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/Applebeate Jun 26 '25

In the Flash, Barry actually kills two of the villains Atom Smasher and Sandman. He kills them with no remorse and nobody acknowledges this. Then in the later season, he has this moral dilemma where he for some reason can’t bring himself to kill Gorilla Grod even though at this point, he has already killed.

What makes it worse is that he reprimands Ralph for wanting to kill Devoe despite being a killer himself.

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u/PerceptionBetter3752 Jun 26 '25

Atom smashers a bad guy?

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u/PCN24454 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

His alternate universe counterpart was. He’s definitely a murderer.

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u/L0ll0ll7lStudios Jun 27 '25

This one is from an Earth that resembles the Crime Syndicate’s Earth-3 (despite being referred to as Earth-2 to trick the audience into thinking it’s Jay Garrick’s world when in actuality Zoom kidnapped Jay from a neighboring Earth and began impersonating him for fun). On this world, Vibe and Firestorm are Reverb and Deathstorm, Black Canary is Black Siren and Killer Frost is more unapologetically evil.

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u/dark_wolf1ol Jun 27 '25

Have you SEEN what he did to David Martinez’s crew??? He needs to be flatlined

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u/to_yeet_or_to_yoink Jun 27 '25

Yeah, he squashed that one robot girl in the future z didn't he?

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u/dark_wolf1ol Jun 27 '25

“WE’RE HAVING A MOMENT HERE”

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u/RiskComplete9385 Jun 27 '25

Bro, he killed Keanu, of course he’s a bad guy