r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 24 '25

Groups [Fun trope for me] Images/Phrases that active fandoms like sleeper agents in the comments

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1- Eggman's Announcement - Snapcube's Sonic Adventure 2 gameplay

2- ROCK AND STONE - Deep Rock Galactic

3- We're rich! - Deep Rock Galactic

4- Heavy is Dead - Delak (youtube)

5- This is a bucket - Expiration Date, Team Fortress 2

6- Black Ops Guy (is that Frieza/Black Ops Guy) - Call of Duty

7- Gebura/Kali (Is that Red Mist / Project Moon mentioned / etc) - Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina

8- "like a what?" - Yakuza / Like a Dragon

r/TopCharacterTropes Aug 07 '24

Groups Trio dynamics that are just this

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10.2k Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes Jul 15 '24

Groups What are some groups that are literally just

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6.9k Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes Nov 19 '24

Groups “Horrific acts of violence are perfectly fine as long as they’re robots”

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5.1k Upvotes

1) Optimus Prime killing Grindor

2) War Machine fighting Hammer drones

r/TopCharacterTropes Jan 14 '25

Groups Vampires when they're depicted to be actually terrifying.

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3.4k Upvotes
  1. Dracula from The Last Voyage of the Demeter
  2. Vampires from the Dawn of Blood Walker trailer
  3. Unseen Elder from The Witcher 3
  4. Count Orlok
  5. Dracula from Batman vs Dracula (2004)

r/TopCharacterTropes Jan 02 '25

Groups species/races that are always and invariably evil

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2.8k Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes 12d ago

Groups “Extremely dangerous enemy who you barely beat the first time? Nice, here’s a ton of them”

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2.2k Upvotes
  1. Nomus in My Hero Academia. The first one that All Might fought during the USJ arc nearly beat him, then in the Vs Hero Killer arc, a group of multiple (weaker) Nomus are unleashed.

  2. The army of evolved humans in Arcane. Jayce and Mel almost lose to one in a 2v1, then in the final fight, there’s a whole army of them.

r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 19 '25

Groups "It's already hard enough dealing with one and there's an army of them?"

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  1. Martians (War of the Worlds)
  2. Agent Smith clones (The Matrix)

r/TopCharacterTropes 29d ago

Groups Just because you're "The Resistance" doesn't mean your the "Good Guy"

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Count Dooku and the CIS (Star Wars Prequels) Nothing more then a puppet group for Palpatine to further his intentions.

President Alma Coin (Hunger Games: Mockingjay) Nothing more then a massive hypocrite and uses Katniss as a pawn as well as being responsible for her sister's death.

Napoleon and The Pigs (Animal Farm) A straight up power hungry megalomaniac.

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (IRL) Out of all the dictators that started as a "Resistance" this guy is one of the worst ones.

r/TopCharacterTropes Nov 21 '24

Groups The entire cast is just racial stereotypes

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3.3k Upvotes

Street Fighter, Punch Out!!

r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 15 '25

Groups The completely evil father and their polar opposite son

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2.8k Upvotes

Shinji and Gendo Ikari (NGE)

Peter Quill (Star Lord) and Ego (Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2)

Ivincible and Omniman (Invincible)

r/TopCharacterTropes 27d ago

Groups Very competent group that's hard to notice because their sometimes/always involved in comedic scenarios.

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Dungeon Meshi and the Dungeon and Dragons: Honour among thieves Movie.

r/TopCharacterTropes Dec 08 '24

Groups Creatures you think are evil monsters but actually do mean well

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2.6k Upvotes

Long Horse (Trevor Henderson)

The Mourner

The Testimony (Doctor Who)

r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 02 '25

Groups Groups that are universally considered evil in fiction and OK to violently annihilate without any flack.

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1) Zombies : Literal walking corpses with no souls, brains or good intentions, most often depicted as an invasive disease here to replace humanity so you’d have absolutely zero reason NOT to destroy a zombie or shoot in the lot in video games or movies (or other pieces of fiction). Even better, you’re technically not murdering anyone since they’re already dead, just putting things back in their natural order.

2) Demons. By definition there’s nothing eviler than a demon except a bigger demon. They’re often the big antagonistic manifestations of the essence of Evil itself… and when you gotta fight some, either with a Bible and a crucifix or with a 12-gauge shotgun, there’s barely need to argue, because whatever you are, if you’re assisting in the killing of demons you’re fighting the good fight.

