I 100% have double standards in animation. When a mainstream series that’s been focus-grouped to shit belabours a joke it’s whatever, but when an indie production with extremely limited screen time decides to burn two solid minutes doing a desperately unfunny bit that the creator clearly thinks is hilarious, no, please, go on.
It’s fascinating to me how every time a developer on a major franchise tries to introduce an overhyped rival-type character who turns out to be kind of nothing the moment he has to carry a title rather than lurking at the periphery, they always give him the same stupid backstory.
“I want to avenge myself upon the protagonist for a personal tragedy which I’ve decided is their fault, but since the writers can’t allow the hero’s image to be tarnished even by proxy it’s made textually clear that they were barely involved, so in practice I’ve inexplicably devoted my life to vengeance against someone who was just sort of there.”
OOOOOOOOH. So that’s why Mr. Ulysses McBear&Bull of New Vagas fame was just kinda… like that.
Maybe. It comes up so much that it can be genuinely hard to tell when it’s the classic “we wanted the villain to have a personal connection but marketing wouldn’t let us have the hero have done anything to actually warrant any sort of animosity” deal, when it’s just someone thoughtlessly replicating the trope even though they didn’t have to because they’ve seen it a thousand times, and when it’s being invoked on purpose to Make A Point.
It’s fascinating to me how every time a developer on a major franchise tries to introduce an overhyped rival-type character who turns out to be kind of nothing the moment he has to carry a title rather than lurking at the periphery, they always give him the same stupid backstory.
“I want to avenge myself upon the protagonist for a personal tragedy which I’ve decided is their fault, but since the writers can’t allow the hero’s image to be tarnished even by proxy it’s made textually clear that they were barely involved, so in practice I’ve inexplicably devoted my life to vengeance against someone who was just sort of there.”
Artists on this site will say they’re doing their part for small dick representation and then post a link to a drawing of a character with a statistically average size dick.
Artists on this site will say they’re doing their part for small dick representation and then post a link to a drawing of a character with a statistically average size dick.
It’s fascinating to me how every time a developer on a major franchise tries to introduce an overhyped rival-type character who turns out to be kind of nothing the moment he has to carry a title rather than lurking at the periphery, they always give him the same stupid backstory.
Today’s aesthetic: fictional characters whose whole deal is an allegory for the struggles faced by a real group that they’re actually part of.
It probably says something about this blog’s followership that half the people in the notes’ first thought was Madeline Celeste and not, like, a gay X-Man.
Today’s aesthetic: fictional characters whose whole deal is an allegory for the struggles faced by a real group that they’re actually part of.
It probably says something about this blog’s followership that half the people in the notes’ first thought was Madeline Celeste and not, like, a gay X-Man.
Basically, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are my litmus test for the minimum amount of ninja a fictional ninja can be before I start to feel mislead if you describe them as a ninja. If your ninjas are less ninja than the Ninja Turtles, promoting your media on the basis that it has ninjas in it is false advertising.
This is a really good test because, even excluding the turtle aspect, the TMNT are really good at ninja-ing. People rarely if ever see them, they use their tools and training to incapacitate or blind people who may see them, and they actually wear masks.
Basically, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are my litmus test for the minimum amount of ninja a fictional ninja can be before I start to feel misled if you describe them as a ninja. If your ninjas are less ninja than the Ninja Turtles, promoting your media on the basis that it has ninjas in it is false advertising.
As an atheist, the primary benefit of studying religions is – ironically – that it helps you stay grounded in reality. God may be fake, but religions as bodies of cultural practices are very real, and using the former as an excuse to refuse to learn about the latter means you’re at constant risk of making up a guy to get mad at.
The secondary benefit of studying religions is that Roman Catholic heresies are objectively hilarious.
Artists on this site will say they’re doing their part for small dick representation and then post a link to a drawing of a character with a statistically average size dick.
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