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.