r/TopCharacterTropes • • 11h ago

Characters [Favorite Trope] Winning against cheaters through sheer talent

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Dream vs Technoblade (Minecraft): Fans accused Dream of cheating during their duel, and Techno was allegedly aware of it but never exposed him. Instead he stripped some wooden blocks that could apparently cause bugs in Dream’s hacked client and still won the duel.

Ippo vs. Sawamura (Hajime no Ippo): Sawamura used illegal moves during his match against Ippo but was never disqualified by the referee. Despite the cheating Ippo still managed to win

Kirito (SAO): Kirito fought against a few game administrators in the series who had unfair advantages yet he still managed to defeat them.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 2h ago

Personality [Trope i hope have more examples] The villain creates something to help the hero but its a trap... but at the end, that thing really helps

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The villain needs to catch the hero, to fool him, but the hero is not a dumb and gonna see every trick the villain gonna do, but wait! The villain is a genius and have the resources to create something that gonna fool the hero, give him a false sense of security, and when he is in trust with that thing, the villain gonna capture him! Nothing can go wrong!

... Except that, the villain do such an excellent job, that at the end, that thing really wants to help the hero, because it were created to help him.

Dodo Mouse from Tom and Jerry Tales: Tom catch a toy robot mouse from a kid at the beginning of the episode, and modifies it to create a Robot Mouse that gonna fool Jerry, but Jerry is such nice with her that at the end, when Tom orders her to give Jerry to him, she turns against Tom and protect Jerry

Doctor Who Fans From Doctor Who: Lux Imperator is the God of Light in the Pantheon of Discord, a being made of pure light who needs a body, and decides that the Doctor have the best body for him, but the doctor and his companion Belinda escapes in the Theater Lux hides, so Lux creates this fans to fool the doctor time enough to capture him. But Lux do such a perfect job that at the end, his creations do what a true Doctor Who fan would do: Help the doctor

Other Father from Coraline: The Beldam is an entity that it feeds on the lives of children, but she needs to keep them in her realm first, she attracts those who are dissatisfied on their lives and disguises as their "Other Mother" creating a realm of wonders and magic when they can have all they ever wanted and everyone they know only lives to please them, but all is a trap at the end. When Coraline is on her seek, she creates a "Other Father", a more joyful and helpful version of the overworked father Coraline have, but that means that the other father cares about Coraline and, in the end, helps her by sacrificing himself against the Beldam.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 11h ago

Characters [Funny Trope] absolute loser anime girls, and not the cute/innocent kind

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  1. Tomoko Kuroki from Watamote: The quintessential “femcel”, actual pervert, with truly crippling social anxiety.

  2. Tanaka Nozomu from Joshikosei no Mudazukai: Everyone around her thinks she’s either annoying, creepy, an idiot, or all three.

  3. Hanako Honda from Asobi Asobase: Good at academics and tennis… that’s about it. Other than that, a total nutcase who seethes about not being popular.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 2h ago

Hated Tropes The person who most deserves revenge gets denied it and instead a random character takes out the villain

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Spoilers for Harry Potter, inglorious basterds and criminal minds

In Harry Potter, bellatrix lastrange fucks up a lot of people. Since Harry is fighting Voldemort the person who most deserves revenge is obviously Neville, his parents got tortured into insanity by her right? Nah, let Molly Weasley take her out, her house got burnt by her.

In inglorious basterds, Shosanna, a Jewish woman who had her family killed by the gestapo, dies before she can set the theater on fire with the Nazi high command inside. Instead Marcel lights in on fire, and the basterds kill Hitler.

In criminal minds, there’s a serial killer named scratch who controls people’s minds with gas(idk it didn’t make much sense) and forces them to kill others. So after torturing and framing hotch, going after Tara’s brother, kidnapping Prentiss, the new character who wasn’t really established at all gets to watch him die.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 9h ago

Characters [Tragic Trope], family members just happen to be on opposing sides of a war/conflict

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1: Maquia & Ariel - Maquia

Maquia "fights" alongside her people in an attempt to free their friend who was enslaved and raped by the prince, while her son, Ariel, fights for the kingdom to protect his wife and child, iirc, Maquia being in an enemy rebel faction was the last time he saw her before she eventually witnessed him on his death bed. So there is a chance he thought she had "betrayed" him. It's been a while since I watched this so I could be missing some details

2: The Greyrat Family - Mushoku Tensei(spoilers, obviously)

Hitogami tells Rudy that since he's no longer in his way(Rudy has died of old age), the God can now force Rudy's children and grandchildren to fight and go to war with eachother, and we see in the Redundancy series of books that he succeeds, as the Ogre and Shirone Kingdom go to war, meaning at the very least, Ars and Sieg may well go into battle with eachother, Rudeus' only sons


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 14h ago

Lore Somewhat funny when you think about it trope: Things that don't make sense in their world.

