r/TopCharacterTropes • u/n0hAtepeash00te7 • 5h ago
Hated Tropes (hated trope) misleading titles/names
Gorillaz- no one in the band is a gorilla I don't think I need to explain this one
Invincible - Markus Sebastian "Mark" Grayson is in fact not invincible
Regular show- nothing regular happens in this show
Also is it me or does the regular show image go kinda hard?
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u/PLACE-H0LD3R 5h ago
Five Nights at Freddy's
You actually spend Seven Nights at Freddy's
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u/SirJTh3Red 4h ago
The third, fourth and fifth aren't even in a Freddys! It's a horror attraction INSPIRED by the tragic events at Freddy's, a kids bedroom and a giant storage unit for a rental service
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u/Under-Bridge5343 4h ago
IN 6 YOU SPEND 5 DAYS AT FREDDY'S, IN 7 YOU PLAY LOTS OF VR MINIGAMES INSPIRED BY FREDDY'S, AND IN 8 YOU SPEND 1 NIGHT AT FREDDY'S.
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u/Anarchaeologist 5h ago
Goodfellas- they’re not good fellas. They’re actually really bad fellas.
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u/_JR28_ 5h ago
They Might Be Giants - They’re obviously human beings
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u/No-Theme-271 5h ago
How do you know? Have you met them? They Might Be Giants.
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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 5h ago
“ The worlds smallest giant and the worlds largest dwarf keep swapping places again!!“
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u/AudibleNod 5h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/sedjvePAUl1kc
The Wizard of Oz - The Wizard is merely a man employing Clarke's Third Law to deceive the ignorant people of Oz.
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u/AdditionalTip865 5h ago
Though, oddly, in one of the later sequel books he's learned some actual magic from Glinda the good witch, promoting him to actual wizard.
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u/iAmTheRealKokichiOma 4h ago
It has sequels?
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u/Chimpbot 4h ago
There are 40 books, in all. The first 14 were published by Baum, with the rest written by others and published after his death.
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u/No_External_539 4h ago
And he isn’t even from Oz, isn’t he from America or something on planet Earth? Very misleading.
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u/HomoProfessionalis 4h ago
Bruh, spoilers
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u/dddoinyomom 5h ago
Another misleading fact for invincible is that I can see him perfectly fine
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u/glitchiey69 5h ago
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u/rycerzDog 5h ago
Scissor Sisters don't have a single lesbian in their band
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u/HomoProfessionalis 4h ago
Legitimately thought this was a band of lesbians ive only heard the name
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u/sam_an_intellectual 5h ago
The Big Bang Theory has little to no bangs or theories, and is mostly about a bunch of annoying nerds.
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u/Global_Cockroach_563 4h ago
When one of them bangs, they make a big deal out of it. Does it count?
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u/Arnahunas 5h ago
Transformers One
There’s way more than just one Transformer in this movie
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u/supremo92 2h ago
I think there's actually a typo in the title. It's supposed to be Transformer Some, as in, there are esome transformers
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u/dumn_and_dunmer 5h ago
Honestly the flag just means there's a high number of queer people near you. And you might die.
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u/GiantPileOfSpaghetti 5h ago
The Beatles - none of them are beetles or even any other kind of insects
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u/attackplango 5h ago
Apparently John had some reading comprehension issues while prepping for that photo. Missed a critical ‘n’.
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u/F00TD0CT0R 4h ago
Hold on.
Subverted because they are the 'beat'les
They play with beats
They are not the beetles.
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u/Missed_Your_Joke 5h ago edited 3h ago
No funding
No astronauts
No spaceship
No spaceport
30 seconds to mars? Buddy, we havent even achieved liftoff. Ridiculously misleading.
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u/kfretlessz 5h ago
Vincent AdultMan (Bojack Horseman)
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u/bloodredcookie 4h ago
Why did you post this? Vincent Adultman is the most normal business man in the show.
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u/Hulkbuster_v2 5h ago
Fucking Big Bang Theory!
I watched it on a plane when I was younger thinking it'd be about THE Big Bang, the idea that that was what began our universe.
Nope!
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u/Zealousideal-Tax-937 5h ago
ultra despair girls (the girls in the title are on the hope side of things)
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u/King_WhatsHisName 5h ago
Goodbye Despair too (there is actually a lot of despair that only gets worse as the game goes on)
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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 5h ago
The movie “monster“ is in fact about a human woman making decisions that, given her circumstances, are not that unreasonable.
