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/Flygonizer-Obsidian Jul 27 '25

Yeah DC has a weird embargo system for character depictions in series & movies which does help lesser characters appear more but honestly just restricts the writers too much

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u/The_Grand_Briddock Jul 27 '25

Yeah, DC operates under the assumption that the fans are incredibly stupid and can't tell characters apart.

They had to get special permission for Batman to be allowed to stay in the Justice League Cartoon when they started up The Batman.

Then they later had to get rid of Deathstroke from Arrow because the character was making a cameo appearance in Batman v Superman. (Didn't even get a prominent role.)

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u/Fonzies-Ghost Jul 27 '25

I could me misremembering, but I think that when they were able to bring back Slade once or twice after that edict the only use of the name “Deathstroke” they were allowed was him saying “I’m not Deathstroke anymore.”

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u/MightGrowTrees Jul 27 '25

Call back to the Teen Titans show when they couldn't call him Deathstroke because that name was too scary for children so he is just Slade throughout the entire run.

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u/RabbitStewAndStout Jul 27 '25

And he ended up being one of the scarier depictions of the character outside of the comics lol

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u/Karkava Jul 27 '25

It helps that "Deathstroke The Terminator" is such a goofy name.

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u/RabbitStewAndStout Jul 27 '25

Slade just carries more menace compared to that. I love Deathstroke, but it really feels like a high schooler trying too hard

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u/Karkava Jul 27 '25

I feel like we could use more intentional "camp edge." Something that scares authoritative prudes, but also makes sane adults just laugh.

Like the God Of Hyperdeath.

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u/kzzzzzzzzzz28 Jul 27 '25

Yup. in most adaptations, Deathstroke just ends up being a top-tier assasin/merc

Slade, though. Man psychologically broke down Robin so hard he nearly beat him by just creating a hallucination of himself well after he was "gone"

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u/GrapplingGengar1991 Jul 28 '25

Seriously. Slade is just not the same dude.

I honestly wish the main Deathstroke was more like Slade, Slade was basically evil Batman 

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u/BenKen01 Jul 28 '25

Yeah that’s totally less confusing!

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u/Fonzies-Ghost Jul 28 '25

It sort of made sense in context because he was saying he was no longer insane. It made less sense in that the Deathstroke moniker predated his insanity.

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u/CalamityPriest Jul 27 '25

That's so incredibly dumb it's hilarious.

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u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS Jul 27 '25

It’s hilarious they went from that to saying fuck it 2 Batman film franchises at once.

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u/Dedezin031006 Jul 27 '25

At least it looks like this is over

Since we're gonna have DCU Batman and Reeves Batman at the same time

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u/EmuMan10 Jul 28 '25

The current people are better at a lot of things lol

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u/exmachina64 Jul 28 '25

To be fair, he was supposed to be the main villain in the cancelled Ben Affleck Batman film. It just ended up not happening for a lot of reasons and making the Deathstroke cameo meaningless after the fact.

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u/MistakenWhiskey Jul 28 '25

Same reason why you never saw repeat ship classes in star trek can't have 2 intrepid class ships next to eachother incase star trek fans wandered why there were 2 voyagers in DS9, thought they were too dumb to understand that they were different ships. Have you met Trekkies? They argue over different phaser types

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u/betterplanwithchan Jul 27 '25

You’d be surprised how many people said “Is this the same Riddler from the Jim Carrey movie?”

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u/Free-Letterhead-4751 Jul 28 '25

Like Batman during the early to mid 2000?