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/zeidoktor Sep 06 '26

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

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u/XVUltima Sep 06 '26

Which he no-sold, by the way. Meaning either Goku is acting in this GIF or Bulma slaps harder than a submachine gun.

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u/SnowFiender Sep 06 '26

powerscalers will look at this and unironically tell you bulma could 1v1 buu

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u/Pension_Pale Sep 06 '26

Even Beerus fears Bulma. Granted it's more because he doesn't want to lose access to Earth's cooking, but still...

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u/nagrom7 Sep 06 '26

Also because Vegeta would become very annoying if he did anything.

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u/Light_Beard Sep 06 '26

Psssshhh.. Vegeta can't do anything without Goku.

... but if Beerus offed Bulma Goku would be mad too.

https://giphy.com/gifs/t7jzGb5JT0B2D7w771

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u/nagrom7 Sep 07 '26

Probably. Bulma is his oldest friend, and Goku has been known to flip out if something happens to his friends, the most famous example being when he went Super Sayian for the first time after Frieza killed Krillin.