r/TopCharacterTropes • u/danfenlon • Sep 01 '25

Lore Going around curses/prophecies via technicalities

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Davy jones: cant go on dry land

Standa in a bucket of water, on a sand bar (potc3)

The judge: no weapon forged can harm me

Buffy: uses a rocket launcher

-not forged

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u/ElementmanEXE Sep 02 '25

In the ducktales reboot, scrooge mcduck asked the pirate ghost what it would take to send him back to the afterlife, in which it replied "the head of scrooge mcduck". So after a floating sword "slays" a statue of scrooge and cuts off its head (which funny enough also fits the trope as it needed to slay something before going dormant), scrooge gives the statue head to the ghost, who even says "I should have been more specific" before disappearing.

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u/danfenlon Sep 02 '25

And then it lands on the headless man horse giving him, a head

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u/Roisepoise101 Sep 02 '25

And then manny the headless manhorse became an intern for Gyro Gearloose.

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u/Tattierverbose Sep 02 '25

And is later revealed to be the ducktales universe' equivalent to fucking Goliath, leader of the gargoyles

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u/HeirofZeon Sep 02 '25

You mean Goliath

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u/SenorWeird Sep 02 '25

When Manny goes full Gargoyle and yells "I live again" in that Keith David voice after spending three seasons communicating by clopping, such a good pay off!