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DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be fair, Rorschach has a few traits worth emulating. He does have a rock solid sense of right and wrong and uhhhh… Yeah no, that’s about it.

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t remember the exact name, but there’s a common process with ongoing characters where the writers find themselves making their toughest characters nicer over time.

    Both Wolverine and Jack Reacher were presented as unapproachable loners at first, and both mellowed considerably over time.

    Rorschach was ‘lucky’ because he got to die a noble death before being forced to become civilized.

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  • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s also capable of backing his words up with actions. Although in the prison scene I guess the actions came first.

    Pretty sure the “you’re locked in here with me” vibe. is what all the fanboys envision themselves as, but would never actually be to emulate.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He does have a rock solid sense of right and wrong

    As long as it is not informed by the white supremacist tabloid he was reading. Did you miss the parts where we read his thoughts about gay people or welfare queens (dogwhistle for black people)?

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t say I agreed with his sense of right or wrong. But it’s very solid.

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But that’s a subjective quality.

        The terrorists that flew airplanes into the Twin Towers also had a rock solid sense of right and wrong, but not in the direction that helped anyone.

        So yeah, not an admirable quality in vacuum.

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  • _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and a love of beans

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    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Acutely relatable trait

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In a similar vein, Grant Morrison on adult fans:

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  Sauce: rollingstone.com/…/grant-morrison-psychedelic-sup…

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  • KombatWombat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well the willing suspension of disbelief is adjusted based on the story being told. If you say there’s a made-up kingdom where animals talk in the exposition, that’s fine. But if you say it takes place in a world that’s basically our own, then one person can randomly shoot lasers from their eyes, you should give some explanation. It doesn’t even have to be a particularly good one, but even in-universe people would be asking about that.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also, I don’t usually see these questions asked in an overly critical sense, but rather with a sense of humor or with an eye towards world building. It’s about having fun

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