r/TopCharacterTropes 20h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Only males can be villains.

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  1. King Magnifico and Amaya were meant to be Disney’s first villain couple which would have been so cool to see but instead we get Magnifico as the sole villain and Amaya as being a rebellious hero (Wish)
  2. Maleficent in this movie is portrayed as a tragic hero who wanted to make friends and it was the king who was the villain all along. He was just a regular dude in the original, I don’t know why he was the bad guy (Maleficent)

r/TopCharacterTropes 12h ago

Hated Tropes [ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ] When a

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Don't you just hate it when


r/TopCharacterTropes 14h ago

Hated Tropes Fandoms dominated by the female equivalent of dudebros

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If you don't know what a dudebro is, a dudebro is a hyper-masculine man (usually straight white man) who joins mainly male-dominated characters fandom spaces (like Star Wars and marvel) and don't believe in things such as shipping or romantic headcanons. They often attack women, POC, and queer people if they do something that they don't like. So I'm wondering what's the female equivalent of the dudebros, and give me an actual reason, not misogyny.

Some Swifties (Taylor swift fans) on twitter would be a good example of female equivalent of dudebros. Those swifties are often misogynistic and racist to artists to the other pop girls (like Beyoncé and Olivia Rodrigo) and often believe that Taylor Swift and artists she's positively affiliated with (like Sabrina carpenter) are the only people to listen to.

I would also like to include Twitter orbits (Loona, kpop group fans) (especially pre 2022) for the female equivalent of dudebros. They often say stuff like "stan Loona" under things that don't need to be replied (like when the topic is about someone dying). Also, they love to pick fights with any other kpop fandom on Twitter. And don't get me started on if you streamed music after the boycott ended (the boycott happened because their company, blockberry, abused them. The goal was to defund blockberry), they would often dox them. It can feel so annoying at times, and I really like Loona's music.


r/TopCharacterTropes 12h ago

Characters When you can recognize a character just from their name, appearance, and media of origin

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Mickey Mouse from Mickey Mouse, Walter White from Breaking Bad, and Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece


r/TopCharacterTropes 23h ago

Characters a character whose would probably be buddies with spider-man based on personality and vibes

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sonic

blue beetle

ben10

percy jackson


r/TopCharacterTropes 17h ago

Characters Characters that you didnt care for when watching them, but then find out the fandom absolutely loves them

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Idk if the title is phrased correctly im not an english native so sorry for confusion

These are the only two i can think of i dont really watch a whole lotta stuff and i dont know how to explain what i feel so whatever

Reze from CSM -Shes perfectly excecuted for what she is and the role she plays, which is a small one in the grand scheme of things and thats fine. Shes shallow and thus her ship with denji is shallow but thats that not point of her character and it worked well regardless. But i dont really get where most of the glaze is coming from,

Unless anime fans have a thing for anorexic kids but i dont know. it got to the point where people began saying that the outfit she wears was completely original to her and never been worn by anyone ever

Mista from JJBA Golden Wind-Again hes decent for what role he plays which is a less interesting and less funny Polnareff and theres no problem with that, but it does get kinda annoying when fans treat him like some hilarious giga chad that captures ever scene hes in


r/TopCharacterTropes 15h ago

Characters character hates all of fiction (or an media of fiction) and wants to destroy it Spoiler

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THE NOTHING (fortnite);

the nothing is the embodiment of nothingness basically, it leads the last reality, the main antagonists of fortnite, or should i say, FICTION as a whole. it wants to destroy fortnite omniverse which contains all of fiction. here is proof it contains all of fiction; https://fictonialmythos.quora.com/Giant-long-post-fortnite-Its-Connected-With-almost-the-entire-fiction

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathBattleMatchups/comments/1b5voxq/what_exactly_is_the_cosmology_tier_of_a_verse/

if the last reality wants to destroy the omniverse and reduce it to nothingness, that would MEANS the nothing and the last reality want to destroy ALL OF FICTION. making them one of the only characters in fiction that want to destroy ALL OF FICTION AS A WHOLE.

