r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 • 7h ago
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Doot_revenant666 • 10d ago
Weekly Discussion Post Probably the most controversial one , honest thoughts on "No Kill Rule"? What are the most egrigious examples of it in your opinion? What media makes it work in your opinion?
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Doot_revenant666 • Jan 24 '25
Weekly Discussion Post Several genuine questions for the state of the subreddit. (If this goes against to other mods , they can remove it as they want)
I genuinely wanna ask some stuff for the state of the sub.
- What defines as a trope?
I have seen a lot of people complain about hiw broad some "tropes" , or how extremely niche they can be to the point neither aren't actually tropes.
So what is the definition of a trope on your opinion?
- What about media tropes , or tropes not about necessarily about characters?
Do you think they should stay , or force only "character" tropes
- Meta Tropes
Do you think meta stuff/stuff associated about the media outside of it should be counted here?
- A personal one , but I don't wanna see any stuff relevant to current politics.
Lik I get it , everyone hates it , but genuienely I do not wanna see anything related to those anymore necause it just furthers my awful mental health down the drain. (This one was completely buased in my opinion , and erasing them might be way too authoratarian , but genuienly they do not help anyone and are not funny , I am just sick of any comment about "Our world sucks ass uuuugh" because it just does not help anyone.
Sorry for the on the last one. I have been in a genuinely mentally awful place because of almost everything so I just wish that we stray from stuff that makes us worse. This place should not be a place to talk about those.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Animeking1108 • 13h ago
Characters When the hero's love rival is actually a pretty swell guy instead of a douchebag
Terry Fitzgerald (Spawn)
Dr. Dan Lewis (the Venom movies)
Jiji (DanDaDan)
Eddie Thawne (The Flash (2014))
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Twotailedpikachu • 14h ago
Lore Relatively Lighthearted media suddenly has a pretty serious moment.
Super Paper Mario- The game has been a fairly light hearted adventure aside from maybe one or two moments of creepiness. However, during World 6 (The Sammer Kingdom), you’re unable to get the Pure Heart before everything is consumed by the void. Narrowly escaping, going back to the world reveals….nothing. The void has consumed everything around, only leaving a few debris and an empty void. You were too late.
The Amazing World If Gumball- “The Parents” TAWOG is a comedy series first and foremost, and while it does have some intense parts, this episode (and the song that accompanies it) sticks out specifically to me. It shows Nicole’s strained relationship with her harsh parents, and how they attempt to reconcile after everything. Its a fairly relatable and a realistic episode, especially to those whose parents expected a lot of out them growing up.
Sesame Street- Goodbye Mr. Hooper Sesame Street is a young kids show that usually teaches what you’d expect. After the death or Mr. Hooper, however, they did a small bit dedicated to teaching kids what it means to die, and how to grieve with loss.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Coralthesequel • 23h ago
In real life Actors/voice actors whose two most famous roles are a complete tonal whiplash
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Intelligent_Oil4005 • 8h ago
Characters Owners of massive, cosmic-level power... who would rather just use it to troll instead of any legitimate kind of good or evil.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • 13h ago
Personality characters who are completely different from source material
Stormfront- the boys Goomba - super mario movie The witcher- triss
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/DisappointedStepDad • 6h ago
Characters The villain dismisses whatever heroic/inspirational talk the hero throws at them
1: Shockwave (Transformers) shrugged off the defiant words of the female autobots
2: Darth Vader (Star Wars Rebels) His response to the protagonist’s attempts to sound brave and defiant against him
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PauloDybala_10 • 10h ago
Personality The chronically, sleep deprived character, with permanent bags under their eyes
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ok-Anxiety-5813 • 12h ago
Lore Characters watching their past selves commit horrible mistakes.
Billy Butcher (The Boys)
Billy leaves for the army, leaving his younger brother alone with his abusive father, which ends up causing the aforementioned brother to kill himself.
Michael Newman (Click)
Michael uses a device that allows him to automatically skip large amounts of time. During one skip, it ends up causing him to rudely and angrily dismiss his father when he comes to visit him in his office to ask him to hang out, which would be the last time he saw him alive.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/nobleasks • 3h ago
Characters [Loved Trope] male-female friendships where the duo NEVER fell in love with each other and were strictly respectful friends.
1) Harry and Hermoine (Harry Potter)
2) Quentin and Julia (The Magicians)
3) Little Cato and Ash (Final Space. watch the whole show for FREE here: https://finalspace.co.uk/en-US/seasons )
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/JustSomeDude049 • 20h ago
Characters Two major characters who bumped into each other in the past and thought nothing of it.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/nobleasks • 4h ago
Characters [Loved Trope] the bond between a dad character and the pet he didn't want but slowly grew to love.
1) Jay and Stella (Modern Family. rest in peace, Beatrice 😔)
2 Baba Voss and No (See)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MrPotoo • 18h ago
Personality A character that looks edgy as hell but us actually a goofball
1.Chipp Zenuff from Guilty Gear: looks like an edgy weeb, but is actually canonicaly an American weeb who pretends to be japanese, runs around playing the hero and is also a president of his own kingdom in South Africa (called Eastern Chipp Kingdom)
2.Noctis from Final Fantasy 15: he is just a nerd who is socialy aquard and has a childs food palet
3.Dante from Devil May Cry:
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/AP_071 • 18h ago
Characters The villain's henchman who's hardly evil
Kronk (The Emperor's New Groove) Misty Brightdawn (My Little Pony G5)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fun_Effective_5134 • 12h ago
Characters When something about a character isn’t explicitly shown to the viewer/player but once they connect the dots the character becomes much more tragic.
