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Even if we forget JK Rowling's politics and lies and general toxicity, the biggest problem with how the wizarding world as a whole treats social issues is that while it may accept some injustice is bad on the individual level, it doesnt examine these things on the greater level because the franchise wants you to see the wizarding world as a magical and cool place.

A recurrent problem with all the issues in Harry potter is that when injustices happen the “good guys” are either okay with it or they don’t express any dislike beyond momentary and specific to this situation or individual.

The problem is not that Harry Potter has problematic institutions, Animal farm is about a totalitarian dictator, the problem is that the criticism of the institutions ends where JK thinks it conflicts with the image of this world as cool and awesome.

A good comparison would be Percy jackson and the olympians, outside of riordan already being much more progressive than rowling ever was, he is also honest that while there is a lot of cool stuff in the mythical world, it also sucks a lot and a great part of the franchise as a whole is making it better.

Harry himself is a good microcosm of this issue, he of all people knows the injustice of the ministry more than anyone, yet he wishes to become an auror, not to change the institution, just to fight dark wizards. Because of that JK can never have Harry acknowledge the ministry as fucked up in any way beyond “this person is a dick and i don’t like them” or “this specific situation is unjust”, doing so would need Harry to either change his priorities or be outed to the reader as the bootlicker he is. (Porpentina goldstein suffers a similar problem (of being a bootlicker), bitch is almost executed with no due process by her coworkers and just clocks in for work the next day)

We see this with the statute of secrecy as well. Most reasons (to not say excuses) for the statute fall apart when examined, and it causes a lot of suffering and abuse of power, but its part of the status quo so anyone who really has a problem with it is at best misguided and will be defeated by (stupid) facts and (faulty) logic.

Comic books (specifically the MCU) have a similar problem, they want to tackle topics such as mass deportation, fascism or war but can’t actually confront the systemic ideas behind those things unless they are incarnated in either an external or individual force (for example you can have a specific villain who wants to use terrorism as an excuse to perpetuate the military industrial complex but the military industrial complex itself can’t be the bad guys) and anyone who wants to do actual change or confrontation to specific systems (like the flagsmashers) needs to be an antagonist who is either defeated or shown the error of their ways.

The way Rowling writes it’s like hearing a fanatical cultist describe how they sadly had to burn 3 “heathens” to death, they may say it in a regretful way but they don’t really get that its fundamentally wrong. The disparity in understanding between the reader and the book can be put as “I understand this is wrong but i don’t think Rowling gets it, at least not for the right reasons”.

TL;DR: the wizarding world has a narrative necessity to be better than the muggle world, a place you should want to go to and be a part of, so the narrative is never allowed to question why Fred and George are allowed to sell date-rape drugs to kids.

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First i want to explain that i hate a way to deal with hax know as “conventional loot”, basically the characters just happen to have what they need with no explícit previous preparation (this is what most “creative” solutions end up being)

Like, oh no, our enemy can only be defeated by, i dont know, mud, thank god mud is conveniently acessible and the enemy took no preparations in case this happens

Second, this causes a worldbuilding problem, If there are fruits so powerful then anyone who knows what they are doing would be prepared 24/7 to a point it stops being fun, like If you have kizaru only being able to be defeated by mirrors then all the top tiers should have mirrors with them at all times

Third, people mention sea stone, the problem is that it doesnt fit with how many characters fight, like, is Luffy supposed to use sea stone blades now? (I know the answer would be gloves but my point still stands), what about characters who use Devil fruit abilities to fight?

Fourth, the “clever solutions” of the past are overrated as fuck, both the cases with crocodile and Enel were just finding a way for Luffy to punch his enemies

Fifth, this is not the type of story one piece is. One piece is closer to the Raw stats end of the evolution spectrum (explanation below), the expectation since the beginning is that a character who is a top tier will not just be one shot by someone who is really weak and simply gained a good enough fruit. It allows for top tiers to not need "meta" fruits and allows for non devil fruit users to be relevant after a certain point

(Basically you have raw stats in one end where characters evolve by getting stronger and application on the other end where characters evolve by gaining/discovery/developing new abilities. It’s a spectrum, dragon ball would be in the far of the raw stats end while JJBA would be in the application end (before anyone mentions star platinum and other occasions of raw sats in jjba, strength in jojo is treated as another tool, you don’t expect a character to get stronger via punching harder and faster) Jujutsu kaisen and hunterxhunter are in the very middle of the spectrum with one piece being in this middle closer to dragon ball)

