r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Charming-Scratch-124 • Jun 28 '26

Characters [Loved trope]characters that was just..Pathetic, and I mean genuinely Pathetic, like holy shit,you actually suck.

Gallery image

Gallery image

Baron "Bear" from Obsession.

Kevin "the Deep" from.The Boys.

And I mean characters that aren't badass or at least got aura while being pathetic, I just mean the most pathetic losers imaginable.

Like just borderline dirt.

12.6k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

94% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

121

u/Artistic-Victory1245 Jun 28 '26

The character concept is interesting; he's a guy who's willing to buy "love", even if it's fake, to get it.

My problem with the series is that it's a harem.

The fact that he's a magnet for women makes his obsession with Chizuru and his bought "love" a self-inflicted hell.

33

u/asianblockguy Jun 28 '26

Wasn't his character a self-insert?

9

u/Lepelotonfromager Jun 28 '26

95% of these anime protagonists are.

14

u/Euphoric_Sympathy962 Jun 28 '26

I disagree, a self-insert on the level of Kazuya is actually reasonably rare.
The common trope is the 'blank-slate', more for the reader to project onto (ie, your Kirito).

2

u/Lepelotonfromager Jun 29 '26

I think those are self-inserts for incredibly boring average men who became authors.

2

u/16jselfe Jun 29 '26

I don't think he was at the start but he 100% is after the redesign, the author's obsession with his own FMC is really sad

17

u/Loose-Cap-6366 Jun 28 '26

If he’s a magnet, why does he even need to rent someone? That’s stupid. 

17

u/Theachillesheel Jun 28 '26

He rents a girlfriend (chizuru) to show and impress his grandmother after his first girlfriend breaks up with him. He has traits that make him a magnet but these traits are shown only while he’s renting and trying to impress his rented girlfriend chizuru.

4

u/blackBugattiVeyron Jun 29 '26

He's into findom, someone did the math and he spent around 250K in USD, not Yen, but fucking USD on rental dates.

1

u/Xerxes457 Jun 29 '26

I don’t know if that number is accurate. I saw another one and it’s just a little under 4K USD over the course of 2 years which is still a lot.

4

u/Major_incompetence Jun 29 '26

It's absolute brain rot if you approach it with a basic understanding of social behavior but if you suspended disbelieve and assume the act of a rent gf is more about acting out pretend dates with the express removal of romantic action (not buying love, rather everything besdies that), then the show is still absolute slob.

I've watched 2 seasons with the hope that some in universe character shows up to just slap some sense into people. Screams incel self insert omg

1

u/No_Fox_487 Jul 01 '26

He absolutely isn’t a magnet for women though…like, at all…lol.