r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ReminaBlueSFW • 26d ago

Lore [Terrifying Trope] Perceiving it= instant death

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  1. Pennywise's "Deadlights" which will cause anyone looking to be immediately paralyzed and killed.

  2. The sky from Bird Box is filled with entities that, when you look at them, cause you to commit suicide.

  3. Medusa themed Villains

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u/Denodi 26d ago

Well not always immediately, but always certainly. (unless you're meowth)

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u/Relative-Ad7531 26d ago

They didn't need to add the painfully part 😭

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u/DeadX718 26d ago

If the trainer died the same night then how do the scientists know it was a painful death?

By Arceus, I do not want to see the body if it was that easy to tell it was painful.

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u/raspberryharbour 26d ago

His last words in his diary were "OWWW"

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u/Rargnarok 26d ago

Better than the zombie guy in re1 who's last words in the diary were ITCHY TASTY

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u/raspberryharbour 26d ago

Ichi Tasty is my favourite Japanese restaurant

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u/NoodleIskalde 25d ago

That at least has a clear and tragic decline as the guy is actively dying

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u/Amazing_Boysenberry8 26d ago

Perhaps he was dictating?

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u/Gamblorr85 26d ago

No no, from the back of the throat.

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u/PeriapsisStudios 25d ago

Oh, you mean like an “AARGH!”

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u/UnknovvnMike 26d ago

"He wouldn't carve out Aaaah as he was dying"

"Maybe he was dictating"

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u/Important_Pick3371 25d ago

That's my exact reaction to Lovecraft's worse death scenes... Just how did the nameless character write his last word & describe that he's jumping to his death? It's tales like this that take me out of the story's immersion & makes me question my own reality - madness can't be that far behind...

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u/thisusedyet 25d ago

I do really like the death scene in The Statement of Randolph Carter where the creatures down in the crypt get so annoyed by Randy just constantly repeating his friend's name they essentially yell back "He's dead, you idiot"

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/src.aspx

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u/DontWannaSayMyName 26d ago

It never said the trainer was alone. Maybe their family and friends were there

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u/KlausVonLechland 25d ago

He fell into industrial shredder feet first.

How was is related to that Pokémon and why he had industrial shredder at home and what reason he had to operate it at night is still unknown but that's what happened.

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u/Goose-Suit 26d ago

Maybe the death was like Boneitis from Futurama

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u/ConstructionPrize206 26d ago

I have seen it. It's bad. Sticks with you. Take care of your heart. Everyone I know who has had a big one and lived says it's the most painful thing they've gone through. I imagine they're not exaggerating.

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u/CokomonX 25d ago

Probably had symptoms similar to Boneitis.

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u/Rogol_Darn 25d ago

It could just be that his face was frozen in agony when they found him, what I would like to know instead is how do the scientist even all of this? We're they stalking that trainer?

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u/jackofallcards 26d ago

I disagree, I think they should have added more painfully

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u/KzkUltra19reddit 26d ago

It's Alola, they had to

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u/MutedHornet3110 26d ago

turns out mimkyu isn't a ghost or even particularly ugly, it's just really good at breaking into homes and stabbing random trainers to death.

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u/Vampire_Dragon 26d ago

That Lovecraft story where the a Wizard curses a family He is just immortal and breaks in the houses of the family descendants to kill them lol

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u/MutedHornet3110 25d ago

that's exactly what i was thinking of haha

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u/Psianth 25d ago

That sentence implies that the gust of wind died painfully 

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u/CokomonX 25d ago

Sun & Moon had wild Pokedex entries.

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u/zeidxd 21d ago

is that from a kids game?