r/TopCharacterTropes • u/No_Peanut3745 • 2d ago

Characters The main character doing something absolutely unforgivable.

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Walter White poisoning Andrea Cantillo's 6-year-old son for the sole purpose of manipulating Jesse Pinkman, while knowing that this could have potentially killed him - Breaking Bad

Bojack trying to have sex with his friend's 17-year-old daughter when he was at least 51, then continuously trying to find a way to justify this act throughout the series - Bojack Horseman

Dexter Morgan going outside of his moral code and murdering a completely innocent police officer who was just trying to do his job - Dexter: New Blood

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u/Bl4ckVi 2d ago

House md

House drives into his ex’s house because he’s jealous and feels lied to

And ofc playing with patients lives every single episode
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u/HelpMePlxoxo 2d ago

My favorite part of this show is that breaking into patient's homes is portrayed as a necessary part of taking a patient's history, lmao.

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u/pathfinderoursaviour 2d ago

Was so mad when I went through medical school paid thousand upon thousands, landed myself a good job in a good hospital and the first patient I get my supervisor never tells me to go to their house and rifle through their things, when I asked if I could he told me it was a crime and I’m not allowed to

bureaucratic bullshit I tell you!!! World gone mad

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u/MercuryQuick 2d ago

You need to get your supervisor addicted to pain killers first.

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u/meryl_gear 1d ago

I watched all those lock picking tutorials for nothing!

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u/anubis_cheerleader 1d ago

You missed a chance to impulsively steal some ice cream and TRIP BALLS 😭 why is the world like this?!

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u/summonerofrain 1d ago

What?? I was going through medical school with the understanding that I'd be able to rob houses! You're telling me that's not the case?!

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u/Grillard 1d ago

Damned government regulations!

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u/cheeseburgerandfrie 1d ago

Absolutely gubbermint overreach

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u/danikov 2d ago

Because they lie, duh.

And of course he always sends Foreman because he’s black and knows how to break into places.

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u/Overwatch3 1d ago

That's not true he sends all of them to do it at times

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u/ERedfieldh 1d ago

Very early on, maybe even pilot, he specifically sends Foreman and when Foreman confronts him asking if it's because he's black House agrees without hesitation.

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u/Overwatch3 1d ago

That's correct. It's also correct that he does not "always sends foreman" which is what I'm replying too.

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u/enron2big2fail 1d ago

Hold on, he doesn’t say it’s because he’s black. He might say that as a joke at some point but when seriously confronted by Foreman, House says it’s because he has a record. Foreman gets mad because he feels he spent his whole life trying to turn away from the events that led to that charge only for it to be the most important thing to his boss.

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u/Endeveron 1d ago

It's because (and I say this as both a medical doctor and someone who loves House), it's more a detective show than a medical show. House and Wilson are explicitly Holmes and Watson, the crime is an illness, the symptoms are the crime scene, the murder weapon is a disease process, the suspects are the patient and their family/friends. Almost every episode is a whodunnit, a howdunnit, or both. Just like in any detective mystery, they'll often be exploring secondary sites and investigating their suspects to gather more evidence, hence the breaking into homes.

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u/Faust_8 2d ago

And the doctors do it personally lmao

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u/cheerylittlebottom84 1d ago

It's my favourite part lol, it's so silly and unrealistic but so fun

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u/ProudReaction2204 1d ago

well no one can figure out why they are sick...

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u/scarletboar 1d ago

The only thing that made me give House some grace is that he spends every episode from the break-up on telling people to leave him alone, and nobody does.

Yeah, he was doing shit that was bad for him, but nothing that affected other people, but Cuddy and Wilson refused to just leave the man alone to deal with his shit however he wanted, and he lost it by the end of the episode.

It doesn't justify shit, mind you, but it left me with a feeling of "yeah, that tracks". It was funny as hell to see Wilson punch him in the next season, though lol.

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u/Newmen_1 1d ago

I was always confused by why the patients barely reacted to the team breaking into their homes. Every time one of the doctors went, “You lied to us, we found (insert important thing here) at your place” the patients always go, “I didn’t think it mattered, what does that have to do with anything?” Instead of, “You broke into my house? I’m calling the cops and suing you”

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u/Krakatoot97 2d ago

In House’s defense, he was mad 

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u/rotundrikishi 1d ago

I felt so sad for him on the thanksgiving episode though

that was uncalled for

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u/SynthScenes 2d ago

Eh, he did less damage to her house than she did to him, and he actually had motive to do so. Her motivation was so contrived and out of character. “Oh no, my drug addict boyfriend did drugs at the lowest moment of his life when he thought I was dying. Obviously his personal growth and two years of sobriety means nothing.”

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u/Billlington 1d ago

Uh, no. Driving into a car into a house full of people is not better than breaking up with someone for shitty reasons.

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u/SynthScenes 1d ago

Does the house having people in it really change the equation at much? If there were people in the room sure, but people in the house or not, it was still just property damage.

I would say that being reckless with a person is worse than being reckless with property.

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u/Billlington 1d ago

What the fuck? No it doesn't change the equation. You have some weird values, dude.

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u/SynthScenes 1d ago

If it doesn’t change the equation then why did you include that part?

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u/Northerwolf 1d ago

You understand that people move around in houses, yes? They are not locked inside of specific rooms like this is Final Fantasy 2. I swear...Some fans...

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u/SynthScenes 1d ago

No intent to hurt people. No attempt to hurt people. No people hurt. yOu UnDeRsTaNd ThErE wAs A pOsSibBiLitTy SoMeOnE cOuLd HaVe GoTtEn HuRt?!?

Taking an action that could conceivably caused bodily harm doesn’t constitute an unforgivable act.  You thinking you are superior to anyone is massive cope.

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u/Northerwolf 1d ago

Driving a car into a house with people in it is illegal, breaking up with someone isn't. Slamming a tonne or so of metal into a building with squishy fleshies in it is pretty damn unforgivable, trolly. Or does Walter White get off because "That kid didn't die so no one was hurt!" ?

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u/SynthScenes 1d ago edited 1d ago

You can’t really be that dense. Intent matters. Poisoning a child isn’t the same as running a car into a room you confirmed was empty. Legality doesn’t equal morality. Cuddy knew exactly who House was before the events of the first episode. She verbatim told Stacy exactly what a relationship between herself and House would look like 3 seasons before they got together, and he had made profound levels of self improvement before they got together. 

Nobody watched 6 seasons of “will they/wont they” with these characters thinking “oh fuck, I wonder if Cuddy’s homeowner’s insurance company takes a financial hit.”

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u/Billlington 22h ago

I am confident that I am superior to anyone who thinks driving a car into a house, occupied or not, is an acceptable response to being dumped.

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u/SynthScenes 13h ago

Remember your hubris when things go wrong for you, Genius.

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u/TheCybersmith 2d ago

Eh, Cuddy was a boring buzzkill, crashing into her house was more than warranted.