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{{quote|''"So, again, we see that the creative team has thrown up its hands and declared 'Screw it, I don't care.'"''|'''[[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]]''' during his [[Countdown to Final Crisis]] review (part 2)}}

Despite all of that, this trope is generally a mindset, and not one [[Tropes Are Not Bad|that is universally bad]]. If someone didn't care about one aspect of the production, the reasons may be that they were more worried about [[Bellisario's Maxim|something more important]]. Nearly every fan of [[Star Trek: TOSThe Original Series|the original]] ''[[Star Trek TOS|Star Trek'']]'' knows of the continuity flub of [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Khan]] recognizing Chekhov when the Ensign didn't appear in the show until following season. Obviously it isn't a horrendous mistake to begin with and Nicolas Meyer admitted to not caring about that mistake. (A light dose of [[Fanon]] fixes it anyway.)

Compare [[The Problem with Licensed Games]], [[Video Game Movies Suck]], [[Trading Card Lame]], [[Fanon Discontinuity]], [[Macekre]], [[CowboyMedia BebopResearch at His ComputerFailure]] and [[Dub -Induced Plot Hole]].

* There's not really any need to throw in any examples, as [[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|every]] [[Far Cry (film)|video]] [[Blood RayneBloodRayne (film)|game]] [[House of the Dead (film)|adaptation]] that Uwe Boll has ever made have little to nothing to do with the source material, just replaced with nothing but gratuitous sex, bad fight scenes, [[Special Effect Failure|horrible special effects]], and overall, ''is never able to get the story correct''. His excuse for not caring about the source is just ''baffling''.

* This is parodied in ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' with the fake trailer for ''Gandhi II'', where Gandhi's character suddenly resembles [[Shaft]].

* Despite [[M. Night Shyamalan]]'s avowed fandom of the series ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', [[The Last Airbender|his film]] adaptation of the series' first season might as well be called ''[[They Just Didn't Care]]: The Movie''.

* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]''. No, the author himself put his (albeit incompetent) all into his series. In this case it was the ''editor'' who was lazy. Aside from making sure that nothing was mispelled there are tons of minor and major continuity mistakes, [[Purple Prose]] abound, and somehow didn't notice that a sentence containing the words "descended upwards" doesn't make any sense.

* ''[[Mass Effect Deception|Mass Effect: Deception]]'' is the fourth ''[[Mass Effect]]'' novel, written by William C. Dietz. Despite not being part of the [[BioWare]] team, Dietz was contracted to write ''Deception''. What resulted was a book filled to the brim with poor characterization, numerous plot holes, terribly childish writing, and not several but dozens and dozens of contradictions to a well -established and consistantconsistent lore, all of which the previous novels avoided entirely. ''Mass Effect'' fans compiled [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBpMF3ONlI308D9IGG8KICBHfWKU0sXh0ntukv-_cmo/edit?pli=1 a list of the vast amount of mistakes], and BioWare has since essentially declared ''Deception'' non-canon.

* In the second season finale of ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', {{spoiler|Maid Marian was brutally murdered by Guy of Gisborne}} in a move that writer/creator Dominic Mingella described as an attempt to "rock the show" and "open up new storytelling possibilities." Translation: shock value. Interestingly enough, Mingella didn't stick around for the third season, being credited as a "creator" but contributing nothing to the script-writing or directing. The BBC obviously realised that the show had [[Jumped the Shark|self-destructed]], which led to a general attitude of "We Don't Care Anymore" for the broadcasting of the third season. There was very little publicity regarding the show (far less than previous seasons), the official website wasn't updated until a few days before the premiere, a "closed-mouth" policy seemed to be in place on the reasons behind {{spoiler|Marian's death}}, it was given a [[Friday Night Death Slot|terrible time-slot]], detailed plot synopses were released to the press which contained massive [[Spoiler|spoilersspoiler]]s, and the premature release of the DVD box set ensured that the final episode was leaked on [[YouTube]] a good three days before it aired on television (not that many people saw it on television anyway: [[The BBC]] [[Sports Preemption|pulled it in favour of tennis]] and plonked it on a different channel only a few hours before it was scheduled to air). The icing on the cake is the poor build quality of the DVD boxset, which along with the [[Vanilla Edition|minimal amount of extras]] further emphasises that series 3 was only shown at all just to [[Get It Over With|get it over and done with]]; it's quite possible yours has fallen apart on the shelf.

