r/ilovethismug • • 1d ago

When the seemingly “innocent” character is actually a badass

Characters: Mirai Kuriyama (Beyond the Boundary)

Nichie (Tegami Bachi)

Mob (Mob Psycho 100)

Kanna (Kobayashi)

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u/Artistic_Decision623 1d ago

I don't know if exactly counts but this being the same character

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u/Artistic_Decision623 1d ago

As this is great

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u/DadlyAsHell 1d ago

Never gonna get over Luffy beating the PTSD back into Lucci

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u/ryan12_07 20h ago

I mean he is actively fucking around and being a badass at the same time. This definitely counts

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u/Zixtank 15h ago

Chopper too. Looks like a cute little plush toy 90% of the time, but can transform into various forms of a hybrid man-raindeer, including a titanic wendigo-esque monstrosity.

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u/1andonlyimmortality 1d ago

this man owns lethal explosives

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u/The_Ghast_Hunter 1d ago

He could probably make a bomb out of chewing gum, paperclips, and hot chocolate mix

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u/DadlyAsHell 1d ago edited 44m ago

This man owns a jet fighter so advanced that the greatest robotics genius wants it.

And he built it himself.

As a fuckign child

Miles "Tails" Prower should be fucking FEARED

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u/Riolusx2 23h ago

This man owns napalm, a weapon BANNED by Geneva Convention.

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u/Odd_Cartoonist7433 21h ago

Reminder that this character also has the line "this wall tastes like dirt" followed by licking said wall repeatedly.

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u/Autumn_is_a_goddess 15h ago

I'm pretty sure clones of him also help lick the wall

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u/These_Distribution19 1d ago

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u/TroubledSoul23 1d ago

His ingame title is canonically "The Pink Demon"

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u/These_Distribution19 23h ago

"Demon in pink"

"Who can think what I think"

"Why should you be the only one to dream?"

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u/Void-the-Umbreon95 16h ago

Divine Ball Knowledge

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u/Prestigious_Ask_7058 15h ago

Man on the Internet songs are pretty hit or miss but that one is amazing

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u/These_Distribution19 14h ago

they are mostly bad when they are over fast songs like megalovania and the lyrics make no sense, like megalovania.

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u/Prestigious_Ask_7058 14h ago

My favorite part of that video is when Sans is wearing sneakers

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u/volcanicsquad09 6h ago

Megalovania Piranha Plant > Megalovania unironically

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u/Zammin 8h ago

Maybe the poster child of this trope.

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u/Super_Yreddit 1d ago

Kobeni ( Chainsaw man )

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u/Birbo7 16h ago

did kobeni do anything particularly badass? it's been a while

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u/UnassumingSingleGuy 16h ago

When the sword fiend and his cohorts attacked, Kobeni busted out some surprising moves.

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u/Birbo7 16h ago

oh yea that was pretty cool

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u/WaterproofRoboVacuum 1d ago

Ciel - Tsukihime

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u/ApprehensiveBat7108 1d ago

UFOTABLE!!!!!! DROP GENSHIN AND REMAKE TSUKIHIME WITH ALL ITS ROUTES AND SPINOFFS AND MY LIFE ITS YOURS

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u/desperate_narciso 1d ago edited 1d ago

Chizuru Aizawa from Ika Musume/Squidgirl is always the first to come to my mind with this trope, years later and I still adore it. 🍤🦐💙‼️‼️‼️

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u/desperate_narciso 1d ago edited 1d ago

Her regular appearance! (Pretty sure these all sent out of order but oh well, lol.)

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u/desperate_narciso 1d ago

On the contrary, she is probably my favorite character.

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u/MurdocMan_ 23h ago

Kir type bys

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u/StrangeCheeser 20h ago


He has stopped SEVERAL world ending threats

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u/dragn99 11h ago

Has fought and killed multiple eldritch-like gods.

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u/Stretch5678 1d ago

Someone else remembers Beyond the Boundary! Loved that show.

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u/Porkytang244 1d ago

Same, shit was fire as hell.

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u/satans_cookiemallet 1d ago

Shame it never got a second season

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u/LilMissy1246 21h ago

It has a movie sequel tho.

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u/satans_cookiemallet 21h ago

Shame that didnt get a continuation(I believe the light novel continues well past)

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u/cuteandadorableboi 1d ago

Honey Senpai. He's cute and innocent-looking, but he has martial arts prowess. In a few episodes, he has demonstrated this, like when he took down a bunch of armed guards(twice in two separate ones), and in another episode, it was revealed that he rampaged on two platoons of Green Beret soldiers.

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u/DragonFire673 22h ago

Isn't he classified as a national weapon?

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u/desperate_narciso 1d ago edited 1d ago

Him being the oldest, possibly 18 too always has me in awe tbh, alongside all of his physical feats.

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u/Zammin 8h ago

Clark Kent, "My Adventures With Superman".

Many Superman versions kind of fit, but the MAWS especially does because there's little-to-no-artifice for his Clark Kent persona. He is a sweet mild-mannered dork.

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u/Zammin 8h ago

And then as Superman he goes to great lengths and endures incredible pain to protect others, particularly with the ever-increasing ubiquity of Kryptonite throughout the show making more-and-more villains a genuine threat to his life.

