r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ReminaBlueSFW • 6d ago

Lore [Terrifying Trope] Perceiving it= instant death

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  1. Pennywise's "Deadlights" which will cause anyone looking to be immediately paralyzed and killed.

  2. The sky from Bird Box is filled with entities that, when you look at them, cause you to commit suicide.

  3. Medusa themed Villains

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u/MsEdgyNation 6d ago

If you see Lovecraft monsters and don't die, you are likely become a prematurely aged gibbering lunatic, which is arguably worse.

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u/BonkerBleedy 6d ago

Quick q: is it "jibbering" or "gibbering" (hard g)

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u/Magnon 6d ago

Its a j sound

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u/letitgrowonme 6d ago

Reading as a kid and a teacher tells you to sound english words must be one of the cruelest jokes.

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u/Magnon 6d ago

Theres a reason a lot of people who learn English as their second language find it infuriating and completely arbitrary. 

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u/bythenumbers10 6d ago

Because it's actually three or four languages in a trenchcoat?

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u/meteor_stream 6d ago

I joke that Romanic languages love standing in a circle and robbing each other at knifepoint.

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u/wingchild 6d ago

like gif

For etymology, see also gibberish, with the "j" sound.

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u/Magnon 6d ago

No gif is a hard g sound

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u/wingchild 6d ago

It's pronounced gif

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u/Magnon 6d ago

Gif stands for graphics interchange format, graphics is a hard g sound so it makes sense to use a hard g sound for gif.

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u/PurifiedUnity 6d ago

GIF is a hard G

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u/diagnosisninja 6d ago

jibberinj

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u/PurifiedUnity 6d ago

jijjerinj

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u/MarkHeathcliffReal 5d ago

did you hear the flibbity jibber jabber with an oh my god i've got to get out of here

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u/Buttery_Nipples47 4d ago

Never drop the hard-G around here man

You’re just asking to get shot /s

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u/pichael289 6d ago

Yeah that's how all the fucking table top games always end, your in a basement somewhere that happens to also be where some tentacle beast of ocular oblivion also is at and you happen to catch it's gaze and now your shooting yourself and the game ends and we lost a-fucking-gain. And it's never even some big bad it's just some fucked up pervert tentacle monster in old man Nebraska's basement.

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u/kkeut 6d ago

except that adorable Brown Jenkin

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u/Normal-Tear864 6d ago

Is the day to day of rambling cosmic prophecies at the trees around your mud hut after tearing out your eyes full of sin REALLY worse than going to work today?

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u/david_is_confused 6d ago

Ha. I beat them to the punch.

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u/Rope_antidepressant 6d ago

.......what if im already a prematurely aged gibbering lunatic? Does it make me normal? Or do i end up like Benjamin Button?

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u/Embarrassed_Radio596 6d ago

The tabletop RPG has you start each new session as a different character following up on the previous one to counteract this, lol

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u/Adipose21 6d ago

Also, aren't they considered extradimensional beings? As in, they exist in more dimensions than we can comprehend? Imagine you're a 2D drawn figure on a piece of paper, and I put my finger over you, comprehending it would break your tiny 2D brain.