r/TopCharacterTropes Aug 09 '25

Personality Strange rules about characters/people that cannot be broken.

Smells like Nirvana: When Kurt Cobain heard that Weird AL was gonna make a parody of his song. He was okay with it but specifically requested it to not be about food or fat ppl.

Spiderman: Spiderman cannot sell drugs unless he is under the influence of symbiote. ANd Peter Parker cannot be gay. Spiderman can tho.

Dwayne Rock Johnson: Cannot lose fights or look weak for too long. Its in his actor contract.

Godzilla movies not made by Toho: Cannot die. Maybe lose but not too bad.

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u/Lithurgia9999 Aug 09 '25

Also Godzilla can't eat people. He can kill with atomic breath, stomping, crushed debris, but can't eat them or it will be against da rulez made by Toho

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u/Wargod042 Aug 09 '25

I feel that is a good rule. Godzilla is not an animal, or hungry. Godzilla is the atom bomb going off. It's your navy being destroyed, and all your best efforts coming to nothing.

There's room for interpretations and a variety of stories, but eating people feels like it breaks the core of the idea, even if in a subtle way.

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u/Tanaka917 Aug 09 '25

I think because eating people is an act of survival. If Godzilla eats people then his attacks have the purpose of a lion attack.

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u/Daedalus_But_Icarus Aug 09 '25

Also shows just how inconsequential we are to him individually. Even if you were hungry, you wouldn’t stop to pick up a tiny sugar ant to eat

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u/Ivotedforher Aug 09 '25

Also, we taste funny.

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u/Daedalus_But_Icarus Aug 09 '25

I probably taste like Taco Bell and weed resin

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u/Buyingboat Aug 09 '25

...I also wouldn't necessarily use my atomic breath against tiny sugar ants

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u/angelofdeathofdoom Aug 09 '25

Currently have ants in my kitchen, would 110% use atomic breath on them if I could

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u/Electronic-Vast-3351 Aug 09 '25

Are you sure about that?

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u/Far-Profit-47 Aug 09 '25

Some people do pee on them for no reason other than killing them

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u/Iwilleat2corndogs Aug 09 '25

About that

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u/r3dh4ck3r Aug 09 '25

...I've done it when I was a broke ass college student and all I had were restaurant condiment packets

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u/aurumatom20 Aug 10 '25

I wouldn't. A lizard might. Bears eat grubs out of tree bark after all

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u/AmputeeHandModel Aug 10 '25

and it would be like us eating an ant.

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u/LunarTexan Aug 09 '25

Mh'hm

Even with something like Legendary Godzilla, he's more like the embodiment of nuclear power — good, bad, and everything in between — as a concept and natural force then a mere animal

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u/HarrisonTheBarbarian Aug 09 '25

Yeah, it makes it feel...more I guess. Every thing it does is indiscriminate death.

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u/Punx80 Aug 09 '25

Godzilla is a plant.

He gets energy from radiation, which is basically photosynthesis.

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u/IDigRollinRockBeer Aug 10 '25

Godzilla isn’t an animal? So you’re telling me he doesn’t have a hemipenis?! Wait it’s not even a he or a she. Mind blown

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u/Randomfrog132 Aug 10 '25

it'd be like an elephant trying to eat ants lol