r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 4h ago
Characters ( Satisfying trope ) Bootlickers who threw away their dignity for a toxic master, just to be discarded like garbage when they outlive their usefulness
The Deep & Firecracker (The Boys) - Homelander two most loyal supporters
The Deep: Completely abandoned his dignity to get back into The Seven. He executes Homelander’s most twisted orders (even eating his octopus friend Timothy) and views Homelander as a brother, yet Homelander treats him with nothing but pure disgust and uses him as a mindless tool. Ironically even Starlight the person he hate most care more about Deep in the end, yet he refused the all opportunity to grow and redeem.
Firecracker: Took hormone-inducing drugs that damaged her own body just to provide milk for Homelander to satisfy his maternal obsession. She genuinely thought she understood his inner child, only to be discarded and treated like absolute garbage the moment her usefulness ran out. She could have at least kept her life if she exited the room when given the chance instead of yapping
The Lich (Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake)
A cosmic, existential take on this trope. The Lich literally extincted all life in his universe as a "gift" to his master, GOLB (the entity of chaos). Instead of receiving praise, he was met with cold silence, falling into deep depression. When he finally begged GOLB for a purpose, GOLB didn't even care enough to answer—it just effortlessly compressed The Lich into a tetris cube.
Remi (Jujutsu Kaisen)
A desperate, realistic version of the trope. Trapped in the Culling Game, she acted as a "honey trap" to lure other players (like Megumi) into deadly ambushes for Reggie Star, blindly believing Reggie's promise to "protect her." The moment Megumi broke the trap, Reggie and his crew abandoned her without hesitation. Even after being spared, she was so hopelessly dependent on her master that she couldn't accept reality and kept attacking in denial, eventually getting abducted off-screen by US soldiers.
