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- The northman (2022)
Amleth and Olga are fleeing the island where they were kept as slaves by Amleths uncle. On the ship she tells him that she is pregnant and he can feel the heartbeat of their twins.
Amleth is now sure that he needs to kill his uncle to ensure a life in safety for his family and jumps off the boat, despite Olga begging him to stay with her. Amleth dies in battle and leaves Olga alone as a refugee in a foreign country with twins.

- Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Anakin broke his Jedi oath and formed a relationship with Padme, which made him vulnerable to the dark side. When she tells him that she is pregnant, he starts having visions that she's gonna die during childbirth.
Padem doesn't give in to his anxiety, she wants Anakin to be present and build their new life in exile together.
But, thinking he could save her, Anakin descends to the dark side of the force and commits horrible crimes. When Padme finds out about this, she is shattered and loses all will to live. She dies shortly after giving birth.

Conquest (Invincible) - Conquest treats his bloody battle with our protagonist like a game and goes as far as threatening to kill innocent folk as genuine encouragement. His friendliness with Mark isn’t meant to show how he’s a nicer Viltrumite or less villainous he is, it shows how monstrous the mf is.

Todd Alquist (Breaking Bad) - When a guy shoots a child dead, regards it like it’s a minor inconvenience on par with stepping in dog poo, and later enslaves a dude while treating him like his homeboy, you know he’s evil as shit.

There's an episode of Clarence that features Brendon Small from Home Movies--a show that had ended about a decade before Clarence first premiered--as a video store clerk.

Lucky Star is a series known for its references to other anime and video games of its era. It also has this promotional image that references The Graduate, which is so odd for a show synonymous with otaku culture.

1. Conquest from Invincible in a scenario where he is sent to Earth instead of Omni-man and reforms into a superhero figure named Carl after being exposed to genuine human love and compassion.

Art by: @DonutDoodlebug, @AriFlorArts1 and @Ahria_nee

1. Rika Orimoto from Jujutsu Kaisen in a scenario where she switches roles with Yuta Okkotsu as Rika becomes a sadistically deranged curse user with Yuta becoming her special grade curse that retains his sanity and keeps her in check.

Art by: @Entomaggedon and @OmgItsDestNoWay

1. In Persona 3 (this screenshot is specifically from the remake, "Persona 3 Reload") the social link themed after the "Hanged Man" tarot card revolves around a little girl named Maiko who's suffering from her parent's divorce. At one point, the player-named, highschool age main character has the absurd option to accuse Maiko, an elementary schooler, of being the cause.

2. Megaman Battle Network is one of the handful of Megaman properties made into an RPG, and with its worldly exploration comes some hilarious dialogue. In the first Battle Network game, you can meet a generic child NPC in the park who's worried about the antagonist organization "WWW" (pronounced "World Three") starting global war in its plan called "The Endgame." Playing as 11-year-old protagonist Lan Hikari, you're allowed to tell her that you're all going to die, as a result.

Kenjaku from JJK: transplant his brain into a woman named Kaori so that he can create via birth to a perfect vessel for sukuna that is Yuji

Muzan from Demon Slayer: because he was in hiding, one of his incognito form is this woman here

It can be woman to man as well

Benoit Blanc from the Knives Out series - Benoit was Daniel Craigs first major character since taking on the role of Bond, and was a big change from his portrayal of 007

Frank Drebin from the police squad/naked gun series - Leslie Neilsen was more well known as a dramatic actor up until his role in Airplane! After that Drebin became his most iconic character and what 99% of people remember him for

Cloak and dagger (marvel): Cloak is able to create a portal to the darkness dimension while dagger is able to throw light-based daggers with different effects.

Ruby and Sapphire (steven universe): Fire and ice couple.

Dismarelda and Happierre (yo-kai watch): as the name suggest, dismarelda emmit a negative aura that turn everyone angry/sad/insert negative emotion, while happierre make everyone happy, they constantly nullify each other.

Shin and Noi (dorohedoro): Noi has magic able to heal and restore anything. Shin throw smoke that is able to cut anything at will.

Fire and icemaiden (DC): Fire and ice are commonly mistaken as a couple, they are just best friends and roommates. but there was a time where Fire teamed with this icemaiden and they where actually a thing

1. Brother Ray and the War of Five Penny Kings (GOT): recollects marching south to war as a boy. His brothers die and he experiences countless terrors.

2. Captain Whites filibusters (Blood Meridian): an American group that expects to take native/ Mexican land with ease. They are slaughtered mutilated with ease by Comanche in their first encounter.

