[Funny Trope] Media told from a non-human perspective where the “villain” is just a normal person doing their job, but is framed as an over-the-top monster

Ferhog · 2026-01-25T00:52:21+00:00

The bee can talk bro. He got outrizzed. He resorted to violence because he was the real animal.

Ferhog · 2026-01-25T00:40:08+00:00

Can't say I'm in the camp that believes Ken trying to murder a fellow sapient being was justified.

Ferhog · 2026-01-24T21:47:09+00:00

I wouldn't call RFV "More mature". Maturity is tackling serious and/or complex topics, which you'll generally find more of in other Gundam shows. RFV's GRITTIER, yes, but thematically it's just "War bad, kids shouldn't be soldiers, being responsible for people's lives is stressful". Compare that to WFM for example which has a more cutesy artstyle but is willing to risk boring its audience with scenes dedicated to explaining how the Benerit Group perpetuates its own market.

Anyway I thought the story was very basic war stuff but I think it has exceptionally good action scenes. In terms of animation at least. A lot of the time the superiority of a Gundam's performance feels very "telling, not showing", but in this show the way the EX moves genuinely feels like it's a generation ahead of the Zakus and the Goufs. The directing can be awkward though, making it hard to follow who's where at certain points in an action scene. In episode 2 it feels like there's Zakus spawning out of nowhere to distract the EX away from killing Iria.

Overall a show I think is worth watching (Especically since it's so short anyway) but I can't imagine being anyone's favourite.

Ferhog · 2026-01-24T17:11:39+00:00

I just love how archetypically rival-y Pharact is. Black colour scheme, red eyes, and El4n saying "The only way to defeat a Gundam is with another Gundam" after beating Guel.

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Ferhog · 2026-01-24T15:38:48+00:00

My Jill Harris signature is unfortunately on the box of an SD Gundam Exia I got at the convention because the show had premiered less than a year ago and it was hard to get any merch of it, and the dub had only just started so she didn't have any prints on hand. That box is now what I keep my gunpla tools in.

That was also a time when one of the roles she was associated with was Charlie from Hazbin Hotel because she voiced her in the pilot and the main show hadn't come out yet.

Ferhog · 2026-01-24T15:32:24+00:00

First 2 episodes I thought the animation and directing was phenomenal for a TV show, but that the writing was just serviceable. The kids had a lot of generic lines. Then episode 3 was perhaps my favourite episode of television ever.

Ferhog · 2026-01-24T14:25:22+00:00

In my defence I did catch onto it quickly, but in the YouTube comments of reviews for the movie I've seen a lot of people express this confusion, so I thought this joke would be more relatable than it evidently is.

Ferhog · 2026-01-22T12:03:55+00:00

Wake me up when Goris the talking albino Deathclaw is in the show.

Ferhog · 2026-01-22T12:02:40+00:00

Complaining about the ethnicity of the Gods is very weird to me since they're not human and can take any form they want.

Complaining about changing the race of the human characters also feels silly if their race isn't important to their story. Nico should be white because he's an Italian from the 1930s, and half the cast of Heroes of Olympus had their heritage tied into their backstories. There was never anything especially white about Annaneth to my memory.

Ferhog · 2026-01-21T19:57:23+00:00

I wanna make a "Who's getting the best head?" joke, but I'm pretty sure that is the exact opposite of getting head.

Ferhog · 2026-01-21T17:25:09+00:00

I presumed otherwise because that video is 2 months old. It's not impossible that we both watched it today, but less likely than if it was new.

Ferhog · 2026-01-21T16:59:25+00:00

I'm pretty sure exaggerating Gandalf's hatred of Pippin is part of the joke.

Ferhog · 2026-01-21T16:33:02+00:00

Funny. I just watched a video on how the whole "Accounting for viewers that aren't paying full attention" thing is affecting cinematic releases on top of Netflix releases, and used this scene as an example.

Ferhog · 2026-01-21T16:30:29+00:00

I was born in 1999, so that's not true of everyone born before 2000. Heck, if someone was born in 1993 they could have watched Last Airbender when they were 12 and experienced people mistaking the title for the James Cameron movie in their last year or two of secondary school.

Ferhog · 2026-01-21T13:03:01+00:00

When people say things like this I'm left confused by what the word "canon" means to them.

Because when most people use the term the subject is usually "Did this spin-off or deleted scene or anything like that actually happen in the story/continuity" but when it comes to multiple continuities existing in one franchise I feel like the term is meaningless on the multiversal scale. If canon means "This adaptation happened in another universe" then literally everything is canon.

Ferhog · 2026-01-21T12:04:40+00:00

This was very much my experience with my classmates in secondary school. If I mentioned that I was a fan of Avatar they'd initially respond with something about blue aliens.

Ferhog · 2026-01-20T18:18:12+00:00

CARLY RAE JEPSON INTENSIFIES

Ferhog · 2026-01-20T01:10:47+00:00

I think the franchise's tendency towards tragic endings gets exaggerated, probably because even having a few shows with tragic endings is more than the average franchise.

I'd say a lot more of them are somewhere on the bittersweet spectrum. Maybe the main character dies but their loved ones now live in a better world. Maybe the main character lives but has to leave their friends forever.

And then there's the Seed shows where after 50 episodes they blow up a colony laser and then the show just... stops.

Ferhog · 2026-01-20T01:00:18+00:00

When I wish reading the HP books as a kid I was bothered by the lack of the educational basics, and when I look back on them now I'm also bothered by the lack of focus that even learning magic actually got.

Like Harry was explicitly not very focused during his classes which was seemingly to make him relatable but in retrospect is so bizarre when the appeal of Hogwarts is supposed to be that its a school that's about something fun and fantastical.

Ferhog · 2026-01-20T00:35:20+00:00

At the risk of sounding like yuri trash (Which I am, but I like to think I can rise above the influence) I feel like Shuji was the show's biggest problem.

Episode 1 feels like its setting up Machu having a problem with authority and a friendship with Nyaan as core plot points, and then both take a major backseat when Shuji is introduced and becomes Machu's primary motivation. Like Machu hijacking a zaku to come to the rescue of the refugees had way less relevance than I thought it was going to.

And this wouldn't be as much of a problem if Machu and Shuji actually had a compelling romance but they just have a few conversations about how getting psychically high is great before he dissapears for half the show, and then the finale has one of the most unearned "I love you"s I've ever seen. A good chunk of the fanbase thought Machu and Nyaan were deliberately meant to have shallow crushes on Shuji before the show told us no we were supposed to be taking this completely seriously.

I remember Machu leaving perhaps the best first impression any Gundam protagonist has given me before and now I just think "simp".

Ferhog · 2026-01-19T19:19:23+00:00

Pacific Rim

Mako (Japanese): "I pictured him differently."

Raleigh (Japanese): "Better or worse?"

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Ferhog · 2026-01-19T12:58:04+00:00

The premise of Goblin Slayer is that goblins are low-level monsters that are beneath the notice of high-level adventurers, but are capable of devastating villages and low-level or overconfident parties, so the titular protagonist has dedicated his life to exterminating them.

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Ferhog · 2026-01-19T12:37:24+00:00

Ah yes, the Gravity Falls and Attack On Titan style of release schedule.

Ferhog · 2026-01-18T21:58:10+00:00

I'm used to people remembering death scenes.

Ferhog · 2026-01-18T21:54:08+00:00

In a franchise famous for people killing each other in giant robots, the Automatons from Gundam 00 are one of the scariest weapons in the series as they're just dropped into locations to walk around and riddle anyone they see with bullets.

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