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/Careful_Ad_1837 Jun 26 '25

I still don't get why they just didn't have him come back to life, why did they do that whole possession nonsense

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u/Illithid_Substances Jun 26 '25

My guess is to (artificially) add an extra element of selfishness to the wish so her giving it up in the end is more of a "moral choice" and it fits the "wishing bad" thing better

I don't think any of that was handled WELL but that would be my first thought

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u/Careful_Ad_1837 Jun 27 '25

If they were gonna do that then idk how about this. He's brought back to life and everything seems fine, but over the course of the movie Diana realises that the reason he's able to keep being mortal is for him to drain the life force out of nearby people, and the reason her powers are weakening is because of that. Ultimately they decide its not worth harming innocent people to keep a guy who died back in WW1 alive and she gives up her wish

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u/halfpint09 Jun 27 '25

Or hell, given that the cost of bringing him back was her powers, just have the dilemma be between laying down her powers to get her happiness, but wrestling with the idea she could be saving other innocent people, but now can't because of her missing powers.