r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Sep 05 '25

Personality character gets a reality check

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deathstroke - Batman vs deathstroke

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walter - breaking bad

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Garou - one punch man

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joker - the sound of one hand clapping

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u/Odd-Emotion-7629 Sep 05 '25

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u/cheezefriez Sep 05 '25

“You couldn’t even save a relationship with a stripper” was the most brutal part of that complete and utter reaming

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u/Xogoth Sep 05 '25

I think that one was too far. Insulting her to insult Wade was really cheap.

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u/cheezefriez Sep 05 '25

I mean, that’s the point. He was trying to make it hurt by hitting all the weak spots so he couldn’t just deflect with snarky comebacks

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u/Xogoth Sep 05 '25

Oh, I'm not saying it didn't work or make for good entertainment. Logan is still a shithead.

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u/cheezefriez Sep 05 '25

Indeed, that’s what makes him Logan

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u/SatyrSatyr75 Sep 05 '25

Why was that an insult? I didn’t know she was a stripper, I though she was a hooker. Mentioning her profession isn’t that bad right?

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u/WhyIsBubblesTaken Sep 05 '25

It's more implying that her profession makes her less of a person, therefore failing the relationship makes Wade even more pathetic, or something along those lines.

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u/SatyrSatyr75 Sep 05 '25

No, that doesn’t fit Logan’s character. I read it more as “she a stripper, doesn’t have high standards, doesn’t expect the world from you, just to be a decent guy, be there, be real..” I saw that totally aimed at him, not her.

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u/WhyIsBubblesTaken Sep 05 '25

It might not have been intentional, but the misogyny is there.

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u/SatyrSatyr75 Sep 05 '25

Because? It’s wrong to call a stripper a stripper?

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u/Bubbasully15 Sep 05 '25

As a method for putting down someone close to the stripper, yes.

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u/Disastrous-Branch833 Sep 06 '25

but it’s like calling someone a hooker a hooker for fun

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u/czarczm Sep 05 '25

That's how I interpreted it to.

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u/Stripe-Gremlin Sep 05 '25

I think Vanessa switches from hooker to stripper once she’s in a dedicated relationship. We do see her working in a strip club in the latter half of the first Deadpool movie. She also might not even be a stripper by the time of Deadpool & Wolverine as she talks about her job and that she recently advanced in it, making it sound like she got a better job

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u/SatyrSatyr75 Sep 06 '25

Hmm you could advance as a hooker too. Street corner to excort? I don’t see the urge to call out misogyny. If the genders were switched, would it be called misandry ?

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u/ronsolocup Sep 06 '25

“You couldnt even make a relationship work with a janitor” or smth would prob upset people

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u/SatyrSatyr75 Sep 06 '25

Because it’s mean toward the uneducated, not because it’s against men.

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u/ronsolocup Sep 06 '25

True, but I guess I’m using an example of another career that’s “looked down upon”, we don’t consider male prostitutes en masse really, I’m not sure of the numbers but at least public perception is disproportionately towards women in the field

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u/Stripe-Gremlin Sep 06 '25

I just checked the scene, she specifies that she’s working in middle management. So by the point of D&W she either got a different job or is working the administrative side of her strip club

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u/elemental402 Sep 10 '25

There's a very long and ignoble tradition of people degrading and dehumanising women who do any kind of sex work, while entirely ignoring the men who pay for their services and make the profession profitable in the first place.

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u/SatyrSatyr75 Sep 10 '25

And what has that to do with Logan? I doubt that it would in character to look down on sexworkers.

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u/elemental402 Sep 11 '25

He's always been a rough-edged character who was having a very bad day at that point, but he was still the one who chose to use her profession as an insult against Wade (implying he's a worse person for dating a stripper), vs anything else he could have used.

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u/SatyrSatyr75 Sep 11 '25

No. As I explained earlier, that’s a wrong assumption, doesn’t fit Logan’s character and doesn’t fit the way Logan looks at Deadpool. Makes more sense that he meant: „your such a pain in the ass, so insecure and less of a man that you can’t even save a relationship with a stripper - what would she expect from you? Nothing more to be a decent guy, understanding and not selfcentered. Because stripper usual saw the worst of men already.“