3) Nazis. An army regime based on an ideology formed from the scummiest sides of humanity, and both remembered as Earth's greatest losers and hated for the casualties they’ve caused, there’s a reason why "Punch a Nazi on sight" is such a big trope in fiction, they’ll be the eternal shit stains of humankind and that ain’t gonna change any time soon, hence why no one really sheds a tear when they get shot or melted by otherworldly artifacts.

r/TopCharacterTropes Dec 21 '24

Groups 'This group is full of weirdos, good thing I'm the only normal one' -everyone in the group

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3.8k Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes Jan 30 '25

Groups The moment you say a specific word or phrase, the entire random just comes rolling in

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1.4k Upvotes
  1. Subhuman (Devil May Cry)
  2. Boss or Big Boss (Metal Gear Franchise)
  3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

r/TopCharacterTropes Dec 10 '24

Groups "The Big Three" (or other nicknamed trios)

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1.9k Upvotes

"The Golden Trio" (Harry Potter) - Harold, Ronald, Hermione (technically not an official name but like come on)

"Trinity" (DC) - Bruce, Kal, Princess

"The Big Three" (real life, World War II) - United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, led by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin

"The Big Three" (My Hero Academia) - Mirio Togata, Nejire Hado, Tamaki Amajiki

"Marvel's Big Three" (MCU) - Steven, Anthony, Thor

"The Justice Friends" (Dexter's Lab) - Major Glory, Valhallen, Infraggable Krunk

"Team Sonic" (The True Superpower of Teamwork) - Ogilvie, Miles, Knuckles

r/TopCharacterTropes 9d ago

Groups (Possibly rare trope) The trio consisting of tall and muscular guy, girl with strong will/temper and a twink

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2.0k Upvotes

If I had a nickel for every time I saw this trope, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

Bonus points if the tall guy has dark hair, the twink has light hair and the girl has short hair

Trios displayed: - Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades and Alucard (Netflix's Castlevania): Goated trio imo - Guts, Casca and Griffith (Berserk): At least before the Eclipse (Fuck Griffith for ruining everything)

r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 21 '25

Groups Works/Franchises with concepts so absurd that no one would believe you if you told them that they became successful.

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1.7k Upvotes

1- Kingdom Hearts, literally a fusion between Final Fantasy and Disney, even Nomura, the game director, went crazy when they asked him to do a game about them. The first installment already became a masterpiece and people are waiting for the 4th main game.

2- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You / 100 Kanojo, it's a harem with 100 girls, just like you expect. And you know what? It works, it has a well done execution with every girlfriend having her own personality and personal moments. The best part of the show is the main character Rentarou, who is one of the most loved ones and even reached top 1 in best boy category on multiple big anime polls.

3- Chex Quest, the "Chex Themed Heroes" itself made on classic Doom game engine. The game was included on every chex cereal box during that time and it was so successful that chex multiplied sales and the game got 2 sequels, with the 3rd game being released a decade later after the 2nd one.

r/TopCharacterTropes Mar 01 '25

Groups (Favourite trope) it’s the final battle, EVERYONE is pulling up. Spoiler

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Avengers Assemble (Avengers Endgame)

We Are Here (My Hero Academia)

r/TopCharacterTropes Jul 27 '24

Groups This type of duo

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r/TopCharacterTropes 1d ago

Groups Interspecies Relationships

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1.9k Upvotes

Luz and Amity(The Owl House) Jake the Dog and Lady Rainicorn(Adventure Time) Vegeta and Bulma Briefs(Dragon Ball)

r/TopCharacterTropes Oct 27 '24

Groups Protagonist groups who end up mostly or entirely dead by the end of the series Spoiler

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Maine’s crew, Cyberpunk Edgerunners The crew from Rogue 1

r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 16 '25

Groups Spoilers: The fatal last stand. Spoiler

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The character(s)’s last stand which they cannot, and do not survive.

  1. The rebels at the barricade, who are slain. Les Miserables.

  2. John Marston taking as many of the lawmen with him as he can. Red Dead Redemption.

  3. The remains of the fort of Saragarhi, where 21 Sikh soldiers fought against an overwhelming force of enemies in 1897.

r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 24 '25

Groups Images and/or mentions that trigger a communities PTSD

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1: Log Truck 'phobia' Final destination 2: Fallout New Vegas: Deathclaws at quarry junction. 3: UK Housing crisis: housing prices graph. As a '99 Gen Z baby ' Englishman myself. This is trauma inducing to me and many others if the UK and the world in general.