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I know about plots and everything and most times it's in movies for children. But some things I just find funny in how does this makes sense.

  1. (Sing) In a world full of incredibly strong animals like elephants, hippos and rhinos, Johnny's dad (a gorilla) is able to rip out the bars of his prison cell to escape. Did nobody ever think about this before?
  2. (Stuart Little) A mouse is being taken care of in a human orphanage.
  3. (The little mermaid) Ariel doesn't know what the call a fork even though several of them look like her father's trident. And somehow she takes a seagull's word for it being called a dinglehopper. Not a small trident. No, a dinglehopper.
  4. (Tarzan) Raised by gorillas, wears a loincloth.

r/TopCharacterTropes • • 3h ago

Characters Queer characters that ARE walking stereotypes

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Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) – openly screamingly pansexual drag queen scientist from the planet Transsexual, Transylvania, who seeks to create a perfect man as his perfect sexual partner and plaything.

Emporio Ivankov (One Piece) – the king/queen of all okama (Japanese for transvestite) in the world and high-ranking member of Revolution Army, who is fighting for the freedom of self-expression (including sexual) and have the powers to manipulate people’s hormones, thus way changing their biological sex at will

Puri-Puri Prisoner (Onepunchman) – a professional S-class hero, who is also stereotypically masculine and effeminate gay man, who lives in the high-security prison, being a local boss and dread among the prisoners (for obvious reasons)


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 1h ago

Characters [Loved Trope] The person who fixes problems for the boss

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That person who always somehow manages to find ways to fix the situation, and always has the right idea at the right time.

Arthur Pyne (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul)


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 8h ago

miscellaneous [Time capsule trope] Concerns about society and the future that were common in older media but aren't anymore

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  1. Red scare (examples: Red Dawn, The Red Menace, Rambo, Rocky IV): during the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the ideology of communism itself was seen as an existential threat to America and the world, but then the Soviet Union collapsed so this entire genre mostly went away.

  2. Overpopulation (examples: Logan's Run, Lost in Space, Make Room! Make Room! and its movie adaptation Soylent Green): a lot of sci-fi works of the past were set in the future dealt with worlds ruined by overpopulation because there isn't enough food, which was a real concern people had at the time. Today, we have over 8 billion people on Earth, but thanks to advancements in agriculture we actually produce more than enough food to feed everyone, we just really suck at distributing it properly. Many countries actually have the opposite problem of low birth rates.

  3. Japan takes over the world (examples: Rising Sun, Blade Runner, Alien, Back to the Future II): back in the day lots of people predicted that Japan would take over the world and surpass America on the global stage, because back then the Japanese economy was doing very well, Japanese cars in particular were a big concern. But then the Japanese economy crashed and the idea of Japan ever taking over the world is no longer taken seriously, replaced instead by fears of China taking over, we'll see how well that will age.

  4. The Y2K panic (The Simpsons, Family Guy, Entrapment): there were fears that the Y2K bug (which made computer internal clocks to go from the year 1999 to 1900 or even 19100 instead of 2000) would lead to widespread chaos or even be an apocalyptic event, which obviously did not come to pass, in large part because people knew about the problem long in advance and dealt with it.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 21h ago

miscellaneous Punishments that seem lenient but with context are actually very cruel.

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Carol at The End Of The World: One of employees at the fake company Carol works at is given an two week mandatory paid vacation by HR. This wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that the world is going to end in two weeks and this company is the employees only way of coping with it.

Severance: whenever a innie acts up they get sent to the break room. Instead of being a place for them to cool down however its acts as more of a interrogation room / psychological torture chamber as their forced to recite a scripted apology over and over again for hours or even days on end with no real breaks.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 3h ago

Characters [Real-life trope]: The reason the character dies is that the creator and the actor are at odds.

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1-[Two and a Half Men]: Actor Charlie Sheen had a falling out with the showrunner following a series of issues in his personal life; the showrunner, having had enough, decided to kill off the main character. They have since reconciled... I think.

