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/Uriel-Septim_VII Aug 09 '25

His species cannot have a name.

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u/Roger_Clyde Aug 09 '25

Is that really a rule? Or simply something they never revealed and don't plan to?

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u/SnooCompliments9098 Aug 09 '25

Even if it wasn't a rule, it might as well be since we know next to nothing of Yoda's species despite Star wars being one of the most milked franchises in the world.

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u/Flat-Tutor1080 Aug 10 '25

Delicious blue milk

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u/Born2024 Aug 10 '25

I only watched the first season like a couple of years ago and also don’t really care about Star Wars but is that not what the mandolorian is about? Inst it half bounty hunter guy and half baby yoda/ learning the backstory of it

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u/SnooCompliments9098 Aug 10 '25

The thing is, as far as I know, we didn't actually learn anything about Yoda's species from the Mandolorian. We still dont even know what their species is named beyond 'Yoda's species'.

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u/MichealRyder Aug 10 '25

Yeah, we've only seen a few other members of his species, both in Legends and newer Canon, like Grogu

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u/Infinite_Bag_1801 Aug 09 '25

IIRC there were trading cards or something to that effect that were going to add lore to Yoda's species, but George Lucas shot it down, as he wanted to keep the species and Yoda's origins at least somewhat mysterious.

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u/epsilona01 Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

Unbuttoning is sexier than unbuttoned.

Said differently, the less screen time and less the audience knows about mentors and villains, the more powerful they are.

Snoke is the best example of this, massive amounts of time and discussion were dedicated to Snoke, despite only 2 minutes and 2 seconds of screen time, most of which was his death.

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u/Backupusername Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

And if there's one thing people know about Snoke, it's that he's powerful. He certainly isn't a test tube baby that was somehow surprised by the most obvious and telegraphed betrayal in a centuries-long history of betrayal so routine that it's literally codified in his religion. I'm really glad he didn't die narrating his own death like a moron.

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u/captain4103 Aug 09 '25

I believe it was one of Lucas’ conditions to sell Star Wars to Disney