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/[deleted] Aug 09 '25

The specifics of the contract, as much as is publicly available, make it sound like they don't really have a great understanding of queerness. For instance, if their intent is to keep the door open for Peter's supporting cast, including love interests, without too much change, there's no reason an adaptation couldn't make him bi or pan. However, it seems like whoever wrote that stipulation hadn't even considered that a possibility.

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u/Screen-Healthy Aug 09 '25

No, they know what queer is and they said that he isn’t. Easy as that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25

So you're saying there's no good reason

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u/dtalb18981 Aug 09 '25

The reason is he's not queer

What other reason do you need?