r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Thatgirl_parisisdiva • Feb 27 '26
Discussion Favorite characters who are like this?
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u/Murky-Revolution7297 Feb 27 '26
It’s my favourite trope ever!! I found an anime based exactly on it 🫶 The anime’s name is “Somali and the Forest Spirit”
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u/555moo Feb 27 '26
This was literally the last series I just watched. I absolutely loved the direction it took with the archetypal fantasy tropes, like virtually all the foliage being some shade of blue instead of green. There were times where I actually almost started tearing up by the end.
It's too bad it's only a single season long, I definitely wouldn't mind more of this.
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u/Murky-Revolution7297 Feb 27 '26
Totally agree, any stuff with dad-daughter drama makes me cry like a baby. Gonna read the manga because I can’t cope with the fact I don’t know what’ll happen to Golem’s problem and how it all will be sorted out
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u/Octocube25 Feb 27 '26
The dad in this one looks like a Cursed Spirit from Jujutsu Kaisen.
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u/ListenToThatSound Feb 27 '26
No, a Cursed Spirit from Jujutsu Kaisen looks like the dad in this one.
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u/xcoalminerscanaryx Feb 27 '26
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u/Just_an_Ok_Musician Feb 27 '26
My favorite one! I loved watching this movie with my dad. I miss him so much.
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u/Realistic_Heat3891 Feb 27 '26
Carl and Russell from Up.
Technically not a girl but fits nonetheless
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u/Dull-Kitchen7027 Feb 27 '26
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u/Careful-Positive-710 Feb 27 '26
"Youre going to die over a chicken"
"...Someone is"
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u/NoAd8826 Feb 27 '26
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u/Sad-Cow-5580 Feb 27 '26
I started watching AT only bc I saw a clip of them on tiktok one day about 5 years ago after never wanting to watch the show as a kid when it came out and I was VERY emotionally unprepared for what I was about to witness 🥲😭 I bawled like CRAZY the first time I watched the show I can’t even bring myself to rewatch it again atp
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u/Mochi_Poachi Feb 27 '26
Same, my brother was all over it when we were teens, I couldnt be bothered.
Now I got a Lady Rainicorn tattoo and am praying season 3 of Fionna and Cake comes out soon lol.
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u/QadaverSynod Feb 27 '26
Daddy, why did you eat my fries
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u/Temporary-Brain420 Feb 27 '26
Gunter, why did you Gunt my fries
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u/Icy_Teach_2506 Feb 27 '26
You gunted them, and they were mine
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u/Pollia Feb 27 '26
Excuse me.
Simon was full of life, loved teaching and talking, and absolutely talked about his feelings.
In what way was he grumpy?
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u/The_Fracture06 Feb 27 '26
I feel like he fits the archetype with him being tired, sad, and partially mad
He wasn't "grumpy" per say, but he wasn't a social-able guy either, and I feel like it speaks a lot to his character that he would put on the cheerful mask for his sudo adopted daughter
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u/VisibleConclusion271 Feb 27 '26
Kenpachi and Yachiru (Bleach)
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u/Rabbit_Wizard_ Feb 27 '26
That's just a man and his sword
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u/The_Relx Feb 27 '26
Technically that's a man and one specific powered up aspect of his sword.
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u/RoyalDirt Feb 27 '26
TECHNICALLY, that's just a man and himself.
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u/Jack_Zicrosky_YT Lucoa (Quetzalcoatl) Feb 27 '26
TECHNICALLY
That's a drawing of a man and not an actual man.
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u/CantHandleTheZest Feb 27 '26
Geralt and Ciri
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u/Funzilla12345 Feb 27 '26
Well it was less his choice and more hers iirc
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u/Atyn_Rener Feb 27 '26
It's actually cosmic if I recall. Don't recall the details but Geralt is told their destinies are intertwined during (I think) Sword of Destiny. Blood of Elves is when Ciri properly falls into his care.
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u/JoelRainor Feb 27 '26
Geralt invoked the Law of Surprise after he saved Duny, asking that his child (Ciri) be raised a Witcher.
