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/Rory_U Sep 06 '26

Where’s this from?

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u/Notte_di_nerezza Sep 06 '26

Inuyasha. Keep in mind, that particular show has the women slapping the perv repeatedly and generally calling his behavior out, perverted monk that he is.

But Sango and Miroku (pictured) do also get married and have lots of kids together. And it's implied she gets jealous later on (but before they get together), if he does this shit with other women.

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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 Sep 06 '26

Miroku is also heavily contrasted by Inuyasha who does even tiny things to respect women. He even holds his hands in fists when he's carrying Kagome so he's not grabbing her ass even though it would just be to support her.

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u/Shabobo Sep 06 '26

Also a bot account.