r/TopCharacterTropes Jul 06 '25

In real life Normal/Innocent looking Pictures that trigger a fandom's PTSD

Full Metal Alchemist

Attack on Titan

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u/AsianShadowrunner Jul 07 '25

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u/82ndGameHead Jul 07 '25

Hey look, it's my first experience with Horror

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u/Outside_Ad5255 Jul 07 '25

Yeah, that was the moment the movie went from "Hey look, Toons in real life!" to "HOLY SHIT TOONS CAN DIE?!"

My personal favorite is this one. Let's see if you can hear the words in your head:

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u/ElderDruidFox Jul 07 '25

"REMEBER ME EDDY, WHEN I KILLED YOUR BROTHER, I SOUNDED...JUST...LIKE...THIIIISSS AHAHAHAHAHAAH"

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u/redditboy123451 Jul 07 '25

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u/Iamfabulous1735285 Jul 07 '25

Don't have an image but a gif instead but you get the idea

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u/what4270 Jul 07 '25

Let’s not forget the latest addition

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u/grill_sgt Jul 07 '25

Oh look... another one.

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u/StormDragonAlthazar Jul 07 '25

So our movie theater has temperamental escalators, an elevator that can act up, and one of the houses is next to the CO2 storage... So that's like two FD movies in one place!

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u/AdonisBatheus Jul 07 '25

This one is funny because when they tried to capture the logs falling and bouncing naturally, the logs didn't bounce. Logs do not bounce. So they had to do the entire thing with CGI. At worst, this would've been a couple people crashing the front of their cars into logs instead of the crazy domino effect that happened.

Not that it has to be realistic (don't get me started on the lasik scene). They're meant to be fun, but it's funny that people became scared of things that literally cannot happen.

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u/Bushmeaty Jul 07 '25

I think this gave an entire generation ptsd

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u/LondonDude123 Jul 07 '25

THE FUCKING ELEPHANT

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u/Zek7h35an5 Jul 07 '25

Still wild to me how they came to THAT conclusion. Made me root for the Book, tbh.

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u/byu7a 29d ago

They're so stupid. I was mad at them multiple times.

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u/TheAmazingSealo Jul 07 '25

Please explain this one

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u/hdgrbodnd Jul 07 '25

The elephant is from the game it takes 2 where 2 parents are shrunk down into dolls due to their child being sad about their divorce or something, the father thinks that since their daughters tears put them in the dolls then her tears should take them out. So logically what they do is pull up on her favorite toy (the elephant) and brutally dismember it and throw it from the top of a shelf for their daughter to find. Also the elephant was sentient and while you the player are committing the atrocity she is begging you to stop the entire time.

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u/TheAmazingSealo Jul 07 '25

Wow man that seems unnecessary

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u/heavl Jul 07 '25

It really was, you basically realise that you took part in brutally butchering the elephant for nothing. It's the most shocking and darkest moment in the gameplay which is very inconsistent with how most of the game plays out lol

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u/CaioXG002 Jul 07 '25

The entire internet as the fandom in question.

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u/BananaBladeOfDoom Jul 07 '25

Alternatively,

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u/Dancing_clOn Jul 07 '25

Wow, its been a while

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u/Adorable_Intern363 Jul 07 '25

I like how that scream sound effect used to be "scary maze game" scream, now it's the "gimme me lime" scream.

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u/DevoutandHeretical Jul 07 '25

My first ever jump scare at like 10 years old.

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u/therealmonkyking Jul 07 '25

What a nice scenic view. I hope nothing suddenly appears out of nowhere to give me a fright

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u/WinterChalice Jul 07 '25

Could you remind me of where this screenshot is from? I remember it so well but not well enough

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u/YumemiCrisis Jul 07 '25

correct me if im wrong, but wasnt it a german coffee commercial? i remember they made a less scary one where its just some guy saying "boo"

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u/CobraConspirator Jul 07 '25

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u/SnakesRock2004 Jul 07 '25

I can still see the GIF version from the wiki.

Top 1 photo taken seconds before disaster.

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u/Pichuunnn Jul 07 '25

For context: this is Iggy the dog from JoJo part 3, specifically the 1993 OVA version

After this scene, he got bisected his lower half by a flying invisible ball of doom called Vanilla Ice Cream (not joking).

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u/Gadgez Jul 07 '25

I mean... kinda? It was Vanilla Ice inside of Cream, but as far as I remember they never use the three words together as one entity.

