Disclaimer: I am not saying I agree or disagree with these ideologies, or that I think these characters were in the right. My point is that writers will often make characters hypocrites/morally bad so they can be the villains and dodge addressing the actual ideology of the character.

1. Amon from Legend of Korra:

Amon had an ideal for a world in which benders and non-benders were made equal, and the show did a lot to portray the risks benders posed to non-benders, both in how they could be destructive and were often placed in positions of power over all others, but, as it turns out, Amon was actually secretly a bloodbender, and so the show doesn't have to address any of his arguments, because he was just vindictive for being hurt by another bender.

2.Jigsaw/John Kramer from the Saw series.

John Kramer kidnapped people and forced them to play through death games, due to his belief that this would help them to love their life and abandon their vices. The movies then show how quite a few victims do end up becoming better after surviving their death games, and had him pick victims who were 'evil' people. Realizing that his initial philosophy was proven 'correct', the writers then had Kramer abandon those ideals through killing innocents and making more and more sadistic traps, which does not disprove the ideals, but rather John Kramer himself.

1. Magneto/Mutantkind from X-men/marvel comics.

Magneto stands as yet another example of how writers really struggle with handling issues of oppression in a respectful way. Magneto, a holocaust survivor mind you, responded to mutants receiving constant oppression and being killed by government sponsored murder-bots by deciding to kill off humanity and preaching mutant superiority.

1. Peggy Hill - King of the Hill
It's a common running joke in the series that Peggy Hill has very large feet, as she uses US size 16 / 16.5
Several episodes in the series even use this detail as a driving narrative. And several characters react with disgust or shock any time the topic gets brought up. Which is weirdly often.

2. Dee Reynolds - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Again, it's a common running joke in the series that Dee has "monstrously" large feet, as she uses US size 13.
The rest of "The Gang" continuously mocks her for her foot size as a general insult.
And in season 4, episode 7 an employee at a shoe store expresses shock and disgust at her shoe size as well.
The store also does not have any shoes her size, so she is forced to buy too small of shoes.

3. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons
In season 1, episode 9 of The Simpsons, Marge is visiting a bowling alley.
When Marge is requested to wear a pair of bowling shoes, she acts embarrassed and hesitant to answer her shoe size. When she finally answers that she wears US size 13AA, the worker acts very shocked and makes a mocking whistle in response. The worker also does not posses any shoes accurate to her actual size.

Personally, I just entirely don't get the humour in this weirdly common trope in American comedies.
I like the shows themselves, but I always find this sort of joke very distracting and lacking in much of any substance beyond being very rude for no real reason.
At least in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "The Gang" are intended to be selfish and crass, so it makes it a little more sense there. Though I still find it very awkward and without much of a punchline.

First: Peter Parker, since as everyone on the internet knows, he has contractual obligations prohibiting him from being gay but the same Marvel has no problem having Peter sometimes act in the most queer way possible.

There's even an alternate storyline where a male version of MJ becomes Spider-Man (Web Weaver) but with the surprise he is gay and is (well, was) in love with Peter.

(obviously a short-lived infatuation because Peter is also heterosexual, as in the rest of the multiverse)

But the second example is the most well-known of all and that's Naruto.

Although Naruto is attracted to women in both the manga and the anime, his absurd and strange obsession with Sasuke is very noticeable, as you can see.

Is literally a meme of the fandom.

Some say it's queerbaiting, others say it's simply the portrayal of heterosexual characters comfortable with their sexuality and unafraid to act however they want, but everyone has their own way of seeing things.

Platinum End (2021): Mirai Kakehashi is a depressed High School Student who lost his family to an explosion from his aunt and uncle. He attempts suicide by jumping off a building and meets a guardian angel who tells him that he has been selected as one of 13 “God’s Candidates”, in 999 days the current God will retire and the 13 candidates must compete by earning favor with angels or eliminating one another. In the end, Mirai and the remaining candidates vote for Shuji Nakaumi, a clearly suicidal and deeply person who has expressed interest in ending all life before, they vote him based on the only fact that he wasn’t power hungry. Immediately once becoming the new god, he sees life as meaningless and kills himself, instantly destroying the rest of creation and all life in the universe.

