r/TopCharacterTropes • u/FullBrother9300 • 11d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated trope) Remember all these stories and characters we followed for so long? Welp now it’s all reset.

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1: using another flashpoint to create the tomorrowverse (Justice League Dark: Apokolips war) after 80-90% of the cast is killed off and billions lives are fated to die Flash and Constantine hatch up a plan to kill baby Darkseid to prevent the entire story from happening which just leads to an entirely different universe being formed and even erasing some characters from existence.

2: Jim travelling to the beginning (Tales of Arcadia series) after multiple characters die including Toby Jim uses a magic gem to travel back to the very first episode but instead lets Toby find the amulet… this changes things how?

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u/NDinoGuy 11d ago

The only problem with it is that the show never treats it with the dignity it deserves. This was quite literally Ben watching all his friends and family die and having to replace all of them with clones that aren't even aware of what happened, but all they do with it is joke about how Ben got a smoothie flavor wrong.

I forgot where I saw it, but I saw a comic made by a fan that was basically Ben in Alien X trying to fix the smoothie, Bellicus and Serena getting annoyed at Ben's insistance on trying to fix the smoothie, only for Ben to basically end up venting his guilt over what happened.

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u/Icy-Career-1531 11d ago

I mean it’s still a kids show. I know they could get away with a fair amount but I doubt the producers were going to let Ben have ptsd over everyone he knows dying and being surrounded by copies.

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u/florentinomain00f 11d ago

PTSD would be underselling it, it would send Ben into an existential crisis if he thinks about it hard enough.

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u/JechdJJ 11d ago

we dont see how the afterlife works or if its even an afterlife. It is like gantz, where the afterworld exist and the "returned" that the sphere creates are clones from the beginning. There is a point in the story where are two versions of the same people cause someone revive someone that still is alive. But in Ben 10, im not sure if its the case, cause in theory alien x controlls the universe where he live, so he perfectly could revive them or create them again and be themselves.

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u/InitialBrother9884 11d ago

any link to that comic