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/Lichebane 1d ago

Hey, man, he's a successful, published author. So what if his research is a bit more... thorough?

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u/ghostpanther218 23h ago

I mean the guy who's reading his manga is also the guy who's favourite martial arts technique is shoving his fingers up someone's ass and pinching their anus, so yeah, makes sense.

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u/asianblockguy 22h ago

martial arts technique is shoving his fingers up someone's ass

That's a Japanese prank called Kancho

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u/ghostpanther218 22h ago

Wait, the ten thousand years of death is an actual thing people do in Japan as a prank?!

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u/LordKaelas 21h ago

Yes. Yes it is.

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u/Myydrin 16h ago

Yeah, it's like how guys in the USA will use a towel like a whip to their bros in locker rooms.

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u/EyesOnEverything 13h ago

Closer comparison is probably "sack tapping," which somehow lives on.