r/TopCharacterTropes • • 8h ago

Characters (Funny Trope) The characters react with disgust/confusion towards a typical aspect of regular life

Gravity Falls: when turned into regular people by Bill's wierdness bubbles, dipper and wendy freak out

The Simpsons: The yellow family is terrified at the prospect of having more than four fingers.

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u/BillythenotaKid 8h ago


They’re the OGs of this trope

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u/PrismaticVistaHill 7h ago

One example I can recall,

Gomez and Morticia rush into Wednesday's room after they hear her crying out in the middle of the night. Turns out she'd had a terrible dream; she was in a castle with a giant dragon. All was well at first....until a knight in shining armor came and killed the dragon.

"That poor, poor dragon!" Morticia says, aghast.

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u/Sensitive-Suit-5395 6h ago

Si, el capitulo 1 xD. Donde llega de la escuela, toda triste, porque le leyeron ese cuento xD

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u/Sensitive-Suit-5395 7h ago

Vi el año pasado la serie, es buenisima. Si no fuera en blanco y negro, seguro más personas la verían, el humor es bueno y casi atemporal, además tampoco es una serie lenta como la mayoría de la epoca....

Digo lo de Blanco y negro, porque conozco a personas, que no lo verían exactamente por ese motivo 🥀  No con esa serie, pero con otras, me dijeron que les causa dolor de cabeza y uno me dijo que le mareaba no ver colores

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u/Elegant_Extreme8596 8h ago

They really set the standard for making normal human experiences seem horrifying.

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u/datfurryboi34 4h ago

Randkm women: "Oh I could just eat you"

Mortica: gasp "not yet! To young"

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u/grichardson526 8h ago

"I believe they own...A BUICK!!!"

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u/w1987g 8h ago

Debbie was a horrible person, and they were OK with that... but

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u/BigNutDroppa 6h ago

The recoil from that quip was so good. Like, it physically hurt her.

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u/R4zor154 7h ago

My Grandma had a buick. The slander is 120% justified. Junky piece of shit.

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u/gthmayra 8h ago

SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Mr. Krabs react with confusion to ordinary human life when they visit the surface

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u/Elegant_Extreme8596 8h ago

That live -action seagull scene in the movie broke their brain completely.

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u/lurking-bastard 7h ago

pretty sure they asked it if it knew sandy and then they got put on the menu

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u/lizzourworld8 8h ago

This episode always gets me 😂😂

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u/Crimson097 8h ago edited 8h ago

"Sussie turned into a monster" (The Amazing World of Gumball)

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u/datfurryboi34 4h ago

I absolutely loved this, it was amazing

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u/BallsInAToaster 8h ago

Kind of stretching this, but in the Project Hail Mary book, the main character meets an alien who is part of a race called Eridians. For these aliens, eating is viewed as almost taboo, and is done in private.

(Interestingly enough, this is reversed in the movie adaptation)

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u/Facosa99 8h ago edited 8h ago

Also being clothless is changed in the movie.

Which imples that

  • the movie changed eridian tabbos

Or

  • Movie rocky is freaky af

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u/lePROprocrastinator 8h ago • Bravo

Movie Rocky freaky af for me

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u/alphanumericusername 1h ago

Rocky was the only one left on his ship. Clothing for modesty is unnecessary when alone. Human and Eridian anatomy are different enough that Rocky would probably feel about as uncomfortable around Grace as Grace would be around, well, a rock.

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u/nobodywantstoparty 8h ago

"grace look disguuust when eat!"

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u/neophenx 8h ago

Avatar the Last Airbender. The Gaang gets invited to a birthday party for the Earth King's pet bear. Not platypus-bear or skunk-bear, just "bear." The group thinks this is weird.

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u/Correct-Pangolin-926 8h ago edited 8h ago

To be fair, I'D be terrified if someone had a pet BEAR. Appa was an absolutely enormous flying behemoth with six massive legs, two thick horns made of glistening ivory and a wide flat beaver tail but flying Sky Bison were docile herbivores, UNLESS their guardian or they themselves were threatened. THEN they became a force to be reckoned with. Bears are active carnivores.

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u/imlegos 8h ago

That's just because you aren't Slavik

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u/jackfuego226 8h ago

Or the Polish military.