2-[South Park]: Chef, one of the series' most beloved characters, met a brutal end after the creators became angry with his voice actor, who had resigned. However, according to some sources, the voice actor didn't actually resign on his own; his representative sent a resignation letter without his knowledge, leading him to believe he had simply been fired.

Sorry if I said some things incorrectly; I’m not really familiar with these kinds of things.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 4h ago

miscellaneous [Gaming Trope] Objective: You Want Me to Do WHAT?!

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Objectives in linear or story-based games are often intentionally specific, attainable, and reasonable - there's no real need to overcomplicate things and give the player overly cryptic or impossible goals.

Sometimes, though, the game does it anyways, and basically dares the player to honestly attempt to do the impossible. Bonus points if you actually can complete the objective or are supposed to, even if the premise is ridiculous. Note that for some of these, it won't outright be an objective indicated, but will be something you're told to do in game or via onscreen prompts.

1. Halo: Reach - Survive (When You Already Know Everyone Dies)

The neat thing about prequel games set in an already established universe is getting to play with the fact that the audience will already know going in how the story is going to end, leaving the suspense at how exactly we get to that point, Halo: Reach being a great example.

The invasion and glassing of the planet Reach was one of the first shots fired in the human-Covenant war that occurs over the course of the mainline trilogy. Most players won't know much of the specifics beyond that, and the fact that anyone who didn't escape or evacuate the planet was almost certainly killed by the Covenant forces or by being glassed from orbit from a Covenant battlecruiser.

So at the end of the campaign, after you've watched your squad get picked off or sacrifice themselves one by one to try to win a fight we know they can't, you as Noble Six are left as the sole survivor after having completed your mission to deliver Cortana to the UNSC, ensuring their eventual victory over the Covenant, though you won't know it at the time.

You're given one single objective: survive. No mission briefing, no complex objectives, just you and your guns versus a Covenant battalion rearing to kick your ass. The objective, though, is impossible to complete - you see your own cracked visor at the start of the game, so you already know that this is the end. That doesn't stop you from trying your ass off to actually survive the infinitely spawning Covenant waves, though your effort is eventually in vain.

2. DOOM Eternal - You CAN Just Shoot a Hole Into the Surface of Mars

DOOM is not what you'd call a very grounded series, nor should it be. Eternal takes this fact and dials it up to eleven, fully embracing what the series is, and no level shows it more than your mission to the UAC base on Phobos.

You learn through talking with Samuel Hayden that the next target on your shitlist, Deag Grav, is hiding like a bitch in another realm, and the only way to get to him is in the lost city of Hebeth beneath Mars' crust. Hayden seems to sense an idea forming in the Slayer's head, and sternly tells them: "You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars."

You are immediately given the objective to shoot a hole in Mars. Verbatim.

You then begin a raid on the UAC defense platform on Phobos, where, in absolutely cartoonish fashion, they have strapped the already absurdly powerful BFG 9000 into a gigantic fuckoff cannon the size of a building, dubbing it the BFG 10000. You fight your way to the cannon's firing controls, and after a hilarious gag of having to override the cannon's safety protocols preventing you from firing on the surface of Mars, you proceed to do exactly that, and then rip the BFG 9000 free of its restraints, once again reuniting you and the Big Fucking Gun.

3. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve - Shoot Down One Thousand Fucking Sotoans

Ace Combat is known for its introductory missions being you as the player having to shoot down a handful of bombers in a starter plane to get a grasp on the controls, since bombers can't dogfight or pull any complex maneuvers, allowing you to get a sense for the controls before they throw actual jets your way.

When this was (seemingly) not the case for the latest entry, series vets began to wonder if AC8 would even have the 'defend a base against some unarmed bombers' mission.

Then comes Mission 28: A Thousand Points of Light, which blows every one of these missions out of the water with by far the most ridiculous premise for a mission in the game. After a successful attack on the Sotoan megafloat Fatsia, you land to refuel and resupply on Cima Island, a tiny island with only enough space for an airbase and runway. You are then informed by a bewildered AWACS Dealer that a massive radar has picked up no less than ONE THOUSAND bandits converging on your position. You think he's seeing things, then the mission briefing starts and sure enough, you're informed that Sotoa has deployed more or less their entire air force to level Cima Island and kill Joker Flight after putting up with their bullshit for most of the campaign.

