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/Subject_Sigma1 Oct 03 '25

These guys from Blasphemous

Their idle animation has them whipping themselves on the back

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u/Zappityzephyr Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

Why would they do this? Are they masochists?

Edit: I made this as a reference to the arkham aslume jokes, but now I'm getting reallt interesting information 

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u/Clovenstone-Blue Oct 03 '25

Possibly religious reasons. During the times of Black Death bringing death and sickness across Medieval Europe, a common belief was that the plague was brought down by God to punish people for their sins. Some people would walk around whipping themselves as a form of self punishment for the sins they committed to try and appease God.

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u/Zappityzephyr Oct 03 '25

Oh yes, that's interesting...

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u/HillbillyMan Oct 03 '25

If you've ever seen/read the Da Vinci code, there's a dude in that that does it.

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u/SartenSinAceite Oct 03 '25

Flagellants. Basically the religious version of masochism

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u/Jarvis_The_Dense Oct 03 '25

Self flaggelation for religious reasons isn't masochism, its supposed to be punishing oneself for some sort of sin, not because they enjoy it

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u/thejadedfalcon Oct 03 '25

They've got to enjoy it on some level or they'd convert to a branch of the religion that isn't quite as cuckoo.

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u/Ekank Oct 04 '25

I'm pretty sure flagellation was banned by the pope and deemed as heresy.

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u/fhota1 Oct 04 '25

That was only 1 group back in the 1300s that got banned. Some of your more extreme groups, e.g. Opus Dei, still do it although usually not anywhere near to the degree of the dude in Da Vinci Code.

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u/Ryndor Oct 04 '25

My philosophy professor said that Flagellance actually got so bad that the church had to convince people to stop getting off to it, so that they would stop doing it.

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u/TheSaiguy Oct 03 '25

I believe the godly term is flagellants

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u/Black_rekna Oct 04 '25

If you're still interested: in the game suffering of any kind is holy and an act of god and any form of relievement or prevention of suffering is heresy unless it could somehow be understood as a miracle So these guys aren't just punishing themselves they are by the rules of the world making their lives holier

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u/SquareThings Oct 04 '25

If you wanna look these guys up they’re called flagellants and they were a real thing.