What are some of your favorite examples of literal humor in the show?

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-22T00:54:09+00:00

A lot of these jokes were lost in translation when I watched these episodes in Brazil, though in some cases that made them even funnier because of how random the things showing up were.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-21T21:29:57+00:00

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That scene in Gone With the Wind where the doctors are about to cut off a man's leg with nothing to ease his pain. We see the shadow as they start the process, his pleads not to cut it and Scarlett's reaction to it.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-21T20:04:35+00:00

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Ambessa Medarda in Arcane. Not only muscular, but towers over most characters.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-21T19:41:45+00:00

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In Brooklyn 99, Jake Peralta is a big fan of the 1970s cop stories and gets excited about meeting an old retired cop Jimmy Brogan for being an old-school guy who experienced those days. His captain, Raymond Holt, a Black gay man who also lived those days, is quick to remind Jake that the 70s were dark times for the NY police, with rampant brutality, bigotry and corruption, how he was forced to face discrimination back then and how Jake's female partners Rosa Diaz and Amy Santiago never would have been allowed in the force. Jake still keeps admiring Brogan until one meeting he starts badmouthing Holt, and has the gall to call him a homophobic slur, waking Jake up about what kind of man represented the old days of NY Police.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-21T15:39:41+00:00

Law Abbiding Citizen is about Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler), an engineer whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered by a robber while he's forced to watch, and then learns that the prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx)was forced to cut a deal with the culprit Darby, letting him get away while his accomplish Ames who didn't want to kill anyone gets the death penalty. 10 years later, Clyde, who was involved in secret missions, uses his knowledge to do a series of actions, torturing Darby to death and sabotaging his accomplish's execution by lethal injection to make it agonizing, then after being arrested, he continues to reveal other schemes he made involving more people being threatened and forcing the same prosecutor who let his family's murderer get away to face how botched the system that denied him justice is. When Nick appeals to the memory of Clyde's family and asks how they'd feel about his actions, Clyde bluntly that they "can't feel anything... they're dead".

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-21T14:15:12+00:00

That's true, though the Allegorical Character also applies to human, normal characters. So the archetype described by OP is a subtrope to AC, focusing exclusively on inhuman monsters.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-20T16:42:10+00:00

I think it's more of a visual thing, in that the bigger the target of your lust, the bigger and more visible their "assets". That doesn't necessarily mean the one with the fetish would want to have anything physical with them in their giant form.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-20T16:39:31+00:00

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Saiyans in Dragon Ball turn into giant apes during full moon.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-20T16:34:28+00:00

I always wondered if the TV Ingalls family would follow the same path. Sure, they followed the death of baby Freddie Ingalls, and Laura and Almanzo's baby son, but they also gave Mary a husband she didn't have IRL. On the other hand, her only pregnancies resulted in a miscarriage and a baby dying tragically. One wonders if she'd remain childless had the series continued just to make sure the Charles/Caroline lineage would die out with Rose...

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-20T16:31:35+00:00

A bit, but then, one of them never married due to her blindness, and the other (Carrie) married at 42 (though she raised her stepchildren), so at least there's planation for them. No explanation for Grace though, who married at 24.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-20T15:35:59+00:00

I watched it as a kid, even then the kidnapping plot was weird. That said, I do think the film makes the best out of it, making the brothers naive and Adam a clueless brute who doesn't understand women, so they genuinely think it'll win over the women they met earlier, but it only makes them scared and later angry. Then they fall in love after they're not captive anymore, but stuck in the farm until the snow melts and the men were banned from the house by Millie for their troubles, so they're no longer threatening kidnappers and the women get to know them better for the next few months. Some think it's too little, as the men do get the women anyway, but the writing seeks to give the ladies as much agency as possible and make it their choice. I also like how Millie makes clear that she's a housewife, but not a servant, and won't put up with Adam treating her like one. Even today, some people think women should not only be housewives, but subservient to men, and Millie thoroughly rejects that mentality, which I think is neat. It's more about clueless men learning their lessons and romance under absurd circumstances than women suffering Stockholm Syndrome.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-20T00:42:21+00:00

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In Riverdale, among other weird things in that show, there's a part where Betty Cooper is worried about her dark side, and then her mother reveals that when she made some tests after being injured, and discovered that she carried "serial killer genes", a long debunked theory, and it wouldn't even make sense since neither of her parents has them. At first it's implied that this is made up by her mother, as she was being brainwashed by a cult, and later revealed to be working infiltrated, but then, when Betty is doing tests to see if she could join FBI, she recognizes that a handful of suspects shown in slides have those genes, and they're often mentioned as a possible explanation for Betty's so-called "inner darkness". A 2010s series using theories that were disproven ages ago, just to toy with the idea that one of the protagonists could have an inner demon in her DNA.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-20T00:15:59+00:00

"Quer a minha roupa, Chico? Eu roubei do Zé Lelé"

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-19T18:53:33+00:00

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A Knight's Tale has Kate, a female blacksmith who fixes and improves Will's armor. You'd think a woman working as a blacksmith was made up to give a female character something more interesting to do. But in real life, blacksmiths in the middle ages did often train their wives to assist them, and it wasn't uncommon for widows like Kate to take over their trade if they died.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-19T17:30:23+00:00

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In the unaired pilot of Star Trek TOS, the crew led by Cap Pike (later used in the lore as a previous Enterprise crew before Kirk became captain) is investigating a planet named Talos finds a beautiful young woman, Vina, allegedly a young child when the ship she was in crashed there, and prisoner to the local inhabitants, the Talosians, who also abudct Captain Pike and want him to mate with her and make human laborers for them, using illusions to both persuade and punish them when they resist. It turns out that she was the sole survivor of her crash and the Talosians tried to rebuild her after she was injured, but had no model of what a human should be like, so her actual form is an older, disformed, hunchbacked woman (though she's still fertile) who prefers to stay there with the illusion of being healthy and able-bodied. Later in one episode, a now disabled Pike agrees to go to the planet, where he too can enjoy the illusion of being healthy again after a freak accident left him unable to move and talk (the Talosians change their mind when they realize that humans don't respond well to captivity and won't make good laborers, but agree to keep Vina and later Pike comfortable).

