Built up
Both terms in one sentence
- Daniel Cross, despite being built up as a Hero Killer, regularly fails to live up to his hype.
Source: Anti-Climax Boss - Then Illud Divinum Insanus hit almost eight years later and with no small amount of hype (it had been built up as some sort of grand, genre-busting experiment that would change death metal).
Source: Creator Killer / Music -
In NoMansSky lots of hype was built up about reaching the center of the galaxy.
Source: A Winner Is You
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