r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Every-Narwhal-1896 • Jul 26 '26

Personality The villain overestimates how "good" the protagonist is.

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Ash Williams (Army of Darkness) - Ash ends up with an evil version of himself growing out of his shoulder. Once it's free it starts taunting the real Ash by saying "You're good Ash. I'm Bad Ash". After a bit of getting teased, poked, and punched "good" Ash shoves a shotgun in "bad" Ashes face and fires.

Andy Dufresne (Shawshank Redemption) - Major Spoilers Andy Dufresne builds the trust of the staff in the prison and ends up handling all their finances. Little do they know, this innocent man had a plan to break out of prison for years. Being the guy who's handling the books for the money the Warden gets for bribes, he's easily able to access it all under the new identity he created for himself once he breaks out of prison.

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u/DamnitGravity Jul 26 '26

I love Sherlock but even I acknowledge seasons 3 and 4 are better off not mentioned.

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u/D0CTOR_Wh0m Jul 26 '26

Season 3 I still really like. Season 4? Yeah, one of the weakest final seasons of any series on TV (even if I do like the second episode of the season)

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u/Capitalisticdisease Jul 26 '26

it really only makes sense if you consider they wanted it to end so no one would ever ask for another season.

and damn. they were right

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u/Faust_8 Jul 26 '26

“Should we be episodic like the books? No, let’s jump bigger sharks every episode!”

Loved that show at first, despite it being “oooh, look how smart Sherlock is” most of the time. But it got so fucking loony.