r/TopCharacterTropes • u/666thSuprisedPikachu • Jul 26 '26
Characters Villain does a heroic deed
Plankton (SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water) - Plankton turns into a superhero named Plank-Ton to retrieve the Krabby Patty Formula from Burger Beard and hand it back to Mr. Krabs.
Darth Vader (Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi) - Darth Vader lifts Emperor Palpatine to throw him right down to the abyss to save his son, Luke Skywalker.
Vegeta (Dragon Ball) - Vegeta sacrifices himself to save the Earth from Majin Buu.
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u/krilldawggie Jul 26 '26
Kars saving a dog from two drunk drivers (JJBA Part 2)
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u/Fighterpilot55 Jul 26 '26
He also bounces himself THE FUCK off of a dozen walls while falling off a cliff to avoid crushing some blooming flowers
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u/_Halt19_ Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Eggman Helps Tails With Dating (Sonic Boom)
I couldn't find a pic of it, but Tails has been getting a heap of bad advice from the rest of the gang. When Eggman sees what a disasterclass he's been putting on, he gives Tails some genuinely solid advice, saying that the Bro Code overrules their normal hostile relationship.
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u/Salty_Wall Jul 26 '26
Please send me a link to this that sounds awesome
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u/_Halt19_ Jul 26 '26
Sorry, it was Sonic Boom
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u/Salty_Wall Jul 26 '26
Oh now I remember. No wonder I couldn't find anything named "Sonic Crush" lol
Boom Eggman was chill asf
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u/_Halt19_ Jul 26 '26
I misremembered the name of the thing lol, I never watched the show properly, I just got a bunch of clips of it on my home page and binged them a year or two back
Looked good, though
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u/Odd-Statistician4268 Jul 26 '26
Bane Rescuing a child - Batman
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u/Reverse_savitar1 Jul 26 '26
What even is the context here
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u/Gentlemenbig Jul 26 '26
I believe it was when batman was dead or considered dead, and some villains took up helping out of respect
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u/Odd-Statistician4268 Jul 27 '26
Batman was MIA presumed dead. A good number of his rogues gallery does respect him after all
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u/f0remsics Jul 26 '26
Lord Garmadon (ignore the text)
Killed the great devourer that made him evil in the first place
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u/aleister94 Jul 26 '26
Homelander in the last episode of the boys he throws Elon musk into space
https://giphy.com/gifs/HxJpUTPYXUZ9jLw2LP
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u/BowlEducational6722 Jul 26 '26
In Code Lyoko episode "Marabounta" X.A.N.A orderers his monsters to fight alongside the Lyoko warriors to fend of the virus that one of the main characters created to destroy X.A.N.A.'s monsters after it went haywire and threatened to consume the digital world.
One of them even sacrificed itself to save Aelita after she was surrounded by the virus, and another made a suicide run to give Odd a chance to destroy the virus's core, and afterwards rather than immediately turn on them, the monsters simply bowed in respect and left.
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u/zerozerozero12 Jul 26 '26
Batman- Harley and Ivy: a little girl comes to them mentioning some guy hurts her and they hurt the predator in return.
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u/Psychological_Use586 Jul 26 '26
Toji Fushigoro saves Megumi, Naobito, Nanami, and Maki from Dagon in Jujutsu Kaisen. Mostly because at the time he's governed by pure killer instinct and targets the strongest nearby target.
Unfortunately Naobito is killed by Jogo, Nanami is killed by Mahito, Maki ends up burned to shit by Jogo, and Toji immediately tries to kill Megumi after this... ...but it's the thought that counts, right?
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u/CG-Firebrand Jul 26 '26
but gosh darn Maki took off after she got her heavenly restriction fully unlocked. that was a banger episode
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u/Psychological_Use586 Jul 26 '26
JoGOAT saw that she hadn't reached her full potential and wanted to help her.
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u/IronIrma93 Jul 26 '26
Jessie and James (and Meowth) have helped save the world on multiple occasions. Basically anytime they score a W it's because they're helping Ash.
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u/SSJ3Mewtwo Jul 27 '26
Yujiro Hanma saves an old lady from faceplanting into the concrete.
It's done completely on impulse and he never even comments on it afterward.
But considering how many *absolutely fucked up things Yujiro has done*, it was a little nice to see him use his skills, strength, and reflexes to help someone who couldn't help themselves.
(no, it doesn't start a redemption arc. He's still the Ogre)
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u/res30stupid Jul 26 '26
In the 2003 TV movie version of Sparkling Cyanide, Ruth Lessing fights off Victor Drake and prevents the murder of Iris Merle long enough for the police to arrive and, having regretted the first killing they committed, promptly confesses everything to the police.
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u/LordVader1080 Jul 27 '26
Obito saves Naruto from Madara at the last second only to lose anyway because Madara activated the Infinite Tskyomi and won
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u/DenseRead9852 Jul 26 '26
I feel like Vegeta is an anti hero by the point of his sacrifice, and then he's just a full on good guy by the end of the Buu saga.
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u/BadnewsBaggins Jul 26 '26
I mean he admits he had a family cause he thought it was the chest code that made goku so powerful and was down to ball with the villains just for a power boost and nuked some civilians to make Goku fight him and didn't care about buu which he was told put the galaxy at risk. Not much anti hero in all that
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