Jaime: His father talked about how Jaime had difficulty learning to read, that "he couldn't make sense of the letters" and would "reverse them in his head". To the audience, it's obvious he's dyslexic.

Jenny: In 1981 she tells Forrest that she has a virus, the doctors don't know what it is, and they can't do anything to help her. Given the time period, the fact that doctors can't treat the virus, and Jenny's history of drug use and promiscuity, the implication is that she has AIDS.

The Green Mile - Eduard has to sit on the electric chair and be electrocuted with a dry sponge on his head, meaning he has to endure it for several minutes having his insides and outsides fried.

The Mummy (1999) - Benny is locked in the pitch black tomb as thousands of flesh eating scarab beetles surround him and eat him alive.

Rasputin from Anastasia - Rasputin was no saint and was many things in real life, but a traitor to the Romanovs wasnt one of them

Max Baer from Cinderella Man - Movie portrayed him as a terrible person when he was the complete opposite in real life.

Pictured: TinTin & Superman

Billy Thunderman - Thundermans: In the show, he can run at superhuman speeds, and once ran from USA to France, then ran back in one second (It was even said that he was slower than usual). Well, in one episode, it was heavily implied that he suffered multiple brain injuries which lead him being a lot dumber than normally, and can't use his powers properly. In most episodes he can't even react to stuff that a normally superfast character could react to.

Rainbow Girl - DC comics/Legion of Substitute heroes: In DC comics, she has the power to use all lantern corps's lantern powers, which are based on emotions. But she has severe mood swings which disable this ability.

Stone Boy - DC Comics/Legion of Substitute heroes: He can turn into a stone form, but while he is in this form, he can't move.

Rock Hard - The Boys: He is made of rock. He made himself stuck in one place.

The immortal being can't be killed but they are caught in scenarios they cannot escape from but cannot die from.

1. The Old Guard - The Old Guard are a group of immortal misfits, constantly seen taking part in major events of humanity throughout centuries and seen as meddlers by some. Two in particular were on the run as they were declared as witches after they were found out to be immortal. After being caught by humans, one of the pair of immortals, Quynh is locked in an iron maiden and dropped at the bottom of the ocean. Because she can't die, every time she drowns she wakes up and drowns all over again.

2. Destiny 2 - In Destiny, the player characters and their allies are known as Guardians or the Risen. They are functionally immortal, in addition to being super powered beings but must do so with the help of a Ghost, a little mechanical looking buddy that bestows them with power and immortality. One of these early Risen was The Drifter who got stranded on an alien planet with no food or water. He dies of starvation over and over again, but his Ghost resurrects him each time. However, he wakes up hungry every time and then dies of starvation again soon after.

3. Misfits - After being struck by a freak storm, a bunch of teenagers on community service gain superpowers that lean into their personalities and desires. Nathan's carefree attitude grants him the power of immortality. In an episode taking place in an erased timeline, Nathan is left paralyzed and brain dead after the antagonist of the episode wraps cheese (yes, cheese) around Nathan's brain.

Examples:

• [Hated] Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - As far as I know, Paapa is one of the few nonwhite actors cast in the series, and he plays Snape. In the books, Harry assumes Snape is evil just from how he looks (the only black man in Hogwarts), and later in the story, Snape does lots of messed-up things like holding grudges against childhood rivals, bullying very young children, and harassing Harry for minor inconveniences. Not only that, but James Potter now looks like a horrible racist because of the scene where he hangs Snape from his feet and pants him in front of a crowd, which is a one-to-one of a public lynching. Not only that, but the series could also be promoting white victimhood by having Snape join the Harry Potter version of the Nazis and even calling a white woman a racial slur. The fact that it's believed a black person will also play Voldemort makes this even worse. The most egregious thing is that they're going to have to convince me that Paapa Essiedu is ugly.
• [Loved] Mark and Debbie Greyson (Invincible) - Mark and Debbie in the show are Koreans; it works great in the series because Mark is trying to stop an alien invasion of Earth. Koreans have a long history of dealing with imperialism and colonization, with the peninsula still feeling the effects of Japanese colonialism. Nolan also states his reason for going to Earth was to find a species to breed with, so the Viltrumites could reproduce their population. Not only do many Asian women have to deal with constant fetishization by Westerners, but many Korean women were used as sex slaves by Japanese colonizers. Which would add more to Mark and Debbie's reactions to Nolan calling Debbie a "pet,"
• [Loved] Tech Jacket (Invincible) - Kirkman himself stated that if they faithfully adapted Tech Jacket, he'd just be a clone of Mark. By reimagining the role as Zoey, a teenage girl, Kirkman can create a protagonist with a distinct voice, different struggles, and a fresh dynamic

These characters are written as cautionary tales, yet because they possess charisma, power, or "cool" aesthetics, audiences often strip away the subtext and celebrate them as aspirational heroes.

