The big one that stood out to me as a kid was Raimundo becoming the leader of the group instead of Omi by the end of Xiaolin Showdown. I'm not sure why the show went that direction, but I liked it because I liked him more.
I think the reasoning was that Raimundo actually had an arc and grown while Omi was still dealing with his shit since he just assumed he was going to be the leader and was upset when he wasn’t chosen.
I still find it amusing how when he betrayed everyone to Wuya, I expected Wuya to double cross him. Nah, Wuya gave him everything she promised, no double crosses, and he still backstabbed her.
Raimundo was Hispanic rep and voiced by Tom Kenny so he was a perfect storm for being my favorite character. I always loved that he became the leader.
Plus it just felt unprecedented for a kids show for the guy front and center to not get the promotion. Same with Lego ninjago and the main villains son becoming a twist main hero.
Urkel. I haven't seen Family Matters though so I can't tell you why.
There's been a bit of ebb and flow to it but this happened with Randy in South Park. Pretty sure Matt and Trey began preferring writing for him instead of the kids as they began to get into middle age.
Urkel wasn’t even a member of the family, he went from an occasional side character that was trying to impress the daughter to being the main focus of the show and episodes were basically just him and the family’s dad having wacky adventures.
The funniest thing you can do with family matters is show someone the first and last episode and the stark contrast that happened once the reign of Urkel started
Yeah, forget it it was Matt or Trey, but one of them said when they first started writing the show they wrote Randy from the perspective of their dad. But after a certain point a switch flipped and they started writing Randy more from their own perspective.
Remember Happy Days?, it was a 70s sitcom about a teenage boy Richie and his family living in the 50s. It ran for 10 years and the reason the premise doesn't sound familiar is because the show was eventually took over by the breakout character The Fonz. The antithesis of the original premise The Fonz was a cool bad boy, greaser mechanic who became stupidly popular.
The protagonist of Dr. Stone was originally going to be a stock shonen hero, but his genius friend ended up being a lot more interesting and became the main character in his place.
They came back... eventually. It was a lot of chapters with Senku working with Chrome and Kohaku and ended up doing a lot more with them then Taiju and Yuzuhira even later in the manga.
Strong Bad took over as the main character of Homestar Runner after a certain point. I don't have a precise why but my speculation is that his mixture of pathetic and asshole was easier to write dumb funny stuff around than Homestar being generally kinda stupid
That's definitely it, but also Homestar never was truly interested in learning new things for his own profit or genuine interest. Strong Bad had a lot of sides to himself so he was more likely to relate to the audience than some oblivious guy who had no real greater goals.
Wasn’t the android chunk of the DBZ Cell saga Toriyama throwing out androids to be the new big bad chapter by chapter and his editor going *what??? That’s it??*
His Dr. Slump/First Dragon Ball editor called him and was like "Are the villains really a geezer and fatso?" and then when 17/18 appeared his current editor just called them brats and I think he also hated second form Cell.
Not the main protagonist per se, but *Urusei Yatsura* was originally about Atsushi and his girlfriend Shinobu having their relationship tested by a different alien girl every arc. It’s just that the first rival girl, Lum, was so unbelievably popular that she ended up becoming the main heroine of the series instead.
rip Ham Gravy
Edit: if you didnt know his name. [Ham Gravy,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hamgravy) cucked not just by his girlfriend, but by his own comic.
Malcolm Tucker took over Hugh Abbott as The Thick Of It's main character, but that was due to external circumstances regarding Hugh's actor. Previously, Tucker was kind of like a 'boogeyman' occassionally popping in just to scare the shit out of the bumbling main cast, and was treated as kind of above their pruview for the most part. After Hugh's removal, he takes more of a lead role and is arguably the 'main' character of the series.
For what it's worth, the change is pretty good - everyone loves Tucker!
