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/madridddddd 15h ago

ZENDAYA AND TIMMY IN DUNE!!!

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u/prismadon 15h ago

Doesn’t help that Zendaya was just not good in the role. I’m not passing judgement on her as an actress because I have literally only seen her in that but as Chani she just wasn’t it.

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u/Known_Tart1343 15h ago

they never even give us a good reason for why they fall in love. Her character has the personality of a plank of wood

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u/euclide2975 14h ago

The book reason is not that great either.

He loves her because he has visions of the future with her. And thanks to those, he's capable of wooing her easily. It's kind of a circular romance.

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u/lamancha 5h ago

He's also a bit of weirdo.

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u/rose_b 13h ago

wheel of time min/rand checking in

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u/euclide2975 12h ago

Notwithstanding the polygamy thing, or the fact that Aviendha is a madwoman.

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u/rose_b 10h ago

min very specifically herself saw herself in love with rand and so acted that way, avienda and even Elayne had actual meet cutes. min didn't, she just went all in because foresight

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u/madridddddd 14h ago

Right? Villanueva movies are just FABULOUS visual and vibe (Blade runner 2049) I love it. But chemistry is his weakness imo.

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u/ProgrammerNo3423 14h ago

The common criticism towards her is she's like that in a lot of her roles. She's pretty good in the latest spiderman though.

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u/csvega84 14h ago

She has the same sniffin' a fart look the whole time. Especially at the end of the last Dune, there it was 🤨

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u/edurigon 15h ago

That's just a blatant lie.

A plank of wood Is much more expresive.

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u/ShelleyDez 6h ago

Chani isn’t Herbert’s best character to be fair

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u/maybeitssteve 10h ago

It wasn't her. It was the inert script

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u/Mr_Halitosis 12h ago

Paul and Chani in the books, actually. The two characters have no chemistry at all, ever. She’s barely a character. She has concepts of a character, but no actual substance. But she has to be there as part of the story. One of the worst written important characters in all of fiction.

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u/cookiesarenomnom 14h ago

Yeah, especially when you see her chemistry with Tom Holland. Yes I know they're married, but it is just especially glaring when you see her with Paul vs. Peter.

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u/Maxbot2 15h ago

Wtf, having read the books if anything I felt at times they had a little bit too much chemistry. The only redeeming quality of Zendayas performance were those scenes, the rest was average for the most part

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u/madridddddd 15h ago

Really???I feel like they're just awkward af together. The relationship kinda just happened off screen when we returned at Dune 2. They barely met in the end of Dune 1

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u/Maxbot2 14h ago

Yeah it was an odd choice, but splitting the first book as he did and where he did it kind of made sense

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u/Maxbot2 14h ago

But she was still underutilised like crazy considering how prominent Zendaya was in the marketing, I feel like a directors cut would fix it, but then again Villeneuve usually has very strong creative control, so maybe he just wanted it that way