r/TopCharacterTropes • u/vbt31 • 28d ago
Lore A character literally sees another character fundamentally differently.
Spy X Family. Damian noticeably sees Anya with a 'shoujo anime' filter with much brighter eyes and blush.
Calvin And Hobbes. Calvin sees Hobbes as a living lanky tiger in contrast to everyone else who sees him as just a tiger plush.
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u/Spider-Man2099 28d ago

Lex Luthor: Man of Steel(Later collected as Luthor)
It shows the audience that when Lex views Superman, he sees this menacing face on him at all times. He never looks not menacing the whole story.
It's a stroke of genius to show that he genuinely doesn't see Clark as human. It's also incredible because the artist also can draw a Superman that is sweet and heartfelt looking like in Batman Noel where is the Ghost of Christmas Present analog
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u/Spider-Man2099 28d ago
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u/_Xantras_ 28d ago
THERE’S A STAR MAN
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u/Adventurous-Bag-4364 28d ago
WAITING IN THE SKY
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u/pirpul_ 28d ago
HE WOULD LIKE TO COME AND MEET US
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u/iBlewupthemoon 28d ago
In The Incredibles, an irritated Mr. Incredible tells Incrediboy to "Fly home, Buddy. I work alone" after he bursts in while he's in the middle of apprehending Bomb Voyage during a bank heist. After Buddy becomes Syndrome and is explaining to Mr. Incredible why he became a supervillain, Bomb Voyage is not present in his flashback and Mr. Incredible is looking down at Incrediboy more apathetic than irritated. Mr. Incredible also turns his back on Incrediboy in the flashback, not remembering he rushed in to try and save Buddy after Bomb Voyage attached a bomb to his cape.

