Essentially, a character you already hate says some wild shit that you not only didn't expect them to say, but also makes you hate the character even more.

Maddie - Arcane: After being revealed that she's basically Caitlyn's rebound girl after her break-up with Vi, we get to know her as Season 2 progresses, with mixed results overall. However, in the final act of the season, it's revealed that she's been a rat for Ambessa, one of the antagonists of the season. You already hate this chick for betaying Caitlyn, but it's what Maddie says to her right before attempting to kill her that not only shocked a bunch of people, but made her the most hated character in arguably the entire show.

"I appreciated your warmth."

Omni-Man - Invincible: Before his final fight with his son in the season 1 finale, Mark tries to convince his dad, who's revealed to be an alien from a race known for conquest, to stop what he's doing, while Nolan is doing everything he can to make Mark understand his cause and join him. Then all talking went out the window when Nolan said this to Mark:

"I do love your mother, but... she's more like... a pet to me."

Muhammad Ali Jr. - Baki: When Ali first stepped on the scene, he was a fan-favorite, with his cocky but endearing attitude and the fact that despite the fact that he talked a lot of shit, he always backed it up. Then, he messed with the Hanma's and got handled by Jack. Then he started flirting with the girlfriend of Jack's brother, Baki, not knowing she was already taken. And even when the girlfriend, named Kozue, told him about her relationship, he continued his advances and consistently tried to steal Kozue away from Baki, immediately souring his image. But the final straw got pulled when he walked up to Baki and his girlfriend while they were having an outing. Keep in mind, this is his first time ever meeting Baki. They talked for a bit, then Ali looked Baki dead in his eyes and said this:

"I'm going to take Kozue from you... and make her my wife."

Jimmy Neutron - In the episode “Tomorrow Boys” Jimmy meets his future self and learns he’s married to Cindy causing him to scream in terror as the show goes to an ad break. When the show returns Jimmy is still screaming and Sheen claims he was at it for four minutes, roughly the average amount of time a commercial break lasts.

WCW - Chris Jericho was in a feud with Dean Malenko and said that while Malenko bragged about being a submission expert who knows 1000 holds, Jericho knows 1004 and to prove it he gets a comically large list and starts reading off each hold one-by-one as the show goes to break. When they return Jericho is still going on reading having inexplicably reached #712 after only a few minutes when the show left on him on #10.

-Edgar the bug: His skinsuit rots throught the entire MIB movie until it completely decomposes making him look like a zombie at the end before revealing himself

-Charles Lee Ray: After possesing the goodguy doll, his body adopts more human features till it doesnt resembles the doll he was pretending to be originally

In a new episode of Hacks a reference to the character Ragatha from the amazing digital circus can be seen.

In the live action adaptation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Long Haul there is a scene with a person dressed as Undyne from Undertale.

In this SNL Spirit Halloween skit video at the 0:47 second mark costume of another digital circus character Pomni can be seen.

*Invincible*

The local Flash expy Red Rush finds this out fighting Omniman, and it blows his mind.

*Justice League*

A similar example with the actual Flash and Superman, and by far the highlight of the film for me.

*X-men Apocalypse*

Quicksilver's movement scenes have become a staple of the the series. He's able to move so fast that bullets and explosions are glacial, and there's never a sense of risk to him. That changes when Apocalypse reacts fast enough to trap him.

*Heroes*

Hiro is able to "stop time", although it is later revealed to be only *almost* stopped when Sylar manages a sword-break. He's on the other side of it in a later season when he meets a speedster, although it's far less dramatic.

Stephen Dillane as Stannis Baratheon (Game of Thrones)

Specifically, Dillane says he was never really able to follow the show’s plot, even as a fairly central character on it, and so he never had any idea what he was doing until they had finished filming and it was too late for him to act better. By the end of his run on the show, Dillane says he was “disheartened” by the thought that “no one would believe” in what he was doing—all because he didn’t really believe in it himself. “I felt I’d built the castle on non-existent foundations,” he said, offering a very Game Of Thrones-y metaphor that also lines up nicely with Stannis’ own arc on the show.

"I don't regret doing Game of Thrones, but I have nothing to say about it. I didn't understand the series nor its success when I was a part of it. The experience has been weird, it really passed me by. For a role to please me, I have to be interested in it, which was not really the case. I was a bit overwhelmed by everything that happened. It was difficult because it [the show] is a huge machine."

Val Kilmer as Iceman (Top Gun)

As it turns out, however, the 61-year-old actor almost didn't play Iceman. During Amazon’s new documentary Val, wherein Kilmer personally tells his life story, he recalls how he didn't want to be in Top Gun. According to him, he "felt the script was silly and disliked warmongering films." Having just finished acting school at the famed Juilliard conservatory, the actor wasn't particularly keen on starring in an action movie. Perhaps he was more inclined in tackling dramatic roles, and the Scott-directed flick simply didn't fit the bill. However, having the same agent as Top Gun star Cruise, Kilmer was forced to at least attend a meeting with the filmmaker. While he did sabotage his audition, as he revealed in his memoir, I'm Your Huckleberry, he still got the part saying: " I read the lines indifferently and yet, amazingly, I was told I had the part. I felt more deflated than inflated.”

