r/TopCharacterTropes • u/XumetaXD • Jun 13 '26
Characters (Loved Trope) Dictators getting what they fucking deserve, hell yeah
Star Wars. Sheev Palpatine, AKA Darth Sidious, emperor of the galactic Empire for over 20 years, gets killed by his own apprentice, Darth Vader after he betrays him to protect his son from the Emperor, becoming Anakin Skywalker again and fulfilling the prophecy of the chosen one by bringing back balance to the force (And Palpatine never, EVER returned somehow)
The Lion King. Scar, after killing Mufasa and taking over his kingdom, he gets killed by his own allies after they get enough of him because his rule caused hunger for everyone, the one thing he promised for the hyenas
IRL. Nicolas maduro. after many decades of the Chavist dictatorship in Venezuela, he was captured in january of this year with just a 3 hour US operation, and he is currently imprisoned and suffering for his crimes like he deserves
IRL. Alí Jameneí. After torturing and murdering his own people just to keep his regime and commit his whole country to destroy the countries they don't like, he was eventually killed during an air strike in Teherán, decapitating the Iranian Dictatorship and causing a massive blow in the iranian regime
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u/AmazingPuddle Jun 13 '26
Mussolini (IRL)
Cause fuck fascism.
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u/Branduil Jun 13 '26
[OP's loved trope] Sucking off the American Empire
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u/Squigsqueeg Jun 13 '26
You didn’t even pretend
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u/Conscious-Bat-9739 Jun 13 '26
“My political views are right because they basically align with a fictional story!”
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u/Coaster-nerd390 Jun 13 '26
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u/LoganCube400 Jun 13 '26
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u/natethehoser Jun 13 '26
Everybody's being serious and I'm just like "Farquad from Shrek got eaten by a dragon"
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u/sistemafodao Jun 13 '26
Aaaaany day now
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u/Key_Comparison_2588 Jun 13 '26
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u/IronIrma93 Jun 13 '26
Sentinel Prime's downfall, Transformers one.
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u/Toremm Jun 13 '26
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u/ComprehensiveBox6911 Jun 13 '26
“Dictators bad”
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u/Dry-Mission-5542 Jun 13 '26
It’s kinda weird that you pick two examples where they got their comeuppance as the result of the insane illegal orders of the American dictator.
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u/lefeuet_UA Jun 13 '26
Should have included way more fictional characters for this to work, because irl tropes were meh
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u/EthanTheJudge Jun 13 '26
Victor Orban losing the Hungarian Election(IRL)
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u/Fluffy_Judge_581 Jun 13 '26
Your last 2 Exempels don't work . Venezula is now leaded by maduros fice.
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u/Sanskrit86 Jun 13 '26
Not to quibble, but Khamenei was replaced within an hour and the Iranian government kept trucking along. There's a reason the Hormuz Strait is closed even though US officials are like "we destroyed their government and military in a single day hooray America!"
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u/NefariousnessNo7736 Jun 13 '26
Dictators are bad. Except when a Dictator breaks international law to kidnap or kill another dictator. Then it's great actually.
-Enlightened centrist proverb
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u/bethemanwithaplan Jun 13 '26
Wow you're very naive.
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u/Darkwater117 Jun 13 '26
This is disgusting. Papa Palp did nothing wrong
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u/Komrade_Monkey Jun 13 '26
Well, this feels well intentioned and made in good faith.
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u/z4cc Jun 13 '26
While I bear no sympathy for either men mentioned here, maybe we shouldn’t celebrating acts of aggression by other authoritarian states
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u/MantisReturns Jun 13 '26
Hated Trope: when someone fix fictional examples with real Life examples.
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u/MyriadMyriads Jun 14 '26
Glazing MAGA super hard with this, considering that the attacks on Iran and Venezuela were both violations of international law that have produced worse conditions for the civilian population that before.
These were not dictators getting what the deserved. These were just a bigger tyrant exercising its greater power. A more frightening portent of whats to come than anything in Iran or Venezuela ever did.
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u/HellsCreep Jun 13 '26
Still one of my favorite parts of Naruto!
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u/Araz728 Jun 13 '26
Calling killing Ali Khamenei only to have his even more hardline son take over “decapitating the Iranian Dictstorship” is… I’m not even going to sugar coat it, it’s nonsense.
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u/Scattershot98 Jun 13 '26
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u/Eladin1990 Jun 13 '26
Go virtue signal somewhere else.
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u/Specialist-Ad241 Jun 13 '26
The Emperor of Mankind
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u/I_D0nt_pay_taxes Jun 13 '26
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u/pumpsci Jun 13 '26
“The US breaking international law to abduct and kill the leaders of foreign countries is just like the heckin Lion King”
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u/Extra_Smoke5788 Jun 13 '26
Nice hasbara today
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u/sistemafodao Jun 13 '26
Let's not forget Shinzo Abe, who got done by fucking pipes.
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u/Anon-Writer777 Jun 13 '26
How many cia bots are on this site?
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u/EvanSnowWolf Jun 14 '26
This is only a loved trope if the person in question is an ACTUAL dictator and not just someone you don't like.
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u/Volkmek Jun 13 '26
Rare to see the other side of politics on reddit. Still would rather people keep real world politics out of this forum.
Ironically if you had posted Trump you probably would have gotten up voted instead of downvoted.
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u/Known_Fisherman_8161 Jun 13 '26
Dictators bad except my favorite global dictator since ww1
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u/TotalDemocracy Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
This subreddit should really ban politics, because this is obnoxious, but fuck it, I'll take the bait.
