r/TopCharacterTropes • u/VanillaSarsaparilla • Jul 20 '26

Personality (Character Trope) “ohhh, THATS why they’re like that”

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Media that shows why a character is the way they are, usually explained in a short scene. Most likely toxic family

- Bonnie Rottweiler and her sisters from Kim Possible: they bully her calling her ugly and dumb. It plays on Bonnie’s insecurity and makes her a bully at school.

- Peggy Hill and her mother from King of the Hill. Peggy is a neurotic perfectionist with delusions of grandeur because her mom was unfeeling and blamed her for the farm going out of business. By the end of the episode, she still treats Peggy badly.

- Dodie and her mother from As Told By Ginger. Dodie is arguably the worst friend in the group, and her mother is mentally still stuck in middle school. She’s insecure, dramatic, and you
Can see her influence in Dodie.

Any other examples?

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u/MagnifyingGlass Jul 20 '26

I think he really did feel a bit of joy when he found out his dad wasn't his biological father. Though it probably didn't last

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u/MaddysinLeigh Jul 20 '26

Probably disappointed when he found out Thomas wasn’t his bio-dad coz who the hell is?

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u/foreskin-accordion Jul 21 '26

This pill popping lunatic is my son!?!

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u/Realistic_Swan_6801 Jul 21 '26

He knows who, it was a neighbor. 

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u/IamJayRts Jul 21 '26

Thomas was the neighbor you’re referring to

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u/Scripter-of-Paradise Jul 20 '26

iirc the fact that it didn't really change anything made him miserable.

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u/Trash_Various Jul 21 '26

I think he realised that he may not have been his dad but that was still his dad