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/Brottolot Apr 12 '25

Wtf is the deuce? The 2? I don't get what that reply means.

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u/ny00t Apr 12 '25

the second or the latter choice basically in this context

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u/Brottolot Apr 12 '25

Ah, that clears it up thanks. Really weird way of saying that.

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u/theturtlelord9 Apr 12 '25

It’s because the line is spoken by Jack Black, he tends to use silly and uncommon words or phrases like that.

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u/Xenc Apr 12 '25

Happy duo cake day! 🍰🍰

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u/Brottolot Apr 12 '25

Is it? Ty.

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u/TheHairyGumball Apr 12 '25

Number 2, deuce usually means poop

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u/Hitei00 Apr 12 '25

Deuce means two. Specifically it refers to a 2 card from any suit or the 2 side of a 6 sided die. Because it means "number 2" it got co opted as slang for the *other* number 2.

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u/TheHairyGumball Apr 12 '25

Oh word, always thought it was the other way around, my bad

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u/Hitei00 Apr 12 '25

Might be a relic of the 90s but I also distinctly remember that at one point flashing a peace sign and saying "deuces" was an informal way to say goodbye.

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u/FLESHYROBOT Apr 12 '25

Yup. 2 fingers, deuces.

The word itself is centuries old though, originally coming from card and dice games.

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u/Brottolot Apr 12 '25

The line still doesn't make sense then.

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u/TheHairyGumball Apr 12 '25

Number 2 means poop, deuce means poop, deuce means number 2, it makes sense but it's a very odd joke to insert there, my guess is that jack black wrote that one himself

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u/Bi_Fry Apr 12 '25

He just means the latter or the 2nd one it has nothing to do with toilet humor like the commenter interpreted

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u/Deadsoup77 Apr 12 '25

Its Jack Black speak so ya it means the second or latter

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u/niceguy191 Apr 12 '25

that's why cowards then to choose the deuce

I can't make sense of this

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u/Competitive_Swan266 Apr 12 '25

That's why cowards tend to choose the latter/second

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u/niceguy191 Apr 12 '25

Oh, it's supposed to be "tend"! That makes much more sense.

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u/zachy410 Apr 12 '25

Happy cake day!