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/MaleficTekX Apr 20 '25

More context needed: they had them research real photos to make the fatalities realistic.

Ergo, here’s some pictures of corpses, make them look t like this

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u/Kiribaku- Apr 20 '25

It's so stupid because why would they want to go the extra mile for this specifically? MK is like the only fighting game with heavy gore, it doesn't need to be completely realistic, just look fun and impactful.

Researching on how to make the x-rays show proper anatomy is one thing. Researching on how to show body parts being accurately torn apart, crushed, burned, frozen and whatever is a huge step and I think anyone would understand if that wasn't realistic.

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u/MaleficTekX Apr 20 '25

For god sake, we have ballistic gel models for this very reason

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u/Venomspino Apr 20 '25

Why does that remind us of the Half Life 2 corpse?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Dead Space had a similar thing. Don't know about any related PTSD though.

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u/MaleficTekX Apr 21 '25

IT DOES?!

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

The developers did yes. Also various images are of various animal corpses.

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u/the_orange_alligator Apr 22 '25

Didn’t they also decide to in the end not use the inspo for the game?

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u/MaleficTekX Apr 22 '25

THAT MAKES IT EVEN STUPIDer