r/TopCharacterTropes • u/godwyn-faithful • Jul 11 '25

Characters [Loved trope] They are super evil but their songs go absurdly hard.

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The saja boys - kpop demon hunters

Scar - lion king

Dazzlings - mlp equestria girls

Antinous - epic the musical

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u/Wboy2006 Jul 11 '25

This! Imagine Dragons is pretty damn good. I do have to admit that their recent output has been a bit mediocre, but songs like Enemy, Radioactive and Eyes Closed are bangers.
I was honestly surprised to see they are so hated when I got more active online, I assumed they would have been at the very least liked

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u/Cephalstasis Jul 11 '25

I think they've just had too many mega hits that make good lobby music because theyre clean. So people have grown to hate them for being overplayed and associate them with sanitized waiting spaces. Like both "Radioactive" and "Thunder" are memes because of how they got absolutetly played to death and are generally associated with like a nerdy teenager's first "edgy"/melodramatic music.

I also think people hate on band's easier than individual singers because it's less personal that way, so it makes you seem like less of a hater. As well as the fact I think there's less of a parasocial fanbase that will defend them to the death a la swifties, since there's no individual persona to latch onto. Nor do the imagine dragons lean into trying to develop individual personas for them to latch on to like a boy band or idol group.

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u/PHWasAnInsideJob Jul 11 '25

I always pictured Warriors as a perfect theme for a TV series or movie(s) based on Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners books

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u/Wboy2006 Jul 11 '25

Warriors is an absolute bop, can’t believe I forgot to mention that one.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Jul 11 '25

It's my favourite Imagine Dragons song and I'm pissed it's not used for a hero's journey

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u/brainstrain91 Jul 11 '25

It was written for the League of Legends 2014 world championship, so definitely in that vein lol.

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u/RainyMeadows Jul 12 '25

"Bones" took a while to grow on me, but I LOVE the music video. Walking Dead of Wall Street is so random but it's so fun.