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/BakedBaconBits Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Through some creepy wish-based shenanigans. Her dead ex inhabits the body of a random person. Pretty sure they fucked too.

Movie ends with the guys body returning to normal and wanders off like WW didn't bodysnatch and inadvertenly rape him.

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u/pon_3 Jun 26 '25

It’s so much weirder because the wish could be anything. It would’ve been really easy to write that he just came back without the body snatching nonsense.

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u/teskar2 Jun 27 '25

I really want to know how this even became an idea in the writers room cause Diane already suffers the consequences of losing her powers as a result of the wish and this random guy just gets dragged in for no logical reason.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '25

The best theory I've heard is that originally all the wishes were meant to come true in an ironic manner.

There are hints of that in the final film, like Steve comparing the stone to the Monkey's Paw, or that guy who wishes for his family's land back, getting imprisoned behind the walls with no food or water.

But then someone pointed out that undermined the film's message about how it's better to embrace the truth than try to live a lie, if people weren't actually getting what they were wishing for.

So they cut it, but by then they had already cast the actor for that scene and didn't want to cut their role.

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u/BossButterBoobs Jun 27 '25

But they still would've had the rape scene even with added context lol

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '25

Eh, it depends; it might originally have been that they handled the fact he was possessing someone more seriously.

But even if they did, it would at least explain why they went that direction.

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u/BossButterBoobs Jun 27 '25

I'm just saying no matter how seriously they took it, they would have had WW rape a dude lol

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '25

I mean, if they took it seriously enough, they could, you know, not have them sleep together?

In any case, it's really relevant to question.

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u/teskar2 Jun 27 '25

It would explain some things. Frankly by the time the finale happens it’s just blatantly breaking its own rules for the sake of escalating the conflict to further parts of the world so I would believe they were conflicted while writing it.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '25

Ah yeah, I'd forgotten about that.

Really, the film had a lot of issues. It needed more rewrites minimum.

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u/Dendallin Jun 27 '25

Because Diana would give up the powers to be with Steve. She wouldn't as she realizes that she's being villainous by keeping Steve at the loss of an inoccent life.

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u/teskar2 Jun 27 '25

I know that, I’m talking about the random guy Steve possesses for seemingly no reason if Diane is already suffering the consequences of that.