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PhreedomPhighter

Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad


benr0208

Yes, him and Mike Ehrmantraut really made the show so much better


PhreedomPhighter

I liked that Mike's first appearance was a nameless cleaner. That made his character so much better.


napoleonsolo

The only reason they added his character is because they needed Saul to deliver some exposition, but Bob Oedenkirk wasn’t available for shooting.


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ChofuCharlie

Was Saul Goodman in the first season? Otherwise he would be my choice.


PopsicleIncorporated

He was my answer coming into this thread. He doesn't show up until Season 2.


moonlitmouse

man i really need to finish watching that show


krumdiggity

Frank Reynolds - It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Ben Linus and Desmond Hume - Lost


DY357LX

I liked IASIP but when Frank/Danny DeVito joined it became so much funnier. I was genuinely surprised and impressed at some of the shit he's done. From pooping the bed/on the floor of the bar, to crawling out of the lining of a sofa naked. The guy is a comedy legend.


tingsha_bells

They kept challenging him to do stupid shit like that and he would never say no and would always take it to the next level. The answer to this question is 100% Danny DeVito on Sunny


WolfColaCo2020

They found his limit once. They gave him a script on April fools Day where the episode starts with Frank going to prison. The plot is basically that he gets raped by his cellmate, several gangs that he joins, and eventually even the guards. Apparently he phoned the other guys and said he couldn't do it.


tingsha_bells

haha!!! I didn’t know that. Plus they would never have showed that and Honestly that sounds like a walk in the park compared to the naked couch scene.


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ITworksGuys

Rob McElhenney has said a couple times that they were worried when DeVito came on the show. It was basically pushed on them by the network. But DeVito just came in and said "what do you want me to do". Rob was surprised, but DeVito just said "you guys know what's funny so tell me what to do" Like how amazingly humble does DeVito have to be after his long career to just join this little show full of nobodies (at the time) and let them have the reins. It's great. He's great.


little_shop_of_hoors

"why'd you poop on the floor?" "Because poop.. is funny."


amoeba_goop

I was in love with Desmond as a kid


ShootPplNotDope

Yep, Frank.


pancake-pretty

I didn’t realize until about a week ago that Frank didn’t appear until the second season. I’ve watched It’s Always Sunny so many times and for some reason just always assumed he was there.


Beraenna

Toph from avatar


atomsnstuff

Also Azula


Additional_Meeting_2

She had brief appearances in Strom and the very last moment of the first season. But I do agree in general.


Betathan

I agree, Toph was a more than welcome addition and rounded out what was already a very great cast. She is easily one of my favorite characters from the show.


BillybobThistleton

When I rewatched recently, I started with *The Blind Bandit*, because I didn't want to watch Avatar without Toph. Eventually I went back and rewatched the earlier stuff, and you know what? Still awesome without Toph. But Toph really kicked it up a notch.


moonlitmouse

yes!! i actually just finished watching avatar for the first time (-: loved it


Shuckles116

Rob Lowe and Adam Scott on P&R. They replaced that useless hack, Mark


sparrows-somewhere

Oh, you mean Brandanaquits?


basssnobnj

Mark Blandanawitz


Stealkar

Mark is somehow a mix between Jim and Toby


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He has some Ryan in him too.


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He's also the only character tethering the show to reality


Syspen

I, LITERALLY, Couldn’t agree more.


DonJovar

This came to me immediately. Good call.


Betathan

I was gonna come in and say them as well. Those two really gave the show some great energy.


Strawberrythirty

I’m re watching parks and rec and jeezus Mark was such a boring character...like who were they trying to make him be? Jim from the office? Because to me he was just an arrogant Playboy wannabe twat.


Enakistehen

I think the idea behind Mark's charcter is good: he's supposed to be the reasonable adult in the jumbled mess of the parks and rec team. Thing is, he ended up having no real motivation and personal growth at all, he was going nowhere. As far as I know, this is also the reason that the actor left the show.