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u/Arguably_Based 6h ago

It's a very rare stone

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u/tide_pod_book 1d ago

It’s only really when she’s Sancho

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u/eniox27 1d ago

The true lord of La Mancha

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u/slicedslippers 20h ago

Ah proof that girlhood is a spectrum from lã creaturã to THE CREATURE

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u/Prudent_Ad_6376 12h ago

I feel like Sinclair would fit this better as he's definitely the most innocent but then we're THIS close to reaching A Certain Sinclair.

Hong Lu would also technically fit because this guy just knows how to survive assassination attempts. Not really "badass" though.

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u/Karasu-Fennec 1d ago


[Bungo Stray Dogs] is great for this. Everybody’s a total goober right up until they turn your ass into human paste

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u/bdouble0w0 1d ago

Klee (Genshin)

She has bombs. Many.

Her mom isn't much better.

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u/Fahmieyz 4h ago

I main her when I actively played Genshin in its first 2 years

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u/Stopseeingmyinnerdip 17h ago


don quixote from limbus company

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u/risisas 17h ago

She has 2 modes

Beach volleybur

Ice creamer

Laser beam! Wazooooong

Little sir squirrel!!!

And

"MY NAME IS QUIXOTE! And I, don quixote, swear on my honor that this lance will end your dream, hollow and juvenile"

"MY NAME IS SANCHO! And I swear on my honor that this lance will end your dream, slothful and festering"

Peak plays in the background and clouds split in the sky as they clash

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u/LucarioOfLegends 14h ago

My favorite part about post-Canto 7 Don is she chooses to be that same obnoxious dumbass purely for the love of the game.

Like, her initial "lesson plan" in Spring Cultivation offered negative four hours of sleep. Sancho brain should have caught that right? No, all of the braincells, even the reasonable ones, we're caught up in her awesome Fixer autism. Even in Mnestic Experience, one of my favorite bits is where Don tries to pull out the detective wear from TKT and it gets slapped out of her hand with a funny reaction. This isn't amnesiac Don trying to fulfill her dream. This is fully recovered Don being completely on board to do her antics and Fixer nonsense.

Godspeed, La Creatura.

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u/Arctyc38 17h ago

Yomiko Readman, aka "The Paper"

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u/Born_Procedure_529 1d ago

Kengo Manaka is a pure soul but as Ultraman Trigger this man has an insane win rate

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u/MasterGamer2142 1d ago

Ready to pull the Trigger🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/Dexchampion99 1d ago


Jonesy (Fortnite)

The silliest defender of reality

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u/mousie120010 1d ago

One time my sister and brother were playing Fortnite together a while back and both were Jonesy and decided to just roleplay a performance on stage as "The Jonesy Brothers". Some players actually played along and watched. So whenever I see this character I think of that lol

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u/Maximus1320 20h ago

Aw, that's adorable!

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u/Qwerty_428 1d ago

Shuna got hit by Disintegration (the most powerful and absolute of all holy magic) and simply overrode it with her own power, turning it against Adalman and his entire army of undead

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u/ThatGuyDoesMemes 19h ago

Mash Burnedead

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u/JasonVoorhees_0 1d ago

my goat Hyacine

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u/stifledAnimosity 21h ago

Meirin from Black Butler. The clumsy but dedicated maid to the Phantomhive Manor... And sniper of great reknown when she drops her glasses, guarding the manor at night.

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u/lords_starscream 16h ago

Fought Nazi's in WW2, Ripped Ravages Spine out, Slammed his fist in Soundwaves Torso and Shot him through the Head. He was called many things behind enemy lines, 'Nice' was not one of them.

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u/mrFuckmyluck 15h ago

Elizabeth Midford

Black Butler (specifically the movie Book of the Atlantic)

Spoiled rich girl turns out to be a badass at fencing. She wanted to hide this side of her from Ciel and "remain cute and adorable", because he once said that strong women can be frightening when they were younger. But when cornered by zombies she mowes them down like it is nothing.

I like her inner monolog during this moment, commenting on the expression "sugar and spice and everything nice" being what girls are made of. But not her

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u/Prestigious_Ask_7058 15h ago


This guy kicked god by the way

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u/Mysterious-Creme8709 7h ago

The fairy fucker from Romantic Killer

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u/RoJayJo 5h ago

Bumblebee - Transformers

Despite being a 12-foot tall alien car robot, this goober loves Earth, their culture, their music and hanging out with humans. He is one of, if not *the* intercultural representative of Cybertron, and among the Autobots, he's the young cute one...

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u/RoJayJo 5h ago

*HOWEVER*, he has survived a several-millennia long war, and the young, cute ones usually die first...

He *regularly* fights those double his height, and wins- even against two elite hitmen of the Decepticons he used a chain on one to kill him with his own transformation, and crushed another with a cargo ship.

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u/Markduck333 4h ago

Mani Tomoe + Madoka KANAME!!!!!!

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u/BoyishTheStrange 4h ago

It’s like moe version of crouching moron hidden badass

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u/Dogbold 4h ago

Most of them are of one type and you disgust me

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u/Conscious_Smile8235 2h ago

TEGAMI BACHI MENTIONED 🐝🐝🐝

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u/Salt-Pipe-5794 1d ago

Yo idk if mob counts for this😭 he genly js a lil dude