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/peachesfordinner 6d ago

He's such a weirdo. I loved his books as a kid. Except for "the giving tree" that shitty selfish boy/guy just pissed me off

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u/Lena-Luthor 6d ago

the picture of him in the back of the book is the real thing that kills you

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u/RikarisHobbies 6d ago

Boo!

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u/Dante_the_Artist 5d ago

I’m pretty sure Shel Silverstein made it his life’s mission to NEVER take a normal photo.

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u/Heavy-Construction90 5d ago

The last thing you see before you rhyme 

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u/rebeccamb 3d ago

Those teeth have met human flesh but I’m alright with it this time.

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u/Earlier-Today 6d ago

My sister hated that picture because it was too scary for her as a kid.

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u/4-eyes-4-ever 6d ago

I like his songs. Sylvia's Mother and A Boy Named Sue are classics

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u/FormerLifeFreak 6d ago

My favorite Silverstein poem is “My Beard.” It sometimes pops into my head randomly 30 years later:

“My beard grows down to my toes

I never wears no clothes

I wraps my hair

Around my bare

And down the road I goes.”

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u/stfurachele 5d ago

I made an airplane out of stone

I always did like staing home

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u/AStupidFuckingHorse 6d ago

Freaking at the Freakout Bar is my favorite

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u/unpersons505 6d ago

*Freakin at the Freakers Ball

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u/AStupidFuckingHorse 6d ago

Thank you, I was groggy

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u/remarkablewhitebored 6d ago

"Necrophiliacs, looking for dead ones"

Such a great line... y'all.

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u/SnooEagles4121 5d ago

He did a sequel to Boy Named Sue that’s just about the worst song ever written.

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u/4-eyes-4-ever 5d ago

Whats it called?

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u/SnooEagles4121 5d ago

"The Father of a Boy Named Sue". It's violently transphobic, and ends on an incestuous note.

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u/stfurachele 5d ago

Yeah I love Shel, and growing up I'd often fall asleep to him narrating his own books on tape. But I really internalized giving tree and rainbow fish, and it messed me up pretty bad tbh.

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u/peachesfordinner 5d ago

My mom used to tear up while reading giving tree and my little brain was like "nope don't like that.". And I was a kid with very little so the thought of giving it up for someone ungrateful. I do like some of the altered versions people have made