In short Haki allows:

-characters to keep their fighting styles

-the worldbuilding and narrative to not sink in the specifics of each fruit

-oda to use the power elevation model he wants

Just to be clear i dont like a lot about how haki is used (conqueror’s is too op and clash piece is shit)

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1-Light only cares about himself

In the beginning Light shows some conscience but its not long until you need to be a moron to not understand light only cares about his domination as god

“Well, but if you ignore that and just think of light’s plan then he has a point”

2-Light power is useless to do actual good, the way light uses it is just as a petty tool of vengeance

Light doesnt go after evil people as they are doing their crimes, he cant attack a pedophile that hides his crimes

Most people light attacks are already convicted and since most of them are probably on the poorer side they will do their entire sentence and get out of jail to an awful life (if they get out at all), this is just excessive, petty and needlessly vengeful

Also false/wrongful convictions are a thing, even if Light only intentionally goes after bad people, many of his victims are innocent (specially in japan (because the justice system sucks) and eua (because racism))

Light is shown to be more than willing to kill people based on accusations, he kills criminals already in jail and do you really think he would be above killing people who already did their sentence? (Also imagine going to a person who did got a better life after jail and being like “yeah i think you should have just died”)

3-Kira has no plan to truly stop crime

Light kills criminals which are caught or at least identified but he has no plan or interest in stopping the social causes of criminality (this is a similar problem to the punisher)

There is also the fact Light has no desire to deal with bad people in the higher levels of society even though even me as a kid knew that if you want to fix society the people in the upper ranks are the first that have to go

Light has connections with police but in no moment he even considers killing corrupt cops or people in the military who are invading other countries, etc (at least in the netflix movie light kills a dictator)

Okay, no (explicit) crime but the causes of crime still exist

4-Light has no morals

Light doesnt care about a person’s actual morality he just cares they broke the law which makes them criminals which makes them his targets (this is also a similar problem to the punisher), Light has no care if the law itself or the people enforcing it are full of bullshit

While at first Light is only going after murderers and rapists, he literally expresses the desire of moving to lesser crimes when he ran out of those, fuck, i am pretty sure he actually does go after minor crimes, he kills a thief during the famous potato chip scene

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This is a sequel to this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/s/1at7WnMFR1

I did a post about how zootopia is not a bad metaphor since carnivores don’t eat animals since pre history

I am talking about people who say the alegory is bad, i got it literally the first time i watched but It seems a lot of people didnt

A bunch of people kept insisting prey were right to fear them but, no, just NO!!!!

Let me repeat this

Predators don’t eat meat since prehistory, they don’t even feel the urge to do that, the prey are completely unjustified to fear them because even the most dangerous predators are no more dangerous than their herbivore equivalents

When i say its a thing of the past i mean literal cavemen days when writing presumably was barely a thing, fuck, the recreation we see portrays the animals as normal non sentient ones, it shows no lasting effects on society (different from let’s say colonization and white supremacy which both have effects in our society to this day and many white people refuse to acknowledge how deep in society the root is)

Modern prey have no reason to fear modern predators because no natural predation has happened for presumably millenia, this is like if neanderthals existed side by side with us for millenia as equals but they still hated us because hunter-gatherer humans would fuck them up in the past

If you go by the standard the people who argue against me go then in the zootopia universe a lioness who has a kid should not remarry since lions kill the kids of other males when they join a pride and rabbits probably break and enter into the houses of bilbies a lot (rabbits are a plague in australia) and god forbid chimps were a thing in the zootopia universe

I am talking about people who say the alegory is bad, i got it literally the first time i watched but It seems a lot of people didnt

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People say the predator vs prey dynamic is badly written because predators are dangerous, except that no, they are not

They ate prey......in the stone age when society wasn't even a thing

The movie makes the point that at some point animals evolve and now everyone is just people

Also there is a lot of “prey” that is extremely dangerous, chief bogo is a buffalo but nick or that otter guy is supposed to be more dangerous than him on these people’s view

Also there is such a thing as facultative animals, facultative herbívores will eat meat if necessary or even if just available, many cases like sheep eating chicks are not even opportunistic, the sheep and deer went out of their way to get those chicks

(The history we see in the movie can be considered propaganda since it leaves out the part where the ancestors of many herbívore characters were packing numbers just as much if not more than predators)

There is the good old line “carnivores will only attack you if they think you are food or if you really look like a threat, herbívores will attack you like Spiderman attacked shocker if you so much as breathe too loud”

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To start, what is a tragic character?

