r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Argie_Theft_Auto3 • 1d ago

miscellaneous [Dark Trope] Implied child death

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• Family Guy - In a deleted scene, Evil Stewie is shown entering the bully's house and giving him a noogie. It seems rather harmless until Stewie mentions "Why's his knuckle turning red?" Then screams of the bully are heard, implying that Evil Stewie noogied his head so hard it punched a hole through the bully's head.

• Old (2021) - In a deleted cold opening, a man is shown crawling and shouting for help in the aging island. What makes this more terrifying is that this person could originally have been a baby or child, it's implied since he's walking on all fours

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u/jazzy3492 1d ago

The Irish immigrant kids in Titanic.

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u/Dare_Soft 1d ago

Never forget the titanic was a tragedy because they didn’t follow ANY safety codes.

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u/Sebastianlim 21h ago

In fairness, they WERE following the safety codes of the time.

The safety codes of the time were just shit and outdated.

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u/COGspartaN7 16h ago

"... And by the fortieth day if the bird returneth with an olive branch then we eat the bird because he ate olives and will be tastier for it"

Are you using the Bible for modern ship safety proceedures?

"And Lo on the sixth day we eat the non believers."

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u/Working-Ferret-4296 13h ago

Yeah no they didn't follow one of the most important codes. They didn't have enough life boats because they didn't want the extra weight slowing it down. That was definitely not safe but they let them get away with it because the ship was "unsinkable"

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u/Sebastianlim 13h ago

Incorrect. The ship had MORE lifeboats than the codes required at the time.

It's just that, as I said, the codes were outdated.

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u/HospitalLazy1880 23h ago

This was also back when the safety codes were optional.

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u/jazzy3492 16h ago

They abided by every regulation they were supposed to, it's just that the regulations clearly weren't comprehensive enough, which is why many maritime safety laws changed after the Titanic disaster (eg, requiring enough lifeboats for everyone, requiring wireless communications to be turned on 24/7, etc).

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u/Left1Brain 21h ago

She was built within safety regulations of the time and on the idea that help would never be too far away. Which that last point was almost true, but the captain of the SS Californian was a colossal cunt so it didn’t work out.

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u/godkingnaoki 21h ago

That's wildly untrue. The Titanic was one of the safest built ships up to that point. It also had more lifeboats than was legally required.

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u/Development-Feisty 20h ago

Actually the biggest problem was the life boats were being put down half empty, they didn’t really have any training and how to do an evacuation

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u/RepresentativeMail10 19h ago

They had training, but the training was outdated, the idea behind a lifeboat back then wasn't that you would evacuate the whole ship at once, it was that you would ferry passengers between a rescue ship since usually the shipping lanes have a lot of ships in them. However, Titanic sailed right after a coal strike had ended, and the nearest ship, the Californian, never came

It also didn't help that passengers were very, very hesitant to get into the boats. I mean, if you were a passenger on the Titanic would you rather stay aboard the warm, lit up, very slowly sinking ship, or would you rather be put into a small boat and lowered into the dead of night knowing that just 5 years ago almost everyone in a lifeboat died aboard the SS Valencia?

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u/dragonborndnd 14h ago

Ironically they were actually scheduled for a lifeboat drill on the morning the ship sank

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u/just_a_person_maybe 20h ago

No, it was because they didn't have safety codes yet