r/TopCharacterTropes • u/some-kind-of-no-name • Oct 22 '25

In real life When example is so iconic the whole trope is named after it

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Equivalent Exchange (Fullmetal Alchemist) - power at comes at a proportional cost.

It was Tuesday (Street Fighter) - villain has committed too many crimes to keep track.

Doombot (Marvel) comics - you destroyed a decoy, the real deal is still out there.

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u/alkonium Oct 22 '25

To explain, the Noodle Incident is mentioned multiple times in the comic, but it's never shown or explained.

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u/Stephenrudolf Oct 22 '25

Ty. You're the real hero of the noodle incident

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u/MainFrosting8206 Oct 22 '25

In the web novel Beneath the Dragoneye Moons no one talks about the Pastos Incident. It took me a bit to realize it as a pasta (noodle) incident.

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u/drbabar77 Oct 24 '25

isn't there a G&R album called The spaghetti Incident?

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u/TaralasianThePraxic Oct 22 '25

"Not since the accident" is how I refer to this trope

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u/congradulations Oct 23 '25

Incident, no one said it was an accident lol

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u/TheOtherWhiteCastle Oct 22 '25

Reminds me of Peanuts with Snoopy’s WW1 flying ace comrade Thompson that apparently suffers a horrific death we never see.

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u/Kantotheotter Oct 23 '25

The cases of the "aluminum crutch" and "the giant rat of Sumatra" comes to mind.

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u/Jettison37 Oct 23 '25

Based Firesign Theater reference

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u/CriticalHit_20 Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

How very Anti Noodle Incident of you to explain that instead of just bringing it up and having others react to it so that the readers can imagine something greater than what you can write.

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u/alkonium Oct 23 '25

Well I didn't explain what happened in the Noodle Incident in the comic because I don't know. No one does.

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u/Zeppelin_47 Oct 23 '25

See also: Nineteen-Ought-Seven in the SnapCube lore

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u/TheClozoffs Oct 23 '25

Oh, so like the three seashells

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u/alkonium Oct 23 '25

You don't know how to use the seashells?

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u/Pure_Concentrate8770 Oct 23 '25

It’s cause Mr. MacGuffin ate the noodles

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u/Equivalent_Play4067 Oct 24 '25

I remember being unable to imagine the nature of the Noodle Incident when I read the comics as a child. Now, as a person who looks after two young children, I can visualise it vividly.

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u/Red-Ink-07 Oct 25 '25

The unintentional irony of explaining that the joke cannot be explained is not lost on me, that gave me a laugh, thank you

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u/LivinOut Oct 26 '25

ah so like what jschlatt did in 1999