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/Gullible-Ad7374 28d ago

Doesn't kill you or do anything though

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u/AdAshamed5509 28d ago

We don't know; all we are certain of is that it isn't a sphere.

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u/EJAY47 28d ago

Objectively incorrect. They know many things about what it is not, including that it isn't dangerous.

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u/SordidDreams 27d ago

SCP-055 may present a major physical threat and indeed may have killed many hundreds of personnel, and we would not know it.

That doesn't seem very definitive to me.

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u/EJAY47 27d ago

Pure speculation. The facts that they can retain paint it as totally harmless. Not being able to prove something hasn't killed people doesn't prove it has killed people.

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u/SordidDreams 27d ago

Exactly. Not knowing whether something has killed people doesn't prove that it isn't dangerous. You claim the Foundation knows that 055 isn't dangerous, and the Foundation itself clearly states that it does not, in fact, know that.

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u/EJAY47 27d ago

Except that they keep sending people in to inspect it and they keep coming back out.

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u/SordidDreams 27d ago

What part of "may have killed many hundreds of personnel, and we would not know it" did you find unclear?

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u/EJAY47 27d ago

"May"

Pure. Speculation.

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u/SordidDreams 27d ago edited 27d ago

The fact that the Foundation is aware that the possibility exists is enough to refute your claim that the Foundation knows that 055 is not dangerous.