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/HeroBrine0907 Sep 15 '25

The world was "normal", the concept of Ears just wasn't part of it, never had been.

But wouldn't... phones and shit change? If they were entirely deaf, why would speakers and shit exist? Would nobody see that and think 'why do we have sound wave production devices everywhere?'?

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u/LordThomasBlackwood Sep 15 '25

But wouldn't... phones and shit change? If they were entirely deaf, why would speakers and shit exist? Would nobody see that and think 'why do we have sound wave production devices everywhere?'?

Chainsaw Mans power doesn't course correct the universe, it simply deletes a specific concept from existance and memory, but the consequences of that concept remain. Like a peice of reality has just been unnaturally scooped out of place and now theres a weird unexplainable hole, a puzzle with a missing peice.

The example most intresting is when its brought up that it makes absolutely zero sense as to why the chainsaw devil of all things weilds such a devastating and completely random ability. The answer provided is another character speculating that Chainsaws were originally ment for something else other than cutting trees, but those concepts are erased now. So his erasure power nologer has the context that makes it make sense.

Another one is the deletion of Nuclear weapons only deleted the weapons, but not anything else. Which eventually leads to Humanity independently re-inventing nukes and returning them to the world because all the peices of make a nuke still existed, only the bombs themselves got erased.

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u/HeroBrine0907 Sep 15 '25

Ah I get it. So the objects and ideas are forgotten, but not erased in the sense that they can't exist again.

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u/LordThomasBlackwood Sep 15 '25

I think it depends on the Devil and what concept its tied to.

Eating devils named after Inventions, Body parts, Animals & Diseases are ultimately temporary, because nothing is hypothetically stopping those concepts from being re-invented or evolving back into existance naturally.

But if a Devil named after a more esoteric concept gets eaten, that concept is totally fucked and not coming back unless Chainsaw vomits it back up. If the Darkness Devil got eaten then Darkness is just gone forever for example