I define a tragedy as “it didn't need to end this way”, is when in a story things could be better but they don’t by a mix of the cruel reality where the characters exist in/come from with said characters taking the worst decisions

The cruel world jax is from is his abusive mother and “probably” neglectful father and the cruel world he is in now is the circus

I don’t think i need to explain Jax keeps making the worst decisions

Things didn’t need to end this way

If only Jax’s parents didnt suck

If only Leeroy had not put on the headset

If only Jax could have accepted Ribbit’s support

If only Jax accepted the friendship of the rest of the group

If only he had opened up before it was too late

If only Pomni had went after him when he clearly was needing (yeah, i don’t swallow that)

Jax fundamentally speaking is not an evil person, he does bad things because he was hurt in a way that left him incapable of interacting with people in a healthy way, which caused him to neglect ribbit (and because apparently no one else cared for ribbit) and say things that hurt her and cause her to abstract, it was downhill from there, kaufmo abstraction was not on him but it probably contributed to his mind get even more fucked up

Forgetting the ‘one episode for each character” thing, episode 6 is when everyone’s arcs kinda finish (with a complement on the start of episode 8), everyone’s problems are “solved” by finding support in others, the thematic question of the show is “how do you find meaning in a meaningless life?” everyone finds the answer to that on episode 6

Everyone….except for Jax.

The plot is extremely sound if you see the first half as the rest of the cast finding help in each other and the second is why Jax not doing it is a bad idea

It also helps that jax has the conflicts of all other characters in himself

Abusive mother like ragatha (ironically i think he saw his mother on ragatha to some extent)

Masking like gangle

Not comfortable with himself like zooble

Has a relationship that abstracted like kinger (and the general belief most people, me included, had is that queenie’s abstraction was kinger’s fault)

Problems with connections like caine

Jax being the focus at the end makes sense since he is basically the final boss of bad mental health, he is special because he is both the most fucked person around and the only one that is not “simple” to solve

Everyone else wants help but struggles, Jax needs help and may even want it deep down but he rejects it because he hates being vulnerable and because he hates himself and doesnt think he deserves it (he doesnt)

I agree the show is kinda rushed though, its criminal so many interactions happen offscreen

*The obligatory Jax morality and hate section*

Jax is bad dont get me wrong, but the way his haters hate on him would make you think he is pure evil

Jax usual deal is bullying the other members of the cast through comedic slapstick and pushing gangle around

The most extreme stuff we saw Jax do is ignoring ribbit (this will go into something below) and throwing ragatha into the deep frier

About Ribbit, yeah, that was awful, definitely the worst thing he ever did, but, other than the problem i am going to say later, there is the fact that that was a an emotional doing by someone who presumably never experienced abstraction before, while Jax deserves the hypothetical beating Ribbit would give him if she came back, i don’t think it makes him the super evil bad guy everyone is treating him as and he probably would not receive as much hate if she had survived, also we see he feels awful for that

On kaufmo, not Jax fault (for everything we know is more caine’s fault and everyone else failed him just as much), next

On gangle, yeah that’s bad, we dont know how much Jax had of influence on her mindset but he definitely had some effect, though most of the stuff he does is very standard bullying that only becomes as bad as it is because of the problem

On the deep fryer (and pain in the circus), its complicated, we know the characters feel pain, we even know things can be really painful but we dont really have that much reference, ragatha could be on a lot of pain in the deep fryer but it also could be “standart” drowning with some sting to it (same applies to all other stuff Jax did (pipe bomb, Volcano, etc), we dont know how much It actually hurts, i would put it as “normal bullying”)

His outburst on ep 6 was him trying to push pomni away, there is even a moment where he regrets what he says and tried to mask it as a joke

The button was a purely emotional action done almost on instinct during a “realistic portrayal of a panic attack” (remember when that was a meme?)

