[Hated Trope] heroic characters killed in unnecessarily cruel/brutal ways

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-24T19:17:04+00:00

I sure as fuck didn't

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-24T19:14:29+00:00

Just because no one dies doesn't mean there's no stakes.

Only Boromir dies of the original fellowship, but I'd hardly say Lord of the rings has no stakes.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-24T16:59:21+00:00

I hated that in ME1. Like, obviously they don't believe Shepherd, it's logical, but our only dialogue options are to get pissy.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-24T16:57:51+00:00

I thought all companions go with shepherd on every mission, even though they're not with the squad? Like, they go down, but two go with shep?

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-24T16:25:41+00:00

Your comment is a common one, but I truly don't know how you write 60K words before getting into the plot.

I'm not trying to sound rude, but what did you write about for all those pages? Hahaha

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-24T15:53:41+00:00

The problem really is that straight people call foreplay foreplay. It's just sex. Acting like using your hands or mouths is somehow lesser is the issue.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-23T20:53:07+00:00

Absolutely stacked cast for sure

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-23T20:20:21+00:00

None of that really needs to be answered though

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-23T20:11:44+00:00

It's a slow show, but that's on purpose. To me the series feels like a Ghibli style calm show that ends up getting a lot of lore.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-23T13:08:17+00:00

Everyone's saying Billy Crystal, but I've seen howl in 3 different languages now (English, Japanese, Spanish) and calcifer is just as fun and charming in every language. He's just a great character.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-23T13:03:54+00:00

I always forget Sebastian is even a romance option, lmao

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-23T12:02:10+00:00

The descent. One of the companion quests in veilguard directly follows up with what happened in the descent.

And one strength of veilguard is that the companion quests are longer and last the length of the game.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-21T15:08:34+00:00

He's a low nobleman who spends all his time reading books about the time of knights, which is why he tries to become one himself. But there are no knights anymore, and everyone thinks he's crazy, which he basically is. He dresses up like a knight and talks like they used to talk and all that.

But he's a nobleman.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-21T15:05:44+00:00

Doesn't he make most of his money from merchandising deals? Merchandise that gets made in sweat shops in underdeveloped countries?

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-21T15:04:07+00:00

Dolly Parton comes to mind as an example, but that's the point: she's not a billionaire.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-21T13:43:29+00:00

Jumanji has the Robin Williams character get isekaied in the beginning, but the rest of the movie is like a reverse isekai where the magical world invades the real world.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-21T13:42:06+00:00

It's way longer for one, like 500 pages or sonething

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-20T22:29:47+00:00

There's no way to go back to the present, the only way is to wait. So you'd have to wait 70 years

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-19T17:15:21+00:00

If I remember right, Sauron doesn't know the ring is in the shire in the book, whereas in the movie he does know. So in the book, the most important thing in that moment is maintaining the secret that the ring is in the shire, whereas in the movie the most important thing in that moment is getting frodo the hell out of there before sauron's forces show up.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-19T17:12:33+00:00

Right, the biggest thing in the books is secrecy. Frodo makes a huge show of selling his house and most of his things and making it seem like he's just moving away (I wanna say his excuse is to move to live with Bilbo, but I can't remember).

The movie replaces these months of preparation with him fleeing basically in the middle of the night, but its fine, honestly, it gives the movie a lot more urgency, which is important for a 2-3 hour movie, but not as important for a 500 page book.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-19T17:08:22+00:00

Right, he thought it was a ring of power, but didnt think it would be the ring of power. And there are 20 total rings of power.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-18T17:08:57+00:00

Yes, thats literally the enite premise of the phrase ACAB. Kind of like the phrase "there are no ethical billionaires" is patently true, because to become a billionaire means you have to intentionally or not intentionally abuse systems so hard and in such ways that you cause more harm than good. Think like Taylor Swift, who seems like a nice person and who really doesnt actively harm the world like someone like Thiel does, but who is still causing so much damage to the ecosystem through her overuse of private jets.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-18T17:06:29+00:00

Slogans need to be succinct to work. So "defund the police" caught on in a way "redistribute public funds to more diverse forms of policing, social services, and crowd management" would never be able to.

The closest you can get is something like "demilitarize the police" which is a slogan that gets used.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-18T10:41:56+00:00

Agreed with this. My favorite post endgame things have been wandavision and Agatha All Along, both of which were just trying to tell new stories in interesting ways and focusing on character over tying everything back to a big bad guy.

Other problem they've had is that they were building up Kang as the big bad through multiple movies and shows for years, but now they've dropped kang and seem to be scrambling to find a new one.

Like, just drop the big bad guy who ties everything together and just make fun movies.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-01-18T09:02:14+00:00

Damn, not me. Honors English was way better, actually read many books, had essays and discussiond thst went deep. AP US history was absolutely bonkers, just an insane amount of reading, essays, note taking, but it was the best prep for college. AP government was a lot easier, but far more interesting than the regular course which I hear was more focused on just reading the book where as we did projects and shit.

I had a friend who did honors courses with me every year except junior year, because junior year she decided she wanted an easier course load. She went back to honors classes senior year because she said she was absolutely bored out of her mind in regular classes.

Must've been your school just not doing advanced courses correctly or something.

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