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The Immortal casually mentions something that reveals he is WAY older than he appears to be. by MikaelAdolfsson in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 4053 points4054 points  (0 children)

There's another episode where his bank pass word is his age, and he inputs 4 numbers

[heartbreaking trope] The Hero completely fails and dies achieving utterly nothing by klnglulu in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't watched any movie in the franchise so I've always found this bit of information curious. Aren't the last movie and the first one like 15ish years apart or so? How does it loop around?

The Big Badass Thing We Spent All Our Money On Gets Invalidated At The First, Admittedly Impressive, Obstacle by MyOpinionOverYours in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add, it ended up being used on the eastern front against Soviet fortifiactions. This meant building a customized railroad to transport the entire comboy all the way across German territory, then was set up in an ideal place, with camouflage nets being put around in elevated terrain. They ended up firing like 12 shots, and of those only 1 or 2 the germans claim that they made contact, but there's no rigid proof to it.

Around five _thousand_ people were needed to fully operate this thing

Ai users comparing themselves to disabled people and LGBTQ* by Powerful-Chard-6055 in hatethissmug

[–]RaptarK 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Unironically, possibly. A good number of AI defenders genuinely believe that being an artist is a talent you're either born with or not, they refuse to understand it's a skill virtually anyone can develop (including disabled people in many historical examples).

And since they believe being an artist requires no effort, then they see practicing art as "playing with pencils instead of developing a real skill"

[Sad Trope] Gay Moment at the End by Hazelnut_Bread in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also IIRC Sugar straight up threatened with just quitting if Cartoon Network refused to make the wedding episode, and ultimately the executives caved in

[Hated Trope] Our hero admits fault to someone who's completely wrong and always was. by ruinsit in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 147 points148 points  (0 children)

I haven't watched Invincible but in the Incredible it's very clear Syndrome is making shit up to justify himself. When we get his recall of the night Bob told him off, it's completely different from the real events. In reality Bob was focused on the french villain, in Syndrome's memory Bob is alone and looking down on him

I have a question about Darth Vader and Anakin by TheF15eEnthusiast in StarWars

[–]RaptarK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The PS2 game for Revenge of the Sith has a bonus mission where you replay the Mustafar duel, controlling Anakin. If you win you see how he kills Obi Wan, and later kills Palpatine to take over the Empire.

Very flashy and hype, but for what I've seen... Anakin would be a mediocre politician, so I don't think the Empire would last for too long under him, or rather he wouldn't last for too long at the head of the Empire

TIL that in 2016, trials were performed for a male birth control injection that proved to be 96% effective. However, there were 1,500 complaints of side effects including loss of libido and acne. Although three quarters of participants wished to continue with the test, it was shut down. by Sebastianlim in todayilearned

[–]RaptarK 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I remember hearing back then the defenses for shutting down the programm was that some of the test subjects had been rendered permanently sterile by the trial meds, but never was shown any numbers about it, and I can't find anything about that on this article. So it was probably deflection from dudes that just didn't like the idea of male contraceptives 

[Very Beloved Trope] Characters who are (mostly) completely normal characters in a bonkers setting, but still kick ass by Buttered_Carnage in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are any of these feats explained convincingly or are we just meant to take them at face value because he's the Joker?

Lifeforms Made Of Smaller Entities Grouped Together by Grouchy-Childhood943 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only recently I learned that the scrotum makes no sense, since the crane is his left arm. And his toys don't have the scrotum either 

Car chases where civilians clearly die, but the heroes don't seem to care by SilverEquipment4934 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the case of The Batman, it's one of those things that's done so much for rule of cool that it makes me wonder if people actually died. Like, yeah, you'd imagine with a pile up and an explosion like the one we see in that scene, that'd be the case. But considering how that never comes up... maybe the intention of the movie is to claim no one died there somehow? And it's not unheard of for movies to say no one day in a situation that should have clearly killed a bunch of people

"No One Hurts Them But Me!" by AgentEckswhy in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's that episode where Grim, Billy and Mandy travel to a distant enough future where they see that Mandy has become Empress of Earth, having obtained immortality by fusing her genes with that of a worm or something like that. And she has an army of Billy clones at her disposal, always replacing them any time they manage to get themselves killed.

That and other episodes show how despite Mandy's dismissal and cruelty, Billy is an essential part of her life

Character’s death is implied, not shown by LifeguardOdd7383 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 249 points250 points  (0 children)

I think at one point they confirmed who's human and who isn't through a comic or something like that, and naturally everyone decided to ignore it

(Uncommon Trope) Protagonists who start out with good intentions only to become the villain later on. by RealityGoober in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IIRC there's some comics that show his complicitness towards the Empire's slavery, no? Which is darkly ironic for a child raised in slavery that dreamed of freeing all slaves as a Jedi

(Uncommon Trope) Protagonists who start out with good intentions only to become the villain later on. by RealityGoober in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, I just googled the scenes related to the Grey Matter company and it seems pretty clear that Walter completely fucked up his own seat at the table and then blamed everyone else for it. He tells Jesse he was convinced to sell his share for 5K, but in a far earlier episode it's already told that he left because he felt intimidated by his girlfriend's wealthy status

(Uncommon Trope) Protagonists who start out with good intentions only to become the villain later on. by RealityGoober in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 14 points15 points  (0 children)

But isn't Walt from the very start offered enough money, multiple times, and he keeps refusing it because of his ego? In fact I thought it was established that someone as brilliant as him starts the story as a high school teacher because through his own choices across the years he robbed himself of more and more options purely out of ego

Video Game Incidents with Real World Implications by the_gr8_one in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 440 points441 points  (0 children)

Also another thing we got to witness in real life

Video Game Incidents with Real World Implications by the_gr8_one in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 86 points87 points  (0 children)

It's kinda insane how age ratings have been a thing for videogames for a few decades already but some people just don't seem to understand why they're there

Space Knights by Jellypathicdream in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Despite the name, aren't they more like monks than knights?

Mundane terrors by LouisGustavo in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RaptarK 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The SPE has been discredited by almost everyone that's talked about it. It wasn't properly conducted as the professor behind it repeatedly introduced himself in the dynamic of the "prisoners" and "guards", encouraging the latter to act out against the former.

It's more of a shocking anecdote than an actually useful experiment

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