* Near the end of the third season of ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', the official [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].com recap included a plot point (the reveal that Vaughn had been brainwashed by Lauren) that was deleted from the episode (when the season was released on DVD, it was included in the deleted scenes, though). The summary was fixed a few hours later. In the next episode, Vaughn refers to "Whatever Lauren did to me," which was never revealed on screen. In the season finale, the cliffhanger involved Sydney being alerted to secret documents about how she was some sort of pawn. When Syd read the file about the CIA's secret "Project SAB-47" (SAB = Sydney's initials, 47 = the show's recurring magical number), created by her father, Jack, with a starting date of the day she was born, she cries, and then her father appears and tells her that he was hoping she'd never find that. The implication is that her life was some massive CIA project started by Jack. When the website recap went up, they included deleted plot points AGAIN, this time from shots of the documents that were deleted to not reveal as much in the cliffhanger. Again, the recap was fixed within a few hours. After a long wait (the new season was moved from September to January), the first half of the season premiere ends on the reveal that (spoilered because this actually was official continuity) {{spoiler|Jack recently killed her mother with CIA approval}}... even though they used the Season finale scene as a flashback, which the new reveal didn't make sense as an extension of due to the date and project name. The writers decided that it was the best move essentially because they thought that they wrote themselves into a corner by making Jack potentially too evil, and they did it as haphazardly as possible. The show had a ridiculous amounts of dropped plots and other weird stuff at various points, but the sloppiness over the course of these few episodes really made it look like they just didn't care.

* [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s short-lived game show ''[[Set for Life]]'' omitted the ''qualifying rounds'' that determined how much each contestant would be playing for in the rest of the game — resulting in a lame ''[[Deal or No Deal]]'' knockoff with arbitrary cash values.

* When [[FoxFOX]] doesn't care, they ''really'' don't care -- notcare—not only did they [[Screwed by the Network|cancel]] the much-loved ''[[Wonderfalls]]'' and ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' ahead of their time(s), but they aired their respective episodes out of order, leading to confusion and a lack of continuity.

* [[WCWWorld Championship Wrestling]] itself at the twilight of the [[Monday Night Wars]]. The management of the owning company Time Warner, as described in many books, despised professional wrestling and actively wanted it to do so badly that it had to be taken off the air. Ted Turner, who had been WCW's protector, had gotten older and lost his position of power after the AOL/Time Warner merger, and thus was no longer able to exert influence over it. Internally, WCW had no effective management, no bosses who were able to actually control the egos of the wrestlers and hand out effective punishments. Instead it was run by [[Vince Russo]], who chronically misunderstands everything about how pro wrestling works, and a bunch of smaller names who argued with each other and deliberately sabotaged the shows to keep anything besides their pet ideas from getting over.

* [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|At Wrestlemania XX]], a truly Godawful match between Bill [[Goldberg]] and [[Brock Lesnar]] occurred. Goldberg and Lesnar were, at the time, two of the biggest names in the WWE. However, both were also leaving the company, and thought they could phone in their last match, so instead of a great battle, the fans got a slow-paced, boring match.

* An unusual medium for an example is the ''[[VideoMadden GameNFL]]/Madden NFL'' franchise. It has had a bug for years on end that stops players in simulated games from getting tired, so the backups never play. This means that about five running backs break the all-time rushing record each season, and there are all sorts of other silly consequences. The makers cannot possibly be unaware of the bug, and they just don't care.

* The old ''[[Valis]]'' series was an epic tale of strong female [[Magic Knight|Magic Knights]]s with swords. Unfortunately, its original publisher went under and sold the rights to a porn game company. The resulting [[Hentai]] enraged fans and left everyone else cold.

