r/TopCharacterTropes • • 12d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

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/sisdom-weeker 12d ago

I enjoyed Epic Rap Battles of History's depiction of Jefferson, where Frederick Douglass tears him a new asshole over his slavery and hypocrisy, and Jefferson's entire second verse is an apology that Douglass rejects because he never freed his slaves

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u/bisexualboy38 12d ago

That was a great ERB.

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u/_whatever_wherever 12d ago

I love it when they use icons like Douglass, him and Marx dropped some of the hardest lines in ERB history

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u/Pleasant-Enthusiasm 12d ago

Marx absolutely eviscerated Ford ngl. I don’t know how you can really respond to “You controlled what your workers could think, drink, and eat, and when they marched for better wages, shot them dead in the street”

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u/_whatever_wherever 12d ago

"From your newspaper to your Nazi factory across the pond, frankly Hank it's quite clear Auschwitz side you were on!"

FINISH HIM

"This battles been a blowout like that hemorrhage in you head, I'll leave a Ford as expected, Found On Road Dead!"

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u/sisdom-weeker 12d ago

"I'm dropping you like Hitler dropped your name in Mein Kampf" I think won him the battle instantly

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u/Pleasant-Enthusiasm 12d ago

I agree. Most of Ford’s lines were car puns and calling Marx dirty and lazy, with his strongest bar talking about Mao and Stalin liking Marx. Pointing out that Ford was literally given a shout out by Hitler in his manifesto took away his only major ammo. The rest of his verses just twisted the knife even further.

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u/_whatever_wherever 11d ago

Don't forget Engels textile mills "guess the capitalists are cool when they're paying your bills"

"Listen dummy, sharing money is the communist vision, Engels bank was the crank that got the revolution going, I'll give anything to see the common people advance, I'm so down the with the cause, I pawned my own pants"

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit 11d ago

"I'm dropping you like Hitler dropped your name in Mien Kamf!" Sold verse 1 for me