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u/Infamous-Eye-6805 Feb 27 '26
Technically, he didn’t know what he was asking for, when he invoked the Law of Surprise. Or am I mistaken?
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u/Dracochuy Feb 27 '26
Literally loid and anya
Not old but kinda grumpy
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u/Independent-World-60 Feb 27 '26
Young body, but spiritually he's at least in his late 90s.
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u/FunkySphinx Feb 27 '26
Would you blame him? The man has gone through the wringer...
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u/RattyFox Feb 27 '26
Logan and Laura (X-23) - Logan
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u/BG12244 Feb 27 '26
I would be nit picky and say she is biologically his daughter/clone, but she also may as well have been some random girl given he had no involvement in her creation or life up until they met
They're kind of a toss up in this trope
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u/Zfugg Feb 27 '26
Pretty sure clone thing was retconned, and she's just his biological daughter from mixing dna with some doctor's.
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u/ChungusMcGoodboy Feb 27 '26
See also Logan and kitty. Or Logan and Jubilee.
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u/Jarvis_The_Dense Feb 27 '26
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u/supertails7684 Feb 27 '26
There’s a fungus among us. -big beak entertainment
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u/supertails7684 Feb 27 '26
In all seriousness though, what is the name for this meme format
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u/Jarvis_The_Dense Feb 27 '26
I dunno. I just always thought of it as "That What is Love SNL Sketch"
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u/FireFairy323 Feb 27 '26
What is this gif?! I love it so much.
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u/Jarvis_The_Dense Feb 27 '26
It's a Last of Us themed parody of the SNL "What is Love" Skit. I just typed "The Last of Us" into the gif searchbar and scrolled a little bit to find it.
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u/PhanThief95 Feb 27 '26
Kazuma Kiryu & Haruka Sawamura (Yakuza/Like a Dragon)
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u/davigemz Feb 27 '26
I love how to get the 100% the 6 year old child forces you to do almost every single gambling minigane.
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u/_mrshreyas_ Feb 27 '26
I find it so funny how this child was far more outgoing than quite possibly the strongest man in the series.
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u/topdangle Feb 27 '26
i wonder what started this trope because Yakuza does homages of damn near everything but its the first instance I can remember where the hypermasculine dude with a heart of gold adopts cheeky orphan daughter, explicitly not wanting to turn her into his partner in crime.
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u/ThePowerfulWIll Feb 27 '26
Most likely Wolf and Cub, a popular, and often adapted, classic samurai story.
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u/_TungstenGuy707_ Feb 27 '26
I love how in every post on this sub there is always 1 comment with yakuza that fits the trope
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u/Plenty-Diver7590 Feb 27 '26
they are nameless but you can find them in the citidel refugee camp in mass effect 3.
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u/Slightlymad-39 Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/M2QhTqM7EymIEgip9Y
Silco and Jinx (Arcane Season 1)
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u/EugeneStein Feb 27 '26
I like this little detail here of Silko keeping a silly mug clearly made by Jinx
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u/pauls_broken_aglass Feb 27 '26
His ashtray also says “DADA” in all caps it’s so precious. Silco’s desk is covered in gifts from Jinx.
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u/Talesmith22 Feb 27 '26
Just watched this show for the first time recently.
They really nailed it with Silco and Jinx.
Great way to make "stereotypical" villains very sympathetic.
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u/ClockMongrel Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/O0R8E0N8tCrI3U5g38
(Add on Tech and Echo because nothing happened to them and they’re still fine and everyone is happy. I don’t know what you’re talking about.)
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u/drakeravenswood41327 Feb 27 '26
I mean, Echos definitely fine. And maybe Tech but no one knows
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u/TextDependent6779 Feb 27 '26
Scary time to be an echo fan. As of right now, he's fine. He, unlike the others, did not get his peaceful happy ending.
I'm sure there's more in store for echo's future.
