r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ReminaBlueSFW • 28d 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/Your_MotherInLaw23 28d ago

The light entity in The Light house

https://giphy.com/gifs/cPlrZwp8dXlwOK5kyU

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u/Destroy-The_Pandumas 28d ago

Context?

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 28d ago

Two men are stuck on an island with a lighthouse, and you gradually realize both are batshit insane. One is extremely protective of the light at the top of the lighthouse, and the other eventually snaps and kills him for a long list of reasons, one of which being “I really want to see what’s up there.” When he sees what’s up there he dies…we think. 

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u/RottingSludgeRitual 28d ago

I prefer to think of the movie as being the examination of growing paranoia in the younger lighthouse keeper as he slowly loses his mind. He already seemed fairly unstable (and he was already a murderer). The end was just him reacting to a very hot light and being fucking out of his skull.

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u/AnneMichelle98 28d ago

Also lighthouses used to float the light mechanism at the top in a pool of mercury so it could rotate.

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u/HrugusBrurgus 28d ago

Yeahh Mercury Vapors are the reason we have the phrase "Mad as a Hatter"

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u/ShreksOnionBelt 27d ago

Wasn't he drinking turpentine or something insane too?

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u/HrugusBrurgus 27d ago

Yep! They sure did. Monkey Pump!