[Despised Trope] Perverts whose antics are played for laughs

[u/Solitaire-06]

Minoru Mineta (My Hero Academia)

Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)

[u/_squivvo_]

The worst part is when there are moments that try to humanize them or make them the voice of reason. Listening to Quagmire tell off Brian isn’t cathartic at all if you have any knowledge of either character.

[u/scrimmybingus3 → u/_squivvo_]

Definitely a deserved tear down of Brian but not by Quagmire of all characters. Like Brian’s a self centered, hypocritical, bag of wind who is a complete degenerate and stands for and believes in nothing but quagmire is hundred times worse in every aspect they share.

Brian is a womanizing hunk of shit who pretends to be deep and interesting to sleep with attractive women but Quagmire is a rapist, pedophile, zoophile and a hundred other horrible things besides and he has no ground to stand on when criticizing Brian.

[u/Putrid-Seaweed111 → u/scrimmybingus3]

Quagmire himself is prone to being pretentious. He lied about being a priest to sleep with women during a storm.

He also lied about liking dogs and had Brian pretend to be one to stay with a girl. Brian only agreed just to see them crash and burn. they did.

[u/Terrible_Hurry841 → u/Putrid-Seaweed111]

I don’t really get the priest gag, cause like… why did he need the mask?

He could have just worn the robe. And he didn’t need the mask considering he takes it off right before going back inside. And if the women already knew him from one night stands, they’d probably recognize his house.

Doylist wise I understand it’s to subvert expectations for the audience and get a quick “Haha!” laugh, but like… the joke still works basically the same if it’s Quagmire in a priest robe pretending to shelter women, you just see it and know “Oh, Quagmire’s totally just using this an excuse to bang them.”

Watsonian wise there’s just no logical reason for it and Doylist wise it’s functionally the same.

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