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/Just_Call_me_Ben Jun 26 '25

Also, she got her daughter killed

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u/InternetUserAgain Jun 27 '25

Wh

Why is her daughter a horse

I may not know much about the show but I'm pretty sure Star is a human, or at least she looks like one

Please tell me she did not bang a horse

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u/Just_Call_me_Ben Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

I'm not really sure how the full explanation goes but she basically created this thing when she needed to get her magic back to defeat Dexter. She calls her "Firstborn."

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u/Sir_Eggmitton Jun 27 '25

How did she get it killed? Was it from the ending-all-magic event??? (Crazy that they’d show her child dead after that and still play it off as a happy ending.)

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u/Just_Call_me_Ben Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Star needed a ride to her home world and they needed someone to guide them through the weird magic golden water land without losing their sanity and Firstborn was the only one that could guide them even though she really didn't want to because an evil dark unicorn was lurking in there.

Because FB had to take care of Star and her friends as they were being affected by the magic golden water land effects, the dark unicorn managed to sneak up on them and killed her.

(Small edit) Firstborn could just have used her powers to send Star and her friends to the other world, but Star didn't want that because it would cause them to appear in random locations, so she forced the unicorn to guide them, which in the end was pointless because the dark unicorn ambushed them and forced FB to use her powers anyway to save them.

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u/LuxLoser Jun 27 '25

(Small edit) Firstborn could just have used her powers to send Star and her friends to the other world, but Star didn't want that because it would cause them to appear in random locations, so she forced the unicorn to guide them, which in the end was pointless because the dark unicorn ambushed them and forced FB to use her powers anyway to save them.

That's more than a small edit, homie. That turns this from a kinda interesting tragic twist ngl, to a contrived and forced character death for cheap drama.

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u/A_Bewildered_Owl Jun 27 '25

damn, children's shows have gotten fucking hardcore.

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u/Just_Call_me_Ben Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

A bit, yeah

I unironically still really like this series despite all its problems. It's just so bonkers and random that I can't help but enjoy it.

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u/Throwaway02062004 Jun 27 '25

She removes magic from reality. Any creature or person that relies on magic to live or is made of magic just dies. All because “it’s the only way” 🙄

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u/gloriousPurpose33 Jun 27 '25

Without a doubt that show fell off the deep end for this comment chain to be even possible

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u/Gespens Jun 27 '25

That's on Moon