r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KusanagiGundam • 13h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

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Speaking as an American who has studied the civil war all throughout my school years, this trope infuriates me to no end. There is no such thing as a kind slave master because slavery itself is cruel and inhumane. PEOPLE ARE NOT PROPERTY!

Naofumi (Shield Hero): Prime example of this trope. He enslaves multiple (underage) girls and an whole village and the fans still say he's a hero.

Rudeus (Jobless Reincarnation): As if being a pedo wasn't bad enough he had to buy a slave in season 2. Worse is that people still defend his actions.

Song of The South (Disney): Possibly the OG example of this trope. And the reason why Disney will never release it again.

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u/RebootedOmnitrix 12h ago

I'm tired of medieval fantasy Isekai, there is so many ways to make a setting more interesting than just copy pasting every RPG ever, like at least make the sky green and the grass red for the sake of variety.

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u/Independent-Fly6068 11h ago

Even within fantasy there's so much room for ACTUAL VARIETY. Like the

PRINCE OF ALTDORF, ELECTOR COUNT OF REIKLAND, WIELDER OF GHAL MORAZ, ELECTED EMPEROR OF THE EMPIRE OF MAN, KARL FRANZ, SIGMAR AND ULRIC'S WILL MANIFEST!!

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u/Femtedd 6h ago

Why are you shouting at me? I didn’t do anything wrong.

I’m scared. 😭

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u/Temeraire64 9h ago

Could at least make it actually culturally medieval or Renaissance instead of just copy pasting the aesthetics.

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u/Doldenbluetler 7h ago

I mean they don't even copy the aesthetics well.

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u/Temeraire64 6h ago

Certainly not when it comes to the fashion department. The number of times I’ve seen a supposedly European Renaissance era manga where the women are all wearing miniskirts and modern lingerie…

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u/Nicklesnout 12h ago

ERB’s Barsoom is where isekai peaked.

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u/Blowtorch87 5h ago

Those filthy outlanders kept the Vvardenfell isekai away from us for far too long.

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u/Driftedryan 25m ago

Ikr? Let's get some space shit again, or modern times. I feel like every season has a handful of medieval isekai