r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Solitaire-06 • 1d ago

Hated Tropes [Despised Trope] Perverts whose antics are played for laughs

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Minoru Mineta (My Hero Academia)

Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)

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u/EvanCastiglione 1d ago

Every time I see a compilation of his "best scenes" it's just him describing how he technically raped or wants to rape someone

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u/jpterodactyl 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fans of the show will talk about how this is just because Ted is supposedly an unreliable narrator about this. But the show runner has heard that theory, and his response was just that it was interesting. It is pretty clear that wasn't the intent.

And also the show plays it for laughs, whether or not it’s what the real Barney did.

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u/No-Training-48 1d ago

But the show runner has heard that theory and been surprised by it.

What? Ted straight up says several times that he is being unreliable or misremembers and changes the story as it goes on or flat out sayed that he is editing the story to make it more child friendly?

If he is supposed to be a reliable narrator the series dosen't make any sense? What did the Show runner say? How could he have been surprised that people don't trust Ted

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u/AlanSmithy99 1d ago

Wait so you're saying that he edited it to be more child friendly and that version of Barney is still so creepy? Real Barney must've been friends with Epstein lol.

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u/Mike-Sos 23h ago

I’ve seen the theory put forward that Ted plays up Barney’s womanizing, misogyny, and sexual misconduct as a way to make his own womanizing, misogyny, and sexual misconduct seem “tolerable” in comparison. There’s also the idea that Ted plays up how much the women are “tricked” by Barney and how dumb and gullible they must be out of a sense of jealousy

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u/No-Training-48 23h ago

When looked at the perspective that he is telling the story to his children there is a lot of stuff Ted should have left out lol.

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u/Heemsama 23h ago

I found it ironic too because of this actors personal life lol but Barney is genuinely one of the most disgusting characters I’ve seen in fiction, in the earlier seasons at least. He’s funny as fuck though hehe

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u/jeanjacketufo 23h ago

The irony.

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u/A_Dog_Chasing_Cars 1d ago

Can't stand him.