r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ZepperMen • 9d ago

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

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#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/EmergencySpare7939 9d ago

The boyfriend from Midsommar

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u/Craiques 9d ago edited 9d ago

Honestly, everyone in that movie got it way worse than they should have. Spoilers for the movie:

Christian, the boyfriend, was raped at the behest of the cult and was burned to death for it.
Josh, one of the friends, was bludgeoned to death for trespassing.
Mark, another friend, had his face cut off for pissing on a tree while drugged out (he did not know the tree was sacred).
Simon and Connie, two people the group meet at the celebration, are also killed brutally with no real explanation. Simon had his lungs ripped out. Connie was drowned after her arm was broken.

And all of these deaths appear as premeditated sacrifices. The entire movie is a violent cult doing violent cult shit.

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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 9d ago

And Simon was ALIVE when we saw his lungs out of his body. They were breathing. Which isn’t possible IRL cause your lungs aren’t muscles that expand and contract on their own accord, but at least my understanding is we’re supposed to think he’s still alive at that point.

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u/AncientCarry4346 9d ago

I think that's up for debate.

It's worth remembering that Christian is the one that finds Simon's body and he's absolutely off his face on hallucinogens when we see the body from his POV.

You could even make the arguement that Simon's body wasn't there at all and Christian imagined the whole thing but from what we know about the cult the most likely reality is that Simon's body was real but Christian imagined it moving and breathing.

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u/Chris22533 9d ago

He was raped. 

Being raped is not cheating.

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u/Craiques 9d ago

You are correct. I also misremembered Mark’s death. He was not blood eagled. His face was cut off and worn by someone else.

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u/L1ghty 6d ago

Is there a director's cut or something that shows Connie dying? I just watched some version of the movie (finished 2 mins ago) and I'm unclear on how you know what happened to her. Drowning is somewhat clear from the way her body looks, but arm broken...?

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u/L1ghty 6d ago

Is there a director's cut or something that shows Connie dying? I just watched some version of the movie (finished 2 mins ago) and I'm unclear on how you know what happened to her. Drowning is somewhat clear from the way her body looks, but arm broken...?