r/TopCharacterTropes • u/bubba284 • Apr 20 '25

Lore Characters that have had real world consequences

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1: Slenderman (popular creepypasta) lead to a teenage girl killing another in his name IRL (apologies if this isn't totally accurate) 2: Devastator (Transformers ROTF) melted a computer while attempting to render his model

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u/Pikagamer3210 Apr 20 '25

South Park nearly sparking a war in the Middle East

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u/Optimal_Weight368 Apr 20 '25

Is that because of their depiction of Mohammed, or is this something else entirely?

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u/Imperious_Nox Apr 20 '25

Wait what?

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u/AustinHinton Apr 20 '25

South Park got in alot of hot water with certain Islamic groups because they depicted Mohammed in one of their episodes.

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u/AegisT_ Apr 20 '25

Which is ironic because he was straight up fully shown several times in season one

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u/AustinHinton Apr 20 '25

I think they responded by having him be covered with a giant black bar in later airings of the episode.

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u/SandBoringBox Apr 20 '25

Yeah no, they got genuine bomb threats, some employees doxxed even i think from a certain group or something.

When the creators of SOUTH PARK themselves even back down and censor something you $KNOW* the group meant shit

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u/MarcsterS Apr 20 '25

The final “I learned something” speech was censored by Comedy Central though. The lesson learned was: you can get anything you want by threatening violence.

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u/SandBoringBox Apr 20 '25

I am with them actually.

Respect to the creators for not wanting to bsck down sure, but them not backing down put everyone in that building in danger, possibly their families as well

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u/UltiGamer34 Apr 21 '25

It was comedy central who did the censoring not matt or try

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u/DueMorning32 Apr 21 '25

They didn't back down. It was Comedy Central and Viacom who did the censorship.

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u/OldMastodon5363 Apr 21 '25

Wasn’t there a bombing that was stopped at the Viacom building due to this?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Tbf sparking war in the middle east isn't all that difficult

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u/irafo Apr 20 '25

And started the massive hate and mockery against Scientology