r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Crashoutbop • Jul 04 '26

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Sailor moon -usagi tsukino door level even tho she’s a powerful character

Spider-Man 2 - Peter is fridge level even tho we seen him take down powerful villains

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u/Original-War8655 Jul 04 '26

this dialogue is so ass 😭

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u/Plus-Ad5076 Jul 04 '26

impossible! my power is magnetism! without my power of magnetism, it can't be! my power of magnetism, without it i cannot fight!

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u/Bamzooki1 Jul 04 '26

It’s over! You must surrender! It’s impossible for you to win! Without your power of magnetism, you’re finished! You’re going to lose! Give up! End this now! Concede the fight! Don’t keep fighting me and rescind your position in this scuffle! Resign, Magneto, and accept the fact you lost!

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u/The_Jimes Jul 04 '26

The brainrot of a past generation

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u/a_single_bean Jul 04 '26

So wait- I'm confused. Magneto's power is what now? Magnetism only works on what? Reed fooled him with a gun made out of who? And magnetism doesn't work on wood? This is just so hard to follow.

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u/ThinkMyNameWillNotFi Jul 04 '26

how anime is writen

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u/GreyNoiseGaming Jul 04 '26

All according to keikaku...

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u/iwantdatpuss Jul 04 '26

The dialogue reads like the type of shit you'd write  at 11:45 pm on a Sunday night for a 7am class that has a minimum page limit. 

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u/Original-War8655 Jul 04 '26

this is pretty much what the first few drafts of a story I'm currently writing sounded like because I wrote them past 11 PM with a minimum word count requirement lmao

I'd like to think I'm doing better now tho, we'll see

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u/PrettyMuchAVegetable Jul 04 '26

It just.... keeps ... Going 

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u/Common_Exam_1401 Jul 04 '26

That was the case of most shows like it, make the villain so over dramatic

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u/Bamzooki1 Jul 04 '26

It’s not just that. This entire thing could’ve been done in 30 seconds, but they just kept repeating themselves and making sure there was no possible way someone could miss what was happening. I‘m surprised it didn’t go “If I spoke Spanish, I would say “Tú, tú eres el imán y yo soy el metal””

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u/tropicalAdvertiser Jul 04 '26

you had to go there precisely xD take my upvote damn it!

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u/FlacidSalad Jul 04 '26

Yeah the Internet has really rotted out minds smh

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u/No-Educator-8069 Jul 04 '26

Its because characters standing still and talking saves on animation

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u/Slow-Distance-6241 Jul 04 '26

It's because it was a different time, with a different standards and expectations. Whether the writing became objectively better or our standards and expectations changed is a whole different question

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u/Original-War8655 Jul 04 '26

I know why it is the way it is (partially different standards, probably a different target age demographic, but mostly cutting on animation cost by having characters talk for as long as possible), I still think it's just straight up bad though

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u/Old-Acanthaceae-3406 Jul 04 '26

I thought it was intentionally like that as an homage/parody of the way comics were written in the 60s. It is extremely reminiscent. "I'll make the gun leap from your hand, and turn against you-- NOW!"

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u/Original-War8655 Jul 04 '26

it definitely could be and probably is on top of other reasons, but it just does not work for animation as well as it does for comics (if I voice my opinion on the over-descriptive method in comics, I'll be called the Fun Police)

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u/ThePlumThief Jul 04 '26

The voice acting is top tier though