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Welp, I guess I like the fan fic super robot version. Also Gundam Seed can burn.
My perspective is that it doesn't matter how they justify it: the damage (for certain people, not all obviously) is done by doing this cheap twist at all of making him the antithesis. I've seen plenty of people on other places who I can only assume are comic fans first share my disdain for what's going on, so it's really just a mixed bag from what I can tell. Take that back G is fantastically stupid, it's basically the Top Gun + Extra Racist 1980's Martial Arts Tournament Movie of Gundam
Eh, I personally don't think the twist would have mattered as much if it weren't for Marvel basically saying "This is the only Steve Rogers now" with the All-New, All Different thing (if I'm not mistaken?) But my perspective is only my own. Like yeah, there have been other people posing as Cap, but I don't know a canon storyline where Steve was turned into the antithesis of his character. I think I'm able to see why many of his fans are really annoyed with the twist being what it is regardless of the justification.
I understand where you're coming from: the hypocrisy of people can really be infuriating. But much as we try to as people, almost everyone of us has been hypocritical at some point about stuff that's important not to be. Actually caring about the Holocaust being one of them. That bullying thing you brought up being another. It's also incredibly tough to say who's being "genuine" when stuff does become trendy. Which is why I don't even bother bringing it up. Who can say who cared about something before it became popular? Death isn't something I'm constantly up in arms over because violence and death are seemingly permanent parts of humanity, and so is storytelling. And if we did get up in arms over all forms of death, I'm not sure how we as social and empathetic organisms would be able to handle daily life. We probably wouldn't be able to continue operating when something like the Holocaust did happen, but that doesn't mean something that is integrally influenced by the war that saw that happen (this thing being Captain America) should be written as if that event didn't hold the weight it did on that thing's creators. They were Jewish writers. Their friends and family were inhumanly killed off. Captain America was a strong symbol for them to create because even if someone wasn't actually fighting the Nazis at the time, these guys' character was. And that means something, at least to me and the character's fans. If it doesn't mean much to you, that's fine. You don't get the same response from it. Someone else's death sucks to experience, this is obvious. but how it affects you as a person will always depend on a variety of things: proximity, time, relationships, how the death occurred, how many people died at a time, etc. You kind of have to say "this is wrong" to a selective group of things because we can't know everything, and we don't get the same reaction out of everything. I'm not saying this is right or wrong: it's how people just seem to operate, from what I've seen. I did bring that up though...it was an elseworlds thing so it didn't feel like a betrayal, but Marvel's thing is apparently that all the currently running comics are the canon now, which is where I think part of the issue comes from.
Feel free to keep telling people what to do or that they're being high and mighty, I'll still think this twist is a fucking stupid decision Marvel let happen when it could have easily just worked as an else-world thing like Superman's Red Son series.
This article explains why I think this twist is worse than you're making it sound. It doesn't matter that they're going to just undo this twist. This is worse than Superman "dying" or Doc Ock taking over Spider-Man's body or whatever. But this is just one perspective. (and yes I've read comics before if it ain't obvious)
Would you say that you STAND PROUD ???
It undoubtedly was inspired by The Thing and definitely strongly influenced Resident Evil 4 and it tackles philosophical concepts about instinct and survival that I think a lot of anime sorely lack.
Just finished Parasyte - the maxim das sum gud animu
So, Overwatch on PC. My ID is Hayabusa#1385. Lemme know if anyone wants to play.
Would you guys say this character's eyes are more of a Violet or a Pink (those specific versions of Violet and Pink)?
I want to point out how that "RETRO HERO" DLC costume looks nothing like Mega Man and instead just resembles Minecraft.
Spoiler: by the way, just so it's easy to see that Like/Dislike ratio
So Marvel's getting a lot of shit for this (comic spoilers). Trying to figure out my stance on it. It's a really evocative twist, but it comes off as super disingenuous, like they're doing it just to make people talk about it rather than for a strong story. Eh, we'll see.
24 episodes.
6 episodes into Parasyte: The Maxim so far. I'm really into this: feels almost like if The Thing was spliced with a modern action thriller. I also love the concepts of human nature and emotion and relationships going against survival instincts and lacking empathy.
I don't know the last time I had the luxury to not just use a GPS to save both time and gas for someplace I hadn't been to before.
Who wants a Darkrai code?
