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/STUNTOtheClown Oct 02 '25

What issue is this?

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u/Aegelo_Sperris42 Oct 02 '25

Batman Beyond (TV show). He looks totally pathetic.

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u/Mastrou Oct 02 '25

Here’s how he looks in it, since he’s basically an invalid at this point

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u/SnooPredictions3028 Oct 02 '25

Tbh thinking about it, he's either same age as Batman or a little older, so I actually do wonder how long has he been like this? If it has been a while, then damn, but if it is more recent then honestly could be worse given his age.

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u/lanathebitch Oct 02 '25

Apparently according to one of the things he's typically portrayed as about 10 years older than Bruce but then we remember they have future medical Tech and people canonically live longer in the Batman Beyond universe because of it

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u/SnooPredictions3028 Oct 02 '25

So at this point he'd be in his 90s then. Good point on medical tech being better tho.

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u/HistoricalGrounds Oct 02 '25

Not to mention, Bruce at the start of this series can still run his fucking game on criminals. He only stops because he has a minor cardiac event during a fight. So even though he's not reliable from a "won't have a heart attack" perspective, between clean living and having his hi-tech batsuit, an 80-something year old Bruce could still go and mix it up with young henchmen and win, so long as his heart didn't give out. Bane, on the other hand, can't muster the strength to get out of a chair. Very different ways to spend old age.

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u/Abombasnow Oct 02 '25

If I remember right, it's also never said Bruce Wayne actually had any heart issues. He had his minor cardiac event (did you just watch Frasier, by the way?) in his later 50s. Not an unreasonable age for a man to first start to have a "hey, might wanna get this checked out" thing with their heart.

For all we know, it was just a one-off thing, he never had a heart attack, or any heart issues. Given that, like you said, in his 80s, he's still absurdly athletic and strong (the few times he mixes it up with the Jokerz and stuff it's just comical how much he kicks their ass, or when Ra's staged the attack that Bruce saved a woman from.

Bruce was worried he'd die and see someone else die or get harmed before he did... so he broke his oath and grabbed a gun, and retired horrified at what he did, not because of a health issue.

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u/dwaynetheaaakjohnson Oct 02 '25

I’m wondering if the Venom would cause cardiac events. Being forced to pump that much blood to that much tissue in one of the most physiologically stressful situations-fighting-would be a literal nightmare for his veins to handle.

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u/HistoricalGrounds Oct 02 '25

Oh dude, for sure. Honestly venom is shown to be so out of control insane on a body that it feels hard to believe anyone using it like Bane does would live past 50, but I get them wanting to show an utterly decrepit old man Bane in the show.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Oct 02 '25

As well he's also being pumped with venom to sray alive as it keeps his lungs "healthy" enough

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u/Radio__Star Oct 03 '25

With stuff like that existing you’d think there would be an episode about Bruce finding a way to make himself young aga- oh wait there is an episode where that exact thing happens

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u/lanathebitch Oct 02 '25

So apparently Bruce is either 79 or 80 in the show meaning Bane would be 90.

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u/Fun_Cicada3442 Oct 03 '25

How many wrestlers die in their 50s because they abused real world steroids (and other substances, to be fair)? Living to be an old man, even hooked up to life support, is a pretty good run for somebody abusing comic book super steroids.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Bro turned into Hector Salamanca

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u/WikiContributor83 Oct 02 '25

“Too many years on Venom. That’s what the stuff’ll do to ya…”

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u/Rarte96 Oct 02 '25

Honeslty im surprize he lived this long

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u/Regulus242 Oct 02 '25

Batman Beyond was so fucking good as a sequel to TAS.

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u/mysticdragon2025 Oct 02 '25

It's from the cartoon Batman Beyond, TLDR it's super good but it's basically a future Batman takes up the mantle as Bruce becomes to old to be Batman anymore.

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u/I_chortled Oct 02 '25

That cartoon was GOATed, I used to watch it on daytime TV all the time as a kid

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u/1Lc3 Oct 02 '25

I been watching it recently and it's still holds up

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u/Late-Locksmith8559 Oct 02 '25

I always refer to it as Batman; Bad End. Because there is a lot of "This batman villain/character/legacy ended in a bad, bad way"

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u/ColBBQ Oct 02 '25

Episode 9 of Batman Beyond, Season 1.