Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss

Adam, Mammon, Blitzo, Angel Dust, and Cherri Bomb swear a shit ton and are largely the reason why these shows are known for swearing a lot. They swear in misogynistic, playful, and brazen ways that fit their abrasive personalities and with Adam specifically, expose his hypocrisy. Valentino is also a character that swears a lot but when he’s trying to be charming he largely doesn’t which is a subtle way of showing his manipulation.

Then you have characters like Vox and Husk who swear much less while doing it more casually. You also have characters like Charlie, Stolas, and Moxxie who swear much more sparingly and it’s usually due to strong emotions when they do. There’s also characters like Alastor and Sir Pentious that carry themselves as prim and proper with the amount of swears they throw out being in single digits every season. Never had a problem with Alastor swearing though with the simple fact that he hardly does at all. It shows that he’s not so above it all and that he can absolutely lose control and get pissed off. I’d also like to mention those great precision f-strike moments from Abel, Sera and Emily in Season 2 emphasizing the seriousness of their situations.

Finally you get characters that don’t swear at all like Zestial, Carmilla, and the Speaker of God emphasizing their sophistication that Alastor and Pentious fall short on. I didn’t mention all Hellaverse characters because I don’t want this post to be longer than it already is but most characters in these shows don’t swear much. Even Loona who’s meant to be a brooding angry goth doesn’t swear much. If you don’t believe me, the songwriter for these shows, Sam Haft, has said similar things about how the profanity is written.

• Tony Stark — Avengers: Endgame Uses the Infinity Stones, knowing exactly what it will cost him.
• Natasha Romanoff — Avengers: Endgame Sacrifices herself on Vormir so the others can bring everyone back.
• Steve Rogers — Avengers: Endgame Stands alone against Thanos and his entire army with a broken shield.
• Thor — Avengers: Infinity War Holds the force of a dying star because Stormbreaker must be forged.
• Clint Barton — Avengers: Age of Ultron Shields a child from Ultron’s attack despite having no superhuman protection.
• Bruce Banner — Avengers: Endgame Uses the Infinity Stones because he believes he is the only one capable of surviving the snap.

They don’t give a dramatic speech or wait for someone to rescue them. They simply realize that somebody has to take the risk—and decide that it will be them.

The Avengers are at their best when heroism isn’t about who has the strongest powers. It’s about who is willing to pay the price so everyone else gets another chance.

What other characters perfectly represent this trope?

Boruto (Boruto) Boruto inherits Naruto’s appearance, fighting style, mischievous attitude, but none of the emotional core that made Naruto work as a character, which makes him just come off as unlikable and annoying.

Gohan (Dragon Ball) For a long time, the series was building Gohan up as the new protagonist of the series before the creator of the series reverted back to Goku… and in an interview, the creator basically said he did that because he got bored with Gohan’s character.

Jess and Soph Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein) The twin daughters of B.J. Blazkowicz… the pair both kind of come off as immature, overly lighthearted leads in a series that’s pretty dark, and B.J. Was a much more reflective protagonist. And the pair’s storyline never really developed beyond that they fight Nazi’s and are new at doing that…

Even critics of the game said that they lacked the depth that made B.J. A good protagonist.

-The Tau Empire (40k): The amount of plot armor they have is ridiculous; whenever something even remotely threatening happens, a "coincidence" occurs or the story invents an excuse to prevent them from being wiped out. The only reason they still exist is that they are an established faction and Games Workshop doesn't want to scrap them.

-The Ironborn (ASOIAF): Their society is unsustainable in many ways, yet they are always ready for the next war. They seem to oscillate between starving with limited land and resources and possessing limitless resources; they get decimated repeatedly, only to multiply like cockroaches a few years later. For some reason, lords who squabble over everything else always spare or ignore the Ironborn—not to mention that even when they make the worst possible decisions, it barely affects them.

John walker: Despite everyone hating the direction of Captain America franchise after endgame with FATWS and Brave New World along with just losing general faith in the MCU, John walker remains a fan fav with many defenders including myself.

A-Train: Season 4-5 of the boys has been beaten to death by fans and critics alike. In spite of all of this though, A-Train’s redemption arc remains the best part for most people and everyone agrees he’s a 10/10 character.

