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I think this is the most famous case of this trope. In the sitcom Two and a Half Men, the protagonists are the rich womanizer Charlie Harper, played by Charlie Sheen, and the broke, divorced Alan Harper, played by Jon Cryer. They live together after Alan’s divorce, when he needs a place to stay. Despite both being protagonists, many fans saw Charlie as the true main character and the face of the sitcom. During the show’s run, Charlie Sheen had many problems with drugs, which caused production issues, including delays when the show had to wait for him to leave rehab. There were also Charlie’s angry outbursts, during which he made extremely negative public comments about the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre. Even with these problems, they still tried to keep him on the show by paying Charlie Sheen more than 2 million dollars per episode for seasons 8 and 9. However, this ultimately proved impossible. As a result, in the first episode of season 9, his character was killed off-screen, with the explanation that he had been murdered by his stalker ex-girlfriend. Charlie was then replaced by a new character named Walden, a billionaire who becomes friends with Alan, buys Charlie’s house after his death, and allows Alan to continue living there in an attempt to avoid changing the status quo too much.
In the Disney sitcom Pair of Kings, the protagonists are the twins Brady Parker, played by Mitchel Musso, and Boomer Parker, played by Larramie Shaw. The brothers discover that their deceased parents were kings of an island called Kinkow and that they must assume the throne. In 2011, when Mitchel Musso was 20 years old, he was arrested for driving under the influence, and Disney chose to remove him from the show. To justify this within the story, the show stated that Brady fled Kinkow after discovering that his crush believed he would never mature as long as he remained king. To compensate for his absence, the show introduced a previously unknown lost brother named Boz, who coincidentally returned to Kinkow on the very same day Brady ran away.
In Assassin’s Creed, the story follows two organizations that have fought throughout human history to decide the future of humanity: the Assassins, who seek to free humanity, and the Templars, who want to control it. In the first three main games, there is a character named Lucy, an Assassin who rescues the protagonist Desmond, a former Assassin, after he is kidnapped by the Templars. Throughout the games, Lucy is Desmond’s main companion and even seems to be set up as his potential love interest. However, at the end of the third main game in the franchise, when Desmond is controlled by the “spirit” of an ancient being, he is forced to kill Lucy. In the DLC of the following game, it is revealed that Lucy was actually a Templar spy. Her death was very abrupt and clearly not well planned, since her betrayal was only revealed through extra content in the sequel—and not even through a proper scene featuring her, but through another character narrating her betrayal. This happened because the actress Kristen Bell had a contract for only three games, and while they tried to renegotiate, they were unable to reach an acceptable agreement regarding royalties [link] [comments] |
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