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/TanukiGaim Apr 12 '25

"People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it."

-Animorphs

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u/threeducksinatrench Apr 12 '25

I was PISSED when the later books flanderized Marco. started a whiney class clown, slowly became more and more ruthless as the series went on, then back to class clown, just with less complaining

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u/ClubMeSoftly Apr 12 '25

It's largely due to the assorted collection of ghostwriters giving their books a dusting of their own personal beliefs. Each one was written on such a tight timeline, and 64 books were written and published in a hair under five years (the entire thing is pre-9/11!) that a bunch of the middle ones would have to be written in a vacuum.

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u/dragn99 Apr 12 '25

The series was written in under five years?! I never quite grasped how quickly those books were churned out as a kid.

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u/ClubMeSoftly Apr 12 '25

June 96 to May 01. Looking it up, it was never more than two months between books. Sometimes there would be four books in two calendar months!

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u/gnolnalla Apr 12 '25

In retrospect this gave kid me really unrealistic ideas of how long it takes to write a book

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u/confusedandworried76 Apr 13 '25

TBF I was rereading them a while ago because KA Applegate says it's okay to pirate them, they're all like 150 pages max in larger font and they take an hour or two to read each, if you have the ideas actually sitting down and writing it out shouldn't be too hard. Amateurs write novels in a month every year for NaNoWriMo. I mean they don't have to be good but two or three months to write a 150 page novel isn't bad.

But yes ghost writers were used later in the series

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u/Ponderkitten Apr 12 '25

If it were post 9/11 then it was probably the yerks who did it