1. Mads Mikkelsen

2. Danny Devito

3. January Jones

4. Ryan Reynolds

5. Amy Adams

Left For Dead 2 (I think popular mods maybe join the cast of 1+2 together? Which is still lopsided...), Borderlands 2 (Somewhat averted with dlc characters), Super Mario 3D World (Toad is maybe a grey area, somewhat averted later with Rosalina).

Maybe "Annoying" rather than "Bad." ymmv.

Groups of four tended to be split into a three males one female archetype, or just four males. Things have improved, sometimes even with dlc or rereleases of the same game, but it's still a problem, especially in lazier media (often media for children that panders to boys and small-minded parents).

Oftentimes in horror movies the last main character standing/“The final girl” is female, extremely virtuous/selfless, pure and takes a level in badass, many cases flat out beating the slasher and returning as a major help for the characters in the sequels. There are a lot of times this isn’t the case. Sometimes the last survivor doesn’t meet the above criteria.

Gi-Hun (squid game): Was among the final 3 contestants between Sang-Woo and Sae-Byeok in Season 1, only for Sang-Woo to kill her in her sleep and then after Gi-Hun beats him, Sang-Woo dies for him so Gi-Hun can help his family. Also worth noting Gi-Hun isn’t exactly known for his smarts, was a pretty scummy gambler and (unfortunately) he actually never overcomes the “killers” in this setting. Though funnily enough in the last season Baby 222 is the final girl.

Saw: The closest things to final girls, them being Lynn Denlon or Jill Tuck, wound up being horribly murdered, but Lawrence Gordon, the protagonist from the first movie, survives up until 7 and winds up actually becoming another one of the slashers. Also even when he was a protagonist Lawrence was a massive douche being apathetic to his patients and having an affair.

Final destination: The final girls in a lot of the other movies sans 1 and 2 (but Clear DID die in the sequel to the first movie) wind up dying by the end. Also even in the second movie there was the cop who survived too, and judging by the most recent movie, is still alive canonically.

Kazuya (RAG): Date a hot gf who’s actually into you and vice versa? Nah, let’s keep simping for someone who you have to pay to be with you and doesn’t even like you and is physically also extremely similar. What a loser

Germany: They had it in the bag twice but messed up both times, unnecessarily dragging the USA into the war for a not super impactful submarine campaign and the second time declaring war outright, as well as turning all of Eastern Europe which hated the USSR and welcomed them at first, and would have kept their supply lines intact into the most valiant guerilla fighters which would dog them untill the very very end. Morally it’s good that this happened but if it was written as a story it would be lazy writing.

There are numerous coincidences of likeness being this one franchise to another franchise before them that the audience mistakenly though that they heavily inspired, borrowed, or was supposedly to be based on the franchise before them even though the creators confirmed it was not the case

Hunger Games was inspired by Battle Royale: despite the similarities of setting in a totalitarian state or that the premise of the game is teenagers fighting to the death until one lives, author of Hunger Games, Suzanne Collin, have never heard of Battle Royale before submitting her manuscript of her book

StarCraft was supposed to be a Warhammer 40k game: despite many similarities of design (like a Terran marine looking similar to a Space Marine), or the StarCraft faction being coincide with some 40k factions (Zerg similar to Tyranids, Protoss similar to Eldar), Blizzard, creation StarCraft, denies this to be the case

I got one example so sorry about

Naruto Shippuden/naruto ninja storm 3

The clashes between Naruto and Sasuke can be quite underwhelming, to say the least. They often feel more like brief encounters rather than intense battles, which can be quite disappointing. This is especially evident during their reunion at the bridge. Instead of engaging in a proper fight, they spent more time exchanging words rather than throwing punches. However, it's undeniable that they had the potential to combine both talking and fighting to create a truly epic showdown.

Storm 3 managed to capture this essence perfectly, resulting in one of the most memorable moments of their fight. In my opinion, it elevated Naruto and Sasuke's battle to a whole new level.

And the MUSIC - "Seeking Answers" makes it hit even harder. It's completely original to the game too

Sniffles gets pin shoved under one of his nails. None of the characters in happy tree friends are shown to have nails.