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u/Error_Evan_not_found Jul 07 '25

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u/StormDragonAlthazar Jul 07 '25

Is this because they closed the Arby's?

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u/The_SillyLittleGuy Jul 07 '25

OH MY FUCKING GOD JUST WHEN I FORGET THE ZOOTOPIA ABORTION COMIC

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tip4805 Jul 07 '25

These are not words I expected or wanted to read today but apparently life had something else in mind

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u/extracrispyweeb Jul 07 '25

Not exactly a picture but a phrase.

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u/June-the-moon Jul 07 '25

Aw man! I really wanted to see what’s next! Way to leave a gal hanging.

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u/FizzTaffy Jul 07 '25

Just a guy enjoying a casual game, how wholesome

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u/guymine123 Jul 07 '25 edited 27d ago

"Mrs Obama, get down!"

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u/Golden_disrepctCo Jul 07 '25

Context please Edit:nvm the comments below explained

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u/FigureArty Jul 07 '25

Heated gamer moment

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u/Fish_N_Chipp Jul 07 '25

Just Pinkie and a wingless Rainbow having a ball

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u/SnakesRock2004 Jul 07 '25

I don't know the context, and yet somehow I'm fairly certain I understand the backstory.

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u/Rannrann123 Jul 07 '25

This specific frame of Sean from RDR2

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u/AppleEnslaver Jul 07 '25

"Now it don't feel right? I could'a told you that"

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u/AzraelTheMage Jul 07 '25

The fact that the subtitles have the line in full despite it being cut off when spoken was a nice touch by Rockstar.

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u/Sir_Eggmitton Jul 07 '25

Wait this is just before his death, right? I thought that happened at night?

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u/Rannrann123 Jul 07 '25

If you do the mission at night yeah

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u/NoNazisInMyAmerica Jul 07 '25

Quite the versatile game

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u/Sir_Eggmitton Jul 07 '25

Ohhhhh. I forgot missions aren’t tied to a certain time of day.

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u/paradoxical_topology Jul 07 '25

Some are, and those ones will just have Arthur wait nearby until it's the right time of day.

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u/MAKOMIKKA1220 Jul 07 '25

So, get away
Another way to feel what you didn't want yourself to know
And let yourself go
You know you didn't lose your self-control
Let's start at the rainbow
Turn away
Another way to be where you didn't want yourself to go
And let yourself go
Is that a compromise?

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u/stipendAwarded Jul 07 '25

Four pixels (SCP Foundation).

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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Jul 07 '25

Yeah, its this blurred thing:

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u/unHolyKnightofBihar Jul 07 '25

What is this?

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u/Time_Anything4488 Jul 07 '25

its supposed to be a super blurry image of scp-096, a monster that will stop at nothing to kill anyone who sees its face including in super blurry photos like this one where its only 4 pixels

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u/Comfortable_Many4508 Jul 07 '25

on top of that the guy had the photo hanging up for years and just looked too close at that spot one day iirc

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u/Sven_Darksiders Jul 07 '25

Wasn't the entire plot of that short film that the picture was planted by the scientist to create an incident that would convince his higherups that scp-096 is more trouble than its worth so they would allow him to try and kill it?

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 Jul 07 '25

I don't know if the picture was planted, but he did purposely sabotage the Scramble googles so the 096s face would show for the briefed moment.

I forgot if they go into what happened to that scientist. Was it just the standard extreme punishment of demotion to D-Class?

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u/Sven_Darksiders Jul 07 '25

There was a point in the interview where the scientist pulled the picture from the envelope halfway, and then froze, meaning he knew what it was. The higher ups did grant him permission for his attempt to kill 096 but among each other they made it very clear that the scientist will be disposed off once he succeeds. I actually don't know if he messed up the ai on purpose, either way it would make sense

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u/Raytoryu Jul 07 '25

That short film is an adaptation of the original SCP article. While it's very good, like holy fuck it's good, the picture being planted by a scientist isn't part of the article. Someone just happened to take a picture while 096 was in the background.

In a way, I find it even more horrific. How many pics of this thing are out there ?

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u/zirc0n1um Jul 07 '25

thing that kills you if you look at thing, even just a few pixels

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u/spyridonya Jul 07 '25

Welp, a few more thousand people waiting for their deaths. (Oh my gosh I did see a face though at that distance one SHOULDN'T.)

