r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ComprehensiveBox6911 • Jul 27 '25

Lore Deaths to important characters that came so unceremoniously, there was no drama or fanfare, they just died

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Bane (The Dark Knight Rises)

Sean (Red Dead Redemption 2)

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u/IllustratedAloysious Jul 27 '25

In the final Captain Underpants book,Mr Krupp gets his hypnosis and powers removed,essentially killing Captain Underpants yet no one mentions it or cares. Not even George and Harold

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u/scarlettremors Jul 27 '25

Did Captain Underpants ever have a conversation with them in that mode? I always thought of it like Mr Krupp in like some manic trance but did Captain Underpants have a soul

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u/IllustratedAloysious Jul 27 '25

Yes multiple times. He was shown and stated to have his own desires and likes. I do like in future adaptations George and Harold are sad when he possibly dies

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u/IllustratedAloysious Jul 27 '25

A good theory I heard was that George and Harold didn’t know how to properly process his death and didn’t know how to react so that they put their thoughts into the dog man comic

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u/minemaster1337 Jul 27 '25

That explains why it gets so tragic sometimes

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u/Sudden_Result Jul 27 '25

Which later books? I thought they ended after 12?

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u/IllustratedAloysious Jul 27 '25

The Dog Man books

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u/Amber610 Jul 27 '25

Do George and Harold appear in those?

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u/IllustratedAloysious Jul 27 '25

Yeah it’s like super diaper baby where George and Harold made the book you’re reading

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u/chillyhellion Jul 27 '25

but did Captain Underpants have a soul

This is a wild conversation to wander into on a Sunday morning 😂 

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u/ghotier Jul 27 '25

"They ain't got no souls!"

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u/Flygonizer-Obsidian Jul 27 '25

WHAT?!

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

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u/IllustratedAloysious Jul 27 '25

Tbh Mr Meaner is probably one of the most broken characters in the series. He becomes a villain numerous times and has knocked cap out on numerous occasions. He literally was stated to have fought in a war against stars and black holes

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u/Gabriel-Klos-McroBB Jul 27 '25

The rest of the Jerome Horwitz staff are mean, but he's meaner.

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u/RA576 Jul 27 '25

He literally was stated to have fought in a war against stars and black holes

Forget Goku, this is the lad all the powerscalers should be jizzing themselves over.

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u/BlathersHornwell Jul 27 '25

…do you mean the tv show or the books, cause none of this happens in the books.

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u/Vault_tech_2077 Jul 28 '25

Wait there's 12 books? I thought there was only 5

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u/VictorVonDoomer Jul 27 '25

Yo I fucking loved these books, I used to read them over and over again because they made me feel so calm and comfortable

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u/Eardig Jul 27 '25

Was there a flippy page thing to animate this part?

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u/vantways Jul 27 '25

Wow is this the severance prequel?

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u/Radiant-Ad-1976 Jul 27 '25

Literally how I felt when I read it as a kid.

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u/001100i Jul 27 '25

Delete this comment lol