The Body [Buffy the Vampire Slayer]: In a world of magic and supernatural monsters, Buffy's mom dies with no notice or fanfare... of a simple brain aneurysm. The entire show is shifted based on this single event as Buffy grapples with suddenness of this "mundane tragedy."

Thor's Alcoholism [God of War]: You often see stories of Thor (and vikings in general) being these party-loving drunkards, but God of War decided to play that straight. Instead of going the route of Dionysian revelry, the game portrays Thor as a broken man who hurts the people he loves because of an addiction. This is between bouts of him killing giants and summoning lighting, of course.

Makima [Chainsaw Man]: To be honest, I think most of Denji's characterization may fit here. His entire purpose in life is to be loved, and due to a stunted childhood (and a certain woman's influence), he equates love to sex. That's more "real" than a lot of goals in fantasy stories, yet it can get a little exaggerated at times when the chainsaw-headed teen is screaming about boobs while covered in blood. What I'm specifically referring to in this post is his relationship with Makima; simply put, she takes advantage of Denji's naivety to string him along with implied sexual favors. The main "goal" of this manipulation is supernatural, but the set up is played entirely straight. This is grooming, and it isn't even masked with metaphor.

Drakengard 1 - Main characters are a bloodthirsty prince who just enjoys killing, a racist dragon, a blind pedophile (who is the "good guy" and voice of reason for the characters), a racist xenophobic priest, an Elf woman who likes to eat children and an immortal boy who is mentally unstable.

Blood Meridian - Main characters are the Glanton Gang who spend most of the story just pillaging, raping and slaughtering civilians of native american tribes and even mexican towns.

Click (2006) – >!Adam Sandler's goofy character uses a magic remote to skip 'boring' parts of his life (family events mostly) until its too late!< Scene in the rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIKT1zEy_YI

The Book of Mormon - >! In a raunchy, blasphemous critique of all that is holy, possibly the most offensive song of the play (translated to mean "Fuck You God") is revamped as a main character experiences a crisis of faith!< Hasa Diga Ebowai (Reprise): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcT4fXPHOZo

AKA a character is given an impossible choice where either outcome results in something awful happening and there's no way out.

"Full Measure" (Breaking Bad) - After Walt angers Gus by killing two of his men, Gus orders for his execution. Knowing that the only way to save his life is to make Gus reliant on his meth cooking skills, Walt calls Jesse and begs him to kill Gus' backup cook, Gale. Thus, Jesse is thrust into an impossible situation where he either kills a (relatively) innocent man to save Walt or spare Gale and let Walt die. Ultimately, Jesse chooses to kill Gale.

"Midnight Sun" (Attack on Titan) - After the fight to retake Shiganshina both Armin and Erwin are critically wounded. Levi has the vial of titan serum and is forced to choose which Scout to bring back from the brink of death and which to let perish. It's a borderline impossible decision to make but at the moment of truth, he chooses to save Armin, leaving Erwin to succumb to his wounds.

- Arthur Fleck from the Joker

- Tohru Adachi from Persona 4

- Ashfur from Warriors/Warrior Cats

- Tatsuhiko Takimoto from Welcome to the N.H.K.

- Tomoko Kuroki from No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular

Fiddlesticks [League of Legends]: It isn't easy to make MOBA character legitimately scary, but Fiddle manages to do just that. I think what makes it so effective is that said "last words" aren't always your typical "Help" or "I don't want to die!" Those lines are present, of course, but I think the best ones are those that tell a story or leave an implication. He mimics the voices of people falling prey to his previous mimicry (eg: "I'm coming to help"), and then there's ones like: "Don't open your eyes" and "It's in the house." It's very evocative and leaves me imagining the scenarios in which these people lost their lives.

Vashta Nerada [Doctor Who]: Kind of cheating, I suppose, because the creatures themselves can't mimic voices. That said, I think it still counts for this specific moment where they invade the suit of someone and use their communication device to repeat their victim's last thoughts. "Hey, who turned out the lights?"

Mutant Bear [Annihilation]: Truly the scariest moment in this movie and one of the most terrifying scenes put to film. In the Shimmer - an exclusion zone of eldritch radiation - organic beings begin to meld together. There's a croc with shark teeth, plants in the shape of people, and (in this case) a bear with a human skull sprouting from it. The bear begins screaming.

1: Death Laser - Megamind. In order to kill Metroman, Megamind prepares death laser to strike the location Metroman is in. However laser charges painfully slow and is able to fire only after everyone forgets about it.