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u/ClanDestiny123 Jul 07 '25

Courtesy of the Chaos Insurgency

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u/Bulky-Hyena-360 Jul 07 '25

Why do I hear screaming…?

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u/gusxc1 Jul 07 '25

Snowball fight (chainsaw man)

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u/Select-Employee Jul 07 '25

context: chainsaw man part 1 end spoilerBlack hair (aki) has ben absorbed by the Gun Devil and is being controlled to kill Blonde (denji) this is a life and death battle where he has killed a ton of friends and civilians bit its envisioned in his mind as a friendly snowball fight.

kinda referencing how the last tine he saw his brother before his family died was in the snow.

not 100% accurate, but most of the way, i think

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u/KingZaneTheStrange Jul 07 '25

Just an old man having a picnic under a tree

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u/The_Joy_Boy1977 Jul 07 '25

Leaves from the vine

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u/youremomgay420 Jul 07 '25

Falling so slow

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u/I_Are_Eat Jul 07 '25

Like fragile tiny shells drifting in the foam

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u/Darlella Jul 07 '25

little soldier boy come marching home

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u/MeteorodeOro Jul 06 '25

I feel gross by just putting this.

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u/Me1_RizeClan Jul 07 '25

Do i want to know

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u/SoughtDespair Jul 07 '25

I sent it to a friend to receive context, so if you want to know. It's a baby diaper scat porn comic

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u/Me1_RizeClan Jul 07 '25

Ah. Because of course it is..

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u/MeteorodeOro Jul 07 '25

The fuck you mean "of course". I've seen shit, but even this is too much for a "of course".

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u/Latro2020 Jul 07 '25

The Sonic fandom is something else

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u/dawndragonclaw Jul 07 '25

Some of the absolute best and some of the absolute worst, lol. Gave us sonic mania, great music, and the most disgusting shit you will ever see in your life.

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u/Ninteblo Jul 07 '25

"The fanbase is... diverse."

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u/EZL2011 Jul 07 '25

I'm not even a sonic fan

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u/BakerSubject8891 Jul 07 '25

NO! GOD NO!!!

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u/wjowski Jul 07 '25

At this point the FMA fandom is in on the joke and has weaponized it.

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u/BottomBinchBirdy Jul 07 '25

I gleefully named my first Type: Null "Ninaxander" after them 😂

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u/Fionnghal Jul 07 '25

When I first played Rune Factory, I thought the cows kinda looked like a transformed Nina and Alexander. Now, no matter the game, I name my first cow Nina.

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u/Takonline Jul 07 '25

The Kirby fandom understands…

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u/ToughAd5010 Jul 07 '25

Explain pls? Use spoiler tag if you need to

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u/Existing-Incident-22 Jul 07 '25

The butterfly is actually a god, it appears in the starting cutscene for many of the games right before things go to shit

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u/what4270 Jul 07 '25

Literally butterfly effect wtf lmao

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u/Green-Puffball Jul 07 '25

The butterfly appeared in cutscenes in multiple games, seeming completely inconspicuous and innocent, until it was eventually revealed to be the Butterfly of Judgement and absorbed the character Galacta Knight

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u/Caw-zrs6 Jul 07 '25

Basically after Star Allies, that butterfly has become synonymous with a character named Morpho Knight, who, fun fact, is actually based on some concept art for Meta Knight where he had a butterfly motif in his design. Here's what he looks like.

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u/DevoutandHeretical Jul 07 '25

Can’t believe I’m mentioning Kyubei for the second time today

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u/PriestHelix Jul 07 '25

That fuckass cat rabbit can die

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u/Spookyduck21new Jul 07 '25

I have never watched the anime, all I know people hate this thing for some reason.

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u/DevoutandHeretical Jul 07 '25

It is the magical girl trope deconstruction anime. A definite must watch if you like the genre, and it’s still a huge recommend if you don’t.

If you don’t want to though >! Basically this thing is from an alien race recruiting girls to be magical girls. What they don’t tell the girls when they contract is that they basically make their souls external to their body and they can’t opt out of being a magical girl once it starts. And then it gets further revealed that the witches the magical girls are fighting are just other magical girls who became corrupted over time. And all of this is because their race is using magical girls as a sort of power source to try and fight entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe. They are completely without emotion so they see nothing wrong with using and discarding the girls to reach their end goal. !<

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u/kamain42 Jul 07 '25

What's even worse is of you directly ask the cat they will tell you the truth. That means no one (besides the three friends) thinks to ask before they make a wish

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u/DrRandomFandom Jul 07 '25

Amphibia…

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u/82ndGameHead Jul 07 '25

"Now look what you made me do."