After that Jax mellows out a lot

The stuff in his mind is basically his intrusive thoughts, different ways he thinks he will get worse if someone else abstracted and the episode frames it in a way where its clear even Jax thinks that sucks

People also say Jax is a misoginist for some reason, i never understood why

Now….the problem:

Basically, gangle aside, the rest of the cast is too nice to justify Jax getting away with so much, like how did Ribbit abstracted when Ragatha is around? Or how we dont even know who (or if) took Ragatha out of the fryer, i just dont feel very bad for Ragatha and zooble because it doesnt feel they actually are doing as much to stop Jax (i feel bad for gangle because her whole character is being a depressed noodle and she is Jax main victim) but we only see Ragatha doing as much as lift her voice in Jax’s most inoffensive moments (beginning of EP 4 when he did that by accident and when he was just talking to pomni on ep 5) kinda makes her look like a dirty coward

Its funny that out of the 3 moments where Jax is punished on screen, 2 of them came from gangle of all people (Very funny stuff in my opinion EP 4 is my second favorite because of the clockwork orange scene)

I agree Jax sucks (and i think moments where he is punished are often funny as fuck) but the level of hate he gets and the amount of people basically begging for his abstraction and being happy when it happened feels way too overkill and even kinda bizarre if you get what i mean.

"People love character redemption arcs but when a character is actually a bad person then they will clamor for their death and be happy if it happens"

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To summarize everyone probably saw the “specials vs poo people comic” the critic the comic is doing is when stories introduce a divide between magical and normal people, present the protagonist as a normal person that can do important things but then is revealed to be special

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I have a critic that is related but different, my issue is when narratively speaking only the magical people have importance and nuance to them while the normal people are bareilly characters and are only important to be one dimensional antagonists or comic relief

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A story that does this is Harry potter, like, prejudice against muggles is bad but also the narrative clearly favors the wizard side of the conflict much more, muggles rarely are characters and when they are they are usually abusive to explain why a character sucks or nothing more than wandering jokes (the joke usually being their suffering) (Jacob is the only one that doesnt fit this and he still is a mostly comedic character that is just newt’s tag along)

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Even the term “muggle” is basically an insult (on brazil they straight up translated with “fools”) and is used as that by bad and good characters alike as well as by the author and the fandom

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It gets worse because Rowling seems insistent in making this more eugenics based than it already was, from weird wording (saying dudley is not a wizard because of vernom’s blood) to being just short of explicitly saying muggleborn are the “magic gene” resurfacing after generations instead of a random phenomena

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So basically

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1-the story is anti eugenics but also…

2-...only the wizard characters have narrative care or importance

3-magic is just short of being explicitly completely based on bloodline

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Twilight does this as well, pretty much anyone who isnt a vampire or a werewolf just kinda sucks and Bella being a judgemental bitch is never confronted

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The riordanverse at least has some important mortal characters and you don’t get the feeling Rick has the necessity to make tricks on the divine side’s cock while having a hate boner for the mortal side (the fact the sides are not in conflict helps this a lot)

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Mob psycho 100 while having a lot of plot involving psychics does the message much better than harry potter and has Reigen as an important character that accomplishes things alongside many other characters from Mob supporting cast (you could never have the body improvement club in a wizarding world story and the idea that mob would want to improve in non magical elements would be treated as a joke)

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Atla just has benders and non benders coexisting

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You don’t need to have all important character spots be filled with normal people, the problem is when the author seems to have a hate boner for the normal elements of the universe while doing tricks on the cock of the magical elements

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Like:

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Normal people: suck and have little to no agency or depth

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Magical people:

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-are prettier

-live longer

-their food is better

-our technology is child’s play compared to their stuff

-their men have dicks just the right size for all occasions

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(Basically: in MOB or atla superpowers are just another thing someone can have meanwhile in Harry Potter or Twilight have powers gives you a package that makes you better in all the way the narrative cares about)

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Some x-men media kinda has this problem but with the opposite result, basically with the conflict between the x-men and the brotherhood of mutants makes much less sense when every non-mutant is racist and even when things get better this peace is more fragile than glass and one mutant doing something bad (even if by accident) gets the sentinels on the x-men doorstep

