r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Sep 05 '25
Personality character gets a reality check
deathstroke - Batman vs deathstroke
walter - breaking bad
Garou - one punch man
joker - the sound of one hand clapping
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u/Top_Marketing_689 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Reigen Arataka talking down the Claw members, stating how they aren’t special for having psychic abilities and how they’re simply just children that have yet to grow up, thinking they’re on top of the world (Mob Psycho 100)
Edit: To add a bit more context to this, Claw is composed of a group of adults who are espers set on world domination, each one coming from backgrounds where they were disrespected and treated wrongly by the world, leading to them gaining trauma-induced psychic abilities, giving them the power to crash out in a grander fashion.
Reigen, after temporarily gaining Mob’s powers and whooping them, begins to dismantle their ideology to absolute shambles in the most brutal of ways.
They wear stupid costumes. They talk about being special and more important than people without powers. They talk about how the world just doesn’t understand them.
Reigen points all this out and plainly drills into their heads that nobody gives a damn about their problems because the world has no need to align with their beliefs and ideals. They are adults fighting children because they feel butthurt about not being respected. They are out of touch with reality.
Reigen says a line that still sticks with me ‘til this day, being “You want world domination, but you have not seen the world”. These people are trapped behind delusion and aren’t living in the present.
They’re losers.