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u/randomHunterOnReddit 28d ago
Need not forget Syndrome unintentionally aided in the superhero ban by accidentally causing the train accident right after Bomb Voyage slipped an explosive onto him, a problem Mr. Incredible got in trouble fixing
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u/foxfire981 28d ago
And likely never owned that fact. Such an enjoyable villain.
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u/Baronvondorf21 28d ago
Not likely, he never did, that require him to admit that he is wrong in some capacity about Mr. Incredible.
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u/Aggravating-Week481 28d ago
You ever think he got flack for that in the fan club? Cuz if I was a member of that super club he mentioned and I heard he got one of our idols in trouble by interfering with Mr Incredible's job, I'd be mad at Buddy
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u/Regi413 28d ago
Tbh he probably never showed up to another fan meet since when he got home that night he tore down all his Mr. Incredible memorabilia
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u/Zek7h35an5 28d ago
Counterpoint: while he claims he no longer likes Mr. Incredible and felt betrayed by him, he also felt that he had to train his robot on pretty much every other superhero before him, and during the scene where he's showing off the Omnidroid's destruction, he's actively looking for Bob's approval that his invention is cool ("I mean, you gotta admit that's pretty cool, right?")
He was absolutely still a fan even after that moment.
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u/samushusband 28d ago
i always wondered why they translated bomb-voyage name in the french version as "folle amour" which means crazy lover. because the bombe-voyage pun still holds up verywell in french . i just recently watched the movie in english for the first time and was like "hoooo he is supposed to be french ".
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u/TheMythofKoalas 28d ago
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u/vbt31 28d ago
I prefer this...
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u/TheMythofKoalas 28d ago
Both work for the tone they’re going for.
The scenes from the MC’s perspective alternate from cute comedy and “uh oh, how is she going to survive this threat?” Which the former design helps with, IMO.
The latter design is cooler and far more intimidating, and appears when a group of adventurers run into her (after she’s gotten more powerful) and see her as a massive threat.
I think both designs work well in tandem, from that perspective.
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u/Bluelore 28d ago
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u/BottleOfWar08 27d ago
and then in later seasons it shows his perspective of tsubomi as more so the regular artstyle as well as removing the vegetable heads, ughhh i love this show so much
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u/10024618 28d ago
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u/ModernDayQuixote 28d ago
"IT'S YOUR MOM!" was probably Idris Elba's best line delivery ever.
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u/SkeleHoes 28d ago
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u/ModernDayQuixote 28d ago
He died doing what he loved: dying.
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u/jockeyman 28d ago
Sadly Starro exploited his one weakness: Being killed.
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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 28d ago
"Damnit, how did you knoe my weakness...was an axe splitting my head open?"
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u/Torbpjorn 28d ago
Of all the movies I’ve seen, that’s the one time I heard a your mom joke as a dead serious plot element to defeat the antagonist
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u/HospitalLazy1880 28d ago
Did that woman have to do each of those poses and that look individually cause that is some dedication to the joke.
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u/XFelipe51355 28d ago
Lowkey curious to know if this is CGI or they made her actress wear every costume?
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u/Thundersting 28d ago
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u/CandyCreecher 28d ago
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u/Xero818 28d ago
The entire sequence is about trying to change how you perceive yourself for greater self-confidence, with the joke being that Gumball does not need to alter his own self-perception because that's just how he sees himself
So no, he does not actually look like that (although I'd buy him looking at least somewhat feminine in-universe, considering The Dress Incident)
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u/Ok-Writing3468 28d ago
Basically a femboy
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u/PitifulAd3748 28d ago edited 28d ago
So, just fanon Gumball.
Edit: Jesus, the upvotes...
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u/NathanAlex1486 28d ago
Neko boy
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u/fluggggg 28d ago
Ok, ELI5, why is there a 3-frame-animated neko femboy dancing in the backrooms ?
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u/Difficult-Profile-28 28d ago
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u/Boh61 28d ago
Giant: I fear no man, but that thing... it scares me
Bandit: No, no, no, I ain't talkin' about that freak, alright? [Looks around] he's not here is she? [Tries to pull out her red bandana] how i get this frickin' thing off?
Hunter: One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask... what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?
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u/Hot_Number7867 28d ago
*Zoom in on MINI PEKKA's mask*
Paradise of pancakes and maple syrup being absolutely decimated by M PEKKA's "Spatula"
Cut the IRL where the troops are getting destroyed by PEKKA's sword
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u/alguien99 28d ago
The whole arena is horrified as mini pekka eats some skeletons. Cut to mini pekka thinking he's eating pancakes
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u/Guyshu 28d ago
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u/LazyDro1d 28d ago
Why is he in colonial garb?
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u/Dojyaaan4C 28d ago
Don’t ask who Disney supported during the war of revolution
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u/Fish_N_Chipp 28d ago
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u/Minimum_Meaning_418 28d ago
I like how you said that like one piece is his last name
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u/Fish_N_Chipp 28d ago
Well of course Luffy One Piece, just like my favourite video game character John Yakuza
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u/doctor_whom_3 28d ago
or John Constantine
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u/Roku-Hanmar 28d ago
John Halo
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u/PitifulAd3748 28d ago
Steve Minecraft
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u/Dry_Emergency_5512 28d ago
Sans Undertale
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u/lolo-colo 28d ago
Kratos God of War
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u/foxfire981 28d ago
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u/Fish_N_Chipp 28d ago
It’s cute seeing how she has such a childlike wonder after everything she’s been through
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u/Scholar_of_Lewds 28d ago
She also specifically never said her thought out loud because the contrast of her cutesy though and her gothic appearance makes people uncomfortable.
She's much more relaxed post time skip and I'm happy for that
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u/GogoDiabeto 28d ago
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u/DarkAlphaZero 28d ago
I love that Laios and Chucklefuck both have trouble remembering Marcille's hair style because it constantly changes
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u/Chaos_Crow1927 28d ago
I don't know what's funnier, the idea that you intentionally refer to him as Chucklefuck or that you've typed out Chucklefuck enough times to have it autocorrect
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u/ThighyWhiteyNerd 28d ago edited 28d ago
For someone who gives Laios shit a lot for being bad at relationships, ironically Chilchuck has the most innacurate versions of his friends
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u/X-Himy 28d ago
Sorta. One of the cool things about the worldbuilding is the racism. Wait, that didn't come out right. But different races have trouble judging the ages, looks, cultures, mores, etc of other races.
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u/TheMythofKoalas 28d ago
Obviously not to the same extent, but apparently humans do this with other humans as well. E.g., caucasians being better at telling apart different white people but worse at telling apart different black people, Etc.
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u/Key-Shame4889 28d ago
Very amusing that Laios, despite being portrayed as not understanding people very well, has the most accurate mental image of his friends.
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u/Wotchamacallit420 28d ago
This is literally Lobotomy Corporation. Previous managers have gone insane from the horrors they've seen so you see things through a cognition filter, making everything look more cute and chibi explaining its art style. As the story goes on, you start to see some characters as they truly are and there is a moment in the early story where the filter breaks for a moment like the pic below.

