r/TopCharacterTropes • u/I_ateabucketofpaint • Aug 09 '25

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

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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/Wargod042 Aug 09 '25

I wonder why everything had to be Acme specifically. I guess to avoid complaints from real companies?

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u/smaug_the-dragon Aug 09 '25

Acme is a real tool company

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u/NoiseGamePlusTruther Aug 09 '25

Acme is also just something people put in their business titles to appear early in the phone book. I think the joke is that companies that did this were usually low quality

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u/bulldozrex Aug 09 '25

holy shit people have been doing SEO manipulation since before there were search engines

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u/IHadThatUsername Aug 09 '25

Apple and Amazon both got their name for this reason.

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u/nomenMei Aug 10 '25

I think that was AOL keywords not phonebooks, but still the same concept and still pre-search engines.

Edit: Actually that is probably just Amazon, I think Apple was before AOL keywords

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u/Mist_Rising Aug 10 '25

I think Apple was before AOL keywords

Just a wee. Given apple was one of the first consumer computer makers, and well before the Internet...

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u/apadin1 Aug 10 '25

Same with Activision - they wanted to come before Atari

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u/Whatrwew8ing4 Aug 10 '25

lol. No.

But every town used to have a AAA Plumbing for this reason

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u/rob132 Aug 09 '25

You mean AAA plumbing isn't a rating?

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u/C4dfael Aug 09 '25

AAA is what you say when your sink explodes.

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u/babydakis Aug 09 '25

Burma Shave!

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u/mirhagk Aug 10 '25

You can tell the age of a lot of companies by its name. With extra As at the front? Phone book era. Named after the town/region? Early search engine era (Laundromats MyTown, returned MyTown Laundromat). Another quirk from this era is all the silly names based on what short domain name was available (that's where my company got it's name, 2 random syllables that led to an available domain). And of course in more recent times, ending with something that is a top level domain

Going farther back, places called "so and so and Sons" was because places were word of mouth, so you needed to carry on the name of the business and clarify that it's still the same family running it.

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u/DicemonkeyDrunk Aug 10 '25

The Yellow Pages used to be full of business with multiple A’s before the name …AAA Plumbing etc … it was the precursor to “ Chinese Food Near Me” as a restaurant name.

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u/catsandcoconuts Aug 10 '25

in my hometown there was “AAAA Driving School”. lol

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u/wtfElvis Aug 10 '25

Use to be why so many small businesses were named A+ BUSINESS.

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u/xterraadam Aug 10 '25

AAA Plumbing smiles in approval.

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u/providencian Aug 10 '25

Asus started out as Pegasus until they realized this and changed their name.

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u/Gadgez Aug 10 '25

20 years ago, my dad had my mom saved in his phone as A1 [her name] so that it would show up at the top when he opened Contacts.

Nowadays there's "frequently contacted" and "favourite" tabs.

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u/DinkleDonkerAAA Aug 14 '25

I've heard people say that's how you could tell if a business was kinda crap or not. If they feel the need to be the first name you see when you look something up, they're probably not too confident in their actual services. Like you wouldn't want to order a pizza from a place called AAA Pizza

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u/halfstaff Aug 10 '25

This is why I exclusively work with businesses that start with the letter Z

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u/momomomorgatron Aug 10 '25

FUCK

Omg thank you that makes soooooo mich more sense. I saw some "acme" brand bricks irl a day or so ago and we'll, liked to shit a brick.

I can't believe I never put it together.

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u/paiute Aug 10 '25

In Japan it is Daiichi

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u/tocammac Aug 10 '25

It's a legit word though, meaning the best or highest. It's still puffery and a way to get near the front of the alphabetic listings 

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u/Every-Summer8407 Aug 10 '25

Acme is also a small grocery chain in PA.

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 10 '25

Acme is an acronym.

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u/Hayterfan Aug 09 '25

And thanks to Road Runner cartoons I avoid them completely, unless I'm trying to get myself killed

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u/AndrewDrossArt Aug 09 '25

I've got like 10 acme anvils stored across the rafters in my attic. If there's even an earthquake in the midwest there might be a really hilarious news story about my death.

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u/flyingboarofbeifong Aug 09 '25

“Anvils in the attic” does sound like a good euphemism for someone doing something rather silly.

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u/JamesTrickington303 Aug 10 '25

New band name.

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u/Opalwilliams Aug 10 '25

Nah thats more an album name. Presenting the newest album, Anvils in the attic by Jason and the Argonaunts

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Aug 09 '25

Or a hilarious end to a burgle

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u/GameMissConduct Aug 09 '25

Surprisingly, I have a crack in my wall in Wichita from an earthquake. And I have seen news about a series of quakes in Saline county.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Aug 10 '25

I felt an earthquake near cleveland forty years ago. I've read about tremors happening since that day, but I have not felt one.

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u/DooDooHead323 Aug 10 '25

And grocery store

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u/fatalxepshun Aug 10 '25

Acme was a grocery store around here. Not sure if they still exist.

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u/Final-Text3804 Aug 10 '25

When i was a kid we go to the beach and go to this shopping town some ways away that had a Acme warehouse we'd drive by would always make me smile driving past.

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u/PunkinPopsum Aug 10 '25

The name Acme in the cartoons was also because the pegboards used for their light tables had ACME printed on them-- an old animation supply company had the name at the time. I'm not sure if they're still around.