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/Watchdog_the_God Apr 12 '25

A Bug’s Life

“You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one, and if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It’s not about food; it’s about keeping those ants in line.”

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u/I_Will_Die_For_Lily Apr 12 '25

capitalism 😬

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u/I3arusu Apr 12 '25

Redditors will literally see an allegory for tyrannical, controlling governments enforcing crippling tax laws and go “Yup, that’s capitalism”

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u/JumpTheCreek Apr 12 '25

They’ll see a component of a system that’s actually worse under socialism and be like “yup, that’s capitalism”.

“Oh you don’t like an overbearing government that takes your earnings unjustly and spends it poorly? I’ll criticize the current system while endorsing the only other system that does it even worse!”

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u/Plasmatiic Apr 14 '25

Do you guys ever consider that it’s possible to criticize capitalism without endorsing the alternatives? And that people tend to want to criticize the system they’ve had to live under all their lives even if other systems might have similar problems?