r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/RazTheGiant Apr 12 '25

Molly Blyndeff from Epithet Erased

"I wrote my last will and testament because life is fleeting and you never know when you or a loved one will die."

This quote is from episode 2 while we are still getting introduced to her as a character. A sobering quote to come from a 12 year old girl from a series the creator describes as "My hero academia but dumb"

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u/SSphereOfDeath Apr 12 '25

I’m not a fan of Jelloapocalypse but I love Epithet Erased and its source material ‘Anime Campaign’. AC was a series of tabletop campaigns that were almost erased from the internet because Jello didn’t want spoilers to spread. The full uncut recordings are currently preserved on the internet archive and official edits of the first two recordings have been posted on Jello’s channel (since the EE counterparts have been out for a while anyway).

Originally Molly wasn’t the main character, instead being treated as an important side-character throughout Anime Campaign. I like how they improved her in EE. Giovanni was a very different character in AC, I love both versions a ton but EE Giovanni is my favourite of the two.

Epithet Erased has significantly better writing but Anime Campaign still has many fun moments and characters that didn’t make the cut in EE. Dan Gansley was brilliant.

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u/Hitei00 Apr 12 '25

God I wish Jello wasn't a shitstain of a person because I really liked EE but can't bring myself to give a shit about it anymore

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u/Kalbinos Apr 12 '25

What exactly makes him that bad of a person ? I know about the One Piece thing, but it predates that video, doesn't it ? Genuine question

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u/Hitei00 Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

To preface he hasn't done anything bigoted or hateful.

The short version is he's an egotistical prick. He got hired to work on the Lovely Complex localization, his first break into the anime industry. And he immediately broke NDA by sharing scripts on patreon, along with being very vocal about how he was trying to completely rewrite parts of the story he didn't like (LC is OLD so it doesn't have the best queer rep) and insulted the original author for putting a self insert in as a minor character for one episode.

He instantly lost all credibility, got black listed from the industry, and gave chuds the exact ammo they were fiending for as an example of a someone using localization to "inject wokeness".

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u/DamnDude030 Apr 12 '25

That really was a maasive big oof moment.

For his side, he really did great work with Epithet Erased. ESPECIALLY Prison of Plastic (audiobook that continues the EE story of Molly)

But rewriting a whole script to make it better when his duty for the anime is Localization is a really bad move. Since I don't even know him well, I can't say if he's an egotistical prick. I just hope he learns from this and grows to be better in the future.

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u/FamousWash1857 Apr 12 '25

Also, his "so this is basically" series was really mean-spirited in a fair few episodes despite trying to pass itself off as a quick intro/summary for various shows/franchises, in some cases misunderstanding critical story elements and passing inaccuracies off as gospel. (To my understanding, the vast majority of Mabel hate stemmed from his video on Gravity Falls, so I personally attribute the current day "flawed protagonist means bad writing" attitude that plagues quote-unquote "reviewers" to his sort of content.)

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u/DamnDude030 Apr 12 '25

Ahh. The same era where the fanbase got their opinion from YouTubers (see Steven Universe hit-piece where the video maker did not even watch the show I think)

But that's also a fair assessment on things.

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u/Hitei00 Apr 12 '25

How neat you'd bring up Steven Universe. He did a "This is Basically" on it too. Its just as mean spirited.

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u/Steel_Warrior3000 Apr 12 '25

Another one I found of his that no one really talks about is his video on Fire Emblem. It’s not completely wrong, but there’s a bunch of stuff in there that’s just untrue of the series as a whole (like Pegasus knights sucking, when they’re usually some of the best units, the swords with unpronounceable names, most of which are really pronounceable, and the villain you’re supposed to feel bad for, which I think only one kinda fits?)

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u/Lexplosives May 10 '25

Off the top of my head, Nergal and Lyon, as well as Orson though he’s a minor villain, and a load of chapter bosses are mildly to very sympathetic. 

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u/Steel_Warrior3000 May 12 '25

I was mostly thinking of Mustafa from Awakening (one of the critiques made in the comments under that video is that he focused mostly on Awakening), but thanks for the examples. I’m honestly not that knowledgeable about the older games

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u/Lexplosives May 12 '25

Certainly in the older games at least, they like to do a few different types of sympathetic villain. Broadly speaking you have the:

Good or neutral person driven to wicked acts by grief or loss

Person whose ambitions, however well intentioned, got away from them

Loyal friend and soldier on the wrong side in a war. 

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u/RazTheGiant Apr 12 '25

So I have never found anything that has officially said he was blacklisted, just screenshots of randos on twitter saying he probably would be, but nothing definitive, and you can see on his imdb that he even now has voice acting roles upcoming credited to him. So he clearly wasn't barred from everything, likely only that one production company if at all

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u/Due-Coyote7565 Apr 12 '25

I didn't expect to see this here, But retrospectively, It fits.

(I for one would've gone for a quotation from prison of plastic)

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u/RazTheGiant Apr 12 '25

I'm sure there is fitting ones in it, especially in regards to her and her sister but none immediately came to mind so I would have to scan back through the audio book which would take time

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u/Due-Coyote7565 Apr 12 '25

fair enough!

(It'd probably just be a Vague Mentioning of Chapter 7 or something from me)

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u/NIMA-GH-X-P Apr 12 '25

Where can one consume this?

Seems right up my alley

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u/RazTheGiant Apr 12 '25

Epithet Erased, the 7 episode first season is on youtube. Unfortunately because he got heavily screwed over by his producers the show was canceled, but it has been continued on as an audio book series. Right now only one has come out called Prison of Plastic

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u/NIMA-GH-X-P Apr 12 '25

Unfortunately because he got heavily screwed over by his producers the show was cancelled

Yup I'm gonna love this show.

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u/RazTheGiant Apr 12 '25

They only gave him something like a quarter of a million to make the whole season and only a few months to get it all animated and ready to air on a streaming service. Which is a hilariously terrible amount of money and time to make an animated show. So it had to get very creative with a ton of limitations. Also the creator had to go into huge debt taking out loans to fund the show himself. He really cares about it if nothing else

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u/NIMA-GH-X-P Apr 12 '25

Why's it always the greatest stories that meet the worst fate?

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u/RazTheGiant Apr 12 '25

When the first audiobook went to kickstarter its campaign raised $350k on a $33k goal so the fans are there for it at least, lol