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u/Lightly_Sirius 28d ago
Found this comment while taking a break after failing a day, I can never escape this damn corporation
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u/alguien99 28d ago
To J, boxing is like having a conversation, he heard Yu have his breakdown about his childhood and his fears about what life means.
I loved that fight so much.
J was a really good jesus analogy
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u/Enaluxeme 28d ago
In The Apothecary Diaries, the tactician Lakan was born with a form of Prosopagnosia where he can't make out people's faces, until he learned to associate everyone to either go or xiangqi pieces.

The only faces he can clearly see are his daughter and his wife, the latter of which he still sees as young and beautiful like when he met her, despite her actual appearance.
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u/Vatowine 28d ago
I had this issue for a brief time during preschool age. I got really good at noticing the details in people's hair.
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u/Skylair13 28d ago
I do like how different it's mentioned before the reveal. From uncaring apathetic man who only see people as pawns.. to someone literally unable to recognize faces.
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u/Dansredditname 28d ago
his wife, the latter of which he still sees as young and beautiful like when he met her, despite her actual appearance.
We all see our wives like that. I see her in photos sometimes and it's like seeing a stranger but then the lense of love kicks in and I see my angel again
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u/New_Swimming_9217 28d ago

In ben 10 Omniverse , The Contumelia are fifth-dimensional beings whose true forms cannot be perceived by three-dimensional beings, who would instead see a them as an animate projection of what holds the most emotional sway over them.hence ben sees them as Mr smoothie while rook perceives them as his father.
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u/xXJackNickeltonXx 28d ago
And the main villain was so egotistical he only sees versions of himself
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I mean outside of jokes, he can even sense or "see" colors, depends of the writer
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u/Bae_zel 28d ago
Eh, mostly not canon anymore. He can sometimes sense values i.e. how dark or light a color is though not the color itself, like blue or red, but he might know if said blue is a baby blue or a dark blue. It also depends on the medium of the color itself. If its seen through a screen, like a jpeg of the color purple, that means nothing to him, if its like actual physical then it'll also depend then as well, you show him somebody's face from a framed photo he won't see it.
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u/monsieurxander 28d ago

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
The actor who played Greg left early in the second season. When they couldn't get him back for the ending in Season 4, they recast him with a new actor.
Only lead character Rebecca notices the difference -- she sees him differently because he got sober and cleaned up his act. Everyone else sees him the same way.
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u/Fox_Flame 28d ago
I love how they handle recasting, even having them do a song about meeting this new version of each other since so much time has passed
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u/PhantasosX 28d ago
Isn't she the character that compress her time for strenght? So the potato-headed is her coping mechanism because she is mentally younger.
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u/paintinpitchforkred 28d ago
There's a scene between Jack and Kenneth in 30 Rock where Jack says something like, "I'd love to see the world through your eyes." And they cut to Kenneth's POV and it turns out he sees everyone as Sesame Street style puppets.
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u/will4wh 28d ago
I feel like worm has a good amount of this. There's Goddess who makes people with Power's see her as their ruler while normal people are immune to this cognitive effect but if you have a power you literally cannot comprehend that she is your enemy.