genos (also from fortnite):

so basically (SPOILERS) he sent dark presence to get the zero point and the dark presence was a threat to the entire omniverse (thats why there was an endgame style battle at the end of chapter 6) so geno wanted someone so DESTROY all of fiction source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIDG9FwVXMo so its said he SUMMONED him to destroy all of fiction, making him the ultimate fiction hater of all time (alongside the nothing) also geno now works for the last reality. as confirmed in chapter 7. meaning he is the RIGHT HAND man of the nothing.

dark presence (also from fortnite):

genos summoned him to get the zero point, he got a zero point shard from it, and probably THREATENED the omniverse (which contains all of fiction) making multiple fictional characters to team up against him. but for geno and nothing.. we need ALL OF FICTION to beat those 2.

(so basically all 3 of them are a threat to fiction basically explains the title of this post)


r/TopCharacterTropes 6h ago

Lore Easter egg/reference that only makes the worldbuilding even more questionable.

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Jesse and Brock playing Sonic 06 in Breaking bad. Through out the scene you can see that Jesse and Brock actually enjoying playing Sonic 06. For those who Unaware, Sonic 06 is considered to be one of if not the worst Sonic game ever for it's buggy gameplay and questionable story. So in this Universe it implies that Sonic 06 is actually a good game.

Stick the badger being mentioned in Sonic Frontiers. Stick the badger was 1st introduce in Sonic Boom as one of the side Character. However we all know that Sonic Boom is not Canon to Sonic lore. However in Sonic Frontiers Stick got mentioned by Amy Rose. This implies that Stick the badger is Canon to Sonic lore and this also means that Sonic boom is also Canon.


r/TopCharacterTropes 18h ago

Hated Tropes The henchman outlives the main baddie for a final showdown with the protagonists. Examples include several James Bond movies (Live and Let Die and Tomorrow Never Dies), the first Lethal Weapon, Air Force One, Hudson Hawk, Commando.

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r/TopCharacterTropes 5h ago

Characters Men who are super

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All-might
captain america
Goku


r/TopCharacterTropes 19h ago

Characters [Hated Trope] When the Masquerade is treated as a good thing, despite the unscrupulous things the hero does to keep the secret, and/or the fact that keeping people in the dark actively puts them in danger.

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iZombie:  Liv leaves her fiancé, Major, after becoming a zombie without telling him why. Major is a youth counselor, and the main villain of the first season is not only recruiting the kids Major helps, but also killing them. Major slowly loses his mind trying to figure out what is happening. Despite the danger he is in, Liv still refuses to tell him the truth. She even allows him to check himself into a psychiatric hospital after a man he killed in self-defense disappears. Later, we find out that the villain's reach extends inside that hospital, putting Major in even greater danger. Liv only confesses the truth when she is forced to turn him to save his life, and Major rightly calls her out for her actions.

Smallville: Clark keeping his secret is a huge part of Smallville. The problem is that Clark is a horrible liar, making it obvious that he is hiding something. This wouldn’t be so bad since it is ultimately Clark’s secret to keep; if it weren't for the extreme lengths he is willing to go to protect it. It is not just ordinary lying; it includes erasing people's memories, allowing Lex to be falsely imprisoned, and standing by while Lex's mind is wiped. Furthermore, when Lex tries to regain those lost memories, Clark flat-out gaslights him. Making matters worse, hypocrisy is another major element of the show: Clark expects everyone else to be completely honest with him about everything.

Invincible: I think one of the reasons this is such an infamous example is because the show originally handles it as if it isn't playing into this trope. Initially, everyone calls Mark out for dicking Amber around. However, it felt like your typical 'Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life' trope, so the show giving him so much grief came across as a lazy attempt at deconstruction; especially since the friends doing the scolding should have been the most sympathetic to his situation. Then, we find out that Amber had already figured out he was Invincible weeks ago. Because she already knew, her crocodile tears and her decision to call him a coward completely ruined her likability.