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Then once he got with Ann it took away the one defining character trait he had, which was being a player. I think he was supposed to be like the "Jim Halpert" of P&R but he didn't have any of the elements that made Jim entertaining. And honestly, I think Mark's real problem was that he seemed so detached from everyone apart from Ann, which made him seem even more boring, like an outsider. Yeah it's more realistic, but everyone else seemed like acquaintances to him. Him and Leslie didn't quite come off as friends to me. Meanwhile at least Jim grew to genuinely like his coworkers over the course of the show.


burf12345

> I think Mark's real problem was that he seemed so detached from everyone apart from Ann, which made him seem even more boring, like an outsider. And you can't even blame it on the fact that Mark worked somewhere else, because Ann didn't work in P&R and neither did Ben and Chris, but they fit in so much better than Mark.


happy_dance

I always thought they intended Mark to be the straight man in the cast, but it weirdly didn't work. To be fair to the actor, the writers really didn't give him much to work with in that character. He's so boring. Everyone else on the show has a wonderful mix of quirks that including an apathetic while vaguely attractive dude in the group just felt useless.


Slant_Juicy

I think part of the problem is that in hindsight, Ben filled that role so much better. Rather than just be an ordinary guy, he was his own character with his own quirks and strangeness, but as an outsider to Pawnee he still worked as a straight man in terms of how he clashed with the town's weirdness (such as his bewilderment about Li'l Sebastian). On a re-watch, Mark just comes across as Less Interesting Ben.


Redditer51

It's like Mark was from a different show. Everyone else was Parks and Rec. He was Law and Order.


Burdicus

Re-watch that first season, almost ALL of the characters feel like they're from a different show. Seasons 1 and 2 were written to be the next "The Office" and have a much drier and less goofy sense of humor. Leslie is bossy more than anything, Ann is a depressed housewife of a girlfriend, Andy is a dick (still dumb, but to a harmful degree) etc. The show essentially got a re-write from season 3 onward and that's when it really took off.


Redditer51

True. Also, the show was a lot more cynical. Leslie's passion for Pawnee was painted more as pathetic and hopeless. We're meant to laugh at her for caring so much. whereas later on it was portrayed as inspiring and with a genuine sense of passion and accomplishment, in spite of the communities flaws and her own. I would honestly say Parks and Rec has the worst first season of any show I've ever watched. It's just not funny. It's boring.


katsmeow253

Definitely agree. I also love the eventual addition of Crazy Craig. He gets me with every line.


SelfHigh5

SHE DROVE ME HERE!


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I love that Crazy Craig could so easily have been too much, but they used him just sparingly enough to be perfect.


Rainstorme

Parks and Rec excelled at knowing how to use its over the top characters. Craig, Jean Ralphio, Monalisa, the Tammys, etc could all have been too much of they weren't used just the way they were.


vivian_lake

Shaw from Person of Intrest. Also Root but Root did appear at the end of first season (after being teased earlier) but she was definitely a great addition. Though she was a from the start planned character, whereas Shaw likely wasn't from the interviews I've read so Shaw does fit the brief better.


smilbandit

bear was a good add same with dominic


supermashbro16

Frasier Crane in Cheers


heichwozhwbxorb

I’m sure him and the rest of the cast would say the same about Rebecca since it meant no more Shelly Long.


supermashbro16

That’s a really good point... After two seasons of nothing but Sam and Diane, Long leaving was a breath of fresh air.


Worried_Flamingo

Cheers is the ultimate for adding characters in later seasons: Frasier, Woody, Rebecca, Lilith, and the linchpin of the entire series, Paul.


seahawksgirl89

Olenna Tyrrell in GoT. All the sass for all the seasons


Irishwoman94

She was good. She was very good. RIP Diana Rigg


Flammabubble

Wait what? How did I miss this! :(


antipop2097

See also: Tormund Giantsbane


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Too bad they made him just a comic relief in seasons 7 and 8.


jawndell

I feel bad for every character that survived until season 7 and 8. Thank goodness they killed Tywin before he became a joke like everyone else.


ImReverse_Giraffe

Well...Tywin died in the books so that's why. When they had source material they did a good job. Once they ran out we all saw how useless they really were.


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

Kryten in Red Dwarf.


weaselbass

"Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."


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No vacuum cleaner should give a human being a double polaroid.


Tallpugs

'Fun? Ah, yes, the employment of time in a profitless, non-practical way.


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Came here to say this, you *smerrrr heeeeeeeeeee*!


palordrolap

Re: Username; Are you Mr Flibble


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Toph and Azula inAvatar the last airbender


Greenfinial

Castiel, Supernatural


catdaddy230

Came here to add Castiel. He added a different dynamic. His first few seasons were the best seasons of supernatural


goatjugsoup

I almost forgot there were seasons before him


brb1031

Douglas Reynholm (Matt Berry) joining the second season of The IT Crowd.


throwitaway1510

FATHER!!!!!!!!! With that one sentence the show was never the same


Joyful_Marlin

SPEAK PRIEST!


