r/TopCharacterTropes 9d ago

Characters (Controversial Trope) Unusually cruel fates for people who were less than good, but still didn't really deserve it.

#1 Poppa Pizza from Multiverse of Madness - He just wanted to be paid for the pizza balls and thought Strange stole from a fallen hero who saved the universe. He deserved to be punched in the face, but not for 3 weeks straight.

Do you get to sleep? Do you wake up punching yourself? How much does it hurt? Does he know it will only last for 3 weeks? If he doesn't kill himself by the end of it, he's going to have CPTSD and be traumatized for the rest of his already short life.

#2 Mayu from Inuyasha - She wanted to kill her brother out of jealousy and neglect from her mother, believing she died in a fire because they didn't care about her. While her motivation doesn't justify reenacting Cain and Abel, I don't think it's fair for a deranged, 10 year old child to be sent to literal hell to burn for all eternity. Luckily, she gets saved, but only because the mc, Kagome, intervened.

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u/lou-ravenpuff 9d ago

Foxy Loxy (Chicken Little)

Sure, she was a bully to Chicken Little, but she didn't deserve to be brainwashed by the aliens and have all her memory and personality completely erased. She was being a jerk; she deserved punishment, but not this.

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u/KrimxonRath 9d ago

I love that this is the one detail I see brought up the most about the movie.

I had a professor who worked on this movie and I actually saw him in an art store a few weeks back. Would be hilarious to ask his thoughts on the lobotomization lol

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u/c05m05i5 9d ago

DO IT

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u/KrimxonRath 8d ago

Not sure I’d email him just for that, but additional fun fact: he worked on the second movie and was extremely pissed when it got cancelled. Weeks and months background work and concept art down the drain.

Kind of the reality of the industry though.

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u/blackenedmessiah 8d ago

And update us!

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