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I am going to address this in parts

1-live action

Animation is just more convenient and cheaper than live action

2-movie

Basically this causes the universe to be 3 things

1-rushed, 2-slow, 3-limited

Rushed because we need to condense decades of events, characterization and lore in movies of at most 2 hours with a beginning middle and end each

Slow because we take years to get into some vital and interesting parts of the universe we could have already been at if this was a franchise of tv shows or something of the same nature (iron heart came, i think, last year, we only now getting mephisto and he is in disguise)

Limited because we only have 1 story with a specific superhero as the focus every few years, this becomes worse with how interconnected these movies are (the last time doctor strange faced an actual doctor strange villain was in his first movie 10 years ago)

Something that contributes and is caused by it is the surf dracula problem

Basically:

“If you have a tv show named surf dracula in the past we would have dracula be a surfer from the beginning (at most an origin two parter) and pass the season seeing him go against other monsters in surf competition, nowadays it would take to episode 3 for him to even be a vampire, he would only get his official surf board at the end of the season and we would have like, 3 monsters who would pass the entire season in their origin stories”

I think they should do what anime do, the movies are either not canon or extensions of the show that get adapted into it after cinemas

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Some time ago, the youtuber kitty monk launched a steven universe video about the ruby squad. She basically argued that the rubies were innocent and just doing their jobs and that steven was such a meanie for not saving active enemies and the person who tried to fucking kill him.

Her arguments were:

\-the nuremberg argument: basically that they were just doing their jobs and whatever, we have been talking about why this argument is absolute bullshit since the actual nuremberg trials, and she doesn’t even do it properly, she tried to equate with a random mailman making a delivery that just so happens to be bad. Quick thing though: the rubies are active soldiers of the evil empire coming with the goal of retrieving a soldier for the evil empire.

\-the peridot argument: basically that steven should have gave them a chance because his thing is supposedly helping redeem people, thing is, this is not hypocrisy because steven just had no opportunity to actually talk to them in a peaceful scenario (he actually tries when he thinks navy wants to change) and second, when you take context into account, steven doesnt really own these gems anything, like cluster aside, he would be in his right to just leave peridot in the bubble, is nice that he didnt but he wasnt really obligated to do that.

About the gems leaving them in space: see what i wrote above, also the rubies put themselves in that situation by trying to murder steven when he was trying to deescalate the situation, also also the last interaction steven had with one of them the bitch tried to genuinely butcher him.

For a comparative to the situation so the context enters in the head:

A group of native americans is living after getting rid of a british soldier so strong it required the entire group and luck to defeat, some time later some british active soldiers working in the name of the crown (the same crown who wishes to colonize the americas) appears to retrieve the asshole, the natives can’t fight them so they trick them into going buttfuck nowhere and the soldiers are so stupid they accept, the natives are in the right, correct? Yeah, i think we all agree on this.

Sometime later the soldiers have the gall to show their cunt faces again and the natives trick them again, again not even an inch of the soldiers was harmed even though force on part of the natives is 100% justified, the soldiers discover they were tricked and are first to take aggressive action against the natives who fight in their own defense and by accident the soldiers and a native child end in the sea with the native child stuck in a boat with the leader of the soldier squad who tries to murder him even though he was peaceful the whole time. Do the natives own salvation/mercy to the fucking colonizer cunts? I think we all agree they don’t.

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It’s a critique of stalinism but communism is generally represented as a good thing

The book starts with the animals being oppressed by farmer jones, the animals toil and die to generate resources they don’t get to control or enjoy. The chickens have no say in how jones takes their eggs, cows have their milk taken without consent, Boxer toils in the field, cattle is killed to make meat.

The animals (proletariat) are exploited for the benefit of the humans (bourgeoisie).

One day the animals have enough of it and hunt his ass away, after that they start establishing a society, among other rules meant to differentiate them from their oppressors, the most important rule was declared “all animals are equal”

After that things went well, some problems of course but they were figuring out. that is, until Napoleon (the representation of stalin) happened, he got a cult following, disappeared Snowball and started changing things for the worse.

On a deeper level Animal farm is about how corrupt individuals will use the genuine wishes and needs of positive movements to radicalize said movements into systems of oppression even against the people the movement was supposed to elevate in the first place.

