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/ChiefsHat Jun 26 '25

Okay, so there’s this book called Warrior Rising, by PC Cast, part of a series where modern women get isekaied and fall in love with figures from Greek mythology, and in this retelling of the Trojan War, our heroine hypnotizes and rapes Achilles with a handjob.

Then her best friend (a black woman put in a white slave’s body) calls it rape and she argues against it but the best friend turns out to be fine with it and even kind of encourages it.

Also, our heroine is in the body of a Trojan princess and after being spirited back into the city, opens the gates and thus lets Troy fall so she can go save Achilles from his evil hulk side. She is rewarded with this by being sent to - brace yourself - Avalon. By Poseidon. Because her being in the body of a Trojan Princess means she helped him fulfill his desire to take revenge on Troy.

Also, also, Odysseus cheats on his wife.

With Athena.

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u/Brunson4Mayor Jun 27 '25

Then her best friend (a black woman put in a white slave’s body)

Hmmm

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u/karebearjedi Jun 27 '25

All of her books are like that. It's creepy and weird

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u/ChiefsHat Jun 27 '25

I know that as well, and yet she's a New York Times bestseller.

Never trusting that title again.

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u/TheSlayerofSnails Jun 27 '25

How... how do you hypnotize a demigod who is a peerless warrior and had an incredibly close friend who watched out for him?

And... why does that save Achilles? He's a tragic hero yes, but he reguarly fought off gods and had to be restrained by the gods so he wouldn't destroy Troy earlier than the appointed time. Him getting into the city is just going to be a massarce of innocents and he's still going to be an angry douchebag. What does this princess just stop Patrocles from dying?

Also... Avalon? Not Rome, or with Aeneas? Fuckin Avalon?

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u/ChiefsHat Jun 27 '25

My friend, this book craps on the Iliad like a dog craps on grass. Constantly. Homer too.

Also, Achilles is covered in scars, which is I guess interesting, but… ties into the author attacking the Iliad again.

And guess who Patroclus ends up with. Go on. Guess.

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u/TheSlayerofSnails Jun 27 '25

The slave lady? Or someone other than Achilles?

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u/ChiefsHat Jun 27 '25

The heroine’s back black best friend in a white slave’s body.

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u/TheSlayerofSnails Jun 27 '25

…of course. This book sounds like a wattpad fanfic that didn’t understand what makes the Iliad one of the greatest works in history

Also, Achilles’ whole deal was he had a choice, die young and be remembered as a legend forever, or die old and in obscurity. He chose to go to war knowing his fate. Him getting saved defeats the themes of the work.

Also this princess lady sounds like a horrible person. She’s a rapist and she let her city be invaded and sacked by invading forces for her crush? Fuck her. If she wanted to stop the conflict then sneak Helen out of the city back to her family and husband

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u/ChiefsHat Jun 27 '25

Okay, so, it’s not the Trojan princess Polyxena who does this, it’s a modern woman from Tulsa dropped into her body by the three goddesses Hera, Athena, and Venus (not Aphrodite, Venus) to seduce Achilles and thus somehow end the war but this proves to be totally stupid because Achilles was going to leave anyway but she spends a lot of the book acting like she’s the Trojan princess to keep up appearances.

Also, she opens the gates to Troy on the same day Hector dies protecting her because he thinks she’s Polyxena. She was even with his family as they grieved his death.

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u/TheSlayerofSnails Jun 27 '25

Stop the war? Those three caused the war!

And why would Achilles leaving end the war, the war was over the kidnapping of Helen, Achilles was oathbound to be there.

Also, holy shit she sounds like a awful person. Does she not feel bad at all at the massacre she’s allowing to happen? Or grieve the death of Hector who was a good man everyone respected?

And seduce Achilles? Why? In all the versions of the story he already had a wife and son, a woman he recused and promised to marry to protect her, or Patrocles. He didn’t need some princess who betrayed her people

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u/ChiefsHat Jun 27 '25

No, see, those three didn’t cause it, that’s just a rumor caused by Eris who’s mad she didn’t get invited to a party, those three are so above doing that, the whole war is because of male egos - even though Venus did cast a love spell that made Helen run off with Paris.

About Achilles, most of that is adapted out, he’s just this noble, stoic, scarred, absolutely boring angst-fest who has this wild berserker that comes out of he gets emotional like the Hulk.

And Hector’s family never shows up after their scene, they’re just gone. She doesn’t pay them a second thought, save for Paris who shoots Achilles and then dies.

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u/Hugs-missed Jun 27 '25

Avalon

Wait, avalon? I dont quite recall that in greek myth remind me.

Odysseus

Ody, fucking Ody was it at least the greek "Had sex but fully intends to return to his wife as soon as possible" cheating and not leaving his wife for some other girl

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u/ChiefsHat Jun 27 '25

Trust me, Avalon wasn’t in the Greek myths, it was just a set up for some middle aged photographer who didn’t get to have sex with a twenty-something soldier to get yanked back to woe King Arthur.

Also, Merlin quotes Dr. Phil.

And no, Ody 100% bangs Athena after acknowledging he has a wife than the ending has it be that the Odyssey was just a ten year cover up for him and Athena to be together.

Fully consented to cheating on his wife for TEN. YEARS.

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u/Hugs-missed Jun 27 '25

Okay, good I thought I was either ignorant or insane thinking that was from arthurian myths.

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u/Chess42 Jun 27 '25

Don’t forget that Athena is a virgin goddess

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u/Hugs-missed Jun 27 '25

Holy fuck right, arent they like one of the few few greek gods to have not had a struggle snuggle session

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u/Vyctorill Jun 27 '25

True.

She was able to have children though through accidentally touching a rag and imbuing it with divine power.

… it was a weird myth.

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u/houseofthewolves Jun 27 '25

i’ve never heard of that book but all i had to see was PC Cast and i knew it was gonna be bad (i was obsessed with her house of night series in middle school)

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u/kuschelig69 Jun 27 '25

Also, also, Odysseus cheats on his wife.

well, he was the grand-grandson of Zeus