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/Beautiful-Cup4161 Sep 06 '26

The casual pervert who does stuff like grope women as a personality trait but you're generally supposed to like them and react to their antics in a "oh you silly rascal!" kind of way

Fell out of fashion for a good reason

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u/Rory_U Sep 06 '26

Where’s this from?

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u/jazz-music-starts Sep 06 '26

this is from inuyasha. In particular, this is the priest Miroku, who is ||cursed to die early from a black hole vortex on his hand that will eventually swallow him whole|| and as a result asks basically every woman he meets to bear his children/acts as you can see from the gif

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u/Single-Ad6074 Sep 06 '26

Sad part is, the curse is passed down his bloodline. So if he were to succeed and a woman bears him those children, at least one of them will suffer the same fate

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u/ChompyRiley Sep 06 '26

Been a while since I've seen it, but as I recall, doesn't he HAVE TO pass down the curse otherwise it goes out of control and starts causing major destruction as he loses control?

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u/enimaraC Sep 06 '26

That will happen either way. All the curse-barriers eventually hit a can't hold back point. The point of having children is survival of a blood-line the curse was created to wipe-out. Each new child is a chance someone breaks the curse their parent couldn't. 

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u/jazz-music-starts Sep 06 '26

Oh my god, i totally forgot that. Somehow makes it worse, if he wants kids so badly while cursed he really needs to look into adoption 😭