r/TopCharacterTropes

1. Invincible - Spouses of Superheroes

2. The Boondocks - Fear of being sent to prison and being anally rapes group.

1. In the manga Ajin, the anti-Ajin special forces are a highly trained government unit assembled designed specifically to contain and neutralize Ajin, immortal beings who regenerate after death. They operate with overwhelming coordination and firepower, focusing less on killing and more on capture, restraint, and long-term containment strategies. There isn't a single panel in the manga that doesn't show overwhelming competency for this unit and even at the end when one of the member's faces is almost revealed, the door to the helicopter closes showing that it doesn't matter and that these guys are just there to get shit done.

2. In Jormungand, Navy special forces named Night Nine appear as the official, disciplined force that contrasts with Koko’s private mercenary network. Although Koko's group is elite, the Navy SEALS make them look like amateurs and were on the verge of taking them down until Koko's group were able to get away through a Cuban military base.

The creature can still attack you even without the trigger (see the Warden), but a trigger must be part of the reason it does

HM: SCP-173 (Blink, excluded to not double on SCP), SCP-096 (Look at it's facen excluded to not double SCP), Enderman (look into it's eyes, excluded not to double Minecraft), The Creeking (look away, excluded not to double Minecraft)

1. Describe it. The Unknown

The Unknown is a creature who manifests when someone tries to assign it a definition and kills them.

2. Blink. Weeping Angels (Doctor Who)

Weeping Angels are "quantum locked" when watched but move extremely fast when not, meaning they can only attack when not looked at.

3. Make noise. The Warden (Minecraft)

The Warden is summoned by a Skulk Screecher when the player makes too much noise around them, and attacks the player once it hears them or gets close enough to sense them.

4. Move too quickly. Notorious B.I.G (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Notorious B.I.G infinitely chases it's opponent once it senses movement, it locks onto and attacks the fastest moving object in it's area.

5. Give it your name. SCP-4000 "Taboo" (SCP Wiki)

SCP-4000 work under fae rules, once you give it a name or title it can assign to you more than once it is able to steal that name, removing you from written memory and taking your identity.

6. Show emotion. Koh The Face Stealer (Avatar)

Koh is able to steal your face if it sees you make any emotion, while it doesn't seem to kill spirits it will kill a normal person.

7. Eat from the table. The Pale Man (Pan's Labyrinth)

The Pale Man is motionless sitting at a table full of food, but is awakened once any food is taken and eaten.

8. Fall asleep. Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street)

Freddy is a dream demon, he can't attack when you're awake but when sleeping he is able to kill as he pleases.

Shan-Yu in *Mulan (*1998) is leading the Huns on a campaign of conquest throughout China and has killed thousands, but is the only character to show no embarrassment or outrage over the idea of being bested by a woman soldier when fighting Mulan.

Captain Hector Barbossa's crew in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) is made up of a plethora of ethnicities and there does not seem to be any tension between any of them, despite being set in the early 1700's.

The Fire Nation's military in Avatar: The Last Airbender is shown to have women in both combat and command roles alongside the men without anyone commenting on it. There is likewise no complaint or issue abotu the monarch potentially being a woman. If anything, the nation with the worst attitude towards gender dynamics are the Water Tribes (i.e. the first nation we meet)!

The moral placement of Mandalorians in Star Wars-media varies heavily depending on where they are being depicted in the timeline, with the worst case scenario being on the level of terrorists ala-ISIS or bloodthirsty militarists intent on carving an empire for themselves ruled by a military theocracy. Whether it is Canon, Legends, comics, TV, or video games, oen thing is always consistent - anyone who wears the armor and swears the Creed is a Mandalorian, without exception.

The Seekers in Disenchanted are a mysterious secret society in the Kingdom of Dreamland who are manipulating everyone for their own ends, and not only are they racially diverse they are completely open to their leaders being a gay couple.

-Ryuk as played by Willem Dafoe - Death Note

-Gambit as played by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men Origins: Wolverine

-BONUS: Venom as played by Tony Todd in Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Faust’s Overdrive Bonecrushing Excitement (Guilty Gear Strive) A character named Faust, for his special move, grabs a wheelchair and rams it into the opponent’s shin. The funny face the receiving character makes in response to the pain is different for each character

Kirby’s swallow mechanic (Super Smash Bros) Kirby will swallow the opposing character and be able to use their abilities. He also cosplays as the character he swallows

Rouge’s absorb (Marvel Rivals) Similar to Kirby, she absorbs the opposing character’s power, theres also a unique voice line for each character she absorbs

Wolverine vs Magneto (X-Men) Wolverine, the guy with a metal skeleton, has to fight Magneto, the guy who can control metal

Luffy vs Enel (One Piece) Enel, a guy with electricity powers, has to fight Luffy, a guy who is made of rubber

1. GOTG 3

2. Harry Potter

3. Bruce Almighty

Spongebob

Mickey Mouse Shorts

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Watching animated movies as an adult I’ve noticed this so many times.