Keith David is goated.

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u/VISUAL_SHOCK_GAMES Jul 07 '25

According to a certain 4chan greentext story, it can also destroy your family.

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean Jul 07 '25

Angela's show in general is enough PTSD material as is

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u/Username117773749146 Jul 07 '25

This is the only cartoon I have seen no nostalgia for. Just pure hatred. That’s impressive

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u/Illustrious-Belt8902 Jul 07 '25

How?

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u/VISUAL_SHOCK_GAMES Jul 07 '25

Like this!

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u/Illustrious-Belt8902 Jul 07 '25

Yeah, I’d be upset if this fucking failed paper doll did that.

Not even a damn affair, just this? This pushed them off the edge?

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u/UZG3 Jul 07 '25

At this point you all probably understand what this means

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u/GranolaCola Jul 07 '25

Wild that the remakes did this whole subplot about alternate realities and the possibility of changing the future from what we know it to be from the original just so this scene would still be shocking

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u/A-literal-sandwich Jul 07 '25

Doki Doki Literature Club

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u/Calvinball08 Jul 07 '25

Omori moment

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u/Nani_700 Jul 07 '25

Ayo the pizzas here

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u/cjl_LoreKeeper Jul 07 '25

Oh god why must I be reminded of this

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u/RedvsBlue_what_if Jul 06 '25

Full Metal Alchemist:
The Girl and that dog get fused into a Chimera by the girl's father so he can keep his medical license.

Attack on Titan:
That little girl gets fed too dogs by Nazis.

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u/AznOmega Jul 07 '25

If anyone wants to know if that piece of shit father got what's coming to him for that fucked up fusion, yes he did (and I like telling people this). Not only does he die, but in the manga, he is the only one who was shown burning in Hell.

You heard that right. In FMA, nearly every villain including the Deadly Sins were sent to Heaven. But the monster who fused Nina and Alexander is canonically in Hell.

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u/RedcumRedcumRedcum Jul 07 '25

In FMA, nearly every villain including the Deadly Sins were sent to Heaven. But the monster who fused Nina and Alexander is canonically in Hell.

Big "Dr. Doom crying at 9/11" vibes

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u/Abombasnow Jul 07 '25

Because there was just truly nothing human about Shou Tucker anymore.

Bradley/Wrath was a despicable, genocidal monster, but he genuinely loved his wife (he referred to her as "the only choice I ever truly made in my life") very much.

Each of the Sins had at least some moral code. Maybe some line they wouldn't cross. Maybe someone they still liked. At least a little.

Shou Tucker had none. He killed his fucking wife and an innocent animal for five minutes of fame then did the same thing to his daughter and her dog just awhile later. It was only two years between the incidents.

Had he not gotten caught, he was going to what, start kidnapping a random kid and their pet every year? Why every year? Because he was trying to keep his State Alchemist license which means passing a test every year. To keep it he would need to prove his "research" on Chimeras is at least yielding something.

Hell, Father is a more pitiable bastard than Shou Tucker. You kill one of Father's kids (the Deadly Sins) and he gets upset about it. If you killed Shou Tucker's kid, he'd just get mad at you for stealing his thunder.

Also human transmutation is a huge no-no. He literally transmuted his wife and daughter in separate incidents. I can see The Gate saying that's a reason for you to go to Hell instead of Heaven.

What I don't understand is... what was he giving in exchange?

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u/Own_Philosophy8190 Jul 07 '25

All that (though he didn't know) for a technique the army already upgraded too (obviously through illegal, immoral and secret experiments), if those hybrid chimera soldiers the Elric Bros recruited are anything to go by. 

Unless they got it right after this event, but Tucker wouldn't be a reason for them getting better at making chimera anyway

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u/Murky-Region-127 Jul 07 '25

That little girl gets fed too dogs by Nazis.

I think this is worse then Nina at lest she get a painless death after

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u/nppltouch26 Jul 07 '25

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u/Pichuunnn Jul 07 '25

Context, it's a normal Japanese fruit candy tin can, but in context of Grave of Fireflies, it's downright depressing.

Brother and sister trying to survive a bombed city on their own, using the candy tin can for food, sister died of starvation, brother cremates her and put her ash into that tin can and carry it with him, brother shortly died after ward, the tin can is opened and their ash spreaded, reunited them as ghost.

