#murder is fun

[journeytothewestresearch]

How Many Humans has Sun Wukong Killed?

Someone on Tumblr recently asked me if I knew how many monsters, spirits, and humans that Sun Wukong kills throughout Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592). But since he’s a “hyper murder monkey” (fig. 1), this is impossible to quantify without an overly extensive survey of the book. However, the task becomes far more manageable if narrowed down to just humans. I recall several instances in the first half of the book:

Ch. 14 - 6 robbers

Ch. 27 - Unknown (supposedly eaten by Monkey in his youth)

Ch. 28 - 1,000-plus hunters

Ch. 44 - 2 Daoists

Ch. 46 - 1 civil official

Ch. 56 - 2 bandit chiefs, 1 unfilial son, and 20-ish bandits

Total = Over 1,030 people!

I’ve surely missed a few examples in the latter half of the book. But I’ll update this list in the future if anything else pops up.

For cited quotes of each kill, see my article below.

Fig. 1 - The story of the hyper murder monkey by @FlorkOfCows.

[bannedfromthepharmacy]

I’m bored so…poll?

[brainrotcharacters]

When irl pisses me off, I rewatch the Honda Odyssey scene to relax

[designedparadigm]

" what the hell did you do ; tap - dance all over the body with ice - skates ? THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A STEALTH MISSION." {@ Swagger}

   “it  is  still  a  stealth  mission.”  swagger's  tone  is  sharp,  before  the  operator  crosses  his  arms  over  his  chest.  “they  are  not  raising  any  alarm,  are  they?”  he  motions  to  the  mess.  hardly  a  proper  body,  but  so  what  if  he  had  to  throw  them  through  the  machinery?  it  stopped  any  alarms  from  being  set  off.  a  hallmark  rule  of  stealth  is  to  make  sure  nobody  notices.  well  -  the  dead  don't  notice  shit. 

   “unless  you  would  rather  the  whole  base  know  we  are  here?  i  was  covering  for  you.  simple  as  that.”

[umblrspectrum]

i love learning cursive just to write text for exactly one character

[egophiliac]

(looks at upcoming card releases)

I'm in danger :)

[1rambuna1]

More random Emilia drawings :)

I promise I’ll do more helluva boss / object show stuff soon I’m just enjoying this character

[chloesimaginationthings]

Gregory has it best out of the new FNAF protagonists..

[solroskajan]

Cat.

[bananonbinary]

jfc i just saw a "morally grey girlboss" poll and mabel pines was one of the contenders. she's not morally grey she's not a girlboss she's 12 and never makes a single moral decision that's worse than "you have stuff going on but i'm focused on my own problems" what are you fucking talking about

[lazylittledragon]

so how about that durge

[journeytothewestresearch]

Sun Wukong, the Pacifist

I've garnered an international reputation online for writing about the worship of the Monkey King in East and Southeast Asia. One strange thing I've noticed is that Sun's worshipers never bring up Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592). I'm sure they grew up hearing tales from the novel, but I don't know how many of them have actually read it. The overall story doesn't appear to play any part in Monkey's modern veneration.

This interesting disconnect can be seen in the following conversation. My initial comment was in regards to the recent video of a real life monkey running around with a staff. A worshiper took offense when I noted the literary Sun Wukong's penchant for murder.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[waddiwasu-sonic]

Bro, they were in the rooms next to eachother, ALONE. MY DELUSIONAL AHH COULDN'T BE FEED MORE IF IT TRIED.

Anyway Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog was fantastic, go play it, its free, u have no excuse.

[kryzuuna]

SD-N

[mischievousparasite69o]

N bro??