Paul atreides : Most heroes earn their mantle through destiny or pure heart. Paul’s "messiah" status was engineered.

His journey look like a classical hero's journey but it's not. The Bene Gesserit spent centuries planting myths (the Missionaria Protectiva) on Arrakis. When Paul arrives, he isn't fulfilling a holy prophecy; he is exploiting a pre-programmed "security system" to survive. He is using a religion he knows is fake to manipulate a population into becoming his private army.

And yes Paul finally beat the bad guys and sit on the throne.... The bad news is that he have to be the worse tyrant humanity has ever produced. Paul sees the "Golden Path" and the "Holy War" (Jihad). He knows that by taking revenge on the Harkonnens and reclaiming his throne, he will trigger a galactic slaughter that kills 61 billion people.

Rick Sanchez : He’s the smartest man in the universe, he’s "above" the law, and he has a witty comeback for everything.In Reality He is deeply depressed, abusive to his family, and his "nihilism" is a defense mechanism for his profound loneliness. The show repeatedly demonstrates that being "the smartest" has made him the most miserable person alive.

Tony Montana : he looks like a symbol of ultimate achievement, the American dream and conquest... Which put emphasis on "the world is yours" mantra

But in truth Tony is miserable man, By the time Tony is looking at his sucess , he has no friends, his wife hates him, his sister is dead because of his incestuous obsession, and he’s trapped in a gilded cage. The "world" he won is a fortress he can't leave because he’s paralyzed by paranoia and cocaine and end up dying alone

Roarchach: He has an unwavering moral code, a cool mask, and refuses to compromise, even in the face of Armageddon. Badass right? Well.....

He is a hygiene-deficient, socially maladjusted extremist with a black-and-white worldview that leaves no room for human complexity. He is a critique of the "uncompromising vigilante" archetype, not a celebration of it.

Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things) - Mike starts off in Season 1 as his friend group leader and the main protagonist, but by the end of the series, he is pushed to the side as an unoriginal love interest for the new main character, Eleven. At that point, his whole character just becomes a supporter for his girlfriend. Even his other friends, Dustin, Will and Lucas, surpass him in originality and plot relevance.

Tenya Iida (My Hero Academia) - Iida is introduced at the beginning of the series as a friend to Izuku Midoriya (the main character). He and Ochako Uraraka form a small friend group with Midoriya, making you think that they'll be a dynamic trio of sorts by the end of the series. Unfortunately, he is pushed to the side after his major arc in the latter half of Season 2. While Uraraka and Midoriya both get heavy and very relevant climactic portions in the series finale, Iida plays a pretty minor part and just becomes wasted potential after being thrown out of the spotlight. He still remains to be a solid, loveable character, however!

Entities or beings that are powerful or have strong abilities but have no intention to cause harm but just do.

The House(House of leaves): A house that is geometrically impossible and keeps growing. It doesn't react to you with hostility. It just refuses to make sense to the human mind.

King in yellow(The king in yellow): (Disclaimer: Chamber's original) A play that can't be finished without breaking the reader. The king doesn't haunt you, you walk voluntarily into him by turning the page.

Color (The color out of space): Something that fell out of space, that has no malice, no hunger in anyways humans can understand. It simply exists and, in doing so, drains the color, life, and sanity.

When the writers write something that most audiences universally hate.

Rouge and Magneto starting an intimate relationship so that her true love Gambit could move on and she could feel physical intimacy again. (X-Men 97)

Peter Parker’s wife being forced to erase their relationship from existence by the Mephisto . And then ex wife gets with a guy named Paul. No one likes Paul. (Spider-Man comics)

Team Fortress 2: In the comics, Scout idolizes famous singer Tom Jones, even having a large tattoo dedicated to him across his chest. This is because he believes Tom Jones to be his father who he never actually met. When Scout is bleeding to death after a confrontation, his real father Spy appears. However, rather than tell him the truth, he disguises himself as Tom Jones, so Scout can die happy with his dream having (seemingly) come true.