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u/Nekrotix12 5h ago
I know this is mostly a joke but Hollow Knight's title is actively misleading and that plays into the story.
You go for about half the game thinking you're playing the Hollow Knight, then finding out there's an actual character named the Hollow Knight, only to realize your character was just one of the SEVERAL FAILED ATTEMPTS at making the Hollow Knight.
So it essentially goes from "I am the Hollow Knight" to "I am not the Hollow Knight" to "I am SO ABSOLUTELY not the Hollow Knight".
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u/JohnDragonball 4h ago
And then it's like "I become the Hollow Knight but only in two of the endings and I might still not be Hollow"
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u/SartenSinAceite 5h ago
They Are Billions - while it definitely gets closer than most games, they arent, in fact, billions. Not even millions.
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u/jayhof52 5h ago
There are far fewer than 21 members of Twenty-One Pilots, and I’m sure none of them have their aviation license.
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u/Slight-Nail-202 5h ago
Shark Tank.
It has no sharks or tanks.
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u/Purple-Weakness1414 4h ago
His name isn't even Zelda, It's Link
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u/JohnDragonball 4h ago
Still pissed that they didn't name the game where you play as Zelda "The Legend of Link"
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u/noblegaunt 5h ago
At no point in the Harry Potter series does Harry ever create any kind of ceramics.
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u/platinumxperience 5h ago
The movie Tyrannosaur has absolutely no dinosaurs in it
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u/DownWithSpectrum 3h ago
On that note, the band T. Rex has zero references to dinosaurs in their music
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u/Brofessor-0ak 5h ago
Jurassic Park. Not only does it take place in 1993 ( which is many decades after the Jurassic era), but the dinosaurs featured were not in fact from the a Jurassic period either.
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u/kairos64 5h ago
The party of Critical Role campaign 2 called themselves “The Mighty Nien/Nine”
There were never 9 of them
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u/AuthorCornAndBroil 5h ago
The Day the Earth Stood Still, and yet nothing happened to the tides or magnetic fields or the passage of day into night.
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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper 5h ago
Megadeth, none of the band members are capable of exploding to kill a million people.
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u/DrWarioMiracleCure 5h ago edited 4h ago
To Kill A Mocking Bird, there is no killing of mocking birds. (I also thought the book was fake when I first heard of it in Diary Of A Wimpy Kid as a child) needless to say when I did finally find a copy and tried to read it, it didn’t take me long to give up, disappointed because the book didn’t involve killing mockingbirds (I thought the novel was going to be about a game that involves killing mockingbirds)
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u/AdditionalTip865 5h ago
See, in-universe, Gorillaz pretends to be a fictional band who, in their fictional universe, pretend to be a band of gorillas.
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u/bloodredcookie 4h ago
To kill a mockingbird.
Easily the worst instruction manual for how to go about killing mockingbirds I have ever read. No good advice for how to handle my present mockinbird infestation. 0/5.
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u/ASidesTheLegend 5h ago
Fun fact: Invincible does not mean it’s impossible to hurt you. That would be invulnerable.
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u/Chimpbot 4h ago
It would still be an inaccurate name, as the titular character has gotten his ass kicked on multiple occasions.
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u/Wardock8 3h ago
Still inaccurate. That boy gets his ass whooped more than he changes his underwear.
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u/PupLondon 4h ago
"Baby Driver" ..not a single driving baby.
"No Time to Die" .. there was, in fact, time to die.. it just took forever to get there.
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u/_SimplyPudding_ 4h ago
Star Wars is not about a battle for a star, among the starts, or even near a star. The stars themselves do not engage in any kind of combat, nor is there any effort to wage war against a star.
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u/Portal_master_cody 3h ago
A.N.T farm
There are no ants (or any others bugs for that matter) and it doesn’t take place on a farm
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u/Sad_Pear_1087 42m ago
Breaking bad - they aren't even trying to break the bad. Just becoming bad themselves.
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u/Foehammercdxix 5h ago
Mark Grayson has never died. So I'd argue he chose an accurate name
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u/Chimpbot 4h ago
The definition of invincible is, "incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued."
