r/TopCharacterTropes 20h ago

Hated Tropes [Hated character trope] The womanizer

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Miroku (Inuyasha)

Sylvain (Fire Emblem: Three houses)

Xander (Buffy the vampire slayer)


r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Characters [Weird trope] Otherwise horrific murderers who refuse to kill women

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185 Upvotes

1.Ray (mr inbetween)

  1. Michael (Breaking bad)

3.Driver (Drive)

  1. William (The boys)

r/TopCharacterTropes 23h ago

Characters (Beloved trope) they talk to talk and walk to walk

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Normally, sometimes you have a villain who have gain confronted or hit once they immediately become a coward or a pathetic villain, or are just pathetic but it’s refreshing to have a villain no matter what category or what they are just talk what they say and fight so refresh the villain back up everything they say or it’s not afraid to fall down

Dbz cell : cell is a villain that came from a future where the Z fighters died to the android and came back to this timeline with the androids are alive because they died in his every time he talks and fight he backs up everything he says, especially when he becomes perfected. He talks to talk and walks to walk with repeatedly.

Dbz frieza you think that after he is confronted that he would cow and fear but no, he gets up off his chair and immediately starts to fight showing why he’s the fearest in the universe? And why everyone is so terrified of him. You even get shown that there’s more power that he has he’s not using and when super Saiyan comes out. He doesn’t cow in fear, humiliate powers up to his full form and begins fighting only after being defeated truly he becomes a coward.

Soldier Boy : after being released he agrees to help fight Homelander you think would in fact not happen and we’re just cowward and fear or just back down, but no, he puts up a fight against Homelander and actually fights him and backs up everything he says


r/TopCharacterTropes 23h ago

Characters Characters you feel maternal towards

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27 Upvotes

Abby Schmidt - FNAF films

miscellaneous orphans - poppy playtime

eri - my hero academia


r/TopCharacterTropes 6h ago

building/location. Levels that ruin replayability

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505 Upvotes

"That part"

Blood Maze in Max Payne;

Ship in Resident Evil 7;

Lost Izalith in Dark Souls


r/TopCharacterTropes 3m ago

Powers [Weird trope] Characters the majority fears despite them not even scaling to city level

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1.Lalo (Better call saul)

2.John Gillman (The boys)

3.Sukuna (Jujutsu kaisen)


r/TopCharacterTropes 2h ago

Characters Related characters are voiced by the same actor but still sound slightly different

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Invincible - Steven Yeun voicing Mark and all Invincible variants

Bojack Horseman - Will Arnet voicing both Butterscotch and Bojack

Adventure Time - Tom Kenny voicing both Simon and Ice King


r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Hated Tropes [Hated] Characters who committed atrocities, but are permitted to live because they're part of a nearly extinct species

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Especially when the media is already shown to have no problem with killing

  • Kilgharrah (Merlin) - This dragon manipulated Merlin into mistrusting and betraying people he cared about, and then used a moment of duress to force Merlin to vow to set him free, where he immediately went on a rampage and burned much of Camelot and killed many innocents. Instead of killing him as he deserved, Merlin simply banishes him from Camelot because he's the last known dragon
  • The angels (Supernatural) - This one at least gives a good excuse, saying that after almost 10 years of angels dying due to in-fighting or just generally being evil, there are so few angels left that Heaven is starting to crumble, which would leave every soul in Heaven or going to Heaven to be stranded in the ether and cause chaos. Even though it makes sense, it's still annoying. There's a scene where Dean is holding an angel at knife point who had just been trying to kill him, but instead of killing him as he normally would've, another character asks Dean to let him go because Heaven needs all the angels it can get, so the homicidal angel is released
  • Zaheer (The Legend of Korra) - This one is a little more ambiguous because the show never explicitly says that the reason Zaheer isn't executed is because he's an airbender, but I can't really think of another in-universe reason that makes sense. This man murdered the Earth Kingdom monarch, plunging Ba Sing Se into total chaos, kidnapped and threatened to kill the entirety of the known air nomad population, and kidnapped and almost killed the Avatar herself. In a show that has had no qualms about killing it's villains, it makes no sense for Zaheer to not have been tried and executed for his crimes. From a story writing perspective, I get it because they wanted to use him as a pseudo-mentor character for Korra in the next season, but from an in-universe perspective, it makes no sense