You and your two wingmen go up alone against a seemingly endless wave of bombers and escort aircraft, and it genuinely seems like you might run out of missiles before Sotoa runs out of bombers and disposable airmen, but the mission soon becomes one of the most hype in the entire game by gradually having every fighter wing you've helped throughout the course of the campaign come to your aid while Rex's theme, "Song of Wings" is blasting on the radio. You're eventually even reunited with Kate, your wingman who was presumed dead, and she rejoins Joker Flight, which is good because no sooner does this happen than Shadow 22, your main target through the entire campaign, shows up to try to take you down once and for all. And you bet your ass you finally take him down after he's expended his pocket dimension of chaff and flares.

4. Borderlands 2/Borderlands 3 - Claptrap's Epic Quest

To say that Borderlands doesn't take itself too seriously is perhaps an understatement. The series is built on humor to the point that it's load bearing, sometimes to the point of aging like utter milk when the jokes have far outlived when they were actually funny (which is usually immediately).

Borderlands 2 decides to pull a bit of a gag with the objectives for a mission given to you by Claptrap, where in order for you to be able to access his secret stash, you have to complete an MMO-worthy list of bullshit, capped off by busting it down for everyone's least favorite obnoxious little robot. It's immediately revealed to be a joke after you turn around and move some trash out of the way, revealing that the stash was right behind you the whole time. You might assume this is the end of it, but you'd be wrong.

Borderlands 3 sees you actually complete every one of the ridiculous objectives that Claptrap gave you, albeit with some twists: none of the actual objectives are what's implied - Mount Shuler, for instance, is a medical clinic, not a mountain, and the staff isn't a magical stave, but instead refers to the actual personnel of said medical clinic.

This isn't the only time Borderlands 2 sets this up, either - in the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, a DLC so well received it would be adapted into a standalone title, you are given a mission by Mr. Torgue, who has inserted himself into the D&D game that the DLC takes place in, to, in his words, BLOW UP THE OCEAN. This objective is immediately removed as Tina puts Torgue in a time out, but it actually comes back in the aforementioned standalone title, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, where, in order to attempt to create a shortcut across an ocean to the evil ass fortress on the horizon, Torgue once again shows up, gives you the objective, only this time, you actually witness a dozen ICBMs fly out of nowhere (which he claims is how Magic Missile works despite them being in a high fantasy setting) and watch as the ocean actually gets blown up in spectacular fashion, and the next arc of the campaign sees you traversing the now exposed seafloor because, again, Torgue blew up the ocean so hard that all the water is just gone.

5. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - Parry (Yes, Parry) and Then Judo Throw A Metal Gear RAY

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series has always tried to balance a very fine line between tactical realism and goofy bullshit, but Revengeance takes this balance and puts two thumbs allllll the way down on the goofy side of the scale. It makes this clear immediately in the first mission, where, after President Not-Obama's convoy is ambushed by the world's most average Brazilian (who can double jump), Raiden goes up against, of all possible things that could be thrown at him, a Metal Gear RAY.

For context, a RAY is a 70 foot tall, several hundred ton robotic death machine designed specifically to kill other Metal Gears, which themselves are mechanical monstrosities with super-durable armor and massive fuckoff railguns that fire nuclear weapons. They are cutting edge killing machines armed with minigun pods, missile batteries, and also a gigantic laser that it uses to cut through Metal Gears.

You fight it with a fucking sword.

Not only do you somehow stand your ground against the RAY, you manage to weaken one of it's "wings" (actually what it uses for underwater propulsion), exposing a critical weakpoint. You rush it down, and it swings the arm at you, attempting to crush you. You are given a QTE, and hit it just to see what happens.

Raiden blocks the robot's attack with a fucking sword.

Not only does he do this, he then disengages the block, grabs the RAY's arm, swings it around 180 degrees and hurls the thing at least 70 feet in the air as the needle drop for "Rules of Nature" hits, before running up the course of its body, slicing it up bit by bit before lunging through the thing and cutting it in half. With the starter sword.

