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/chuueeriies Sep 06 '26

Or maybe she just doesn't like her naturally curvy hair. I know it's hard concept for some men to realize that women aren't dumb and actually know what they want and what they like.

Just because it was a popular cliche back in a day, doesn't mean that we got traumatized into straightening our hair.

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u/frustratedcuriosity Sep 06 '26

My sister basically got bullied into straightening her hair and she's still a teenager. It's definitely not just a "back in the day" cliche and my heart breaks for my sister because she genuinely thinks that she can't be pretty with her natural hair.

Edit* she wasn't just bullied by her peers (the worst came from other girls) but by her teachers too

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u/chuueeriies Sep 06 '26

What kind of evil piece of shit town did she live in. I've never heard of such hate for curly hair. It's comically evil.

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u/frustratedcuriosity Sep 06 '26

I'm more curious about the rock you live under...

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u/chuueeriies Sep 06 '26

Under a rock where people don't act like comically evil cartoon villains because your hair grow differently.

Y'all are genuinely fucked in the head, wherever you are from.

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u/coffee-bat Sep 06 '26

wow way to victim blame. you're extremely priveledged to not have witnessed this severe bullying (or, honestly judging by your comments, you probably did and assumed the victim was at fault or overreacting...).

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u/JackLaytonsMoustache Sep 06 '26

"You got bullied for having curly hair? Youre fucked in the head"

Youre just full of bad takes, arent ya?

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u/chuueeriies Sep 06 '26

Is it some sort of debate strategy where you purposely misunderstand what someone is saying to paint them in a bad light?

Or are you actually dense?

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u/JackLaytonsMoustache Sep 06 '26

Youre being told by multiple people that something happens and youre denying it because your personal experience was different. 

I dont think im the dense one. 

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u/chuueeriies Sep 06 '26

Well start thinking. You should move around the jello in your head at least sometimes.

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u/JackLaytonsMoustache Sep 06 '26

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