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/TangerineAccurate625 8h ago

The Canceled CW powerpuff girls show

From what I've seen from the script, yikes

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u/Werewulf5678 4h ago

It also doesn’t help that they fall into racial tropes too. They made Buttercup ( the most aggressive member of the PPG) a Black woman, Blossom ( the smartest member ) an Asian lady and made Professor Utonium into an abusive stage dad and made a Black man played him.

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u/Ayotha 49m ago

Of course they made the positive male role model terrible and abusive.

"Modern" writing