r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Outrageous_Gene_7652 • 20h ago

Characters A genuinely good hero gets crushed by responsibility and slowly goes insane

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Hal Jordan (Green Lantern): Civilian life in shambles, overworked superhero life, spiralling mental health for years and unable to cope with the fact that he was'nt able to save his city because he was on another mission, Hal loses his mind, literally trying to bring back the dead, killing the entire corp and later literally erasing space and time to rewrite the universe

Zero (To Be Hero X): Being the first hero of the world and being worshipped for being so since he was 10, Zero achieved Godhood as a 15 year old but ultimately the pressure got to him and he went mad at 17 and nearly caused the end of humanity.

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u/Alternative_Goat300 19h ago

Did he actually go on a killing spree? In the anime I swear he said he only killed the judge and the prosecutor? He did kill plenty of jujutsu sorcerers during the culling games I guess

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u/Remote-Monk-8542 16h ago

Judge and prosecutor are the only kills he had before CG.

I was referring to CG when I said he went on a killing spree. In the CG you only needed to kill once every 19 days to avoid death. Higuruma had amassed a whole 100 points. Think it's fair to call it a killing spree personally. The Tokyo Colony was almost cleared out by the time Yuji and Megumi entered it.

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u/moneyman259 12h ago

How did takaba survive then?

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u/Remote-Monk-8542 10h ago

Well Yuji fought Higuruma around day 12 or so iirc. After that fight the rule that you can transfer points was added. So basically after that point nobody needs to kill anyone and can just pass points around every 19 days. Probably what Takaba did. That rule was added before anyone would've died from not killing.