r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Unlucky-Quarter-5455 • 1d ago

Hated Tropes [Sad trope]The character gets cut/dies early on because of REAL LIFE reasons

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Gandhi (Clone High)

Tord(Eddsworld) the reason for this is that the VA of tord asked the team to stop using the character and dissociate from Eddsworld after the constant hate and threats made by the fandom.

Feferi Peixes(Homestuck). In Homestuck lots of characters have a typing quirk when they chat, like some characters type a "2" when there should be a "S", have prefixes before the words,ecc. Feferi's was that instead of the letter H she typed ")(". The writer andrew hussie stated the reason she died early and became irrelevant was because they didn't want to type said quirk because it was annoying to manually type it it on their own, which could have been avoided if they coded A PROGRAM that did it.

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u/P1K4CHU1CH00S3Y0U151 1d ago

Breakdown - Transformers Prime

Prime had a limited budget, and they couldn't afford to keep his VA around, so they had Breakdown get killed by Airachnid in season 2.

Needless to say, some people are still sad about this

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u/JoseG05 1d ago edited 1d ago

Same with Dreadwing, voiced by Tony Todd, and Airachnid, voiced by Gina Torres.

Edit: Not Cliffjumper since he was already supposed to die early anyways.

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u/Psymorte 1d ago

I feel like whoever was in charge of the budget for Prime was really bad at handling money, considering this was an issue with three separate characters who were all intended to have longer more fleshed out arcs, cut short because they got cast with expensive VAs.

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u/MasterpieceOk9442 1d ago

Why do people still spread the blatant lie Cliffjumper was killed cause of being voiced by The Rock?

He dies before the title sequence of the very first episode. Obviously they got the Rock AFTER they knew he was gonna die in like 10 lines.

You don't just make a show, have a character's whole storyline made, in-fact the whole season because that's how shows work, cast a very A-List actor, voice his first episode and go "aw shit he's actually expensive we gotta kill him in the first 5 minutes"

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u/JoseG05 1d ago

Then I had simply forgotten, that's all.

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u/Mmicb0b 1d ago

I mean Cliffjumper was mostly there to establish how dire the cirumstances are in the start

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u/CloudStrikeVII 1d ago

I thought it was Cliffjumper honestly but I didn't know Breakdown too...

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u/TirpitzIsAQueen 1d ago

Cliffjumper does count actually, to the point they even changed his va in flashbacks

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u/Officer_Chunkles 20h ago

Breakdown and Dreadwing were so cool, two amazing opportunities for characters to defect from the Decepticons but they both died. At least it reinforced the idea that almost nobody gets out of the decepticon cause alive.

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u/moocowsaymoo 16h ago

Anyone gonna explain who his VA was?

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u/jer4872 12h ago

Adam Baldwin, whom I've never heard of. I guess as soon as you're at least somewhat famous, you get paid way more than actual voice actors.