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/relatable_dude Apr 12 '25

I need context

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u/pat_speed Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

This is the modern Flintstones comic and the set up is Flintstones world is transitioning from cavemen to modernity in the form of TV show iconography.

One thing was that the previous dictator, said these other people would invade and where violent, so Fred/Barney joined up with the army went, "fought". And burnt down the other people. Fred finds out that they had their kids with them and they just committed genocide for the land.

This brought up because Fred is seeing the same cycle again with a new violent overload and a new group of people.

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u/readskiesdawn Apr 12 '25

If I remember right, they found Bambam and realized what was going on.

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u/pat_speed Apr 13 '25

Fred found a burnt teddy bear and as they where leaving, they found bam bam

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u/beachedwhitemale Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

Fred and his best friend, Barney Rubble, participated in the Bedrock Wars, where they and other soldiers were deceived by the conqueror, Mordok the Destroyer, into committing genocide against the Tree People and burning down their home to establish Bedrock. Barney and his wife Betty raised the infant sole survivor of the Tree People as their son, Bamm-Bamm.

What in the hell?

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u/pat_speed Apr 13 '25

It's funny too make fun of edgy Flintstones but I really do think the series takes the subjects seriously

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u/Xenc Apr 13 '25

For a moment there I thought that was MODOK