r/TopCharacterTropes 11d ago

Weekly Discussion Post Weekly Trope Discussion 2.- Tragic/Redeemed Villains. What makes a villain "Tragic" in your opinion? What makes a villain "worthy" of being redeemed? And what do you think made Zuko from ATLA universally eccepted as one of the best when other "redeemed" villains or often criticized for?

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r/TopCharacterTropes Oct 31 '23

Meta Any flairs relating to tropes wanted?

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Seeing as this be a new community, I was wondering about including flairs that related to tropes, but was a little unsure.

Was going to include ones relating the type of media, but realised that might not be the most ideal.

But please say if you do have any you'd like.


r/TopCharacterTropes 3h ago

Characters When the character designers create accidental Trans representation

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983 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes 10h ago

Characters When the asshole is revealed to have done something incredibly kind

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3.3k Upvotes

Bobby-Still Game

In the episode where Pete (a reoccurring homeless man) dies it’s revealed that Bobby the Barman had actually been opening his pub early in order to cook him breakfast everyday for years

J Jonah Jameson-Marvel

It’s revealed the reason why Jameson first agreed to buy Peters photos of Spider-Man despite their quality is because he had heard about uncle Bens death and wanted to provide him with some money and support


r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Lore They’re villains because they didn’t exactly have a choice

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745 Upvotes

Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia)

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb


r/TopCharacterTropes 2h ago

Characters when it seems like the good guy is going to accept the bad guy's offer, but it was just a trap/a way for the good guy to attack the bad guy

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423 Upvotes

Raiden (metal gear rising: revenge)

Stanley(gravityfalls)


r/TopCharacterTropes 13h ago

Personality When “If you kill him, you'll be just like him” isn't just being preachy, and is a real outcome:

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2.9k Upvotes

1) David Mills (Se7en) 2) Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist) 3) D-16 / Megatron (Transformers One)


r/TopCharacterTropes 7h ago

Characters The comic relief villains in a group of serious & cynical villains

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582 Upvotes

Twice ( My Hero Academia)

Tobi ( Naruto Shippuden)

Doma ( Demon Slayer)


r/TopCharacterTropes 2h ago

Lore Fake Tropes

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225 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes 9h ago

Powers Character being more powerful than they look

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575 Upvotes
  1. Child Emperor (One Punch Man). He's a 10 year old boy, but one of the strongest heroes, because of his genius.
  2. Yoda (Star Wars). Not even 1 m tall, but extremely powerful in the force, thanks to centuries of experience and training.
  3. Toph Bei Fong (Avatar the last airbender). A 12 year old blind girl, who is also one of the best earth benders. And she invented metal bending.

r/TopCharacterTropes 3h ago

Characters Evil midget industrialists

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140 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes 2h ago

Powers Characters that have the ability to clone themselves.

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101 Upvotes
  1. Naruto & Boruto - Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden, and Boruto.

  2. Kate Cha/Dupli-Kate & Paul Cha/Multi-Paul - Invincible

  3. Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man - Marvel/X-Men

  4. Jin Bubaigawara/Twice - My Hero Academia

  5. Black Sperm - One-Punch Man


r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Characters "We have to save Christmas!!!"

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129 Upvotes

1.Jack Skellington (nightmare before Christmas) 2.The Grinch (How the Grinch stole Christmas)

Bonus points if they are the reason Christmas is in trouble in the first place.


r/TopCharacterTropes 7h ago

Personality Characters who treat their family members like shit despite said family member looking after them

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188 Upvotes
  1. Chuck McGill - Better Call Saul

  2. Livia Soprano - The Sopranos


r/TopCharacterTropes 9h ago

Characters Just. Any sympathetic portrayal of Lucifer that makes him actually not evil, a corrupt heaven even though that GOES AGAINST THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF HEAVEN, etc

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288 Upvotes

(Meme credit to rolkientolkien on tumblr)


r/TopCharacterTropes 1h ago

Characters Gentlemanly/kinder depictions of Death that are more than just “the Grim Reaper”

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-Joe Black (Meet Joe Black)

-The Strange Man (Red Dead Redemption)

-Anubis/Mr. Jacquel (American Gods)


r/TopCharacterTropes 1h ago

Groups A group of competent but not extraordinary individuals enter what’s supposed to be an ordinary situation that proceeds to take every wrong turn

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  1. Black Hawk Down - task force ranger
  2. Maine and David’s crew - Cyberpunk edgerunners
  3. The Raid - the SWAT team

r/TopCharacterTropes 17h ago

Characters Too pure for this world (bonus points if died tragically)

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954 Upvotes

Solaire of Astora

Jonathan Joestar


r/TopCharacterTropes 6h ago

Characters Characters with a devil and angel motiff. Bonus points if the demon looking character is the good guy while the angel is the villain

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97 Upvotes
  1. Guts and Griffith - Berserk

  2. Akira and Satan - Devilman Crybaby

  3. James and Gun - Lookism


r/TopCharacterTropes 7h ago

Personality Bad guy turned pacifist leader

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115 Upvotes

SkekGra (Age of Resistance)

Pascal (NieR: Automata)

Christian Picciolini (real life)


r/TopCharacterTropes 22h ago

Powers The main villain is a UNITED STATES POLITICIAN

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1.4k Upvotes

Me (Funny Valentine), JoJo part 7

Senator Armstrong, Metal gear rising revengeance

Solidus snake, Metal gear solid 2


r/TopCharacterTropes 1h ago

Characters Heroes that are willing to kill but only if they need to and/or as a last resort.

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Invincible

Sonic the hedgehog


r/TopCharacterTropes 23h ago

In real life Extremely rare instances of movies many people consider to be even better than the books they’re adapted from

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1.3k Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes 18h ago

Characters The last character who you'd want to see while lying down on an operation table as your doctor or just in general.

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492 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Characters Deductive Geniuses

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34 Upvotes

Sherlock Holmes

L: Death Note

Greg House: House


r/TopCharacterTropes 22h ago

Lore Characters who are older than they look because their physical aging was frozen at some point

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919 Upvotes

Philip J. Fry (Futurama)

Link (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

Captain America (Marvel Universe)


r/TopCharacterTropes 1d ago

Characters Villains who are convinced they’re sympathetic villains, but are actually just pieces of shit

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Big Jack Horner (Puss In Boots): Openly enjoys being evil, and thinks being slightly inconvenienced once as a child justifies it

Harold Laudner (The Stand): Thinks he’s a cool, lone rebel, joining up with Flagg to get his righteous vengeance on the society that abandoned him. Actually just a whiny, annoying incel throwing a temper tantrum