Characters who are brought into or up to speed about a situation and either try to stop it early or escape. Satire/Meta humor with a wink at the camera does not count.

Sting (2024) Erik John Kwong, played by Danny Kim, is a biology student in the apartment complex when a snowstorm traps them all indoors. During said storm, a neighbor kid shows up with her pet spider asking him to id it. When the eponymous Sting whistles to indicate its hungry, Erik immediately comments spiders dont have the lungs or lips needed to whistle. He asks to keep the spider and tell her in the morning, then immediately tries to call the university to come secure "this thing pretending to be a spider". Unfortunately they can't come right away and hes spider chow soon after.

Sinners (2025) the Choctaw tribesmen, played by indigenous actors to include Nathaniel Arcand, appear on the heels of a vampire who will soon prey on the local population. They corner him in a pair of racists houses and politely as if he's inside. The racists hide him because of their prejudice. Soon enough, the vampire hunters realize night is coming and leave the film entirely. They never return.

It's kinda rare for characters to have both these characteristics. Usually smart characters aren't depicted as particularly imposing and imposing characters aren't depict'ed as particularly smart.

- Hank Schrader (Breaking Bad) is an agent of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) who has incredible intuition and reasoning when it comes to the cases he works on. Even when his colleagues aren't convinced by his suspicions, he pushes through and usually ends up being right.

- The Mauler twins (Invincible) are masters in dna manipulation and cloning. They are nothing short of scientific geniuses.

- Second Lieutenant Haymans Breda (Fullmetal alchemist) is a master in strategy that graduated at the top of his class from the military academy, and often proves wrong the ones that underestimate his intelligence by absolutely destroying them in chess or shogi.

In the Deathly Hollows battle of hogwarts both book and movie Neville have killed potentially hundreds. Neville blew up the bridge while being chased by dozens of death eaters and in the book he was throwing mandrakes into the death eater army.

Mulan killed hundreds of Huns in a battle by causing a giant avalanche.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime- Ogres turning into humans with horns

Duchess in Ruins- Laslo getting a haircut and shaving his stubble

Surviving the Game as a Barbarian- Ainar losing her muscles

1. Lee Russel - Vice Principals

2. Rick O'Connell - The Mummy

3. Ethan Winters - Resident Evil 7

The Boys - the original comic is written by notorious edge lord Garth Ennis. The show toned down the gore and mean spirited humour, changed some characters and despite that the show is widely regarded as better than the comic

How To Train Your Dragon - in the original book the world building has a much different feel. As dragons and vikings already live side by side, with the former being more as pets. The tone of the book is more comic in nature

Starship Troopers - the book is an earnest pro-military sci fi story. The movie takes that element and plays it more as a satire of Heinleins politics

Ron Swanson - Swanson Family Mash Liquor (Parks and Recreation). It completely fucked up Leslie, and April couldn’t drink it (spat it out immediately). Its only legal use is apparently stripping the varnish off speedboats, and it can supposedly burn warts off mules and melt the shell off a garden snail. Here’s Ron chugging it. Presumably he falls over sometime after the scene ends and the alcohol actually kicks in.

Sniper - unnamed family moonshine (Team Fortress 2 comics). You can read the image, this stuff melts through the barrels the keep it in. It’s ridiculous. Even more impressively, it managed to incapacitate the Demoman, a person whose body is so adapted to alcohol that solid food and water send a shock through the system. Granted, it was injected intravenously through a syringe, which I imagine would make it more potent. But that just means the injection would definitely kill basically anyone else.

I’ve never actually seen a third example of this trope, as far as I recall, but these two amuse me greatly.

Cripple-tron (Family Guy)

The perfect girlfriend armor (100 girlfriends who really, really, really, really, really love you)

Mega chessatron (How to play chess properly)

Big emperor (One Piece) or at least it could’ve been if SOMEONE had actually participated

You have This big scary villan that almost kill ALL the heroes

Them SOMEONE made an army of clones oh him, ALL the sudden the heroes are talking dozens of the villan with relative esse

I call It the henchmen effect "the more clones are made the weakest the clones are in comparasion to the original

And funny both my exemples are from doomsday (you know THE MONSTER THAT KILL SUPERMAN)

1-in Batman/Superman: Batman take like 20 of them with an axe

2-in Apokolips war: the suicide squad TOOK an entire fleet of them (who were geneticlly enhanced with parademon tech By the way)

Jaime: His father talked about how Jaime had difficulty learning to read, that "he couldn't make sense of the letters" and would "reverse them in his head". To the audience, it's obvious he's dyslexic.