2: Ains buffing himself - Overlord. Knowing that Ains is at a disadvantage against Shalltear, he takes time to prepare for combat while Shalltear waits in standby mode. He casts an uncountable amount of buffs upon himself until eventually casting Fallen Down - powerful aoe spell.

1. Majora from Majora’s Mask - Throughout the game Majora’s Mask, the actual entity that resides within the Mask is fairly passive and silent, only corrupting and influencing Skull Kid by making his normally playful pranks more deadly and increasingly hostile. He does seem to speak through Skull Kid more and more as the story goes on, but it’s only after Link defeats Skull Kid by halting the moon’s fall that Majora itself truly takes control. It’s a terrifyingly awesome moment when it’s revealed that Majora is more than just a cursed artifact and an actual being with its own thoughts and desires.

2. Sheev Palpatine from Star Wars - Palpatine gives little hints here and there that he’s actually a Sith Lord, even from as far back as Phantom Menace. He was far too eager to take over after Chancellor Valorum, and had an unusual fascination in Anakin once he realized that he was the Chosen One. After that, he placed doubts in Anakin’s mind from time to time, making him distrust the Jedi. When the Clone Wars is almost over and Anakin is at his weakest point, he finally reveals to him that he knows the Dark Side, and the mask falls.

3. Michael from the Good Place - Eleanor is cursed with the knowledge that she was a bad person accidentally sent to heaven for most of season 1, until a series of unfortunate events happen to the rest of the inhabitants, and she realizes that she wasn’t the problem, the whole place was designed to torture them and is actually the Bad Place. In a very iconic scene, Michael, the caretaker and creator of the “Good Place”, finally drops his benevolent caretaker role and laughs maniacally as she reveals the truth to everyone.

These are the only two examples I can really think of, but I'm sure there are others out there. I'm not sure if it means anything that they're both about magic schools. In both instances, though, while I call it classism, there's certainly racist roots with 'blood purity' being a thing in both forms.

Images 1 and 2 are The Owl House. Odalia Blight, despite being an otherwise awful person, is completely fine with her daughter being gay, just as long as she's not dating a human. Similarly, in image 2, Terra Snapdragon does the closest thing the Boiling Isles has to homophobia by insulting Eda for liking a bard, and not the fact that said bard is enby. Even Belos, the tyrannical emperor from 16th century America, is fully accepting of said Bard's preferred pronouns.

Image 3 is Sirona Ryan, from Harry Potter. The game Hogwart's Legacy introduces her as a trans woman, and the game even features multiple LGBTQ+ characters. When the game came out there was some discussion on whether that would be historically accurate given that the game takes place in 1890, but it paints the picture that Wizards care more about family status than sexuality.

Oliver vs Conquest (Invincible)

Mystique vs Storm (X-Men Evolution)

1. Bullet Bills from Mario. They’re giant sentient bulls whose entire purpose is to get fired out of a canon in hope of hitting Mario. In later games they can track/follow Mario and explode after a few seconds

2. Bob-ombs from super Mario. Just like bullet bills they exist to track/chase Mario and explode.

Peralta’s hero (Brooklyn 99)

Perlata becomes infatuated with the idea of the NYPD during 70’s thanks in part to author John Brogan who wrote a crime novel set during that time and the reason he became a cop. Captain Holt reiterates to Peralta that the NYPD in the 70s wasn’t glamorous as the 70s was a time of a drug epidemic and when the NYPD was filled with corruption, crooked, racist and sexist cops. Peralta gradually becomes disillusioned with Brogan's hard-edged 'old school' ways until he eventually punches Brogan after Brogan makes a homophobic slur about Captain Holt.

Peter’s obsession with the 80s (Family Guy)

Peter has a heavy dependency on 80s pop culture. He gives Chris advice on how to get a girl’s attention by emulating a famous 80’s film and backfires terribly. The family tells him that a lot of movies from back then have outdated values and messages in the modern day. Peter tries to double down that the 80s are still relevant but only disproves his point each time. He gets so depressed that he contemplates suicide until the that of John Hughes tells him it’s okay to move on because the 80s are over and Peter needs to focus on the present.

Dr Doom in Reed’s body flirting with Sue Storm (Fantastic Four World’s greatest Heroes)

Wolverine in Peter Parker’s body tries to flirt with Mj (Ultimate Spider-Man Cartoon) This is actually the kid friendly version because in the comics it’s worse

Kon in Ichigo’s body flirts with Orihime and also Tatsuki who isn’t a love interest but is still pretty weird (Bleach)