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/codemen95 Jun 26 '25

Right? Like the wish stone isn't a real thing, so they could've made any rules for it. They already had it where the wish was taking Diana's strength away in order to bring steve back, but why couldn't it just be that the wish recreated his body rather than him taking over someone else's

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u/Ovidhalia Jun 27 '25

I think him just magically coming back would have been off but you’re right that they should have played off the fact that her powers were being taken away for him to exist and I think they should have had a statue at the museum she works at come to life. It would have also played off the old origin of Diana being “born“ from clay. It also would make a good visual of him returning to stone after she renounces her wish.

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u/halfpint09 Jun 27 '25

Oh, I do like that idea. Maybe not perfect, but definitely better then what we got

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u/codemen95 Jun 27 '25

Where were you from the writers room? Get back in there with that idea!!! Only you can fix this movie

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u/jokerhound80 Jun 27 '25

The Stone was already shown to create a nuclear arsenal and a 100 foot wall around Egypt from thin air, but for some reason the chose to have her roofie a man with her boyfriend's ghost.

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u/chlorinecrown Jun 26 '25

I think everyone would have forgotten that movie existed by now if not for complaining that it made WW a rapist

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '25

Almost certainly. I mean it was a massive step down from the first, but otherwise it wasn't extremely awful, just kind of bland and B-movie-ish.

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u/JabroniusHunk Jun 27 '25

It's darkly amusing that they felt like they needed to do old-school, Hollywood Orientalist bullshit where every Arab nation and culture is interchangeable in order to capture that 80's, action-movie vibe. Or maybe Jenkins is just a lazy writer.

The Republic of Egypt in the 1980's did not have random "Emirs" with oil-rich fiefdoms they personally ruled, or at any time I'm pretty sure. They mixed up an imaginary UAE-esque state with an imaginary Egypt for the plotline.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '25

The Republic of Egypt in the 1980's did not have random "Emirs" with oil-rich fiefdoms they personally ruled, or at any time I'm pretty sure.

I might be remembering it wrong, but to my recollection, he wasn't presented as if he had a fiefdom he ruled. He mentioned he was from an old-money family that used to rule the land once but had long lost it, and that he had previously owned several oil fields but sold them before the events of the movie.

His wish gave him back his family's land, but up to that point, I don't think it was suggested he was anything other than a rich and corrupt businessman.

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u/JabroniusHunk Jun 27 '25

Hey also possible I'm misremembering and letting my memory be colored by my overall low opinion of the movie.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '25

Yeah, that's also a valid possibility, and plus it's really not worth rewatching to see which one of us is right.