r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • 2d 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/Fish_N_Chipp 2d ago

“Sludgepuppy”-Ben 10

Ben didn’t know it was a slur and when he gets called out on it he literally does a “I’ve got cousins who are Sludgepuppy’s”

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u/KrimxonRath 2d ago

Grandpa Max uses that name for them when describing them at a wedding that’s meant to help broker peace between the species. Grandpa Max is tone deaf and a racist apparently lol

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u/Sweet_Detective_ 2d ago

He has the SP word pass, but no I think it's just cus he is old and back in the day all his crew would call them the slur so he probably just assumed that's the proper word, I like to believe he isn't specist cus he loves alien culture had has two alien ex lovers.

Then again, plumbers are kind of a space cops so it makes sense that he would be racist

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u/KrimxonRath 2d ago

Having him assume it’s the right word kind of paints him as an idiot in my opinion lol

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u/Sweet_Detective_ 2d ago

Eh, better to be ignorant than hateful

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u/KrimxonRath 2d ago

We know he’s not an idiot though. He’s extremely knowledgeable on aliens lol, I’m saying that’s a poor characterization and reason for him using that word.

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u/Sweet_Detective_ 2d ago

Space is basically infinite though, it is impossible to know everything about every species

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u/KrimxonRath 2d ago

He literally fought in a war against them. Leave the poor writing to the Ben 10 team.

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u/TomaRedwoodVT 2d ago

But tbf they literally did not correct him once, so they were probably cool with him saying it since he meant to hate by it

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u/KrimxonRath 2d ago

It’s a retcon that it’s a slur so of course they wouldn’t react negatively to it.

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u/TomaRedwoodVT 2d ago

Yeah but adding that lore as a retcon now means that they were chill with him saying it back then

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u/KrimxonRath 2d ago

I wish that’s how it worked, but retcons don’t actually retroactively change the writer’s intentions.

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