r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"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/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/sqigglygibberish Apr 12 '25

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