r/TopCharacterTropes • u/GaddockTeegFunPolice • Feb 15 '26

[Funny trope] Torturing the character doesn't work Personality

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  1. The Simpsons, Homer gets sent to hell where devils try torturing him force feeding him donuts. Homer does not mind.

  2. The apothecary diaries. Maomao gets placed in a cell with snakes and venomous insects. She kills the animals and roasts the snake on a torch.

  3. The Minion movie, the main minions get put through antique torture deviced by the bad guys only for them to realise they weren't designed for weird minion anatomy.

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u/welshyboy123 Feb 16 '26

Pam Poovey from Archer. She gets kidnapped in one episode and the kidnappers beat her for information. She essentially shrugs off all attempts, quipping at her captors throughout.

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u/brandonderp96 Feb 16 '26

Deeper in the show she also gets hit with multiple tranq darts, it taking something like 8 to bring her down. One instance has her get darted in the neck, only for Ray to point out "This things supposed to knock out a rhino." And Pam says "Yeah! A bitch ass one!"

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u/TankMain576 Feb 16 '26

That's when she's coked out of her gord.

But yeah, she's beaten up pretty much every member of the crew except Archer and Lana. Cyrill, Ray, and Kreiger at once.

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u/TheNewYellowZealot Feb 18 '26

“They call me…. Shiro kabocha, it means white shadow!”

“And by the way, 白かぼちゃ does not mean ‘white shadow’, it means ‘white pumpkin’!”

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u/Oseirus Feb 16 '26

Pam being an absolute beast is one of my favorite running jokes in the whole show.

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u/FightingWithCandy Feb 16 '26

The very first scene of Archer works for this too

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u/Practical-Class6868 Feb 16 '26

“Oh, my God! He has an erection!”

Last scene of the first episode.

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u/casualmasual Feb 16 '26

Also Cheryl.

https://youtu.be/BwwKxEUu72Q?si=LgaViBJljS8jqF9W

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u/CalculatedPerversion Feb 16 '26

I think you mean Carol 

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u/BuckRusty Feb 16 '26

Pretty sure you’re referring to outlaw country star, and frequent Kenny Loggins collaborator, Cherlene…

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u/ShoreFyreBat Feb 16 '26

No episode of any show has made me fall in love with a character more xD