* The ''[[Dawn of War]]: Soulstorm'' expansion was outsourced to another company that closed down partway into development, and then released anyway. The result was "[[Memetic Mutation|SPESS MEHREENS]]!", "[[Narm|We should take away their]] [[Narm|METAL BAWKSES!]]", and a few [[Game Breaking Bug|Game Breaking Bugs]]s including one that could result in infinite resources...''in multiplayer''. All this is understandable, if [[So Bad It's Good|hilariously awful]], but then there were things like having the ''only'' recurring character's voice actor still on staff and giving the role to someone else, then only having him grunt a few lines and leave. Or a backwater factory shipping out the oft-cited "[[Cool Tank|tank so big its guns have smaller guns attached to them and is only produced on the most technologically advanced planets in the galaxy]]" by the hundred (it isn't just game mechanics either. At the start of the said mission it is mentioned that there is a company of the said tanks deployed on the planet. Actually, getting three would be considered extremely lucky). Or, y'know, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY any of the script writing.] Of course, some have speculated that, because Iron Lore Entertainment -- theEntertainment—the company responsible -- wasresponsible—was closing down after all, they literally didn't care. Perhaps only the ex-staff know.

* The ''developers'' of ''[[Wild ArmsARMs 1|Wild Arms: Alter Code F]]'' cared. Agetec, the company that localized it in America, did not. Agetec picked up the rights to localize the English version a few months after the game was released in Japan (November 2003), a move that was welcomed by fans considering their work publishing the ''[[Armored Core]]'' series, which included [[Regional Bonus|adding extras that weren't in the Japanese release]]. A year later, no one had heard a word about any work that had been done with the localization and absolutely no word of a release date. Small details trickled out through one insider, but even he expressed frustration when the game was finally released in America, in November 2005...without voices (the Japanese release had grunts and shouts in battle, and vocals in a few songs, all of which were cut out entirely without any replacement dub), without fixing the [[Game Breaking Bug|Game Breaking Bugs]]s, without any extras (except a DVD of the first episode of the questionable-quality WA anime, ''Twilight Venom'')...and worst of all, a [[Blind Idiot Translation]] that was barely any better than the original game, and certainly wasn't up to the standard of 2005 [[PlayStation 2]] games. Agetec went mysteriously silent and didn't respond to any inquiries, even from the insider, as to how they managed to release a gutted version of the game after sitting on it for two years. Subsequent games in the series were localized by [[XSEED Games]], who are widely agreed to have handled the process better.

* Vergil mode in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3: Special Edition''. While some may have been satisfied just to use him as a playable character, others were hoping for a complete deal - cutscenes showing Vergil's interactions with the bosses, fights against Dante, Vergil's own take on wielding the weapons Dante gains etc. Regrettably, the only cutscene on Vergil's side made sense only as part of Dante's story, with no pre- or post-bossfight cutscenes or gaining the bosses' weapons. The "Dante" fights were with a mere [[Palette Swap]] of Vergil, sometimes [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknamed]]d "Vante". It's playable, yes, and there is a certain amount of [[Squee]] to using Vergil... but it isn't exactly an expected complete package.

** Similarly, ''[[Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks]]'' has the unlockable characters of Scorpion and Sub-Zero, as well as the versus mode. While the two as well as the other playable characters in that mode do have their own movesets and fatalities, in cutscenes and in-game contexts they wind up playing the exact same roles as Liu Kang and Kung Lao, which means not only talking in their voices but such oddities as a cutscene where Sub-Zero conjours a hat out of nowhere to cut a clone of himself's eye. As for the versus mode, it has access to a good few of the characters in the game, but despite having full movesets programmed in for them (playable via hacking) certain characters like Kano, Goro, and Shang Tsung are not useable for no apparent reason. Also none of the characters playable in that mode besides Scorpion and Sub-Zero are usable in the story mode, again for no clear reason.

* The PC port of ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]]''. First, [[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]] claimed they will never bother doing it as "no PC is powerful enough to run it". Then they changed their minds. Did they fix the horrible bugs? No. Did they optimize the gameplay so an average PC could run it? No. Did they cut it down to optimize it for a PC release? No. They tacked on a little bit of content, and called it the Ultimate Sith Edition. How big was it? 23 gigabytes. That's Blu-ray big. Problem is, few PCs have a BD-ROM drive. A [[Steam]] release fixed part of that issue, but also made the ''23 gigabyte size'' all the more apparent, especially for those with slower internet speeds and lack of hard drive space.

