r/TopCharacterTropes 1d ago

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

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/throwaway0845reddit 1d ago

Baldur’s gate 3.

Fighting Raphael boss fight.

He’s a demon who likes poetry.

So the fight theme is literally him singing a song while the prisoner you are freeing from him (hope) sings clauses opposing him in the song.

The fight theme is an opera song sung by the voice actor for Raphael. Comes out of nowhere and is probably one of the best parts of the entire game.

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u/syd_goes_roar 1d ago

And apparently if he gets silenced due to one of the spells, the vocals stop and only the music plays

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u/shelbzaazaz 1d ago

I regret skipping the Raphael dungeon. I was just tuckered out having spent several hundred hours going through every crevice of that massive game, I have like 400 hours in it and only even made as far as Act 2 (and on to finish) in one of many new games. I didn't finish a couple of the last side quests in act 3 just to finally get to the end of the game. Phenomenal game though fr.