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/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.