r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KalzK • Sep 06 '26

miscellaneous Tropes that became problematic

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The Persistent Suitor: A guy who is after the girl and just wont take no for an answer. Nowadays we just call stalking and harassment, but it used to be romantic. Example: The Notebook (2004), Noah asks Allie out while she's on a date with another man. She refuses, but he threatens to let go and fall unless she agrees to go out with him.

Comedic Woman On Man Violence: Mostly seen in anime, recently it has decreased a lot but years back every show had a woman hitting a guy and showed it as funny. Example: Toradora!, where the quintessential tsundere, Taiga, beats up the MC regularly.

Kid Bags Adult Baddie: I remember a few of these, sometimes it was to show how cool and awesome a kid was because an adult woman fell for him, now it's just seen as problematic shit. Example: Blank Check, the woman likes the kid and kisses him telling him to look for her in 10 years.

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u/EtherStarz Sep 06 '26

Bulma knocking Goku into check has been around since the first episodes.

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u/alreditakem Sep 06 '26

Okay this one was deserved if its the time she slapped him for telling Vegeta that they should let villains hit bulma to make Vegeta get stronger.

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u/EtherStarz Sep 06 '26

I completely forgot about the context 😭

Goku had NO filters in DBS, I swear

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u/Rdasher123 Sep 06 '26

Technically, this was from the Battle of Gods movie, but it might as well be DBS at that point

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u/EpilepticMushrooms Sep 06 '26

Didn't Goku also pimp out Bulma without her knowledge to be groped by some pervy powerful dude so he can get a power up or something? It's been so long, so my memory is fuzzy

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u/EtherStarz Sep 06 '26

He sure did. He offered a kiss from Bulma in exchange for Elder Kai awakening Gohan’s dormant power.

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u/EpilepticMushrooms Sep 06 '26

Oh, I thought he offered Bulma's breasts. This was after he offered top tier porn and the old guy said he could see through walls. Then Goku offered Bulma's breasts since the old man didn't get to touch any

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u/ComplexInside1661 Sep 06 '26

He's the OG himbo, the himboest of them all

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u/ShanghaiBebop Sep 06 '26

Honestly dbza goku has better filters than dbs goku. 

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Sep 06 '26

Super makes him as dumb as Abridged mocked him to be

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u/HollyBananas Sep 06 '26

Goku never really had any filters... not since the first manga (where he was merely oblivious and naive) - but he rarely, if ever, holds back. xD

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u/Llayanna Sep 06 '26

No brain you mean x.x