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/nguyenjitsu Sep 06 '26

This is going to sound racist, but it's just a Japanese thing. Groping and things like that are still issues to this day even in real life

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u/Pescarese90 Sep 06 '26

In the story, Miroku is "justified" because he's carrying his father's curse (the black hole who becomes suddenly nerfed whenever they have to fight Naraku for the sake of the plot). As long Naraku lives, Miroku risks to getting killed by this thing and he's frentic to find a woman and grant a heir – you could see this as an attempt to leave a sign of your existence in this world, but also inflicting such a horrible curse to your son/daughter when you'll die.

I mean, Miruko could easily resolve this problem by cutting his hand off... no?

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u/Comfortable-Hat-1979 Sep 06 '26

Doesn't the black hole spread? If he cut off his hand, it would stand to reason that it would just spread to the stump on his arm

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u/Pescarese90 Sep 06 '26

That's the point! If you have a black hole stuck into your arm, why couldn't you try to sever your cursed arm from the body before the curse goes unleashed?

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u/KillerBeer01 Sep 06 '26

Because it'll just stay in your severed hand, except that you'll no longer be in position to control it anyhow. Black holes don't just stop existing when you don't look at them.