Toy Story 2- when buzz meets Jesse he wings involuntarily pop out while he has a dazed look on his face. Very obvious implication there.

Cars- the cars at the beginning of the movie literally “flash their headlights” at lightning McQueen.

Ratatouille- When Linguine is trying to tell Collette about Remy and says something along the lines of “my tiny little..” and you can clearly see her eyes glance down.

Kurvira (legend of korra) at the start of season 3. She was introduced to us as a guard of syu yin. Mostly coming and giving reports about stuff. However in season four she decided to become a dictator to colonize anything related to the earth kingdom. Even trying to destroy republic city.

Cassandra (tangled) she starts as side character who is the royal guard of repunzel county. Later on. She betrayed her due to jealousy of repunzel because her mother gothel leave her.

Kaigaku (demon slayer) he was introduced in flashbacks as zensitsu tormentor. And in gyomei origin as one of the orphans he raised before betraying them by bringing a demon to him. He was training with zensitsu as thunder breathing but due to him not wanting to be compared to him. He became a demon (that and him having a bad luck when he met Kokushibo) thus becoming the new upper moon 6

Galactus - Marvel comics - Galactus goes around eating planets to sustain energy. His technology and intelligence are far beyond that of a normal human. When he first appears he doesn't even acknowledge human beings, we are like ants to him.

The wormhole beings (Prophets) - Star Trek DS9 - Outside of Bajor a wormhole leads to a completely different part of the galaxy. Inside there are sentient beings worshiped by the Bajorans as Gods. Time does not work linearly to the Prophets. Sometimes they leave gifts to Bajor. It is stated that they love Bajor and it's people but beyond that their motivations and origins are unknown

The ocean - Solaris - The living sea covers the vast majority of the surface in Solaris in both the movie and book. It creates "Guests" (replicas of human beings who don't know they are replicas) for people aboard the space station studying it. Sometimes it will create weird structures on its surface. The oceans motivations are completly unknown to the people studying it

Pics 1 & 2: No, I'm not a human

In this game you try to survive through the apocalypse. Every night people will come to your house and ask for shelter. Some of them are humans, while the others are human-like creatures knows as the visitors. Of course letting the visitors in your house would result in bad ending. The player might think: "Why would I let someone in? I'll just stay alone". Well, you can't do that because the pale visitor (pic 1) will kill you if you're alone so you have no choice but to let someone in. Oh and you have to do it regularly because the FEMA agent (pic 2) takes your guests from time to time so you'll always have to let some new ones in.

Pics 3 & 4: Five nights at Freddy's 1 & 2

You're a security guy, and a bunch of dangerous animatronics is trying to get you. You can check their positions on cameras but it's not really nessesary because you can just check the doors and close them if someone's standing there. BUT there's one animatronic called Foxy the Pirate (pic 3) that will randomly run to your office so you have to check him on cameras to react in time. The Puppet (pic 4) from FNAF 2 has a similar role: it sits inside the music box and will run to you if you fail to wind up the box in time, you have to watch the cameras to do that.

My main examples are Iron Man from Avengers: Infinity War and Supergirl Season 5, Episode 1.

These suits that materialize out of thin air under the premise of “nanotechnology” are fun CG but they are bad. It’s such terrible writing. If these characters need suits, not wearing them is part of what makes the scenarios interesting.

When iron man’s suit simply materializes from thin air, it’s taking away a major issue for Tony Stark. He can’t be ready to go at all times if he needs a high tech, huge and complicated suit of armour.

When Super Girl takes off her glasses and her super suit just creates itself on top of her current outfit and she’s ready to go, it’s lame as hell.

Superman needed to go to a phone booth or a back alley and take off his glasses and suit to reveal his uniform. It was iconic. He couldn’t just do stuff as Clark Kent without giving away his secret identity. It made situations tense, it gave them stakes.

A “nanotechnology” suit that magically appeared when he took off his glasses would have been lame.

I get understand that marvel and dc want to make magic sound like high tech, but tossing every cockamamie idea under the umbrella of “nanotechnology” is just lazy.

Jim Gordon and Leslie Thompkins / Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin (Gotham)

Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton / Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer (True Blood)

1. Look Who's Back

Adolf Hitler is brought back from the dead to the modern day, and visits a neo-Nazi lodge for the National Democratic Party. Hitler first berates the greeter for the small nameplate of the organization. He then critiques their reliance on euphemisms in propaganda, such as "hit the gas." When he meets their chairman, Ulf Birne, Hitler mocks him for calling themselves "National Democrats" instead of "National Socialists" and bitingly asks if they've read his book. Finally, he dismisses Birne to the others in the lodge by asking, "Is this your best available man?"

2. The Fugitive

US Marshal Samuel Gerard is walking into a crime scene. The injured officer on the left is lying to the small-town sheriff on the right, saying that the prisoner Richard Kimble died in the train crash. Gerard starts critiquing their sloppy evidence collection and lack of urgency. He then uncovers evidence that Kimble had escaped, forcing the injured officer to recant. Gerard then takes over the investigation from the sheriff, saying,

"All right, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles per hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him."

