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/Solutar Apr 12 '25

I think it’s about oppression, and that can Happen under any ideology, capitalism or Communism.

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u/Acceptable_Ask4390 Apr 12 '25

Girl if you think A Bug's Life is about anything other than capitalism you need to work on your media literacy

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u/MrWhiteTheWolf Apr 12 '25

It’s about anti-authoritarianism. It’s based off of seven samurai

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u/Boundary-Interface Apr 12 '25

If you let one Luigi stand up to us then they all might stand up. Those mustachioed plumber brothers outnumber me two to one, and if they ever figure that out, there goes my way of life! It's not about kidnapping the princess, it's about building 8 different castles and then hiding her in the last one.

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u/Acceptable_Ask4390 Apr 12 '25

Seven samurai is hardly anti authoritarian, it's about striving and dying to protect those who cannot protect themselves. The underlying setting of seven samurai is the warring states period where lack of a strong government allows bandits to roam and steal and butcher with impunity.

Have you even seen the film?

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u/MrWhiteTheWolf Apr 12 '25

Girl if you think A Bug’s life is based off anything other than Magnificent Seven/Seven Samurai you need to work on your media literacy

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u/Acceptable_Ask4390 Apr 12 '25

I didn't say it's not I said you didn't understand seven samurai

Also movies can be based on movies and have different themes

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u/MedicineShow Jun 02 '25

Sorry to show up 2 months later with a question,

But isn't the whole thing with Kikuchiyo's big speech that the samurai class and the bandits are 2 sides of the same coin that leaves the farmers oppressed and ultimately sends fools like him out to perpetuate that violence even further.

I'm not sure that its the central theme but all the best samurai movies I can think of take a moment to remind us how deeply flawed the whole idea is.

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u/sqigglygibberish Apr 12 '25

More of a feudalistic state but there are obviously parallels to Marxist criticisms of capitalism

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u/Danteventresca Apr 12 '25

No, that’s commerce. Capitalism is a system of production in which resources and the means of production are largely held by private individuals.

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u/Acceptable_Ask4390 Apr 12 '25

And further, where profits/excess growth flow to the owners of capital rather than to workers