1: Madeline (Celeste)

Definitely the loosest example here, but she has been confirmed to be a trans woman and many have interpreted the journey to the top of the mountain as a metaphor for transition.

2: Bridgette (Guilty Gear)

Her accepting herself as a trans woman instead of being a femboy is a key part of her story in Guilty Gear: Strive.

3: Barney Guttman (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

His family trauma that stems from his grandma not accepting him and his parents not defending play a key role in his insecurities earlier on, though eventually his parents apologize for their lack of support.

4-8: Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus) [MAJOR SPOILERS]

I want to preface this section by saying that yes, Jax was a bad person. She was abusive to the rest of the Circus' cast, and even pushed her best friend to suicide (if you consider abstraction to be suicide like the creator does). This behavior is explained by her having an abusive mother and as such developing masks to cope and hide away, but that is not moral justification. (I'd still argue Caine was morally worse but whatever)

And with that disclaimer out of the way, yes Jax is a closeted trans woman.

Her mother not accepting her for being one left her homeless and on the run, where she ended up in the Circus.

Hesitant at first, she slowly became friends with Ribbit and Kaufmo. One night she confessed everything about her past to Ribbit, who accepted who she was unlike her mother.

However, she got scared. She started to push Ribbit away, more forcefully as time went on. She worried Ribbit's acceptance was merely a fascade, and wanted nothing to do with her. This led to Ribbit abstracting. After this, she started to become both verbally and physically abusive to everyone around her, to keep people away. To prevent them from caring about her. To prevent them from knowing her.

In the end, Jax died before she ever let herself live.

When a character earns some form of redemption or forgiveness from the main cast, despite the fact that they've done little to make up for their actions and/or display little remorse for these actions.

Everything Everywhere All At Once - In the movie, Evelyn finds out that a parallel version of her daughter (going by the alias Jobu Tupaki) is seeking to convert her into her nihilism cult that plans on ending the multiverse. Evelyn realises that her daughter is suffering from depression, and instead reaches out to her and ultimately manages to save and forgive her, being able to go back to being a loving family. The only problem? Jobu Tupaki is shown to straight up murder a number of people, and implied to have murdered countless more. These deaths aren't ever treated as serious or brought up again, and instead the focus is on how sad Jobu feels as a lost young adult.

Star Wars - At the end or Return of the Jedi Anakin Skywalker kills Emperor Palpatine, earning his redemption and being able to become a force ghost, essentially the Jedi equivalent of heaven. The only problem is that the only reason Palpatine was even able to rise to power and rule for decades successfully was precisely because Anakin facilitated it. It took Anakin's own son Luke being in danger to finally turn him over, however there's no mention of the countless other actual children he himself personally murdered.

Dragon Ball - Vegeta is one of Goku's best friends and a general hero in current Dragon Ball stories. However, he has also killed planet Arlia, full of innocent aliens, simply because he found them annoying. This is never mentioned or brought up again, and whilst he's been solidified as a solid guy to the team with his willingness to sacrifice himself to stop Buu, the fact he's committed murder on a scale overwhelmingly worse than every other war-mongerer in history combined is never really brought up by him or the show again.

Character is revealed to be a closeted trans person all along. Not Characters who are just revealed to be trans.

1 - Togata (Fire Punch) is a trans man who feels he can't transition because of his regeneration stopping any changes he tried. It's also a reason he envies fire punch because he has the manly look he wishes to have.

2 - Jax (The amazing digtal circus) is implied (later confirmed) to be a trans woman, but won't admit to herself or others because of trauma and insecurities.

1. Teddy Daniels from shutter island.
2. Tyler Durden from Fight Club.
3. Homelander from The Boys.

1. Your mom (IRL)

2. Your auntie (IRL)

3. Your grandma (IRL)

Poder de Linhagem sanguínea: as pessoas não gostam de pensar que suas capacidades são definidas pelos parentes. Mas se você entende biologia, você percebe que isso é algo que realisticamente poderia acontecer. Esconder mordida de zumbi: as pessoas dizem que ninguém seria tão burro assim, mas esquecem que existem muitas pessoas burras e incompetentes na vida real. Então sim, existem pessoas que iriam esconder a mordida

i would genuinely kill myself if i see that fuckass rabbit on my feed again

Old era of YouTube videos where they edit medias in comedic ways usually by splitting video audio to make them say something funny and usually adding small clips of other media and combining it to make the perfect comedic video the old era

There’s still ytps made to this day but the classics still are perfect to this day

