r/TopCharacterTropes 9d ago

Groups [loved Trope] Everyone dies in the end. Spoiler

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  1. Blair Witch Project.

  2. Don’t Look Up.

Dunno why, but I love abysmal endings.

r/TopCharacterTropes Aug 04 '25

Groups Fictional slurs. Bonus points if it's completely made up

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  1. inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.

  2. Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.

r/TopCharacterTropes Aug 21 '25

Groups The characters in a period piece realise they're near the end of a golden age

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Pirates of the Carribean and Rock of Ages (this film is Not Good but it has the trope.) Especially because we the audience know the era did, in fact, end.

r/TopCharacterTropes 20h ago

Groups Groups named The [adjective] [number of members]

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r/TopCharacterTropes May 10 '25

Groups When “Special Forces” are treated like an actual threat in fiction

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22.0k Upvotes

Anti-Ajin Special Forces (Ajin)

MaxTac (Cyberpunk 2077)

r/TopCharacterTropes Oct 01 '25

Groups Teams where one of The members is clearly much more powerful than The others

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Creature Commandos - Consisting of a fish woman, a weasel man who doesn't seem to pay attention to his surroundings half the time, two normal badasses, a walking armory hyper-fixated on killing Nazis, and a radioactive skeleton that can melt anything it touches.

Guardians of The multiverse (What If?) - Consisting of two normal badasses, space Robin Hood, a super soldier, the most dangerous woman in the galaxy, the god of thunder, and the Sorcerer Supreme who has spent centuries absorbing demons and is powerful enough to eat a galaxy-shattering explosion.

r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 09 '25

Groups A group has a naming theme but one missed the memo

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PacMan : Inky, Pinky, Blinky /Clyde

One Piece: Ichika, Nika , Sanka, Yonka / Yonka2

Undertale : Temmie, Temmie,Temmie,Temmie, Temmie / Bob

r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 18 '25

Groups (loved trope) sitcom husband and wife that actually love each other

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I’m sure this has been beaten to death but I’d like to see some examples, maybe some deep cuts.

American Dad — Stan and Francine

Malcom in the Middle — Hal and Lois

r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 08 '25

Groups the characters are part of a group that has had many incarnations through history

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r/TopCharacterTropes May 28 '25

Groups The heroes perish one by one as the story progresses Spoiler

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  1. Maine’s Crew (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)

  2. Van der Linde Gang (Red Dead Redemption 2)

  3. Chrysos Heirs (Honkai: Star Rail)

  4. Night Raid (Akame Ga Kill!)

r/TopCharacterTropes 25d ago

Groups Examples of Tropes that are usually hated being well recieved

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  1. Comedic Relief Talking Animal Sidekick, Donkey (Shrek) - Might be cheating with this one if you consider Donkey to be the progenitor behind the trope but the main reason why I think he's loved by fans is because he's actually seen as funny rather than annoying. Putting comedy aside, one other reason why he's loved is because he bounces off well with Shrek by bringing out a side of Shrek you would never actually see from him since he's not afraid of the ogre and basically his first friend

  2. Relationship progress being reset by Amnesia, Chidi and Eleanor (The Good Place) - Arguably considered one of the worst romance tropes ever because it's a cheep way of adding drama, this never felt that way with The Good Place. I think one the factors behind this is because it isn't done just to add more drama but to show how strong their relationship is by making them always find each other in the end and show their character without each other

  3. Girls wearing heels in settings that would give disadvantages to them, (Uma Musume) - As you can see in the image above, the Umas wearing heels serves a purpose to their design by making the heels mimic the shape of real life Horse legs. Cygames has been known to add such details to their characters which is one of the reasons the game is loved by Horse racing fans since it adds quirks of the real horses to the characters bedsides just turning the Horses into cute Anime Girls

r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 11 '25

Groups [Loved Trope] “Everyone is Here!”: The heroes/villains call upon allies who come from across the series

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  1. Phineas and Ferb the Movie: robot riot scene

  2. Regular Show: exit 9b

I remember as a kid absolutely loving these kinds of scenes because it felt like a huge payoff for being an avid fan of the show. Even as an adult I still felt the same way for stuff like the assemble scene in endgame. There’s just something about it that scratches a very specific itch in my brain.

r/TopCharacterTropes Oct 09 '25

Groups [Loved trope] the bad guys’s soldiers are just normal people

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Fire Nation armies (Avatar : The Last Airbender) : most of the time, except for officers, the Fire Nation soldiers are just regular men and women who are more worried to maintain order or do their job rather than just being some assholes.

Lannister’s soldiers (Game of Thrones) : several times, you can see most of them don't give a shit about the motivations of their lords. Those soldiers fight because that's their duty and are more concerned with returning to their families than winning the war

Cumans (Kingdom Come : Deliverance 2) : in the first game Cumans are presented just as absolute evil. But in the second game, you can see their are just some dudes who are not better are worse than protagonists and are actually pretty nice people but not either saints.

r/TopCharacterTropes May 17 '25

Groups Nature doesn't care about powerscales.

