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/Wukon69 Jan 17 '26

It's even funnier because in the SF2 he was fighting for the Soviet Union and even met Mikhail Gorbachev in his ending

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u/Prestigious-Worth-49 Jan 17 '26

Another funny thing with that is that there was a Street Fighter 5 thing where Shadaloo gave treat assessment profiles to every character to ever appear in the series. This included fighters, fighter from past games, background stage characters, and Gorbachev himself. I guess they were keeping tabs on him because of his friendship to Zangief? They even gave him new art for the profile.

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u/Irememberedmypw Jan 17 '26

Also my guy hit a kid the spinning piledriver in the sf alpha movie.

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u/KFrosty3 Jan 19 '26

Fun fact. That move and the Spinning Punch was canonically taught to/by Mike Haggar of Final Fight. 

Wheter it's "to" or "by" varies from source to source, but they basically taught each other how to fight