this keeps clawing at my brain
Smth that always has me looking sideways at SOME fans of popular media is how they treat certain characters in the same story.
like examples I can think of are.
Endeaver and Dabi - some of y'all genuinely think Dabi has the excuse to be a mass murderer and endeavour is a worse human being then him. (I'm not an endeavour apologist, I hate that man but I hate dabi slightly more) which is so bizarre......
Noaya and sukuna/mahito - all of these characters need to die but I can't listen to someone, with a straight face, tell me naoya is a more evil character then sukuna. Everytime I hear that bullshit its always("ohh Naoya realistically evil")The nga can fucking run so fast we can see his impact frames what thr hell is realistic about his clan focused sexism in a modern day Japan). the people who believe sukuna hates everyone equally are some of thr dumbest people I have ever seen in my life.
Sakura and sasuke - mf they were both wilding ill be honest but the shit sasuke gets away with is absolutely absurd??? yeah sakura was an annoying peice of work all of Naruto and some of Shippuden but like sasuke was worst stuff for no good reason just like sakura.
Honestly I'm starting to notice y'all have conditioned yourself to not see murder as smth bad anymore and SOME of y'all think sexism/bullying is worse. (They're all bad alright they're all bad. I don't need a comment missing my point and telling me that these problems can coexist because i know that already.
Might i add the perspective that a abusive dad is more realistic than a dude commiting mass terrorism through magic fires? People are more okay excusing those behaviors because they aren't something they'll ever experience in their life. Women will experience naoya level of misogyny and find his behavior as something they too could be a victim of. ......
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14 02,2026
I think it literally just comes down to who ppl think is hotter
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14 02,2026
Depends on what hits closer to home, ig. When do stories actually bother showing the aftermath of a murder, like the people left behind, the life unfulfilled, etc? For most I read, it feels like killing off npcs in a videogame.
Ppl react to murder if they actually care about the charas being killed off. One piece killing ace off was heart-wrenchin......
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14 02,2026
A lot of people are desensitized to morbid things like murder. So i think because of that it's easy to look at it and not feel a thing cause it's not you or someone you know. One thing people can relate to is bullying and sexism. It's easier to feel something about it cause you can put yourself in that spot but can't really relate to murder.
There......
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14 02,2026
It's just a bias thing, whether it's a trait a character has or does not have. If a character is associated with a certain group or descriptor, they're going to catch all the heat from people who don't like whatever that is, vice versa. And it becomes a lesser evil competition after that. Like seriously the things that people will justify, based on......
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14 02,2026
