r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KusanagiGundam • 12d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

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Speaking as an American who has studied the civil war all throughout my school years, this trope infuriates me to no end. There is no such thing as a kind slave master because slavery itself is cruel and inhumane. PEOPLE ARE NOT PROPERTY!

Naofumi (Shield Hero): Prime example of this trope. He enslaves multiple (underage) girls and an whole village and the fans still say he's a hero.

Rudeus (Jobless Reincarnation): As if being a pedo wasn't bad enough he had to buy a slave in season 2. Worse is that people still defend his actions.

Song of The South (Disney): Possibly the OG example of this trope. And the reason why Disney will never release it again.

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u/jedimasterdelta40 12d ago

I love Star Wars so much, but the implied sentience and complete mistreatment/enslavement of droids is almost never addressed (looking at you Solo, taking a droid abolitionist and Frankenstein-ing her into the Millennium Falcon). Luke, Anakin, etc. definitely fall into this trope: they're nice to R2-D2, but at the end of the day they claim to own him

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u/just_a_Suggesture 12d ago

Same with the clones. Clone wars kind of touches upon this - even though the Jedi treat the clones "well", they're still child soldiers enslaved to fight a war on behalf of an organization that will dispose of them the moment they stop being useful

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u/jedimasterdelta40 12d ago

Absolutely. I firmly believe that the battle droids and clones are two sides of the same coin: soldiers created for a war they did not choose, with obedience programmed into them, whether digital or biological. It's an unfortunate byproduct of Clone Wars being a kids show and that they want to have comic relief, clear good guys and bad guys, and lots of disposable drones to act as lightsaber/blaster fodder, that then the B1 battle droids are consistently portrayed as full of personality and sentience (and most of time barely a threat) and are just sliced up as a joke most of the time, with at least clone deaths being a somber affair

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u/Bteatesthighlander1 12d ago

I kinda like that the protagonists are completely blind to certain socially normalized inhumanities. It makes it feel more mythical.

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u/saintash 12d ago

I'm pretty sure there was a episode of the mandalorian. We're the droid are like "we love you for making us. And we are biding our time untill your all gone. In the mean time we will help your fragile bodies out. By doing labor"

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u/BardicLasher 12d ago

Solo was fucked up about that

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u/Wide_Magician_4946 8d ago

"How does that .... work?" 

"It works"

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u/SCP_FUNDATION_69420 11d ago

Solo set up something so fucking good only to play off the droid rebellion as a glorified gag. DO IT COWARDS, I WANT TO SEE THE DROIDS ACTUALLY FREE THEMSELVES. That's like such an interesting premise, a robot uprising not because 'le robot turned evil' but because they've been enslaved for 10000 years (that story probably exists there somewhere)

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u/ReddestForman 12d ago

Han's Legends origin story was so much better...

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u/zZbobmanZz 11d ago

From what i remember of legends lore the robot uprising was literally just about to start right after the second death star got blowed up. It could have been so cool.

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u/Conlannalnoc 8d ago

Droids don’t become Sentient until around 6 Months (earliest) which is why the Empire constantly “Erases” the Droids.

Luke Skywalker was told to do that to R2D2 and C3P0 by his Uncle.

Weirder if a PLANE (Luke’s personal X-Wing) is connected to a Sentient Droid (R2D2) for a long enough time (repeated connection) the “Learning Computer” became Sentient while trying to Keep Up with Jedi Reflexes (precognition).

Side Effect: Luke’s X-Wing requires Force Users to properly fly.