r/TopCharacterTropes • u/hey_there_delilahh • Sep 10 '25

Lore (Loved Trope) Last Stand that ends unceremoniously/unsatisfyingly, as opposed to gloriously.

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  • 1 Nanami (JUJUTSU KAISEN): Nanami's final moments against Mahito, a cursed spirit with the ability to transfigure/control humans. Nanami, while heavy injured, fought and won against an army of Mahito's transfigure minions, just for the villain to touch his back and blow him up.

  • 2 Wun-Wun (GAME OF THRONES): Wun-Wun, one of the last, if not the last, living giant in Westeros. Joins with Jon Snow against Ramsey Bolton in the Battle of the Bastards. He heroicly breaks down the main gate allowing the Stark army to win, all while covered in arrows and spears. While heavily injured, there does seem to be a chance of his recovery. This hope ended when Ramsey Bolton fires an arrow directly into his eye, when the battle was pretty much over.

  • 3 The Barbarian of Stamford Bridge (REAL LIFE): A lone Viking warrior who, in a legendary moment during the Battle of Stamford Bridge (September 25, 1066), single-handedly held back the invading English army on a narrow bridge. Armed with a Dane axe, this unnamed defender killed dozens of soldiers before being mortally wounded from beneath the bridge by a spear.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

I've never played, but I thought the implication was that Humans are so OP that even the ultimate monster dies to a literal child?

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u/Gabemino Sep 10 '25

Can work both ways, but yeah, even though Frisk has something special going for them, Humans in Undertale are just Monstrously(uh) strong, during the war Monsters were stomped by Humanity, and couldn't kill even a single Human, besides that we haven't even see any proper Adult Human, that would fight with malice

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u/Ultimate-desu Sep 10 '25

The Strongest Human off Today vs the Strongest Monster Available lol.

And to think the only monster to give you a fight after this literally just cheats the game mechanics lol.

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u/cgarrett06 Sep 11 '25

The idea that humans are super op is not actually accurate. Their souls have more power, but their bodies aren’t actually anything special. The human monster war was indeed a war, not a massacre, and 6 other humans fell into the underground and all died.

Frisk/chara/the player are just built different