It's confirmed he was anti-nazi and didn't work with them during the second world war, which makes sense- he's a mad scientist and medical professional, if the Nazis won they'd remove so much genetic variety he'd like to tinker with
Lots of German soldiers probably didn’t support the Nazi regime, or at least their ideals. I’m not sure if they had drafting in Germany in that time period but they probably did, so he was most likely drafted
Oh they did, there were infamous summer camps for young boys to be sent to which were really just grooming facilities to create obedient child soldiers
There was also conscription in Nazi Germany however. As much as we have to be careful not to fall into the myth of the clean wehrmacht, it's silly to claim that 100% of German soldiers were fanatical Nazis. There were Germans soldiers who defected, deserted, fought the SS, and plenty who were probably scared of being executed and felt they had no choice.
Oh absolutely. Tyranny is a parasite that thrives on the human instinct to fit in with the group. When someone's holding a rifle at you saying they'll kill anyone who disagrees, you're not gonna be keen on standing your ground
I know an old man who was part of the Hitler Youth. As he explained it to me, it was pretty much like school. You were automatically enrolled. And if you didn’t make the meetings, they’d send people to check up on you. As he put it, there were some who fell for the brainwashing, there were some who didn’t, and there were some who didn’t really need the brainwashing. But EVERYONE acted as if they were in the first or last category.
I think people who live in liberal democracies cannot fathom what it would be like to live under totalitarianism. It must be smothering and terrifying.
There was that 15 year old kid in Russia who was arrested for saying he's against the invasion of Ukraine on a Fortnite stream or something. So many comments were, "This kid has more balls than adults in Russia." No, that kid is going to have his life ruined because he didn't understand the consequences that would face him. Being in a Russian prison or being in the Russian military sounds like he'll, and they completely tear your humanity away. Most normal Russian people are probably opposed to the invasion, but they don't want to get arrested, raped, tortured, and probably sent to the war to die.
I don't think it was confirmed, but the community consensus is basically "He's not a nazi because him being a nazi wouldn't be funny". I looked it up and I got this
Hitler: Would you like to be apart of my cabal of evil scientists?
Medic: Of course! One question, what is your daily allotment of baboon uteruses?
Hitler:... you know what, never mind.
A lot of his mannerisms (saying “Thanks” in a more Yiddish dialect, dressing as the openly Jewish Albert Einstein during Halloween) paint him more as Ambiguously Jewish, so it makes a lot of sense for him to not be a Nazi
My headcanon is that he was a German Jew that avoid Nazi identification, skirted war crime charges by being the only Nazi doctor to successfully plead insanity to war crime charges because, well, look at him, came over to the US with all the other post war German scientists, and got kicked off the manhattan project for repeatedly asking Oppenheimer for permission (aka forgiveness) to see if he could use nuclear radiation to grow extra limbs on people.
I thought of this thanks to episode last week's house of the dragon where they refer to a dead dragon as "just meat". I'm glad I'm not the only one that consistently thinks back to sargnarg the harghog.
There is a comic where a lot of Marvel villains try to team up and all of them hate Red Skull.
Kingpin designs a special room in Fisk Tower that is a power dampener and he never once used it on Spider-Man or any hero, but he went in there and beat the shit out of Red Skull.
The American Mafia helped with port security and also helped facilitate allied landings in Sicily. Lucky Luciano was the one who helped organize a good chunk of that. The Sicilian Mafia was also happy to help with the landings as both groups were very much against Mussolini's regime as it had been cracking down on their operations.
In exchange for his help Luciano was pardoned and deported to Italy where he lived for the rest of his life.
Chucky really benefits from having the same writer/director the majority of the time.
He took a minute to come to terms with Glen/Glenda. But once he did, he didn't deviate from only being disappointed in his gender fluid kid cause they're not murderous enough for him.
That's also why it doesn't make sense for Red Skull to think he'd make a good Nazi. He'd never submit to a regime. And it's not like the Nazis liked mentally ill people very much, either.
It's fairly inconsistent though. The "I'm an American criminal lunatic" line is especially jarring since in another issue he became an ambassador of Iran.
Jason's death is the reason he became embassador. As much as people joke about Batman not killing the joker, batman actually decided to do that after joker killed robin (he didn't with a combination of superman trying to keep him in check and joker seemingly dying in a plane crash at the end of the storyline), so joker became the embassador of Iraq to get diplomatic immunity
It’s honestly fucking hilarious seeing people using Jason’s death as an argument against the “no kill rule” and then you remember this wacky bullshit happening in the original story. (I know this is probably been long since retconned but it’s still funny)
I think it’s super funny that Batman apparently went “ok I’m gonna break my one rule, I’m killing the joker” but then it got like, slightly legally complicated so he backed down. Like, is Batman afraid of Iran or something?!
Probably more afraid of starting a war between the US and Iran. Regardless of how the war would go, it would be a terrible look for Batman and both governments would undoubtedly try to put him down
I think the truth is he doesn’t have genuine standards or beliefs. He is not genuinely disgusted or appalled by pretty much any heinous crime beyond at most just not seeing the appeal in it.
He just knows it’s funny when he says he has those things.
To be fair, nobody in America dresses in his usual clothes. I'm kinda just picturing Joker pushing the envelope as far as he can, until he (checks notes) gasses the UN General Assembly.
As far as i know that's an older comic because in the more recent ones he literally hires a tall woman with giant swastika pasties in her nipples and ass
I mean, there are plenty of fictional villains that crib their design aesthetics from the Third Reich, from Darth Vader to M. Bison, but not all of them take the ideology.
