r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Character_Growth_397 • 12h ago

Hated Tropes Things meant to be progressive just end up being incredibly offensive

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What If - In one of the comics Miles becomes Thor, and it's full of stereotypes about black people such as the Mjolnir having graffiti on it and the infamous "by Odin's fade"

Emilia Perez - Everything about the movie

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u/Invisible-Pancreas 12h ago

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Okay, just Wikipedia'd their names. You guys ready?

Screentime, Snowflake, Safespace, B-Negative and Trailblazer.

I swear I am not making that up; that's their names.

These are names a Republican cartoonist on Twitter would decide are a little "on the nose".

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u/YamLow8097 12h ago

Trailblazer isn’t too bad, at least.

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u/The-Fomorian-Ray-682 12h ago

I don’t see the problem with Trailblazer, sounds cool imo

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u/Ditzy_Dreams 4h ago

Personally, I’m not a huge fan of characters whose power is basically just plot convenience.

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u/The-Fomorian-Ray-682 4h ago

I have absolutely no clue what Trailblazer does, I just like the name

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u/Ditzy_Dreams 4h ago

Iirc, she could pull whatever item she needed in a situation out of her backpack.

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u/Blint_Briglio 4h ago

that could be fun if she couldn't choose what the item is. like, if the backpack decides that the solution to her problem is post-its and then she has to figure out what the hell to do with them. if it's just "I wish I had a gun right now" and it spits out a gun, then yeah that's lame

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u/saikopasu_neko28 3h ago

So basically just Ladybug from Miraculous?

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u/The-Fomorian-Ray-682 4h ago

… I fail to see how that relates to her name but I can see how you’d dislike the power

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u/SlobZombie13 9h ago

it's a woman whose power is breaking glass ceilings.

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u/WingedSword_ 9h ago

Ahhh, there it is. 

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u/netcereal 11h ago

My favorite model of Chevy

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u/Gigantic_potato 5h ago

People said it was too stereotypical for a native American hero, but her main issues were definitely looking like Dora and saying that her backpack came from god "but not the one you're thinking"

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u/Margenen 3h ago

My first thought was it might be a reference to the Trail of Tears given how out of touch the rest of the characters are

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u/ChiefsHat 3h ago

Snowflake could work if it wasn’t tied to that concept.

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u/SoSeriousAndDeep 11h ago

I quite like Safespace as a name, and think it would work for a paladin-type defensive character.

Just... Not the version they proposed. Because that was bad.

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u/Flesroy 10h ago

i can see the idea behind it working, but the word safespace is just not an option anymore. i'm sure there is a name that can convey the same meaning without making people cringe because of politics.

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u/Pero_Bt 8h ago

I've seen a fanart where snowflake and safespace are renamed to Hail and Haven

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u/Flesroy 8h ago

yeah that's pretty much perfect

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u/The1987RedFox 10h ago

Safe space is the only truly unusable name for those, Snowflake isn’t great but could be like a snow character I guess otherwise they could be used

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u/SpaceGiraffeInSpace 11h ago

Poor Trailblazer

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u/Funkycoldmedici 10h ago

That’s literally the gag. It was a humor miniseries by one of the Colbert Report writers. It was more of that, making fun of what conservatives say everything is.

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u/Theorist129 8h ago

Looked into it, Kibblesmith only wrote for the Late Show, not Colbert Report, fwiw. However, his history does fall into what you're talking about. He was a founding editor for Clickhole, the Onion's Buzzfeed parody, he ran a "GOP Teens" parody account on Twitter, and wrote a picture book about a black gay Santa Claus seemingly mostly for subversiveness' sake.

Well, I shall take up your banner, good Medici, and whenever I see it come up, I will note that it's from a founding editor of Clickhole, so the blatant absurdity is likely at the least not unthinking.