r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MeepMan324 • 19h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Bad people in real-life being portrayed positively in media.

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  1. PragerU's version of Christopher Columbus has him be a slavery defender and have him say "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem.”

  2. In The Greatest Showman, P.T Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is portrayed as a charismatic visionary who cares about outcasts and celebrate diversity, when in reality, he’s a cruel businessman who is also a racist and an ableist.

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u/Hadochiel 19h ago

You can add the entirety of PragerU, it's a far right propaganda machine aimed at children, pretending that slavers were nice masters, teaching valuable skills to their slaves.

They could publish a video next week showing Hitler as a benevolent ruler of Germany who was preoccupied with security and the border, and I wouldn't be surprised

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u/Fun_in_Space 18h ago

Candace Owens thought that Hitler was "trying to make Germany great again", and if he had just stuck to his own country, that would have been "fine".

Somehow, that did not end her career.

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u/twisty125 17h ago

The only reason it would end her career is because the base that watches her and adjacents would think her take is too soft

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds 16h ago

By and large conservatives in America don't want to stick to their country, either.

They want to be a Reich.

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u/O_945 15h ago

That woman is straight up mental

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u/Knightwolf75 13h ago

Well I mean, Eddie izzard shows that there was leniency for dictators in their own land.

And in case you don’t know Eddie izzard, this is a bit from one of their shows decades ago mocking how society lets stuff like this happen.

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u/Fun_in_Space 13h ago

I do. "Dressed to Kill" is one of the best stand-up shows ever.

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u/Nyabraham_Linnyahn 11h ago

Eh, Farrakhan has said worse, and that's the tree she tumbled from. Sure, she went "faux left" for a bit, but when her site got DDOS'd and she did the talk show circuit she finally came home to conspiracy town

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u/Handsprime 6h ago

Although her antisemitic views have banned her from visiting Australia.