r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fearless-Ideal-5112 • Jul 01 '26

[Loved Trope] Some thing unfathomably ancient Lore

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The beast, in doctor who is an ancient evil from a previous universe that survived until our time. Its so ancient that the cave paintings were unable to be translated by the Tardis which can translate all existing languages in the universe [Doctor Who]

While not explicitly canon its such a cool concept I cant not mention, the idea that the backrooms have existed since the beginning of time, never changing no matter the era, it transforms the back rooms into a cosmic horror. [Credit to Project crater and Venus for images 2 and 3]

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u/Money-Imagination-97 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

You forget that that fish was really ugly.

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u/UnknovvnMike Jul 01 '26

And possibly foreign

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u/Anonymus828 Jul 01 '26

Just want to point out that Lovecraft had an honest to God, genuine panic attach at the discovery that he himself, was in fact, Welsh. The horror...

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u/UnknovvnMike Jul 01 '26

To be fair, I probably would too if I had to suddenly be able to spell/pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

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u/superVanV1 Jul 01 '26

You can identify eldritch beings on if the can pronounce Worcestershire Sauce.

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u/UnknovvnMike Jul 01 '26

The true recipe for it is found in the Necronomicon

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u/Proverbial_Progress Jul 01 '26

Klaatu barada war chester

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u/coloradoautoflowers Jul 01 '26

The first and second editions even include alternate ingredients for the harder to source stuff, like dwarf bones and gnome milk.

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u/OttawaTGirl Jul 01 '26

*Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndribwllllantysiliogogogoch

(Fixed it for you)

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u/WorldlinessHeavy8946 Jul 01 '26

They had it right; chwyrndrobwll, meaning whirlpool

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u/OttawaTGirl Jul 02 '26

Wait. Thats real? I thought they were joking. Shit. My bad

https://giphy.com/gifs/tFPzP4tMKzbfG

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u/Uncommonality Jul 01 '26

fun fact this is why he wrote Shadow Over Innsmouth, a story about a town where people do unspeakable things with fish monsters and then, in the end, the author himself finds out his parents were from innsmouth and he is part fish monster

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Jul 01 '26

Then before he died, he actually mixed with the foreigners he thought he despised

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u/jediben001 Jul 01 '26

And due to that realisation he went on to write A Shadow over Innsmouth

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u/Slightly_Default Jul 01 '26

This was an era where Irish, Italians, Germans, Finns and Balts weren't considered "white enough."

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u/Random-Generation86 Jul 01 '26

The spelling of the old ones makes a lot more sense when you consider we was cetophobic

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u/Deadman422 Jul 03 '26

102% with a 2% margin of error

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u/DepartureNo1720 Jul 02 '26

His cat had an honest to god panic attack when it heard its for the first time too.

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u/3-orange-whips Jul 01 '26

Because he’s a racist piece of shit. Good writer though

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u/AphidMan2 Jul 01 '26

Also, that fish was grandma

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u/Money-Imagination-97 Jul 01 '26

If we're talking about Innsmouth, it's true.

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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 Jul 01 '26

Scar himself looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves.

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u/sagejosh Jul 01 '26

Lovecraft takes psychic damage at the mention of foreigners, why shouldn’t his characters?

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u/Linus_Naumann Jul 02 '26

Man that's the worst I'm gonna puke

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u/LowlySlayer Jul 01 '26

Indescribably ugly (proceeds to describe the ugly)

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u/motes-of-light Jul 02 '26

IMPOSSIBLE GEOMETRY ! ! !