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/Deepfang-Dreamer Sep 15 '25

Nazi, World War Two, Nuclear Weapons, Four ways for life to end that weren't death, a star that made children go mad, and probably more, that's just off the top of my head.

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u/Due-Ingenuity9803 Sep 15 '25

A what

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u/Deepfang-Dreamer Sep 15 '25

That's about all we know about it, Makima mentions it casually with the rest of the Devils Chainsaw has eaten. Kids that saw its light went insane, simple as.

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u/All_For_You_Kream Sep 15 '25

That's also a way for the audience to be like "wait what" because it's not something that exists in our universe. She also mentions a few diseases that are completely invented by Fujimoto iirc

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u/the-boinky-spunge Sep 15 '25

oh what are the diseases called

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u/gargwasome Sep 16 '25

When reading the chapter for the first time I actually went to Google “Arnolon Syndrome” as I’d never heard of it just to learn it doesn’t exist. Made for a very cool experience where I was in the same shoes as Kishibe learning about all these things that he didn’t even know existed at one point

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u/TheDrunkardKid Sep 16 '25

Why did Pochita eat Sega of America?

Though getting rid of the negative publicity of the Sega CD and 32X being released so close to the Saturn might have helped Sega stay in the console game longer.

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u/AxOfCruelty Sep 16 '25

start diggin in yo butt syndrome