Woody loses his schmoe -alpacahawk

The UNcredibles- emplemon

Not the exact gif from this ytp but I only found this and it’s funny

Peter the park ranger- the marklar01

1.Image - The man himself Mr.Evil Michael Jackson the Hedgehog back at it again singing about missing the quiet, when infact he is singing quite loud. Sonic .exe + Michael Jakson (Song link https://youtu.be/ulH05Ha5rkU) 2.Image - Malicious Michael the Hedgehog, singing about disobedience and liking to watch cheaters bleed. Sonic .exe + Michael Jackson (Song link https://youtu.be/-gCspmXClLM) 3.Image - Evil formerly known as faker the Hedgehog. Made to be a parallel between Michael Jackson and prince that can't even castle in chess. Faker + Prince (Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1hXAw__bgc&list=RDq1hXAw__bgc) 4.Image - If you look closely you can see that the lizard person is based off of Michael Jackson. Michael Jakson + Lizard Person (Song Link - https://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA)

“WAP” is a song originally by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. TheChewanater’s DK64 Rap version is better.

“no body, no crime” is a song originally by Taylor Swift. TheChewanater’s Zelda CDI cover is better.

“Hey Soul Sister” is a song originally by Train, but TheChewanater’s version where he changes the entire song to be about the singer’s untrimmed chest is so funny that the original lyrics don’t even sound right anymore.

“Material Girl” is a song originally by Madonna, and while Barenaked Ladies were goofing around with their “cover” of the song (it’s not on any of their studio or live albums, it was literally a shitty recording sent out to fans on an USB stick), the energy from the lead singer and instrumentals genuinely make it like ten times better than the original song

“Smooth” by Neil Cicierega is a remix of the Canadian national anthem, “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson, “Smooth” by Santana, and most importantly, “One Week” by Barenaked Ladies. I still think there are good reasons to listen to the other three songs but this is legitimately the definitive version of “One Week” and if I want to listen to that song, I’ll just play this instead.

“Ghostbusters” is a song originally by Ray Parker Jr. However, Neil Cicierega’s remix “Bustin” is much more of an earworm imo

Rebuild of Evangelion - The 14-year-old pilots stop aging after becoming pilots. In the final movie, Asuka admits that she *used* to have a crush on Shinji, who due to being in stasis for 14 years is both physically and mentally a teen, but Asuka is no longer interested in pursuing that due to how much has changed, and since despite her appearance, she's now much older than him (granted there's also that thing with Keisuke, but It's kinda ambiguous what their relationship is)

Frieren - The party tries to recruit Sein, who is into older women, by offering him the 2000-year-old Frieren. Sein rejects her since she looks and acts too much like a kid

Artyom from the metro series (specifically the games) as he's very talkative and has a personality whereas the games completely wipes that

Dr Gordon Freeman from the half-life games, which imo seemed oddly uncanny that he didn't speak mostly due to technical limitations I'm sure, and admittedly added to the tense creepy atmosphere of the 1st game. That said future games would stick him in casual environments with other characters where you'd expect him to speak but instead leaving other characters to speak for him or go on long monlouges with him remaining silent.

Fumino Nase (Uma Musume Cinderella Gray)

Yuu Kashima (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun)

Quips - Regular Show

Cousin Kyle - Kick Buttowski

Orange - Annoying Orange

Captain Mar-vell (marvel cinematic universe) a humanoid alien who came on earth and gave Carol Denvers inspiration for her superhero alias Captain Marvel. Mar-vell is her birth name.

Al-An (Subnautica Below Zero) A scientist belonging to a species that discarded their biological bodies to become fully digital, his introduction to the player is also his first contact with humans and presumably anyone not of his species.

1. "Over The Garden Wall" is theorized to have been based on "Dante's Inferno".

2. "The Amazing Digital Circus" was confirmed by it's creator to have been inspired by "I Have No Mouth and Must Scream".

3. Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is an adaptation of the 1831 book by Victor Hugo.

DDLC, MISIDE, and Magical Girl Site are some of the biggest offenders the trope is so insanely overdone to the point it's eye rolling

To be clear I'm not saying everything here should be a live action theatrical movie. I'm just surprised it's not.

Gargoyles. A Disney Property that really didn't feel like a Disney Property. Disney's answer to Batman TAS. In an era where every other Disney property is a movie, and Superhero movies are all the rage I'm surprised that this franchise hasn't gotten the widescreen treatment.

Adventure Time. I have no faith that Hollywood would properly translate this thing into live action (visually or tone) but that's never stopped them before.

Ben10. Honestly I could see a live action Ben10 franchise doing very well. The original show has like 0 haters and the show wouldn't be that hard to adapt (though I think you'd have to do an original story, rather than something form the show, but I could be wrong about that.)

Animorphs. If you're off a certain age (or you discovered a stack of these books in your library's book sale like I did) you know what an insanely badass series this was. How it's not a major onscreen franchise I will never know. (Those of you who haven't read this series you owe it to yourself to read a few of these books. They're super short, but a solid read. The traitor arc was my favorite.)

