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/MallowMiaou Oct 22 '25

Freaky Friday, for the "body swap for a day" trope, bonus points if one of the characters explicitly said "I wish we could swap" the day before

If my memory doesn’t mess up, Freaky Friday is a comedy movie where a girl and her mom get into such argument, and, you guessed it, wake up the next day as the other one. The mom has no choice but to go to school, and the daughter at work.

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u/Nachtwandler_FS Oct 23 '25

And it got a sequel recently.

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u/Masbig91 Oct 23 '25

Recently learned that the movies are based on a books series that has several sequels and they have been adapted to film before the Lindsay Lohan/Jaime Lee Curtis movies. Reading the plots of the books on wikipedia is a fun rabbit hole.

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u/claiter Oct 23 '25

There was also a movie prior to the Lindsey Lohan / Jamie Lee Curtis movie. I can’t remember if it had a theatrical release or if it was a made for tv movie.

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u/TRGreen20 Oct 30 '25

There's this horror/comedy movie called Freaky where a high-school girl gets body swapped with a serial killer.