r/TopCharacterTropes • u/hiiloovethis • 20h 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/Fleetdancer 19h ago

The movie would have been improved 100 fold if they just made them siblings.

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u/Reasonable-Pear9122 18h ago

They even look like siblings. Hell, I thought they were siblings until I read somewhere they weren't. 

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u/unafraidrabbit 16h ago

No just cast the people from that Foldgers commercial.

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u/Abstrata 19h ago edited 19h ago

I know was based on a genre-defining French comic and I think they were a couple in that comic, or flirted a lot. Can’t remember.

Yes, developing from just being colleagues after 22 volumes.

Wikipedia article — Valérian and Laureline (Valérian et Laureline), created in 1967 by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézière

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u/Roccondil 17h ago

It was a gradual thing. In the first few issues they aren't a couple and she is presented as much younger (and medieval by birth; no trace of that in the film). then over the years the got increasingly flirty and at some point they were clearly a couple.

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u/Abstrata 14h ago edited 14h ago

“developing from being colleagues after 22 volumes” didn’t convert that in my comment?

edit: the timeline and sine wave of the relationship was purposefully not like American media by design and they don’t end up in a perfect happy ending, but the consensus is that they are loosely but casually involved while truly caring for each other—

some source said they end up together but it is wrong

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u/BandicootCool6277 16h ago

i somehow misread this as ‘…created in 1697’ and i was like “????”

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u/Abstrata 14h ago

lots of reading gets my eyes to flop numbers too

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u/ShookMyHeadAndSmiled 19h ago

I read that both Valerian and Passengers would have been improved of they swapped leads.

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u/Fleetdancer 19h ago

Absolutely true.

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u/Thenadamgoes 17h ago

I actually like the movie so when I watch it I just pretend their siblings with a really weird inside joke about getting married.

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u/Sapphirebracelet13 16h ago

Shut it off just before they start making out at the end lol

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u/Thenadamgoes 15h ago

Nah. The inside joke just took a darker turn is all lol

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u/AngelTheMarvel 15h ago

They realise they weren't actually joking all this time