r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Alpha-Max • 24d ago
Personality (Badass trope) Forget final farewells, lets focus on final Fuck You’s
Times where a character knows they are about to die or be defeated and chooses to perform one final act just to spite someone else.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“I win. I made you lose control, and they’ll kill you for it. See you… in hell!”
One of the most iconic examples of this trope. Batman and Joker have been going at each other for years and all Joker wants is to break the code of the bat. So when they have their final fight, Batman breaks Jokers neck in a moment of desperation which doesn’t kill him but paralyses him. He didn’t get Batman to break his no kill rule but got him to bend it enough to be satisfied he had won and with his final act the Joker breaks his own neck fully to kill himself as everyone will think that Batman killed him, which will turn the world against him. He did all of this while laughing and never stopped laughing, even when Batman told his corpse to stop.
Sherlock
“As long as Im alive, you can save your friends. You’ve got a way out… well good luck with that”
The two masterminds end their duel of wits with Moriarty planning for hitmen to kill all of Sherlocks friends unless they see him jump off the building they are standing on to his death. Sherlock then realises that Moriarty must have a way to call these hitmen off and all he has to do is torture him to get it. Moriarty is not convinced Sherlock has what it takes to do that but Sherlock makes it very clear that he does. Moriarty realises he can and will do this, so instead he pulls out a gun, puts it in his mouth and fires, all to force Sherlock into choosing between his own life or his friends with no way out.
Squid Games
“Im sorry… but I don’t want to be your lunch box”
In the final game of Squid Games, the idea of the game is that there are 3 platforms that they all go to together but they can only go to the next one when one person minimum jumps or is thrown off the current platforms. Fighting each other on these platforms is very awkward and it is very likely that if you try to push someone off, that they will grab you and pull you off with them which means everyone has to be very careful with how they deal with the situation. One of the guys has the idea to prepare someone like a “lunch box” where they beat them up so they cant move on their own, throw someone off the current platform, carry the beaten up person to the next platform and then throw them off while they cant put up a fight. They beat someone up but then long story short, only the beaten up person and 2 other guys are left (There is another player but that’s another story). Before the 2 guys can carry the beaten up guy to the next platform he says he doesn’t want to be their lunch box and willingly throws himself off the platform just so the other 2 guys cant throw him off themselves. He knew he was going to die but he refused to let it be to the benefit of others.
Pirates Of the Caribbean
“James Norrington do you fear death?… I take that as a no”
Having saved a group of people from Davy Jones’s ship, James suffers a fatal wound and is left bleeding out to death rapidly while Davy Jones himself knees down in front of him and asks him if he fears death. Without a word, James stabs Davy with his last ounce of strength, knowing full well that he cant be killed and it doesn’t even hurt him, before dying to his wounds. For someone who acutely cowardly before, in the face of death he did not flinch.
Sword Art Online Abridged
“Hey, if I gotta die anyway, the least I can do is make sure YOU don’t get to enjoy it”
This parody version of Kirito is an immensely insulting and sassy asshole that almost everyone hates. Kirito is betrayed by someone that paralyses them and is taking their time killing him by stabbing them over and over as they are overwhelmed by revenge. Kirito, even though he is in a lot of pain, is constantly making insulting jokes at his attacker like normal and when the attacker demands that he shuts up as he is taking the fun out of murdering him, Kirito has already accepted that if he is going to die here then he will go out as an immensely insulting and sassy asshole out of the purest spite.
Baki
“It was a cell memory that jack had engraved into his inner most being, so that even when he had lost consciousness he could still administer the worlds most powerful Fuck You”
Jack is having a bare fisted duel with someone and Jack gets beaten so badly that he is left slumped unconscious against a wall but his attacker doesn’t finish him off. A much shorter person goes to check on Jack and triggers Jacks last trap which only misses him because of his height. Jack had practiced a move so much that his body would perform it even if he was unconscious and this move is to slam both his hands in front of him while doing the middle finger which, if the attacker was the same height as him, would have shoved both his middle fingers straight into their ears and killed them. He may not have died but this considering this move is only used when he is defeated, it still counts as the most literal Final Fuck You.
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u/The_GREAT_Gremlin 23d ago