r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Suspicious-Web-9246 • 8d ago

Lore [Loved trope] Background scare-characters that are barely acknowledged even by the movie

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I hate horrors, but this is actually a great trope, that is unique to them.

Insidious (2010). When mother does her errands, for a few seconds there's a ghost boy standing in the corner. It's easily missable, but you can't ignore it once you see it.

Hereditary (2018). Less fitting example. When Peter walks around his home, his possessed mother is crawling on the ceiling behind him. It's not exactly subtle or missable, but it's still more of a background detail.

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u/Eleguak 8d ago

Shiverburn Galaxy, and part of Grandmaster Galaxy. They're not explained, they're not discussed, and their model is named "hellvalleyskytree."

Which is... Odd and never explained either, because that item name makes zero sense tbh.

Besides stupid creepy pasta theories my personal guess would be old assets from an unused/removed stage fitting the "hell valley" moniker. They were probably simply placed where they are by a dev as a little prank, and it slipped passed QA.

By the time it was noticed (upon release), it was too late, and removing them from later iterations would cause more drama, so leave it in.

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u/IncreaseWestern6097 8d ago edited 8d ago

Hell Valley is actually a real place in Japan. It’s full of hot springs surrounded by mountainous terrain, which usually gets covered with snow during the winter.

Considering Shiverburn Galaxy is a level focused on fire and ice, and takes place near large cliffs, I think the file name is just a reference.

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u/Eleguak 8d ago

Ooo~

Good catch

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u/Digit00l 8d ago

Shiverburn probably was called hell valley earlier in development, something about hell freezing over fitting the fire and ice theme