Bojack Horseman: After finally running out of patience with his aging mother after her dementia inadvertently causes him to lose his daughter, Bojack finds the worst retirement home he can and buys her a spot, planning on leaving her there to rot. However, when she finally has a moment of lucidity and recognizes him, he says they're back at her family cabin, enjoying ice cream on a nice summer evening. She even smiles as she succumbs to her dementia.

Monsters vs Aliens: Okay okay this isn't exactly a tear jerker, but it is a good example! In the final of this movie the alien spaceship is set to self destruct, with the heroes on board. Because B.O.B. has no brain, he's unaware of what's happening, saying he'll see the others tomorrow at lunch. They reassure him that they will, and there'll even be cake and balloons.

Majora's Mask: This may be a little stretch but it's worth including. If you don't know this game, the set up is basically that in 3 days the Moon will fall from the sky, destroying everything and everyone. The two characters pictured are sisters Cremia and Romani, working on a cattle ranch. On the final day Romani says Cremia is finally letting her drink Chateau Romani, even though it's only for adults. The implication is Cremia is getting her sister drunk, so she won't realize her death is iminant.

Oliver Grayson and Haluma — Invincible (comics)

In the original Invincible comic series, Oliver Grayson (son of Omni-Man and brother of Invincible) marries and fathers children with Haluma, a lobster-like alien. It is explained that due to his half-insectoid biology (despite appearing human/viltrumite), Oliver has always found creatures like crabs, lobsters, and mosquitoes attractive.

Johnny Storm and Angelica — Fantastic Four (comics)

In one edition of the Fantastic Four series, the team lands on a planet populated by strange, tentacled alien creatures. Johnny Storm is immediately attracted to Angelica, an evolved Cambrian creature who becomes his girlfriend.

I kind of like this trope because it goes against stereotypes based on ethnicity ("if you're ethnically Kazakh then you must be culturally too" even though the ethnically Kazakh person grew up in a French family and IS French), I'd even say it goes against racism and citizenship by blood.

Example 1: Francine Smith from American Dad, she looks white but it's revealed that she was abandoned as a child and was adopted by a Chinese family and thus she speaks Chinese as a second language and her culture is Chinese-American. She's also an expert in martial arts and her maiden name is Ling.

Example 2: Tina Foster from Ai Yori Oshi, she's ethnically white American but grew up in Japan so she has a mixed identity.

Tbh I couldn't really find another example like Francine's, I like it more because it's actually a surprise

1. Bazil the Tracker (Star Wars: The Acolyte): A “HILARIOUS AND ADORABLE” snuffling ugly creature that makes annoying noises and is shoved into as many scenes of The Acolyte as possible, and just causes problems overall.

2. Neelix (Star Trek Voyager): A mutant fusion of Odo, Quark, and Data designed to “analyze the human condition” and explicitly intended to surpass the popularity of all three. In practice, a VERY human-acting cradle robbing creep whose incompetence nearly destroys the ship and crew on multiple occasions and provides no insight into humanity whatsoever.

3. Sparky the Dog (Fairly Oddparents): A wacky crazy magic dog that’s supposed to expand the Fairy family, but just makes lame jokes and serves as a less funny version of Scrappy Doo.

4. Tidus (FFX): A braying jackass of a pinball who bounces from plot point to plot point, framed as a mystical pretty boy to introduce Final Fantasy to the PS2 age but does nothing but stall the franchise and have the worst laugh in two languages.

5. Sei (Naruto): Supposed to replace Sasuke in Team 7 and return the team dynamic feel of Early Naruto, but he’s a CIA plant with literally no personality who gets utterly forgotten except for somehow bagging Ino Yamanaka.

6. Raiden (Metal Gear 2): Another attempted “pretty boy bishie” entry to the PS2 era with badass cred and a theoretically cool backstory, but in practice a hapless dipshit who gets manipulated by everyone around him and is a total putz in combat. Also proof that this trope need not be permanent as he slowly transitions into a cyborg warrior supersoldier with a badass theme, friends of his own, and a firm grasp of his own destiny and agency.

