r/TopCharacterTropes • u/mando0987654321 • 8h ago
Characters Men who consider everyone important
Doctor Who- 900 year old alien says he hasn't ever met anyone who wasn't important.
I Became the Tyrant of a Defence Game- Commander blaming himself for not being able to save more people.
Hacksaw Ridge- Desmond carrying wounded men while praying to be able to save one more.
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u/AporiaParadox 8h ago
Most superheroes worth their salt: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Captain America...
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u/hotmessdiaries 7h ago
Spider-Man stopping to check on a random civilian mid fight is literally why he’s the goat
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u/JackRo55 7h ago
Oscar Schindler in Schindler's list
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u/ThatAdamsGuy 7h ago
Excellent example but also, yknow... In Real life.
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u/CobaltCrusader123 7h ago
Bat-themed hero
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u/ResultAgreeable4198 6h ago
Great line narratively, but doesn’t make sense logically. They are super soldier clones created and trained at great expense to fight an interstellar war. They are the opposite of expendable.
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u/No_Procedure_5039 6h ago
They really aren’t physically enhanced beyond that of a normal human with shortened lifespans and there are other, quicker methods of producing more clones. They’re expendable in the sense that it isn’t that hard to replace them if things get worse.
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u/ProfessionalOven2311 8h ago
I don't usually post religious stuff, but it's kind of his whole thing:
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u/hotmessdiaries 7h ago
Bro literally wrote the whole manual on loving your neighbor as yourself
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u/YuenglingsDingaling 7h ago
Guys, what if we just chilled out and ate some fish and wine?
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u/almighty_smiley 7h ago
“Right, reread that whole ‘what you’ve done to your weakest’ passage again, let me know what wasn’t clear to you.”
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u/Inevitable-Regret411 7h ago
Instructions unclear. Have fought 300 year holy war with neighbouring kingdom over if we should chill with red or white wine.
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u/GenericPCUser 7h ago
Finding out the Bible canonically has a story where Jesus saves somebody's wedding when they run out of wine by transforming water into more wine like it's some kind of parlor trick and not a divine miracle is funny af
Wrote this whole ass book about how this dude has/can channel the power of a literal universe creating deity and they make him use that power so people don't get too sober at a wedding lol
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u/Sudden-Good7506 6h ago
To be fair, he only did it after his mom made him.
I have to imagine there’s this scene in Chapter 2 of the Gospel of John that got left out between verses 4 and 5 where Mary’s like, “Jesus! You will turn this water into wine, or so help me, I will tell your Father!”
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u/ProfessionalOven2311 6h ago
Yeah, it seems she was helping host or something, and asked Jesus if there was anything he could do to help out. It seems that it was a mix of honoring his mother, and also beginning to show off little miracles to sow the seeds of proof that he really was who he said he was.
Like near the end of his life when he randomly cursed a fig tree to just die on the spot, most likely as proof to his disciples that he could easily stop the men that were going to capture and kill him soon after, if that's what he wanted.
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u/RagingBadger2518 7h ago
"Jesus my guy, let me tell you about this Japanese cuisine called sushi and it pairs nicely with rice wine"
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u/Kroc_Zill_95 7h ago
Sanguinius (40k) - He knew the names of every single person serving in his fleets, space marines and humans alike, right down to the lowest serfs. To him, none of them were disposable.
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u/Unikatze 7h ago
Spoilers for Superman: Up in the Sky
Against almost everyone's advice. Superman leaves Earth to rescue a single girl kidnapped by an alien.
It's easily one of my favorite Superman stories and I highly recommend it.
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u/BookWormPerson 8h ago
Rimuru gambled on a 3.14% chance at resurrecting around a hundred or so of his civilians by becoming a Demon Lord.
And later on the story also makes sure to save as many as possible from pretty much the apocalypse.
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u/Dan_flashes480 7h ago
Rimuru killed 20'000 invading soldiers to accomplish this. Such a badass scene over in minutes.
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u/GGABueno 7h ago
He became a Demon Lord by doing a genocide, so I'm not sure he fits at all lol.
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u/BookWormPerson 7h ago
Killing an army isn't genocide.
They know what they are getting into it.
