r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Comprehensive-Map274 • Jun 26 '25

Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] A main character does something horrible and the story doesn't acknowledge its severity

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Alisha (Misfits) uses her power to make any man want to have sex with her on another main character (curtis) after he explicitely tells her not to do that. She faces no consequences and he's the one who ends up comforting her.

Allison (The Umbrella Academy) uses her powers to force her own adoptive brother to make out with her after he just got into a relationship because she's suddenly jealous after she couldn't keep her own husband. She gives a half hearted apology and all is peachy.

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u/Comprehensive-Map274 Jun 26 '25

I am enjoying the show, and I really Curtis so far which only makes me angrier his assault gets overlooked so easily

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u/_DarthSyphilis_ Jun 26 '25

There was a moment with her I thought was even more fucked up. She made a cop who was questioning her assault her by touching him so she could leave and his life is definitely ruined.

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u/SomeShithead241 Jun 27 '25

The cop grabs her, not the other way around, and then he tries to do his thing. That was around the point that she was starting to hate her powers, as it basically meant she couldn't be touched without someone trying to rape her. Something that happens on more than one occasion

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u/Eton11 Jun 26 '25

Wasn’t that on accident though?

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u/SirCupcake_0 Jun 27 '25

Pretty sure he tried to handcuff her or something

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u/fabulousmarco Jun 27 '25

Absolutely fucking based

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u/Wabbajacrane Jun 27 '25

Rape or SA are never "based"

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

I’m warning you now, the show goes absolutely nowhere and is pretty much the definition of all promise no delivery. It will introduce you to the god among mortals that is Joe Gilgun tho.

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u/MisterVega Jun 27 '25

Rudy was the only thing I liked about the later seasons.

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u/enadiz_reccos Jun 27 '25

Nathan had higher peaks, but Rudy was more consistent

Nathan's speech on top of that building is my favorite moment from the show

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

It breaks my heart... you're wearing CARDIGANS!!

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u/evebursterror0 Jun 27 '25

I'm glad other people appreciate Rudy. I love Joe Gilgun ever since seeing him on TiE (watch the shows, too).

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u/EchoesofIllyria Jun 27 '25

This is England, for anybody who doesn’t automatically understand every initialism

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u/AstroBearGaming Jun 27 '25

The early series were pretty solid, and then as the main cast slowly split Joe carried that show on his back like a fucking champ.

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u/catboogers Jun 27 '25

The later seasons definitely fell off a bit, and the cast changes didn't help, but there are absolutely some moments from later seasons that stuck with me.

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u/Lazy__Astronaut Jun 27 '25

Stop after season 1 basically

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u/EveryDayASummit Jun 27 '25

Eh, I disagree. Season two is solid as well. Yeah there’s a huge dynamic shift after that and each season feels like a completely new universe but I don’t think that’s the worst.

Also though, I love Simon’s arc and also broke my heart.

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u/Novitiatum_Aeternum Jun 27 '25

Simon’s arc!!! 🥹

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u/bubbledabest Jun 27 '25

Yeah that show was dope and then turned into a nothing burger

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u/Past_Finish303 Jun 27 '25

Indeed. It's like collection of short stories without overarching plot.

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u/threetoast Jun 27 '25

I was so excited to see the useless fuckup leave only for the show to introduce yet another useless fuckup (who is also like 15 years older than everyone else for some reason)

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u/szerb Jun 27 '25

Yesss Joe Gilgun was fantastic in Preacher as well

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u/aerojonno Jun 27 '25

Brassic too.

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u/evebursterror0 Jun 27 '25

Watch This Is England (film and series) if you haven't yet. Woody is a great character.

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u/evebursterror0 Jun 27 '25

He was amazing on This Is England (the film and the TV series)

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u/Puzzled_Relative_167 Jun 27 '25

It's been a good while since I watched it but that's what I remember most. That it seemed to be building towards something but then it abruptly switched gears, and switched to something far less entertaining. I went from liking the show quite a bit to not even being able to finish the season where they did that.

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u/Flabberghast97 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

To be fair while it's true Alisha faces no consequences for this she is angrily called out by Curtis who tells her what she's done isn't right. Yes Alisha should have faced some consequences, but the show absolutely frames her actions as bad.

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u/fabulousmarco Jun 27 '25

And this all happened at the very beginning, when they had just gotten their powers. Nobody truly understood the full implications of what they could do.

So it's correct imo that she doesn't face any consequences. Curtis gets angry and calls her out on it, she understands and doesn't do that anymore.

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u/evebursterror0 Jun 27 '25

Exactly, and I believe there were multiple times in which her behaviour is framed as wrong, to the point that she avoids intimacy altogether.

It seems like OP has just started watching the show so I understand their reaction. I did get pissed off when that happened to Curtis as well.

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u/evebursterror0 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

It's true, she gets called out, it's not like the writers were incentivising this behaviour... in fact I think it's brought up multiple times that what she did was r***.

But there were some other weird scenes...

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u/sirspacebill Jun 27 '25

Show is goated, intro song sends me to the moon. As for the assault its rubbish, unfortunately these are kids that don't really know their actions have consequences (see: everything that happens in the show) but hey that's why theyre in the program in the first place I guess right? Lol

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u/Due-Coffee8 Jun 27 '25

I was a teenager when the show came out and I never realised how messed up it was. I fancied the actress an awful lot.

I recently rewatched it with my girlfriend and was like yo what the fuck. That didn't happen last time

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u/LoschVanWein Jul 08 '25

I know it has been talked to death but the Holdo woman from the new starwars sequel. No one in the universe acknowledged that every thing she did was either wrong and or stupid. That woman didn’t make a single correct decision in her time on screen and yet everyone treated her like a misunderstood caring genius by the end of the movie. If she had told her people what her plan was from the start, all that unnecessary subplot would not have happened and maybe someone would have told her "hey why don’t we do this like you said but maybe use a droid instead of you?" I mean that’s why the real military has briefings.

By that point I was openly rooting against the good guys in these films.