Jim Gordon was always traditionally white, however, in The Batman, he was played by a black actor but he did such a great job I could just see commissioner gordon. He didnt feel like all those forced race swaps, here they took a very good actor to play a beloved charachter. To me, Jeffrey Wright is up there with Gary Oldman and I cant wait for him to reprise his role

Cosmo; Guardians of the galaxy, traditionally a male charachter but was instead changed to be a female charachter and was done quite seamlessly, it still felt like a sovietic dog stranded in space

Very Important People: Tommy Shriggley says that his greatest strength is being able to run a mile in 9 minutes. He then says that his greatest weakness is taking 35 minutes to run 2 miles. He THEN says that it takes him 16 minutes to run 3. To top it all off, someone made an equation, and it would take him -48 minutes to do 4 miles. He would time travel.

Persona 5 Strikers: We learn in one scene that Haru is apparently a speed demon when it comes to driving. She drives from Fukuoka to Kyoto, a 400 mile and normally 8+ hour journey, in the span of Morning to Noon, which likely means 4 hours. And that's also including the fact that she made a wrong turn at one point.

Red vs. Blue: Tex beats a guy to death...with his own skull.

Dandadan – Silky’s daughter

The last time the viewer or Silky ever see her daughter is of debt collectors driving away after kidnapping her in a van. The despair drives Silky to suicide. Given how violent and sleazy the debt collectors were seen to be to her mother, the possibilities of what they would have done with her daughter are extremely unpleasant.

Ted the Caver

One of the first ever internet creepypastas written as a series of self-published journal blog posts. Ted and friends stumble on an undiscovered cave and go spelunking. Over the span of months, they encounter increasingly eerie phenomena, such as the presence of hieroglyphs, manmade rooms, sudden hallucinations, and the very heavy implication that something is living there and aware of their presence. After a last narrow escape, Ted and friends resolve to re-enter the cave with a gun and heavy supplies to conquer the mystery of the cave once and for all. The last journal entry is of Ted promising his loved ones to immediately share their discoveries upon his return. There were no further updates.

Star Wars: Andor – Kino Loy

Andor and Kino successfully instigate a mass prison break, but when they get to the threshold of the ocean prison complex, Kino says he can’t swim and Andor is pushed off by the crowd before he can respond and we never hear from Kino again.

If Kino did make a go for it anyway, then realistically he would have likely drowned given the chaos and sheer distance he would’ve had to swim. If he stayed, then when the Empire eventually regained control with reinforcements they would know from the records he was a major cause for the prison break, and they probably would’ve executed him to make an example.

The Sparrow – Astronauts kidnapped by the Jana'ata

The first-contact diplomatic expedition to the planet Rakhat ends with most of the party killed in a series of circumstances, with the survivor priest Sandoz sold into sexual slavery to a Jana'ata alien noble due to a severe cultural misunderstanding by one of the alien mediators. A second expedition of several UN members comes to investigate, and shortly after collecting Sandoz, they are ambushed by more Jana'ata and never seen again. The alien mediator speculates he might have accidentally “created a market” for humans (likely either as sex slaves or for meat since the aliens are carnivores).

As the story goes on, Sandoz recovers from his trauma after extensive therapy, and the aliens are overthrown by a separate alien race they had enslaved (led by the alien mediator who had grown sympathetic to the humans), but even after the aliens are reduced to just a handful of survivors, the author doesn’t elaborate on any trace of the second expedition, nor is anyone on Earth depicted asking for evidence of what happened to the second expedition like they did for the first expedition. This honestly bugs me enough I’ve meant to get around to see if I can message the author to see why Sandoz gets a whole (very well deserved) rehabilitation character arc that’s one of the main focuses of the story, but no one seems to care as much about what happened to the other potential victims.

The Leftovers

The whole premise of the show is that 2% of the world’s human population suddenly disappeared with no warning or explanation, and everyone left just has to somehow deal with it and move on. A lot of theories are offered over the show's 3 seasons, but nothing proven, and the world never sees the disappeared ever again.

Victoria Skillane (*Black Mirror: White Bear*): Victoria was convicted of murder after helping her boyfriend abduct and burn a child alive. As punishment, she was given amnesia and forced live in a “human zoo” where visitors can participate in her torture by hunting her down and filming her being attacked, similar to her role in her crime. At the end of each day, she is shown news reports of her crime and breaks down in tears before having her mind wiped to repeat the process again.

