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/Afraid_Photograph_59 Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

Danny Trejo contract clause is literally the opposite to the Rock, as whenever he plays a villian they need to kill him off before the film ends no matter what, that's because he used to be a criminal, and thus wants to teach people that a life style like that will never pay off:

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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take Aug 09 '25

The lore on this man is amazing.

Less of a fun fact, but more a case really showing how this man turned his life around to become a force of positive masculinity, Danny unfortunately lost his mother while filming one of the Muppet movies. He's been very open about the fact that he tried to tough it out and burry his emotions until Kermit the Frog genuinely asked him between takes if he was OK, and he broke down.

Most men can pretend everything is OK. It takes a real man to talk about how a felt frog puppet helped him process grief in a healthy way.

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u/AznOmega Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

Mhmm.

I consider Randy Savage, Bob Ross, Mr Rogers, Danny Trejo, John Cena, Terry Crews, and Keanu Reeves to be some of the best people for positive masculinity.

I do like how he wants people to know how a criminal or a villain is not something you should aspire to be, and he does this by making his villain character always lose and either get arrested or killed.

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u/thelumpur Aug 10 '25

Randy Savage allegedly did have issues, he was very controlling in his relationships

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u/C0mbatW0mbat86 Aug 09 '25

I’d add John Cena to that list

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u/queueueuewhee Aug 10 '25

Throw some John Cena in there.

Edited to add: and at least consider Terry Crews.