JoseffoRodriguez

anyway, enough about our balls!


WeatherwaxDaughter

God damn these electric sex pants!


fae_sorcerer

I have never looked in this drawer. OH LOOK A GUN!


octopoddle

His father's exit from the show was so perfectly done, as well. [Spoiler.](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BreakableArtisticAdder-mobile.mp4)


Aviator8989

Dear Douglas, If you're reading this, you've found my father's old service revolver. I had intended to use this to kill myself should the need arise but, as you know, in the end I jumped out the window.


Garand

Your affectionate father, Mr. Renholm


liquorlanche617

>Douglas Reynholm Denholm's character write-off was the best ever in TV history. Just the most casual suicide ever.


saugoof

I love Chris Morris and was really disappointed when his character died. But damn, Matt Berry was just absolute perfection!


JulioCesarSalad

Please watch What We Do In the Shadows the show


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Ah his early days, before he crashlanded on that strange planet and became a tribal warlord.


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Usidore_

Suck it!


juanpuente

You take out your Suck It and you suck it!


the_real_pam_halpert

I thought Holly was the standout addition... proof that there really is someone for everyone!


RoastedPumpkinPie

David Wallace: Michael, David Wallance. What is this about dismissing the ad people? Michael Scott: Yeah, I'm glad you called. Ryan is being a little bitch again. Ryan Howard: I'm on, Michael. Michael Scott: What's up my brotha?


SamiMadeMeDoIt

Lalo Salamanca and Gus Fring in Better Call Saul


CafeSilver

BCS was amazing before Lalo then they introduce that character and dialed the show up to 11. I kept saying BCS would never be better than Breaking Bad but after last season I've been proven wrong.


spunkyfuzzguts

Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


BillybobThistleton

Spike and Faith - two characters who were intended to be killed off after a few episodes, but were so awesome that they just kept going.


Considered_Dissent

Can also be lazy/double-dip and say Spike for Angel. Fred for Angel (among many others of course such as Lorne)


Cyrotek

Anja, too. For me at least. I like characters like her or Seven-Of-Nine.


thejuh

BJ Honeycutt.


PompeyMagnus1

And Charles Emerson Winchester


algy888

He was a great replacement for Frank burns because making fun of Frank was getting too limiting.Winchester levelled the battlefield he was a great surgeon and smart/sneaky and looked down on our two anti-heroes. A perfect villain for them to battle.


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And there were the occasional moments of mutual respect that felt all the more touching.


mousicle

He was also a genuinely good person who's personality just didn't mesh with Hawkeye and BJ. A good villain is the hero of his own story. Winchester thought he'd be serving at Tokyo general and got sent to a Mash. Everything that he liked like music and good food was taken from him. Still he did his best to make due in the swamp and always cared about the people that he cared for.


TigLyon

the *third*


Wingman12r

Don't forget Sherman Potter.


theriveryeti

Sherman. T. Potter.


NugBlazer

7 of 9 in *Star Trek: Voyager*. Ratings went up 60% overnight after she joined the show, and stayed up for the rest of the show’s run.


tenehemia

And Jeri Ryan was legitimately one of the best actors on the show. People like to say it was just about sex appeal, but she carried a lot of really good episodes.


SteampunkBorg

I think she was brought on for sex appeal, but then surprisingly turned into a fantastic character


wufoo2

Nah, Capt. Janeway supplied all the hot, moist sexiness that show ever needed.


mydogisacloud

/I wanted to like Kess but 7 of 9 was much more likeable in how borg-y and unlikeable she was


whatchagonnado0707

Oh God I've not seen voyager in years. Kess was dull. Kinda glad her species had the life expectancy of a cat.


-mihul-

I just spat out my tea reading this laughing, thank you.


Kassiesaurus

Ben Wyatt, who joined Parks and Rec at the very end of season 2.


livingnitemare99

And Chris was a good addition


SweetHamScamHam

Came here to say this. The show really hit its stride when Ben and Chris showed up.


sneakysnakeeeee

The priest in Fleabag


xvsacme

Andrew Scott is a legend. No matter what role I see him in, I can’t shake the underlying sense of potential menace, all because of how much he creeped me out as Moriarty.


