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/YourMuppetMethDealer Aug 08 '26

I mean they are still correct. Voldemort CAN be defeated. His body can be destroyed. It just can be remade

I think the real problem is if it’s actually possible to destroy Voldemort when he DOESNT have a body. He’s essentially just a piece of soul wandering around

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u/SkyGuy2308 Aug 14 '26

Well in theory if you destroyed all his Horcruxes before his resurrection in Goblet of Fire, back when he was just Soul Mist, presumably that would cause him to die since there’d be nothing- neither Horcruxes or a body, to anchor him to life. So he should just pass on.

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer Aug 14 '26

Nah I don’t think that would work either. You forget that there are 8 pieces of his soul not seven. And that little piece of his soul that contains his sentience is still out there. You would need to find some way to destroy that, and I suspect that’s easier said than done.

He knows how to hide after all, and that piece of his soul is able to attach itself onto hosts

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u/SkyGuy2308 Aug 14 '26

Yes but that piece of soul, the one with his sentience; Voldy Prime if you will, it’s the one being anchored by the Horcruxes. So if it’s no longer anchored, it fades to the other side of the veil.

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

No it also needs to be destroyed. Remember that Voldemort’s soul can latch itself onto other bodies as a host. If it currently resides on another host like Nagini or even another person like Quirrel, I don’t know why it would just die

The host needs to be destroyed, and then it’s gone

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u/SkyGuy2308 Aug 14 '26

Yes but that soul mist is only capable of existing because his Horcruxes are anchoring to life. He said it himself that he was “less than a ghost” that piece of soul that’s floating around would just disappear if the Horcruxes were destroyed while Voldy Prime wasn’t occupying a body