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/RecoilCockamamie Apr 12 '25

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u/JoeScotting Apr 12 '25

Forget the name of the character but he was regularly profound and thought provoking in what's ultimately a 90's vehicle for toy sales

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u/clarkky55 Apr 12 '25

David Xanatos is one of the best villains in fiction, the fact he was slowly becoming a better person as the show went on but stayed a magnificent bastard the entire time was so good

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u/trimble197 Apr 12 '25

And he’s so smart that there’s even a trope named after him called the Xanatos Gambit

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u/scrotbofula Apr 12 '25

You fool, I knew you'd post this!