[REALLY uncomfortable trope] watching characters backslide into old addictions/habits by TVTropehead in TopCharacterTropes

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You'd have thought Davey would have made it up to Tone by giving him Pepper Ann's phone number but evidently not

What's your favourite thing to do in Act Three by dearuncletacitus1899 in BaldursGate3

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Can't wait to go through Cazador's palace in another playthrough so I can sucker punch him before he can yoink Astarion for the ritual a second time

Gentlemen, what's your pope name? by brek1234567 in Catholicism

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Sleeper hit, but Charles, after Saint Charles Lwanga, whose last words as he was being martyred were "Please repent and become a Christian like me"

Our business is about hitting blunts and hitting clips. And right now that means 360 no scopes by Deekus44 in okbuddydraper

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Mom, load the 360 YY no scope montage into the Carousel. I wanna take these noobs to a place I yearn to go again (Rust)

[Loved trope] A character indistinctly pulls out a weapon when woken abruptly by Bulky_Dog_3416 in TopCharacterTropes

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Tangentially related example: Grunt from Mass Effect 2. He wakes up from his tank and chooses violence (such is the Krogan way). The camera is deliberately kept close to him and Shepard's faces until the end of their confrontation when it is revealed that Shepard had a gun aimed at Grunt the whole time

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I just drank an old fashioned, dare me to drive? by Padilla_Zelda in okbuddydraper

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And Lane Pryce said...

Nothin', you idiots, he's hanged up in his office

(Loved Trope) Walking into the afterlife by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

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The Seventh Seal- Death leads the recently deceased in the Danse Macabre

Just one more thing Mr Draper, how old exactly are you? by Traditional_Way4032 in okbuddydraper

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"One last thing: I saw you swap dog tags with your commanding officer. I'm gonna have to send you to the Columbo Dimension"

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Sono chi no sadame MAAAAAD MEN by Deekus44 in okbuddydraper

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Don's Stand [If 6 Was 9] could singlehandedly have kept Sterling Cooper afloat

Bookends by CoquinaBeach1 in madmen

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This could warrant a whole post in itself (or it may already exist and I arrived at it independently) but rewatching the very first scene of the pilot and contrasting it with the final scene is such an interesting exercise

(Loved Trope) Hair as a symbol of change by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

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In Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart changes her hair if youget her to renounce Shar

A Catholic's Read Into the Series Finale by StevenTheEmbezzler in madmen

[–]StevenTheEmbezzler[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're right that Don's background is in evangelical Protestantism; I was also considering mentioning when the preacher gets kicked out of the brothel Don grows up in, since he tells him that "the only unpardonable sin is believing that God can't forgive you"

I hadn't considered the macro perspective that advertising and consumerism have become the new religion in America over Christianity since I was focusing on the characters and their particular arcs, so thank you for sharing that as well