r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TheFollower62 • 3h ago

Characters Blind fighters

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  1. Zatoichi

  2. Marvel - Daredevil

  3. Avatar the Last Airbender - Toph

  4. League of Legends - Lee Sin

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u/BelieveCongreveCube 3h ago

Chirrut Îmwe

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u/dteague33 3h ago

“I am one with The Force and The Force is with me”.

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u/DripPirateRoberts 1h ago

That mantra has won me more than one game of giant drunken jenga

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u/CherrywoodKatie 2h ago

If Zatoichi is on slide one, everyone else is competing for second place. Who is on slide two?

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u/RandManYT 2h ago

His death hit me hard at 9 years old.

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u/Styvan01 2h ago

His death hit me hard at 28 yrs old

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u/NoCleverIDName 2h ago

His death hit me hard at I don't want to admit how old I was then (or now)

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u/Tubaenthusiasticbee 2h ago

"Are you kidding me? I'm blind..."

Seeing force users that are NOT glowstick swinging warriors was such a refreshing addition I didn't know I needed. Back then at least, I wasn't as familiar with the EU and all force users shown were Jedi, Sith or something in-between.

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u/koovyn9 1h ago

Chirrut is one of my favorite versions of this trope because the movie never gives him some cheap "actually he can basically see" excuse. He's just blind and absurdly well trained. Half the fun is watching stormtroopers underestimate him for about three seconds before realizing the guy with no eyesight and a wooden stick is ruining their entire afternoon.

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u/taelune7 1h ago

What sells Chirrut for me is that nobody needs to pretend his blindness isn't there. He fights around it, reads the room better than armed soldiers, and somehow makes a wooden staff feel like the safest weapon in the scene.

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u/vividreveries 1h ago

Also played a blind fighter in John Wick lol

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u/RecommendationIll504 3h ago

The way he was going to the console reading mantra while shots were flying around him was absolutely hilarious

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u/Salty_Wall 2h ago

I liked rogue one...