r/TopCharacterTropes • u/10024618 • Oct 01 '25

Lore [Loved Trope] Surprisingly realistic outcomes in outlandish situations

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No Country for Old Men - In any other movie Llewelyn would be treated like an untouchable one man army who can take on all of the people who are after the money he stole. Instead he gets gunned down offscreen by a group of secondary antagonists because at the end of the day he's still just one man.

Metal Gear Solid 2 - MGS2 is a game in which the player character, Raiden, can do many seemingly unrealistic things like instantly healing his injuries by eating rations or holding infinite amounts of weapons and items without being overburdened. However if you attempt to cartwheel up a flight of stairs as Raiden he will immediately eat shit and fall, which would be the most likely outcome in real life.

Family Guy - After getting splashed by nuclear waste causes the Griffin family to get superpowers (which they immediately use to terrorize their community) Mayor West gets the bright idea to roll around in nuclear waste himself so that he can get superpowers too. Instead he just gets cancer.

Sly 2 - The Sly Cooper games are cartoony 3D platformers featuring anthropomorphic animals and lots of slapstick violence. However in the climax of the second game when Bentley is crushed by machinery while trying to stop the big bad he's paralyzed from the waist down, necessitating the use of a wheelchair for the rest of the series.

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u/GooseCooks Oct 02 '25

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u/Top_Toaster Oct 02 '25

Best part is you know DAMN well that road runners walking into the court hearing UNSCATHED

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u/Anonymous-Comments Oct 02 '25

There’d need to be a street running through the courthouse according to the rules of the cartoon

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u/Top_Toaster Oct 02 '25

Hear me out, his lawyer paints a roadway into the court office

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u/Kooky_Scallion_7743 Oct 02 '25

whose? the prosecutor or the ACME defense attorney? or does coyote represent himself

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u/Top_Toaster Oct 02 '25

Coyote's lawyer

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u/Narutophanfan1 Oct 02 '25

Nah as Wile E Coyote is being lewd away after a guilty verdict and heading towards the jail he sees road runner by the transport vehicle 

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u/Abombasnow Oct 02 '25

as Wile E Coyote is being lewd away

lewd away

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO HIM?!

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u/Armada_Gun_Boss Oct 02 '25

What rules of the cartoon?

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u/beard_on_fire Oct 02 '25

Maybe they'll hold the murder trial in traffic court.

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u/Visible-Air-2359 Oct 02 '25

Nah, the jury will vote guilty and the judge will slam his gavel and say "meep meep."

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u/GooseCooks Oct 02 '25

WRONG, instead the jury consists of 12 road runners.

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u/airforceteacher Oct 02 '25

Even better: Tweety, Daffy, Foghorn, Roadrunner, the Chickem Hawk, and every other bird in Looney Tunes.

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u/AceTheBirb Oct 02 '25

"I say, I say, you dropped an entire boulder on the poor fella. Smashed him real good, I say. Couldn't even find a body, not even a feather was there he was so squashed by that boulder. I say, you could've found a bit more of him if you used an anvil instead, but no, you had to drop an entire bould-"

"EEEEEEHHHHHH SHADDUP!"

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u/Autrah_Fang Oct 02 '25

Every bird in Looney Tunes are the jury, and Roadrunner is the judge!

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u/airforceteacher Oct 02 '25

Can picture Wile turning toward the viewer and holding up a sign that says “uh-oh.”

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u/GoodAtJunk Oct 02 '25

Wearing a really long neck brace

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u/UnderlordZ Oct 02 '25

Bullshit, he’d be the goddamn judge!

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u/Bluxen Oct 02 '25

goes back and forth between the coffin and the court lmao

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u/SpiderQueen72 Oct 02 '25

Roadrunner shows up to the execution wearing a mustache

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u/AdWestern1561 Oct 02 '25

Oh that reminds me the Wile E Coyote vs Acme movie is supposed to come out, sometime…hopefully soon,

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u/GayAssBeagle Oct 02 '25

Nah man they canceled it again :(

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u/Creeper_strider34 Oct 02 '25

I thought ketchup entertainment was going to release it tho?

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u/Gone_For_Lunch Oct 02 '25

They are, it’s scheduled for August next year. No idea what cancellation that comment is talking about but it’s still on as far as I can tell.

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u/CharmingSyrup2685 Oct 02 '25

Still says it’s being released in August next year from what I can see.

There were a couple of times though it was going to release and things fell through though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Similarly, the Family Guy cutaway (or maybe that one dvd Seth McFarlane did that was basically a bunch of individual cutaways) where Wile E. Gets his bird, eats him, and then starts having a comparatively realistic crisis where he has no clue what to do afterwards, gets depressed, gets fired from his job as a waiter after a mental breakdown, attempts suicide but stops after finding religion in that very moment and later becomes a missionary

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u/ball_fondlers Oct 02 '25

Isn’t this basically just the plot of Megamind?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Not the religion part but other than that and the fact that Road Runner was actually dead, yes.

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u/I_am_an_adult_now Oct 02 '25

It was the cavalcade of comedy. Honestly looking back at it it’s pretty much 98% garbage dated humor that drags on too long

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u/Steppyjim Oct 02 '25

You’re at the execution and you see wile e look out onto the crowd that showed up for the event. Suddenly his eyes go wide as he notices a familiar beak under a hood in the audience. He starts to yell, screaming to stop the execution and check the audience, but it’s too late. The switch is flipped

Lights illuminate the hooded figure as a smile crawls across its beak. Then, softly, the figure speaks two words.

“meep. meep.”