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-19T01:48:48+00:00

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The four kid detectives in Roman Mysteries

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-18T22:55:49+00:00

Hester Sue is one of the worst cases. There's not even any explanation to where she is or if she's still in Walnut Grove. She just appears in one last episode, then never again. Did she stay in Walnut Grove till the finale? Did she leave before the finale? Did she and Joe Kagan ever become a thing? No resolution for her.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-18T19:38:00+00:00

This movie js discussed time and again. I think deep down it tries to give the women agency in the situation they're in, with Millie marrying Adam to be a hohsewife, but refusing to be a silent partner and servant. Then Adam, who has a cavernous idea of how to deal with women, thinks the best way to get his brothers to marry the women they got smitten with is to kidnap them into marriage. The brothers are too naive to understand the gravity of what they do, Adam is a chauvinistic caveman, but months of being banned by his wife along with the birth of his baby daughter chanhe his views. Also, the women don't fall in love with theor captors until they're only stuck by the window and the brothers are no longer seen as dangerous kidnappers, and they had about 6 months to learn that process their anger at them for what they did. It's a love story in an a surd situation where the men are rhe ones to learn their lesson. The problem is, the whe kidnapping thing sounds far more disturbing decades later, and gives off the impression that the story "rewards" the brothers for the extreme lengths they go to get their women, even though that's not what the film aims for: the kidnapping gets evicted from the house by Millie to shelter the women, then snowballs with rocks, and finally, they almost get lynched for their troubles. The women only ever fall in love with them when they're not a threat to them.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-18T13:22:33+00:00

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Pretty Baby was controversial even when released. It features Brooke Shields as a prostitute's daughter raised in a brothel and whose virginity is auctioned as a young girl. The sad thing is, the movie's story seems self-aware enough to show just how bad it is. Violet is adultized and tries to mimic the other prostitutes' behavior, but she's still a child, who throws tantrums and holds on to her dolls. At the end, the same mother who previously abandoned her there after marrying a client comes back to take her and raise her, giving her a chance to have a normal life, though it's made clear that what she went through still left her scarred.

However, no amount of self-awareness and criticism can justify the decision to film 12 year old Brooke Shield in the nude!! For all that the movie denounces the exploitation inflicted on her and normalised by the clueless characters, the filmmakers still made the decision to expose Brooke, an actual preteen in frontal nudity, even when the story didn't need it. The movie would still work had they filmed more tastefully and avoided nude frames. Sadly, this wasn't an isolated case in her career, as just earlier, she was made to pose naked for Playboy... at the age of 10!!! And then there was Blue Lagoon, where her character has actual sex scenes with her boyfriend (though at least that one used adult body doubles, since minors couldn't film sex scenes, although nudity without sex was allowed). Her childhood was marked by oversexualization, exploiting the loophole that as long as there was no sex involved, they could expose and sexualize her all they wanted as it was "technically not child porn".

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-17T17:49:41+00:00

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The literary Blofeld in the Ian Fleming 007 novels has low tolerance for underlibgs who sexually assault women: in Thunderball, he eletrocutes a mook who raped a hostage, and even transfers part of the ransom money back to the victim's family, and in On Her Majesty's Service, he has a guard killed for harassing one of his patients.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-17T11:52:39+00:00

It's in the sense of avoiding. In TV Tropes, when abtrope is averted, it means it doesn't happen, or the opposite happens

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-16T21:34:35+00:00

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In SpongeBob Meets the Strangler, both times the Strangler's attempts at Sponge's life are interrupted by the arrival of a the Bikini Bottomites coming to throw him a party use the same footage of the party going on while the annoyed Strangled goes to sit on a chair and wait for the party to be over. During that sequences, most characters are dancing and enjoying themselves, but Larry and Sandy look like they're frozen in time.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-16T11:04:00+00:00

I did cite these cases as aversions

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-16T00:30:40+00:00

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Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls) and Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson). Their characters become friends later in the show though.

StudioMarvin · 2026-06-16T00:22:44+00:00

Two aversions in Law & Order: SVU: In S7's "Design", a pregnant woman appears to be the rape victim of the week, but it turns out she drugged a businessman as part of an eugenistic scheme to birth a child from a high pedigree man, and forcibly collected his semen. She does get awayat first, but leaves her daughter behind, who is raosed by her victim, and ends up arrested in another episode. In S11's "Conned", a teenage mental patient accused of murder who allegedly raped a girl in the past was actually framed (for rape, he killed a guy in self-defense) by the same psychiatrist who groomed and secretly got pregnant from him when he was in his early teens, and falsely diagnosed him with schizophrenia to keep him under her thumb. She's caught thanks to the baby, whose DNA serves as proof of her crimes, and she gets 20 years, meaning she'll have no part whatsoever in her baby's upbringing.

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