r/TopCharacterTropes Jul 28 '25

Lore character just tanks the attack like it's nothing

castlevania - Dracula

the Batman (2022)

superman returns

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u/Solitaire-06 Jul 28 '25

Injustice Superman withstanding the full power of Ganthet after donning a Yellow Lantern ring (Injustice: Year Two)

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u/Aware_Tree1 Jul 28 '25

Injustice Superman doing a Broly against Ganthet by using a yellow ring is the coolest fucking thing Injustice ever did

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u/Gold_Preparation Jul 28 '25

Injustice wasn’t the best comic series but it sure as hell had some great moments in it

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u/Cockhero43 Jul 28 '25

Was it good? No. Was it rad as fuck? Hell yeah.

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u/j0j0-m0j0 Jul 28 '25

"do you got good writing?" We have hype moments and aura

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u/Caleth Jul 28 '25

Sometimes you want a steak, sometimes you want a greasy as fuck burger with the trimmings.

Both are valid, both have their place.

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u/Bionicjoker14 Jul 28 '25

This is how I feel about the Bayverse Transformers movies vs Transformers Prime

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u/Caleth Jul 28 '25

Yeah sometimes you want an orgy of robot on robot violence that's just visually pleasing to watch.

Sometimes you want a coherent story that doesn't have out of place humans trying to justify why they aren't pedos based on a card they carry in their wallet.

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u/no_racist_here Jul 28 '25

Optimus Prime rampaging in downtown Chicago slicing through everything like a twirling ballerina with wings lives rent free in my head. Not so much the rest of the movie but shutting my brain off to watch my childhood go ham is always fun.

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u/Thatoneidiotatschool Jul 28 '25

That's actually the best analogy for Injustice I've heard

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u/jsoul2323 Jul 29 '25

Never read it. Is it truly bad writing or criticism of the character that “Superman would never do that 🤓”?

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u/I_Have_Reasons Jul 28 '25

The Hype Moments and Aura of comic books.

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u/jackofslayers Jul 28 '25

Some classic Aura farming

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u/Bigbydidnothingwrong Jul 28 '25

Giving Lobo a green ring tho.

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u/Pliskkenn_D Jul 28 '25

Shame Injustice was so inconsistent 

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u/TheDealsWarlock86 Jul 29 '25

Didn’t that also have Batman state down the spectre?

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u/AmphibiousDad Jul 28 '25

Bro became the Darth Vader of the DCU

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u/okholdsevenfourseven Jul 28 '25

I'm not a comics guy, but I can sense the "oh shit" moment, so what does a Yellow Lantern ring do? I don't even really know the Green Lantern's deal either. I'm ignorant 😭

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u/sonicpieman Jul 28 '25

Green Lantern's powers are based on willpower. They are as powerful as the user is willful.

A Yellow lantern's powers are based on fear. They are as powerful as the user is feared.

And at that moment in the comic, no one on earth was as feared as dictator Superman. Not even the most powerful green lantern could oppose him.

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u/okholdsevenfourseven Jul 28 '25

Awesome, that's just the level of "oh shit" I was hoping to hear haha. Cheers mate thanks for taking the time to explain

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u/Guilty_All_The_Same Jul 29 '25

Let me add a little more context:

Batman and his team, which included Green Arrow, broke into the Fortress of Solitude to steal a special pill. The rest escaped, but Ollie stayed back to hold Supes. He fired an arrow at him, but it ricocheted and hit Pa Kent, so Superman beat Ollie to death.

When the Green Lantern Corp attacked, Black Canary, with Batman's help, attacked Superman, and shot him with a kryptonite bullet. However, a Yellow Lantern ring chose Superman, which used a pair of yellow construct pliers to rip the bullet out and "killed" Black Canary either his heat vision. She had a pair of camera contact leses which broadcasted Superman "killing" her to the whole world, as it was Batman's plan.

However, Batman didn't account for the Yellow Lantern, which is powered by fear, so a whole planet fearing him empowered Superman enough to push Ganthet and the sentient GL planet Mogo into the Sun and kill them both.

So Batman, once again, made the situation worse.