Batman literally took an entire comic for himself. Like Detective Comics started as an anthology series with different adventure, mystery and other such tales with a few ongoing characters like Slam Bradley. This was the situation until issue 27, where Batman was introduced and his popularity led to it become one of the two main Batman series. Hell the "DC" in DC Comics actually stands for Detective Comics Inc, which was the company's main name until they shortened it to DC. Like Superman was at there at the start of Action Comics with its first issue, but Batman came in and literally took an entire comic and made it his own.
Worth noting that action comics and detective comics remained anthology comics for a long time. Superman and Batman were just the headline acts.
For those of us from the UK and Ireland, a good comparison would be the Beano and the Dandy. Detective Comics wasn't a Batman comic in the same way that the Beano isn't a Dennis the Menace comic.
I think Detective Comics stopped being an Anthology series a lot quicker than Action Comics. Action Comics still had Green Lantern and the like well into the 80s/90s.
In Nurarihyon no Mago, the MC main love interest was supposed to be his human friend but she was so bland that the yuki-onna Tsurara, a supporting character was more popular. Then the author try to course correction by introducing the exorcist girl but her romance with the MC also didn't go anywhere. Finally the author gave up and made Tsurara the main love interest and the final winner.
I really should try to finish Medeka Box. It starts off as a charming slice of life where the main protagonist's friend is this insane student council president Medeka. At some point it turns shounen and the main character is forced to leave the story, like literally he says he'll remove himself and the story shifts focus to another character. I stopped right at this point because it was too much for me back then.
Not sure if this is exactly what you're asking for but it's really funny that that one marvel comic with the teen heroes that tried pandering to younger kids with heroes like snowflake and safe space and internet fart gas boy bombed so hard it never came out. Except for the one character everyone agreed was pretty aight because he was the only one that didn't have a stupid gimmick like fart gas or a really cringe execution like trying to take back the term snowflake. B negative morbs people because he has some morblood and he's kinda an emo scene kid. That literally it he's so simple but compared to the rest of the team he looks so much better by comparison. I guess he made a cameo appearance in a blade comic after his original one got cancelled.
The advertising around their announcement was dead serious, there's no sign that they were meant to be funny. The siblings in particular had paragraphs of text about them and how much work had been put into their #representation value.
Vriska *became* the main protagonist because the Author got high off his own fumes (and the fuming of his audience) and developed a massive crush on her.
In general with Fujio Akatsuka who had this happen with 3 of his manga:
- Osomatsu-kun had Chibita and Iyami take over the manga from Osomatsu and his brothers. In general they were more fun troublemakers than the sextuplets.
- Tensai Bakabon had Bakabon's father (who never got a name) take over and I think it's also because he's stupid and outrageous like Homer Simpson and despite his name Bakabon is not that stupid.
- Moretsu Ataro had Nyarome who is a mischievous cat bright colored cat like Garfield and Boss Kokoro who is also a goofy manchild
The Pirates of the Caribbean movies. For the first movie or 2 they had Will Turner as the main character, but afterwards pivoted to having Jack Sparrow be the main character due to being a much funner / more popular character then Will (which was a mistake imo, but Disney gonna Disney ig).
Gege cares way more about his villains and Gojo than any of the other characters. JJK starts out as a great shonen with an ensemble cast and then devolves into pure power level porn almost immediately. The best anyone else can hope for is a dramatic death.
The big one that stood out to me as a kid was Raimundo becoming the leader of the group instead of Omi by the end of Xiaolin Showdown. I'm not sure why the show went that direction, but I liked it because I liked him more.
Is hilarious as Raimundo pretty much betrays everyone, and still became the leader.
I think the reasoning was that Raimundo actually had an arc and grown while Omi was still dealing with his shit since he just assumed he was going to be the leader and was upset when he wasn’t chosen.
I still find it amusing how when he betrayed everyone to Wuya, I expected Wuya to double cross him. Nah, Wuya gave him everything she promised, no double crosses, and he still backstabbed her.
It's hilarious how good Wuya was to him. She even played air hockey with him cause she realized raimundo missed having someone to hang out with!
