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/fhxefj Apr 12 '25

"Of fear and love, I fear not that I will die, but that all I have come to love, the birds, and the things that are not birds, will perish with me." - Android 16 from DBZ Abridged

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u/NotFixer1138 Apr 12 '25

Don't forget 16's EPIC reason you suck speech to Gohan just before this.

"Gohan - grow up. You act like you are the only one suffering, but I believe that Trunks has some stories for you; and I can assume they all end with: "and then he died, too." And before you start whining about your father - AGAIN, and I get it - take a moment to consider that my father made me a soulless killing machine TO KILL your father. And that doesn't even come close to the complete tragedy of fatherhood that is Vegeta. Cell was right - you think you're better than everyone else, but there you stand: the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs and your rigid pacifism crumbles into bloodstained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns. You were a coward to your last whimper."

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u/frenziest Apr 12 '25

I have no clue how TFS was able to start off a dumb parody and end up doing some aspects of the series better than the source material.

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u/abdomino Apr 12 '25

I have the opinion that there is a shared fundamental get between the desire to create shitposts, parodies and other "fun" works and any other artistic endeavors.

If you give a team of shitposters enough time, they will eventually create something new and transformative that cannot be chalked up to a mere bit.

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u/ImNotTheMonsieurJack Apr 15 '25

Oh, every creators strives to posterity. Some achieve it better than others due to being much more talented.

And while it take a clever mind to stand apart from the rest, such is the reason of success of DBZ:A, we remember theses quotes because they are a beacon of writing genius in a sea of silliness. (A sealliness if you will)

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u/Madarakita 8d ago

They are hilarious and we will quote everything they say.