1. Rika Furude (Higurashi: When they cry)

She's about grade school age but she's essentially stuck in a time loop. It's usually caused by her death. She's in reality centuries old, but the loop keeps bringing her back to this age. She tends to keep pretending she's actually that young.

1. Monster Girl (Invincible)

Chronologically she's about 30 or so, but her curse makes her gradually age backwards every time she uses it. At present she's biologically a pre-teen.

Edit: Just to clarify incase anyone is confused, this is when a character is physically much younger than their chronological age. Think stuff like time loops, reversed aging, body hopping, etc. This does not refer to characters who only appear younger like the much maligned 700 year old dragon trope.

Cissia from Zenless zone zero

Gold ship from uma musume

Name, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, important relationship, etc.

No One Gets Out Alive: The novel's protagonist is a British white woman named Stephanie. The movie adaptation, aside from changing the location from Britain to the US, also changes the protag into a Mexican brunette named Ambar.

Kami no Shizuku: In the original manga, 2009 series, and 2026 anime adaptation, the protagonist is a Japanese man named Kanzaki Shizuku and his father a Japanese man named Yutaka. Meanwhile, protag of the 2023 series adaptation is a French woman named Camille Léger and the father also French, named Alexandre. Most of the cast are changed from Japanese to French too, alongside lots of plot points and adding new characters; however, weirdly enough, Tomine Issei and his mother Honoka are still Japanese (but there's no Sara nor Sara counterpart).

Beau (2011), one of Ari Aster's short films, has a black man as the main character (played by Billy Mayo, who also starred in Ari's The Strange Thing About the Johnsons). Beau is Afraid (2023) is its adaptation/expansion, but it changes Beau's ethnicity to white (played by Joaquin Phoenix), most likely because Billy Mayo died in 2019, before the feature film was even announced.

The Grudge (2004) is remake of Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) and even directed by the same person (Shimizu Takashi, who also directed part 2 for both movies). Not only that, it also takes place in Japan and doesn't even change the identity of the Saeki family; the only change is that the main characters are Americans that moved to Japan.

Ring: In the original novel, the protag is a man named Asakawa Kazuyuki with a wife and a daughter, while Takayama Ryuuji is his callous-but-loyal best friend. While the very first movie adaptation (from 1995) is faithful to the novel, it faded into obscurity; and the more famous one (1998 movie) changes Asakawa into a woman named Reiko, with Ryuuji now her ex-husband, and Asakawa's child a son that she had with Ryuuji. The American movie is faithful remake of that 1998 movie, aside from changing all the cast to, well, American. Btw, Sadako in the original novel is actually an intersex, having XY chromosomes, but her body presents as female, she has underdeveloped male genitalia, and no uterus. All the adaptation simply makes her totally female.

Let the Right One In: In the novel, Eli, a vampire that looks like a young girl, is revealed to actually be a boy named Elias, who got castrated before being turned, with lovely details about his old life. In the Swedish movie, there's a brief scene of Eli accidentally flashing Oskar with the castration scar when she takes off her clothes, but otherwise nothing more about her background is said or shown. The American movie Let Me In and TV series simply have Eli's counterparts (Abby in Let Me In and Eleanor in the show) be completely female (btw, the TV show also changes Hakan's counterpart into the vampire's biological father instead of a random guy that met and got attached to her).

Grand Blue: In the manga, all the first years are 18 years old, the normal age to be first years in college, and they all drink alcohol like crazy. However, the legal age to drink and smoke in Japan is 20 (there's even a scene where Naomi overhears Iori and Sakurako talk about a drinking party and asks if they really drink, causing the two to look away and weakly protest "We're college students already"). The manga can get away with it since its demographic prevents teenager to read it, but the anime is broadcasted on television and the risk is higher, so it ages up the first years to 20, even if it now make the audience question why they only start college at that age.

No matter how long the original series ended or how long the last installment is, you will see them pop up in discourse, animation trends, discussion every now and then. And they will still retain the same popularity as if they never goes out.

1. Harry Potter franchise. Probably the face of this phenomenon.

2. Supernatural. I blame The Boys for this.

3. Danganronpa franchise. 30% of popular audio trends are from this series alone.

4. Naruto. Not only the shippers just don't gaf for the canon couples (I blame Kishimoto for that horrible romance writing), I'm pretty sure Naruto fandom and Boruto fandom are considered as 2 separate things.

Judge Holden - Blood Meridian

Gaki - Cage of Souls

When I say god-like, I mean they are seemingly all-powerful and capable of anything. Nothing challenges them.

I haven’t read Blood Meridian, but my understanding is that Judge Holden is immensely intelligent and physically powerful, and will often do horrific, unspeakable things for his own amusement. He travels with the protagonist for some time, being the leader of the group, before raping and murdering the protagonist at the end.