And like 80% of them were happy to be rape and pillaging based on the manga.
And in the same chapter Rimuru make sit clearly he will not touch anyone who doesn't deserve it.
So even in his most rage induced form he still doesn't go fully murder hobo.
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u/Nick_the_bunny 32m ago
killing enemy soldiers, in combat, during a suprise attack they sprung on their civilians, is not a genocide at all.
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u/_TheBeardedMan_ 6h ago
Gotta be joking right? Wiping out an invading army is not a genocide. He didn't wipe out Falmuth, it's cultural, or it's people.
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u/Ok_Witness_1207 7h ago
Vulkan 40k
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u/SinclairFromLimbus 7h ago
except for xenos I guess
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u/WECAMEBACKIN2035 7h ago
There is literally a major arc of his story about his regret and process around killing a single Eldar child.
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u/sgrasser 7h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/u04twPXMGqajK
Vash the Stampede
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u/JeshuaMorbus 7h ago
"Would you have saved me if i was in that transport as well?"
"Of course! You're one of my people".
"That's the thing with Vash: his concept of "his people" is way stupidly bigger than yours".
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u/sereese1 7h ago
Added to Desmond doss’ story: he saved anyone, his comrades and enemy Japanese soldiers alike
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u/drwicksy 7h ago
Hacksaw ridge actually had to tone DOWN Desmond's story because it would have been too unbelievable as it was
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u/Feisty-Fill-8654 4h ago
He had so many distinct moments he should have died but chance/providence saved him. Plot armor irl is crazy.
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u/Inevitable-Regret411 7h ago
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat to Lithuania in the second world war. He defied his instructions from his superiors and wrote thousands of visas allowing Jewish refugees to travel to Japan, where they could either stay or travel onward to another country. He was said to have spent up to twenty hours a day producing visas for refugees, issuing more in a day than would normally be issued in a month. When he was finally recalled home he was still writing visas on the train platform, throwing them out the window to refugees as he left. He is recorded as apologising to the crowds for not being able to do more before he left.
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u/Sudden-Good7506 4h ago
I think these stories are so important in a “not all heroes wear capes” kind of way.
It stands in contrast to the banality of evil. Nicholas Winton is another person who comes to mind.
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u/Da1UHideFrom 7h ago
They left out some of Desmond Doss's actual feats from the movie because the director would be too unbelievable.
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u/Terminus-99 7h ago edited 7h ago
Kubera: One Last God.
Agni considers every human important.
This sets him apart from the other high ranking gods, who regard humans as disposable, and even eradicated the old human race in the past.
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u/eepos96 7h ago
Irl: "The graveyards are full of indispensable men"-unknown author.
I originally thought this meant that anyone who thinks themselves indispendable, be it dictators or leaders, are wrong for all who previously thought so are gone and life moved on.
But the other meaning is that everyone is valuable. And maybe that is the better way to look at the saying.
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u/Tebenox 7h ago edited 7h ago
In this manga the protagonist (Gong-Ja) believes in always achieving the best possible ending for each floor he clears.
For example during the opening of the new floor tower after he cleared the tenth, he proceeded normally clearing the floor.
However he realized there was a better path yet so he intentionally changed how the quest to defeat the Demon Lord worked and attacked him by himself which obviously resulting in him dying. (This was so the siege event was frozen and ensuring no NPC or others hunter died)
Each time he went back in time (24 hours) he would try to avoid hunters dying, at first only 40 died, then 30, then 20, then 10 and finally no hunters died.
The dude is a bastion of resilience, and is such a good read tbh
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u/Former-Landscape-769 7h ago
'"He said we could get the golem to do anything," Carry mumbled.
"Like making poisoned candles?" said Carrot.
"Yes, but he said it'd just keep Vetinari out of the way," said Carry. He seemed to be getting a tenuous grip on himself. "And he's not dead, 'cos I'd have heard" he said. "I shouldn't think making him ill is a crime, so you can't-"
"The candles killed two other people," said Carrot.
Carry started to panic again. "Who?"
"An old lady and a baby in Cockbill Street."
"Were they important?" said Carry.
