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/Far-Revolution3225 Sep 06 '26
The female stalker played for laughs. This is the inverse of the Persistent Partner trope. It feeds into the double standard of "its creepy when men do it, but it's ok if a girl does it".
And Ill guilty admit, shows like Chowder still make me laugh with trope, but it has honestly just left a sour flavor in everyone's mouth.
As a side note, Im so glad that they ditched this trope for Amy Rose in the Sonic Universe, and she became a FAR BETTER CHARACTER became of it