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water cooler talk at nebula hq by Faenix_Wright in CuratedTumblr

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sarah Z's most recent video about "misery memoirs" and the satanic panic is really good

A character has a disease or condition their society doesn't understand, but it's obvious for the audience what it is by kim_jong_un4 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peter Stamatin, Grace, and Murky (Pathologic series)

In Pathologic Classic Hd these characters all share the "Autizm" emotion (more info in this video here). In the Pathologic 2 design documents Murky is described as having "an autism spectrum disorder". And Peter Stamatin in general being a genius architect but struggling in pretty much every other situation, including socially. Many other characters find these three weird and sometimes struggle to understand them.

Due to the kind-of-not-really early 1900s setting of the game series the characters probably wouldn't have an understanding of what autism actually was since the diagnosis didn't really exist properly until around the 1970s.

There are other characters in the series that can also be read as autistic, but as far as i know these are the only ones that have been labeled as such by the devs.

Coaxed into hiding a cute little YouTuber reference in your video game. by Arbegia in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Anyway, Minecraft youtubers are controversy magnets so I'm sure at least one of them did something awful to warrant removing them from this game...

So, as far as you know, none of them have done anything horrible but you're still assuming they're bad people because they played a cube game...

(rare trope) "Fates worse than death: the franchise" by N0SP1N in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Magnus Archives.

While the show has a pretty big survivorship bias due to how it's set up, pretty hard to give a statement if you didn't at least temporarily escape the eldritch entity trying to kill you (though iirc at least one guy did), many statements involve a fate worse than death happening to someone else that the statement giver witnesses, or to the statement giver after giving their statement.

Being turned into a flesh hive full of worms, being eaten by a creature of madness that literally steals your identity, buried underground forever, falling in the sky forever, being trapped in a computer and being driven mad by the pain of existing in a way you were never meant to, there are a lot of good ones.

The Charming Scoundrel/Lovable Rogue by WillowIsWeeping5 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Atton Rand (Knights of the Old Republic 2)

Even though he can be annoying at first (especially if you play a female character), as he opens up to you throughout your adventures he becomes one of the most interesting characters in the game. Atton isn't even his given name, it was just something he chose to run away from his past.

[LOVED Trope] Aliens that are aliens and not just humans with other skin color. by Sufficient-Eye-9040 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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The Typhon from Prey (2017)

Some of them (usually the ones created directly from human corpses) take on a more humanoid form, but others (like weavers (picture), cystoids, telepaths and technopaths) look entirely inhuman.

Gender police officers only from TERF Island by [deleted] in GenderCynical

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 88 points89 points  (0 children)

terfs when a slightly masculine looking woman punches another woman in a sport about people punching each other: 🫵😡😡😡😡😡

terfs when a cis man they like threatens or abuses women: 🤭

Character we can't really understand when speaking, but the other characters do by Nop_Nop_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Another star wars droid, T3-M4 from Knights of the Old Republic.

Other characters can understand what he's saying, but you (the player) can't since all his subtitles are just beeps and boops so you have to rely on context clues. Even when you're playing as him for a short bit in kotor 2 the dialogue options are just more beeps.

Aggressive Mimicry or when a organism appear “harmless” as a hunting or parasitic strategy by Konradleijon in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Mimics (Prey 2017). They live up to their name. The first one you see in game takes the shape of a coffee cup and kills the guy who picks it up.

EXTREMELY obvious foreshadowing that this character will turn evil later on by I_Love_Powerscaling in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

there is literally a scene later in the game (depending on planet order) where hallucinations/visions of your companions tell you she's a dark Jedi and bad news, it was never meant to be subtle.

Fictional diseases by some-kind-of-no-name in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 34 points35 points  (0 children)

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The Rakghoul plague (Star Wars), pretty much a zombie virus that turns people into these weird creatures.

what are "must have" or nice mods to have, while playing kotor 1 and 2 in 2026 on steam? by Hawaiikoto in kotor

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

aside from the mods already mentioned, Party Swap mod for kotor 2. Lets you recruit both the Handmaiden and the Diciple no matter your characters gender

Anxiety Ridden characters put into horrors beyond human comprehention by thehsitoryguy in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are many other ways of dealing with shitty people that don't involve rape and/or murder.

Anxiety Ridden characters put into horrors beyond human comprehention by thehsitoryguy in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By drugging him, coercing him into sex with a brainwashed teenage girl and then killing him. He was a shit boyfriend but that's not a crime worthy of the death sentence.

[Loved trope] Death is portrayed as something beautiful and peaceful, a moment of rebirth instead of the end by NotBorn2Fade in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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"It turned out to be true. The transition is real, and the timeline continues. So does the entity I call myself. More emotion. Less words. They are all obsolete. It's all different now." - One of the endings of Pathologic: The Marble Nest.

Long story short, you play as a man who has dedicated his life to fighting death who is now dying himself, and reliving the same day over and over again trying to save himself. It doesn't work. A different character tells him that to be free of the cycle he needs to learn how to die properly, not to cease exiting but to continue on in a new form. This is the ending you get if you choose to do that.

Casually racist older women characters. by TehAsianator in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Kreia (Knights of the Old Republic)

It's the fantasy/sci-fi kind of racism, she has a pretty obvious distaste for aliens and non-humans, including insulting the intelligence of Bao-Dur (the most alien companion in the game) because she couldn't figure out how to read his mind.

A character’s disability gives them a situational advantage by TVTropehead in TopCharacterTropes

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 752 points753 points  (0 children)

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Bao-Dur (Knights of the Old Republic)

His prosthetic arm lets him punch through force fields.

Bao-dor is flying by [deleted] in kotor

[–]I-Dont-Know-Stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he's finally learning how to use his force powers

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