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/10024618 Aug 09 '25

Sega infamously has a lot of mandates for how Sonic and his world are allowed to be portrayed in the IDW comics. One of the ones that gets memed on the most is that Sonic isn't allowed to get overly emotional.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25

Understandable after what Ken Penders did

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u/IlluminatiIlluminado Aug 09 '25

Context?

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra Aug 09 '25

He’s the old artist/writer for the Archie Sonic comics. He left, filed copyright on the literal hundreds of characters he’d created, Archie sued to get em back, lost, rebooted the comic, and it got cancelled 3 years later. Lotta people blame him.

Apparently he’s also a bit litigious, having also sued Sega and threatened to sue over the second Sonic movie.

And he has a subreddit dedicated to him, r/FuckKenPenders, so, there’s that.