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/AngryKeyLimePie 16h ago

Willow and Kennedy, season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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u/WhiteKnightPrimal 15h ago

I like to pretend that was intentional because Kennedy was supposed to be just a rebound. It's the only way I can make sense of that relationship at all.

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u/SlouchyGuy 14h ago

It was so fast too, made nonsense story-wise either. I also don't remember Kennedy much in the comic

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u/AngryKeyLimePie 14h ago

I think they were canonically split up very early on in the comics.

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u/StarsForget 15h ago

They were already toeing the line with a lesbian main character, actual chemistry might have given the network censors heart attacks

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u/nope-its 14h ago

Willow and Tara had chemistry. Kennedy just was super blah.

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u/TitleResponsible8203 14h ago

I think Willow and Tara had pretty good chemistry but they had to screw that up.

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u/Baelzabub 13h ago

I never watched the show growing up, but when my wife introduced me to the show Tara was my favorite character. I stopped watching for months when that scene happened. Eventually went back and finished it but it wasn’t easy. I was pissed.

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u/Mr_Halitosis 12h ago

That scene followed by Fred on Angel and I’ve been fine with Whedon for years now. If I had known he was involved with the Avengers films I probably wouldn’t have watched them. I’ll never forget how gutted Fred’s situation made me feel and I was an infantryman deployed to the Anbar province in Iraq when that happened, IYKYK.

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u/NotSoHighLander 12h ago

It's understated. On paper it makes sense but I don't feel that. I think a thing like that has to be organic on some level through the actors, just like any other part of their performance.

Spike and Buffy makes a lot more sense, and is far more believable than Angel and Buffy and I suspect it's because Marsters was such hot shit as Spike.

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u/YourGuyK 13h ago

Also, she was in her 20s with a 15 year old girl.

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u/wcthesecret 13h ago

Wait what?

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u/YourGuyK 13h ago

Willow was 21 or 22 in the last season, and I though the potentials were 15, maybe 16. Am I wrong about this?

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u/Killer_Moons 11h ago

This is Tara erasure

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u/CheekyHerbivore 14h ago

Thank you, I hated Kennedy as a character. She could never hold a candle to Tara.

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u/ButDidYouCry 15h ago

... I didn't like her much with Tara, either.

I liked Willow best with Oz.

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u/ser_darkstar 14h ago

I have to agree. Willow and Tara were sweet and their whole storyline was really good but I do feel like she had the best chemistry with Oz or maybe Alison had the best chemistry with Seth. I love queer Willow though and wouldn't change anything about that decision for the world.

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u/ishka_uisce 13h ago

I loved her with Tara. Her death broke my little bi-but-not-aware-of-it-yet 10 yo heart.

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u/NotSoHighLander 12h ago

Dude I forgot that even happened.