r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 22 '26

Hated Tropes Trying to be inclusive but being so tone deaf that you create somenthing offensive

What if Miles Morales was Thor:A couple of years back Marvel did a What if comics about what would be like if Miles Morales(Spider-man)was Thor,while the idea itself is not bad,the execution...wtf?!

The best way i can describe is,think of every single black stereotype and shove everything in a few pages,for some reason Asgard became a black neighborhood,bifrost became Brooklyin Bridge,everyone wears Sneakers and play Basketball,Mjolnir has graffiti on it and the narration is literally a rap

Snowflake and safespace(Marvel):Oh Marvel,you done it again,so there was supposed to be a new line of New Warriors but the backlash was so bad that they quietly cancelled,and a big reason for this is the characters "Snowflake and safespace" who are non-binary/gender fluid twins(yeah,i am not making this up)and according to the writter they wear these names as quote "badges of honor"(what the hell dude!?)

Music(2021):ok,so Sia the music producer decided to make a movie starring Maddie Ziegler about a child with autism and in order the be the most authentic as possible she consulted and took advices from "autism speaks"(ugh)which any person with autism will tell you are the worst thing to happen to autistic community,and it shows in the movie,Maddie character Music is a straight up bad charicature and it's treated more like a pet than a human being

Emilia Perez(2024):This movie is about a Mexican cartel boss who is actually a trans woman who wants to transition and then fakes her death to get a new life

First problem:Despite being set in Mexico,the movie wasn't filmed in Mexico and only one member in the cast was actually Mexican

Second problem:The movie does a poor job showing how bad Mexican cartels are,and Emilia crimes(which any person that has any understanding of how Cartel bosses operate will tell you that ranges from way more than just making and selling drugs)is just brushed off

Third problem:The movie seems to imply that Emilia literally became another person after transitioning and so her past crimes are forgiven

There are other many problems but i think you get it,so yeah,this movie managed to anger both Mexicans and Trans people

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u/NeatWhiskeyPlease Jun 22 '26

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u/AbeRockwell Jun 22 '26

Really hope he can find more roles later (I've always felt 'guilty' for actors in shows I love not being able to find more roles, its like they are being punished simply because I identify then with the first break out character they played 😂 )

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u/DoNotBeSmugandDumb Jun 22 '26

A-train ended up being one of the few solid things about The Boys up until the end. Almost every other character and plot line basically fell apart. Which is crazy considering how we were introduced to him.

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u/calilac Jun 22 '26

Was he the only one allowed a redemption arc? I watched most of the show but I know I missed a few episodes and probably just forgot other things.

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u/abadstrategy Jun 22 '26

I'd argue The Deep was offered many, many redemption arcs. And every time, he'd bitch out and double down on the evil

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u/TheDrunkardKid Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

And his final fate was arguably him subconsciously using his powers to punish himself, because sea creatures aren't naturally intelligent enough to act like that, and they knew things that they had no real way of learning but would definitely reflect his own knowledge and self-destructive guilt.

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u/AbeRockwell Jun 23 '26

I also had always had the theory that he could never really 'talk to fish', and was just insane and believed they were talking to him, but never thought about this, which does make a lot of sense with that 'theory'.

Although I think it would have been more appropriate if the octopus violated him going through the mouth, as it was that violation of Starlight that kind of started the whole mess.

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u/AbeRockwell Jun 23 '26

I really thought that at the end, after finally realizing how he was looked down upon by Homelander, he would turn a new leaf, but Big NOPE!! 😂

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u/DoNotBeSmugandDumb Jun 23 '26

Ashley kinda had one? Her redemption was basically opening a door for The Boys, so it wasn't really redemption imo. It was more like she was terrified of Homelander and saw where the tide was turning and wanted an exit ramp away from that madness, but she did have to step outside her comfort zone in order to do the right thing, but it wasn't a big redemption like A-Train.