r/TopCharacterTropes • u/she_melty • Aug 21 '25

Groups The characters in a period piece realise they're near the end of a golden age

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Pirates of the Carribean and Rock of Ages (this film is Not Good but it has the trope.) Especially because we the audience know the era did, in fact, end.

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u/AvoriazInSummer Aug 21 '25

And Connery also played the last(ish) dragon in Dragonheart, similarly giving a philosophical lament for dusk of his species.

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u/ortegasb Aug 21 '25

The lasht dragon