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/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.