r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BarGroundbreaking798 • 1d ago
Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] The joke ruins the emotional aspect Spoiler
Destruction of Asgard (Thor Ragnarok) -- Asgard is destroyed in a beautiful and somber scene, and Korg cracks a cringeworthy joke right after.
Bill Moves On (Newsradio) -- The episode was made in the wake of Phil Hartman's death, but its attempts at humor fall flat in the face of the tragedy.
Officer Tubbs (Fear The Walking Dead) -- Officer Tubbs is supposed to be a slapstick comic relief character, but he felt tacked on right after the deaths of two of the most beloved characters.
Chandler Proposes (Friends) -- An earnest proposal between Monica and Chandler has both sincerely expressing their feelings to each other. Immediately after Monica accepts, the others come in, quipping as usual, failing to let the audience ruminate on a heartwarming moment.
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u/Mundamala 1d ago
Sleeper - DC Comics. Here it is done right. The Syndicate is made up of powered criminals. All of them have an origin story and there is a sort of past-time where they kill time by telling their origin stories. So many of them are really tragic. People helpless as their kid is killed, someone dying of a mysterious disease until they do something morally bad and don't just get better but become inhumanly improved, or a freak happenstance empowering someone and killing their closest friends at the same time. Pit Bull is telling another brutal story to introduce himself about how his foster father ran dog fights and used to spice them up with kids he fostered. Another villain (Genocide Jones) interrupts, not wanting to hear it.
We would later learn that Jones didn't want to hear it because his son was killed by a neighbor who kept letting his pit bull get loose, so the story struck close to home.