r/TopCharacterTropes • • Sep 06 '26

miscellaneous Tropes that became problematic

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/zeidoktor Sep 06 '26

The series literally started with Bulma shooting Goku in the face.

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u/No_Prize9794 Sep 06 '26

I mean, when the kid survives getting run over, then picks up and throws your car while you’re still in it, it becomes self defense

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u/kaimcdragonfist Sep 06 '26

That's what the 2nd Amendment is REALLY for.

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u/maniccrude Sep 06 '26

That and for any sensible middle American whose "carrot-patch" blows up

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u/Alert_Document_436 Sep 06 '26

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u/Living_Magician3367 Sep 06 '26

Protect me gun!

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u/Gimetulkathmir Sep 06 '26

Damn it, I voted for Bush.

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u/maniccrude Sep 06 '26

It's ok, bush will always have my vote.

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u/Simon_Drake Sep 06 '26

Farmer With Shotgun is one of the people killed by the villains that gets overlooked and isn't wished back.

He's the only one Raditz kills and Goku dies in that battle (by Piccolo's hand technically). Then when they wish Goku back to life it's just Goku, the farmer gets overlooked. Later villains like Cell and Buu they do blanket wishes to bring back everyone killed by the attack. The people killed by Nappa are a bit borderline, they might be covered under the wish to revive everyone killed by Freeza's soldiers within the last year because technically Nappa worked for Freeza at the time. But Farmer With Shotgun died over a year ago so he wouldn't be included.

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u/Tipsy_Hog Sep 06 '26

Such a shame that Sonic the Hedgehog blew up his "carrot patch". I don't think he'll ever recover

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u/maniccrude Sep 06 '26

Im sure his gun will protect him though...