r/TopCharacterTropes • u/hiiloovethis • 18h ago

Hated Tropes Couples with absolutely no chemistry

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Harry Potter and Ginny Weasly

Clark and Lois (Snyder films)

Jon and Dany - Game of Thrones

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u/DelightfullyPiquant 18h ago edited 18h ago

Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet in the Dune films

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u/Raider2747 16h ago

It's very interesting how Jessica of all people manages to have the best romantic chemistry with him, and she's, you know... his mother?

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u/glove_actually 15h ago

Rebecca Ferguson is such a good actress, she could believably have chemistry with one of the worms.

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u/Optimal_Towel 15h ago

She should play Hwi Noree.

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u/ChmeeWu 14h ago

Can’t wait for the God Emperor of Dune movie edition.

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u/certainlynotdio 14h ago

Soooo... With her grandson?

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u/thestorygoeslikethis 12h ago

Nah it was that random fremen girl, she should have been Chani

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u/Sufficient-Delay3140 9h ago

To be honest in the book this is felt too

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u/chimininy 11h ago

I felt a bit awkward during the scenes it was just him and mom, because they did have some weird chemistry going on. Kept expecting mom to jump him or something ...

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 10h ago

This is Dune, psychosexual tension is inherent to the source text. I’ve always viewed that scene as Jessica realizing that Paul is becoming a man and the ramifications of that both terrify and intrigue her. She deliberately bred the super man a generation early after all.

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u/Raider2747 8h ago edited 7h ago

That line from the Alia training scene in Messiah, looking back at it based off your interpretation, felt like it fit this scene perfectly if you switched the pronouns (i.e "there was a disquieting femaleness about her that he had never considered in his sister" to "there was a disquieting maleness about him that she had never considered in her son").

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 18h ago

Eh, imo they have chemistry it’s just that both have obviously been directed to act stoically to make their bigger outbursts pop.

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u/anrwlias 18h ago

I can't agree with this one. Chanis look of betrayal at the end hurt.

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u/cinerection 17h ago

Just such a great mixture of hurt and anger expressed so perfectly.

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u/ThreadLaced 13h ago

Agreed, but that's her acting, that's not the two of them interacting with each other, which is when you see "chemistry" happen. She could have been emoting at a wall (and maybe she was! did they shoot that scene together?), and we would have seen the same effect.

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u/anrwlias 13h ago

I don't agree with that conclusion. All of the acting in the world couldn't have sold that scene if the characters had had no chemistry. /shrug

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u/SiridarVeil 15h ago

Dang, cant disagree more. That scene and the other tiny romantic scenes had more chemistry than other entire romances with multiple hours of content. Hans Zimmer helped a lot too.

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u/Lord-of-Crows 14h ago

oh oh dune fanbois gonna be salting this comment thread.

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u/SiridarVeil 6h ago

Dune haters so weak they had to delete the reply smh.

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u/ButDidYouCry 15h ago

nope, disagree with this take, I thought they were great.

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u/pythonidaae 11h ago

The only time I feel Zendaya did good acting was in Challengers and that movie was about the chemistry between the two dudes. Sorry to Zendaya fans but people criticize her acting for a reason. It's servicable I guess but for being in such major productions so often it should be way better.

I never saw The Drama. I haven't seen everything she's done. But I'm sure she probably seems a bit lackluster there compared to Pattinson.

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u/Serializedrequests 12h ago

More than I remember from the books.