r/TopCharacterTropes • • Sep 11 '26

Hated Tropes "Good guys" committing perfidy (fake surrender) and it's treated as a clever heroic ploy instead of a war crime or something morally dubious

  1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Anakin pretends to surrender to the enemy multiple times during the Clone Wars. And no, it's not used to indicate that Anakin is falling to the Dark Side, other characters like Obi-Wan do it too.
  2. The Iliad. The Trojan Horse was a real dick move, a fake surrender compounded by a fake peace offering, followed by a massacre. I get that it was a different time, but still, most modern adaptations just treat it as a cool thing. One thing I'll give Nolan's The Odyssey credit for is that Odysseus recognizes that what his "clever plot" was wrong.

Perfidy is a serious war crime, because morality aside, in exchange for one victory, you're dooming all of your allies who might want to legitimately surrender in the future because now the enemy is just going to execute them, not to mention that now the enemy won't surrender to you and will just fight harder.

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u/Mummiskogen Sep 11 '26

The geneva SUGGESTION

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u/Femcel_Bambi Sep 11 '26

Come my child soldiers!

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u/Kamen_master1988 Sep 11 '26

Given that the clones rapidly grow “we can grow them in about half the time” they are quite literally bred for war child soldiers.

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u/Jedal_1 Sep 11 '26

I love clowns!

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u/Leprosy_Disease Sep 11 '26

Full Metal Jacket!

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u/ihavewaytoomanyminis Sep 11 '26

You leave the Canadians out of this.

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u/zrice03 Sep 11 '26

Star Wars Universe: "What's Geneva? Do they have Falcons on that planet?"

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u/ZealousidealComb7891 Sep 11 '26

The Geneva Checklist...