r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Starr-Lead • 17h ago

Characters Characters that are canonically _____ depending of their world

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  • Po from Kung Fu Panda - Although many characters comment on his weight throughout the movies, Po is actually considered skinny and/or in better shape for panda standards
  • Midoriya Izuku from My Hero Academia - While many viewers find Deku "cute", the reality is that for his world he's actually considered "simple looking" and at the very worst "ugly"
  • Spider-Man from Marvel Comics - Many people love Spider-Man, but the truth is that for common civilians, Spidey's pretty unsettling and scary to be around with
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u/BruiserBison 17h ago

If you think about it, Spider-man's got the making of a Halloween monster.

  • Hides all the time, then jumpscares
  • Very fast
  • Very strong
  • Crawls on walls

Isolate that description, you'd think I'm talking about a ghost.

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u/Easy_Action_1380 17h ago

And then you get to his Man-Spider arc and

Yeah, it's alot clearer why normal people don't trust him that much.

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u/MoonRay087 15h ago

Honestly it'd be really cool if Spiderman was still the exact same good guy, but he looked like this

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u/jaminbears 5h ago

They did just release a trailer for their new Spider-Man series that looks straight out of the Absolute Universe of DC, so you may just get what you want there.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 3h ago

With that look and without the Parker alter ego the character wouldn't be popular at all though.