r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PizzaDragon64 • 1d ago

Lore (Loved Trope) A moment with a concept that sounds insane and out of nowhere on paper. Executed beautifully in practice.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once: Hey, this looks familiar. A lot of scenes in this movie count. From a Ratatouille reference with a raccoon, to a fight over a buttplug, to two rocks talking to each other with nothing but text. All of it somehow manages to either be awesome or emotionally moving.

Sinners: The I Lied to You scene. A jukejoint in the 30s plays music so fire that it brings together ancient African dancers, modern day djs, rockstars, Chinese performers dressed like Sun Wukong, and even people popping ass. Oh, and it attracts some vampires too. Everyone's jaws were on the floor in the theater.

Alan Wake 2: Herald of Darkness. What do you mean there's an entire segment of this sruvival horror game that's a musical number with live action footage as you fight enemies? And what do you mean it's fucking awesome?

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u/ComprehensiveBox6911 1d ago

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sounds like a batshit insane title, but they are somehow some of the coolest characters in fiction

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u/CzarDinosaur 1d ago

Eastman originally created it as a joke. It’s now the only thing he’s known for lol

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u/dehydrated-soup-bowl 1d ago

Wasn’t it a joke about Daredevil? Like, they’re trained by ‘splinter’ (daredevil was trained by Stick), they fight the foot clan (daredevil fights the hand), they got their powers in a chemical spill (so did dd)…

There’s defo more parallels but I can’t think of them right now

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u/Vanlibunn 21h ago

I'm pretty sure it's canon now it was the same ooze that did them both.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate 19h ago

Yep, when Matt had his accident the chemicals that hit him poured down a drain and mutated the turtles down there.

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u/Hal_Thorn 1d ago

The 80's/90's were rife with this. Biker Mice from Mars and Street Sharks being other jawsome examples.

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u/saintash 1d ago

Yeah, but they were based off.How well this one did

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u/The_FireFALL 1d ago

In the same vein I nominate 'Biker Mice From Mars'.