Also Orwell was a democratic socialist who fought authoritarianism from both right and left sides.

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My opinion on Jax (and admitting bias)

Since the pilot he is my favorite, the second my eyes focused on him i was “yeah, this is my guy”, i relate to some of his more sarcastic moments and i want him to survive to the end (though i do acknowledge the chance is low (i am not jarujaruj))

Who Jax is as a person

Jax is a loser, he is heavily traumatized by the losses he had and copes with it by distancing himself from reality and assigning himself and others archetypes and acting in accordance, he’s archetype being “the funny one” basically a mix of Bugs bunny with a little more sadism. When Jax is confronted with reality he reacts with deflection and tries to go back into his archetype. Jax is not a sadist, he hurts people as part of his bit but his enjoyment comes from being a troll and fucking with the other players, when jax is too depressed or busy to engage into his usual fuckery and locks the fuck in he can be useful and helpful. He presents himself as a tough guy but his bedroom is all pink and cute and he has the photos of his dead friends by his bed

How the rest of the cast sees him

Most justifiably hate or fear him but for obvious reasons they don’t want him to fucking abstract and would be willing to hang out with him if he stopped fucking around

Pomni saw the best side of Jax (i assume gangle and ragatha also did before ribbit’s abstraction) and saw through his bullshit at the end of ep6 so obviously she is trying to reach out

Kinger probably doesnt really know who Jax is

What abstraction fucking is

It’s a fate worse than death, its your mind stuck in a state of basically brain death, you have no rational thoughts and is just stuck there, existing, stuck in that fucking cellar forever….also is a representation of suicide (the bad thing that happens when people who are struggling give up).

People’s stupid reaction to Jax after episode 2

Did you fools thought Jax would just fall and cry on episode fucking 2, there were people saying he was a psychopath or that he was going to the villain or something.

People have always exaggerated how bad Jax really is

Don’t get me wrong, he’s bad, but people were theorizing jax was a murderer, that he made (or was going to make) someone abstract, to this day there are people who think he ran over someone, there are people who see him as a pure evil monster, etc

Does Jax deserves to abstract?

No, no one deserves, Caine was worse than Jax and he didnt deserved to be deleted (for quick explanation, Caine had (at least) 13 abstracted in his hands and seemed to show no sadness, remorse or want to solve the problem, any time he brings abstraction up he treats it as a failing on the players part)

People actively want Jax to die

As i said Jax doesnt deserve to abstract (no one does) but the way people talk about the rabbit you think he crawled out of the screen and ran over their dog, people act like the only good ending is one where Jax dies and anything else is bad writing

How Jax could become better?

Simple, his barriers all fell by now, just don’t be a cunt anymore

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Media that features villains as the main protagonists/faction (specially when they try to make the clear villains into nobledark heroes for i guess marketing reasons) have their fanbases composed of 4 types of people. I will be referencing 40K (as a aos fan i refuse to refer to 40k as warhammer, its not the only setting and i hate it ofuscates both fantasy and aos)

1-the normal person

-Normal dude

-Enjoys their favorite faction a normal amount but acknowledges that everyone is a villain (to different degrees but still)

-Probably has reasonable and progressive politics (not racist, homophobic, etc)

-Has no problem with a more inclusive franchise

2-the larper (i loathe these guys)

-imperium fans 99% of the time

-has no other joke than to roleplay an imperium fanatic

-can’t just stay in their niche, will make their repetitive and stupid comments on anything that even slightly features aliens

-it stopped being funny the third time i saw a “xeno scum” comment in an avatar post

-overlap with faction truthers to the point it’s almost a circle

-can’t separate other franchises from 40K)

3-faction truthers

-imperium fans 99% of the time

-for some god forsaken reason believe their favorite faction is the de facto good guys

-”there are no heroes” they say when confronted, they don’t believe that

-will latch onto any evidence no matter how flimsy to justify how their faction is good and other are evil, a single vague line on the forgotten anus of a codex from 3 editions ago clearly written from a biased perspective is evidence for them, fuck, lack of evidence is evidence for these fuckers

4-the unironic space king fan (okay, the shade to space king is not that fair (i say this as a space king fan who quotes the show and can’t wait for ep 5), but you will get my point)