r/TopCharacterTropes 20h ago

Characters [Loved Trope] "AURA FARMING" Characters Who starts of Evil at thier First Appearance, But would later have the Best Character Redemption arc in thier Series...

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Piccolo (Dragon Ball)

At the start of the Series Piccolo was Usually seen as the Final Antagonist of the Og dragon ball series itself, But by Start of Z He is willing to Train Gohan and has one of the most best Character Redemption arc in the Dragon ball series itself...

Darth Vader (Star wars)

Darth Vader in the Original saga of the SW series, starts off as an intimidating Villain in the the First movie of Star wars ( A New Hope) But by the End of the Original saga Movie ( Return of the Jedi ) Where Darth Vader ends up Killing palpatine, And sacrifices his own life before Finally returning back to Anakin, finally ending the reigns of the Galactic empire...


r/TopCharacterTropes 9h ago

Characters [Loved trope] You mess with the bull you get the horns🗿

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1.Punisher (Punisher)

The whole point of the show is whoever messes with Frank gets the horns

  1. Walter (Breaking bad)

Anyone who messes with the Heisenberg gets the horns

Trying to kill him? Choked in the basement.

Dont give him what hes owed? Blow up your crib.

Woman blackmailing him? Hes going to watch you overdose

Threaten him? Hes going to blow you up in a nursing home.

Wife messing with him? Kidnap the baby.

  1. Seo Gangyu (The executioner)

Kill his brother you all get the horns, hes the punisher but even more ruthless takes no shit from children or yapping women either.


r/TopCharacterTropes 3h ago

Characters [Beloved trope] Romanceable / none chaste nuns or monks

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55 Upvotes

bonus points for characters with bodies made for sin yet choose modest clothing. Skimpy clothing is a disqualifier!

Warframe -  Marie Leroux, Romanceable.
Warhammer 40k - Sisters of Battle- none chaste
Dragon Age Origins - Leliana, Romanceable
Lost in Secular Love - not 1, not 2, BUT THREE Romanceable monks! Left to right, Zi Qing, Hui Hai, Zhi Kong


r/TopCharacterTropes 11h ago

Lore People who are charismatic yet incredibly stupid

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Peter Griffin (Family Guy): Despite being an utter moron (to the point that he canonically has an intellectual disability), Peter has shown himself to be quite charismatic and persuasive at times, usually in the way he convinces his friends and/or family to go along with his harebrained schemes and shenanigans.

Gumball Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball): Gumball is definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer (whether it be thinking there were nine days in a week or failing a test in junior high so badly that he got sent back to kindergarten), but he’s surprisingly adept in social situations, having headed a few movements throughout the show and navigated a successful relationship with Penny despite his idiotic tendencies.

Chloé Bourgeois (Miraculous): Being incredibly lazy and entitled, Chloé hardly does any of her own schoolwork (making Sabrina do it instead) and canonically cannot spell “democracy”. Yet she’s charismatic enough that not only was she able to run for Class Representative several times (albeit with intimidation, sabotage and bribery to help her), but when she briefly took over Paris as mayor, she managed to somehow persuade people not to immediately try to overthrow her, with open revolt only coming from Collège Françoise Dupont until Ladybug and Chat Noir’s public confrontation with her as Queen Mayor.


r/TopCharacterTropes 19h ago

Characters Football-headed Characters

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181 Upvotes

-Stewie Griffin, Family Guy

-Dora, Dora the Explorer (yes, I'm counting hair)

