r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KalzK • 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/cleverpun0 Sep 06 '26
We see Bulma frivolously using dragonball wishes in Super for stuff like making her "buns perkier". Justbecause they had a wish "spare" and no stuff they really needed it for.
I could see her asking her massive power or something just to see what it felt like.
Not saying that is actually the case in the show. But could easily make a premise of a fanfic or something.