3. Better Call Saul

To reinforce his money laundering scheme, Mike Ehrmantraut starts a security audit on a Madrigal warehouse. He steals a badge from an employee, uses it to enter the premises, and commandeers a vehicle. He reminds workers to use their lift belts, returns the stolen badge to the employee, and reports a whole list of findings to the manager.

Mike: "I waltz through security with someone else's ID. Nobody gives me a second look. When the rightful owner shows up, there's no facility-wide badge check. I find access doors left unlocked or propped open, passwords written on Post-it notes. Warehouse workers are using pen and paper instead of electronic inventory devices, which leaves you wide open to pilfering. You got duplicate routing numbers on cargo, surveillance camera blind spots on the north and the east side of the floor, inventory documents that are going into the trash instead of being shredded, not to mention loading equipment being driven at unsafe speeds and crews disregarding safe..."

Madrigal manager: "Wait. Wait. Hold on. Hold on. Who are you, exactly?"

Mike: "Ehrmantraut. Security consultant."

Madrigal manager: "Well, all due respect, I don't know anything about a security consultant."

Mike: "Well, you wouldn't, would you? Maybe you'd best call corporate. Try Lydia Rodarte-Quayle."

To the manager's credit, at least he eventually questions Mike's credentials.

Example 1- The Substance

The Substance is body horror movie that follows elisabeth sparkle, a hollywood starlet who tries a weird unknown drug called known as the substance which unlocks her dna to make a younger body double for herself she can trade consciousnesses with bi weekly. It has horrible consequences though, for Elisabeth lacks any of the confidence to maintain the balance the substance requires, and that has really drastic side effects- like rapid aging, her body breaking down, and eventually turning into a fucked up chronenburg monster.

Example 2- Death becomes her

The two leads of death becomes her are so vapid and shallow they literally take a potion to stay young forever, purely because they've been in a feud for years and absolutely NEED to be prettier/more desirable than the other or they'll lose their minds. It has horrible consequences though, because once they both die it becomes a constant annoyance to keep painting themselves and making sure their bodies don't fall apart after they've ruined them through petty acts of violence.

Example 3- Slanted

Slanted is a body horror movie that i didn't really like all that much, but i enjoyed the premise of it a lot. It tackles white beauty standards and how that effects women of color in america, particularly our chinese american lead Joan Huang. She basically hates everything about being asian, even using a clothes pin on her nose to try and make it smaller. She eventually undergoes a shady operation to literally turn herself white, and her body rejects it which leads to her face getting all fucked up and melted. She tries to take it all back but the procedure isn't reversible, so she tries to claw under her skin to see the real her. The saddest part of all though is Joan's parents reaction, as they just have to watch their daughter trade away her whole heritage cause she's too embarrassed of being an immigrant to just accept herself as she is.

Example 4- The ugly step sister

The ugly stepsister is a horror retelling of cinderella based on the grimm bros version of cinderella. Elvira Von Stepsister is so dead set on winning the heart of the prince she does a shit ton of shady operations to become prettier, she swallows a tape worm, she gets eye laches sewn into her eye lids, she gets a victorian era nose job, and of course, she chops off her toes to fit the slipper. All of these efforts are basically worthless in the end tho.

1. Metro Man (Mega Mind): hero of Metro City who, after years of successful superheroics, fakes his death to write and perform music. He has zero talent as a musician or songwriter.

2. Dr. Tobias Funke (Arrested Development): When shown practicing therapy, he is actually very competent and skilled. His acting, though, is uniformly cringeworthy.

3. Narsus (Heroic Legend of Arslan): brilliant military strategist, his artistic works leave much to be desired.

Urizen (DMC5),
Grafted Scion (Elden Ring) (as well as a few other fromsoftware bosses)

1. The Lich (Adventure Time) - Possesses Billy's skeleton and makes it his own. Is hit with healing goo in the Citadel and as the Lich is technically a life form, his skeleton starts growing flesh. The Lich is turned into a baby by the name of Sweet Pea, who ends up growing incredibly huge and taking over as Ooo'd hero after Finn dies.

2. Meteora (Star Vs.) - Star's nasty headteacher turns out to be the true Princess of Mewnie. She lived a terrible life after being separated from her mother, Eclipsa, by the Council of Magic. After she unlocks her powers, goes berserk, and Star annihilates her with light magic, she is transformed into a baby by Star's intent to do no harm. She grows up in another dimension to become best friends with Marco's sister Mariposa, only to be turned back into a baby a second time upon leaving. Altogether, at least 3 different childhoods.

3. Pilaf gang (Dragonball Super) - In Dragonball GT, Pilaf accidentally wishes for Goku to become a kid again. As a reference to this now AU, Toriyama thought it would be funny if in Battle of Gods, Pilaf accidentally wished for HIMSELF to become a kid again. The Pilaf gang are all transformed. Mai, who was an adult when Goku was 12, ends up in a relationship with two versions of Trunks. Weird.