@tunechistark if don't count him destroying the toys, sid bullys his sister ,destroying arcade machines in pizza planet ,illegal usage of fireworks near a dog (the army man scene),knows of hookers underage... ,he also might be theif since looks like stole a road block in this storybook pc game
He's demonstrably wrong about the depiction because he fundamentally misunderstands Frieren.
The demons do NOT "clearly have an understanding of morality" and is exactly why they're evil. They act explicitly in self-interest and any perceived 'morality' is just a facade and manipulation.
They have zero ethical framework, operate almost exclusively in a kill or be killed fashion, and feel absolutely zero conviction for any deaths or destruction they cause (often showing enjoyment instead) even to their own kind. The show couldn't have demonstrated this more straightforwardedly when they showed the demon child only used the word "mother" not out of love, but because whenever they said the word it made humans hesitate to harm them.
Your suicidal empathy would run so deep that you'd willingly accept ACTUAL DEMONS as a misunderstood race that shouldn't be prejudiced against and allow them to infiltrate your society lol.
@MauLer93 But you don't get the brilliance of it getting Elon Musk to call your finale pathetic, it got Kripke's rocks off and THAT is what made five seasons and several hundreds of millions of dollars WORTH IT
@KingGreyVT@MauLer93 Regardless of whether your point is correct or not (I haven’t seen the show), this is where you lose me. You overcommitted and made an accusation of someone’s character rather than sticking to the point, thus invalidating your argument wholesale. Try again.
"My skin didn't char but I was screaming in agony, my tears just sizzled away."
Homelander has a few moments that give insight to his relationship with pain. It defined his life and yet he has grown numb to it.
He responds with anger in almost every instance of challenge but that's not because of the pain, it's the sheer desire for vengeance on a world that created him to receive and perform every torture and manipulation.
Homelander took on three supes at once, got beaten, tossed around and nearly killed. He was inches from losing everything...but he didn't even hint at begging. He simply got more and more furious.
Watch his fight with Maeve in s3, she can and does make him bleed but he goes for vengeance and immediately takes her eye.
Not because he's so scared of her causing him pain but because he wants her to suffer much like anyone else crossing him as part of getting his pay back.
Same for the guys who tortured him when he was a child.
Homelander lasered his own arm open and didn't give much of a shit because pain isn't new to him whatsoever.
He's an egomaniacal psychopath with a horrific history of intense childhood trauma turning him into a vengeful monster.
This ending feels more like a self masturbatory fantasy where Kripke sees his enemies begging to suck his cock while he kills them.
It does not however, for many in the audience, feel like the ending for Homelander.
A broken monster losing the only avenue of enacting vengeance on the terrible world that he always wanted approval from.
I would have perhaps expected him to see red, to enter an impotent rage, unable to do the damage he's desperate to achieve only to reach a despondent end.
Knowing he is now incapable of taking that revenge, and has to simply deal with his psychopathy.
Ending on a hard fought, bloody fight with Butcher, who would eventually win due to his training but at the very least give us a decent back and forth about how much meaning could be drawn from this fight.
Butcher was created by Homelander and there's something to say about both men being exposed nerves turned empty shells, struggling to feel anything by taking even a sliver of vengeance whenever possible.
I would picture them both drenched in blood, fighting to the bitter end, devoid of humanity, demanding payment for something they can't even fully rationalise anymore, after having taken so many lives.
At the end, they couldn't even follow through on the threat Homelander was warned to be throughout the entire series, stemming from having lost a loving mother and father to protect and raise him as opposed to a sterile laboratory.
The countless humiliations and tortures he suffered as a child, created Homelander as we know him.
I guess, him being humiliated at the end is a good enough throughline to argue this was somehow worth it?
"Evil Superman" was mostly a bad joke and they cashed in a petty ending for social media instead of finding something more in the material.
Nothing here has layered thematic value for the history the show presented, your just supposed to vicariously enjoy kicking your own personal monster while he's powerless, enjoy him begging to suck your cock and eat shit while you kill him.
It's all a rather long waste of time and can happily sit next to so many other stories that fail to realise their potential in this generation.
But oh well, we still have Mandalorian and Grogu I guess...
@PopCrave She’s not wrong about the meat industry being cruel, but multi-millionaire celebrities preaching to the working class about "cognitive dissonance" while flying private jets and wearing designer clothes will always feel out of touch. Read the room.
HIDEKI KAMIYA MANDA A CALLAR A LOS FANS QUE LLAMAN ICONO LGBTQ A BAYONETTA
Hideki Kamiya acaba de soltar la papeada del mes y mandó a callar a los fans que querían cambiar el canon de Bayonetta.
Un usuario etiquetó al creador llamando a la bruja un "ícono LGBTQ" y Kamiya, fiel a su estilo agresivo, le respondió tajantemente que se callara. El creador ya había dejado claro (especialmente en Bayonetta 3) que ella tiene una familia oficial con Luka y su hija Viola, enterrando las teorías de quienes la emparejaban románticamente con Jeanne.
What makes me laugh about ppl who do this is that if we all were to see a recap of their life they prob did or said some unspeakable shit in the past as well 😭