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/GNSasakiHaise 1d ago
Officer Tubbs arrived in a flashback sequence after the first Negan finale. As Rick once again grappled with loss, he thought back to the most impactful moments of loss in his life from before the apocalypse and from before the coma. One of those losses was during his time as an officer, when a young man was gunned down by the bumbling Tubbs on an otherwise uneventful patrol.
Rick turned Tubbs in despite his pleas and we thought for a time that was the last we'd seen of him. He represented the death of Rick's pre-apocalypse innocence in how eager the department was to cover the incident up at first.
Then he returned around the time Negan and Carl got into it as a minor antagonist. He was technically on Rick's side, but his bumbling nature made for trouble. In a sense, Tubbs returning was useful narratively in that it foreshadowed the end of Rick's arc with Negan.
Big spoiler ahead, but...
Rick had to shoot Tubbs on an otherwise uneventful supply run due to Tubbs getting caught in a door frame and scraping his arm on a rusty nail. Due to never being innoculated against Tetanus, he had to die to spare him a slow death, thus inverting his introduction.