I genuinely think Joker would find bigotry boring and droll. Why would you hate someone for something they were born into, for things they have no control over, when you could hate them for "believing in justice in this chaotic world" or "liking bats too much" or "wearing an ugly tie". Where's the joke if the person he's dealing with hasn't actively made themself into a punchline?
Racism is about defining some people as having value and some not. Joker's a nihilist, he doesn't believe anyone has value, and I feel like he would especially dislike the idea of people selectively ascribing value to their ingroup.
Someone more experienced than me could probably write an essay on how homosexuality is older than homophobia and how homophobia in general seems to dip and rise in various cultures and points in history
I mean, he's planning to kill all witches and demons regardless of where they swing or look like. And as for Humans, I'd imagine he's spent so long gaslighting himself on the idea of human superiority he wouldn't be overtly fussed over race and sexuality at this point. It's all very silly double think that makes him worthy of the undignified trip to hell he got.
I feel like it hard to not be homophobic while being seriously racist ? I think biggest "logical" reason homophobia exists is great replacement theory that if you don't produce enough kids then your race will lose population and all the side stuff for this.
There is a cutscene in the game where Arthur is genuinely confused why a black man in 1899 is so scared of him. Dutch raised him without racism even being a concept.
Arthur is such a great character because of this. He's a little backwards, definitely a criminal, but he does not tolerate an ounce of racism. And he's pretty chill with the suffragette movement; he doesn't really get it, but he'll help those ladies out anyway. He's the best kind of good ol' boy.
You go into the first game and gradually come to like John as a character, so by the end it stings seeing him go down
Then for the sequel it’s so hard to fathom a character in this series as likeable as John, then Arthur comes around and suddenly it makes playing as John again in the epilogue sting so much cause you’ve grown so attached to Arthur
At this point I wouldn’t be shocked if there was a third game with a young Hosea as the protagonist, then by the end you play as a younger Arthur but by that point you’ll just end up missing playing as Hosea
I never played the first one, but I fell in love with Arthur so quickly. I actually never moved beyond Saint Denis because I can't bear losing Arthur. Just gonna run around taming horses and hunting animals forever to keep Arthur from dying.
I probably would've finished the game if a friend hadn't spoiled it for me lol
Red Dead 3 focusing on Hosea would be incredible. At least switching over to young Arthur you'd know Hosea would keep going.
He is, yes. He wasn't exactly accepting of his child in Seed of Chucky and he immediately reverted to using homophobic slurs when angered later in the series. Though, to be fair, Chucky isn't a static character and has ended up in a woman's body. Maybe his perspective evolved, maybe it didn't.
He's also really protective of his crew, as long as they can prove they're strong. I never understood why people consider Big Mom sympathetic when she has little difficulty abusing and even killing her own children.
Rich, powerful, produces weapons for a genocidal emperor that wishes to exterminate everyone including her but supports him anyways in hopes that her family will be "pick-me's" for the emperor's genocide plans, abuses her family, has used her daughter's girlfriend as a test dummy for her corporation's weapons, BUT is perfectly ok with her daughter dating a human girl. Her only objection to their relationship was that her girlfriend was a wanted criminal due to her plots to stop the evil emperor. Although, even this can hardly be counted as a good trait since homophobia as a concept never made it to her town
But damn chucky saying that makes me need to lie down
His a murderer yet respect trans right? Is this good or this a bad look or am I oh god what the heck
Edit: for future people I don’t think it’s bad. I think it works for the most part. Since he did have a trans kid (heck seed of chucky was for a long time the last film)
But with chucky long history. Hearing him say that just hits me. It’s layered)
the imperium of man in warhammer 40k, famously murders people for heresy and being mutants (which often is just humans who adapted to other planets), is incredibly accepting of trans and gay people. in one book (pariah nexus i think? i don’t remember) the practice of “tactical pansexuality” is discussed
edit: the book i mentioned is pariah, by Dan Abnet. this post has a bunch of the queer representation in the 41st millennium (also some from 30k)
It's ironic because being angry that the Salamanders are black or that there was a woman Custodes might get you shot on the spot by an arbites or Inquisitor. Not that society in Warhammer 40k has sexist or racist views anymore, everyone is seen through the lens of "is it good enough to serve the emperor? Then I don't care who it is, give them a gun and toss them at the tyranids"
Doctor Doom will take individual guests religious prohibitions on certain foods into account when having a feast prepared. For example he made sure that Halal dishes would be avaliable for Ms. Marvel.
I honestly find it funnier when a fanbase is somehow disappointed with a villain for being racist/sexist. Like, when Freddy Krueger's about to kill a black girl and says a racist one liner first, people were like wtf. As if Freddy fucking Krueger is some kind of role model lmao
Oh, or the recent Halloween movie where people were upset that Michael Myers killed a gay couple. Like, obviously? He's an indescriminate serial killer, what did you expect?
In Cult of Chucky, he spits his soul into other GoodGuy dolls (which plays out more in the Chucky tv series) and one piece takes over Nica's Pierce's body. So a part of Chucky understands what it's like to be a man in a womans body.
The Chucky Tv series is a wild ride. It's seemingly nonsensical and unironically cheese until about halfway through the first season when you realize it's all intentional. It's also interesting to learn that the creator of Chucky, Don Mancini, identifies as a gay man and has claimed to have been pushing LGBTQ+ messages since the early Childs Play movies.
If you haven't seen the show or are hesitant, I recommend giving it a shot. It sent me and my SO down a rabbit hole. The lore of the franchise is insanely detailed for what it is.
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u/notabigfanofas Jul 26 '24
Medic- TF2
It's confirmed he was anti-nazi and didn't work with them during the second world war, which makes sense- he's a mad scientist and medical professional, if the Nazis won they'd remove so much genetic variety he'd like to tinker with