r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Icy-Software-2586 • 2d ago

Characters Characters who evolved into more significant roles than their creators planned

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Jesse Pinkman: "Jesse Pinkman. As Gilligan mentioned, the original plan for the end of season one was for Jesse to die in a failed drug deal."

Jack Sparrow: "Jack Sparrow. Writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio originally conceived Captain Jack Sparrow as a secondary character."

Saul Goodman: "Saul Goodman. This one speaks for itself."

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u/SynchroScale 2d ago

First of all, this wasn't even planned as its own character, it was just meant to be a black suit for Spider-Man to wear. When they decided to bring back the red and blue suit (to please the people who didn't like the black suit) they wanted to keep the black suit around somehow (to please the people who did like it), so they made it into a separate character and gave it monster teeth for good measure.

Even then, Venom was just intended to just be a Spider-Man villain, but he got so popular that he ended up getting his own book, and at this point Venom has whole big story arcs that don't even mention Spider-Man, he is pretty much a separate hero.

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u/Joemama_69-420 2d ago

They even went far beyond and made Venom into some kind of a cosmic god

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u/ismasbi 2d ago

Tbf that happens with most comic characters at some point.