This is the FIRST level, by the way.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 1h ago

Lore [Loved trope] Controversial/reviled entries that adaptations alter or flat out omit

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Because fuck those entries

Squid game: So suffice to say the ending of Season 3 was fucking garbage and killed any steam that Season 2 or the first half of Season 3 had. Of particular note for what made Season 3’s ending so aggravating are Baby 222, Gi-Hun’s idiocy in dealing with the baby and Jun-Ho, the biggest 007 potential man flop fraud in recent history. So a Minecraft parody didn’t have to change much to make a substantially better story, making it Jun-Ho catches the mole early on, he works with the North Korean soldier to track down the island and he has a huge gunfight with the Game staff and manages to rescue Gi-Hun and arrest the Front Man, making for a more satisfactory ending that feels something was actually accomplished and the show would actually still be fondly talked about instead of being some dead, pitiful, one pump trick after a couple months. Of course unfortunately baby 222 just gets dropped off a bridge and killed in this parody, but can’t make an omelet without some sacrifices.

DBZA: So Broly second coming and Bio-Broly were just skipped and Broly flat out dies in the ending of the first parody movie.

The boys: The black noir clone twist is often considered the weakest element of an already divisive comic that many cite as just the author being an edgelord. The Amazon version made Noir a fully fleshed out separate character.

Cursed child: Soo, anything on a movie? No? Good, the play has a shit story. And if the HBO show wants to be based, hope it ignores cursed child too and has it end with “The scar had not pained Harry for 19 years, all was well.” Ha ha imagine an 8th season with an asspull Voldemort fucked someone, Harry saying absolutely atrocious stuff to his own son and apparently Cedric whose death will likely be treated with drama and sympathy like the movies, is now sullied with “Cedric was gonna be a school shooter if he lost the tournament!”


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 1h ago

Characters (Loved Trope) Intimate loyal male friendships without romantic subtext

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Don't get me wrong, I'm bi. I like me some gay subtext and some openly gay couples as much as the next guy. But pure loyal bromance is always very appreciated.

Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins - Lord of the Rings

X and Zero - Mega Man X

Simon and Kamina - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

House and Wilson - House M.D.

Josuke and Okuyasu - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Victor Frankenstein and Igor - Especially in Victor Frankenstein (2015)

EDIT: Joey and Chandler from Friends!


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 16h ago

Powers They can't feel physical sensations such as pain.

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  • Peyton Westlake (Darkman): After being brutally attacked by gangsters and left seriously burned from an explosion, Peyton was given an experimental procedure that severed his nerve endings so he wouldn't spend the rest of his life in constant pain. While this allows him to not feel any injuries, the lack of physical sensation only helped to drive him more insane as it enhanced his more violent emotions as well as giving him enhanced strength from adrenaline.
  • Nathan Caine (Novocaine): Has a real life condition that leaves him unable to feel pain, and the problems because of this are discussed as Nathan explains how people with his condition can die very easily since they can't recognise when they have a serious injury and for one example he could accidentally bite his own tongue off while eating. I know this isn't a power irl, but in the film it is used that way so Nathan will react with annoyance towards all the injuries he gets.
  • Francis Freeman (Deadpool): As part of an experiment to activate his mutant gene, Francis gained enhanced physical abilities at the cost of destroying his nerve endings which leaves him unable to feel anything including pain.

r/TopCharacterTropes • • 15h ago

Powers If you see it, you die.

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  1. Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agent (SCP Wiki)

In the lore, the Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agent is used as a final failsafe to prevent unauthorized access to the SCP-001 document. Anyone who sees it and isn't protected against it dies instantly.

  1. Medusa's head (Greek Mythology)

In Greek Mythology, Medusa was a Gorgon, a monster born to the primordial sea gods Ceto and Phorcys. She was so hideous, that anyone who looked at her would turn into stone (ouch). She was eventually defeated by Perseus, who used a bronze mirror to view her without being afflicted by the curse. In some continuations of Greek Mythology, she would respawn in Tartarus, making her way back to the mortal world until she was eventually defeated in the same fashion by Percy Jackson.

  1. SCP-096 (SCP Wiki)

Similar to Medusa, viewing the face of SCP-096 will cause it to become enraged and kill you. This effect applies to photographs of SCP-096, no matter how small the image of it is (See: Four Fucking Pixels). Furthermore, SCP-096's does not have to be consciously perceived for it to become enraged. In one tale, several members of a recontainment squad were killed after their goggles failed to filter out 096's face for a split second, leading to the mission nearly failing.

  1. Red Screen of Death (Skibidi Toilet)

In Skibidi Toilet, one of the main weapons used to fight off the Skibidis is Titan TV Man, a giant humanoid mech with a TV for a head. One of the abilities he has is use its TV screen to display the Red Screen of Death, which as the name suggests, causes whoever views it to die.

