r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Character_Growth_397 • 13h 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/SlayaBEE 13h ago

AND he has a beard. So why wouldn't they just keep the normal "By Odin's beard" line???

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u/topdangle 12h ago

i think the writer was paid per racist stereotype. like he had random shoes hanging on wires. kept confusing things seen in poor urban areas with black culture.

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u/TotalBlissey 11h ago

Why are there even power lines in Asgard anyway???

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u/topdangle 11h ago

needed something to hang shoes off of. they don't even use them for electricity.

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u/TotalBlissey 11h ago

Basically a glorified clothesline.

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u/Feedback-Mental 10h ago

Clothesline are very useful. For clothes.

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u/HairyWrangler8272 50m ago

Liberals aren't the smartest.

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u/Plenty_Trick_6042 11h ago

"We made a progressive comic everyone! Black Batman is hanging from trees, Black Killer Croc is baiting crocodiles, Black Moon Knight picks the cotton for his suit himself and we also made Black Iron man look like he's wearing blackface but he also doesn't look like Robert Downey JR in Tropic Thunder! Surely everyone will love that!"

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u/squanchingonreddit 10h ago

Wait wait wait. I thought Killer Croc was and is black canonically.

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u/Plenty_Trick_6042 10h ago

Oh... OK idk I don't really read comics. I realize that subconsciously I had him pegged as "green" which in retrospect wasn't all that logical...

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u/calideosk 7h ago

You are biased against green people arent you? You wouldnt even pick up the grinch in your taxi.

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u/Feanor4godking 10h ago

To be fair, having a guy who was born as just some crocodile guy isn't too far fetched for comics, but he's from the "every character is from super science gone wrong!" era of comics

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u/squanchingonreddit 9h ago

Again not born as crocodile but changes over time to become more Croc like. Trying to reverse it always ending up in a more feral appearance and mental state.

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u/SgtSlaughterEX 5h ago

And White Blade is a brown belt in Taekwondo and drives a Subaru

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u/Lavaburstx 2h ago

Killer Croc? From DC?

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u/lorgskyegon 1h ago

Go away... batin'!

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u/Bamzooki1 20m ago

”Wakanda’s watermelon and fried chicken trees are dope for shizzle, my neighba!”

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u/Random-Rambling 9h ago

i think the writer was paid per racist stereotype.

I understand that this is well into "deranged conspiracy theory" territory, but I occasionally think that comic writers back then were either ragebaiters or approved by ragebaiters hoping to get some cheap publicity when people brought it up to tear it to shreds.

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u/Charming-Shake-6525 11h ago

so they had a quota?

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u/Soft_Self_6797 11h ago

No fucking way did they do that. That is insane.

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u/topdangle 11h ago

??? that's literally the opposite of what I posted. the writer kept confusing cliches seen in poor urban areas as though they were part of black culture.

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u/alpharaptor1 12h ago

It could have been worse... "By Odin's chains!"

I'm not even sure if that's worse, now that I think about it.

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u/Very_Tricky_Cat 12h ago

Time to snatch that chain, twin. -Double Lokki Lok

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u/TotalBlissey 11h ago

Kingsley Shacklebolt-ass line

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 8h ago

"Like the exaggerated swagger of a black teen"

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u/PtheK01 5h ago

It's not better.

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u/Kgb725 1h ago

Swap out Odin with fenris and it works

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u/SecureDonkey 11h ago

They afraid you may not notice the race swap. 

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u/chopsuirak 10h ago

I hadn't read this comic because... well... all of it. Holy shit what a disasterpiece. There is no way this was not intentional.