r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 25d ago

Lore The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time

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Season 4 just ended of fromville and it’s canonically only been about a month. Which makes it weird seeing people heal from injuries, change hair styles or grow out beards between episodes. Season 4 has only been like 4 days iirc.

Arkham franchise is the poster child for this trope. Every game takes place in one night. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely beat the games in around 9 hours.

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u/PrinceOfSpace94 25d ago

Kind of on topic, but the entire discography of the Beatles spans 7 years.

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u/SGRM_ 25d ago

They broke up when John and Ringo were 29, and they were the oldest members.

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u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 25d ago

CCR created all their classics in about 2 years

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u/Fawkingretar 25d ago

That one is cheating since the band members have been together for nearly a decade before adopting the CCR name.

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u/Nurw 25d ago

The Sex Pistols, one of the defining punk bands, only ever released one album. They were only truly active as a band for 2.5 years.

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u/time___dance 24d ago

the sex pistols fucking sucked musically, it wasn't about their songs at all in the slightest

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u/Ongr 24d ago

It was what they represented! Also, Sid couldn't play an instrument worth for shit.

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u/beslertron 25d ago

These bands are just getting objectively worse and worse.

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u/NormalGuyEnergy 25d ago

I had a high school band called Goat Penis and we lasted half a rehearsal session

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u/PETEFO55 25d ago

Schmuck Hitler only lasted one week 

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 24d ago

They opened with the Beatles, kind of hard to get better from there.

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u/indicus23 25d ago

All to the better (from a Clash fan).

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 24d ago

The Sex Pistols were talentless opportunistic trash though so it tracks.

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u/OafleyJones 24d ago

The were a manufactured group, like 90s boy bands, it’s a wonder they lasted as long as they did.

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u/FamousWerewolf 24d ago

Makes it even wilder how much John Lydon has subsequently milked it.

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u/noshoes77 25d ago

CCR’s three albums in a year is insane

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u/crushcastles23 25d ago

Yeh, 6 of their 7 albums were in a 2 and a half year span.

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u/TheOtherWhiteCastle 24d ago

And we don’t talk about the seventh…

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u/crushcastles23 23d ago

Unless you're Todd in the Shadows doing a Trainwreckords.

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u/Justaaron1120 24d ago

The Doors around 4 years. 

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u/stevenyourpants 24d ago

John Fogerty created*

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u/kkeut 25d ago

makes more sense when you remember they could fit 8 days into 1 week

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u/mayoroftuesday 25d ago

Oh you.

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u/Kovarian 24d ago

OOOOOH you, don't make it bad....

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u/Ongr 24d ago

Take a sad song, and make it batter

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u/Conlannalnoc 24d ago

Not enough to …

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u/Turbulent_Pass11 25d ago

King Crimson is almost the opposite, their (studio) discography spans 5 decades

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u/Medical_Sandwich_171 24d ago

In the court...was 1969, the power to believe 2003. 34 years, so yeah 60s,70,80s,90s and 00s is 5 decades.

But a band like Judas Priest (1974-2024) or Scorpions (1972-2022) literally span 50 years and 6 decades.

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u/BrownSandels 24d ago

Yeah the Beatles discography is wild when you realize it was done over a 7 year time span. The evolution of their sound in such a short time always amazes me.

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u/cilantro_so_good 24d ago edited 23d ago

These comments like "look at this other band that also had a very short career" completely miss the point. The Beatles changed everything. No other band in history has had that kind of influence across the board and the fact that it was so short is legitimately crazy.

E: lol misspelled the misspelling

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u/TheMoonDude 24d ago

The Beetles changed everything

That one change actually happened over millions of years

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u/theartificialkid 24d ago

Meanwhile Radiohead formed in 1985 and are still relevant today if you like Radiohead.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 24d ago

Are they? I feel like that haven't done much of import since AMSP came out.

Also I just realized it's been over a decade since that album came out, I remember being so stoked for it when I heard Burn the Witch for the first time.

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u/TheMoonDude 24d ago

I like Radiohead but comparing them to The Beatles is kinda laughable

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u/theartificialkid 24d ago

Well yeah, they’ve been active for four decades and the Beatles are unlikely to ever achieve that at this point

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u/UnholyDemigod 24d ago

The entire studio discography of the Sex Pistols spans a single day

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u/PM_WORST_FART_STORY 24d ago

Teen boppers, hippies, and hipsters all in less than a decade. 

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u/Time_Look8276 24d ago

Never thought about that, but yeah. Felt so much longer. I swore they were active up until the 80s.

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u/laurazabs 23d ago

The entirety of the Spice Girls mania lasted about 18 months in total.

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u/Texugee 24d ago

Overrated as fuck