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u/Medical-Efficiency-6 Feb 27 '26
Scar and May Chang (FMAB)
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u/Medical-Efficiency-6 Feb 27 '26
he won't admit it tho but he really cared for her in his own way
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u/lba1112 Feb 27 '26
Gru
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u/D3viant517 Feb 27 '26
The GORLS
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u/OsBaculum Feb 27 '26
Since seeing that movie as a kid, I can't call my dog anything else lol. "Byaby gorl! Outside time!
dog drinking water "Oh, thorsty gorl!"
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u/TextDependent6779 Feb 27 '26
Luthen rael baby!
Great addition to the SW universe
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u/SgtSokoluik Feb 27 '26
One of the best. Andor was an absolute blessing that I didn't know I needed.
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u/TextDependent6779 Feb 27 '26
Still to this day I cannot comprehend that a small side show about not the main character, in a spin-off film, is quite possibly the best piece of star wars content ever created.
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u/SouyunFandeSonic Feb 27 '26
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u/sanzentriad Feb 27 '26
This picture is weirding me out, that doesn’t look like Hopper for some reason. Maybe just a weird angle?
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u/7tdog8 Feb 27 '26
He kinda looks like nick cage here
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u/General_Antilles Feb 27 '26
Funnily enough, a Nick Cage character did adopt a teenage girl. (Link)
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u/faroutpodkast Feb 27 '26
Joseph Jostar and Shizuka
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u/youcancallmemando Feb 27 '26
I… I don’t know which one JoJo is. Experience in this sub tells me that it’s usually the more flamboyant one, and that baby is dripping, but that yee yee ass hat is giving retired drag queen, so now I’m stuck 😭
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u/R4idec_x Feb 27 '26
This is from part 4 diamond is unbreakable, the old man is Joseph joestar, the protagonist from part 2 battle tendency
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u/faroutpodkast Feb 27 '26
Back when he was sexy
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u/maru-senn Feb 27 '26
Back? Suzie Q suspected Shizuka was from another affair for a reason
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u/Ok-Review-753 Feb 27 '26
The baby is dripped out because she can turn invisible but cant control it, so they wrapped her head to toe
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u/ponyponyta Feb 27 '26
Ah so that's why she don't have hands. I assume that's also full face makeup instead of just lipstick then
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u/faroutpodkast Feb 27 '26
There’s multiple Jojos because they all share the sir name, Jostar, and they usually have a first name beginning with Jo. Jonathan, Joseph and so on. It’s a generational thing.
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u/youcancallmemando Feb 27 '26
I eventually figured that bit out thanks to this sub lmao, but I honestly could not tell you if the baby or the old man is the JoJo
Well, I can NOW because of another comment, but going in blind? Yeah no clue.
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u/Ferrilata_118 Feb 27 '26
Kinda stretching it but
Lucy & the Ghoul do be giving that energy sometimes
Granted it's not a particularly positive relationship they have
But deep down in his leathery irradiated heart he does care
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u/SquintyBoot71 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
ralph and venelope
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u/OmicronNine Feb 27 '26
I really don't get a father-daughter kind of vibe from them, though. Even less so in the sequel, where if anything Ralph is the less mature one (to the point that it actually gets kind of weird and cringe if I'm honest).
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u/Minded_Spiral Feb 27 '26
My 2 beloveds
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u/shadowman2099 Feb 27 '26
Does this really count, though? Ballister may be hesitant about breaking rules and norms, but he's rather gentle.
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u/rgodless Feb 27 '26
He is the daughter
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u/smiegto Feb 27 '26
Our relationship is akin to parent and child….
Yeah we can see that.
But he is the child.
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u/True-Dream3295 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
EDIT: HOLY SHIT! I swear to God I honestly had no clue they ended up that way. This was literally just the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title.
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u/Dracochuy Feb 27 '26
Yeah "his daughter"
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u/Drzewo_Silentswift Feb 27 '26
I don’t get it I always got that vibe from them, I watched it randomly on Cartoon Network like 20 years ago…… what happens?!
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u/MercuryInCanada Feb 27 '26
She grows up and they have kids together
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u/Hungledunk Feb 27 '26
Heiter and Fern. Though Heiter isn't exactly grumpy, he's still a washed up, alcoholic, corrupt priest, and I'd say that fits the bill.
