought many players back. However, many returned just to see "Gordon Smash", and later "Dog Smash", and of course [[Action Girl|Alyx]] shoot.

* The [[Boss Battle]] is such a core and dramatic gameplay element many gamers will want to skip right to them rather than breaking them up with less awesome levels.

* While ''[[Call of Duty]]: World At War'' was a fun game in its own right, many people got the game for [[Nazi Zombies]].

** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A0DcI25QPQ advertising] was completely aware of this.

** It's come to the point where the seventh-generation ''Bomberman'' games are multiplayer-centric download titles with little to speak of in the way of singleplayer.

* Some people just play the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' titles for the [[Bishounen|pretty boys]]. Or for the [[Yaoi Fangirl|slash potential]].

{{quote| "''The game is just bonus, the soundtrack is the real deal''"}}

** Same deal with ''[[Okami]]''. The whole game was chock-full of absolutely awesome music, not to mention the extensive & vibrant [[Scenery Porn]].

** And of course, ''[[Deadpool]]'', who gets all the best lines of the first game and is even more advertised for the second.

* ''[[Grand Chase]]'' advertisement: "GRAND CHASE HAS ONE OF THE MOST "SKILL BASED" PVP SYSTEMS EVER! Wait... there's dungeons too? WHO CARES? NEW TOURNAMENT! CASH IN NOW TO BE THE BEST!!"

** Though sometimes the crossing over of the cast's stories can also be a pull-in...if you can read Japanese.

** On that note, you picked up ''[[Battle Moon Wars]]'' because you wanted to see the ''Nasuverse'' fight with/against itself.

** And let's not talk about a [[Fetish Fuel|certain peripheral.]]

* All the gamers who only bought ''[[Crackdown]]'' to get the enclosed ''[[Halo]] 3'' beta key.

* Some fans of ''[[Touhou]]'' don't really play the games; they're just in it for the characters and doujinshi.

* Many, many Wii fans don't even buy extra games for the Wii; they're just in it for ''[[Wii Sports]]''.

** Given the Wii's attach rate (number of games sold to the total number of systems), this is demonstrably false. Either that, or there are a small number of Wii gamers who buy 300+ games for their system...

* Did you actually read '''428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de'''? You only started it because [[Nasuverse|Kinoko Nasu wrote one of the scenarios]], didn't you?

* Xbox Live's Gamerscore system has resulted in "achievement whores", players who buy games strictly to milk their achievements and then never touch them again.

* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' features [[Shown Their Work|weather simulation, realistic geology and climates, elaborate history simulation and genetically-controlled character appearances]]. People play it to slaughter [[Eldritch Abomination|horrible monsters]], find the most [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|gruesome ways to execute goblins]] and flood the world in boiling magma.

* For console gaming, some people may get a video game console just to play a few specific games that appeal to them and nothing else.

* Playing ''[[Space Channel 5]] Part 2''? There's a good chance you're playing it just for Purge.

* Many play ''[[Sim City]]'' just for the disasters. Since monster attacks have been one such disaster, including one in Tokyo in [[The Sixties]], this is a literal invocation of this trope.

** For its sister series ''[[The Sims]]'' people often play it either to just kill people in horrible ways, make their Sims miserable, or to make their character [[Really Get Around]].

* [[Tim Schafer]] was aggravated when he was playing his game [[Brutal Legend]] online, only to find a player send him a message "surrendur plz," which meant the player was just trying to trade wins for achievements without trying to play. [[Tim Schafer]] tweeted "surrender plz? SURRENDUR PLZ? Is that what I go online for? To be asked to surrendur plz at my own game?!"

* Speaking of [[Pokémon]], while the storylines in the main games have gotten more complex and detailed, people still buy the games because they still want to catch, train and battle with the eponymous monsters.

* ''[[Hulk Vs]]'' contained two stories: Hulk vs Wolverine and Hulk vs Thor. A lot of people just watched it for [[Deadpool]], who wasn't even in one of them.

* Parodied on ''[[Family Guy]]''. The guy Chris works for just watches movies (some of which are fairly obscure) for the [[Perverse Sexual Lust|female nude scenes]].

* A good portion of ''[[Generator Rex]]'' fans simply stick around because [[Badass Normal|Agent]] [[Papa Wolf|Six]] is just plain cool.

* Used in-story and taken to the extreme in a ''[[Family Guy]]'' cutaway gag: It seems that Peter only went to ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' to see the Phantom's deformity, and shouts at the actor playing him to hurry up and show it. "That nose better be piggy!"

** Lampshaded in their spoof newsshow ENN, a weekly episode of which comes out at the exact same time as [[Zero Punctuation]].

{{quote| "We'll see you here next week, right after you watch [[Zero Punctuation]]." }}

* Most fans of ''[[Super Mario Bros Z]]'' just mash their space bar through the dialogue to get to the [[Holy Shit Quotient|stupidly]] [[Rule of Cool|awesome]] fight sequences faster.

** And, similar to The Escapist above, it's likely that most visitors of Channel Awesome will only watch the videos of a handful of reviewers and, if it weren't for the yearly anniversary specials, may not even know that certain reviewers exist.

* In the webcomic ''[[The Dreamer]]'', a lot of people just read it for Nathan Hale and Alexander Hamilton.

{{quote| '''Strong Bad:''' I'm Strong Bad, and you don't know it yet, but I'm the reason you're here.<br />

'''Homestar:''' It's true. }}

* Many people have the Internet for one reason and one reason only - there's even a trope for it - [[The Internet Is for Porn]].

* ''[[Off White]]'': Anytime the story switches focus to the humans there are people wanting it to go back to the wolves.