#THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

[lauriejayy]

I'm genuinely not mad at Alicole here, but like the hypocrisy of it burns? (Seriously it's about time Alicent got some🤗) Like Alicent, the one who shamed Rhaenyra for being with Ser Harwin even though she definitely knew Laenor preferred men, is now also following Rhaenyra's lead and fucking her sworn protector? That Alicent?

Also, Criston, the one who nearly killed himself out of guilt for breaking his vow, is sleeping with yet another one of his charges. Oy vey. The two hypocrites.

[whatsupspaceman]

tired of being silent on the issue. let me in the writers room NOW

[magneticflower]

Life is so much nicer when you pretend l/o/k doesn't exist

[colorisbyshe]

its been years but i still gotta know what the fuck issue clamp had with doumeki to end xxxholic and then reboot it like that

[kulvefaggoth]

Look i generally don't feel strong feelings about other people's ships beyond finding it boring kinda stupid or just plain exhausted at the compulsory heterosexuality of it all

With that said i think if you ship b*yo/l*ka and you were HAPPY with the absolute character assassination they did to her in bayo 3 to justify your stupid ass ship you should be shot like a rabid dog

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Sometimes you like the fandom favorite and that's annoying because you have to see all the wild takes that do not interpret them the correct way. Other times, you like the fandom's least favorite and that's annoying because you still have to see all the wild takes that do not interpret them the correct way.

[mzcain27]

I think game studios should just release their character creators online. For the times when I don’t wanna play the whole game, just the lil dress up part

[seagreenywitch]

I said no one could make me hate her. And I stand by it cause S2!Alicent is not her.

rip alicent hightower

a matriarch, woman full of ambition, devoted mother and grandmother, savvy politician and fashion icon.

she isn't dead (yet) but might as well could be

[mysterywriter2187]

The original Lilo & Stitch empowered and lionised Nani for her quiet, selfless sacrifices in choosing to look after Lilo, whereas the remake almost seems to shame her for it.

Yeah, fuck choosing to put your own dreams aside to care for your literal last family member. You gotta put yourself first, or you're an idiot if you don't!

It's such a strangely cynical way to treat the original film's arguably best character, and it fundamentally misunderstands her and the story as a whole.

When it's not about aliens and experiments, the original Lilo & Stitch is a bittersweet, hard-hitting story about making sacrifices for the people you love, and Nani as a character fully embodies that theme. Sometimes a simple, easy solution isn't possible, and you have to find your happiness and your ohana in less conventional ways.

But instead, the remake gives Nani a "have your cake and eat it" ending where there is a simple, easy solution, and they have to actively change the story and add a whole new neighbour character just to make it happen.

It not only completely misses the point of the original's message, but it doesn't even make sense in its own narrative when this apparently could have just been the solution from the start (yet was never mentioned as an option at any point before this), making the entire story a pointless waste of time.

There are other Disney remakes that are objectively worse films, but from a writing standpoint this one fumbles its source material the worst in just about every aspect.

[nerd-elf]

I’m tagging all my favorites here, feel free to do the same

[itslarsyouguys]

Ok in a lot of video games, you'd have someone in your group that can do something cool, like talk to corpses, and then you never use it. Why do they do that.

Veilguard gave us a guy that talks to corpses and legitimately everyone in the group is solving problems by having this guy talk to corpses. He's talking to corpses left and right, I just had three separate cut scenes of corpse guy doing his corpse thing and I love it.

[warrior-of-storms]

Okay but do you know what really gets me?

There's no one left in-universe who can or will talk about Jaybin as he really was.

Bruce is the founder of the Jaybin Slander Department;

Alfred is no better.

Dick wasn't around much, didn't know him that well.

If Barbara ever interacted with him in his original run, I haven't found it yet.

I mean, he had some interactions with the Teen Titans, but was he really close with any of them?

I suppose Gordon could, assuming he isn't in on the Jason-bashing. I haven't seen it but I could be missing something.

And, well, Jason... somehow, I don't think anyone's asking Jason what he was like as a kid, nor is he really a reliable source. Autobiographical memory is weird.

No one in-universe will ever really talk about this bright, friendly, eager kid, and it's a tragedy.

He was smart and clever and had so much compassion.

He wanted so badly to help people, and he found joy in his work as Robin.

He had a dramatic flair and he was kind of a nerd and he was really funny on occasion.

He was so deeply, fundamentally good, and the fact that somehow his legacy has been twisted into one of anger and recklessness is honestly a crime.

It makes me so desperately sad that there's not a single character who can even start to undo the lasting damage of a four-decade smear campaign against a kid who did nothing to deserve it.

[asharaks]

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

[bluerm]

Nun assassin

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[thwackk]

RID sideswipe if he was goated

[ramen-flavored]

It’s been 6 years since Endgame released and I am still a firm believer that the real Steve Rogers NEVER would’ve left Bucky alone like that.