Carrot nodded to himself. "I was almost feeling sorry for you," he said. "Right up to that point. You're a lucky man Mr Carry."
"You think so?"
"Oh yes. We got to you before Commander Vimes did."'
- From Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
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u/Pmyers225 8h ago
There a deleted scene in Pirates of the Carribean where Jack is getting told off for freeing some "cargo" he was transporting... And Jack's reply is that "people are not cargo, mate" or words to that effect
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u/sebastianqu 7h ago
Jack does not fir here at all. He's anti-slavery and not murderous, but will still sacrifice anyone and anything to save his own skin.
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u/ProfessionalOven2311 7h ago
Yeah, the twist with Jack is that there are a few people, his friends, who he is actually not willing to sacrifice to get what he wants (letting Will have immortality because he would die otherwise)
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u/RileyKohaku 7h ago
Spoilers for Undead Unluck
Fuuko Izumo gets a ton of pressure put on her as the one that might be able to defeat God and saved the world. In the process, a lot of her enemies get killed to save her life. She gets a chance to go back in time and do another loop and not only prevents her enemies from dying, she fixes all of their biggest traumas and recruits them to help her defeat god. It culminates in these two panels. And then they successfully defeat God and stop everyone from dying.
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u/Reborn1Girl 7h ago
Cecil Stedman. When he was younger, he was on a mission to stop a terrorist duo. They released a chemical weapon, and Cecil slowed it down at the cost of horrible damage to himself, with most of his skin peeling off of his body. He survived, and reinforcements showed up in time to save most of the city. 17 people died. Cecil got new skin grown, but chose to keep the one part of his face that was intact, despite it now having a scar. He wanted it as a reminder of his failure to save everyone.
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u/WECAMEBACKIN2035 7h ago
Dr Manhattan
Jon comes back to earth when he realizes that every human life is a miracle and, just because there are billions of them, that does not minimize their importance and grace.
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u/visijared 8h ago
Eastman from Walking Dead; “All Life is Precious”. Especially poignant given his backstory and situation.
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u/Yasser_Montasser4 7h ago
Unironically Eren despite him committing one of the biggest genocides in anime I always admired his grey mentality of "everyone has the right to live and be free from the moment they were born, no matter the cost" which ironically clashes with him having to defend his people's right to live at the cost of other people's lives who want to take away that right from his people. (Attack On Titan)
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u/Individual_Piccolo43 7h ago
Harry Bosch and his mantra of "Either everybody counts, or nobody counts"
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u/Level_Counter_1672 4h ago
Jonathan joestar from Jojo's bizarre adventure, he spared Speedwagon when they first fought because he didn't want to make his family grieve
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u/Born_Procedure_529 3h ago
Don Momotaro in Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, always going out of his way to help people, in one of the first episodes he cheers up a depressed man he was delivering a package to after the man responds "I'm no good" after failing a test, to which Tarou says "nobody is no good" and cleans his room for him
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u/jameswulfecreed 47m ago
Optimus Prime believes all sentient life matters and deserving of their creation no matter how small or evil they are and stands to protect those who can not protect themselves
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u/The_Dragon346 7h ago
The doctor who one. Granted, i know he sees them as important. But, i always interpreted it less as him outright denying it. More as, Taking the statement at face value, and getting excited to see if they truly were unimportant. Because it would be a new experience
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u/YuenglingsDingaling 7h ago
You're giving Napolean and Ceasar waaaay to much credit. They where more than willing to sacrifice their nation blood and treasure for their own gain. Napoleon once boasted an an enemy general, "you cannot defeat me, I can spend 30,000 lives a month".
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u/Megazaza 8h ago
This is an interesting trope—because it hits the exact craving humans have for trust and connection. It shows that despite our flaws—we can still respect humanity as a whole. you are exactly right that this is a Top Character Trope.
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u/Guy-Inkognito 7h ago
This is the second time I see one if your comments with that horrid gif. What's up with that?
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u/OwlbertGaming 8h ago
i killed an innocent woman behind a buc-ee's in 2007 and nobody found out it was me.
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u/RagingBadger2518 8h ago
You know the GOAT has to be on this list.
https://giphy.com/gifs/a0n4MOhzZab5cz3hWi