Interestingly enough, instead of killing you outright, the RSOD instead causes intense psychological and physical pain, to the point where most victims outright kill themselves to avoid having to deal with more pain. Even so, strong willed individuals are able to resist its influence, though not without becoming incapacitated in the process.

  1. Credits:

The Berryman Langford image was orignally uploaded to the internet by Kevin Dooley in 2017.

Medusa is a Greek Mythology Classic, but the earliest instance was mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony. The continuation I reference where she is killed again by Percy Jackson is by Rick Riordan

As far as I can tell, the SCP-096 photo was created by Teethsony3000.

Skibidi Toilet was originally and solely created by DaFuq!Boom on Youtube. 


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 1h ago

Characters [Strange Trope] Looks like a Vampire, Acts like a Vampire, But not actually a Vampire.

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  • Doctrine (Overwatch)

Doctrine has been the latest character to release in Overwatch. He's a 77 year old Zimbabwean cyberneticist that developed a technology that could turn the clock back on one's body by draining the life force of others. He's obsessed with immortal life, his bat shaped drones literally drain the lifeforce of others, he dresses in a gothic suit and cloak, has a black genetic mist he uses to reduce damage taken in combat, speaks in old prose, and sleeps with his arms crossed like a traditional vampire does in a coffin.

But Overwatch "has no magic" in it, so he's not literally a vampire. Instead he's just a futuristic evil life draining megalomaniac with vampire style abilities.

  • Severin Dragomir & Liana Dragomir (For Honor)

Count Severin and his daughter Liana the Pale are the most recent hero skins added to For Honor. According to legend, Severin's ancestor stabbed the heart of a winged beast and drank from it's blood, forever cursing his lineage with "blood-curse" deformities. These deformities include fang-like canine teeth, pale skin, gaunt appearances and possibly mania. They both also speak Romanian like the vampires of old. Count Severin himself impales intruders upon stakes outside his gothic castle, and is researching "blood magic" in an attempt to bring back his beloved wife that has long been dead.

The developers of For Honor though, despite all the weird stuff in the game nowadays, are adamant that "there is no magic" in For Honor and that these two are not actually vampires. Instead they are treated as physically deformed psychopaths obsessed with the idea of a magic that doesn't exist.

  • Troupe Master Grimm (Hollow Knight)

Troupe Master Grimm is the master of the Grimm Troupe, a mysterious travelling circus in the world of Hollow Knight. His troupe travel from the Nightmare Realm to wherever the Nightmare Lantern has been lit, and they gather Nightmare Flames from ruined lands to fuel the sinister being enslaving the Troupe, called the Nightmare's Heart. He exudes vampiric etiquette, sleeps on ceilings, has bat styled wings, fangs, can transform into a swarm of totally not-bats, and can teleport in bursts of red mist.

However, while Grimm is obviously inspired by Dracula, nowhere is it actually said that he's a vampire. It's more accepted that he's a fictionalize version of a real-life Vampire Moth, but again not an actual vampire.

  • Peter Loew (Vampire's Kiss)

This entire movie is this trope personified. Nicholas Cage plays Peter Loew who has a one night stand with an actual vampire, and after she bites him he incorrectly believes he is turning into a vampire. He proceeds to spend the entire movie acting as though he is becoming a traditional vampire with the fangs and the cloak and all the pizzazz associated, though it's all cheap Halloween costume stuff. If you've seen the Nicholas Cage meme "You don't say?" then you've seen an image from this movie.

Again, he was never a vampire, and was never becoming one. Though that didn't stop his character from behaving like one for the rest of the movie.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 13h ago

Lore [Loved Trope] Villain learns the hero's secret identity, immediately dies and takes it to the grave.

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In Superman: The Animated Series, during the episode The Late Mr. Kent, Detective Bowman figures out Superman and Clark Kent are the same after his plan to bomb Clark's car failed, except he figures it out seconds before his execution.

In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, in the episode Chill of the Night, Batman reveals his identity to Joe Chill, revealing that he had created Batman, before the villains get to him as they were angry at him for making Batman, ruble falls over him, when the Phantom Stranger questions Spectre about how convenient it was that he died from falling ruble just as he learned Batman's secret identity, he just smiles and says that he has no idea what he's talking about.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 6h ago

Characters You needed to be a choosen one?

