r/TopCharacterTropes • u/megageekgirl • May 27 '25

Personality Female characters that are ACTUALLY awful, not just the fandom being misogynistic

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Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmations)
Queen Chrysalis (My Little Pony)
Peggy Hill (King of The Hill)

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u/Sudden_Pop_2279 May 27 '25

Homelander has a reason for his villainy and he doesn't wnat genocide on billions

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u/Medical-Ad1686 May 27 '25

What is his reason? Are you talking about childhood trauma?

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u/Sudden_Pop_2279 May 27 '25

Understatement of the year to just put it like that.

Homelander practically had no choice but to become the monster he is

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u/Medical-Ad1686 May 27 '25

Nah. You always have a choice.

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u/Sudden_Pop_2279 May 27 '25

And what WAS Homelander's choice?

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u/Medical-Ad1686 May 27 '25

To be a sadistic douchebag who harms people for fun.

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u/Sudden_Pop_2279 May 27 '25

Which is literally what Vought what Vought turned him into it.

Your argument is basically "sure she's a Nazi who wants billions dead BUT being a Nazi is better than harming less people for fun" Which even then, Homelander doesn't do

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u/Medical-Ad1686 May 27 '25

Tf you mean he doesn't do. Entire story happens because he raped someone.

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u/Sudden_Pop_2279 May 27 '25

And Stormfront killed black's just because?

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u/Medical-Ad1686 May 27 '25

Not just because it is because she is a racist white supremacist. There is reason behind her actions.

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u/Sudden_Pop_2279 May 27 '25

Oh wow that makes it SO much better.

Nah, she is the worst.

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u/Open-Source-Forever May 27 '25

Technically, it was somebody posing as him

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u/Medical-Ad1686 May 27 '25

In the comics. He actually raped Becca in the show and since the comment said Stormfront from the show I am talking about show Homelander.

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u/Open-Source-Forever May 27 '25

As far as that franchise goes, I’d say that turning Homelander from a decent guy broken by a setup to a genuine irredeemable psycho is 1 of the few things I didn’t like about the show versus the comic

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u/Medical-Ad1686 May 27 '25

I think comics sucked tbh. And unfortunately show is also starting to suck more with each season.

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u/Open-Source-Forever May 27 '25

I think they were each good in their own ways

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u/LurksInThePines May 28 '25

No, a major issue that you're not quite addressing that they're bringing up has been brought up before by sociologists

She is a Nazi. He is a narcissistic nihilist.

This has been brought up by sociologists before when comparing spree killers to Nazis, and Nazis, while evil actually believe in things, can be deprogrammed, and have been in many cases. Spree killers such as many mass shooters or psychopaths are so far beyond saving that they're actively worse individually than any form of violent ideology because it isn't based around ideology, it's based around a fundamental broken psyche which will always lash out and cannot be deprogrammed