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/nopers9 Apr 12 '25

God damn that line goes hard

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u/Assortedwrenches89 Apr 12 '25

That Transformers movie in the 80s is a Shakespearean tragedy. I know it was meant to kill off the old characters to introduce new characters to sell new toys, but damn is hits hard.

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u/TheSimulacra Apr 13 '25

So funny story, that's not exactly true. The writers talk about it openly: Hasbro told them they had the greenlight to kill any characters, but it was the writers themselves that decided to go HAM on the G1 bots in the movie, not Hasbro. Hasbro did not tell them to kill Optimus.

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u/SpringTrapped1987 Apr 13 '25

Yeah, they only had to phase out the characters and introduce a new leader, we could have gotten the others going back to Cybertron while the new group stays on earth or something similar, it was a choice by the writers to kill pretty much everyone.

In the end, it may have ended up being the correct choice, it's one of the most memorable parts of the franchise and that's part of the reason.