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/Beautiful-Cup4161 Sep 06 '26

The casual pervert who does stuff like grope women as a personality trait but you're generally supposed to like them and react to their antics in a "oh you silly rascal!" kind of way

Fell out of fashion for a good reason

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u/Rory_U Sep 06 '26

Where’s this from?

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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 Sep 06 '26

This particular gif is from Inuyasha. Miroku is one of the protagonists and really likeable, but you have to try to ignore the fact that he just randomly grabs women's asses and propositions them.

Back when this trope was popular, it was easy to ignore because it was everywhere. But it aged really badly.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Sep 06 '26

Miroku is one of the protagonists and really likeable, but you have to try to ignore the fact that he just randomly grabs women's asses and propositions them.

There is one redeeming quality about Miroku.

There was one girl who accepted his proposal, but she was underage.

So he told her no. Amazing for an anime pervert.

Then again he said to come back when she was older. But still he at least turned down an underage girl!

(underage for their world)