** Pretty much every instruction manual put out by Konami USA was like this in the NES era. Apparently, the copy editors vastly overestimated their collective sense of humor, and that manifested in their tossing out the actual plots and character names from Konami's games so they could fill the manuals with all sorts of shitty jokes and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]]s.

* ''WWF Warzone'' by [[Acclaim]] for the [[Nintendo 64]] had better looking visuals than the Playstation version, due to its higher resolution, but the music is atrocious. The Playstation version contained pre-recorded music for the wrestlers' entrances. Due to the limited memory, the N64 naturally used MIDIs, but they only bear little resemblance to the real music. Later games by [[THQ]] had surprisingly high quality MIDI-style songs, and their previous [[WCWWorld Championship Wrestling]] games had versions of the Nitro theme that were very faithful to the real recording.

* ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]] [[Third Is 3D|3D]]'' has its share of problems, but special mention goes to the [[Gender Flip|Earthworm Kim mode]], unlocked after [[Hundred-Percent100% Completion|collecting all 1,000 marbles]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TykwZsVbs4 This video] demonstrates the carelessness of the whole thing beautifully. Try pointing out the flaws!

* ''[[Felix the Cat: The Movie]]'' has almost nothing to do with the original ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' shorts, either from the 1920s or the 1960s, aside from a couple of references. The plot [[Random Events Plot|makes]] [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|absolutely]] [[Ass Pull|no]] [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|sense]], the final battle with the Master Cylinder is one gigantic [[Anticlimax]], characters appear and disappear at random, and there's a ton of [[As You Know|blatant exposition]]. Couple all that with a bunch of really bad jokes from Felix (who [[Motor Mouth|never shuts up]]), sound issues that make the music drown out what the characters are saying, and just plain lazy animation, and the whole movie comes across as a giant train wreck. The movie was apparently made to be the pilot for another Felix TV show, but it was so bad that the show never came to be. And if this movie is any indication of what was to come, animation fans can be thankful the series never saw the light of day. You can watch an Animated Anarchy review of the movie [https://web.archive.org/web/20130321212333/http://www.starfieldcreations.com/?p=653 here].

* After ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'', [[Richard Williams]]' labor of love, was taken from his hands due to lack of funding, it was passed on to Majestic Films International, who hopefully would finish it cheaply enough to turn a profit. The results included [[Lull Destruction]], [[Cliché Storm|uninspired animated film clichés]], [[Narrating the Obvious|narration that describes exactly what we are seeing]], bland [[Award Bait Song|Award Bait Songs]]s and very [[Off-Model]] animation. Then it was released with minimal marketing and a low number of prints in an attempt to avoid spending any more money on it. Animation fans consider this a tragedy.

** Until they [[Lampshade|lampshadedlampshade]]d it by having the characters [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the 4th wall]].

* [[Disney XD]] airs episodes 20 onward of ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' with an opening that promotes the movie ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' in a manner containing several inconsistencies compared to the show. First of all, [[Nick Fury]] narrates, even though SHIELD and [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] start out as two completely separate groups of crimefighters. Secondly, his speech mentions [[Iron Man]], [[The Mighty Thor]], [[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]], and [[Captain America (comics)]] (who's referred to as "[[Captain America: The First Avenger|The First Avenger]]" even though in EMH he's not even one of the founding members), but omits three or more other members. Finally, the editors managed to keep three lines of the original theme song, but they don't rhyme at all.

* Despite being the source of most of the series' charm and humor, (most of) the VHS and DVD releases of ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' have the music video segments cut, despite the show being owned by [[MTV]].<ref>although Mike Judge retains the film rights</ref>. Presumably this was either to keep costs down, or remove dated content, or fit more episodes on each disc, or because they were just too lazy to get all the clearances.

* A ''Cracked.com'' article, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110193618/http://www.cracked.com/article/242_6-tv-shows-that-completely-lost-their-shit/ 6 TV Shows That Completely Lost Their Shit], [[Discussed Trope|talks about this process]]:

* Wizards of the Coast stopped caring about ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' third edition when fourth started coming out. The Tome of Battle errata changes ''mid-freaking-word'' into Complete Mage errata.