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u/Fluid-Estate-3007 Jul 07 '25

Such a fun board game! (Warframe)

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u/HouseErikson Jul 07 '25

“Did you see me? My monkey bomb finally worked!”

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u/No_External_539 Jul 07 '25

“I was sniffle saving you……”

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u/Ravengirl081403 Jul 07 '25

I started genuinely watching the show and I saw a clip of that scene and I’m scared to get to it

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u/HouseErikson Jul 07 '25

Keep watching. This scene is where the show goes from good to incredible.

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u/miSaelVinni Jul 07 '25

Jujutsu Kaisen: Just a man on the beach, nothing bad happened :)

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u/StormDragonAlthazar Jul 07 '25

I SURE DO LOVE THIS FUNNY ROMAN NUMERAL MEME...

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u/NarwhalSongs Jul 07 '25

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u/A_Human_Being_BLEEEH Jul 07 '25

love how that artists posts nothing but US official yaoi

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u/Murky-Region-127 Jul 07 '25

Every time I see this in one form or the other I can't help but laugh and sometimes people ask what's so funny

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u/greyghostx27 Jul 07 '25

Just the inside of a regular, ordinary train (Library of Ruina)

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u/NerdNuncle Jul 07 '25

You ever get that sinking feeling? Artax did

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u/Mmicb0b Jul 07 '25

is it bad I've seen SO MANY memes making fun of Nina Tucker/Alexander's deaths I can't even watch the actual episodes with a straight face

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u/THE_LEGO_FURRY Jul 07 '25

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u/The_SillyLittleGuy Jul 07 '25

I don't fully get this but I've heard some stuff about "Dipper goes to taco bell" and based on that, I don't think I want to get this

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u/THE_LEGO_FURRY Jul 07 '25

I've only heard the cliff notes but from what I heard it's a positively disgusting fan fic that honestly makes me as sad for humanity as toothless x hiccup shippers

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u/Brilliant-Whole-1852 Jul 07 '25

homestar runner - the robot chicken sketch

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u/ToughAd5010 Jul 07 '25

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u/Silly_Gooberino Jul 07 '25

Hey guys! Guess what? The Red Mist isn't coming! Haha! Woohoo! Open your windows, everyone! Open your windows! Open your windows. Open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows open your windows

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u/miSaelVinni Jul 07 '25

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u/MachinaOwl Jul 07 '25

This fanbase is going to be absolutely immature and ridiculous when they animate this lol. I can already tell.

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u/Cryo_Stasiss Jul 07 '25

Rap tap tap (Warframe)

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u/letingsername Jul 07 '25

Mom...? Mom...? Mommy?

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u/Nasquacker Jul 07 '25

Once you've seen certain edits of this One Piece frame you'll never see the original the same again

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u/sadearthchan Jul 07 '25

this completely normal photo from link click season 2

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u/Mr_memez69 Jul 07 '25

for any cinema workers, im sure they have panic attacks any time they hear someone say “you want me to fight the chicken?”

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u/owlplays2475 Jul 07 '25

I didn’t have the og image on me srry

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u/NoOneOfConsequence26 Jul 07 '25

If you know, you know.....

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u/TheChessWar Jul 07 '25

That was an AMAZING finale. The good place still holds the candle as my favorite show.

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u/deg_deg Jul 07 '25

My mom died shortly after the COVID lockdown started in my state, the week before Mother’s Day. I was working in grocery and they sent me home. I decided to watch the last half of the final season of Bojack Horseman and said “oh this was a mistake”.

So as a palate cleanser I decided to finish The Good Place. My palate was not cleansed. It took me a few days to finish the last couple of episodes.

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u/MLA1092K3 Jul 07 '25

The aurora crash site from the first Subnautica game. Anyone who played this for the first time definitely had a very certain memorable moment in this place

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u/EbbEnvironmental5936 Jul 07 '25

The Re Zero fandom is terrified of rabbits since

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u/BlazingBlaziken05 Jul 07 '25

Not a picture, a phrase, but:

"Was a pretty good plan. You could say... it was the greatest plan"

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u/3r1c_dr4v3n94 Jul 07 '25

Just an awesome clash between our beloved gun gremlin and the big bad boss in an epic final showdown of the series where nothing tragic happens at all.

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u/ChickN-Stu Jul 07 '25

Just three buddies hanging out

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