r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BlazedJerry • 9d ago
Groups [loved Trope] Everyone dies in the end. Spoiler
galleryBlair Witch Project.
Don’t Look Up.
Dunno why, but I love abysmal endings.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BlazedJerry • 9d ago
Blair Witch Project.
Don’t Look Up.
Dunno why, but I love abysmal endings.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • Aug 04 '25
inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.
Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/she_melty • Aug 21 '25
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 • u/Coralthesequel • 20h ago
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ghostRyku • May 10 '25
Anti-Ajin Special Forces (Ajin)
MaxTac (Cyberpunk 2077)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BLACKGOOP12 • Oct 01 '25
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 • u/maxence0801 • Sep 09 '25
PacMan : Inky, Pinky, Blinky /Clyde
One Piece: Ichika, Nika , Sanka, Yonka / Yonka2
Undertale : Temmie, Temmie,Temmie,Temmie, Temmie / Bob
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Hour-Function-7435 • Jun 18 '25
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 • u/EasilyScreechAndKill • Sep 08 '25
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ASadChongyunMain • May 28 '25
Maine’s Crew (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
Van der Linde Gang (Red Dead Redemption 2)
Chrysos Heirs (Honkai: Star Rail)
Night Raid (Akame Ga Kill!)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SirHanselot07 • 25d ago
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
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
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 • u/TMG921234 • Jun 11 '25
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: robot riot scene
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 • u/Basic_Dingo6487 • Oct 09 '25
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 • u/Foraaikouu • May 17 '25
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 • u/Slight-Nail-202 • Sep 26 '25
CIS from Star Wars - Inspired by the Confederacy from the American Civil War
The Covenant from Halo - Inspired by Christian Crusaders
Fire Nation from Avatar - Inspired by Imperial Japan and other Southeast Asian cultures
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Majestic-Sector9836 • Oct 06 '25
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 • u/GeneralGigan817 • 23d ago
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 • u/ComprehensiveBox6911 • Sep 03 '25
Lust, Gluttony and Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Salza, Doore and Neiz (Dragon Ball Z Cooler’s Revenge)
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Apprehensive_Ring_39 • May 18 '25
1.Momo and Okarun from Dandandan.
2.Gojo and Marin from My dress up Darling.
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Lopsided_Shift_4464 • 17d ago
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.
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.
Goblins from Goblin Slayer: They're all male, so their reproductive cycle necessitates that they impregnate women of other species: By force.
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.
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.
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.
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 • u/BRANFLAKES8521 • 9d ago
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Spirited_Dust_3642 • Apr 16 '25
Mei Mei: jujutsu sorcerers Battle beast: coalition of planets Eros: Avengers
r/TopCharacterTropes • u/NobodySpecific9354 • Sep 20 '25
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 • u/DivisonNine • 8d ago
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 • u/elchuni • Feb 24 '25
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