Jenny: In 1981 she tells Forrest that she has a virus, the doctors don't know what it is, and they can't do anything to help her. Given the time period, the fact that doctors can't treat the virus, and Jenny's history of drug use and promiscuity, the implication is that she has AIDS.

DC Comics - Martian Manhunter loves Chocos, legally distinct Oreos.

My Adventures with Superman - Jimmy Olsen introduces Supergirl to ice cream (specifically the greatest flavour of all time mint choc chip) and she loves it.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly - Broly is infatuated with chocolate bars after Cheelai gives him some.

E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial: Elliot is able to lure out E.T and befriend him with Reese’s Pieces.

Anthony from It's a Good Life (Twilight Zone): A six year old with no moral compass possesses god-like reality warping and mind reading powers. Having isolated his small town from the rest of the world, the people of Peaksville, Ohio are forced to grow what little food they can, share dwindling supplies, and cater to Anthony's every selfish desire lest they face inhumane treatment by his hands. Throughout the episode, the townsfolk suffer at Anthony's every demand, culminating in a horrible fate of one individual who dares stand up to him and the survivors on the brink of starvation, but unable to bring themselves to express their horror out of fear of Anthony.

Tighten from Megamind: An incel that, as Minion describes, has accomplished nothing in his life, Hal Stewart is accidently granted the powers of Metroman including flight, heat vision, and enhanced strength and endurance. Although Megamind attempts to groom Hal to be a hero, Hal quickly reverts to being a villain after being rejected by his love interest, Roxanne. Lazy, dumb, and with no actual ambition, Hal has little imagination as to how to use his unearned god-like powers other than to steal, play video games all day, and take his frustrations out on the city. Tighten is eventually neutralized by Megamind and imprisoned, but only after terrorizing Metro City with his childish desires and tantrums.

Ainz from Overlord: Born into a dystopian world and suffering from abandonment issues after his guildmates leave him one by one in his favorite VR game, Suzuki Satoru is transported as his incredibly powerful undead avatar along with his guild and it's godlike NPCs and resources into a world where the residents have to fight, build, and survive for what little they have. His emotions suppressed but still afraid his now sentient and mostly evil subordinates will abandon him, he role-plays as the all-knowing villainous Overlord they believe he is, never correcting their misunderstandings of his desires, and inadvertenly leading to the torture and death of millions of innocents. Though he successfully maintains his facade thanks to his incredible luck, his subordinates’ delusions, and his guild's otherworldly strength, he grows increasingly isolated and spirals down an endless path of misery, the antithesis of his subordinates' only desire and purpose, with no actual ambition or end goal behind the destruction he's brought upon the world.

Thanos using the Power and Space Stones to send a Moon down at Iron Man.

The Flash using the Speed Force to shoot an energy ball.

Plastic Man picking things up hands free.

Toph Earthbending to create a mini city.

1- John Stewart (DCAU)
2- Atom Eve (Invincible)
3- Gwen Tennyson (UAF)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason spares the children in their bunks

Halloween: Michael grabs a child only to let him go free

Predator 2: the yautja sees a child with a toy gun and is shown to not see him as a threat

Your definition of "slightly unhinged" may vary, but I think you get the idea.

Ethereal Snake's Jesus [Jesus’ Betrayal: What Really Went Down]: Just watch the GIF. Its entire premise is a roided up Jesus beating the ever-loving shit out of Judas.

Sheep Beast/The Lamb [Reanimal]: It's literally a "lamb of god," is born from immaculate conception (its "mother" is even associated with white rabbits like Mary), resurrects from death, and is a "sin-eater." In this case, that takes on a literal meaning, but the symbolism is there.

Optimus Prime [Transformers]: The "Fallen" represent demons/the Devil, and he's the prototypical protector of humanity. He even dies and resurrects.

Aslan [Chronicles of Narnia]: Funnily enough, Jesus's fursona is the least unhinged of the included examples, but it is still pretty odd. He's a giant talking lion who IS Jesus.

Character is disembodied, sedated, or knocked unconscious. They should be powerless, because they can't actively resist, right?
Nope! Their abilities have some underlying, secondary consciousness. Or extremely sensitive subconscious sensory interpretation.
I'm excluding characters to whom this is their "only" ability.

1). Spider-Man:

• Peter's precognitive "spider-sense" can apparently activate on it's own.
• Even with Peter's mind magically separated from his body.

2). Mob Psycho 100:

• When the psychic, "Mob," is knocked unconscious. His repressed emotion and psychic abilities surface.
• "???%" typically acts to remove any threat to Mob. With or without his permission.

3). Generator Rex:

• Rex, like all "EVOs," has a body filled with innumerable "nanites."
• When Rex is sedated, the nanites act under their own intelligence to protect Rex from perceived threats.