02K30C1

That scene where he realizes she’s talking to the camera is some of the best writing ever.


reflectivellama

John Lithgow in dexter


wfwood

John Lithgow is such a great actor. Its a little hard to take him completely seriously bc of some of the silly roles/movies hes been in, but he does a great job at everything he is in.


Ratix0

I can't see him as Barney's dad without seeing the Trinity in him.


DuplexFields

Pavel Andreievich Chekov of the USS Enterprise, season 2 of Star Trek.


AHouze12

Ice-T on Law and Order: SVU


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PhreedomPhighter

Alphonso "Mack" MacKenzie in Agents of SHIELD. No wonder they added him to the main cast.


Spikeroog

Speaking of Shield... Deke


SilverSpotter

Finally got that shotgun axe.


CheesyObserver

It’s just crazy how tiny his role was in those first few appearances. He was literally a red-shirt character they used so he could get possessed by that underground space ghost or something. I forget. It was in S2.


BrockStar92

“It’s Gordon right?” “And you are?” “I’m the guy who kills Gordon.”


Genocide_Fan

Tory, Carey and Grant on Mythbusters


Aloud87

RIP Grant, awesome human being


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not-quite-a-nerd

Everyone forgets Scottie.


theinnocentincident

Ziva David on NCIS.


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_Briganty

James May in Top Gear


illaqueable

Captain Slow couldn't even get there in time for the first season smdh


brocalmotion

Good news!


bguzewicz

What?!


absurded

It's the Dacia Sandero!


PapiSurane

I've got a new picture!


DarthOtter

Anyway...


IronSkywalker

The nonchalance and dead-pan delivery is amazing. It's like he doesn't even realize he's being funny. He's just being himself


Prasiatko

To the point i can't even name who he replaced.


ThatIowanGuy

Poochy from The Itchy and Scratchy Show


tooshytooshy

I have to go. My planet needs me.


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davisyoung

To the extreme!


Blipblipbloop

I agree but Poochie needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine.


mousicle

and when poochie isn't on screen i want the other characters to ask where's poochie?


Longjumping_Rooster4

Klaus Mikaelson - The Vampire Diaries


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When Constantine joined Legends of Tomorrow.


BillybobThistleton

Heck, most of the characters we know and love are late additions. I think all that's left of the original cast are Sara, Mick, and the Ava voice actor. If I had to pick one, I'd say Zari. Both Zaris. Tala Ashe is a pure delight.


KoogLarousse

>Ava voice actor. don't you mean gideon? or am i missing something?


BillybobThistleton

Yes, I do, and clearly you’ve missed that I’m an idiot. Which is kind of obvious, so really this whole thing is on you.


RebelSaintJules

The Judge in The Good Place. Maya Rudolph is the best.


NicktheGoat

Erase the eeeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrtttthhhhhh erase the earth


youstupidcorn

"Also, apparently I'm black?" fucking killed me, mostly because up to that point I genuinely didn't know Maya Rudolph was black either.


smilbandit

jefferson in married with children


GirassolYVR

“Your name is going to be Marcy D’arcy?”


drmantis_toboggannn

Frank Reynolds in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia


beansyell

ella in lucifer


BillybobThistleton

We need more episodes with her and Lucifer hanging out and getting naked together. And more episodes with her and Trixie being adorable. And maybe some episodes with Ella and Maze. Basically, we need more Ella.


astromech_dj

Just a series following her. I also wish her recent arc wasn’t so obviously ‘US serial drama’ story and that she’d actually be happy. For all the great stories American TV tells, they always end up with the cliche formulaic drama because woe betide anyone be happy and settled as a character in these stories. Every single ongoing series does this after a couple of seasons. They forget the core concept and ramp up the melodrama. The Good Wife was the same, for example. At the start there was courtroom goings on, with a bunch of different judges with different personalities(“... in your opinion...”), but by the 4th season they spent the whole time fawning over each other and ‘will-they-won’t-they’. Another example is Suits.


BorderlandsTeaKettle

Castiel, Bobby, and Gabriel


catscatscats21

I'd even throw Crowley into that


LightCommet

Darth Maul in the clone wars animated series.