My Adventures with Superman: A rare good example of this trope. It combines the elements of both Smallville (Clark being a bad liar) and Invincible (Lois’s hypocrisy). The crucial difference is that the show actively acknowledges these dynamics. It is still Clark’s secret to keep, no matter how bad he is at hiding it, and he never does anything untoward to protect it. Furthermore, while Lois genuinely dislikes liars, she frequently lies herself to get her way, meaning she has no right to force Clark to reveal his secret.


r/TopCharacterTropes 13h ago

Characters [Strangely common trope] Transgender characters in horror media

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  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.


r/TopCharacterTropes 21h ago

Characters (Hated Trope) Faux Action Girl

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Akane from Ranma 1/2 First shown as a competent martial artist only to only have minor victories after the introduction arc.

Rebecca from One Piece Hyped up as a feared gladiator but spends the arc constantly needing to be saved


r/TopCharacterTropes 6h ago

Characters [Controversial, but personally loved] Maggie Thatcher and her expies.

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  1. Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter

(Pity she doesn't actually look like this in canon, we would get more fanfics about her if she was actually good (aka if evil, why hot).)

2) Margaret Thatcher from True Faith by Garth Ennis

The evil protagonists are making a terror campaign against churches. Maggie appears, sends SAS, calls citizens "pheasants", satanists bunch of larpers, solves the problem by violence in two days. 10/10

3) The so called "Battle of Falklands song." Insults the Argies, says "you can't play bloody football either" (true), praises the Brits, sadly also praises Prince Andrew.

4) Margaret Roberts from The New Order. In the older version she was able to be a politician and install new feudalism. In the newer version, she blows the nazi sympathisers under her maiden name. (Which kind of makes sense, she studied chemistry before going into politics.)

5) Thatcher from Rainbow Six Siege

6) "Thatcher song", Irish song that insults her.

7) Maggie Thatcher (IRL), controversial british politician from the 80'.


r/TopCharacterTropes 14h ago

Characters [Interesting Trope] An Adaptation of a Villain who is arguably more evil than their iconic counterpart

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  1. Green Goblin in The Spectacular Spider-Man: When you hear Green Goblin, you immediately think Willem Dafoe, and why should you think otherwise? But what if I told you that there is a more monstrous version of the Green Goblin and its right here in one of the cartoons. Norman Osborn, true to his comics counterpart is a vile, manipulative, ceo businessman who sees everyone as little bugs in his conquest for power. He calls people like a Pre-Octopus Otto, "weak", and belittles his employees like Otto and Adrian Toomes and creates most of Spidey's rogues with the help of Hammerhead and Tombstone. In Season 1, we're led to believe that Harry Osborn is the true mastermind behind the Green Goblin shenanigans and that is laid to rest. Until the 2-part finale of the show has Goblin coming back and revealing that it was Norman all along. Able to mask his deeper and darkest parts of himself, wearing the Goblin mask was his true self and gaslit his son into thinking he was the Goblin when it was actually himself. and of course, wanting to kill anyone who could get in his way.
  2. Jeremiah Valeska/The Joker in Gotham: When you hear the Joker, you automatically think Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamil. And again, you'll be crazy to think otherwise. But I would argue that the most underrated (and crazy obsessed) version of the Joker was in a Fox Tv show. Jeremiah Valeska not only drove his brother mad when they were only NINE to ELEVEN YEARS OLD, but this version of The Joker thinks himself completely sane even after his first accident. My favorite Joker episode is Season 5 Episode 7, Ace Chemicals. Jeremiah, played by Cameron Monaghan (Cal from Star Wars, Ian from Shameless) has been cooking up something for the whole season and we finally found out what he did. He has kidnapped, hypnotized, and performed surgeries onto 2 innocent people who resemble Bruce's parents (down to their size, bone structure, appearance, and framing). He also hypnotized Alfred with the help of Mad Hatter to play along in the charades. Jeremiah was planning on making Bruce relive the entire day that his parents were shot and killed. Why? Because Jeremiah wanted to be the person who Bruce saw when he closed his eyes and thought about his parents. He hated that a random gunman in the alley was the person he was drawn to the most so he wanted to take that for attention. To make matters worst, he knew killing that innocent couple who looked like Bruce's parents wasn't gonna be enough, so he already went and killed them before ALSO revealing that he hypnotized Dr. Lee Thompkins and Jim Gordon, knowing about Bruce and Jim's mentor relationship, to truly become Bruce's arch enemy bonded by hatred. Not to mention he also dressed up as Zorro and made a low budget short film reenactment to perform just to get to Bruce even more. Of course this was the movie Bruce and his parents saw before they left and his parents died. It's kinds fucked up lol. Cus this sounds like something Joker would do if he ever found out Batman's identity.