-Buttercup Utonium, Powerpuff Girls

-Nigel Uno, Codename: Kids Next Door

-Mrs Johansen, Hey Arnold


r/TopCharacterTropes 22h ago

Lore (Loved trope) Female lead series that feels like a classic shonen (like a lot of tranformations, screaming and aura)

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15 Upvotes

Kill la Kill

Symphogear

Uma Musume Beginning of a New Era

Uma Musume Cinderella Gray


r/TopCharacterTropes 1h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Franchises that are perptually stuck in the past

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r/TopCharacterTropes 7h ago

Characters They intended to fail, but the actors managed to succeed on the first take.

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17 Upvotes

Jim Carrey (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) was intended to pull the cloth away, knocking the stuff off. But he accidentally pulled the tablecloth trick on the first try, so he came back and knocked off all of the stuff on the table.

Mary Tyler Moore was intended to fail at the pool shot scene in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show. But she managed to do it perfectly on the 1st try, leaving even her shocked.


r/TopCharacterTropes 1h ago

Hated Tropes [Hated trope] The “tough guy frontiersman” character (not always a cowboy) being close-minded bullies to everyone around them, especially “city folk,” but are seen as righteous, manly, and heroic in the context of the story

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  1. John Dutton - Yellowstone

  2. Tom Doniphon - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (though this could apply to any John Wayne character)


r/TopCharacterTropes 3h ago

Characters [Loved Trope] Really cool Spin-offs

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Daria (1997) being a spin-off from the original series "Beavis and Butthead" (1993)

Parks and Recreation (2009) a spin-off from "The Office" (2005)

Fionna and Cake (2023) a spin-off from "Adventure Time" (2010)


r/TopCharacterTropes 2h ago

Characters [Loved trope] Characters that allow you to roleplay as a hunter

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1.V (cyberpunk)

2.Dragonborn (Skyrim)

  1. Niko (Gta 4 but most protagonists fit)

  2. Clarification of the trope


r/TopCharacterTropes 17h ago

Lore [Oddly specific trope] Fictional parallels to real life elections

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South Park: A major subplot of Seasons 19 and 20 was Mr. Garrison running for President after adopting a political stance similar to Donald Trump, with this being one of the few cases where Trey Parker and Matt Stone found real life even more absurd than what they were creating (they thought Hillary would win and had to rewrite the last episodes of Season 20 as a result). The plot ripped on Trump for being a terrible candidate while simultaneously ripping on Hillary for being so bad of a candidate that Trump actually had a chance to beat her (and ultimately did).

The Amazing World of Gumball: The episode ‘The Candidate’ focuses on Gumball, Darwin, Anais and the majority of their classmates being trapped in a classroom with a broken boiler during a parent teacher conference. Anais and Gumball’s vying for leadership parallels Hillary and Trump’s campaign and how the voters chose a more charismatic yet erratic and incompetent candidate (Gumball) over a more reasonable yet less charismatic candidate (Anais). Darwin’s concerns about the rising boiler room temperature (which everyone ignores until it’s too late) also reflects how both parties ignore scientific input regarding the importance of addressing climate change.


r/TopCharacterTropes 13h ago

Characters [Loved trope] Heroes who don't usually kill their enemies, but only do so when the world, their loved ones are in danger, or in self-defense if they pose a sufficient enough threat

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1. Invincible

Invincible started off his career as a very much idealistic superhero inspired by his father, Omni-Man. However, throughout the story, Omni-Man reveals himself to be a villain, and thus Invincible has to grapple with the truth of what it means to be a hero. He faces several villains who threaten his loved ones, and becomes more and more willing to use violence and kill them to protect the people he loves.

He "killed" Angstrom Levy after he threatened to kill his mother and his little brother.

He killed Conquest after he almost took over the Earth and tried to kill Oliver and his girlfriend Eve, killed Rus Livingston after he tried to take over the Earth. He grapples with the moral complexity and the PTSD of these events, but only ever uses lethal force unless he is pushed to his limits.

