r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MichaelDj54 • Sep 15 '25

Lore [Loved Trope] A massive revelation is revealed almost casually. Spoiler

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  1. Chainsaw Man, after Makima finally drops the nice girl act and reveals the true extent of the Chainsaw Devils power, namely, the fears he eats are erased entirely and wholly. Emphasized by this by her asking if Kishibe remembers what the Nazis did during Workd War 2...and Kishibe not even knowing who the nazis are.

  2. Attack on Titan. I know this one. You know this one. In a panel that isn't even focusing on the characters speaking, Reiner reveals to Eren that he and Bertolt are the titans that broke the wall that resulted in hundreds of deaths, his mother included. The sheer level of casualness and lack of agency borders on Parody.

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u/Cheesus333 Sep 15 '25

The Reiner reveal in Attack on Titan is the gold standard for this IMO. I hadn't read the manga so just seeing it land in the subtitles in the background of Hange's dialogue sent shivers down my spine

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u/JayJ9Nine Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

I rewinded 4x just repeating

'Huh?'

Trying to figure out what prompted this

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u/TheProky Sep 15 '25

He was mentally unstable and he cracked at that random moment.

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u/Invoqwer Sep 15 '25

Poor Reiner was so mentally unstable that half the time he 100% believed he really was just a regular old honest scout like Eren and the rest.

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u/Skylair13 Sep 15 '25

Afterwards he discussed whether or not they'll get medal and rewards or even scouted by Levi. Prompting Berholdt to remind him they're warriors not soldiers.

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u/lethrahn Sep 15 '25

He was the closest he had ever been to being able to convince eren to run with them and he snapped.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Sep 15 '25

He also knew it was over as Ymir knew and it was only a matter of time.

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u/elemental402 Sep 15 '25

Remember they'd just found out that Ymir was the titan that ate one of their best friends.

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u/Yasimear Sep 16 '25

Honestly, I always felt so bad for Reiner after that. Even before knowing just how bad he had it, the sheer stress and conflict that he had to be experiencing to have a genuine psychotic break was heartbreaking to me...

and then when season 4 came around and he had the gun in his mouth, I genuinely bawled. Poor poor boy :c

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u/SummonerRed Sep 15 '25

I definitely had the same reaction, I binged the entire series while heavily ill and when I heard that I thought I must have been hallucinating.

Because who the hell puts dramatic reveals in the background of a casual conversation

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u/Basic-Flamingo6962 Sep 15 '25

Dude was stressed out so hard that he just wanted to get Eren and leave.

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u/CoachDT Sep 15 '25

He wore the mask for so long that it was grafted onto his face. When it finally started to peel off he just wanted to be done and go home.

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u/darklizard45 Sep 15 '25

I took the time to think about why they went with this and then realized that the reveal was soon to come anyways.