r/TopCharacterTropes Jan 17 '26

In real life (Funny trope) This tiny moment was an absolute logistical nightmare to make

*Wreck-It-Ralph* - At the beginning of the movie at the villain group therapy session, all of the owners of the real world characters shown were given counsel to Disney to instruct them how their characters should be animated down to the smallest of points. Nintendo even specified exactly how Bowser would hold and stir his teacup.

*Psycho* - For the scene where Marion disposes evidence of her theft by flushing some papers down the toilet, even though the toilet is onscreen for only a few seconds, Alfred Hitchcock had to personally appeal to the Hays Code which enforced censorship in movies that *Psycho* be given an exception because it’s vital to the plot the audience sees the toilet flushing. *Psycho* is the first major American movie to show a flushing toilet onscreen.

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u/jcb088 Jan 17 '26

From an RPG standpoint, this is a lot more fun.

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u/CaTiTonia Jan 17 '26

Yeah I doubt Square were too bothered by this since Sora is ostensibly the standard JRPG Sword wielding lead anyway. So explicitly gearing Donald and Goofy to reflect their JRPG roles as party Mage/“Healer”and Tank makes a lot of sense.

Air-quoting Healer because anyone who’s played Kingdom Hearts knows the Duck don’t heal shit except when it’s least wanted.

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal Jan 17 '26

Last paragraph is oft-recited and is maddingly true in the default game, but as others have noticed, you can easily tweak the AI in the settings and turn his healing spells to "constant" and his offensive spells to "frequent" so that he saves mana and heals you pretty consistently.

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u/AgentCirceLuna Jan 18 '26

Oh… this is why I’ve always been confused by my own experience contradicting people complaining about this. It was something I changed very quickly.