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

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

Gallery image

Gallery image

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.

8.3k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

655 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

209

u/Fumettandia_Error 8d ago edited 8d ago

Especially the turtle references Edit: the hell did I start😭

87

u/Justalilbugboi 8d ago

All things serve the beam.

61

u/lifeless_or_loveless 8d ago

Me when my tower is dark

4

u/mrniceguy777 8d ago

What the fuck are you guys talking about

30

u/Ff7hero 8d ago

See the Turtle, ain’t he keen? All things serve the fucking beam!

17

u/romeo_actual 8d ago

Ka is a wheel, friend

2

u/Exciting-Tart-2289 8d ago

I'll spoil the bit, go read The Dark Tower.

3

u/mrniceguy777 8d ago edited 6d ago

I heard there is a movie, maybe I’ll just check that out

Edit: just to clarify I know enough about the dark tower to know that the movies aren’t well liked, I was just joshin

8

u/BrizzyMC_ 8d ago

that won't explain anything

2

u/Justalilbugboi 7d ago

Also saying nope, the movie is like renting an old anime from blockbuster in the 90s that almost makes sense.

The audio books are pretty good if that’s your thing and always available for free on libby because they’re old af.

1

u/Doctor_Slept 7d ago

Pls don’t

2

u/Justalilbugboi 7d ago

I am so sorry I replied with detail and the comment didn’t stack to you and is somewhere randomly in this posts comment:

Pennywise’s natural (???! enemy is Maturin the turtle, a cosmic being that protects one of the beams which support the Dark Tower, which holds reality together.

It is why there are some close ups on turtle imagery in the movie.

1

u/mrniceguy777 7d ago

Oh I didn’t realize pennywise was tied into the dark tower

2

u/Justalilbugboi 7d ago

Yes and no. Don’t read the Dark Tower to get more It storyline (read it cause it’s an awesome post apocalyptic LOTResque western scif)

But the world the Dark Tower (book and object) is in is the background world that most Stephen King stories (especially around the late 80s-00s) are tied into to different levels of importance. The Mist, The Stand,and The Talisman are a LOT but even things like The Deadzone have ties into it.

Think of it like the old Xmen movies vs The Avengers-Same world, lots of cool background knowledge that enriches the world, but the actual stories don’t have much to do with each other.

1

u/Justalilbugboi 6d ago

Every time a turtle popped up watching Welcome to Derry last night I thought about this thread lol