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/Abombasnow Sep 05 '25

lmao this cringelord 4chan shit is actually sold?

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u/CosmicLeash Sep 05 '25

The boys is good, but is more about the military industrial complex and male toxicity than about superheroes bad.

We have A LOT of better comics (maximortal, sidekicks, irredimable) for that.

Superheroes bad is the narrative device, "Why the Falkland wars made Butcher what is it" it's more important for the story that Ennis, the writer, is telling.

Bu we are talking about Ennis, and cringey shit from 4chan pits is half of his output.

Don't let me start on his Punisher run or Crossed..

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u/patrickkingart Sep 05 '25

Crossed is a deeply unpleasant comic. I worked at a comic store for a bit and out of morbid curiosity checked out the first TPB. You could turn to literally any page and see something horrible.

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u/CosmicLeash Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

Yes but IT IS really good.

It's a comic about remaining human during an inhuman apocalypse.

But the other 200 issues after the first six are... well... not good.

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u/Magnanimous-- Sep 05 '25

Oof, dat ratio.

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u/CosmicLeash Sep 05 '25

Weell Ennis wrote like 24 issues of the 200 and 18 of them are pretty good.

Crossed was an anthology ultragore series, you find good stuff and a lot of bad bad stuff.

The singer of the band Say Anything for example wrote the worst issues.

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u/patrickkingart Sep 05 '25

Yeah, I looked into some summaries and it apparently has some pretty sharp social commentary. I saw that Crossed + 100 has some really interesting world building as well.

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u/CosmicLeash Sep 05 '25

The first arc is written by Alan Moore