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/Soft_Self_6797 12h ago

It's just the most cringe shit. I am one of the alphabet mafia and when this came out I was mortified. I am surprised they didn't name a character a slur.

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u/revbleech 12h ago

it just occurred to me that some clueless writer probably WOULD add a street gang called "the alphabet mafia" as an adversary eventually if the book had come out

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u/TerraTechy 12h ago

I learned about them by accident and it took me a few minutes to realize it wasn't satire. It feels like a rightwing caricature of queerness.

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u/Soft_Self_6797 12h ago

It really does. I thought it was a shit joke about "haha woke snowflakes amirite!" Realizing it was real was far more horrifying. I was begging them to not do this.