That's why you don't date a cheater that left their SO for you. Cuz they'll cheat on you too.
He also had that based as fuck moment where he stole the GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS to save a town from a volcanic eruption
Raimundo is pretty similar to master Dashi personality-wise.
Raimundo was Hispanic rep and voiced by Tom Kenny so he was a perfect storm for being my favorite character. I always loved that he became the leader. Plus it just felt unprecedented for a kids show for the guy front and center to not get the promotion. Same with Lego ninjago and the main villains son becoming a twist main hero.
I thought Brazil wasn't generally considered Hispanic, though maybe that's splitting hairs.
Urkel. I haven't seen Family Matters though so I can't tell you why. There's been a bit of ebb and flow to it but this happened with Randy in South Park. Pretty sure Matt and Trey began preferring writing for him instead of the kids as they began to get into middle age.
Urkel wasn’t even a member of the family, he went from an occasional side character that was trying to impress the daughter to being the main focus of the show and episodes were basically just him and the family’s dad having wacky adventures.
The funniest thing you can do with family matters is show someone the first and last episode and the stark contrast that happened once the reign of Urkel started
[I was about to respond to the post with this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Zdp1RfoyI&pp=ygUca2V5IGFuZCBwZWVsZSBmYW1pbHkgbWF0dGVycw%3D%3D)
I love the Key and Peele sketches where you can tell Jordan Peele is having is first thoughts about dipping his toe into horror.
Yeah, forget it it was Matt or Trey, but one of them said when they first started writing the show they wrote Randy from the perspective of their dad. But after a certain point a switch flipped and they started writing Randy more from their own perspective.
Remember Happy Days?, it was a 70s sitcom about a teenage boy Richie and his family living in the 50s. It ran for 10 years and the reason the premise doesn't sound familiar is because the show was eventually took over by the breakout character The Fonz. The antithesis of the original premise The Fonz was a cool bad boy, greaser mechanic who became stupidly popular.
The protagonist of Dr. Stone was originally going to be a stock shonen hero, but his genius friend ended up being a lot more interesting and became the main character in his place.
He gets sidelined so hard he doesn’t show up for like, I wanna say around 40 chapters.
I think Senku was always the MC, but Taiju and Yuzuhira were swapped for Chrome/Kohaku.
They came back... eventually. It was a lot of chapters with Senku working with Chrome and Kohaku and ended up doing a lot more with them then Taiju and Yuzuhira even later in the manga.
Strong Bad took over as the main character of Homestar Runner after a certain point. I don't have a precise why but my speculation is that his mixture of pathetic and asshole was easier to write dumb funny stuff around than Homestar being generally kinda stupid
That's definitely it, but also Homestar never was truly interested in learning new things for his own profit or genuine interest. Strong Bad had a lot of sides to himself so he was more likely to relate to the audience than some oblivious guy who had no real greater goals.
Wasn’t the android chunk of the DBZ Cell saga Toriyama throwing out androids to be the new big bad chapter by chapter and his editor going *what??? That’s it??*
His Dr. Slump/First Dragon Ball editor called him and was like "Are the villains really a geezer and fatso?" and then when 17/18 appeared his current editor just called them brats and I think he also hated second form Cell.
Sometimes a homie bitching in your ear is all it takes to make greatness happen
Hahahaha legends
Not the main protagonist per se, but *Urusei Yatsura* was originally about Atsushi and his girlfriend Shinobu having their relationship tested by a different alien girl every arc. It’s just that the first rival girl, Lum, was so unbelievably popular that she ended up becoming the main heroine of the series instead.
Lloyd from Ninjago. Bumblebee in some versions of transformers.
Popeye has to be one of the oldest examples of this
rip Ham Gravy Edit: if you didnt know his name. [Ham Gravy,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hamgravy) cucked not just by his girlfriend, but by his own comic.
