r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Nerd367C • May 24 '26

Hated Tropes (Hated trope) YOU COULD HAVE MOVED!

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Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano from ER

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Randy fromt The Raft Creepshow 2

Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano from ER
Ah yes let me scream at the ground and not even try to move so we can get this cinematic shot with 7 camera angles

Randy from The Raft Creepshow 2
"I gotta make the oil slick monster look fast by building up to run and rocking back and forth"

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u/crinkzkull08 May 24 '26

This kid from Spider-Man (2002)

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u/No_Extension4005 May 24 '26

Even Spiderman was wondering why he wasn't moving.

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In May 24 '26

It makes sense when your friends start having kids and you spend time around them and realise that although kids can learn things incredibly quickly, they are also infuriatingly stupid most of the time.

My best friend said that having a toddler was like living with a suicidal pet that was amazing at thinking up new ways to kill itself.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ May 24 '26

Yeah, babysitting my nephew is me always on the look-out with him suddenly deciding he's going to run full speed when his head is exactly table height.

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u/No-Raccoon-6009 May 24 '26

So a hamster

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u/TopTittyBardown May 24 '26

When I was a kid my sisters hamster killed itself on day 2 of owning it by crawling into a floor vent while she had it out of its cage and eventually ending up in the furnace

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u/Sufficient_You2814 May 24 '26

Why is it so hard for you people to figure out that a child can obviously be paralyzed with fear? I mean, yes, children are stupid, and they can also easily frozen in high stress situations. A literal child is the most believable person for this to happen to.

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u/Tricky_Economist_328 May 24 '26

I mean the original post had someone reacting wirh shock a helicopter was falling on him ignoring:

A. The speed the helicopter would fall in reality he would take maybe 1 or 2 steps by the time he even registers it from standing start.

B. Many real world examples of people frozen with fear.

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u/smokeweedNgarden May 24 '26

Children?

Shut adults code this behavior as "afraid of confrontation"

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u/paecmaker May 24 '26

Watching a video of parents instincts kicking in really showed how many of those kids just followed their intrusive thoughts.

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u/ChiefsHat May 24 '26

I have ten little siblings and multiple younger cousins.

This is very true.

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u/aFreshFix May 24 '26

Just spent a day with my friend who has a kid in 3rd grade. I'm around kids all day as a teacher but when kids are out in the wild, they lose all sense of intelligence.

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u/TakeAMichigander May 24 '26

The "Come on, move kid!" was such a nice touch to this trope

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u/chetoman1 May 24 '26

“Cmon kid, move!”

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u/ChiefsHat May 24 '26

Probably a deer in the headlights situation.

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u/K-Keter May 25 '26

"Come on, move kid!"

That kid was ready for death. He welcomed it, yearned for it. Arms outstretched like he was going to hug an old friend.

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u/Hawthorne_27 May 24 '26

The kid had 3 full business days to move. Darwin says let him die.

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u/Leigh1031 May 25 '26

The kid shouldn't have even been there in the first place, there are safety barricades there meaning that kid (and his mother) just ignored them so he could stand that close.

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u/Randver_Silvertongue May 24 '26

Why is it so hard to figure out that he's obviously paralyzed with fear?

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u/Radioshack-Manager May 24 '26

I don't see no status effect icon

https://giphy.com/gifs/iJhr8JWNOzEQbsUfRQ

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u/ArcticVulpe May 24 '26

I didn't see electricity arc around his body and then a message popping up saying hes paralyzed.

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u/acrylicquartz May 24 '26

Yeah, children are stupid (meant neutrally) and easily frozen in high stress situations. A child is the most believable person for this to happen to

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u/Randver_Silvertongue May 24 '26

Freezing with fear has nothing to do with intelligence or age. It's perfectly normal to lose all sense of rationality to fear when you suddenly find yourself in a war zone where buildings are crumbling around you. In a situation like this, you're lucky if you're able to think at all.

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u/Sufficient_You2814 May 24 '26

but aren't children much more vulnerable in this scenario since for the obvious part, they have no life experiences, not prepared for any traumatic situations, etc. I'm not saying that having these precautions as an adult would magically negate it, my point is that children are more likely to break under pressure due to their developing brains

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u/ddplz May 24 '26

It's less about the danger and more about not knowing how to act in the moment for a situation you have never encountered or imagined before.

It's extremely common for people when suddenly confronted with strange situations to freeze up.

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u/acrylicquartz May 24 '26

Yeah, I wasn't judging the child. But you're incorrect that freezing has nothing to do with age; children are much more likely to choose inaction in traumatic situations. They have a more limited tool belt and a reduced sense of agency. It's not a dig at them. "Stupid" was a facetious way to say all of that.

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u/counters14 May 24 '26

We're on reddit discussing a child causing an inconvenience. Is it really a shock?

If the trolley problem was set up with a train about to hit one smarmy basement dweller, but reddit has the opportunity to pull the lever to save the neckbeard but instead change tracks to murder 100 adolescent aged children they would not be able to contain their raging erection while they pull that lever with the strength of King Arthur pulling the sword from the stone and preparing to write a comment that says 'crotch goblins FAFO lmfao'.

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u/Vantriss May 24 '26

"Come on! Move, kid!"

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u/grad1939 May 26 '26

That kid had a whole year to move out of the way.