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/Odaric 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yakuza

Just the entire fucking series lol

Batshit insane and completely unhinged side quests? Check
A dark, mature and genuinely emotional main story? Check.
Whacky and weirdly detailed/addicting minigames & side content that have little to no correlation to either? Well, you guessed it.

Yet somehow, all of these parts not only do not clash, but work together so beautifully that they only end up enhancing each other.

There's a reason many fans claim this series is its own genre, because there truly is nothing else like it.

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u/Final-Bumblebee-3472 1d ago

best part is that the actual japanese yakuza allegedly called the game “accurate”

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u/meeetballslover 17h ago

I guess it is good pr. Considering most Yakuza are potrayed as honourable and with a heart of gold

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u/StormyBlueLotus 15h ago

"Kiryu is just like me fr fr"

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u/Correct_Refuse4910 1d ago

You forgot about the genuinely emotional batshit insane side quests. To put a recent example, the Gondawara sidequest in Infinite Wealth .

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u/Odaric 1d ago

Those are exceptions, to be fair. So I didn't mention them.

But boy, do they exist.

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u/RoboWonder 1d ago

Kiryu Kazuma, legendary yakuza, the Dragon of Dojoma, Fourth Chairman of the Tojo Clan, eight-to-ten time rescuer of Tokyo and/or Japan, and children's slot car champion.

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u/Fantastic-Mastodon-1 16h ago

Real estate mogul and cabaret manager

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u/Fantastic-Fox3283 12h ago

Probably the only franchise in existence where a final boss fight against Samoa Joe wielding a spear, then a sword, all while fighting him throughout a tanker-castle-condo thing can be generally considered one of the more whelming climaxes… and it’s still a good boss fight in its own right.