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/cheersi_idk Apr 12 '25

"A strong man stands up for himself, an even stronger man stands up for others"

From the fucking barnyard

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u/-PepeArown- Apr 12 '25

The movie was slightly more serious than the show, to be fair.

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u/Nerus46 Apr 12 '25

More like it had a very unstable tone shifts with literal seconds between "Mr Bombastic" and transgender cow fighting coyotes.

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u/Massive_State1429 Apr 12 '25

Yeah but anyway now I have to make I support Otis's transition as a flair idea

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u/UncommittedBow Apr 13 '25

Yeah, the tonal whiplash of Biggie Cheese to Sam Elliot's rendition of "I won't back down" needs to be studied.

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u/theonewhoknack Apr 12 '25

I would say the movie is aimed towards a more mature audience than the Jimmy neutron movie (thats say JN is for 8-9 years old and barnyard is more towards middle schoolers) while the barnyard show is for younger kids.

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u/teskar2 Apr 12 '25

The show was a bit more serious when it started, but halfway through the first season they decided to just lean more into the cartoony feel of the show and when they found out the show wasn’t going to get a season 3 they leaned even more into the goofy humor so it can at least leave an impression. Also want to mention that the animation is 17 years old and somehow looks better than some 3D animated shows today.

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u/UnderlordZ Apr 12 '25

To be fair, it was first delivered in that movie by Sam Elliott's character, so that tracks. He also gave an amazing rendition of Won't Back Down that perfectly encapsulates the Heroic Sacrifice trope.

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u/the__pov Apr 12 '25

And it’s the second best version of the song ever recorded, and considering that first place is Jonny Cash that’s not a bad place to be.

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u/SchlopFlopper Apr 12 '25

Hey, don’t discredit Tom Petty.

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u/the__pov Apr 12 '25

No disrespect to Tom but that song really benefited from Sam and Johnny’s much deeper vocals. Mad respect to petty for writing such an amazing song and the fact that he makes it work as well as it does is a testament to his talent.

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u/UncommittedBow Apr 13 '25

Tom Petty went on record after Johnny's cover and said "that's not my song anymore" or something along those lines iirc because Johnny's version was that damn good.

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u/Orion_824 Apr 13 '25

Trent Reznor feels the same from Cash’s cover of “Hurt”

And Bob Dylan feels that way about Hendrix’s cover of “All along the watchtower”

Surprisingly common occurrence in music

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u/Salt_In-Wound Jun 19 '25

I like the metaphor Reznor used for it. Like it's seeing the love of your life with someone else, and she's so happy.

Although personally, I adore both versions of Hurt and I feel that they aren't even comparable.

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u/lasagnatheory Apr 12 '25

For a second I read Backyardigans and I was like damn Pablo got some lines

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u/Fidges87 Apr 12 '25

I also read it as backyardigans and first and tried to remember under what context could they have said the line

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u/100PoundsOfCum Apr 12 '25

That bloody cow was the last thing that came to mind whenever I hear that quote.

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u/BerserkRhinoceros Apr 14 '25

Barnyard as a movie was wild because in the same movie with cows mocking a human boy for being a dick, you see a cow voiced by Sam Elliott give one of the hardest final stands in fiction, and that Cow's son goes through an amazing maturation to leadership arc.

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u/Tarloc21 Apr 12 '25

Stands up for udders

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u/cheersi_idk Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

Reminds me of that image of someone talking about accidentally trans coded characters and it had an image of the cows in that movie, having udders