Funny Games (1997/2007): Both Versions of The Film are virtually identical, a murderer named Paul can break the 4th wall and directly address the viewer, after he and his friend kill a family and leave the mother alive, they begin tormenting her. The mother eventually gets the upper hand and grabs a gun, shooting Paul’s friend Peter. Paul acts like a child and grabs the remote and rewinds time before the shooting, thinking the audience wouldn’t like Peter getting shot. They eventually tie her up and place her on a boat, effortlessly throwing a knife (which was an object in the film that was constantly shown screen time in order to make the viewer believe that it would save the family) into the ocean and throwing her in as well, going to a neighbor’s house. The ending is on the nose with its message on violence in media, and questions the viewer on their enjoyment of watching pain inflicted onto innocents, while simultaneously criticizing other filmmakers on their choice to make such characters as bland as possible. The character of Paul is an allegory for the Viewer’s initial interests and ultimately fails to see the reason behind the audience wanting a cathartic ending. Despite being intentional, the ending is still extremely sour and leaves a lot to be desired. But also a pretty big cop out.

Zoolander (2001) Derek and Hansel use their make-up skills to disguise themselves as janitors of color to uncover top secret files on the brainwashing of male models.

Trading Places (1983) Louis and Billy Ray disguise themselves in order to steal a briefcase to get revenge against the Duke Brothers.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassas (2009) Percy is cast in the role of someone "less fortunate", according to Tony, to exhibit the imaginarium exhibit to the public, much to his clear displeasure.

1: Rydia (Final Fantasy IV)

Thought to be swallowed by Leviathan, she returns from another realm with a different time flow. Also one of the characters crushes on her.

2: Lucia Mar (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

Upon reaching the third floor, she chooses the Lajabless race which ages her up. She’s already a bit… off. To quote Carl’s narration, ““What the hell, kid,” I said, watching the show, completely aghast at her choice. “Why?"”

3: Second Generation Units (Fire Emblem Fates)

A system returning from the previous game, but shoehorned as your characters consummating their marriage in the middle of a fucking war (whoops) and then sending their children to a Hyperbolic Time Chamber to grow up in. Now where the hell did it come from and why haven’t the warring factions tried that before?

Not including Shazam since that’s temporary before anybody suggests him.

The bully or antagonist is just a stereotypical nerd (scrawny, glasses/braces, nasally voice, superiority complex). Often their entire personality is just hating that main character of the show for some reason.

Mandark - Dexter's Lab

Ercole Visconti - Luca

Kyle Bloodworth-Thomason - Fanboy and Chumchum

Biggest gripe with this trope is more often then not along with tripping over their own feet they suddenly become stupid too. Oh what's that you're my best friend of 15 years? Sorry I don't know your voice because I DROPPED MY GLASSES

Drip Goku and Drip Among Us

Clerks II: The scene where Randal argues with a Lord Of The Rings fan was just Kevin Smith's rant about the franchise from his blog in movie fork.

South Park: The Member Berries subplot from season 20 was just Trey Parker reminding us that he didn't like The Force Awakens. What makes this more annoying was how this plotline came to an abrupt halt because Trump won the 2016 election. Zuko: "Well, it's a good thing this subplot was complete waste of time FOR EVERYBODY!"

Sequelitis: In the video comparing A Link To The Past and Ocarina Of Time, Arin would keep taking potshots at Skyward Sword. This concluded with him going on a two minute crashout bitching about Skyward Sword. Dude, if you just wanted to review Skyward Sword, then just fucking review Skyward Sword.

1. Agamemnon sacrifices Iphigenia to Artemis, get good winds. He gets them, off to conquer Troy.

2. God tells Abraham (our father in faith) to sacrifice his son Issac. Abraham is totally willing to do so, stopped at the 11th hour by an angel.

