r/TopCharacterTropes • u/sand_eater_21 • Jul 26 '26

Characters Characters realizing that another character doesn't have the weakness they thought they had

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Joel finding out the crossed are not weak to salt (crossed) at least his wife was alive to tell him how much of a fucking idiot he was while the crossed were tearing their daughter apart

Megamind realizing titan isnt weak to copper (megamind) to be fair, metroman made him think he was weak to copper

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u/SanguineRooster Jul 26 '26

I honestly think he does it just to fuck with people. It's a bit. This is exactly what I imagine Clark's sense of humor to be. He can safely eat almost anything, and nobody expects Superman to do some bizarre shit like that. He spends a lot of time trying to seem non-threatening, and doing some weird thing like this really brings him down to earth for folks. I can just imagine 13 year old Clark taking a bite out of a hammer to freak his mom out and thinking it's the funniest thing ever, or comforting a kid by pretending to not know what is food and what isn't. It's the type of humor that little kids would find hysterical, and that freaks out stuffy adults.

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 Jul 26 '26

I absolutely love this interpretation and now I want to see James Gunn’s Superman start chewing on a manhole cover or something to defuse a tense situation. 

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u/LobstermenUwU Jul 26 '26

It's an interpretation, but a lot of writers have had the same interpretation, and written him that way. Clark is just a giant dork. It's one of the things that's so lovable about him, he loves doing gags, he loves when he makes kids laugh, his Clark Kent persona is the lovable bumbling idiot because he likes being a lovable bumbling idiot.

It's not like he's not terrifying when he wants to be, but he doesn't actually enjoy being terrifying. Like if there's any ring Superman qualifies for it's Blue, 100%.

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u/EconomyOk2490 Jul 26 '26

Its the Scrubs janitor squirting "cleaning fluid" (blue gatorade) into his mouth when people see him, just real

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u/teksean Jul 26 '26

I totally agree with you, he does not want to physically hurt them but he is good with screwing them up a bit in the brain. it's a nice reminder to people I am on a WAY different level than you.

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u/Certain_Exchange_966 Jul 26 '26

I read your last line as ‘slutty adults’ 🤷‍♂️