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/cpMetis Sep 06 '26
I was so fucking taken aback when I had a marriage proposal get interrupted.... while they were on the Ferris wheel.
Or that one time a girl interrupted a guy getting asked out despite having never met any of the people involved. She had just been added, saw a girl asking a guy out, and just hopped in on it. Afterwards girl who asked guy out got a relationship, girl who loved the guy got rejected, and new girl just casually continued on her way as if nothing happened.