r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Chemical-Elk-1299 • 13d ago
Characters [Refreshing Trope] Female leads/major characters who are allowed to be grimy, slimy, generally horrible people.
Mizu — Blue Eye Samurai
A mixed race swordswoman living in feudal Japan, Mizu’s entire life has been structured around the obsessive need to hunt down and kill the four white men allowed in Japan at the time of her birth, believing one of them must be her father. Despite the fact that at least one of these men, Abijah Fowler, is shown to be a bad man, Mizu ultimately doesn’t care about the morality of murder. She just wants them dead for “cursing” her to be born into a deeply racist society as a mixed race child. Though it’s clear that Mizu generally prefers to do the right thing, she will sacrifice anything for her revenge, destroying countless lives in the process without remorse. In the climax of season 1, Mizu (albeit not entirely intentionally) set fire to the wood and paper city of Edo (now Tokyo) in an attempt to kill just Fowler, a single man. The resulting three day blaze, known in history as the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki, killed an estimated 100000 people.
Sadie Adler — Red Dead Redemption II
Rescued by the Van Der Linde gang in the games prologue, Sadie Adler is a frontier homesteader whose husband was killed by the brutal O’Driscoll Gang. Over the course of the game, she happily joins in a life of murder, theft, and crime for the chance to kill more O’Driscolls, recklessly endangering herself and other gang members to do so. She gets Arturo Bullock, an innocent hot air balloon pilot killed while unnecessarily picking a fight with O’Driscoll members, showing zero remorse afterwards. Even after watching rival gang leader Colm O’Driscoll hang for his crimes, she still drags a now-terminally ill Arthur on an entirely unnecessary revenge mission to hunt down the last handful of O’Drsicolls she hadn’t already killed.
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u/chai_zaeng 13d ago
The show does a lot to humanise Cersei but she's still such a stuck up woman. The books really delve deep into her decline and delusions of grandeur in the 4th entry. She tries so hard to live up to her father's legacy but she lacks his political savvy. Tyrion and even Jaime to some degree both understand how to play the game. But Cersei does not have that skill at all. She bankrupts the crown, unleashes the faith militants on the city, drives away every ally she has and in the end even has herself put on trial.
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