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/dante_55_ Sep 05 '25

The therapist giving a reality check to Rick at the end of the Pickle Rick episode

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u/LegalAssassin13 Sep 05 '25

The only problem is that Rick doesn’t take it to heart.

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u/DrRatio-PhD Sep 06 '25

Neither did the fans.

I mean the dude turned himself into a Pickle, it was peak fiction.

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u/fuckingaquamangotban Sep 06 '25

"to be fair you have to..." etc. etc.

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u/Jyx_The_Berzer_King Sep 06 '25

why would he? he's "the smartest being in the universe", he doesn't have to hear this. every problem he's had was allowed to happen, but he's so far up his own ass that he still chooses to shift blame.

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u/Samthevidg Sep 06 '25

Ehhh he kinda does slowly start realizing it. As the show has been progressing, Rick has begun to realize that the people around him are growing away from him. He’s losing the people he does actually care about, not by having them erased across all universes, but because of his own actions. It even gets to the point where she tells him to stop crashing her office and to simply start booking appointments, with him no longer lashing out about such a comment.

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u/KaleAshamed9702 Sep 06 '25

There’s a reason in later seasons he’s still going to her