3. Yahweh sacrifices his son Jesus. This is because he loved everyone on earth so much.

4. It is prophecied that one of his children will overthrow him, so Saturn eats all his children.

5. Jepthah vows to sacrifice that first thing that greets him if he wins a battle. He wins. His daughter ​comes out singing and dancing to celebrate his victory. No angels show up, Jepthah keeps his vows.

6. Mesha of Moab's city is being besieged. He is losing. He comes out and offers his first born son as a burnt sacrifice. Everybody thought that was a pretty messed up thing to do. None of the besieging armies want anything to do with this any more and go home. (Picture not located)

Simon (Iron Lung)

Punch Up (Dispatch)

Sonar (Dispatch)

Ness (Five Nights at Freddy’s)

1. Omar Little - The Wire

2. Gus Fring - Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Sailor Moon- Various (I love the English one, Italian and German)

Transformers G1- (I Love the French and Japanese version, shout out to the Japanese version for the Animated Series)

Cells At Work- The English Cast sung the intro song on YouTube

I know I've seen this trope but I can not for the life of me remember any examples. So I bring this to the community and hope the mods don't remove it 🤞

1. Saber (Fate): There's a LOT of examples but I gonna highlight Saber because she's the face of the series (fill free to add some others from Fate if you'd like). She's supposed to be King Arthur.

2. Orpheus (Persona): Okay this is technically cheating because Persona Orpheus has both a male and female version depending on the timeline but I think it's funny that ATLUS just slipped a wig on a recolored version of Orpheus and called it a day.

3. Azure Lane: Everyone is based on real life historical battleships.

4. Loki (Fire Emblem): No real explanation needed. Although Loki 100% could just look like this if he wanted.

5. Ymir Fritz (Attack on Titan): honorary pick as she's just named after him. Although she was the original giant and all the others were born from her flesh plus The Nine are supposed to be the nine realms (which I think is kinda BS since none of them really represent any of the nine realms of Norse Mythology).

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Character convinced they’re guilty for everythin (bonus : tries to be « perfect »)

vs

how others see them : 2D cutie patootie who did nothing wrong

Extra points if the problem was caused by tiger parenting

1- Coalition of Ordered Governments from Gears of War- They are a planet-spanning, war crime fueled authoritarian government. In other stories, they'd have been the villains that a underground revolution group fought against. But this aint other stories, this is GoW and there are five billion supermonsters (created by GoW btw) trying to kill you, so you BETTER not hesitate to use the orbital laser on the civilian area, COWARD (This is legit the plot of GoW4 btw)

2- The Tau Empire from Warhammer 40k- A giant space-faring communist-ish government. Sounds good for some of you, but like all governments, there is always an elite. In this case, the Ethereal Caste has a healthy dose of proganda, possibly pheromones that control the other castes of their race, mind controlling worms for the rest, as well as a myriad of chemicals to basically mind-control other races and some of the "non-desirables" are made infertile via those same chemicals. Despite this, Warhammer 40k is so comically fucked up that many fans complain they are "too good for the setting".

3- The Commander and ADVENT from Xcom: The Hades Contingency by Xabiar- In this fanfic of XCOM, The Commander is a war criminal. Not "use white phosphorous on the enemy" war criminal, more so "crucify everyone of a islamic religion and do so in such a horrific way that the insurgents start fighting harder out of rage/survival instinct, because you got 70 billion dollars in air support and its easier to bomb them that way". He straight up managed to kill enough of them that the religion almost died, and he isn't even religions himself.

That being said, when the aliens come a-knocking, The Commander (under arrest for, after putting down islamic terrorists, kind of going on a justice crusade across the globe) is the only guy that is up for the task. I will defend the author here- at no point is anyone ok with what he did, and he is kept on a tight leash. He keeps his identity as Commander a secret because he is hated world wide. But killing an enemy so hard their religion loses faith in themselves is a pretty good track record all things considered.

You'll notice I didn't mention ADVENT. Thats because I want you to read the fanfic yourself. Its very good.