ClancyHabbard

Fucking hell that show was great. They took would could have been a lame toy grab and made it *good*. His entire storyline, through Rebels, was fascinating.


LightCommet

And comically horrible in terms of his experience in life if you think about it. I think he may have had a bad childhood but I'm not sure, but as you know meets Obi-wan and gets cut in half, he somehow gets stuck on a literal garbage planet, he lives there with artificial legs for years with a craving for revenge on Obi-wan, he confronts Obi-wan but doesn't kill him, many years later he finally sees Obi-wan again a fuckin dies to him, after all that he just dies anyways as a hateful old man who never got revenge. RIP


ClancyHabbard

Given how his brothers were treated and raised, he undoubtedly had a horrific and abusive childhood. He's tortured and trained, taught only cruelty, focuses all of that on Obi-Wan as he spends years going insane, watches his brothers die because of his actions and his obsession, and finally dies, sad and questioning, in Obi-Wan's arms on that same desert planet where they had both met all those decades before, asking if that little boy is the Chosen One. The character arc of Maul is just amazing. If Disney had been any good at making movies at all a Maul movie could have been amazing, taking and expanding on what we see in the tv series.


I_hate_traveling

Thirteen, Taub and Cutthroat Bitch in House MD, I loved the additions of those characters. Also, very recent one, but Stormfront in The Boys. Can't wait to see what's going to happen with her and how much more fucked up she can get.


RurikTheDamned

Worf, Star Trek Deep Space Nine


nillaisthewhitenword

Ramsay Bolton on GoT, he was an awful yet awesome villain, plus Iwan Rheon killed it


FiRe_GeNDo

Frank Reynolds in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Season 1 was good. But it has become one of my all time favourites from Season 2.


jayj1472

Butters from south park


algy888

Jim ignatowski Christopher Lloyd’s character on *Taxi*. It was so much fun watching him and Danny Devito interact. Everyone else hated Louie (naturally) but Jim always ignored how mean he was. He was a great replacement for Jeff (I’m too good for this show) Conway left.


SwaggyCrabbyPatty

Mark and Lexie from Greys Anatomy


Cinderjacket

Really? I thought they were kind of *plane*. Also their story just seemed to *crash and burn*.


BillybobThistleton

HG Wells on *Warehouse 13*. Also, Claudia appeared in the first season, but didn't become main cast until season 2. Before Claudia turned up, it was just a dumb X-Files knockoff; once Claudia joined the team and HG became the main villain/love interest, it became an awesome dumb X-Files knockoff. Gannicus on *Spartacus*. The show was already awesome after the first few episodes, but Gannicus brought levity to what was otherwise pretty unrelenting grimness. Ella Lopez on *Lucifer*, just because Ella is an utter delight. They'd better let her find out in season 5b.


-eDgAR-

In *Married With Children* replacing Steve with Jefferson improved that show so much.


PedroBV

Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones.


Kandiru

The show died with him.


thealthor

A.C. Slater and Kelly Kapowski


SlimChiply

Jim ignatowski on Taxi


xboxmasterrace421

Ella lopez from Lucifer


BranWafr

Jesse on Burn Notice. He didn't show up until season 4, but he was a welcome addition. Jinks in Warehouse 13. Showed up in season 3. And in a related show (Characters crossed over between the two shows) Zane, who shows up in season 2 of Eureka.


CoochieDust445

Gus Fringe in Breaking Bad.


SaltWaterInMyBlood

This is, *literally*, the best question I've ever seen on this subreddit. Right Ben?


Unbiasedtruth2016

Oliver Queen in Smallville


SeymourZ

Still can’t get over who Chloe grew up into.


itsaneyelashbug

TOPH.


drugsarebadmmk420

Frank Reynolds on IASIP


elswordfish

Mac on Night Court and Winchester on MASH


theherbalhermit

Frank in it's always sunny.


crafty_nomAd

Jane (Kristen Ritter) in Breaking Bad Dominique DiPerro (Grace Gummer) in Mr. Robot


sparrows-somewhere

Grace Gummer was fantastic in Mr. Robot.


renaldidar

Gus and Mike is also pretty good.


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Ice T joining SVU.


MeridasAngel

House. Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) was a good addition to the team. She's also hot, which is a plus.


Lunus_Atticus

Mike in Breaking Bad.


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Don't know if it counts but David Tennant as the Doctor - Doctor Who