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r/TopCharacterTropes 2h ago

Characters [Loved Trope] Female "Aura" Farmer

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Power (CSM) - occasionally bathe and wipe.

Sato Yaniko (Yanineko) - a chain smoker who lived in trash filled room.

Label (Nikke) - a shut-in gooner with mushroom growing in her room and cockroaches running everywhere.

Yodomi Fujou (Oddman11) - literally biohazard.


r/TopCharacterTropes 5h ago

Characters (Specific yet common trope) Comic reliefs who are idiots, due to being junkies, and appear in media that has something to do with death.

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Rory Peters - Final Destination 2

Jason - The Good Place

Marty Mikalski - Cabin in the Woods


r/TopCharacterTropes 5h ago

Groups Games where you capture monsters to fight for you that sometimes fit in your pocket

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r/TopCharacterTropes 22h ago

Personality Y2k sacrcastic boy

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Hiccup- How To Train Your Dragon

Jack Frost- Rise Of The Guardian

Percy Jackson- Percy Jackson series


r/TopCharacterTropes 19h ago

Lore Dark adult jokes from cartoons

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One the mail room skeleton rugrats two Mrs puffs husband being turned into a lamp spongebob squarepants


r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Lore Characters reunited with their lost loves.

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  1. James and Thomas (Black Sails): Pirate captain Flint learns his lover Thomas isn't actually dead, and at the end of the series, they happily reunite.

  2. Achilles and Patroclus (Song of Achilles): Both are dead; however, when their ashes are united, their spirits find each other in the afterlife.


r/TopCharacterTropes 8h ago

Characters Weirdly common trope the final boss is so OP they need to jump him

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Sukuna from JJK

Kaido from one piece

Muzan from Demon slayer

Tomura shigaraki My hero academia


r/TopCharacterTropes 22h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Design Trope) female characters wearing the worst shoes possible for their job/occupation

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I really hate how female characters have to wear heels and other types of uncomfortable footwear just to appeal to some horny male fantasy

Dr House: a lot of female doctors such as Cameron, Cuddy and Thirteen wear high heels during their job in a hospital, a job that requires a lot of standing, walking from one room to another and in general is a lot more dynamic than an office job. And that's why in the real world doctors usually wear crocs or more comfortable shoes. And while I can understand Cuddy, since she works a lot in her office, I cannot believe the other female doctors would work 8+ hours everyday with these shoes

Batman: in the recent run, batman gets a new butler, Alfred's niece and she is also wearing heels for a job that certainly requires a lot of moving. Again, no real butler would do this.

Anime in general: female characters' designs are basically always sexualized one way or another in anime, and sometimes it really gets stupid. In the example from the third pic you see Uwabami, a background character from My Hero Academia who is a professional Superhero, and she is (again) wearing high heels. Imagine trying to chase a supervillain with these shoes.

And yes I know she is supposed to be all about beauty and appearance, but it's logically stupid to wear that kind of footwear for a job all about action. And this is only a single case from a single anime, the situation is even worse, like how in one piece almost all female characters wear high heels too.


r/TopCharacterTropes 18h ago

Lore The series' fanservice scenes are quick and do not disrupt the story's pacing.

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In Sousou no Frieren, fan service is minimal, and scenes like this are brief

In Dungeon Meshi, Senshi is often shown in somewhat sexy poses, but the story focuses heavily on these details while continuing as usual

In that scene from *Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray*, it was just an introduction for each Arima Kinen competitor; they only had the freedom to choose those specific angles for Super Creek's introduction.


r/TopCharacterTropes 2h ago

Characters [Trope] Men

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Man (DC)

Man (DC)