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/ColArana Sep 06 '26

The wind tunnel was mentioned that it would continually grow regardless, it’s just that using it sped up the rate it did so.

Also it would likely suck up the glove unless the glove had some kind of spiritual power. 

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u/OmecronPerseiHate Sep 06 '26

I mean, his lil bit of cloth and prayer beads worked just fine for the whole show. I can't imagine a sacred bead or something like that in a glove wouldn't last even longer.

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u/ColArana Sep 06 '26

The prayer beads were the important part moreso than the cloth though. 

You’re probably right that a more powerful spell would keep it in check, but Miroku himself is one of the stronger spirualists we meet in the show, it seems like it would be difficult to find someone who could make a stronger one (granted he travels with Kagome who is such an individual).

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u/OmecronPerseiHate Sep 06 '26

Yeah that's kinda the part that gets me. It just kinda bugs me that Miroku got cursed and yet none of the powerful demons or sorcerers he met could help? Plus, the curse is just to widdle you down until you die, but nobody died before having a kid or two? In that day and age it would have led to a birth bloom.