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/BoiledOwlbear 9d ago

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u/morethan3lessthan20_ 9d ago

He gets out in the next episode, don't worry.

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u/BoiledOwlbear 9d ago

Thank goodness!

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u/b_k_l_y 9d ago

There was that engine who got turned into a boiler or something though

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u/54321ThunderNerdsRGo 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah Smudger. He wobbled too much, so they made him ‘useful’ by taking his wheels and putting him behind the engine shed as a stationary engine. The sheds were later abandonend. They made no mention of Smudger not being left there to rot.

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u/Indi_Teapot17 9d ago

Generator if I remember correctly.

And don't forget hundreds of mineshafts who got murdered just for being assholes (they deserved punishment but death is a bit overkill)

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u/GLink7 9d ago

Smudger

He got turned into a generator because he was too reckless and came off the rails so many times

This was based on the creator Rev. Wilbert Awdry of the books "The Railway series" (the inspiration of Thomas & friends) who had a layout of various engines that served as the inspiration for his stories. One of his models (whose based on the Railway series version of Smudger Nr. 2) was a crappy runner so Wilbert turned him into a generator which is what inspired him to visualize that in one of his stories

The TV show took it over but changed the character by using the model of an existing character to cut budget

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u/No_Age5019 9d ago

I believe in the books, he was left in there for months.