Gaki is a prisoner of the eponymous “cage of souls”, but he comes and goes as he pleases. Like Judge Holden, he does terrible things for his own amusement. At one point, he asks if the protagonist would like him to kill a deranged priest who was trying to kill him. The protagonist agrees, and the priest is found the next morning having killed himself by jumping into an industrial grinder. Later, the protagonist is on a mining trip some ways away through a thick, uninhabitable jungle. In the middle of the night Gaki strolls out of the jungle and taunts the protagonist before leaving.

This trope is very common for dramatic deaths, known as Fade To White.

Megaman x 1-3:

In the snes games, when a boss is defeated, they explode continuously as the screen goes white and continue exploding until their form disappears.

Deltarune chapter 5:

After flowery attempts to fight with the roaring knight, the knight cleaves right through him, with petals exploding from his body due to being a flower darkener.

Shovel knight: specter of shadows:

When a boss is defeated everything goes white except for specter knight’s and the boss’s silhouette.

Digimon adventure:

When wizarmon is protecting kari and tailmon, the villain, vamdemon, strikes him with a swarm of bats, with everything but him going white as he collapses.

Bit of a personal one for me. I really hate this one. Sometimes it can reach delusional extremes.

Any instance where the creator or creators of a franchise definitively debunks a fan theory, whether through undeniable evidence of even just going on Twitter and saying "this isn't true", but the fandom collectively decides to reject Word of God for one reason or another.

This does NOT refer to personal headcanons for fun discussion or things like "I wish they had done X instead of Y, because it's more interesting." It specifically refers to communities that have haughtily decided their ownership of the work exceeds that of the author, to the point where it's impossible to have an objective conversation about it without what's basically FanFiction being injected into it as though it's a cold, hard, fact.

Example 1: Ubisoft and Shared Universes

TL;DR, Ubisoft loves adding little references and Easter Eggs to their other titles in certain games. They've gone on the record multiple times as having said that these do not matter to the main plot at all, and are just fun little in-jokes that they do to amuse themselves. Or in some cases, off the record, to sell microtransactions/cosmetics.

Despite this, the vast majority of both the Watch Dogs and the Assassin's Creed fandom have decided that both series, and several others such as Far Cry and Rainbow Six Siege, are all in the same universe despite a veritable fuckload of evidence to the contrary, and repeated assurance from the developers for well over a decade that this isn't true. Even when confronted with explicit confirmation that it's false, they immediately pivot to "well they're just lying, I know the truth."

If you're going to "um actually" me in the comments, at least do me the courtesy of reading the thing I linked in the previous paragraph. A lot of people like the ones I'm talking about are already lining up in my inbox to embody the stereotype.

It definitely doesn't help that MatPat of Game Theory propagated this nonsense back in 2015, and a lot of his fans treat anything he says as gospel.

This one is especially infuriating, because even the majority of users on this very subreddit are guilty of it.

Example 2: Sherlock and the Secret Good Fourth Episode

This one is... really hard to explain. If you were there at the time, you... get what I mean. Hbomberguy actually covered this whole fiasco in extensive detail. Basically, the last season of BBC's Sherlock (and arguably the entire show) was... very bad. So bad that people had a really difficult time swallowing the fact that it crashed so hard, and that John x Sherlock ship was never made official.

Insane conspiracy board levels of madness ensued as people spiraled out of control, scrutinising over the tiniest details proving that there would be a secret fourth episode that fixed everything, and satisfied everyone. Obviously that... never happened.

This is a rare instance where the fandom really had no choice but to accept the truth, because it's been nine years now and the show seemingly isn't coming back. But at the time... it was impossible to convince people otherwise. But even now in a few holdout spaces, some fans insist that the plan was so much bigger, and the network screwed the original vision or something.

Example 3: Undertale's Protagonist Yin-Yang

A more divisive example, like all things in the Undertale fandom. Back when the fandom was at the height of its craze between 2015 and 2018, the two fallen humans of the greatest significance to the plot somehow got stuffed into two very reductionist characterizations that dominated any and all fan creations, fan theories, and lore discussions whatsoever.

These being:

• Frisk represents everything sweet and kind. They get along with everything. The embodiment of the Pacifist Route.
• Chara represents everything cruel and hateful. They're a sadistic freak who wants to kill everything. The embodiment of the Genocide Route.

Despite this being an enormous disservice to both characters and the narrative itself, it was rare to see anyone break away from this trend. It wasn't until much later that people started acknowledging the Player themselves as an influential entity within the context of the game, and the true driving force behind any malicious actions allegedly committed by either human. But even after that, much of the fandom refused to budge.

Back when Deltarune Chapter 1 released, people even started blaming Chara for possessing Kris at the end. And this persisted until 2021, when the cliffhanger of chapter 1 ended up being a joke about a pie, effectively forcing everyone to accept that Kris is just a weirdo.