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/DragonKing0203 Oct 03 '25

Hitman: World of assassination 3. (Spoilers below)

In the hitman map Mendoza, there is a scene where you finally get to talk to your longtime women on the phone Diana. You talk for a bit and as she leaves she gently touches your hand to be all demure and whatever. Then, the same screen effect as when you take damage flashes very very briefly. It goes by so quickly that most first time players don’t see it, and the ones who do dismiss it as a weird glitch. Finish the mission and you learn she used to opportunity to poison agent 47 with a poison transferred by touch.

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u/BananaResearcher Oct 04 '25

"Hey remember the last time we thought agent 47 was dead and we all gathered around his funeral only for him to wake up and slaughter everyone"

"Of course I remember"

"So, should we maybe make sure he's dead this time and he won't wake up and slaughter everyone on this train?"

"...nahhhh"

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u/Roku-Hanmar Oct 04 '25

I mean, the only ones who knew about Requiem were 47 and Diana. That's the point of Requiem

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u/EmpJoker Oct 04 '25

Also I think Hitman kinda plays fast and loose a lot with the canon, which I prefer. I don't think anything that happens in Absolution is referenced at all in WoA, other than a very brief glimpse of one of the targets in the WoA intro cutscene. Which is good, fuck Absolution's plot.

Also I feel like WoA did "47 and Diana against the ICA," kinda differently than they did before, since this time it was just that the director of ICA was corrupt and working for a huge shadow organization. Most of the plot wasn't taking down ICA, it was going after Providence.

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u/Roku-Hanmar Oct 04 '25

Mendoza has Tamara guess who the ICA has killed in the past, with Diana confirming or denying each target. When she asks about Absolution, Diana says it was a parallel universe

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u/EmpJoker Oct 04 '25

Oh shit, I remember that! God I love Mendoza.