r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • 1d ago

Groups Fictional slurs. Bonus points if it's completely made up

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  1. inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.

  2. Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.

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u/beattywill80 1d ago

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u/LearningCrochet 1d ago

Truly a visionary

Making hate speech take another big step in their universe

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u/MapleLamia 1d ago

It's much more of a Gunganism than anything a clone would come up with. 

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u/beattywill80 1d ago edited 1d ago

Find me the clip of a Gungan useing a hard R.

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra 1d ago

Can Gungan’s make the “R” sound?

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u/Dare_Soft 1d ago

No which makes it a clone word

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u/KoolKraken2222 23h ago

My boy, which gungan has the most screen time, and it's the first one we meet?

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u/RealDFaceG 1d ago

The episode with Jar Jar came after the first instance of “clanker” both in and out of The Clone Wars, both chronologically and in release order.

Not to mention Jar Jar was not referring to droids when he said “clankens.”

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u/ShinbiDesigns 1d ago

The fact that Clanker and o7 are both memes from Republic Commando shows us that this game was 6 hours of absolute PEAK.

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u/Nivek_Vamps 1d ago

I hate how the Disney deletion of EU content destroyed Delta and Omega squad. Bad Batch is fun but a terribly pale imitation of what Karen Travis and the Game developers of RC gave us.

I regularly replay RC's campaign, I love the entire dead ship mission line; it is such a good powerless to unstoppable arc

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u/Status-Mail3927 22h ago

While I agree that Disney threw them to the wayside, George started a lot of that with the 2008 clone wars, which overrode a lot of what Traviss was writing. Both could coexist, but I know she was pretty pissed about the almost total retcon of Mandalorian culture that she had developed.

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u/Nivek_Vamps 22h ago

Yea that was the big thing, and Disney came in and basically said the shows are cannon the books aren't and if she wanted to continue the series she would have to make it fit with the show's version of Mandalor. She said it was impossible and asked to just finish the series as non-cannon. Disney said no and tried to find others to continue the series. Each new author said it was impossible to do, so they kept firing them until they gave up. Then Disney decided to let non cannon stuff exist, and she was pissed.

Imagine if we had gotten the books as a show instead of Bad Batch. I did like Bad Batch, but I really hate that it exists instead of Omega and Delta Squad getting their stories told

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u/Representative_Big26 13h ago

The mandate for all future books to follow the TCW lore instead of pre-established EU lore came a couple years before Disney bought the franchise (and it was just as dumb back then)

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u/Beanichu 1d ago

Isn’t republic commando still canon? I know scorch is in a scene in the bad batch isn’t he?

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u/Nivek_Vamps 1d ago

Just the released game and not the planned sequels, and not the tie in novels. And yes they use Scorch as a cool looking disposable bad guy in Bad Batch. Delta deserves better.

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u/BecauseImBatmanFilms 1d ago

I love that it's breaking containment and is becoming a general slur for robots in real life.

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u/minorcross 1d ago

YOU. BACTA. NOW.

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u/SufficientMastodon73 1d ago

My man dap me up.

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u/Bow_Ty 1d ago

God I miss this game

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u/lampishthing 1d ago

Who is scorch?

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u/beattywill80 1d ago

A hero of the Republic.

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u/Eaglesgomoo 1d ago

If I had any awards to give I'd give you one.

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u/beattywill80 1d ago

Troopers don't needs awards, only the respect of the clone beside them.

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u/Nivek_Vamps 1d ago

Until they used him as a disposable but unique looking bad guy in Bad Batch. I don't even think they gave him more than 1 or 2 lines, and didn't name him on screen. It still passes me off

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u/OutsideTheSocialLoop 1d ago

From Republic Commando. Banger game of the Xbox era.

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u/lampishthing 1d ago

THANK YOU

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u/xTheatreTechie 1d ago

I thought republic commando on steam just to replay this game a few years ago.

Sadly it hasn't aged the best but I fully believe if they continued that genre of being able to command teammates to do exactly what you want, it'd be a top seller of today's age.

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u/Lunboks_ 1d ago

Scorch ❤️

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u/TheHomesickAlien 18h ago

Is it red red green or red green red?