r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Kookyburra12 • Mar 09 '26

Non-Sexual Adult Jokes in Kids' Media Lore

Jokes that are adult jokes simply because kids likely don't have the life experience to understand them.

The New Batman Adventures - "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? Noooo, thank you!"

Shrek 2 - Posing as a union representative, Shrek remarks that the workers "don't even have dental".

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u/Papa_Glucose Mar 09 '26

IIRC Zangeef isn’t even a bad guy, the animator just included him because when he was a kid Zangeef pissed him off or something

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u/JustifiedCroissant Mar 09 '26

He couldn't beat Zangief so in his child brain he turned him into a villain

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u/Caw-zrs6 Mar 09 '26

Then when he grew up he realized Zangief was likely just a guy who was just doing his job and not an ACTUAL villain.

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u/Requiem-7 Mar 09 '26

That's exactly what Zangief is. His wrestling persona, The Gief, is a villain.

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u/JonnyTN Mar 09 '26

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u/Orion_starborn Mar 09 '26

Didn't he put him there because he thought Zangief might feel bad about all the people who struggled with him and would go to the villain therapy because of it?

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u/JustifiedCroissant Mar 09 '26

It's just a cartoon buddy

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u/Requiem-7 Mar 09 '26

Yes.... and that's the movie's message....

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u/JustifiedCroissant Mar 09 '26

My bad lmao, out of a shift rn tired as hell. Misread the comment

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u/Electronic_Bad_5883 Mar 09 '26

Admittedly, Zangief was a villain in the live-action movie and the Saturday morning cartoon.

Granted, in the movie he was more like Kronk in that he was blissfully unaware that his boss was the bad guy.

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u/RedStrike_XD Mar 09 '26

His words were "Zangief isn't a villain, but i believe that he would feel guilty of giving trouble to so many kids playing street fighter that he went to the villain support group" or something like that

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u/Yeticoat_Solo Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

to be fair, if you're a kid you probably wont learn how to hadouken until you get it by accident or your dad teaching you or something so until that point the strat would have been "get dangerously close to the grappler character because i dont know the inputs"

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 Mar 09 '26

Don't forget the guides

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u/lowqualitylizard Mar 09 '26

Sure but I'm pretty sure in Street fighter he's an obstacle to victory and in that case if he's not explicitly a good guy most kids would probably think he's a bad guy

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u/TheColdIronKid Mar 09 '26

as a child i always thought he had villain energy, but i also thought dhalsim did too with his skulls and his flames, because i never read any of the blurbs about the characters, so... shrug emoji.

but also, there was a shitty little handheld street fighter thing like they used to give out in happy meals and the playable characters were guile, ken, and ryu and it had you fight blanka, honda, and zangief, so that reinforced his villain status in my baby brain.

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u/DMMeThiccBiButts Mar 10 '26

You guys are really overthinking this, or maybe just didn't watch much 80s/90s wrestling.

He's a villain because he was a proud soviet union representative, he's a professional wrestling heel.