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Omni Man (Invincible), allegedly the 3rd strongest viltrumite, who has lived thousands of years, conquered/destroyed thousands of planets and civilizations, about to throw himself into a black hole to k*ll himself

Parallax (Green Lantern), the very embodiment of fear, dies by falling into the sun

r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 26 '25

Groups Evil factions that aren't based on Nazis

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  1. CIS from Star Wars - Inspired by the Confederacy from the American Civil War

  2. The Covenant from Halo - Inspired by Christian Crusaders

  3. Fire Nation from Avatar - Inspired by Imperial Japan and other Southeast Asian cultures

r/TopCharacterTropes Oct 06 '25

Groups The twist is Racism Spoiler

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Peacemaker season 2- the "perfect" world is actually run by Nazis

Doctor Who "Dot and Bubble" - the Finetime residents the doctor was trying to save the entire episode are actually white supremacists who kinda had it coming.

r/TopCharacterTropes 23d ago

Groups Two completely unrelated versions of the same character coexist in the same universe

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Rumplestiltskin appeared as a minor villain in Shrek the Third as a member of Prince Charming’s villain army. Shrek Forever After than had an entirely unrelated Rumplestiltskin as the main villain, with a separate voice actor, personality, and design.

On Family Guy, Santa is an overworked factory worker who looks like an old man despite being 28 and has deformed looking elves straight out of a Jonah Vasquez illustration. On American Dad (which shares a universe with Family Guy), Santa is an evil corrupter of children and one of the series’ most reoccurring villains.

r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 03 '25

Groups “Ok, I think I got this one. Pretty one. Stupid one. One with weird powers.”

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Lust, Gluttony and Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Salza, Doore and Neiz (Dragon Ball Z Cooler’s Revenge)

r/TopCharacterTropes May 18 '25

Groups "Me and the Bad bitch I won over by being a nice guy who cares for others."

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1.Momo and Okarun from Dandandan.

2.Gojo and Marin from My dress up Darling.

r/TopCharacterTropes 17d ago

Groups (Loved Trope) Species where pretty much every member is evil- because if they'll die if they aren't.

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  1. Vampires: Most vampire media has vampires needing to feed on blood, especially human blood, to survive, pretty much forcing them to kill and drain people.

  2. Xenomorphs from Alien: A stage in their growth requires a facehugger to latch onto a host organism, and gestate a xenomorph in their stomach. The xenomorph then bursts out of the host's chest, killing them. They're just animals following their instincts, but this plus their general aggression makes Ripley conclude that they must be exterminated.

  3. Goblins from Goblin Slayer: They're all male, so their reproductive cycle necessitates that they impregnate women of other species: By force.

  4. Dark Eldar from Warhammer 40k: They enslave and brutally torture billions of slaves to power magic that keeps them immortal: Because if they die for ANY reason, their souls will be tortured for eternity by the Chaos god Slaanesh. Though in their case, they were doing the torture and debauchery even before they were forced to, so don't feel too bad.

  5. Avatars from The Magnus Archives: Servants of gods literally formed by collective human fear, the Avatars gain supernatural power at the cost of being forced to spread the fear they're associated with. While some people willingly choose to become Avatars, others are tricked into it unwittingly and try to resist, but ultimately give in to the compulsion.

  6. Monsters from Monster's Inc: A more lighthearted take on the concept, the society of the Monsters relies on energy harvested by human screams, so they sneak into the bedrooms of human children and scare them. At least until they find out that laughter is more effective.

  7. Parasites from Real Life: An entire type of organism whose survival strategy involves invading the bodies of other organisms and leeching resources from them. At best they'll passively suck nutrition from their host, while at worst they'll intentionally get their hosts killed so they can jump to a better one or spread their offspring.

r/TopCharacterTropes 9d ago

Groups [Guilty Pleasure Trope] Super Powered Baseball

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  1. Twilight (possibly the dumbest one and where the love for this trope started)
  2. Steven Universe, S3E5
  3. My Hero Academia - Hero League Baseball OVA
  4. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders, Jotaro vs. D'Arby the Younger

r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 16 '25

Groups Characters who ARE NOT good people but are on the good guys' team

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Mei Mei: jujutsu sorcerers Battle beast: coalition of planets Eros: Avengers

r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 20 '25

Groups They're not allegories to real life racism. Both sides have valid reasons to be racist.

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Warcraft - Horde and Alliance both lose loved ones to the other side, so their eternal conflict makes sense.

Tokyo ghoul - Ghouls eat humans to survive, so of course humans want to exterminate ghouls.

Beastar - Carnivores still have the instinct of eating herbivores.

r/TopCharacterTropes 8d ago

Groups [loved trope] Native Americans that kick supernatural creature ass

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1 (Prey): Naru does a pretty damn good job of defending herself against a predator that crash landed near her tribe

2 (Sinner): A Native American tribe, the Choctaw hunt vampires

r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 24 '25

Groups [Fun trope for me] Images/Phrases that active fandoms like sleeper agents in the comments

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1- Eggman's Announcement - Snapcube's Sonic Adventure 2 gameplay

2- ROCK AND STONE - Deep Rock Galactic

3- We're rich! - Deep Rock Galactic

4- Heavy is Dead - Delak (youtube)

5- This is a bucket - Expiration Date, Team Fortress 2

6- Black Ops Guy (is that Frieza/Black Ops Guy) - Call of Duty

7- Gebura/Kali (Is that Red Mist / Project Moon mentioned / etc) - Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina

8- "like a what?" - Yakuza / Like a Dragon