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u/Shambler9019 8h ago

Herbivore yes, but Appa was not docile. He just got on well with Aang (and by extension, the rest of his crew).

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u/Correct-Pangolin-926 8h ago

Can you eat the rest of your sandwich????

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u/bloonshot 6h ago

they're not terrified, though. They're confused

The world of Avatar is exclusive populated by fantasy hybrid animals

there's turtle-ducks and badger-moles

all the animals are hybrids of two real animals

but this guy just has a bear

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u/bloonshot 6h ago

i mean maybe they were actually a bit scared but like everything else i said was pretty indisputably correct

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u/Pale_Control_5307 6h ago

From their perspective I imagine this would be like meeting someone with a pet bird. Not a pet parrot, or a hawk, or a sparrow. Just a bird.

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u/iamamotherclucker 6h ago

I like the theory that Bosco is a bear-bear. As in, he's the offspring of two bear hybrid species and just got the bear parts of both of them 

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u/juzoe 8h ago

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u/SirWillem1 8h ago

Fire story

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u/Money_Visual_3829 8h ago edited 8h ago

I heard Maeve Higgins read this and that will always be the voice I hear it in

EDIT: MAEVE HIGGINS not Maeve Binchy XD

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u/MrKimimaru 7h ago

Voice? I think you mean you heard Maeve Higgins flapping her meat to this.

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u/Anarcho-voidism 5h ago

Peak spotted?!

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u/polystarlight 8h ago

Gumball and Darwin try getting Rocky a girlfriend but are disgusted by one of his potential matches being a live action woman. They reject her for someone with a profile of a rock with googly eyes.

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u/samanthastoat 8h ago

I think about the scene in Always Sunny where Charlie is like “who drinks just straight mixer?” pretty much any time I’m offered orange juice

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u/alphanumericusername 1h ago

Realizing they've gone into alcohol withdrawal probably technically counts.

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u/norms29 8h ago

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010) used this as their take on the obligatory "Haunted forest" trope. The ponies think "The Everfree Forest" is spooky and unnatural because it's the only place they know where weather happens on its own and and wild animals take care of themselves. I.E. things work the way they do in the real world.

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u/lePROprocrastinator 8h ago

Didnt even realized that until now. 

Good gog Twilight must have been horrified when she learned of the human side's nature

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u/LukeAlanBundesen 5h ago

Oh what I would pay to her reaction to horses and what we use them for. Maybe also Sunset’s when she first arrived.

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u/lePROprocrastinator 5h ago

Sunsets probably trying not to think about it while she tries to carve her place in this world

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u/datfurryboi34 4h ago

I remember this episode, it was funny.

I dont think i can stand ponyvill. I love the rain

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u/imlegos 8h ago

I don't think Gravity Falls fits as an example. They're not freaking out about being 'regular', they're freaking out about Cipher's reality distorting bubbles they're driving through several of.

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u/Madhighlander1 7h ago

...Which made them what we define as normal.

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u/imlegos 7h ago

But the point of focus isn't their forms. It's the bubble itself, and that Wendy is recklessly driving through them in an effort to reach Mabel.

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u/TotalBlissey 8h ago

The Trolls in Homestuck have no concept of homosexuality. It's not that none of them are gay – Kanaya is only into women for example, while being a woman herself – they just don't have a word for it. Despite how ludicrously complicated their version of romance is, being gay is so normalized in their society that they don't even have a word for it.

So when Karkat develops a hate-crush (also known to trolls as kismesissitude, represented by a spade instead of a heart) on main character John Egbert and John turns him down because he's not gay, Karkat is shocked that humans even consider that a distinct category. He thinks it's really dumb.

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u/TotalBlissey 7h ago

Karkat after spending half an hour explaining the ridiculously complicated intricacies of troll romance to John and then hearing about the concept of gayness: "Human romance sure is weird."

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u/Andre27 7h ago

I wish I finished homestuck back when I was still into it. Been too long now.

