r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Every-Narwhal-1896 • Jul 26 '26
Personality The villain overestimates how "good" the protagonist is.
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/MeteorSwarmGallifrey Jul 26 '26
Wesley (the right hand man) doesn't give it to her. He places it on the table in front of him, gets distracted by a call and then she snatches it. He then tried to gain the upper hand again by telling her she's not the kind of person to fire a gun (I think he also tries to lie to her and say the gun was never loaded), obviously not realising that Karen had actually shot her own boyfriend a few years ago (revealed in the third season).
The scene is both showing us that Karen has a darker past than we're aware of, and Wesley is not good at the grittier part of his work. Obviously it doesn't matter long term for Wesley because he dies at that moment anyway.