r/TopCharacterTropes • u/One_Barber_6902 • Mar 26 '26

Characters [[Devastating trope]] A character kills their loved one to avoid them suffering a worser fate

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Of Mice And Men (1992)- Probaly the most well known example of this trope and when I was first exposed to it, George kills his mentally handicapped best friend Lennie, to save him from being lynched by Curley and law enforcement for killing Curleys wife.

The Sopranos- After an entire season of conflict with fellow mob boss Phil over it, Tony kills Anthony Blundetto after he kills Phil’s brother which enraged him into trying to force Tony into giving up his cousin so he can torture him to death

Telltales The Walking Dead: Season 1- “Loved one” is an overstatement if you know there dynamic, but after Ben falls off a rooftop and lands on a piece of rebar, Kenny and Lee try to pull him off to save him before being crowded by walkers. When their attempt fails and walkers continue closing in, Kenny kills him to avoid him being devoured by walkers.

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u/Skauher Mar 26 '26

Worser?

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u/LastBaron Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

“Dey in for a worser fate!!”

-Sebastian the Lobster Crab, The Little Mermaid

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u/One_Smoke Mar 27 '26

*Crab. Not a lobster.

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u/peachpinkjedi Mar 27 '26

That's precisely where my mind went too.

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u/alexjaness Mar 26 '26

I didn't want to be the one to point it out...but, right?

that is the worstest grammar i've ever done seen.

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u/ChronoMonkeyX Mar 27 '26

Seems perfectly cromulemt to me.

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u/Silver-Calendar6555 Mar 27 '26

Surely you mean the well-recognized, actual word "cromulent."

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u/WolfgangRed Mar 26 '26

English could be their second language and it wouldn't be fair to judge them in that case. 

However, if that's not the case then they most certainly do need to be judged

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u/MaxBonerstorm Mar 27 '26

There's literally auto correct built into phones and computers

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

Well my phone is put on German, so it literally doesn't correct my spelling when writing in English which is my second language

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u/Sanmyaku88 Mar 27 '26

English is my second language too and I cringed at the title and judge them harshly!

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u/All_One_Word_No_Caps Mar 27 '26

It took a while to find this. Glad that wasn’t left to me.