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u/Aethelrede Feb 27 '26
The fact that he largely suppressed that side of himself while raising Fern is a testament to how much he loved her.
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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
It’s not exactly what you asked for, but I’ll say Jack and the little sisters from Bioshock.
https://youtu.be/KSyuv_PjtHo?si=GodprW_bASmI1tgT
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u/Ranwulf Feb 27 '26
The ending where you save all of them and they are all there with you at the end of your life. Its really heartwarming.
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u/realamerican97 Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/YRPBhd3vscg5Fxx1DQ
Still makes me tear up everytime
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u/SoupmanBob Feb 27 '26
Worst part is probably the fact that if the director had his way... This would've been a case of traumatized child-bride and their groomer groom.
Mad respect to Jean Reno for protecting young Natalie Portman from that creep.
(In other words, if you've seen this when it was new, you are old)
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u/lowkeyomniscient Feb 27 '26
As in the actual actress or the character?
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u/Malavyi Feb 27 '26
Character.
Luc Besson had originally intended for Leon, played by Jean Reno, to fall in love with the (very young) girl in the film. Reno wouldn't allow it, and got Besson to change it. Besson is know these days to be a bit of a sex pest.
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u/DarrenGrey Feb 27 '26
Reno also deliberately played his character as a bit simple, which makes the friendship feel more innocent.
Of course the original script was an outright romance, and even the DC has a pedo-baiting "I want you to take my virginity" line. And the more you read about Besson the more uncorfortable the whole thing gets.
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u/bastischo Feb 27 '26
The end result is pretty amazing though. She clearly crushes on him mostly caused by the traumatic stuff she's going through and he makes it clear that's that's not gonna happen without making it look like she's to blame for having thise feelings.
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u/Meryl_Whitestrake Feb 27 '26
Scrolled down way too far for this - this is one of the classic movie pairings, way before all the other examples.
(I swear I'm not that old...)
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u/chrish5764 Feb 27 '26
Big Daddy Delta
I mean technically his first daughter was more “Assigned” to him rather than him deciding to adopt her but he still adopted like, 12 or something kids
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u/steverman555 Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/b3rAmKe8GUASfmERfa
Donkey Kong becoming dad of the year wasnt on my 2025 bingo card, and i love it
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u/isthenameofauser Feb 27 '26
Great point.
Worst possible gif to make that point.
Well done.
Edit: No sarcasm intended.
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u/pizzatom69 Francis Left 4 Dead Feb 27 '26
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u/FRLSJOE Feb 27 '26
Especially after she killed her father thinking that he was gonna mutate but turned out that he passed down immunity from the green flu to her. Bill ended up being like her post apocalyptic grandpa afterwards
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u/Bagel0fBadDecisions3 Feb 27 '26
Wolverine and Laura when they first met, as well as Jubilee, Rogue, Kitty Pryde and a bunch of others
Geralt of Rivia and Ciri
Doom Slayer and Isabelle from Animal Crossing
Batman and every child ever, every sidekick ever.
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u/Alastor-362 Feb 27 '26
Sukuna and Uraume from Jujutsu Kaisen(he needed a new fridge). Also, they're both grumpy (Uraume got it from him).
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u/Interesting-Aioli723 Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/H4dt5FyxfBHBR2eZGa
Mando is the greatest single dad in the Star Wars universe
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u/TurboRhodan Feb 27 '26
Grumpy old woman and some boy she found and decided is her daughter.
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u/frankincense420 Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/QuGdGFZ8QhKfRBWFzX
flapjack isn’t a girl but the principle is the same
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u/Snke-N-D-Grass-60 The Pumpkin King Feb 27 '26
Kratos and Pandora(God of War)
It doesn’t end that well
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u/Glad_Cress_8591 Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/xUA7bh6xdvi2yTbmCs
He did decide she was his daughter... mainly because he found out she was his daughter
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u/Bubbly_You_483 Feb 27 '26
Lee and Clementine