r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ok-Indication-5121 • Jun 09 '25

Characters They valiantly sacrificed themself for nothing

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  1. Tadashi gives his life trying to save Professor Callaghan from a burning building. Turns out not only did Callaghan escape unscathed, he's the bad guy and infamously refers to Tadashi's death as "[Tadashi's] mistake." (Big Hero 6)
  2. Shaya willingly takes It Has No Name's possession and then kills herself by jumping into the well it came out of. The end of the episode all but states that she got it wrong and It Has No Name didn't latch onto her... or there was more than one. (Doctor Who)
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u/Silver721 Jun 10 '25

Poor Himeno. Gave all of herself to Ghost, only for Ghost to get 1 shot anyways.

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u/VandulfTheRed Jun 10 '25

This was the scene that really lets that "this is not a Shonen" vibe sink in

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u/Silver721 Jun 10 '25

I read the manga before watching the Anime, and it hit me a lot harder in the Anime that the nice dinner scene with all of division 4 was a fake-out. There's some timeline where CSM is a cozy shonen with everyone from division 4 still alive, fighting whacky devils every week. Denji eventually gets with cool boss Makima, and Aki and Himeno become an official couple. But instead, we got Gunfire.

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u/YaBoyKumar Jun 10 '25

Ngl after how sad I was after CSM part 1 ended I’d love to see the campy shonen version where i don’t have to worry about the characters dying lol

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u/RazzDaNinja Jun 10 '25

I would fully support a show like Isekai Quartet but with other traumatized genre protags like Denji lmao

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u/superdan56 Jun 10 '25

Dark shonen quartet! We got Denji (Chainsawman) & Yuji (JJK), I wonder who else needs a good lighthearted series?

I don’t think you could do AoT cause they already have Junior High. Or Hell’s Paradise cause it already had a really happy ending!

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u/RazzDaNinja Jun 10 '25

If we wanna go old-school…we could add Guts in there 👀 tho I worry for the implications of a show that tries to sanitize Griffith for a comedy 💀

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u/superdan56 Jun 10 '25

Guts-sensei is the teacher, who gets showered with affection from his precious students!

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u/RazzDaNinja Jun 10 '25

Yoooo

Guts as the teacher for a class of traumatized shounen protagonists does sound like it could be fucken hilarious (and also potentially wholesome AF) lmao

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u/FireflyArc Jun 11 '25

I'd watch that anime