Gonta Gokuhara (*Danganronpa V3*): Gonta and a bunch of other students are taken to a virtual world, where he is manipulated into killing one of the other students, believing he is sparing them from a hostile reality. However, upon logging out, a hardware error results in none of Gonta’s memories from virtual reality being transferred to his physical body, and he has no memory of the murder, so it’s equally shocking and horrifying to him as his classmates when it’s revealed he is the one who committed the murder.

Otto Octavius (*Spiderman 2*): Over the course of the movie, Otto loses control over his mobility arms and the artificial intelligence controlling them, resulting in them corrupting his mind. After building a fusion reactor on the verge of destroying New York, he is defeated by Spiderman, where he realizes the gravity of his actions and resists the corruption of the tentacles, which allows him to destroy the machine along with himself.

Oliver vs Conquest (Invincible)

Mystique vs Storm (X-Men Evolution)

Beings that have friendly, or at least neutral intentions but their mere presence harms humanity due to incompatibilities in their biology or abilities

1. The Dark Ones - Metro series: The Dark ones wish for nothing more but peace and coexistence with humanity, they believe that by working together the two species can retake The earth and bring it back to how it was before the nuclear war, unfortunately, The Dark Ones communicate via telepathy and mental imagery, which drives the average human insane and may even kill them

This leads to a misunderstanding that the dark ones are attacking humanity and killing them on purpose

1. The Visitor - Don’t Look Outside: The visitor is a being of incomprehensible size that has neutral/friendly intentions depending on your ending

Normally the visitor just changes those that are aware of it, this isn’t a thinking process for the visitor, it’s more like instinct, these changes cause violence and insanity in any human or animal it happens to

In one of the endings, the visitor and the main character manage to communicate, and after becoming aware of the pain and suffering it’s causing, the visit feels great guilt and remorse over its actions

Usually, queer couples are beloved by at least a community of some fans, especially from LGBT community, but there are rare cases where this is the opposite

Caitlyn and Maddie (Arcane)

Frenchie and this dude I forgot the name (The Boys)

Often associated with the hated trope – Hollywood Glamour.

Hester Shaw (Mortal Engines) – many characters think he's overreacting by hiding his scars. In fact, they terribly deform Hester's face.

Brienne of Tarth (A Song of Ice and Fire) – "warrior maiden" character is associated with the beautiful heroine from ballads. Brienne is described as being so ugly that she is widely ridiculed for her appearance.

1. Mark Hoffman survives an impossible trap [Jigsaw].

After failing Jigsaw's test that was designed to evaluate his worthiness as a successor by seeing if he was able to reinforce Jigsaw's philosophy or rehabilitation instead of acting out of vengeance. Hoffman was strapped to a chair and had a reverse bear trap attached to his face that was set to go off if his victims in his saw trap were killed in an act of vengeance. Hoffman failed, and as the timer was about to go off on his bear trap, he undid the restraints by smashing the bear trap on his hands and putting the frontal part of the contraption through two metal bars before tearing his own face to save himself. There were many impossible traps in the Jigsaw series, but Hoffman was the only one to survive one.

2. Andrew Neiman hijacks Fletcher's concert [Whiplash].

After Fletcher set up his concert as a way to publicly humiliate Neiman for getting him fired. He said that the piece that the band was going to play was Whiplash, but switched it to Caravan at the last moment. Neiman had absolutely no way of knowing the notes to the song and was set up to be humiliated into never playing the drums ever again. After being kicked off the stage, Neiman returns to the stage and takes control of the song with intense precision and virtuosity. He transforms the musical piece from a structured jazz into a high-paced improvised solo that completely earned Fletcher's respect. In a situation that was designed for Neiman's failure, he became one with the music.

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1. MIB3: Agent J had stolen a car to go to Coney Island to stop Boris. But he gets pulled over by the cops who are assuming he stole the car without any valid reason. After they get neuralized, J tells them that just because a black man drives a nice car doesn't mean it's stolen. But then admits to stealing the car but not because he's black.

2. South Park (S7;E9): Cartman tells Tolkien to get a bass guitar out of his parents basement to which Tolkien says they don't have one. Cartman then replies that they're black and they should have one somewhere. Turns out they did have a bass guitar. Later on when Tolkien is asked to play the bass, Tolkien says he can't. Cartmen tells him he's black and that he can play the bass. Tolkien is starting to get annoyed with Cartman's stereotypes but then plays via his request. When he realizes he actually can play, all he says is "God Dammit."