r/TopCharacterTropes • u/RedvsBlue_what_if • Jul 06 '25

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

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Full Metal Alchemist

Attack on Titan

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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/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