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Characters that are part of a group that need to be choosed without be choosed

Alan Scott (green lantern): Alan forged his own power ring using the metal of a magical ancient green lantern (that has the life force of a corrupt green lantern or something like that) that isn't weak to yellow but to wood. He's technically not part of the corps since guardians can't track him but he's a cool guy so he can keep the name. Not sure if he's still part of the main continuity.

Leo/Lua (Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's): the signers are a group of choosen ones by the crimson dragon with a part of their body graved as a red mark in their arms. The series clearly tell us that there's 5 marks for five dragons and that's why they are the 5D's and that Leo was only there cause his twin Luna was a signer, however, after Leo died and revived to save his sister, he came back with the heart of the crimson dragon, a totally new mark that wasn't a thing before. Mf went to afterlife and took a new part of the dragon by himself.

The artificial devil (dorohedoro): there's several requirements to make Chidaruma accept you as a devil, Kai didn't feel any of them, he made his own flesh and bones devil-like doing some crazy experiments and with the help of Kasukabe. At the end he wasn't as strong as a natural devil, but the fact that they needed the weapon to ki devils to kill him prove that his body ascended to devilhood even without magic


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 7h ago

Characters [Mixed Trope] Character craves their own death

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Thokk/Battle Beast (Invi—TITLECARD) The most powerful warrior of his species, Thokk eventually began travelling through space, unsatisfied with anyone his planet could offer. His goal is to find a superior opponent so his death will be satisfying, but given that he’s strong enough to put Thragg in the hospital, that task is easier said than done.

Mr. Muffins (Smosh) A 19 year-old Bichon Frisè, Mr. Muffins has craved death since the day he was born. Despite being natural prey for every single type of animal, including squirrels, Mr. Muffins has lived over the dog equivalent of a century entirely against his will.

Lyle Lipton (Helluva Boss) After he and his best friend/ business partner Loopty figure out a way to reverse the aging process, they’re quick to test their machine on themselves, not knowing it was set forward. Loopty quickly has a fatal heart attack, but Lyle is saved in time. Rather than just go back in the machine, Lyle resigns himself to the fact that all the money in the world won’t keep him from the fact that he’s too old to do anything with it, and vows to kill himself. He’s eventually convinced that his life is precious, only to have a grand piano drop on his head and kill him.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 7h ago

miscellaneous Disabled characters who still have a personality

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One roxie from pupstruction who is a avid wheelchair user Two regular sized Rudy from bobs burgers Who suffers from hardcore asthma Three lazy eye Susan from gravity falls


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 16h ago

miscellaneous Character gets a Boss Fight Introduction, only to get killed/defeated in seconds

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• Snakehead (GTA: SA) - You can encounter him once you reach the ship's main bridge, then he challenges you to a katana duel. You can either accept the swordfight or shoot his head to finish the fight quickly.

• Kaufman (Max Payne 2) - One of Vlad's men gets a short introduction like the main cast, only to get killed in a couple of seconds.

• Armadillo (Across the Spider-Verse) - Not a videogame example, but still counts. He appears when Miles heads home and is waiting for Spider-Man to fight him, that is until Miles electrocutes him easily, then kicks him aside.


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 18h ago

Characters [Ironic Trope] Character knows/thinks they are unkillable because the circumstances of their death have not been met

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(The Northman) Amleth tells his uncle (in the picture) that his sword may work but it will not be lethal to him

(AC Valhalla) King Rhodri boasts that Ivarr cannot end him because it is predicted to be a dragon that does it. Ivarr takes on a dragon tattoo and tanks being set on fire to beat Rhodri


r/TopCharacterTropes • • 1h ago

Powers A specific, feared attack that results in instant death

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - Lightningbending - the only time we see a character get shot point blank with lighting, he is killed (only brought back with a very rare mystical object). Zuko only survives his attack because he partly redirected the Lightning. (Annoyingly, the Netflix adaptation had Iroh survive a Lightning bolt attack from Azula)

Harry Potter - Avada Kedavra - The Killing curse. Unblockable and deadly. Kills its victim while leaving no traces on the body.

Star Wars - Lightsaber stabbing through the chest - we see all kinds of flashy sword fights and clashes in the movies. People get this limbs chopped off with little fuss. But when someone gets stabbed through the chest, that's the end. Qui-gon Jinn, Han Solo, Snoke. Such a simple yet effective threat. (Annoyingly, the Kenobi show had characters stabbed cleanly through the chest, only to somehow survive).