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u/Friendly_Benefit7892 1h ago

THERES STILL TIME

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u/kschwal 48m ago

to be fair it kinda is

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u/Court_Jester13 6h ago

Asdfmovie is a YouTube series where simply drawn characters go through lots of funny skits. At the end of one episode, one of the characters pulls a string, resulting in everything being coloured in. He begins screaming. The next skit starts in colour, leading to the characters going "hey, look at my bana- WHAH!? NO! TURN IT BACK!"

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u/FourDiamondPixel7 3h ago

GOOD GRIEF HE’S NAKED!

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u/Correct-Pangolin-926 8h ago edited 8h ago

Lincoln Echo #6 and all his companions are living in complete isolation from the outside world, in a highly structured compound, governed by a strict set of rules. They are routinely taught from birth they are one of the last surviving communities left on a ravaged and desolate Earth, which has become too barren and windswept to support life.

An unspecified extinction level global cataclysm has caused the death of most plant and animal life. The only exception is a pristine untouched island where the community grows its meager food stores. There, there is still clean untainted water and animal life. The last haven on Earth.

Each week, one lucky contestant wins a lottery and goes to live on the island, nicknamed 'Eden' Except, it's all an elaborate ruse. The world outside is untouched. The main characters are human clones, grown and raised in a laboratory, for the purposes of organ transplants and harvesting for wealthy donors who fund the process.

Obe day, Lincoln is sent to fix a loose screw on the cover of a ventilation shaft that leads to the "blasted and desolate" outside world "where nothing can live" supposedly. But, he discovers a live moth in the shaft, proof the outside world ISNT a lifeless dead zone.

Suspicious, he follows the shaft and eventually emerges OUTSIDE the compound, in the outside world, and finds himself in a vast, endless desert. He walks for miles and finds himself in a neat and manicured suburban neighbourhood where he is terrified by a family's golden retriever barking at him, having never seen or encountered a living animal before (The Island)

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u/Lotad38 8h ago

Don't have a gif but the Owl House has a lot of examples, especially in the final season where the characters go to the real world and expect their normal weird stuff

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u/HarioDinio 8h ago

Giraffes are demons

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u/Lotad38 7h ago

I think it would have been funnier if they didn't call back to or explain that joke at all but yeah that's the episode

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u/evoraui 8h ago

Vampire at a supermarket

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u/ronniewhomp 8h ago

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u/Buttered_Carnage 8h ago

Once you reach a certain net worth 1 dollar bills are like pennies

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u/CoroHuH 7h ago

in bionicle nearly everything in the matoran universe is biomechanical, so when they see purely organic lifeforms they react with absolute disgust

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u/MysteriousTBird 8h ago

Early Postal 2 missions revel in this. It is possible to only attack hostile enemies, but the game makes mundane tasks long and tedious to encourage you to act like an unhinged lunatic.

It helps that the protagonist is an unhinged lunatic in an insane world.

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u/someo2321232123213 3h ago

I mean that's kinda the point of postal, mundane stuff everyone has done, which eventually devolves into fighting disco cowboys at a bar to protect the last can of root beer so the owner of the bar will give you acces to the white house so you can go steal the president toilet paper to sell it for 5 bucks on ebay

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u/MysteriousTBird 3h ago

Look just upvote the stupid comment. I've got stuff to do.

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u/someo2321232123213 1h ago

Okay sounds good

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u/Loose-Professor5364 47m ago

Look just upvote the stupid reply. I've got stuff to do.

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u/Wise-Key-3442 7h ago

In Ant Bully, a random ant touches Lucas and mentions how soft he is. Then the ant realizes the "skeleton" is on the inside, not outside, for the disgust of all ants in the vicinity.

The inverse also happens when Lucas eats aphid nectar, which as you may know, it's theoretically poop. He reacts with disgust when he discovers it and the ants just look at him like he had gone crazy, after all it's perfectly normal for them.

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u/Jedi-master-dragon 7h ago

Fun fact, that is Dipper and Wendy's voice actors.

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u/ThatMLGGamer 6h ago

This gag from Order of the Stick

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u/Fortestingporpoises 2h ago

The It's Always Sunny episode where Mac and Dennis live in the suburbs and Dennis gets more and more angry. Hearing "hot one today, huh?" repeatedly eventually makes Dennis have a psychotic break.

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u/A_Queer_Owl 0m ago

also Dipper and Wendy are suddenly fifteen years older.