-again, imperium fans 99.9% of the time

-genuinely racist, homophobic, sexist chud

-probably frequents 4chan

-unironically believes “humanity first”, replace humanity with white/american people and you get what they believe

-if we discovered a peaceful alien species you know they would be xenophobic

-the genocidal nature of the imperium is neither a villainous cool thing (in the sense villains can be cool) or something to be ignored/reduced to justify how their faction is awesome, for this type of people the genocidal nature of the imperium is a pleasure to unironically enjoy as is reflective of their worldview

-cries in a fetal position when he remembers female custodes are a thing

About faction enjoyment:

Liking villainous characters and factions inst the problem, the problem is when:

-you make that your whole fucking personality

-you bend over backwards to justify why they are the good guys actually

-you genuinely believe they are right and wants to apply their philosophy

The problem with gatekeeping:

People focus too much in gatekeeping the fandom against the hypothetical “woke mob” (which is bareilly a thing and mostly corporations doing progressive stuff in a stupid way) when we should be gatekeeping against types 2-4 (specially 4)

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Some time ago, the youtuber kitty monk launched a steven universe video about the ruby squad. She basically argued that the rubies were innocent and just doing their jobs and that steven was such a meanie for not saving active enemies and the person who tried to fucking kill him.

Her arguments were:

-the nuremberg argument: basically that they were just doing their jobs and whatever, we have been talking about why this argument is absolute bullshit since the actual nuremberg trials, and she doesn’t even do it properly, she tried to equate with a random mailman making a delivery that just so happens to be bad. Quick thing though: the rubies are active soldiers of the evil empire coming with the goal of retrieving a soldier for the evil empire.

-the peridot argument: basically that steven should have gave them a chance because his thing is supposedly helping redeem people, thing is, this is not hypocrisy because steven just had no opportunity to actually talk to them in a peaceful scenario (he actually tries when he thinks navy wants to change) and second, when you take context into account, steven doesnt really own these gems anything, like cluster aside, he would be in his right to just leave peridot in the bubble, is nice that he didnt but he wasnt really obligated to do that.

About the gems leaving them in space: see what i wrote above, also the rubies put themselves in that situation by trying to murder steven when he was trying to deescalate the situation, also also the last interaction steven had with one of them the bitch tried to genuinely butcher him.

For a comparative to the situation so the context enters in the head:

A group of native americans is living after getting rid of a british soldier so strong it required the entire group and luck to defeat, some time later some british active soldiers working in the name of the crown (the same crown who wishes to colonize the americas) appears to retrieve the asshole, the natives can’t fight them so they trick them into going buttfuck nowhere and the soldiers are so stupid they accept, the natives are in the right, correct? Yeah, i think we all agree on this.

Sometime later the soldiers have the gall to show their cunt faces again and the natives trick them again, again not even an inch of the soldiers was harmed even though force on part of the natives is 100% justified, the soldiers discover they were tricked and are first to take aggressive action against the natives who fight in their own defense and by accident the soldiers and a native child end in the sea with the native child stuck in a boat with the leader of the soldier squad who tries to murder him even though he was peaceful the whole time. Do the natives own salvation/mercy to the fucking colonizer cunts? I think we all agree they don’t.

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Basically the movie features a conspiracy of a cabal of evil lemon cars that control the oil industry and want to murder a bunch of people to make ecological stuff seem bad.

The thing is, lemons are basically the disabled people of the cars world. If you think that is a stretch, remember that everything in the cars world is an automobile version of the real world to the point the setting is nonsensical sometimes.

Lemons are cars (so people) who are either born or become more fragile/less capable than the average person and because of that heavily depend on the compassion of their fellow cars to have access to things such as healthcare or even basic mobility which is often denied to (or extorted out of) them while also having to deal with insults and mockery. So disabled people.

So the villains are a cabal of evil disabled people who are (justifiably) pissed off their healthcare is getting inaccessible so they use their control over corporations to kill people.

This sounds like a right wing conspiracy, i can see Joe rogan talking about that after going on a rant about trans people the third time this week.

Do i think that’s intentional? …………..no………but is crazy no one in the writer’s room brought that up apparently.

This trope of “evil disables that do evil because of envy or revenge, usually involving destroying or stealing our capabilities” is sickening for me.