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** The introduction of Jericho into the Titans had the potential for a fantastic storyline to tie into Slade's obsession to find the perfect apprentice. Instead, after "Titans Together", nothing comes of this.
*** This probably has more to do with the fact that the series was cancelled, with "Titans Together" being the penultimate episode for the entire show.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' "Big Superhero Wish" episode promises to be a full half-hour of Timmy and his friends kicking butt with their superpowers. One imagines plenty of fighting, leavened of course with humor and suspense. As it turns out, Timmy and his friends spend less than a quarter of the episode before the villains strip the good guys of their abilities. Our protagonists prevail with the help of the ordinary heroes who first let Timmy down at the beginning of the story. Ah, [[An Aesop]]. So much more rewarding than fulfilling the promise for a good action story.
** Another good example: early in the show Trixie Tang had an episode called "The Boy That Would Be Queen" that hinted she was more than [[Alpha Bitch|an inconsiderate snob.]] It involved Timmy finding out she had "boy" interests, i.e. comic books, video games, etc. It looked like they were slowly going to give her [[Character Development]] and let her evolve into a decent character. Then the mass [[Flanderization]] of every character in the show set in, and her secretly being a [[Tomboy]] has never been explored again in favor of [[Character Exaggeration]] of her as a shallow [[Alpha Bitch]]. What could have been a good character [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character|went down the tubes]].
** Actually, Trixie had [[Hidden Depths]] hinted at in her ''FIRST appearance'', where she told Timmy that, while she can't afford to be seen hanging with him and his friends, she admires him giving up popularity so that he can stay with his own friends, thinking that decision to be "cool". That Trixie became such a ''bitch'' in later episodes is a truly staggering fact when one considers how she was early on.
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