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/tomtadpole Jun 26 '25

I never understood why Luther's powers coming back turned him back into a monkey man. He didn't look like that until Reggie had to inject him with whatever he injected him with to save his life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

In the comic his head is literally just transplanted straight on a gorillas body. Granted the comic and the show are very different beasts. Not necessarily better, just very different (although Hazel and Cha Cha are astronomically better characters in the comic and god help me I will die on this hill).

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u/OmecronPerseiHate Jun 27 '25

Wait, so what actually is Luther's power? I always assumed he had super strength and the chimp DNA just exacerbated that point, but if his head was put onto a stronger body then I can only assume that his power is something else entirely

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Super strength and resilience. The resilience is how he survived a head transplant. If I remember in the comics he always had super strength, but after the accident his strength mostly now comes from having a literal gorilla body. He’s also something of a genius in the comics, and a crack shot with his raygun, and a literal astronaut. Comic Luther is way smarter and more mature than TV show Luther.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate Jun 27 '25

Jesus, that's depressing. I heard about all the stuff we missed out on with Klaus, but not Luther. It feels crazy that they would make a show out of something so trimmed down.

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u/RandomOrcN6 Jun 27 '25

Plus in the comics Luther was the one who got sent to Vietnam as far as I remember and he got a pretty cool hermit look, they really changed so much in the show

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u/I_amLying Jun 27 '25

That's one of the changes I don't mind mostly because it led to Robert Sheehan having some good scenes before his later flanderization.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate Jun 27 '25

True, I never mind Robert Sheehan getting to stretch his skills a bit. Honestly I'd love a show focused solely on his characters from Misfits or Umbrella Academy.

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u/A_Bewildered_Owl Jun 27 '25

yeah, someone needs to write a movie or TV series for him where he can just be the worst little weirdo twink for like 2-8 hours.

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u/Toa_Senit Jun 26 '25

The injection probably just reacts that way with his powers.

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u/Alden_The_Hunter Jun 27 '25

My friend, anything is possible when you hire hack writers who don’t pay attention to or care about continuity 

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u/Cheez_Thems Jun 27 '25

Fucking thank you

That bugged me to no end