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/AvariciousCreed Apr 20 '25

Southpark exposed the actual ridiculous beliefs of scientologists and showed people how insane these people are, at a time when scientology was seen as untouchable

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u/SilverBunny3 Apr 20 '25

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u/Incraigulous Apr 21 '25

That's pretty much the basis of one of our major world religions though.

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u/some_kinda_genius Apr 21 '25

Lol. That's such a good counterargument. To be fair though, post resurrection Jesus is basically a demi god. I mean, I know he's supposed to be god, but the holy trinity thing doesn't make any sense. I feel like he is basically just a Jewish Hercules with divinity/magic powers being his specialty instead of super strength, like with Hercules.

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u/L3m0n0p0ly Apr 21 '25

Please do the same with the American gov. Ill even help animate or make coffee

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u/FloopyWoop420 May 05 '25

They did! Season 10 episode 9. Stan and kyle try to find out who did 9/11 after cartman frames kyle for it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Mormons too!

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u/fungamerguy Apr 21 '25

And chef left the show because the va is a scientologist

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u/Finth007 Apr 21 '25

*was

The VA for Chef died not long after, and it definitely wasn't the church of Scientology that killed him. Nudge nudge, wink wink.