Submitted 1 week ago by Grimreaper@sopuli.xyz to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Jonathan Kent from Superman and Lois has to be the most abused child in all of fiction, honestly. Logan Roy is a better father than Clark Kent, and Jonathan might be better off with the Roy family.
I’ve not read or watched anything from this, but why the downvotes without any comments?
Because OP is VERY well known round these parts and posts variations of this and 5 other posts every day, hoping that someday someone will say “Yes! Grimreaper, you are SO right in EVERYTHING you say and anyone who says you’re wrong, who even dares to want to discuss things with you, is WRONG and doesn’t know what they’re talking about and should honestly just shut the fuck up because HOW DARE THEY.” Check the history.
“Is it okay for a [age] to have a sexual relationship with [age]?”
“Is [age] being with a [age] appropriate?”
“I’m a [age], is it okay for me to have a relationship with [age]?”
“My name is Lenardo DiCaprio and everyone is criticizing me for me relationship choices, AITA?”
🤣
Psst… turn off votes/vote weights. ;) I still see the arrows and I can vote, but I don’t see any numbers. Takes the power away from people who would manipulate votes.
Also, OP’s reputation. Which I don’t care about. I actually recognise OP’s name and yes, they have posted stupid things before that I did not agree with. I will still answer them earnestly because it’s not entirely a bad faith statement (though it’s clearly wrong).
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Ha. Not even close. Maybe within comic books or some other bubble, but even then, not so. Because manga counts as comic books, though while a chapter might be equivalent to an issue, manga tends to come out in paperback volumes with a dozen chapters. Comics are sold this way after a while, too, so the difference comes down to reading direction, which is just down to the difference between East Asian and western writing conventions. The format can be converted but most people don’t bother because it’s simple enough to swap.
Anyway, Eri from My Hero Academia has entered the chat.
This child, a 7 year old girl, has developed the super power to “rewind” anyone she touches. It’s not an on-demand power, and the power queues up in a singular horn on the right side of her forehead. Once the horn is “full,” the power stops stockpiling, and once it’s spent, she’s powerless until the horn fills up to some degree. Since her power is involuntary, and since these powers manifest around age 5, she unwittingly killed her parents by them just holding her and her power activated on them. They were rewound until infancy and then they died (or were literally unalived in the most literal sense). Her father was in the Yakuza (Japanese mafia), so the Yakuza leadership saw potential in her power and thought they could weaponise it.
So they placed her in the care of a villain called Overhaul who worked for them, whose power is basically that of Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist. He can unmake any matter and reassemble it. He’s also batshit crazy and evil. If you ever watched FMA (or read it) and thought “what would this guy look like as a villain?” Overhaul is your answer. There are evil alchemists in FMA (Shou Tucker comes to mind, the guy who merged his daughter and her dog for more government funding into creating new life) but Overhaul has them all beat. So he keeps Eri wearing nothing but an off-white T-shirt that is a few sizes too big, he straps her into a chair modified for the purpose, and he slashes her arteries in her arms and legs wide open and bleeds her out until she’s almost dead… and then he rebuilds her. Wraps up her arms and legs in bandages (mostly for shock value to the reader since his power would allow him to fully repair her) and then does this every single day, until the heroes bust up his crib and rescue her. Which they only did because of a chance encounter where she got away and asked a hero for help, but he showed up and corralled her back to the Yakuza base. (He was also wanted by the authorities.)
This child had never smiled in her entire life, and had no memories of being happy, even after her escape. She does smile at the end of the season she’s in (the anime series’ fourth season) and it’s a big deal.
I’m not saying Eri is the most abused child in fiction, either, but she’s up there.