r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MeepMan324 • 6d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Endings so awful they completely destroy the legacy of the media.

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  1. Two and a Half Men's final episode teased Charlie Sheen's character coming back and going to harm the other characters whilst also having insults to his character and Charlie Sheen himself. It's clear the director had a grudge and the ending where his character comes up to knock then get crushed by a piano before it cuts to the director before he says "winning" before getting crushed by another piano
  2. This was an upbeat animated show about a magical teen princess. The writers desperately wanted a romantic endgame for her and her best friend, but the way they got there was essentially multiversal omnicide. To stop a villain, the main character unilaterally decides magic is the root of all evil and destroys it entirely. By doing this, she casually commits mass genocide against every purely magical being in the multiverse. It also triggers a massive apocalyptic event that violently crashes different dimensions together into a chaotic hellscape. But the show frames this horrific, mass-extinction catastrophe as a sweet, triumphant ending just because two teenagers get to hold hands in the rubble (Star Vs The Forces Of Evil)
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u/irihS 6d ago

obligatory game of thrones karma farm mention

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u/Symphoniedesaucisses 6d ago

Daeneryses, Aryas and Khaleesys were poppin' out of wombs all around the world, and now all their parents regrets it.

Nothing can top that.

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u/MjollLeon 6d ago

Arya can at least be passed as a normal name. All the Khalessi and Daenerys’ are so stupid.

  1. khalessi was always a bad name, the Dothraki are terrible no matter what.

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u/Badloss 6d ago

Khaleesi is a title and not a name. It's like naming your kid "Commodore" or "Duchess"

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u/BarracudaAlive3563 6d ago

Earl, Baron, and Duke are all given names that started out as noble titles.

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u/TonySperguson 6d ago

prince, amir, raj, malik, marshal, patrick, rex

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u/Potential-Ant-4335 6d ago

theres definitely got be a few Duchesses running around out there

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u/redflamel 6d ago

See also Regina (literally queen in Italian)

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u/ElectricSliderz 6d ago

And Reina

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u/grip0matic 6d ago

That's a name for a cat. And my cats were named by a friend as Lana and Rey. I was ready to name my girls Pars and Ley until he said that I would regret not giving them good names.

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u/Suck_my_dick_mods69 6d ago

I know like six Commodores

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u/hurricane_97 6d ago

I know 64

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u/dearth_of_passion 6d ago

There's plenty of women running around with Princess, Precious, and Babygirl on their tinder profiles. I've seen them. None of them are people I'd want to date.

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u/gh0stsafari 6d ago

Dr. Dre's nephew plays football at USC and his name is King Miller.

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u/UnderstandingPotato 6d ago

The Rodneys are queuing up! (God forbid)

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u/json_argonaut 6d ago

Eh, that part isn't inherently as dumb as people say. Earl, Rex (and Regina), and Duke are all used as names even though they're titles.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 6d ago

I named my kid Warlord

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u/Monotreme_monorail 6d ago

I’ve known men named Judge. I thought it was unusual but it happened more than once (and these guys were probably born late 60’s/early 70’s) so I guess it’s a thing.

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u/Grundlebot 6d ago

Yeah, and unless it's a dog, those names are stupid as hell

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u/hbgoddard 6d ago

What did Earl ever do to you

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u/ipeedinthetoothpaste 6d ago

Earl, Regina and Reginald, Marshal(l), Patrick. All common names that were titles before.

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u/Turbulent_Lunch4548 6d ago

Just like parents who name their child Khaleesi, none of those names you mention are given to children of educated parents.

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u/Gimetulkathmir 6d ago

Regina and Candace would like a word.

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u/ladyMacbeth2500 6d ago

Well no because one sounds fucking crazy and is fictional

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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 6d ago

Commodore... that's respect!

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u/ACody9879 6d ago

I knew a kid named Commodore back in the 90s, he was cool though.

Only kid in the neighborhood with a Sega Genesis when they first released it.

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u/arfelo1 6d ago

Lady is a common name in Latin America. Usnavi is also not too uncommon (US Navy)

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u/Careful_Eagle6566 6d ago

If I ever see a resume for a Commodore, that's an instant hire from me.

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u/TesticleMeElmo 6d ago

I knew a kid growing up named Sergeant lol

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u/The_Autarch 6d ago

Queen and Queenie are both real names already, tho.

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u/apatheticsahm1 6d ago

Arya is an actual name in India (means "noble"), but GoT made it more popular.

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u/MjollLeon 6d ago

Yup! But let’s be honest most of the people naming there children Arya were not from India or even of Indian descent.

My grandmother (Gujarati) was so happy to hear that my sister had another Indian in her class, only to be supremely disappointed to learn it was a little white girl named Arya.

Not that she should’ve been disappointed because Arya is super sweet but my grandmother really wanted me and my sis to have Indian friends

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u/dearth_of_passion 6d ago

I'm betting a lot of people thought Arya was just a "fantasy style" way to spell Aria.

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u/Monotreme_monorail 6d ago

Aria (alternative spelling) is also a common name in English speaking countries.

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u/lincoln_muadib 6d ago

Agreed. She's Batman.

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u/the_lonely_creeper 6d ago

Arya is a name

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u/Selverd2 6d ago

dani or Callie still work as nicknames.

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u/PT10 6d ago

Racist

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u/MjollLeon 6d ago

How am I racist?

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u/PT10 6d ago

Racist against Dothraki

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u/MjollLeon 6d ago

Fuck them, it’s a fictional culture built on raiding, rape, slavery, etc

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u/PT10 6d ago

There you go being racist again.

Dothraki Lives Matter

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u/Fit-Ask-6524 6d ago

I know some catholic friends that named their daughter Aurea, completely unrelated to GoT, because of the Marian title Domus Aurea.

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u/MjollLeon 6d ago

Aurea is a pretty name

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u/bgbarnard 6d ago

 the Dothraki are terrible no matter what

Even at their most violent, real Plains and steppe cultures would be shaking their heads at how ridiculously evil the Dothraki are.

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u/RohansEarings 6d ago

Eh I don't know about naming a kid Arya, sounds too close to the whole "the Aryan race is the master race" thing that Hitler was pushing.

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u/paroxitones 5d ago

Khaleesi is absolutely stupid, always wondered why not Daenerys if you like the character so much

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u/nightwingoracle 6d ago

Naming a kid that ever is a tragic. It’s not even a name in universe ffs

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u/licoricenipple 6d ago

To be fair plenty of titles get used as names. Roy, Rex and Regina all mean king/queen, there's Earl, Marshall, Amir, Barron etc

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u/lincoln_muadib 6d ago

Arya was the Game of Thrones Batman.

  • Orphan
  • Trained by Ninjas
  • Who want to make an Assassin of her
  • She fights against them to assert her individuality
  • She refuses to give up her identity
  • Returns to her home after a long period away
  • Fights a Frozen guy

BATMAN

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u/Bleperite 6d ago

True. I'd have gone with Emilia!

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u/EduinBrutus 6d ago edited 6d ago

Daenerys was written the way the character turned out from the fucking start.

It was lack of media literacy that led to all the mini psycopaths running about today.

As for Arya, that name is close enough to existing names in English and doesn't even stand out. Also, whats wrong with the character's ending? Arya was one of the least fucked with characters in S8.

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u/Reverend_Lazerface 6d ago

They just kept poppin' outta them thangs