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/daywall Sep 06 '26

That killed one piece for me.

Couldn't stand sanji.

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u/Dekipi Sep 06 '26

I can’t do it with a lot of anime but MT is unforgivable and the fans are the fucking worst who are somehow blind deaf and fucking dumb to his pedophilia, grooming bullshit.

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u/Totally-Human-Red Sep 06 '26

For any MT fans reading this: try to defend bottom left. I'll wait, and call Chris Hansen.

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u/SlothsAreFuckinRad Sep 06 '26

what the fuuuuucckkk did I just read