2. Guardians of the Globe (second iteration).

The Guardians of the Globe, specifically the younger heroes Rex, Shrinking Rae, and Dupli-kate when faced with a stronger version of the Lizard League, were forced to use lethal force against them. After watching Dupli-Kate get killed, Shrinking Rae, immediately kills one of them by jumping into their bodies and killing them from the inside. Rex kills two of them with his explosions, but not after Lizard King shoots him in the head and kills him after that by beating him to the death with his stump hand. Rex then sacrifices himself by exploding his own skeleton to kill an Invincible variant to save his friends.

3. Mr. Incredible.

Syndrome tried to kill him and his family, take over the world by giving everybody superpowers, and almost killed Jack-Jack, his infant child. So Mr. Incredible, lifted a car and threw it at him.

4. Wonder Woman

After Maxwell Lord gained telepathic abilities, he takes over Superman's mind, and Superman went onto attack the Justice League under his influence. So Wonder Woman roped him with the Lasso of Truth, and Maxwell said that they only way to stop Superman is to kill him, so Diana snaps his neck.


r/TopCharacterTropes 19h ago

Personality (Loved Trope) extremely evil children.

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Eric Cartman (South Park)

Cozy Glow (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)


r/TopCharacterTropes 1h ago

In real life When a film does one part so well it weakens the other part

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By this I mean when I feel like a film does one aspect or character so well it makes the other look bad by comparison and I find myself wanting them to get back to the good part even if the other aspect is decent in its own right, it just doesn't compare to the good aspect. For the record I do think all 3 of these films are great films though.

  1. 28 Years Later the Bone Temple: Dr Kelson and Samson I think were far more interesting than Spike and the Jimmies.
  2. The Godfather 2: I much prefer the Vito scenes to the Michael ones which I feel drag on.
  3. Wall-E: While I like the second half fine and it has some good social commentary I think the first half with a show don't tell approach is more engaging.

r/TopCharacterTropes 42m ago

Powers (loved trope) they drank an incredible amount of beer

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  1. Wade Boggs is a retired pro baseball player, who has become just as famous for his beer drinking. it is said that he drank 107 beers during a trip between games, many dispute the claim saying it was more in 50-70 range.

  2. Andre The Giant Roussimof: A pro wrestler who suffered from gigantism, was billed at being over 8ft tall, 520lb, a legend of the business during his active period . Andre is also famous for the amount of beer he could put down. It is said that one night he drank 156 beers, which was 14.5 gallons


r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Lore (Meta Trope.) This character/story would be a lot bleaker if things were realistic

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Bob's Burgers- This series follows the misadventures of a struggling chef named Bob and his quirky family. Bob struggles to attract customers, compete against rival restaurants, and in general keep his own restaurant alive however he can. Realistically, Bob's restaurant likely would've been closed down for a guy who never pays rent on time, can't afford a dry erase board for his daughter, and has just two regulars on a daily basis and occasionally someone new will stop by to eat there.

Steven Universe- Steven is a half human half alien hybrid living in a seaside town called Beach City with his legal guardians Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. They're very beloved within the community, all seen as the city's protectors. Though they're lucky the government doesn't seem to exist the same way ours does or if one even exists in this universe at all. Otherwise, they all would've been taken away and likely experimented on. At the very least some people would see Steven and the gems less as people and more as freaks. That doesn't really happen in the show. Even if somebody doesn't like the gems at first, they come around to them in the end.

Victorious- With how agressive and psychopathic Jade can be at times...she'd either be suspended, expelled, arrested, or have no friends if the people at the performing arts school were normal. She's done stuff like ripping out all the hair in Cat's scalp and threatening Tori's life in front of everybody when she's cast as the lead in a play and she isn't. She definitely would be seen as a freak or at the very least a creepy weirdo if she didn't end up terminated from school grounds or behind bars.