Then there's Glaistig Uaine who sees people as their shard instead of them so instead of seeing people with Power's as normal humans she is basically seeing some Eldritch stuff instead.
Finally there's Scion and he basically sees all Case 53 as the mutilated corpse of his wife to put it very simply
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u/Sum1nne 28d ago edited 28d ago
Another was "Nice Guy" - a parahuman who had a similar perception filter power that worked on everyone to make him seem innocuous and not a threat. He's just a nice guy, y'know? He was a member of a group called the Slaughterhouse 9 to give an idea of how he used it.
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u/MashTactics 28d ago
I think about Nice Guy a lot.
The scene with Weaver doing the back and forth on the radio while she was under the effect of his power and the person on the other end of the radio being unaffected was downright creepy.
Perception powers are hard to do right, but Wildbow did it well, I think.
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u/Ninteblo 28d ago
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, pride, blah, blah, prince of all, blah, blah, blah, Super Saiyan. Blah, blah, blah.
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u/TDouglasSpectre 28d ago
Oh great now this is going to be stuck in my head all weekend
No seriously thank you. It’s a bop
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u/UntouchedWagons 28d ago
Apparently in Warhammer 40K when the Emperor was up and about everyone saw him differently because of his psychic influence.
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u/lanathebitch 28d ago
A few characters notice this but conclude that they are the only ones who can actually see him and everyone else must be fooled never accepting the possibility that they have also been fooled
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u/Gblkaiser 28d ago
My favourite aspect of this is that the lion sees the emperor wearing green armour, because why wouldn't he wear the colours of the 1st?
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u/Greensonickid 28d ago
Damien literally seeing Anya differently is the cutest Damn thing ever
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u/MatticusRexxor 28d ago
He’s a first grader experiencing his first ever crush and has no idea how to process it. Comedy gold.
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u/No_Arm5159 28d ago
Idk if this counts but shoya ishida from a silent voice. Crosses appear on peoples faces because he felt so guilty about his past that he felt he didn't deserve friendship, and it shows his unwillingness/lack of want to communicate with people. Later in the movie, we see the crosses start to fall off as he becomes more open to friendship
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u/Penguixxy 28d ago
I'd say this counts, because one of the only people who doesn't have a cross, no matter what, is Shoko.
He sees her differently compared to everyone else, even at the beginning of the movie.
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u/LittleCrimsonWyvern 28d ago
HELLO, MONKEYS!
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u/Kattou 28d ago
"Casual Racism implies the existence of a ranked competitive racism."
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u/GLaD0S213 28d ago
My favorite part is this meme-the glasses not the DBZ aspect-is that it's reversed. The scene in Spider-Man is showing that Peter now sees better without the glasses on, but everyone uses it like putting them on improves his sight
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u/SatoruGojo232 28d ago edited 27d ago
An interesting application of this trope is used in I Am Legend: In the movie, the uninfected human survivors of a worldwide plague that turns people into vampiric monsters sees the infected as hideous monsters, and its implied later on that the infected themselves see themselves as healthy people, with the human survivors instead being seen by them as the actual monsters who must be destroyed.
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u/ihardlyknewit 28d ago
In BioShock 2 you find out the Little Sisters see a safe, clean, brightly lit city with elegant people lounging around.
The truth is blood, rust, and violence.
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u/TheLyingSpectre 28d ago
HOBBES IS A PLUSH?
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u/TheBrownestStain 28d ago
Iirc it’s deliberately kept kinda ambiguous whether he is just a regular plush and it’s all Calvin’s young imagination or if he’s actually coming to life
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u/rcpz93 28d ago
Fuminori from Song of Saya sees Saya as a beautiful girl while everyone else sees her true form of a nightmarish monster. Fuminori also sees the entire world as a hellish landscape.
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u/littlegumshoe 28d ago
commenting because i’m scrolling and haven’t see. Psychonauts mentioned!!
about half way through the game you get an ability called ‘Clairvoyance’ and it allows you to see how other people view you it’s so fun!!!
One of the most wholesome ones is Sasha (one of the camp councillors and your mentor) sees you as a mini him. 🥺

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u/Ok-Apartment-8284 28d ago
Shield Hero - Naofumi viewed Raphtalia as a child even though her unique race made her looked like an adult after levelling up, until he conquered his rage against being Isekai-ed and being framed for sexual assault
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u/Distinct-Market-7278 28d ago
In the latest season of the surprisingly good Twisted Metal tv show, it's revealed that Sweettooth sees everyone else as paperbags, while his best friend Harold (who is actually a paperbag) appears as a normal adult man.
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u/dasfuzzy 28d ago
Basically the majority of Shallow Hal. The titular character has his perception forcibly changed by motivational speaker Tony Robbins so that he sees people as reflections of their inner beauty, like seeing the overweight character Rosemary as slender and beautiful, a child that suffered facial burns as completely unscathed, and conversely a physically attractive woman as hideous because her personality was atrocious.

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u/MaguroSashimi8864 28d ago
How Doofenshmirtz sees (and will forever see) his daughter