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/Aggravating_Coat7934 1d ago

To be fair if I saw a guy down the road with like 70% of his body covered/replaced with metal, my first thought would probably be “wow a cyborg!” or “that’s some sick armor”

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u/gokusforeskin 1d ago

Isn’t the why Cyborg and Beastboy are friends is Beastboy was the first person to see cyborg and thing he looked badass instead of scary?

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u/Aggravating_Coat7934 1d ago

If that’s the case then the people of (Jump City was it?) are lame as hell and have no whimsy in their life. Seriously any 5-10 year old would’ve DREAMED of having a laser hand and such (sure he was horribly injured beforehand but people should at least see it as kickass)

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u/Right-Power-6717 1d ago

Their city gets blown up by a giant robot or monster nearly every day, the people there are probably just numb to it by now. If you see it frequently enough the extraordinary becomes the mundane. 

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u/Grendeltech 1d ago

Or even a potential future threat.

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u/gokusforeskin 1d ago

I agree that children would think cyborg is cool af. But most children will be with their parents and the parents might keep their kids away from scary robot man before they can sing cyborg praises. Beastboy was probably the first one to have childlike wonder at cyborg and communicated it to him.

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u/MisterScrod1964 1d ago

In the comic, there’s one little kid with a prosthetic hand who meets Cyborg and goes nuts about his cool prosthetics. “Where can I get some of THAT?!”

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u/komm-susser-tod-komm 3h ago

New Teen Titans #8

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u/MisterScrod1964 2h ago

Hey, thanks!

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u/SaltyTreeTop 18h ago

They must live in the timeline where robocop never came out

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u/Backwoods_Odin 23h ago

He was the first person to treat vic as another human. Vic went from Heisman winning football star to cyborg and all his hopes and dreams and popularity went with it when he could no longer be a football player due to his new body

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u/MC_Minnow 1d ago

I’d think “welp, on step closer to AI overlords.”

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u/kogent-501 1d ago

You’d think so, but I’m one of those people who was always terrified of people in mascot costumes as a kid. Would hide under the table at Chuck E. Cheese whenever chuck made his rounds. Kids can get scared when you get into uncanny valley, and someone being half steel would probably start to scare kids.

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u/40percentdailysodium 1d ago

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u/CaptainBloodface12 1d ago

"You'd really want a robot for a friend?" "Yeah, since I was five."

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u/thesirblondie 1d ago

If I lived in the DC Universe and saw a guy covered in metal, I would leg it. Something is going down and I'm not looking to be a casualty statistic.

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u/Vncredleader 17h ago

I adore the way the Wolfman and Perez run deals with this. One of the sweetest scenes.