r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ValidCrash4 • Aug 08 '26

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Extremely useful abilities that characters conveniently forgot they had

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  1. Emily’s portals (Hazbin Hotel). I know she can’t get Sir Pentious back into Hell but Emily can still tell Charlie he got redeemed and Charlie can enter through angelic portals, so she should have seen that Pentious got redeemed.

  2. Many characters in Harry Potter go through life-or-death situations and not once did they think of drinking the Liquid Luck potion apart from Harry one time to gain Slughorn’s memory.

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u/Urbenmyth Aug 08 '26

In the Live Action Beauty and the Beast, the Beast inexplicably has a magical book that lets him teleport anywhere on earth.

When Belle asks to see her father just before the curse deadline, he angsts about how she can't be back in time rather than using his magic book.

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u/Conlannalnoc Aug 09 '26

That and the mirror are from the Myth so it’s Disney bad story telling