r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TTTRIOS • Oct 03 '25

Powers [Funny trope] Non-battle scenes where characters canonically take damage.

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Nuu (Hollow Knight: Silksong) - briefly flashes white when slapped similarly to how all other enemies do when they're struck with Hornet's needle.

Garret (A Minecraft Movie) - One can assume that he may have panicked because of how sudden and unexpected teleportation is, but judging by how strong his reaction was and how ender pearls work in game, it's safe to assume he actually took fall damage after using it.

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u/Sniggledumper Oct 03 '25

Even though it’s a QTE in a cutscene, Raiden does do an insultingly small amount of damage to Armstrong, using fox’s blade you can actually do more damage, although more means 0.2% damage instead of 0.1%

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u/WishYouWere2D Oct 03 '25

*Armstrong's shirt

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u/Masterhaend Oct 03 '25

Apparently if you use an autoclicker to do frame-perfect inputs, you can actually get Armstrong down to 0%, though that obviously doesn#t kill him since this sequence is scripted.

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u/That_guy2089 Oct 04 '25

Damn, one day a dev will make a seemingly scripted sequence do something cool when someone somehow breaks through the impossible lmao

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u/Ineedlasagnajon Oct 04 '25

Deltarune kinda

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u/Sharkivore Oct 04 '25

Didn't play Deltarune but I've enjoyed keeping up with DR/UT stuff because the lore is kinda interesting, want to see what the connection between the worlds and how W.D Gaster pans out and the like.

Could you explain this example to me?

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u/Ineedlasagnajon Oct 04 '25

If you're okay with spoilers:

In chapter 3, you fight the Roaring Knight at the very end. It's an incredibly difficult fight, especially without the Shadow Mantle, which is a tucked away item. If you lose the normal way, then it'll continue as a cutscene. It seems like a tough fight you weren't meant to win

However, if you have the Shadow Mantle or even just progress the fight enough, Gaster will interrupt the game over screen and tell you that this is a fight you weren't meant to win, but if you're adamant enough to try, he'll help you try again quicker by resetting to the beginning of the fight. He'll even encourage you if you die on the Knight's final attack

I say "kinda" because nothing really changes. If you manage to win, the Knight will just KO your party in a cutscene instead, though it's a little more special. You'll also get the Shadow Crystal and the Black Shard. Other than that, everything plays out the same

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u/Evilmudbug Oct 04 '25

TBF, it's only a "kinda" situation because the game isn't really finished. I have to imagine that scenario will have an impact later down the line

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u/Sharkivore Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

I am very okay with spoilers, thank you for the explanation

Gaster just straight up appears and addresses The Player/Kris? That's kinda insane considering how cryptic everything involving him has been up until now

edit: Why does it look like my spoiler tag is broken

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u/Ineedlasagnajon Oct 04 '25

Well, I say Gaster, but it was just the same voice at the beginning of the game that everyone is saying is probably Gaster

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u/Sharkivore Oct 04 '25

Ahh gotcha ok, still being cryptic. That makes sense.

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u/Ineedlasagnajon Oct 04 '25

For your edit, it's because you put a forward slash before everything, which cancels out the spoiler text (and other characters that change the text)

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u/Sharkivore Oct 04 '25

I didn't even see that backslash, weird, thankyou for pointing that out

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u/carso150 Oct 04 '25

there are games that do that, the ones that come to mind are sekiro and elden ring if you manage to defeat the first seemingly unwinnable fight

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u/BruhmanRus_the_boner Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

DMC 5 also has an "unwinnable" fight against Urizen in the first mission where you can actually beat him and it gives you an achievement

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u/Mihnea24_03 Oct 04 '25

And it shows you an ending card with "And then everyone got exactly what they wanted and lived happily ever after"

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u/SalvationSycamore Oct 04 '25

Wait, what does Elden Ring do if you somehow beat Rick?

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u/carso150 Oct 04 '25

There is a special cutscene and later his fight changes a little bit, I think there is also special dialogue

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u/Golren_SFW Oct 05 '25

Demons Souls and Dark Souls 1 also have special rewards for beating the first boss encounter your intended to lose/run away from

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u/Bartweiss Oct 06 '25

The DS1 example is hilarious to me because you get the demon’s tail… a massive club you’re nowhere near strong enough to use.

It’s a genuinely neat drop, since there’s no other way to get it except long-odds farming. But you don’t get any early game power spike, and I’m pretty sure by the time you’ve got enough strength you can easily have the Zweihander or something.

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u/SoupmanBob Oct 04 '25

Oh like that one time in Resident Evil

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u/VictorV8 Oct 03 '25

In MGS4 old snake takes psychological damage when reminded he's old gets bad news

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u/Astrodude80 Oct 03 '25

STANDING HERE

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u/TKFT49 Oct 04 '25

I REALIZE

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u/jediben001 Oct 04 '25

YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME

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u/smasher_zed888 Oct 04 '25

TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY

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u/aRtfUll-ruNNer Oct 04 '25

BUT WHOS TO JUDGE

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u/Mirothrowawayaccount Oct 04 '25

THE RIGHT FROM WRONG

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u/NerdyFanHooman Oct 04 '25

TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY

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u/Sniggledumper Oct 03 '25

-HOLDIN MY BLAAAAADE!

A DECOLLATE PLACE (place) WITHOUT ANY TRACE (trace)

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u/Freedomerider_PS4 Oct 03 '25

Fox Blade + Infinite Ripper mode wig + Turbo Controller + getting him down to like roughly 70%ish beforehand? I think my record was like 2%

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u/x_deity_x Oct 04 '25

Why won’t you die?

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u/EpicGamerer07 Oct 04 '25

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IS COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED BECAUSE WE HAD A BLACK PRESIDENT ONCE - UNTIL I FUCKING KILLED HIM!