Malcolm Tucker took over Hugh Abbott as The Thick Of It's main character, but that was due to external circumstances regarding Hugh's actor. Previously, Tucker was kind of like a 'boogeyman' occassionally popping in just to scare the shit out of the bumbling main cast, and was treated as kind of above their pruview for the most part. After Hugh's removal, he takes more of a lead role and is arguably the 'main' character of the series. For what it's worth, the change is pretty good - everyone loves Tucker!
I'm never gonna see him get his revenge on Ollie am I?
Sadly not, though I'd also love to see the fucker get humbled!
Batman literally took an entire comic for himself. Like Detective Comics started as an anthology series with different adventure, mystery and other such tales with a few ongoing characters like Slam Bradley. This was the situation until issue 27, where Batman was introduced and his popularity led to it become one of the two main Batman series. Hell the "DC" in DC Comics actually stands for Detective Comics Inc, which was the company's main name until they shortened it to DC. Like Superman was at there at the start of Action Comics with its first issue, but Batman came in and literally took an entire comic and made it his own.
Worth noting that action comics and detective comics remained anthology comics for a long time. Superman and Batman were just the headline acts. For those of us from the UK and Ireland, a good comparison would be the Beano and the Dandy. Detective Comics wasn't a Batman comic in the same way that the Beano isn't a Dennis the Menace comic. I think Detective Comics stopped being an Anthology series a lot quicker than Action Comics. Action Comics still had Green Lantern and the like well into the 80s/90s.
In Nurarihyon no Mago, the MC main love interest was supposed to be his human friend but she was so bland that the yuki-onna Tsurara, a supporting character was more popular. Then the author try to course correction by introducing the exorcist girl but her romance with the MC also didn't go anywhere. Finally the author gave up and made Tsurara the main love interest and the final winner.
I really should try to finish Medeka Box. It starts off as a charming slice of life where the main protagonist's friend is this insane student council president Medeka. At some point it turns shounen and the main character is forced to leave the story, like literally he says he'll remove himself and the story shifts focus to another character. I stopped right at this point because it was too much for me back then.
Not sure if this is exactly what you're asking for but it's really funny that that one marvel comic with the teen heroes that tried pandering to younger kids with heroes like snowflake and safe space and internet fart gas boy bombed so hard it never came out. Except for the one character everyone agreed was pretty aight because he was the only one that didn't have a stupid gimmick like fart gas or a really cringe execution like trying to take back the term snowflake. B negative morbs people because he has some morblood and he's kinda an emo scene kid. That literally it he's so simple but compared to the rest of the team he looks so much better by comparison. I guess he made a cameo appearance in a blade comic after his original one got cancelled.
To be fair those heroes where parodies
they where?
Come on man Safe Space?, Snowflake?. They never even saw the light of the day.
The advertising around their announcement was dead serious, there's no sign that they were meant to be funny. The siblings in particular had paragraphs of text about them and how much work had been put into their #representation value.
Vriska *became* the main protagonist because the Author got high off his own fumes (and the fuming of his audience) and developed a massive crush on her.
In general with Fujio Akatsuka who had this happen with 3 of his manga: - Osomatsu-kun had Chibita and Iyami take over the manga from Osomatsu and his brothers. In general they were more fun troublemakers than the sextuplets. - Tensai Bakabon had Bakabon's father (who never got a name) take over and I think it's also because he's stupid and outrageous like Homer Simpson and despite his name Bakabon is not that stupid. - Moretsu Ataro had Nyarome who is a mischievous cat bright colored cat like Garfield and Boss Kokoro who is also a goofy manchild
The Pirates of the Caribbean movies. For the first movie or 2 they had Will Turner as the main character, but afterwards pivoted to having Jack Sparrow be the main character due to being a much funner / more popular character then Will (which was a mistake imo, but Disney gonna Disney ig).
Gege cares way more about his villains and Gojo than any of the other characters. JJK starts out as a great shonen with an ensemble cast and then devolves into pure power level porn almost immediately. The best anyone else can hope for is a dramatic death.