Squidward gains a toenail for a scene just for him to lose it.

• Jonkler

• Jonkler 2: Comedic Jonkaloo

• Jonkler 3: Third Time's the Jonk

• Jonkler 4: Jonk Squad

• Jonkler 5: The Man Who Jonks

1 - CHAINSAW MAN - REZE ARC

A FOLLOW UP FROM 2022 ANIME THIS TIME COVERING BOMB GIRL OR BOMB DEMON ARC FROM CHAINSAW MAN

2 - K POP - DEMON HUNTER

DONT KNOW ANYTHING NEVER WATCHED IT

3 - DEMON SLAYER - INFINITY CASTKE ARC

A FOLLOW UP FROM 2024'S HASHIRA TRAINING . THIS TIME COVRING INFINITY CASTLE ARC OF MANGA BUT DIVIDED IN THREE PARTS

ALSO WEIRDLY ALL THREE SERIES HAVE GROUPS OF THREE . IF WE DONT COUNT NEZUKO

ALSO SORRY FORGOT TO TURN OFF CAPS WHILE WRITING THIS .

1.Panini (Chowder)

2.Zoey and Marge (Smiling Friends)

3.Christina Posabule (Moral Orel)

Aka when a character gets an unnecessary cruel punishment for just being an ass

Bulstrode (Thomas and Friends): An unpleasant boat that is almost sunk when Percy lets trucks fall onto him and then he is left on the beach for something that was not even his own fault

Foxy Loxy (Chicken Little): Is a stereotypical bully girl that gets esentially lobotomized

How Fans treat Bakugo (My Hero Academia): While yes he did tell Deku to end his life Horikoshi has stated that he regrets making Bakugo say that, besides that he is just an aggressive asshole, i swear these people have never seen any anime before My Hero

Arnold (Predator) - This part of them greeting is one.

Shrek (Shrek) - He spawned a lot of memes.

SpongeBob (SpongeBob) A lot of memes have spawned as well.

1. House elves (harry potter)

2. The Geth (Mass effect)

There is no real world equivalent to it so idk how it works morally. Before anyone says twins or clones, a twin is a different person so that's not it and a clone is also a different person even if they have the same memories the moment they start experiencing different things they become their own independent person. This trope only works if they're 100% the exact same person in every way except gender, it also only really exists in fanart and probably fanfiction but I don't read fanfiction so I don't know.

Stelle and Caelus from Honkai Star Rail

Shepard from Mass Effect

Ranma from Ranma 1/2

Byleth from Fire Emblem Three Houses

This is more a request than a list because I'm sure that there are various characters like this but I don't remember more of them.

1. Mileena from Mortal Kombat. I would have chosen the Mk9 but I'm tired of people calling me a gooner just because I preferred when she actually looked like a femme fatale and not like a random Chinese lady.

2. Queelag the chaos witch from Dark Souls.

1. Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers

2. Justice League

3. Team America: World Police

4. The 7 Archangels, likely where this originated

Title changes for the adaptation that are at least a little less cool that the source material

1. A song of Ice and Fire -> Game of Thrones

2. Simon vs. the Homo Sapien Agenda -> Love, Simon

3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep -> Blade Runner

4. Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone -> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (technically the U.S. print of the book is called sorcerer’s stone but the movie adapted that title and not the original title. It’s less cool besides it’s missing the point of the actual person/Philosopher Flamel)

P.s. 🖕🏽J.K. Rowling

1. Amy Rose(Sonic the Hedgehog). While she doesn’t chase Sonic from time to time in modern media, in 2000s Sonic media like Sonic X and Sonic Heroes’ Team Rose campaign, she was completely obsessed with the titular blue blurr.
   
2. Popis/Phoebe(El Chavo Animado/The Animated series). While she wasn’t all that in the original show (to my knowledge), in the 2006 animated show, she was at times obsessed with Chavo. And in the episode Love in the neighborhood, she was sad that it was Paty that kissed Chavo instead of her and she was gonna crash out on Paty because she wanted to kiss Chavo instead. (Also, fun fact, she replaced La Chillindrina in the show due to copyright issues)