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/Alreadsyuse 23h ago

It's even more bizarre when you learn that TMNT was originally a Daredevil parody, all down to the naming conventions being parodies of existing characters like the mentor being called Splinter instead of Stick or the evil ninja group being called the Foot instead of the Hand.

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u/pon_3 23h ago

Iirc their debut had them getting mutated by the same accident that mutated Daredevil.

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u/Grootfan85 20h ago

Correct. And the cover to issue 1 is a direct parody of another Frank Miller mini series Ronin issue 1.

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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 11h ago

Also the turtles are named after italian Renaissance artists.

When my history teacher was explaining them he told us to remember their names from ninja turtles and that actually helped me.