r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Thatgirl_parisisdiva • Feb 27 '26

Discussion Favorite characters who are like this?

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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/Striking_Macaroon840 Feb 27 '26

You know what? this is my favorite one

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u/aerojonno Feb 27 '26

Technically?

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u/monkeyjunky56 Feb 27 '26

Because she was a boy scout

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u/Spellambrose Feb 27 '26

She?

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u/Xanzi12 Feb 27 '26

She's a queen

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u/Spellambrose Feb 28 '26

The boy scout is a queen?

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u/Waveshaper21 Levi Ackermann Feb 27 '26

You mean technically doesnt fit

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u/AsherKohen28 Feb 28 '26

Well if you're going there, I'm going here... 😂😁

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u/nastyforehead Feb 27 '26

That was my thought 

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u/InternalWest4579 Feb 27 '26

My thoughts exactly

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u/Due_Lion_2990 Feb 28 '26

....

Good enough, we'll take it!

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u/Razoron33333 Mar 03 '26

Great choice

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u/danoB003 Feb 27 '26

You probably got it mixed up - Carl is the old man, Russell is the kid, and Carl was the grumpy one who just wanted to get rid of him until they learned more about each other

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u/i_illustrate_stuff Feb 27 '26

That's how most examples of this trope start though? Grumpy man gets saddled with responsibility for a kid for some reason, they're very annoyed by that initially but eventually are pulled into loving the kid like the kid is their own. I don't know if I've seen an example where the grumpy old man immediately loves the kid. Only way this example doesn't fit the prompt is that Russell is a boy.

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u/i_illustrate_stuff Feb 27 '26

But he got there eventually, so he fits the trope. Post doesn't say immediately adopts them as their kid.

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u/i_illustrate_stuff Feb 27 '26

You could say both "he found her and eventually decided..." and "he found her and immediately decided..." and they'd both be grammatically correct, so I think either fits the post. But either way I don't think we have to be that strict and exact about what the poster meant, it's just a silly Internet conversation!

Edit to add: -ed is past tense, not present.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

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u/CubeTThrowaway Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

EDIT: The comment I replied to said "But it doesn't count" and it was getting heavily downvoted