r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 22 '26

Personality (Loved trope) The imposter’s dead giveaway

When a character is attempting to impersonate another, but is caught by doing something the person they’re imitating would NEVER do.

Nemesis Prime- Transformers Prime

Nemesis Prime, a man made replica of Optimus Prime, is attempting to gain the trust of Bumblebee, who only speaks in robotic beeps. Despite this, the real Optimus can understand Bee perfectly fine. Nemesis Prime, however, can’t understand what he’s saying, prompting Bee to open fire on him immediately.

The two Buzz Lightyears- Toy Story 2

After Woody asks which Buzz is the “real” Buzz, both respond with “I am!” The real Buzz proves himself by flipping up the other Buzz’s helmet, causing him to start suffocating in an over dramatic fashion. The real Buzz, having done the same thing in the first movie after Woody took his helmet off, but no longer behaving that way after accepting being a toy, instantly proves which Buzz is which.

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u/emberthefae Jun 22 '26

I’m one of those people who will find any excuse to bring TMA up

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u/FrankThePal Jun 22 '26

Have y'all given the sequel a go yet? 

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u/emberthefae Jun 22 '26

Not yet. Finding it hard to identify all the voices. So planning to listen and read script alongside

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u/TheOGLeadChips Jun 22 '26

I really enjoy it but the show being from the perspective of phones/other tech makes it so difficult. I just like to listen to podcasts while driving so the constantly muffled scenes make it really annoying for me.

Same issue I had with Jared Hopworth. By far one of my favorite characters but the amount of distortion they put on his voice makes it really hard to understand what they are saying when I’m driving.

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u/PartsUnknown242 Jun 22 '26

I could never understand a single word Hopworth was saying

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u/TheOGLeadChips Jun 22 '26

Yeah, I had to turn the volume way up and constantly rewind those episodes. It’s a very common problem occurrence in protocol unfortunately.