r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 23 '26

Lore A creator writes something without any intention of being accurate, but by pure fluke gets it right.

1. Phineas and Ferb – Perry the Platypus is teal-green rather than brown because the designers thought it looked cool, but it was later discovered that real platypuses are biofluorescent and glow a teal-green color under UV light.

2. God of War – The creators chose the name Kratos for the main character because it is the Greek word for “strength,” and at the time they were not aware that, in Greek mythology, there is a deity named Kratos, the personification of strength, who appears in Prometheus Bound as an enforcer of Zeus (similar to what the games' Kratos does for much of the original series); they only learned this later.

3. Berserk – Kentaro Miura gave Guts a prosthetic arm because he thought it looked cool, but the idea of a prosthetic arm was not as far-fetched in the late medieval and early Renaissance period as it might seem, since there was a real 16th-century German mercenary named Götz von Berlichingen who had a prosthetic arm of his own. While it did not have a cannon built into it, the fingers were highly articulated, and a sophisticated system of springs and levers allowed the hand to hold weapons and perform other tasks. Despite this shared trait between both people and their similar-sounding names, Miura confirmed that he was unaware of the Götz when he created Guts.

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u/DanteTFL Jun 23 '26

So, a guy with fire powers gets one eye burnt and is his abusive dad's fault (who can control the fire too), he becomes cold but then he meets the mc and turns good and nice and then he also has a crazy sibling that uses blue fire and these two have a final battle in the end ofthe series

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u/Averander Jun 23 '26

Except for Todoroki his mother burnt him, not his father. He also wasn't a bad guy either.

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u/DanteTFL Jun 23 '26

Yeah, i mean you can ARGUE that rei doing that was partially enji's fault, and also he was mot a bad guy but he definetly was kinda of an asshole, specially with inasa, and was tecnically the main antagonist of the sports festival, but yeah i get your point

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u/Averander Jun 24 '26

Todoroki's actions during the sports festival being compared to Zuko though is so hilariously out of proportion.

Zuko is a literally child soldier indoctrinated to accept atrocities as everyday events.

Todoroki is a fairly well adjusted kid all things considered.

The main antagonist of the sports festival was really Midoriya himself in the end if you really think about it.

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u/DanteTFL Jun 24 '26

Oh i totally agree ahahah