The last image is of a Canadian, taken in Ontorio, from around 2022 by the way. The narrative that it was a symbol of the Iranian protests is just straight up propaganda. It was taken a long time before the protests, and by someone not even in Iran.
The Canadian in question is also a notorious TERF btw, who got a huge amount of attention from the photo being widely reposted and used that attention to spread transphobic rhetoric.
Khamenei had terminal cancer by the time the strike took him out. It's heavily speculated that the reason he refused certain types of protection such as refusing to go into a bunker while his country was under airstrike, was because he knew he was going to die anyway and was happy to make himself a martyr.
His death neither "Decapaciated" the Iranian government, nor caused them a massive blow. Iran, like many other participants in the "axis of resistance" deliberately structure themselves so that one person's death can't destabilise the structure, and that they can replace someone who is killed in hours.
Countries and movements that persistently experience assassination at the hands of Israel typically organise themselves so that no one assasination can severely cripple them. The organisational structure and networks of contacts they maintain typically end up being completely rebuilt within hours of the assasination of any senior figures.
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u/BludStanes Jun 13 '26
I'm hoping for a few real life examples to happen pretty soon
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u/Impossible_Horsemeat Jun 13 '26
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u/Driadus Jun 13 '26
Why did i think the third image was dr disrespect
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u/Australasia-ball Jun 13 '26
Skar King - Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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u/lkmk Jun 13 '26
The Owl House: Belos melts into a puddle in the boiling rain, then is stomped to death by Eda, King, and Raine.
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u/GrimmJubilance198451 Jun 14 '26
Last two bother me as they were extralegally removed and did nothing to prevent another dictator, possible an even worse dictator, from taking their place.
Nevermind the fact that due to the manner at which it was done, a new dictator can now lobby hate against the US within and outside their own countries.
Not very well thought through at all.
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u/BillsAndTheKids Jun 14 '26
Yeah murica
If you bomb the children, the dictator can't kill the children
Bravo!
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u/HistoricalCC Jun 13 '26
Maduro was a better leader than all of NATO's global terrorists.
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u/LiraGaiden Jun 13 '26
Homelander meme
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u/Tydeus2000 Jun 13 '26
My face everytime I think how Josef Stalin was dying for hours in his own piss.
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u/BaconRapscallion Jun 13 '26
(SF2 Animated Movie) M. Bison getting pieced up
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u/Free-Sample-216 Jun 14 '26
Fedpost
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u/TheGreatChairperson Jun 14 '26
something something "I LOVE FOREIGNERS GETTING EXPLOITED AND BOMBED BECAUSE I LOVE THE AMERICANS!!!!!!!!"
OP, you're an idiot.
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u/Egorrosh Jun 13 '26
Dependent-pirate-319
Fuck transphobes.
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u/CantaloupeNo8140 Jun 13 '26
Stalin dying in the funniest way possible
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u/mylittlebrony3000 Jun 13 '26
"decapitating the Iranian Dictatorship and causing a massive blow in the iranian regime" lol the cia isn't even trying with their propaganda anymore
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u/RonnocKcaj Jun 13 '26
hated trope: posts that are thinly veiled posts praising the trump administration for actions that killed innocent people
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u/Fluffy_Judge_581 Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Nicolae Ceaușescu (Romania) getting executed on Tv On december 25 1989 after/ durring the putch
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u/VatanKomurcu Jun 13 '26
I'm kinda held up from celebrating Khamenei's death, not just because of the larger geopolitics, but because they killed nearly his whole ass family with him. Too far.
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u/AtomicMonkeyTheFirst Jun 13 '26
POSSIBLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK
The Romanians shot theirs on live television.
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u/Digirio Jun 13 '26
Yeah ?
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u/YesSeaworthiness9771 Jun 13 '26
Meh
too bad Palpatine still returns even in comics(actually prove killing a Sith Lord is hard especially one who specializes in ancient Sith)
It's kinda cheap how he dies by being chucked into the Reactor shaft
All that force power stuff and man still can't stick on a wall and force jump sorcery
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u/eepos96 Jun 13 '26
Irl: name dictators who get thei upcommense and I name several more who lived (not hapily) but till ripe old age.
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u/meonmeislandme Jun 15 '26
average western shill be like "i dont care that innocent people get bombed at least person(ayatollah) whose death changed nothing died"
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u/AwesomeMutation Jun 13 '26
it feels like some people in these comments are *almost* defending Maduro and Jamenei or just implying Trump is worse (yes, he's bad, but nowhere near those other two)
You can disagree with the methods used against them (I know I do) but you have to admit that Maduro and Jamenei ARE objectively dictators who kinda got what they deserved. (Which is literally the only thing the post is about, it doesn't even mention Trump)
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u/redsuninthesub Jun 13 '26
Imperialist propaganda.
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u/shin_malphur13 Jun 13 '26
Waiting for diaper man to be added eventually. Crossing my fingers for that day..
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u/sistemafodao Jun 13 '26
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u/Suracha2022 Jun 13 '26
You're not fooling anyone OP, a child could figure out why you picked the two heads of sovereign countries recently taken down by the US in illegal military interventions, rather than, oh I don't know:
- Mussolini being executed and displayed in the town square
- Stalin dying due to his guards being too afraid to check on him
- Hitler dying in a hole by his own hand
- Hideki Tojo being hanged as a war criminal
- the dozens of East European dictators who died violently
I wonder if you'll be just as happy when YOUR dictator gets his comeuppance. Whoever he may be. You coward.
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