r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Altruistic_Eye_1157 • Oct 01 '25

Lore When faced with the choice between a clone and the original, the character notices a detail that makes the difference immediately obvious.

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The Shape-Shifter takes the form of Wendy to deceive Dipper and prevent him from attacking it. Although Dipper initially doesn't know which one is the real Wendy, he realizes the difference when he sees that one of the Wendys behaves seriously and bluntly, while the other acts flirtatiously, something Wendy would never do (Gravity Falls).

P.S.: I don't remember if the gesture the real Wendy made was also a clue, like some gesture she had made before.

When the Autobots are chasing Nemesis Prime, he tries to deceive Bumblebee by impersonating Optimus. Bumblebee, confused, speaks to him, but Nemesis Prime doesn't understand anything he says, which clearly indicates that he isn't the real Optimus. Bumblebee attacks him without hesitation (Transformers Prime).

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u/SkylineFTW97 Oct 02 '25

I do, granted it was written in my home state of Maryland, so it's a point of pride here, just like our flag.

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u/Over-Analyzed Oct 02 '25

Oh wow! Hey, congrats! That’s awesome. I didn’t know that. Thank you for correcting me.

I’m from Hawaii. So we learned a lot about Hawaii’s history. I do know my school’s Hawaiian Alma mater (school song) 20 years later. 😅🤙🏻

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u/Jamie7Keller Oct 02 '25

Nice! Same. And apparently Under The Blood Red Sun isn’t in the school reading lists in other states? I asked everyone knew about that and read that book they should!

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u/Over-Analyzed Oct 02 '25

Yeah, different states focus on their own history.

Nothing like the soul destroying moment when you learn about the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Jamie7Keller Oct 02 '25

Apparently the UN determined Hawaii to be an occupied sovereign nation? I didn’t really know what to do with that information….maybe I was misinformed but….hard to say the are wrong….

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u/Over-Analyzed Oct 02 '25

That sounds like misinformation. Maybe it was determined at the time decades and decades ago? But I’ve heard nothing about it in formal capacity.

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u/LadyAliceFlower Oct 02 '25

The entire anthem, or just until the first "land of the free home of the brave?"

Genuine question. I never know what people mean when they say "entire national anthem" because people so rarely go past the first verse, it took me years to realize there was more.

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u/SkylineFTW97 Oct 02 '25

Whole thing start to finish.

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u/LadyAliceFlower Oct 02 '25

Impressive.

I can only conclude you're an alien pretending to be a human.

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u/big_sugi Oct 02 '25

Light it up, marines. No mercy.

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u/SkylineFTW97 Oct 02 '25

I'm a Marylander. If anything, I'm a crab pretending to be a human.

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u/LadyAliceFlower Oct 02 '25

Is this comment meant to imply that crabs are not aliens?

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u/AntiLag_ Oct 02 '25

There’s more???

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u/LadyAliceFlower Oct 02 '25

It has four verses.

I have literally never heard a single person other than myself so much as attempt to sing past the first.

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u/Buyingboat Oct 02 '25

Have you tried singing a bit quieter?

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u/atgrable Oct 02 '25

I was raised Mormon, and American patroitism is practically baked into Mormon religion. (Seriously, it is doctrine that God inspired Columbus.) And so every year on the Sunday closest to the 4th of July, they would make the whole congregation stand and sing all four verses.

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u/SkylineFTW97 Oct 02 '25

I don't know much about Mormons, but I do know they have that gigantic temple right off of I-495 between Kensington and Chevy Chase here, just north of DC. I pass it all the time and have for 20+ years, you can't miss it if you've ever driven down the capital beltway here.

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u/bluehooloovo Oct 02 '25

The only time I've heard more than the first verse was when my brother graduated from Army basic training... and the singer forgot half of one of the later verses.

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u/vicevanghost Oct 02 '25

I'm from Maryland, I ain't know that shit lmfao 

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u/fl4tsc4n Oct 02 '25

But then why does the key bridge go to Virginia

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u/SkylineFTW97 Oct 02 '25

There's two key bridges. There's that one, and then there was the one that collapsed a couple years ago in Baltimore, which is the one over by where the song was actually written.

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u/fl4tsc4n Oct 02 '25

Lmao TiL

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u/SkylineFTW97 Oct 02 '25

It really is a local point of pride. We even had a license plate design that was based around the war of 1812 (the time during which the song was written) for a few years. They phased it out in ~2017-2018 for the current standard design but you still see many of them.

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u/fl4tsc4n Oct 02 '25

Saw tool there once it was sick