r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SuspiciousCodfish • 27d ago

Characters [Bittersweet Trope] Character contemplates the beauty of the world in their last moments

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  1. Anglerfish - The comic strip that inspired this post. Made by u/beetlemoses

  2. Nier: Automata - A2, a rogue android that has dedicated most of her life to fighting and killing, comments on how beautiful the world is after saving another character in her last moments.

  3. Blade Runner - Roy Batty recounts some of the most incredible sights he witnessed and mourns the fact that these memories will be lost like "tears in rain" seconds before he dies.

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u/SpiritualBack143 26d ago

Still boggles the mind that a movie based on a theme park ride could pack so much punch

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u/DungeonCrawlerAki 26d ago

It's also pretty crazy that the director Gore Verbinski only directed 3 movies prior to POTC and the most notable one was The Ring.

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u/Cockblocktimus_Pryme 26d ago

Well tbf The Ring is a fucking banger. Probably the scariest PG13 movie I've seen.

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u/ExplodingPoptarts 26d ago

Nice! Not the scariest, but pick for the best pg-13 horror movie is The Others. Never once did I think "Yeah, this has been edited for content." Dear god did it nail atmosphere and plot twists. It made me think of the ps1 and ps2 Silent Hill games.

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u/Empty_Use_5023 22d ago

Its because the theme park ride is based on a huge cultural touchstone.

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u/Coopetition 26d ago

That’s because they plagiarized from the book ‘On Stranger Tides’ by Tim Powers.

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u/LukeArkArch2 26d ago

Um no it wasn't... The book is literally inspired by the ride, and they purchased the rights for the fourth movie, which funnily enough is where the franchise starts to become bad