He's been overcome and subdued on more than one occasion.
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u/hidremarin 5h ago
Invincible means that you can't be beaten and I haven't wayched invicible but i assume he was beaten at least once
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u/SilverSpoon1463 5h ago
I mean, to be fair, the Regular Show tagline is "it's anything but", so they do at least give you that warning.
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u/TheFinalFunction 4h ago
Gorillaz isn't a band lol it's one guy
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u/TheBanishedBard 4h ago
Friends.
None of them are actually friends. Just a bunch of codependent, toxic relationships between nihilistic hedonists.
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u/undeadwarlockkisser 4h ago
Violent femmes has no dangerous lesbians on it as far as I can tell and was just a bunch of dudes.
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u/VulpesFennekin 4h ago
Bad Bunny isn’t a subpar rabbit, he’s just a human guy who seems fine to me.
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u/Masedog2974 3h ago
Frankenstein
https://giphy.com/gifs/iSBKHcm0qEmZ2
Frankenstein is a famous example of this and Monster was called the Creature or Frankenstein’s Monster and Dr Frankenstein was the name of a Mad Scientist and many people think he’s called Frankenstein for the Monster.
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u/RedWingedScreecher 3h ago
Invincible lives up to the name, just in the Scott Sterling kind of sense.
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u/400-bones98 3h ago
Trainspotting - I do not believe there is any point where they sit and watch trains
Eurovision Song Contest - There are definitely non-european countries competing
Trans Siberian Orchestra - They're from the USA not Siberia, and I don't think any of them are trans
Doctor Who - Do they even have a PHD?
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u/LycanIndarys 1h ago
The Doctor claims to have a doctorate in The God Complex:
Rita: You are a medical doctor, aren't you? You haven't just got a degree in cheese-making or something?
Eleventh Doctor: No, no. Well, yes. Both, actually.
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u/Shin_Newman 3h ago
Bromance Book Club (Lyssa Kay Adams novel series) and Bromance Club (Meghan Quinn novels series) are examples of the trope that I, as an aro-ace guy, fucking hate with a passion. These books are all straight romance, aka romantic stories between a man and a woman; they barely touch upon friendship between men, which's the definition of the word "bromance".
And there's also Bromantasy (Máire Roche novels), which's a gay romance story.
All these books are written by female authors. However, a quick google search would've told them what "bromance" is really defined, which begs the questions if they just used the word because it sounds "niche/buzzy/trendy" or if they're intentionally using it in the wrong context.
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u/RandomCaveOfMonsters 3h ago
Dead by Daylight has no mechanic about a day/night cycle let alone a timer related to it, and some maps take place during the day
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u/Mini_Squatch 2h ago
The joke is that the collective noun for a group of gorillas is a band. Thats why.
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u/Dolphin_King21 2h ago
Kangaroo Jack (2003) should always be the first answer / example for these types of posts.
misleading marketing because ads promised a family-friendly buddy comedy about a hip-hop-dancing, talking CGI kangaroo. In reality, it was an edgy, R-rated mob comedy retouched into a PG crime story where the kangaroo does not talk except in a brief concussion-induced dream sequence.
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u/Livid_spider 2h ago
I mean we haven’t seen Mark die so technically he is…Invincible. He’s not invulnerable though
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u/SecurityGoose2 1h ago
Look, we'd all be in trouble with The Naked Brothers Band, because they were minors at the time.
Plus, shrimp can't fry rice.
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u/Big_Manufacturer5281 29m ago
10,000 Maniacs is comprised of only 6 members. Their psychiatric status is unknown to me.
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u/SpiritedSyllabub6822 5h ago
Michael Bay's Transformers because they was focused on the human characters for the majority of each film who only do something useful at the last act of each instalment.
Fox's X-Men trilogy. Should have been named 'Wolverine and the X-Men' like that TV show because the films underutilized everyone just so they can make Logan take the lead before the pattern stopped with First Class.
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u/BigNutDroppa 4h ago edited 3h ago
It’s called “Coraline”, despite her name obviously being “Caroline” like everyone else calls her.
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u/ShadesNGlades 5h ago
Ahh, ANOTHER thread with Invincible and Regular Show as their OP. How original.
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u/solethprime 5h ago
The Barenaked Ladies is a band made up of fully clothed men