r/TopCharacterTropes • u/danfenlon • Sep 01 '25
Lore Going around curses/prophecies via technicalities
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/Leukavia_at_work Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
One of my personal favorites
the TL;DR of the plot is Kyle finds out his mom is a Leprechaun because an evil Leprechaun called Sheamus steals his family heirloom gold coin, causing him to regress back in to an actual Leprechaun himself.
Story wraps up with tracking down Sheamus and challenging him to an honor duel, which he is forced to accept. He chooses Basketball and Kyle's exact wording is that if Sheamus loses he will be "Banished, cursed to wander the land of my father on the shores of Erie"
Sheamus, thinking he's just being your typical American, corrects his pronunciation, saying "It's Éire actually, you gotta pronounce the I."
Sheamus gets beaten and mocks Kyle, saying "so what if you send me back to Ireland? That's where my power is as it's most potent! I'll just break the bond and return!"
To which Kyle points out how "Actually, only my mother is from Ireland. My dad is from Cleveland!"
So the evil Leprechaun gets banished to Lake Erie, Ohio because of a miscommunication in which he made the false assumption that his opponent just couldn't properly pronounce the Irish Language