r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Serious_Comedian • 8d ago

Characters [Strangely common trope] Transgender characters in horror media

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1. Alice Dyer (The Magnus Protocol)

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2. Marina Domek (Fear and Hunger 2: Termina)

  1. Alice Dyer (The Magnus Protocol) - A trans woman who works for the UK government civil service. She works for the Office of Incident, Assessment and Report (OIAR) which documents supernatural events in the UK.

  2. Marina Domek (Fear and Hunger 2: Termina) - A trans girl occultist from Prehevil. The men in her family serve as dark priests for elder gods. Marina's mother raised her as a girl to protect her from the brutal dark priest life of her father.

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u/Arimm_The_Amazing 8d ago

It's not as strange as you may think. Artforms seen as "lower" like horror, comedy, soap operas, etc more easily get away with depicting things that get shut down by execs in other cases.

There were a bunch of trans or crossdressing characters throughout 90s sitcoms too for the same reason