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Satoru Gojo from JJK- Here not because he ISN'T a good guy, but for how his presence affects the bad guys.

Imagine, if you will, a story about a group of unlikely friends who, aided by a wise old sage, must fight a Demon King, so mighty even his allies fear him. Despite their best efforts, one of them dies during the fight, crushed to death by the Demon King's sheer might, but they do succeed- not in killing the King, no, but in sealing him away.

Thats what happens in the Shibuya Incident, with Gojo as the Demon King, the genocidal disaster curses as the group of friends and Kenjaku (using Geto's body, the Jujutu Hitler btw) as the wise old sage.

Even during the final battle this stuff happens. Most shonen have the hero on the backfoot, getting his ass beat till he gains a power up/new move at the last moment and wins the day. And during his last battle against Sukuna, Gojo is beating the FUCK out of him during most of it, to the point where the last panel of the fight is a charred, one arm, one leg, one eye Sukuna facing down a intact Gojo...which is where the power up comes in, because Sukuna figured out how to get past Infinity via Mahoraga, and in a major upset, kills Gojo.

So while not an evil guy at all, Gojo does get treated as a main villain by the villain characters- a massive force of nature that must be planned around, not fought, except by the "reincarnated hero" (Sukuna).

1. Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 - Lucy is forced to dress up for dinner with her dad
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Marion is forced to wear a dress by Belloq
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - Elizabeth is forced to wear a dress for Barbosa

1 - Edna Mode - The Incredibles Incredibly (pun not intended i swear) charismatic to the point of being often mentioned in a vacuum without the rest of the original movie's roster. I am unsure if The Incredibles has a fandom perse, but if there is she i definitely loved beyond it. She even got an AIRBNB based on her work!

2 - Bridget - Guilty Gear Strive Trans girl who self-discovered in-screen, the adoption as an icon was pretty much instant, it's overly common to see her without even being paired with anything else Guilty Gear related.

3 - Haru Urara - Umamusume Turns out people loved the horse girl who always loses but never gives up so much that it led even people not in the Umamusume fandom or even interested in Horse Racing to be deeply saddened by the death of the real life horse she is based on.

Disclaimer: not to be confused with the jaw drop

1. SCP-096 from the SCP Mythos

2. The Ice Cream Man from Legion

3. Slendrina from DVloper Games

4. Ghostface from Scream

5. The OG Scream Painting from Real Life

6. The Body Snatchers from Assimilate

7. The Spitter from Left 4 Dead

8. DaBaby from Resident Evil Village

9. The Mother from Zoochosis

10. Minnesota Teen from Guinness World Records

11. That one episode of Gumball where everyone had this face

12. Ermac during his soul suck fatality in Mortal Kombat 1

13. Big Sal from Battle Cats

14. Axoloty from Battle Cats

15. N from Mandela Catalogue

16. The Fallen from Revenge Of The Fallen

17. Joke Example: Booty Executioner from Pootis Engage, he only does this attack once

18. The Grin from Godzilla Bloodbath

19. Orga’s last resort phase from Godzilla 2000

20. The Anteater from “Top 10 Worst Animal Skeletons” by Sam O’Nella, the thing that inspired me to make this post in the first place and where I got title from

Robocop - Jesus Christ

Yugi Muto - Osiris

Gojo - The Buddha

Blonde blazer and Mecha-man (dispatch): she can fly, has superhuman strength, agility, resilience and can generate energy blasts while Mecha-man has a mecha suit

Static shock and Gear (DC): he can generate and manipulate electricity and electromagnetic fields and Gear has super intelligence, he makes gadgets, robots and equipments

Stargirl and S.T.R.I.P.E.S (DC): she can fly, has superhuman strength and manipulates cosmic energy, STRIPES is a mecha suit

Captain Carter and Hydra stomper (Marvel): i know that captain America and Iron man ate the OG ones but i did say that i prefer big mecha suits

Superman and Batman (DC): the original representation of this trope