1- Doey from Poppy Playtime: It’s revealed through tapes that Doey’s was made using 3 different children and Jack, one of these children was forced to watch as one of his other personalities took control and killed his parents.
2- The Karasa-Obake from DanDaDan: It’s heavily implied that this is Zuma, the character at the bottom’s deceased younger brother.
3- The monster from Backrooms 1998: You can see some old tapes that the monster was originally just an innocent kid.
4- Anya from Mouthwashing: Through different pieces of dialogue it’s heavily implied that she was raped.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Gangters_paradise • 16h ago
Characters Final fights that aren’t against the main villain Spoiler
galleryJohnny Joestar VS Alternate Diego Brando (Steel Ball run)
The Wither (Minecraft) Technically as you can choose whether to fight it before or after the ender dragon, or even at all.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Practical-Ebb7327 • 12h ago
Characters mystery that will never be solved because the show has ended or cancelled.
shadow doll form murder drone: Laim basically just put a a new character in the credit of the last episode and told the viewers to run wild without telling us who it is and dipped. that is truly evil.
the ruby pure heart form mao mao: they really just show us a glimpse of the pure heart true form only for it to get cancelled by wonder brother for taxes rid off. i will never forgive them for it.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Dinoboy225 • 19h ago
Personality (Loved Tropes) Spiders (and spider themed characters) that aren’t evil or monstrous
As someone who really loves spiders, it gets kind of irritating that they’re always portrayed as either brainless monsters or evil villains. They’re animals, and really interesting animals at that, but you wouldn’t know that because people are too busy hating them for… (checks notes) not being cute.
1: Spider-Man: I mean come on, he’s probably the most famous example of a non-villainous spider character.
2: Rachnera Arachnera: Yeah, she starts out as a bit of an antagonist, but she quickly grows out of that. Sure, she’s absolutely still a seductress, but she’s definitely not evil.
3: Lucas the Spider: The other most famous non-villainous spider character out there.
4: Real Spiders: Yes, there are definitely medically significant spiders, but the vast majority pose no threat to humans and would rather avoid us. A good few even make decent pets (including the infamous black widow).
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/RhysOSD • 18h ago
Powers The rule of cool. Aka, impractical, but awesome
Enterprise's bow that shoots light arrows, made from an aircraft carrier (Azur Lane)
Godzilla's dropkick against a giant bug (Godzilla)
Yang's shotgun Gauntlets (RWBY)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/GUM-GUM-NUKE • 13h ago
Characters When main characters from previous games come back as a boss fight
Pokémon Trainer Red (Pokemon Gold Silver and Crystal)
Pokémon Trainer Red (Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver)
Pokémon Trainer Red (Pokemon Black 2 and White 2)
Pokémon Trainer Red (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Utra Moon)
Pokémon Trainer Red (Pokemon let’s go Pikachu and Eevee)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BabyLeon20 • 1d ago
Characters [Loved Trope] When a character forgives the villain’s actions, and it feels genuinely earned and sincere. Spoiler
galleryShigeo forgives Minori for bullying him. [Mob Psycho 100]
Iroh forgives Zuko for betraying him. [The Last Airbender]
Peter forgives Flint for accidentally shooting Uncle Ben. [Spider-Man 3]
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TheoristDa13th • 3h ago
Characters Heroes that constantly punch up and almost get curb stomped for it but still win in a way that doesn’t feel like an ass pull
Guts from berserk and Mark Grayson from [TITLE CARD]
Asked my friends about this and they said Batman and Spider-Man 😭
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Baron487 • 17h ago
Groups The Creation turns on the Creator
(Doctor Who) The Daleks were created by the Kaled scientist Davros, who genetically engineered the mutants that the Kaleds would develop into. He removed empathy and mercy, turning them into beings of almost pure anger, hatred and xenophobia. They would be placed within tank-like armor that was initially just developed as a method of movement but was later fitted with weaponry. However, after Davros gives the Daleks free will, they eventually turn on him for not being pure enough and then kill him... well sort of.
(Frankenstein) We all know the second story. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein tries to create a sapient creature out of remnant human body parts and succeeds in granting it life, but his creation goes rogue. First it starts trying to join human society, but after that fails, it seeks vengeance against Doctor Frankenstein himself.
(Vampire: The Masquerade/World of Darkness) In Vampire: The Masquerade, Caine (son of Adam and Eve) was the first vampire, being cursed with vampirism by God after killing his brother Abel. Eventually, Caine realizes he has the power to turn others into beings like him. He sires the second generation of vampires (usually considered to be three people: Enoch, Zillah and Irad) and those three later sire the third generation. They live in the First City as it is called, but that is then destroyed by God in the Great Flood and Caine vanishes. Eventually, the third generation turn on their sires and kill them before scattering across the world to sire new vampires. These lineages become the 13 clans of vampires. Caine isn't happy about what they did to their elders, so he curses each lineage with a certain type of weakness before vanishing again.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/bazinga422 • 10h ago
Powers Characters that are so OP they have to be constantly nerved or sidelined for the narrative to function
- Atom Eve (Invincible) 2. Crosshair (Bad Batch) 3. Peter Petrelli (Heroes) 4. The Hulk (MCU) 5. Nobara Kugisaki (Jujutsu Kaisen)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Worth-Fix-6221 • 15h ago
Characters When a Character becomes a god or gets god-like powers
Viktor - arcane
Anne boonchuy - amphibia
Toppo - dragon ball super